T-SQL Contract Job Trends

Transact-SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 448 307
Rank change year-on-year +27 -141 -14
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 262 105 266
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.32% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.87% 0.98% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 87 203
10th Percentile £365 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +9.95%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £604
90th Percentile £697 £660 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £435
% change year-on-year - -2.35% -8.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.13 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £26.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
% change year-on-year -27.51% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

T-SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,008 10,674 12,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.12% 32.84% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,115 7,100 8,347
10th Percentile £363 £342 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £745 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 520 301 355
10th Percentile £27.98 £29.00 £30.00
25th Percentile £46.79 £36.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.00 £78.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing T-SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the UK

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing T-SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing T-SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the UK over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -3 224 £453 +0.67% 150
London -16 119 £475 +1.33% 78
UK excluding London -18 114 £425 - 85
Work from Home -9 70 £513 +25.00% 54
North of England -19 51 £405 -10.00% 17
North West -19 35 £405 -10.00% 14
South East -36 30 £410 +9.30% 24
Yorkshire -27 16 £400 +6.67% 3
Scotland -15 12 £470 +17.50% 3
Midlands -49 9 £413 -2.94% 14
West Midlands -45 8 £413 -2.94% 11
South West -35 6 £425 -18.27% 13
Wales -15 3 £313 +38.27% 1
East of England -20 2 £425 - 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (10.69%) IIS
2 25 (9.54%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.05%) Confluence
4 5 (1.91%) Appian
4 5 (1.91%) Camunda
4 5 (1.91%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.76%) Apache
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) MTS
6 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (17.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.53%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.67%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.67%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.91%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.38%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (35.11%) Azure
2 83 (31.68%) Power Platform
3 37 (14.12%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (9.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (8.02%) AWS
7 15 (5.73%) Power Automate
8 13 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (4.58%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.67%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.91%) Serverless
13 4 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.53%) GCP
13 4 (1.53%) GitHub
14 3 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.15%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.20%) Internet
1 11 (4.20%) SSL
2 5 (1.91%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.76%) DHCP
3 2 (0.76%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) Firewall
3 2 (0.76%) LAN
3 2 (0.76%) PABX
3 2 (0.76%) VLAN
3 2 (0.76%) VoIP
3 2 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (72.14%) SQL Server
2 72 (27.48%) Power BI
3 70 (26.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 48 (18.32%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (12.60%) Oracle Database
6 28 (10.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (9.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (6.87%) MySQL
9 12 (4.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (3.82%) MS Access
10 10 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (3.82%) Star Schema
11 9 (3.44%) OLAP
11 9 (3.44%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.44%) Tableau
12 8 (3.05%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.67%) Spark SQL
14 6 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (1.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (9.16%) Git
2 11 (4.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 11 (4.20%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.05%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.67%) JIRA
4 7 (2.67%) tSQLt
5 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.15%) Mocha
5 3 (1.15%) MSTest
6 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.38%) GitLab
7 1 (0.38%) Moq
7 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.38%) Toad
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (27.10%) Finance
1 71 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (14.89%) Banking
4 14 (5.34%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.29%) Front Office
7 5 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.91%) Law
7 5 (1.91%) Legal
8 4 (1.53%) Advertising
8 4 (1.53%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.53%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.76%) Billing
10 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.76%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Games
11 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (40.08%) Developer
2 34 (12.98%) SQL Developer
3 33 (12.60%) Data Engineer
4 30 (11.45%) DBA
5 28 (10.69%) C# Developer
5 28 (10.69%) Lead
5 28 (10.69%) SQL DBA
6 26 (9.92%) Senior
7 22 (8.40%) .NET Developer
7 22 (8.40%) Consultant
8 16 (6.11%) Microsoft Engineer
9 13 (4.96%) Implementation Consultant
9 13 (4.96%) Lead Developer
10 12 (4.58%) Analyst
11 11 (4.20%) Applications Support
11 11 (4.20%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.82%) SQL Server DBA
13 9 (3.44%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (3.05%) C# .NET Developer
14 8 (3.05%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (33.21%) .NET
2 34 (12.98%) .NET Framework
3 30 (11.45%) XML
4 23 (8.78%) ASP.NET
5 22 (8.40%) WinForms
6 18 (6.87%) HTML
7 14 (5.34%) JSON
7 14 (5.34%) XSLT
8 13 (4.96%) PySpark
8 13 (4.96%) REST
9 12 (4.58%) WPF
10 11 (4.20%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (4.20%) React
11 10 (3.82%) CSS
12 9 (3.44%) SOAP
12 9 (3.44%) WCF
12 9 (3.44%) Web Services
13 8 (3.05%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.05%) SPFx
14 6 (2.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.78%) Replication
2 16 (6.11%) Clustering
3 14 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.67%) NHS
7 5 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.76%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.76%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.76%) Derivative
10 2 (0.76%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.76%) Equities
10 2 (0.76%) Handset
10 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 68 (25.95%) Windows
2 35 (13.36%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.67%) Linux
4 6 (2.29%) Unix
5 2 (0.76%) HPUX
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (32.06%) ETL
2 83 (31.68%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (26.72%) DevOps
4 65 (24.81%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (19.08%) Data Modelling
7 49 (18.70%) Agile
7 49 (18.70%) CI/CD
8 44 (16.79%) Data Analysis
8 44 (16.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 36 (13.74%) AI
10 34 (12.98%) Analytics
11 32 (12.21%) Migration
12 29 (11.07%) Workflow
13 27 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (10.31%) Data Integration
14 26 (9.92%) Change Management
14 26 (9.92%) Lakehouse
15 22 (8.40%) Root Cause Analysis
15 22 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 258 (98.47%) SQL
2 89 (33.97%) C#
3 67 (25.57%) PL/SQL
4 49 (18.70%) Python
5 31 (11.83%) PowerShell
6 29 (11.07%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.02%) VBA
8 15 (5.73%) VB.NET
9 13 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (4.58%) VB
10 12 (4.58%) XPath
11 8 (3.05%) VBScript
12 6 (2.29%) Java
13 3 (1.15%) Bash
13 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.38%) Bicep
14 1 (0.38%) R
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
14 1 (0.38%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.07%) Degree
4 15 (5.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (1.91%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CISA
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.38%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.18%) Data Quality
2 27 (10.31%) QA
3 7 (2.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.58%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.58%) SCOM
2 3 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.38%) Ansible
3 1 (0.38%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 111 (42.37%) Microsoft
2 71 (27.10%) Oracle
3 27 (10.31%) Citrix
4 19 (7.25%) Databricks
5 16 (6.11%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.29%) Intapp
6 6 (2.29%) RedGate
6 6 (2.29%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.29%) Sybase
7 5 (1.91%) OpenText
8 4 (1.53%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.15%) BMC
9 3 (1.15%) Remedy
9 3 (1.15%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.76%) Google
10 2 (0.76%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.76%) Teradata
11 1 (0.38%) Foundry
11 1 (0.38%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.38%) Telerik