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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 415 344
Rank change year-on-year +11 -71 -43
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 233 107 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.37% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.78% 1.10% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 78 179
10th Percentile £350 £273 £363
25th Percentile £404 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £440 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -16.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £614 £588
90th Percentile £664 £699 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £385 £500
% change year-on-year +10.39% -23.00% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -86.37%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -90.09%

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 13,083 9,730 12,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.84% 34.05% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,548 6,631 9,124
10th Percentile £357 £357 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.47% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 212 503
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.04 £32.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £34.94 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -10 211 £450 -1.37% 79
London -15 112 £451 -9.75% 22
UK excluding London -47 100 £425 +10.39% 60
Work from Home -22 58 £550 +10.00% 41
South East -13 50 £404 -7.71% 21
North of England -56 27 £500 +33.33% 17
North West -28 18 £513 +25.00% 7
Yorkshire -50 9 £408 +8.67% 8
South West -24 7 £475 -9.52% 8
Scotland 0 4 £470 - 2
East of England - 4 £211 - 6
Midlands -76 3 £398 -6.47% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Wales -18 2 £313 +71.23% 1
West Midlands -64 2 £398 -6.47% 6

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 23 (9.87%) IIS
2 12 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.72%) Confluence
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.86%) Apache
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.86%) Appian
5 2 (0.86%) Camunda
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Mule
6 1 (0.43%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 46 (19.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.43%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.29%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.86%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.86%) OpenText MBPM
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.43%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (37.77%) Azure
2 70 (30.04%) Power Platform
3 48 (20.60%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (17.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 30 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (7.73%) AWS
7 13 (5.58%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.86%) Serverless
10 8 (3.43%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.43%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.00%) GitHub
12 6 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.72%) Entra ID
15 3 (1.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.15%) Internet
2 2 (0.86%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) LAN
3 1 (0.43%) SMTP
3 1 (0.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (63.95%) SQL Server
2 58 (24.89%) Power BI
3 52 (22.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 42 (18.03%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (12.88%) Oracle Database
5 30 (12.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 26 (11.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 22 (9.44%) Data Lake
8 18 (7.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (3.86%) Spark SQL
11 8 (3.43%) Delta Lake
11 8 (3.43%) Metadata
12 7 (3.00%) Power Query
13 6 (2.58%) DataStage
13 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 6 (2.58%) MySQL
14 5 (2.15%) OLAP
15 4 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (7.30%) Git
2 12 (5.15%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.58%) JIRA
5 5 (2.15%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.15%) Mocha
5 5 (2.15%) MSTest
5 5 (2.15%) tSQLt
6 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.86%) Postman
8 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.43%) ERwin
8 1 (0.43%) GitLab
8 1 (0.43%) Moq
8 1 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 63 (27.04%) Finance
2 54 (23.18%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (14.16%) Banking
4 11 (4.72%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.15%) Legal
7 4 (1.72%) Advertising
7 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.72%) Law
8 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.86%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Billing
10 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (35.62%) Developer
2 42 (18.03%) Data Engineer
3 35 (15.02%) Consultant
4 34 (14.59%) C# Developer
5 29 (12.45%) Implementation Consultant
6 24 (10.30%) SQL Developer
7 21 (9.01%) Microsoft Engineer
8 20 (8.58%) Senior
9 17 (7.30%) DBA
10 15 (6.44%) .NET Developer
10 15 (6.44%) SQL DBA
11 13 (5.58%) Payroll Consultant
12 10 (4.29%) Analyst
12 10 (4.29%) Architect
13 9 (3.86%) Applications Developer
13 9 (3.86%) C# Application Developer
13 9 (3.86%) Database Developer
14 8 (3.43%) C# .NET Developer
14 8 (3.43%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (3.43%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.75%) .NET
2 40 (17.17%) .NET Framework
3 36 (15.45%) XML
4 18 (7.73%) PySpark
5 15 (6.44%) CSS
5 15 (6.44%) WinForms
6 14 (6.01%) HTML
7 13 (5.58%) JSON
7 13 (5.58%) REST
8 12 (5.15%) React
8 12 (5.15%) WPF
9 10 (4.29%) RESTful
10 8 (3.43%) SPFx
11 6 (2.58%) ASP.NET
11 6 (2.58%) YAML
12 5 (2.15%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.15%) Entity Framework
12 5 (2.15%) Kafka
12 5 (2.15%) SOAP
12 5 (2.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.01%) Replication
1 14 (6.01%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.43%) Clustering
4 7 (3.00%) NHS
5 6 (2.58%) Wiki
6 5 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.29%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.86%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.86%) Equities
9 2 (0.86%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.43%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.43%) Derivative
10 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.43%) Life Science
10 1 (0.43%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.74%) Windows
2 23 (9.87%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.15%) Linux
4 2 (0.86%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) HPUX
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (38.20%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (34.76%) ETL
3 50 (21.46%) Analytics
3 50 (21.46%) Data Modelling
4 46 (19.74%) DevOps
5 45 (19.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 44 (18.88%) Agile
7 43 (18.45%) CI/CD
8 41 (17.60%) Data Analysis
9 40 (17.17%) Performance Tuning
10 37 (15.88%) Migration
11 35 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (11.16%) AI
13 26 (11.16%) Data Engineering
14 25 (10.73%) Unit Testing
15 24 (10.30%) Change Management
15 24 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (9.87%) Workflow
17 22 (9.44%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 228 (97.85%) SQL
2 63 (27.04%) C#
2 63 (27.04%) PL/SQL
3 56 (24.03%) Python
4 27 (11.59%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (8.58%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.01%) VBA
7 13 (5.58%) VB
8 6 (2.58%) Bash
8 6 (2.58%) Bicep
9 5 (2.15%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.72%) Java
10 4 (1.72%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.29%) XPath
12 1 (0.43%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.87%) Degree
2 16 (6.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.43%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.15%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (19.74%) Data Quality
2 44 (18.88%) QA
3 3 (1.29%) GDPR
4 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) IFRS
5 1 (0.43%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.86%) Terraform
2 3 (1.29%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) Control-M
4 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
4 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 92 (39.48%) Microsoft
2 58 (24.89%) Oracle
3 33 (14.16%) Citrix
4 31 (13.30%) Databricks
5 6 (2.58%) Alteryx
5 6 (2.58%) VMware
6 4 (1.72%) Remedy
6 4 (1.72%) Sybase
7 3 (1.29%) BMC
7 3 (1.29%) SYSPRO
8 2 (0.86%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.86%) Google
8 2 (0.86%) Informatica
8 2 (0.86%) Intapp
8 2 (0.86%) OpenText
8 2 (0.86%) RedGate
8 2 (0.86%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.43%) Adobe
9 1 (0.43%) Telerik
9 1 (0.43%) Teradata