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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 438 346
Rank change year-on-year +32 -92 -60
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 262 105 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.35% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 1.02% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 82 190
10th Percentile £350 £351 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -10.71% +11.70%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £393 £433
% change year-on-year +6.30% -9.35% -8.36%
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% -82.56%
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% -87.36%

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 13,744 10,277 13,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.96% 33.89% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,928 6,943 9,268
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.37% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 243 543
10th Percentile £34.13 £25.86 £31.45
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% +1.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £82.37 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% -5.38% +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 27 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 27 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 +1 239 £453 -4.63% 58
London -11 127 £492 -1.60% 20
UK excluding London -34 110 £417 +6.30% 47
Work from Home -21 70 £550 -7.17% 36
South East -10 51 £405 +15.71% 16
North of England -48 35 £403 +7.40% 19
North West -33 24 £403 +1.96% 11
Yorkshire -35 11 £400 +6.67% 7
South West -30 8 £425 -18.27% 4
Midlands -65 5 £400 -5.88% 4
Scotland -5 4 £475 - 1
West Midlands -61 4 £400 -5.88% 3
East of England - 4 £211 - 3
Wales -15 2 £313 +53.00%
Northern Ireland - 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 24 (9.16%) IIS
2 15 (5.73%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.29%) Confluence
3 6 (2.29%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (1.91%) Appian
4 5 (1.91%) Camunda
5 3 (1.15%) Apache
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) Mule
7 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 47 (17.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.38%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.91%) Elite 3E
1 5 (1.91%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (1.91%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.15%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 89 (33.97%) Azure
2 79 (30.15%) Power Platform
3 39 (14.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (11.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 27 (10.31%) AWS
6 25 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (4.58%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.82%) Serverless
9 9 (3.44%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.29%) GitHub
12 5 (1.91%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.82%) Internet
2 2 (0.76%) SSL
3 1 (0.38%) HTTP
3 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.38%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (66.41%) SQL Server
2 67 (25.57%) Power BI
3 66 (25.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 50 (19.08%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (15.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (11.83%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (8.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (6.49%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (3.82%) MySQL
12 8 (3.05%) OLAP
13 7 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (2.67%) Spark SQL
14 6 (2.29%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.29%) Tableau
15 5 (1.91%) DataStage
15 5 (1.91%) Delta Lake
15 5 (1.91%) MS Access
15 5 (1.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.25%) Git
2 12 (4.58%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.05%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.29%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.29%) JIRA
5 6 (2.29%) Mocha
5 6 (2.29%) MSTest
5 6 (2.29%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.76%) Postman
7 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.38%) ERwin
7 1 (0.38%) GitLab
7 1 (0.38%) Moq
7 1 (0.38%) MSI
7 1 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 73 (27.86%) Finance
2 62 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.27%) Banking
4 36 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.91%) Legal
7 5 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.53%) Advertising
9 3 (1.15%) Law
9 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.76%) Billing
10 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.76%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Games
11 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (40.84%) Developer
2 40 (15.27%) Data Engineer
3 39 (14.89%) SQL Developer
4 34 (12.98%) Consultant
5 33 (12.60%) C# Developer
6 28 (10.69%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (9.16%) DBA
7 24 (9.16%) Senior
8 23 (8.78%) Microsoft Engineer
9 21 (8.02%) SQL DBA
10 19 (7.25%) .NET Developer
11 14 (5.34%) Lead
12 13 (4.96%) Payroll Consultant
13 10 (3.82%) Analyst
13 10 (3.82%) SQL Server DBA
14 9 (3.44%) Database Developer
15 8 (3.05%) Workflow Consultant
16 7 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
16 7 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 7 (2.67%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (29.77%) .NET
2 42 (16.03%) XML
3 41 (15.65%) .NET Framework
4 17 (6.49%) REST
5 16 (6.11%) CSS
5 16 (6.11%) HTML
6 15 (5.73%) PySpark
7 14 (5.34%) ASP.NET
7 14 (5.34%) WinForms
8 13 (4.96%) JSON
8 13 (4.96%) React
9 11 (4.20%) RESTful
9 11 (4.20%) WPF
10 9 (3.44%) XSLT
11 8 (3.05%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.05%) SOAP
11 8 (3.05%) SPFx
12 7 (2.67%) Web Services
13 6 (2.29%) jQuery
14 5 (1.91%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.73%) Replication
1 15 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (4.58%) Clustering
3 11 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.05%) NHS
5 6 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.29%) Wiki
6 5 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.53%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.15%) Equities
8 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.76%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.38%) Derivative
10 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (19.08%) Windows
2 24 (9.16%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.67%) Linux
4 4 (1.53%) Unix
5 2 (0.76%) HPUX
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (35.88%) ETL
2 92 (35.11%) Business Intelligence
3 56 (21.37%) DevOps
4 55 (20.99%) Agile
4 55 (20.99%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (19.47%) Data Modelling
6 49 (18.70%) CI/CD
7 47 (17.94%) Disaster Recovery
7 47 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (17.18%) Analytics
9 41 (15.65%) Data Analysis
10 40 (15.27%) Migration
11 33 (12.60%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (11.83%) Workflow
13 30 (11.45%) AI
14 27 (10.31%) Unit Testing
15 26 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (9.54%) Change Management
16 25 (9.54%) Data Engineering
17 22 (8.40%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 257 (98.09%) SQL
2 81 (30.92%) C#
3 67 (25.57%) PL/SQL
4 52 (19.85%) Python
5 30 (11.45%) PowerShell
6 27 (10.31%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (5.34%) VBA
9 11 (4.20%) VB
10 10 (3.82%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.67%) XPath
12 6 (2.29%) Bash
12 6 (2.29%) Bicep
13 5 (1.91%) Java
14 3 (1.15%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.15%) VBScript
15 1 (0.38%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.38%) Groovy
15 1 (0.38%) R
15 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (10.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.40%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.02%) Degree
4 7 (2.67%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.91%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.03%) Data Quality
1 42 (16.03%) QA
2 6 (2.29%) GDPR
3 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.38%) IFRS
4 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.15%) Docker
3 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.29%) Terraform
2 3 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.15%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.76%) SCOM
3 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Control-M
4 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 104 (39.69%) Microsoft
2 62 (23.66%) Oracle
3 33 (12.60%) Citrix
4 22 (8.40%) Databricks
5 5 (1.91%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.91%) Intapp
5 5 (1.91%) OpenText
5 5 (1.91%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.91%) Sybase
5 5 (1.91%) VMware
6 4 (1.53%) Remedy
7 3 (1.15%) BMC
7 3 (1.15%) RedGate
7 3 (1.15%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.15%) SYSPRO
8 2 (0.76%) Google
8 2 (0.76%) NetCracker
9 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.38%) Telerik
9 1 (0.38%) Teradata