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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 410 333
Rank change year-on-year -3 -77 -52
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 233 110 249
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.38% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 1.12% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 79 184
10th Percentile £350 £274 £363
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -13.46% +9.47%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £588
90th Percentile £664 £695 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £385 £500
% change year-on-year +10.39% -23.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% +319.87% -78.19%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.50 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -22.63% +319.87% -84.97%

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 13,006 9,831 12,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.76% 34.12% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,513 6,690 9,117
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £414 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £526
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.62% -4.36%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.68% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 219 504
10th Percentile £36.30 £26.46 £32.25
25th Percentile £53.64 £34.33 £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 £77.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 24 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 24 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 -8 211 £445 -3.78% 80
London -6 114 £448 -10.50% 24
UK excluding London -35 98 £425 +10.39% 60
Work from Home -30 55 £538 +4.88% 47
South East -16 48 £405 -7.43% 16
North of England -63 26 £500 +33.33% 21
North West -28 18 £513 +25.00% 10
Yorkshire -56 8 £408 +8.67% 9
South West -24 7 £475 -9.52% 7
Scotland -1 4 £470 - 2
East of England - 4 £211 - 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
Midlands -77 3 £398 -6.47% 5
Wales -12 2 £313 +71.23% 1
West Midlands -66 2 £398 -6.47% 4

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 11 (4.72%) 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%) 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 90 (38.63%) Azure
2 68 (29.18%) Power Platform
3 49 (21.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (17.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 30 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (8.15%) 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 56 (24.03%) Power BI
3 53 (22.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (19.31%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (13.30%) Oracle Database
6 28 (12.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 26 (11.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (9.44%) Data Lake
9 18 (7.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.86%) Spark SQL
12 8 (3.43%) Delta Lake
12 8 (3.43%) Metadata
13 7 (3.00%) Power Query
14 6 (2.58%) DataStage
14 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 6 (2.58%) MySQL
15 5 (2.15%) OLAP
15 5 (2.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (7.30%) Git
2 14 (6.01%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.43%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (3.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (2.58%) JIRA
6 5 (2.15%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.15%) Mocha
6 5 (2.15%) MSTest
6 5 (2.15%) tSQLt
7 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.86%) Postman
9 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.43%) GitLab
9 1 (0.43%) Moq
9 1 (0.43%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 62 (26.61%) Finance
2 53 (22.75%) 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 84 (36.05%) Developer
2 43 (18.45%) Data Engineer
3 35 (15.02%) C# Developer
3 35 (15.02%) Consultant
4 29 (12.45%) Implementation Consultant
5 25 (10.73%) SQL Developer
6 22 (9.44%) Senior
7 20 (8.58%) Microsoft Engineer
8 17 (7.30%) DBA
9 15 (6.44%) .NET Developer
9 15 (6.44%) SQL DBA
10 13 (5.58%) Payroll Consultant
11 10 (4.29%) Analyst
11 10 (4.29%) Architect
12 9 (3.86%) Applications Developer
12 9 (3.86%) C# Application Developer
12 9 (3.86%) Database Developer
13 8 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.43%) Data Architect
13 8 (3.43%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (25.32%) .NET
2 41 (17.60%) .NET Framework
3 34 (14.59%) 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%) React
8 12 (5.15%) WPF
9 11 (4.72%) REST
10 10 (4.29%) RESTful
11 8 (3.43%) SPFx
12 6 (2.58%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.58%) ASP.NET
12 6 (2.58%) YAML
13 5 (2.15%) Entity Framework
13 5 (2.15%) Kafka
14 4 (1.72%) Middleware
15 3 (1.29%) 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%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.43%) Derivative
10 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 47 (20.17%) Windows
2 24 (10.30%) 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 91 (39.06%) Business Intelligence
2 82 (35.19%) ETL
3 53 (22.75%) Analytics
4 50 (21.46%) Data Modelling
5 47 (20.17%) Agile
5 47 (20.17%) DevOps
6 45 (19.31%) CI/CD
6 45 (19.31%) Disaster Recovery
7 42 (18.03%) Data Analysis
8 41 (17.60%) Performance Tuning
9 38 (16.31%) Migration
10 35 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (14.59%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (11.59%) Unit Testing
13 26 (11.16%) AI
13 26 (11.16%) Data Engineering
14 25 (10.73%) Change Management
14 25 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (9.44%) Dimensional Modelling
16 20 (8.58%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 228 (97.85%) SQL
2 66 (28.33%) C#
2 66 (28.33%) PL/SQL
3 58 (24.89%) Python
4 28 (12.02%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.44%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (6.01%) VBA
8 13 (5.58%) VB
9 6 (2.58%) Bash
9 6 (2.58%) Bicep
10 5 (2.15%) Java
10 5 (2.15%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.86%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.43%) C
12 1 (0.43%) C++
12 1 (0.43%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.30%) Degree
3 16 (6.87%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.43%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.15%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) HP APS
8 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (20.17%) Data Quality
2 46 (19.74%) 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
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
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%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 93 (39.91%) Microsoft
2 60 (25.75%) Oracle
3 34 (14.59%) Citrix
4 32 (13.73%) 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
8 2 (0.86%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.86%) Google
8 2 (0.86%) Informatica
8 2 (0.86%) OpenText
8 2 (0.86%) RedGate
8 2 (0.86%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.86%) SYSPRO
9 1 (0.43%) Foundry
9 1 (0.43%) Palantir
9 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.43%) Splunk