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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 416 343
Rank change year-on-year +25 -73 -55
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 255 103 257
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.35% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.89% 1.03% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 80 191
10th Percentile £370 £320 £363
25th Percentile £404 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% -13.10% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £676 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £433
% change year-on-year +6.25% -7.62% -8.84%
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 13,481 10,047 13,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.85% 33.91% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,783 6,803 9,244
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £417 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 236 542
10th Percentile £35.25 £26.04 £31.35
25th Percentile £53.53 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.75 £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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +18 233 £458 +0.33% 69
London -19 123 £491 +2.03% 27
UK excluding London -31 108 £425 +6.25% 55
Work from Home +2 68 £538 -5.91% 44
South East -7 53 £411 -6.03% 18
North of England -54 31 £403 +7.40% 15
North West -26 22 £403 +1.32% 8
Yorkshire -51 9 £408 +8.67% 3
South West -22 7 £475 -8.65% 5
Scotland -8 5 £475 - 4
Midlands -61 5 £400 -5.88% 4
West Midlands -58 4 £400 -5.88% 3
East of England - 4 £211 - 6
Wales -14 2 £313 +53.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 21 (8.24%) IIS
2 13 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.57%) Confluence
3 4 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.18%) Apache
4 3 (1.18%) Appian
4 3 (1.18%) Camunda
4 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.39%) Mule
6 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.39%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.18%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.18%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.18%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.18%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.39%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (35.29%) Azure
2 78 (30.59%) Power Platform
3 45 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 35 (13.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 26 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (9.02%) AWS
7 12 (4.71%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.92%) Serverless
9 9 (3.53%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.14%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.35%) GitHub
13 4 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (65.49%) SQL Server
2 66 (25.88%) Power BI
3 65 (25.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (18.04%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (14.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (11.76%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (9.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (8.63%) Data Lake
10 12 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (3.92%) Spark SQL
12 8 (3.14%) Delta Lake
12 8 (3.14%) MySQL
13 7 (2.75%) OLAP
13 7 (2.75%) Power Query
13 7 (2.75%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.35%) DataStage
14 6 (2.35%) Metadata
14 6 (2.35%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.06%) Git
2 12 (4.71%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (2.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.35%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.35%) JIRA
5 6 (2.35%) Mocha
5 6 (2.35%) MSTest
5 6 (2.35%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.78%) Postman
7 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.39%) ERwin
7 1 (0.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.39%) Moq
7 1 (0.39%) MSI
7 1 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 71 (27.84%) Finance
2 59 (23.14%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.12%) Banking
4 33 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.96%) Legal
7 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.57%) Advertising
9 3 (1.18%) Law
9 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (38.04%) Developer
2 42 (16.47%) Data Engineer
3 38 (14.90%) SQL Developer
4 34 (13.33%) Consultant
5 32 (12.55%) C# Developer
6 28 (10.98%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (9.41%) Microsoft Engineer
8 21 (8.24%) DBA
8 21 (8.24%) Senior
9 19 (7.45%) SQL DBA
10 18 (7.06%) .NET Developer
11 13 (5.10%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (4.71%) Lead
13 11 (4.31%) Architect
14 10 (3.92%) Analyst
14 10 (3.92%) SQL Server DBA
15 9 (3.53%) Data Architect
16 8 (3.14%) Database Developer
16 8 (3.14%) Integration Engineer
16 8 (3.14%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (26.27%) .NET
2 39 (15.29%) XML
3 38 (14.90%) .NET Framework
4 18 (7.06%) PySpark
5 16 (6.27%) CSS
6 15 (5.88%) HTML
6 15 (5.88%) REST
7 12 (4.71%) JSON
7 12 (4.71%) WinForms
8 11 (4.31%) React
8 11 (4.31%) RESTful
8 11 (4.31%) WPF
9 9 (3.53%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.14%) SPFx
11 7 (2.75%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.35%) SOAP
12 6 (2.35%) XSLT
13 5 (1.96%) Entity Framework
13 5 (1.96%) Kafka
14 4 (1.57%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.10%) Replication
1 13 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (3.92%) Clustering
2 10 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.75%) NHS
4 6 (2.35%) Wiki
5 5 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.57%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.18%) Equities
7 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (17.65%) Windows
2 22 (8.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.75%) Linux
4 4 (1.57%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) HPUX
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (36.86%) ETL
2 92 (36.08%) Business Intelligence
3 54 (21.18%) Data Modelling
4 52 (20.39%) DevOps
4 52 (20.39%) Performance Tuning
5 50 (19.61%) Analytics
5 50 (19.61%) CI/CD
6 49 (19.22%) Agile
7 46 (18.04%) Disaster Recovery
8 41 (16.08%) Migration
8 41 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (15.29%) Data Analysis
10 35 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (10.59%) AI
11 27 (10.59%) Data Engineering
12 26 (10.20%) Unit Testing
13 25 (9.80%) Workflow
14 24 (9.41%) Change Management
14 24 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (9.02%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 250 (98.04%) SQL
2 71 (27.84%) C#
3 65 (25.49%) PL/SQL
4 58 (22.75%) Python
5 32 (12.55%) PowerShell
6 24 (9.41%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.10%) VBA
9 11 (4.31%) VB
10 6 (2.35%) Bash
10 6 (2.35%) Bicep
10 6 (2.35%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.96%) Java
12 4 (1.57%) XPath
13 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.78%) VBScript
15 1 (0.39%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.39%) Groovy
15 1 (0.39%) R
15 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.45%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.27%) Degree
4 8 (3.14%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.96%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 42 (16.47%) QA
3 5 (1.96%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.18%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.35%) Terraform
2 3 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.18%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Control-M
4 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 105 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 59 (23.14%) Oracle
3 31 (12.16%) Citrix
4 28 (10.98%) Databricks
5 6 (2.35%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.96%) Sybase
6 5 (1.96%) VMware
7 4 (1.57%) Remedy
8 3 (1.18%) BMC
8 3 (1.18%) Intapp
8 3 (1.18%) OpenText
8 3 (1.18%) RedGate
8 3 (1.18%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.18%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.78%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.78%) Google
9 2 (0.78%) Informatica
9 2 (0.78%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.39%) Teradata