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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 437 309
Rank change year-on-year +38 -128 -30
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 275 116 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.35% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 1.07% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 93 197
10th Percentile £350 £322 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -7.14% +6.60%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -0.92% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.13 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £26.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
% change year-on-year -27.51% - -

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 14,093 10,795 12,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.40% 32.80% 31.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,163 7,218 8,538
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -4.76% -3.59%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 277 406
10th Percentile £30.10 £28.22 £27.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.00 £46.05
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.95 £83.58 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% +8.33%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +18 239 £453 -9.40% 73
UK excluding London +1 131 £421 -0.92% 45
London -30 115 £475 -5.00% 36
Work from Home -1 79 £513 -6.82% 44
North of England -27 49 £403 -10.50% 16
South East -23 48 £404 +15.36% 13
North West -17 35 £403 -10.50% 10
Yorkshire -27 14 £400 - 4
Scotland -1 11 £470 +17.50% 2
Midlands -46 11 £398 -6.47% 7
West Midlands -47 10 £398 -6.47% 6
South West -42 7 £475 -8.65% 2
Wales -14 3 £313 +53.00%
East of England -19 1 - - 5
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 30 (10.91%) IIS
2 23 (8.36%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.55%) Confluence
4 6 (2.18%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.82%) Appian
5 5 (1.82%) Camunda
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.73%) Apache
7 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) MTS
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 56 (20.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.55%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.55%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.82%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.36%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 95 (34.55%) Azure
2 78 (28.36%) Power Platform
3 41 (14.91%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (9.45%) AWS
5 26 (9.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (5.45%) Power Automate
7 13 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.55%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.55%) Serverless
11 6 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.45%) GCP
13 4 (1.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.64%) Internet
2 7 (2.55%) SSL
3 5 (1.82%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.73%) DHCP
4 2 (0.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.73%) Firewall
4 2 (0.73%) LAN
4 2 (0.73%) PABX
4 2 (0.73%) VLAN
4 2 (0.73%) VoIP
4 2 (0.73%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (67.64%) SQL Server
2 67 (24.36%) Power BI
2 67 (24.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 51 (18.55%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (12.73%) Oracle Database
5 29 (10.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (7.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (5.82%) MySQL
7 16 (5.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 13 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (4.00%) MS Access
10 10 (3.64%) Data Lake
11 9 (3.27%) OLAP
12 8 (2.91%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.91%) Star Schema
13 7 (2.55%) Tableau
14 6 (2.18%) Metadata
14 6 (2.18%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.18%) Spark SQL
15 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (7.64%) Git
2 12 (4.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (4.36%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.27%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (2.91%) tSQLt
5 7 (2.55%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.18%) JIRA
7 5 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.82%) Mocha
7 5 (1.82%) MSTest
8 2 (0.73%) GitLab
9 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.36%) Moq
9 1 (0.36%) Postman
9 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.36%) Toad
9 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 70 (25.45%) Finance
2 68 (24.73%) Social Skills
3 39 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (14.18%) Banking
4 16 (5.82%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.18%) Legal
7 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.82%) Law
8 4 (1.45%) Advertising
8 4 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.09%) Front Office
9 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.73%) Billing
10 2 (0.73%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 107 (38.91%) Developer
2 38 (13.82%) Consultant
3 35 (12.73%) Data Engineer
3 35 (12.73%) SQL Developer
4 32 (11.64%) C# Developer
5 28 (10.18%) DBA
5 28 (10.18%) Implementation Consultant
5 28 (10.18%) Senior
6 25 (9.09%) SQL DBA
7 24 (8.73%) .NET Developer
7 24 (8.73%) Lead
8 18 (6.55%) Microsoft Engineer
9 13 (4.73%) Analyst
9 13 (4.73%) Payroll Consultant
10 12 (4.36%) Lead Developer
11 11 (4.00%) Software Developer
11 11 (4.00%) SQL Server DBA
12 10 (3.64%) C# .NET Developer
12 10 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (2.91%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (31.64%) .NET
2 45 (16.36%) XML
3 38 (13.82%) .NET Framework
4 22 (8.00%) ASP.NET
5 21 (7.64%) WinForms
6 20 (7.27%) HTML
7 14 (5.09%) JSON
7 14 (5.09%) REST
7 14 (5.09%) XSLT
8 13 (4.73%) CSS
8 13 (4.73%) PySpark
9 12 (4.36%) React
10 11 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (4.00%) WPF
11 9 (3.27%) RESTful
11 9 (3.27%) WCF
12 8 (2.91%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.91%) SPFx
13 7 (2.55%) SOAP
13 7 (2.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.27%) Replication
2 16 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.09%) Clustering
4 9 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.55%) NHS
6 6 (2.18%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.09%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.73%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.73%) Derivative
9 2 (0.73%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.73%) Equities
9 2 (0.73%) Handset
9 2 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.73%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.73%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (22.18%) Windows
2 29 (10.55%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.27%) Linux
4 5 (1.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.73%) HPUX
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.36%) ETL
2 82 (29.82%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (25.45%) DevOps
4 61 (22.18%) Performance Tuning
5 53 (19.27%) Data Modelling
6 49 (17.82%) Agile
7 48 (17.45%) CI/CD
8 47 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (16.36%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (15.64%) Data Analysis
11 40 (14.55%) Migration
12 38 (13.82%) Analytics
13 34 (12.36%) Workflow
14 33 (12.00%) AI
15 25 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
16 24 (8.73%) Change Management
16 24 (8.73%) Data Integration
17 23 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (8.00%) Data Engineering
18 22 (8.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 271 (98.55%) SQL
2 87 (31.64%) C#
3 70 (25.45%) PL/SQL
4 46 (16.73%) Python
5 29 (10.55%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.82%) PowerShell
7 21 (7.64%) VBA
8 16 (5.82%) VB.NET
9 14 (5.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (4.36%) XPath
11 11 (4.00%) VB
12 8 (2.91%) VBScript
13 6 (2.18%) Java
14 5 (1.82%) Bash
15 2 (0.73%) Bicep
15 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.36%) C
16 1 (0.36%) C++
16 1 (0.36%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 37 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.73%) Degree
4 11 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.55%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.82%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) CISA
8 1 (0.36%) CISSP
8 1 (0.36%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 32 (11.64%) QA
3 5 (1.82%) GDPR
4 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.55%) SCOM
2 5 (1.82%) Terraform
3 3 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 69 (25.09%) Oracle
3 30 (10.91%) Citrix
4 20 (7.27%) Databricks
5 12 (4.36%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.18%) Intapp
6 6 (2.18%) Sybase
7 5 (1.82%) OpenText
7 5 (1.82%) RedGate
7 5 (1.82%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.45%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.45%) Remedy
9 3 (1.09%) BMC
9 3 (1.09%) Google
9 3 (1.09%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.73%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.36%) Foundry
11 1 (0.36%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.36%) Palantir
11 1 (0.36%) Tradeweb