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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 432 345
Rank change year-on-year +45 -87 -52
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 271 107 259
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 1.02% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 84 195
10th Percentile £358 £354 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £714 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £435
% change year-on-year +5.28% -8.10% -8.37%
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% -82.56%
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% -87.36%

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 13,848 10,541 13,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.88% 33.71% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,990 7,109 9,334
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -2.60% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 543 254 537
10th Percentile £34.03 £26.52 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £34.55 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £79.61 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +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 July 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 July 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 +21 246 £453 -9.40% 74
London -6 129 £490 -2.00% 24
UK excluding London -21 115 £421 +5.28% 64
Work from Home -10 71 £525 -12.50% 44
South East -10 51 £405 +15.71% 24
North of England -44 40 £405 +8.00% 23
North West -23 27 £403 +1.96% 16
Yorkshire -44 13 £450 +20.00% 6
South West -20 8 £425 -18.27% 5
Midlands -65 5 £400 -5.88% 4
Scotland -7 4 £475 +18.75% 3
West Midlands -61 4 £400 -5.88% 2
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Wales -19 2 £313 +53.00% 1
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 26 (9.59%) IIS
2 15 (5.54%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.95%) Confluence
4 6 (2.21%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.85%) Appian
5 5 (1.85%) Camunda
6 3 (1.11%) Apache
6 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.37%) Mule
8 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 49 (18.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.21%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.21%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.85%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.11%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.37%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 92 (33.95%) Azure
2 81 (29.89%) Power Platform
3 38 (14.02%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (10.33%) AWS
4 28 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (10.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (4.43%) Power Automate
6 10 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (3.69%) Serverless
7 9 (3.32%) PowerApps
8 7 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (2.58%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (2.21%) GitHub
10 4 (1.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.48%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.06%) Internet
2 5 (1.85%) SSL
3 4 (1.48%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.37%) HTTP
4 1 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (66.79%) SQL Server
2 69 (25.46%) Power BI
3 67 (24.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 51 (18.82%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (15.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 33 (12.18%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (7.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (5.90%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.80%) MySQL
10 13 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.95%) OLAP
12 7 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.21%) Spark SQL
13 6 (2.21%) Tableau
14 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.85%) Metadata
14 5 (1.85%) MS Access
14 5 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.01%) Git
2 11 (4.06%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (2.95%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.58%) JIRA
6 6 (2.21%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.21%) Mocha
6 6 (2.21%) MSTest
6 6 (2.21%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.74%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.37%) ERwin
8 1 (0.37%) GitLab
8 1 (0.37%) Moq
8 1 (0.37%) MSI
8 1 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 75 (27.68%) Finance
2 69 (25.46%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.50%) Banking
4 39 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.43%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.85%) Legal
7 5 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Advertising
9 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.11%) Law
9 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Billing
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.37%) Games
11 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 109 (40.22%) Developer
2 40 (14.76%) SQL Developer
3 39 (14.39%) Data Engineer
4 35 (12.92%) C# Developer
5 34 (12.55%) Consultant
6 28 (10.33%) Implementation Consultant
7 27 (9.96%) DBA
8 24 (8.86%) Senior
8 24 (8.86%) SQL DBA
9 23 (8.49%) Microsoft Engineer
10 20 (7.38%) .NET Developer
11 16 (5.90%) Lead
12 13 (4.80%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.43%) Analyst
14 10 (3.69%) SQL Server DBA
15 9 (3.32%) Database Developer
16 8 (2.95%) C# .NET Developer
16 8 (2.95%) Workflow Consultant
17 7 (2.58%) Senior Data Engineer
17 7 (2.58%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (30.63%) .NET
2 43 (15.87%) .NET Framework
2 43 (15.87%) XML
3 17 (6.27%) REST
4 16 (5.90%) CSS
4 16 (5.90%) HTML
4 16 (5.90%) WinForms
5 15 (5.54%) ASP.NET
5 15 (5.54%) PySpark
6 13 (4.80%) JSON
6 13 (4.80%) React
7 12 (4.43%) WPF
8 11 (4.06%) RESTful
9 9 (3.32%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.32%) XSLT
10 8 (2.95%) SOAP
10 8 (2.95%) SPFx
11 7 (2.58%) Web Services
12 6 (2.21%) jQuery
12 6 (2.21%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.27%) Replication
2 16 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.17%) Clustering
4 11 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.95%) NHS
6 6 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.21%) Wiki
7 5 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.48%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.11%) Equities
9 3 (1.11%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.74%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.74%) Derivative
10 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (20.30%) Windows
2 27 (9.96%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.95%) Linux
4 4 (1.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) HPUX
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (34.69%) Business Intelligence
2 93 (34.32%) ETL
3 61 (22.51%) DevOps
4 59 (21.77%) Agile
5 57 (21.03%) Performance Tuning
6 51 (18.82%) CI/CD
6 51 (18.82%) Data Modelling
6 51 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (17.34%) Disaster Recovery
8 44 (16.24%) Analytics
9 43 (15.87%) Data Analysis
10 40 (14.76%) Migration
11 33 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (12.18%) Workflow
12 32 (11.81%) AI
13 29 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (9.96%) Unit Testing
15 25 (9.23%) Change Management
15 25 (9.23%) Data Engineering
16 22 (8.12%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 266 (98.15%) SQL
2 88 (32.47%) C#
3 69 (25.46%) PL/SQL
4 52 (19.19%) Python
5 31 (11.44%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.70%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (5.54%) VBA
9 12 (4.43%) VB
10 10 (3.69%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.58%) XPath
12 6 (2.21%) Bash
12 6 (2.21%) Bicep
12 6 (2.21%) Java
13 4 (1.48%) VBScript
14 3 (1.11%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.37%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.37%) Groovy
15 1 (0.37%) R
15 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (10.70%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.49%) Degree
4 8 (2.95%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.50%) Data Quality
1 42 (15.50%) QA
2 6 (2.21%) GDPR
3 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.37%) IFRS
4 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.21%) Terraform
2 5 (1.85%) SCOM
3 3 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.11%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Control-M
5 1 (0.37%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 111 (40.96%) Microsoft
2 63 (23.25%) Oracle
3 34 (12.55%) Citrix
4 20 (7.38%) Databricks
5 10 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.85%) Intapp
6 5 (1.85%) OpenText
6 5 (1.85%) Sybase
6 5 (1.85%) VMware
7 4 (1.48%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.48%) Remedy
8 3 (1.11%) BMC
8 3 (1.11%) Google
8 3 (1.11%) RedGate
8 3 (1.11%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.11%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.74%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.37%) Splunk