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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 358 300
Rank change year-on-year -108 -58 -41
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 125 218 355
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.60% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 1.87% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 151 228
10th Percentile £363 £356 £387
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £575 £624 £600
90th Percentile £660 £675 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.56
25th Percentile - £45.63 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%
75th Percentile - - £32.31
90th Percentile - - £41.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%

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 11,456 11,631 14,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.00% 32.03% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,559 7,427 10,147
10th Percentile £350 £350 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £756 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 298 437
10th Percentile £29.87 £22.00 £32.19
25th Percentile £48.75 £40.19 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.50 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +4.58% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 25 November 2025.

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 16 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 25 November 2025. 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 -101 112 £450 -18.18% 75
London -42 72 £428 -25.97% 21
UK excluding London -72 39 £450 +5.88% 72
Work from Home -24 38 £469 -3.85% 47
North of England -53 17 £402 +3.74% 14
North West -17 13 £426 +0.24% 7
Midlands -41 7 £550 +22.22% 8
East Midlands -12 6 £550 +54.49% 3
Wales +2 5 £600 +272.67% 2
South West 0 4 £520 +26.06% 14
Yorkshire -37 4 £375 +55.09% 7
Scotland -5 3 £700 +66.67% 8
South East -26 3 £375 -31.82% 21
East of England -19 1 - - 4
West Midlands -30 1 - - 5
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 13 (10.40%) IIS
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.80%) Appian
3 1 (0.80%) Camunda
3 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (15.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.40%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.40%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.40%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.80%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.20%) Azure
2 30 (24.00%) Power Platform
3 23 (18.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 22 (17.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (9.60%) Serverless
6 11 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (8.80%) Azure Functions
6 11 (8.80%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.20%) AWS
8 7 (5.60%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.60%) GitHub
8 7 (5.60%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.60%) PowerApps
8 7 (5.60%) SaaS
9 6 (4.80%) AtomSphere
9 6 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (4.80%) Boomi
10 5 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.80%) Internet
2 3 (2.40%) DHCP
2 3 (2.40%) DNS
2 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.80%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (71.20%) SQL Server
2 33 (26.40%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (19.20%) Power BI
4 22 (17.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (17.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (13.60%) Oracle Database
6 16 (12.80%) Data Lake
7 12 (9.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (8.80%) Relational Database
9 10 (8.00%) Metadata
10 7 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (4.80%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (4.00%) NoSQL
12 5 (4.00%) Power Query
12 5 (4.00%) Star Schema
12 5 (4.00%) WebFOCUS
13 4 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
13 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (2.40%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Git
2 8 (6.40%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.40%) ERwin
3 3 (2.40%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.60%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.80%) Appium
5 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.80%) GitLab
5 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.80%) JMeter
5 1 (0.80%) Moq
5 1 (0.80%) Poetry
5 1 (0.80%) Postman
5 1 (0.80%) Pylint
5 1 (0.80%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 39 (31.20%) Finance
2 31 (24.80%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.00%) Banking
4 8 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.40%) Back Office
8 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.40%) Front Office
9 2 (1.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.80%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.80%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Local Government
10 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (65.60%) Developer
2 22 (17.60%) C# Developer
3 15 (12.00%) SQL Developer
4 14 (11.20%) .NET Developer
4 14 (11.20%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) DBA
5 12 (9.60%) Integration Developer
6 10 (8.00%) C# WPF Developer
6 10 (8.00%) WPF Developer
7 9 (7.20%) C# WCF Developer
7 9 (7.20%) WCF Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Analyst
8 7 (5.60%) ETL Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Azure Architect
9 6 (4.80%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (34.40%) .NET
2 24 (19.20%) .NET Framework
3 15 (12.00%) WPF
4 14 (11.20%) XML
5 13 (10.40%) JSON
6 12 (9.60%) WCF
7 11 (8.80%) REST
8 10 (8.00%) WinForms
9 9 (7.20%) React
9 9 (7.20%) SOAP
9 9 (7.20%) Web Services
10 8 (6.40%) Kafka
10 8 (6.40%) PySpark
11 7 (5.60%) .NET Core
11 7 (5.60%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (4.80%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.80%) RESTful
13 5 (4.00%) ASP.NET
13 5 (4.00%) Middleware
14 3 (2.40%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.20%) Data Fabric
1 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (3.20%) NHS
2 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.40%) Fixed Income
2 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.60%) Clustering
3 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.60%) Replication
4 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.80%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.80%) IoT
4 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.20%) Windows
2 8 (6.40%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.00%) Business Intelligence
1 40 (32.00%) CI/CD
1 40 (32.00%) ETL
2 37 (29.60%) Agile
3 36 (28.80%) DevOps
4 33 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (24.00%) Analytics
6 29 (23.20%) Migration
7 26 (20.80%) Data Analysis
7 26 (20.80%) Data Modelling
8 20 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (11.20%) Data Engineering
10 14 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
10 14 (11.20%) Validation
11 13 (10.40%) Data Governance
11 13 (10.40%) Data Integration
12 12 (9.60%) Data Management
12 12 (9.60%) Data Migration
12 12 (9.60%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 116 (92.80%) SQL
2 51 (40.80%) C#
3 30 (24.00%) PL/SQL
4 25 (20.00%) Python
5 17 (13.60%) JavaScript
5 17 (13.60%) VBA
6 11 (8.80%) PowerShell
7 9 (7.20%) VB
8 7 (5.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (5.60%) Java
9 6 (4.80%) Bicep
9 6 (4.80%) Groovy
10 5 (4.00%) X++
11 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.80%) Bash
12 1 (0.80%) Korn
12 1 (0.80%) Scala
12 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.60%) Degree
3 13 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (6.40%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.40%) MCSE
8 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.80%) HP APS
9 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.80%) MCSA
9 1 (0.80%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.80%) QA
2 14 (11.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.20%) GDPR
3 4 (3.20%) MiFID
4 3 (2.40%) EMIR
5 2 (1.60%) WCAG
6 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.80%) HL7
6 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.60%) Docker
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Terraform
2 4 (3.20%) Control-M
2 4 (3.20%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.80%) Grafana
3 1 (0.80%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 53 (42.40%) Microsoft
2 31 (24.80%) Oracle
3 15 (12.00%) Citrix
4 11 (8.80%) Databricks
5 8 (6.40%) VMware
6 5 (4.00%) EMC
7 4 (3.20%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.20%) SAP
8 3 (2.40%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.40%) CQG
8 3 (2.40%) Google
8 3 (2.40%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.60%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.60%) OpenText
9 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.80%) HP
10 1 (0.80%) iManage
10 1 (0.80%) Northgate
10 1 (0.80%) Sage
10 1 (0.80%) Sybase