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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 403 346
Rank change year-on-year -6 -57 -55
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 222 116 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.39% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.16% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 82 179
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £586
90th Percentile £638 £720 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +6.25% -23.81% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +319.87% -78.19%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -18.08% +319.87% -84.97%

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 12,834 10,014 12,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.95% 34.06% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,444 6,812 9,059
10th Percentile £355 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £774 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.71% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 249 488
10th Percentile £41.87 £25.13 £32.25
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £46.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% +0.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -23 203 £431 -13.75% 82
London -3 110 £425 -19.05% 20
UK excluding London -37 91 £425 +6.25% 66
Work from Home -15 57 £550 +2.33% 47
South East -21 43 £405 -7.43% 25
North of England -54 26 £500 +33.33% 24
North West -28 20 £500 +21.95% 11
South West -28 7 £475 -9.52% 3
Yorkshire -52 6 £408 +8.67% 11
Scotland +4 4 £470 - 3
East of England - 4 £211 - 7
Midlands -73 3 £398 -6.47% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
West Midlands -64 2 £398 -6.47% 3
Wales -13 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 21 (9.46%) IIS
2 7 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.80%) Confluence
4 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) Mule
6 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 44 (19.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.45%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.35%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.45%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 85 (38.29%) Azure
2 59 (26.58%) Power Platform
3 48 (21.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (18.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 29 (13.06%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (8.56%) AWS
7 12 (5.41%) Power Automate
8 9 (4.05%) Serverless
9 8 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (3.15%) GitHub
10 7 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (3.15%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.80%) Azure Storage
14 3 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.41%) Internet
2 2 (0.90%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) DHCP
3 1 (0.45%) DNS
3 1 (0.45%) LAN
3 1 (0.45%) SMTP
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (65.77%) SQL Server
2 49 (22.07%) Power BI
3 48 (21.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 44 (19.82%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (13.51%) Oracle Database
6 26 (11.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (11.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (9.91%) Data Lake
9 18 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (4.05%) Metadata
11 9 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (3.60%) Power Query
12 8 (3.60%) Spark SQL
13 7 (3.15%) Delta Lake
14 6 (2.70%) DataStage
14 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 6 (2.70%) MySQL
14 6 (2.70%) Star Schema
15 5 (2.25%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 18 (8.11%) Git
2 13 (5.86%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.15%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.70%) JIRA
5 5 (2.25%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.25%) Mocha
5 5 (2.25%) MSTest
5 5 (2.25%) tSQLt
6 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.90%) Postman
8 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.45%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.45%) GitLab
8 1 (0.45%) Moq
8 1 (0.45%) Selenium
8 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 64 (28.83%) Finance
2 53 (23.87%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (13.51%) Banking
5 12 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.25%) Legal
8 4 (1.80%) Advertising
8 4 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.80%) Law
9 2 (0.90%) Local Government
9 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Billing
10 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (37.84%) Developer
2 40 (18.02%) Data Engineer
3 36 (16.22%) C# Developer
4 34 (15.32%) Consultant
5 29 (13.06%) Implementation Consultant
6 24 (10.81%) SQL Developer
7 20 (9.01%) Senior
8 19 (8.56%) DBA
9 16 (7.21%) .NET Developer
9 16 (7.21%) Microsoft Engineer
10 15 (6.76%) SQL DBA
11 13 (5.86%) Payroll Consultant
12 10 (4.50%) Architect
13 9 (4.05%) Analyst
13 9 (4.05%) Database Developer
14 8 (3.60%) Applications Developer
14 8 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (3.60%) C# Application Developer
14 8 (3.60%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (26.58%) .NET
2 40 (18.02%) .NET Framework
3 32 (14.41%) XML
4 18 (8.11%) PySpark
5 15 (6.76%) WinForms
6 14 (6.31%) CSS
7 13 (5.86%) React
7 13 (5.86%) WPF
8 12 (5.41%) HTML
9 11 (4.95%) JSON
9 11 (4.95%) REST
10 10 (4.50%) RESTful
11 7 (3.15%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.15%) SPFx
11 7 (3.15%) YAML
12 5 (2.25%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.25%) Entity Framework
13 4 (1.80%) Kafka
13 4 (1.80%) Middleware
13 4 (1.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.86%) Replication
2 12 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.60%) Clustering
4 7 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.70%) NHS
5 6 (2.70%) Wiki
6 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.35%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.90%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.90%) Equities
7 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.45%) Derivative
8 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.45%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.45%) Life Science
8 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 44 (19.82%) Windows
2 23 (10.36%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.80%) Linux
4 1 (0.45%) HPUX
4 1 (0.45%) Unix
4 1 (0.45%) VMS
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (38.74%) Business Intelligence
2 73 (32.88%) ETL
3 50 (22.52%) Analytics
4 48 (21.62%) Data Modelling
5 47 (21.17%) Agile
5 47 (21.17%) CI/CD
6 44 (19.82%) DevOps
7 43 (19.37%) Disaster Recovery
8 42 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
9 40 (18.02%) Data Analysis
10 36 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (15.77%) Migration
12 31 (13.96%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (12.16%) Unit Testing
14 25 (11.26%) Data Engineering
15 24 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (10.36%) Change Management
16 23 (10.36%) Dimensional Modelling
17 21 (9.46%) AI
18 18 (8.11%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 216 (97.30%) SQL
2 65 (29.28%) C#
3 62 (27.93%) PL/SQL
4 53 (23.87%) Python
5 27 (12.16%) PowerShell
6 20 (9.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (9.01%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.86%) VBA
8 12 (5.41%) VB
9 6 (2.70%) Bash
9 6 (2.70%) Bicep
10 5 (2.25%) Java
10 5 (2.25%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.45%) C
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.45%) Groovy
11 1 (0.45%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.21%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.76%) Degree
4 8 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.80%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) HP APS
8 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (21.17%) QA
2 44 (19.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.35%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.45%) IFRS
4 1 (0.45%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.45%) Docker
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (4.50%) Terraform
2 3 (1.35%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.45%) Control-M
4 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 88 (39.64%) Microsoft
2 57 (25.68%) Oracle
3 33 (14.86%) Citrix
3 33 (14.86%) Databricks
4 7 (3.15%) VMware
5 5 (2.25%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.80%) Remedy
6 4 (1.80%) Sybase
7 3 (1.35%) BMC
7 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.90%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.90%) Google
8 2 (0.90%) Informatica
8 2 (0.90%) RedGate
8 2 (0.90%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.45%) NetCracker
9 1 (0.45%) Sage
9 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.45%) Telerik
9 1 (0.45%) Teradata