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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 344 307
Rank change year-on-year -120 -37 -46
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 120 202 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.60% 0.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 1.85% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 138 195
10th Percentile £350 £344 £375
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £505 £480
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% +5.21% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £668 £675 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.14
25th Percentile - £45.63 £17.38
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%
75th Percentile - - £24.61
90th Percentile - - £26.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £18.41
% change year-on-year - +253.12% -47.41%

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 11,447 10,918 13,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.98% 32.54% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,583 6,987 9,426
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.41% -2.35% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 249 413
10th Percentile £31.97 £21.25 £35.10
25th Percentile £51.21 £38.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £69.45 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.37 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.57% -2.50% -

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 -112 104 £415 -20.95% 74
London -42 68 £415 -27.83% 24
Work from Home -32 40 £456 -1.08% 56
UK excluding London -98 37 £450 - 66
North of England -49 14 £450 +16.13% 12
North West -26 10 £450 +12.50% 8
Wales 0 5 £600 +272.49%
South East -41 5 £475 -9.52% 15
South West -1 4 £550 +29.41% 10
Yorkshire -47 4 £375 - 4
Midlands -54 4 £550 +22.22% 15
Scotland +4 3 £700 +80.65% 12
East Midlands -23 3 £550 +54.49% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
West Midlands -36 1 - - 11
East of England - 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 15 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.67%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (49.17%) Azure
2 29 (24.17%) Azure Data Factory
2 29 (24.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 29 (24.17%) Power Platform
3 19 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.33%) AWS
5 9 (7.50%) Serverless
6 8 (6.67%) GitHub
7 7 (5.83%) Azure Functions
7 7 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (5.83%) SaaS
8 6 (5.00%) AtomSphere
8 6 (5.00%) Boomi
8 6 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.00%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.17%) GCP
10 4 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.17%) Internet
2 3 (2.50%) DHCP
2 3 (2.50%) DNS
2 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) LAN
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (67.50%) SQL Server
2 31 (25.83%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (21.67%) Power BI
4 23 (19.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (16.67%) Oracle Database
6 19 (15.83%) Data Lake
7 16 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (7.50%) Relational Database
9 9 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (6.67%) Metadata
11 7 (5.83%) Power Query
12 6 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (4.17%) Star Schema
14 4 (3.33%) DataStage
15 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (2.50%) Data Vault
15 3 (2.50%) Spark SQL
15 3 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (10.00%) Git
2 10 (8.33%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.67%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.83%) Appium
6 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.83%) GitLab
6 1 (0.83%) JIRA
6 1 (0.83%) JMeter
6 1 (0.83%) NUnit
6 1 (0.83%) Poetry
6 1 (0.83%) Postman
6 1 (0.83%) Pylint
6 1 (0.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 35 (29.17%) Finance
2 30 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.50%) Banking
4 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.67%) Back Office
7 2 (1.67%) Front Office
7 2 (1.67%) Law
7 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.83%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (60.00%) Developer
2 26 (21.67%) C# Developer
3 20 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 15 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 10 (8.33%) Integration Developer
6 9 (7.50%) SQL Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Architect
8 7 (5.83%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (5.83%) C# WCF Developer
8 7 (5.83%) C# WPF Developer
8 7 (5.83%) Senior
8 7 (5.83%) WCF Developer
8 7 (5.83%) WPF Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Azure Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Data Architect
9 6 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Analyst
10 5 (4.17%) DBA
10 5 (4.17%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (35.00%) .NET
2 26 (21.67%) .NET Framework
3 14 (11.67%) PySpark
3 14 (11.67%) WPF
4 12 (10.00%) WinForms
4 12 (10.00%) XML
5 11 (9.17%) JSON
6 10 (8.33%) WCF
7 9 (7.50%) React
7 9 (7.50%) REST
7 9 (7.50%) SOAP
8 7 (5.83%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (5.83%) Kafka
9 6 (5.00%) .NET Core
9 6 (5.00%) AngularJS
9 6 (5.00%) Web Services
10 5 (4.17%) Middleware
11 4 (3.33%) ADO
12 3 (2.50%) ASP.NET
12 3 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.33%) NHS
4 3 (2.50%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.67%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.67%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.83%) Clustering
6 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) IoT
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.17%) Windows
2 14 (11.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 43 (35.83%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (32.50%) DevOps
3 39 (32.50%) ETL
4 36 (30.00%) Agile
5 34 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (27.50%) Analytics
7 29 (24.17%) Data Modelling
8 24 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 24 (20.00%) Migration
9 19 (15.83%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (15.00%) Data Engineering
11 17 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (14.17%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (12.50%) Data Governance
13 14 (11.67%) Validation
14 13 (10.83%) Full-Stack Development
15 12 (10.00%) OOP
15 12 (10.00%) Scrum
15 12 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 111 (92.50%) SQL
2 49 (40.83%) C#
3 35 (29.17%) PL/SQL
4 32 (26.67%) Python
5 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.83%) VBA
7 10 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (7.50%) VB
9 7 (5.83%) Java
10 6 (5.00%) Groovy
11 5 (4.17%) Bicep
12 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.50%) X++
13 1 (0.83%) Bash
13 1 (0.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (16.67%) Degree
2 15 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.83%) HP APS
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.83%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.33%) QA
2 20 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.50%) MiFID
4 2 (1.67%) EMIR
4 2 (1.67%) WCAG
5 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) HL7
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.67%) Docker
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) Terraform
2 3 (2.50%) Control-M
2 3 (2.50%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.67%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 53 (44.17%) Microsoft
2 35 (29.17%) Oracle
3 23 (19.17%) Databricks
4 19 (15.83%) Citrix
5 7 (5.83%) VMware
6 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.33%) SAP
7 3 (2.50%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.50%) EMC
7 3 (2.50%) Google
8 2 (1.67%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.67%) CQG
8 2 (1.67%) Informatica
8 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.67%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.83%) iManage
9 1 (0.83%) Okta
9 1 (0.83%) Sage
9 1 (0.83%) Workday