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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 379 347
Rank change year-on-year -44 -32 -69
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 188 139 263
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.48% 1.38% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 95 173
10th Percentile £358 £324 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £581 £610 £576
90th Percentile £638 £716 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £27.82 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.17 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -59.21%
75th Percentile £27.50 £42.10 £18.76
90th Percentile - £55.84 £20.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
% change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -52.61%

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 12,660 10,052 12,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 28.93% 34.01% 29.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,419 6,691 9,119
10th Percentile £353 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £485
% change year-on-year -1.76% -0.31% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 245 486
10th Percentile £41.87 £22.09 £30.94
25th Percentile £54.55 £31.76 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £67.47
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year +1.97% +3.48% -5.23%

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 March 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 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 23 March 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 -56 173 £420 -16.00% 96
London -25 92 £415 -17.00% 25
UK excluding London -59 78 £438 +16.67% 93
Work from Home -30 52 £550 +15.79% 45
South East -36 36 £481 -8.33% 28
North of England -62 22 £475 +29.96% 15
North West -18 16 £402 +12.92% 10
South West -17 6 £525 - 14
Yorkshire -64 6 £500 +33.33% 5
East of England - 4 £211 - 10
Midlands -66 3 £398 +5.16% 15
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland +4 2 £465 +36.56% 9
Wales -8 2 £410 +150.71% 3
West Midlands -58 2 £398 -16.32% 9
East Midlands -35 1 - - 6

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 (11.17%) IIS
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Mule
4 1 (0.53%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (21.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.53%) InDesign
3 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) SystmOne
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.53%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (39.89%) Azure
2 42 (22.34%) Azure Data Factory
3 41 (21.81%) Power Platform
4 37 (19.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 30 (15.96%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.38%) AWS
7 8 (4.26%) GitHub
7 8 (4.26%) Serverless
8 7 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.72%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.19%) AtomSphere
9 6 (3.19%) Boomi
9 6 (3.19%) SaaS
10 5 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.60%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.38%) Internet
2 2 (1.06%) DHCP
2 2 (1.06%) DNS
2 2 (1.06%) HTTP
2 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) LAN
3 1 (0.53%) SMTP
3 1 (0.53%) VPN
3 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (60.64%) SQL Server
2 44 (23.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 39 (20.74%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (18.62%) Power BI
5 24 (12.77%) Oracle Database
6 21 (11.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 20 (10.64%) Data Lake
8 19 (10.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (9.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (5.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (4.26%) Power Query
12 7 (3.72%) Delta Lake
12 7 (3.72%) Metadata
12 7 (3.72%) Spark SQL
13 6 (3.19%) Star Schema
14 5 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
15 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
16 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 3 (1.60%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 15 (7.98%) Git
1 15 (7.98%) Visual Studio
2 7 (3.72%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (3.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.60%) JIRA
4 3 (1.60%) Mocha
4 3 (1.60%) MSTest
4 3 (1.60%) Postman
4 3 (1.60%) tSQLt
5 2 (1.06%) GitLab
5 2 (1.06%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.53%) Appium
6 1 (0.53%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Coded UI
6 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 54 (28.72%) Finance
2 42 (22.34%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.17%) Banking
5 12 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.66%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.66%) Legal
8 4 (2.13%) Advertising
9 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Law
10 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Military
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (44.68%) Developer
2 37 (19.68%) C# Developer
3 30 (15.96%) Consultant
3 30 (15.96%) Data Engineer
4 29 (15.43%) Implementation Consultant
5 18 (9.57%) SQL Developer
6 15 (7.98%) Senior
7 13 (6.91%) .NET Developer
7 13 (6.91%) Payroll Consultant
8 10 (5.32%) Architect
8 10 (5.32%) DBA
8 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Engineer
9 8 (4.26%) Analyst
9 8 (4.26%) Azure Developer
9 8 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (4.26%) C# .NET Developer
9 8 (4.26%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.26%) Workflow Consultant
10 7 (3.72%) C# Application Developer
10 7 (3.72%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.26%) .NET
2 39 (20.74%) XML
3 38 (20.21%) .NET Framework
4 17 (9.04%) JSON
4 17 (9.04%) PySpark
5 14 (7.45%) REST
5 14 (7.45%) WinForms
5 14 (7.45%) WPF
6 10 (5.32%) SOAP
7 9 (4.79%) React
8 8 (4.26%) CSS
9 7 (3.72%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.72%) RESTful
9 7 (3.72%) YAML
10 6 (3.19%) HTML
10 6 (3.19%) WCF
11 4 (2.13%) ASP.NET
12 3 (1.60%) ADO
12 3 (1.60%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (1.60%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.32%) Replication
2 9 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.19%) Wiki
4 5 (2.66%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.13%) Clustering
5 4 (2.13%) NHS
6 3 (1.60%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.53%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.53%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.53%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.53%) Equities
8 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.53%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.74%) Windows
2 21 (11.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.13%) Linux
4 1 (0.53%) VMS
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (38.30%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (30.32%) ETL
3 51 (27.13%) CI/CD
4 49 (26.06%) DevOps
5 48 (25.53%) Agile
6 42 (22.34%) Analytics
7 41 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (19.15%) Data Modelling
9 35 (18.62%) Disaster Recovery
10 34 (18.09%) Data Analysis
11 31 (16.49%) Migration
12 30 (15.96%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (15.43%) Performance Tuning
14 25 (13.30%) Unit Testing
15 23 (12.23%) Data Engineering
16 20 (10.64%) Change Management
16 20 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (10.64%) Dimensional Modelling
17 18 (9.57%) Validation
18 17 (9.04%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 177 (94.15%) SQL
2 64 (34.04%) C#
3 53 (28.19%) PL/SQL
4 44 (23.40%) Python
5 20 (10.64%) PowerShell
6 18 (9.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (9.04%) JavaScript
8 12 (6.38%) VBA
9 11 (5.85%) VB
10 10 (5.32%) Java
11 7 (3.72%) Bicep
11 7 (3.72%) Groovy
12 5 (2.66%) Bash
12 5 (2.66%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.53%) C++
13 1 (0.53%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.53%) Scala
13 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.53%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.98%) Degree
3 14 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.13%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (22.87%) QA
2 29 (15.43%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.06%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) IFRS
4 1 (0.53%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) MiFID
4 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (3.72%) Terraform
2 3 (1.60%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.53%) Control-M
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 74 (39.36%) Microsoft
2 48 (25.53%) Oracle
3 30 (15.96%) Citrix
4 26 (13.83%) Databricks
5 8 (4.26%) VMware
6 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.60%) Sybase
7 2 (1.06%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.06%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.06%) Google
7 2 (1.06%) Informatica
7 2 (1.06%) SAP
8 1 (0.53%) Adobe
8 1 (0.53%) HP
8 1 (0.53%) Remedy
8 1 (0.53%) Sage
8 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.53%) Splunk
8 1 (0.53%) Teradata