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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 420 353
Rank change year-on-year +18 -67 -53
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 252 105 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.36% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 1.05% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 80 190
10th Percentile £370 £315 £363
25th Percentile £404 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -10.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £676 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £393 £438
% change year-on-year +7.29% -10.29% -7.89%
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 13,433 10,018 13,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.88% 34.04% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,762 6,782 9,286
10th Percentile £358 £355 £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 £601 £625 £650
90th Percentile £717 £751 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 231 531
10th Percentile £36.25 £26.32 £31.25
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% +2.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.25
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 12 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 12 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 +12 231 £453 -3.41% 62
London -7 121 £490 -2.00% 20
UK excluding London -17 107 £421 +7.29% 50
Work from Home -21 66 £525 -8.10% 43
South East -21 53 £411 -6.03% 17
North of England -55 31 £403 +7.40% 14
North West -18 22 £403 +25.86% 8
Yorkshire -49 9 £408 +8.67% 2
South West -18 7 £475 -8.65% 7
Midlands -67 5 £400 -5.88% 2
Scotland -8 4 £470 - 2
West Midlands -58 4 £400 -5.88% 1
East of England - 4 £211 - 6
Wales -16 2 £313 +53.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 (8.33%) IIS
2 13 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.59%) Confluence
3 4 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.19%) Apache
4 3 (1.19%) Appian
4 3 (1.19%) Camunda
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.40%) Mule
6 1 (0.40%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.19%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.19%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.19%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.19%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.40%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.40%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (34.92%) Azure
2 77 (30.56%) Power Platform
3 44 (17.46%) Azure Data Factory
4 35 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 26 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (8.73%) AWS
7 12 (4.76%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.97%) Serverless
9 9 (3.57%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.38%) GitHub
13 4 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.97%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (65.08%) SQL Server
2 65 (25.79%) Power BI
3 64 (25.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (14.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (11.90%) Oracle Database
7 28 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (8.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (8.73%) Data Lake
9 12 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (3.97%) Spark SQL
11 8 (3.17%) Delta Lake
11 8 (3.17%) MySQL
12 7 (2.78%) OLAP
12 7 (2.78%) Power Query
12 7 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.38%) DataStage
13 6 (2.38%) Metadata
13 6 (2.38%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.14%) Git
2 12 (4.76%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.38%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.38%) JIRA
5 6 (2.38%) Mocha
5 6 (2.38%) MSTest
5 6 (2.38%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.79%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.40%) ERwin
7 1 (0.40%) GitLab
7 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.40%) Moq
7 1 (0.40%) MSI
7 1 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 69 (27.38%) Finance
2 59 (23.41%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.29%) Banking
4 33 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.16%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.98%) Legal
7 5 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Advertising
9 3 (1.19%) Law
9 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Billing
10 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (37.70%) Developer
2 42 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 36 (14.29%) SQL Developer
4 34 (13.49%) Consultant
5 32 (12.70%) C# Developer
6 28 (11.11%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (9.52%) Microsoft Engineer
8 21 (8.33%) Senior
9 20 (7.94%) DBA
10 18 (7.14%) SQL DBA
11 17 (6.75%) .NET Developer
12 13 (5.16%) Payroll Consultant
13 11 (4.37%) Architect
13 11 (4.37%) Lead
14 10 (3.97%) Analyst
15 9 (3.57%) Data Architect
15 9 (3.57%) SQL Server DBA
16 8 (3.17%) Database Developer
16 8 (3.17%) Integration Engineer
16 8 (3.17%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (26.19%) .NET
2 39 (15.48%) XML
3 38 (15.08%) .NET Framework
4 18 (7.14%) PySpark
5 16 (6.35%) CSS
6 15 (5.95%) HTML
6 15 (5.95%) REST
7 12 (4.76%) JSON
7 12 (4.76%) WinForms
8 11 (4.37%) React
8 11 (4.37%) RESTful
8 11 (4.37%) WPF
9 9 (3.57%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.17%) SPFx
11 7 (2.78%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.38%) SOAP
12 6 (2.38%) XSLT
13 5 (1.98%) Entity Framework
13 5 (1.98%) Kafka
14 4 (1.59%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.16%) Replication
1 13 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (3.97%) Clustering
2 10 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.78%) NHS
4 6 (2.38%) Wiki
5 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.59%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.19%) Equities
7 3 (1.19%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.79%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.46%) Windows
2 21 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.78%) Linux
4 4 (1.59%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) HPUX
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (36.90%) ETL
2 91 (36.11%) Business Intelligence
3 54 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 51 (20.24%) DevOps
5 50 (19.84%) Analytics
5 50 (19.84%) Performance Tuning
6 49 (19.44%) Agile
6 49 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 46 (18.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 41 (16.27%) Migration
8 41 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (15.48%) Data Analysis
10 35 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (10.71%) AI
11 27 (10.71%) Data Engineering
12 26 (10.32%) Unit Testing
13 25 (9.92%) Workflow
14 24 (9.52%) Change Management
14 24 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (8.73%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 247 (98.02%) SQL
2 70 (27.78%) C#
3 65 (25.79%) PL/SQL
4 58 (23.02%) Python
5 31 (12.30%) PowerShell
6 24 (9.52%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.16%) VBA
9 11 (4.37%) VB
10 6 (2.38%) Bash
10 6 (2.38%) Bicep
10 6 (2.38%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.98%) Java
12 4 (1.59%) XPath
13 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.79%) VBScript
15 1 (0.40%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.40%) Groovy
15 1 (0.40%) R
15 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.54%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.35%) Degree
4 8 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.98%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 42 (16.67%) QA
3 5 (1.98%) GDPR
4 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.98%) Terraform
2 3 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.19%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Control-M
4 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 103 (40.87%) Microsoft
2 59 (23.41%) Oracle
3 31 (12.30%) Citrix
4 28 (11.11%) Databricks
5 6 (2.38%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.98%) Sybase
6 5 (1.98%) VMware
7 4 (1.59%) Remedy
8 3 (1.19%) BMC
8 3 (1.19%) Intapp
8 3 (1.19%) OpenText
8 3 (1.19%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.79%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.79%) Google
9 2 (0.79%) Informatica
9 2 (0.79%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.79%) RedGate
9 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.40%) Foundry