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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 442 334
Rank change year-on-year +48 -108 -43
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 279 120 259
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.37% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 1.11% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 96 199
10th Percentile £352 £314 £363
25th Percentile £404 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £481 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% -8.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £674 £681 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £22.13 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% - -
75th Percentile £26.38 £34.38 -
90th Percentile £27.50 £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
% change year-on-year -27.18% - -

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 14,084 10,804 12,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.71% 33.08% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,136 7,262 8,962
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +3.16% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 262 456
10th Percentile £33.70 £28.18 £30.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.31 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.56% +3.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 23 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 23 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 +6 245 £453 -8.25% 67
London -15 126 £490 -2.00% 20
UK excluding London -5 125 £425 +6.25% 51
Work from Home -14 80 £523 -5.00% 36
South East -20 49 £404 +15.36% 13
North of England -42 42 £405 +8.00% 14
North West -24 29 £403 +1.96% 7
Yorkshire -41 13 £450 +20.00% 6
Scotland +1 10 £465 +16.25% 1
South West -31 8 £425 -18.27% 9
Midlands -57 8 £425 - 8
West Midlands -57 7 £425 - 8
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Wales -16 3 £313 +53.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 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 31 (11.11%) IIS
2 20 (7.17%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.51%) Confluence
4 6 (2.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.79%) Appian
5 5 (1.79%) Camunda
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) Apache
7 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) Mule
8 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 54 (19.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.15%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.15%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.79%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.08%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 95 (34.05%) Azure
2 81 (29.03%) Power Platform
3 38 (13.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.04%) AWS
6 26 (9.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.30%) Power Automate
8 11 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.23%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.23%) Serverless
10 8 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.51%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.15%) GitHub
13 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.94%) Internet
2 6 (2.15%) SSL
3 4 (1.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.36%) DHCP
4 1 (0.36%) DNS
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.36%) PABX
4 1 (0.36%) SMTP
4 1 (0.36%) VLAN
4 1 (0.36%) VoIP
4 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (69.53%) SQL Server
2 77 (27.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 68 (24.37%) Power BI
4 54 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (14.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 35 (12.54%) Oracle Database
7 27 (9.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (5.02%) Data Lake
9 14 (5.02%) MySQL
10 13 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.94%) MS Access
12 9 (3.23%) OLAP
13 8 (2.87%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.51%) Tableau
15 6 (2.15%) Metadata
15 6 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (2.15%) Spark SQL
16 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 5 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (8.60%) Git
2 13 (4.66%) Visual Studio
3 12 (4.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 12 (4.30%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.51%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.15%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.15%) JIRA
5 6 (2.15%) Mocha
5 6 (2.15%) MSTest
5 6 (2.15%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.72%) GitLab
7 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.36%) ERwin
7 1 (0.36%) Moq
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 73 (26.16%) Finance
2 70 (25.09%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.70%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (14.34%) Banking
5 16 (5.73%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.79%) Legal
9 4 (1.43%) Advertising
10 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Law
10 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (39.43%) Developer
2 41 (14.70%) SQL Developer
3 38 (13.62%) Data Engineer
4 36 (12.90%) Consultant
5 34 (12.19%) C# Developer
6 30 (10.75%) DBA
7 28 (10.04%) Implementation Consultant
8 27 (9.68%) Senior
8 27 (9.68%) SQL DBA
9 24 (8.60%) .NET Developer
10 22 (7.89%) Lead
11 20 (7.17%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (4.66%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.30%) Analyst
13 12 (4.30%) SQL Server DBA
14 11 (3.94%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.94%) Software Developer
15 10 (3.58%) C# .NET Developer
15 10 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
16 8 (2.87%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (30.82%) .NET
2 49 (17.56%) XML
3 40 (14.34%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.89%) HTML
4 22 (7.89%) WinForms
5 21 (7.53%) ASP.NET
6 18 (6.45%) JSON
7 16 (5.73%) REST
8 15 (5.38%) CSS
9 14 (5.02%) XSLT
10 12 (4.30%) PySpark
10 12 (4.30%) React
10 12 (4.30%) WPF
11 10 (3.58%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (3.58%) RESTful
12 9 (3.23%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.23%) WCF
13 8 (2.87%) SOAP
13 8 (2.87%) SPFx
14 7 (2.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.60%) Replication
2 16 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.38%) Clustering
4 10 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.23%) NHS
6 6 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.15%) Wiki
7 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.43%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.08%) Equities
8 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.72%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.72%) Derivative
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.22%) Windows
2 28 (10.04%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.23%) Linux
4 4 (1.43%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) HPUX
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.62%) Business Intelligence
1 91 (32.62%) ETL
2 66 (23.66%) DevOps
3 63 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
4 56 (20.07%) Agile
5 52 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (17.92%) Data Modelling
7 47 (16.85%) Disaster Recovery
8 45 (16.13%) CI/CD
9 42 (15.05%) Data Analysis
10 41 (14.70%) Migration
11 37 (13.26%) Analytics
12 33 (11.83%) Workflow
13 32 (11.47%) AI
14 31 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
15 30 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (8.96%) Data Engineering
17 23 (8.24%) Change Management
17 23 (8.24%) Data Integration
17 23 (8.24%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 274 (98.21%) SQL
2 91 (32.62%) C#
3 73 (26.16%) PL/SQL
4 49 (17.56%) Python
5 32 (11.47%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.75%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.53%) VBA
8 17 (6.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.73%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.30%) VB
10 12 (4.30%) XPath
11 8 (2.87%) VBScript
12 7 (2.51%) Java
13 6 (2.15%) Bash
13 6 (2.15%) Bicep
14 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) R
15 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.04%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.60%) Degree
4 10 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.51%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.05%) Data Quality
2 40 (14.34%) QA
3 6 (2.15%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 9 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.15%) SCOM
2 5 (1.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
5 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 114 (40.86%) Microsoft
2 70 (25.09%) Oracle
3 32 (11.47%) Citrix
4 17 (6.09%) Databricks
5 11 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.79%) Intapp
6 5 (1.79%) OpenText
6 5 (1.79%) RedGate
6 5 (1.79%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.79%) Sybase
7 4 (1.43%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.43%) Remedy
7 4 (1.43%) VMware
8 3 (1.08%) BMC
8 3 (1.08%) Google
8 3 (1.08%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.72%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.36%) Telerik
10 1 (0.36%) Teradata