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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 421 347
Rank change year-on-year +12 -74 -51
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 247 105 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.36% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.05% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 80 190
10th Percentile £371 £315 £363
25th Percentile £404 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -10.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £676 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £393 £450
% change year-on-year +7.29% -12.78% -5.26%
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% -86.37%
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% -90.09%

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 13,257 10,013 13,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.79% 34.09% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,653 6,790 9,257
10th Percentile £358 £355 £350
25th Percentile £416 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £715 £752 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 234 531
10th Percentile £36.25 £26.52 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.64 £34.05 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £85.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 10 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 10 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 +8 226 £453 -3.41% 63
London -19 118 £490 -2.00% 24
UK excluding London -21 106 £421 +7.29% 47
Work from Home -10 65 £525 -8.10% 46
South East -18 53 £411 -6.03% 19
North of England -58 31 £403 +7.40% 11
North West -25 22 £403 +25.86% 7
Yorkshire -52 9 £408 +8.67% 1
South West -18 6 £475 -8.65% 8
Midlands -67 5 £400 -5.88% 2
Scotland -12 4 £470 - 2
West Midlands -52 4 £400 -5.88% 1
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Wales -14 2 £313 +53.00% 1
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 21 (8.50%) IIS
2 13 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.62%) Confluence
3 4 (1.62%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.21%) Apache
4 3 (1.21%) Appian
4 3 (1.21%) Camunda
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.40%) Mule
6 1 (0.40%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (18.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.21%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.21%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.21%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.21%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.40%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.40%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 87 (35.22%) Azure
2 76 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 44 (17.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 35 (14.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 26 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (8.50%) AWS
7 12 (4.86%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.05%) Serverless
9 9 (3.64%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.24%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.43%) GitHub
13 4 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.05%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (64.78%) SQL Server
2 64 (25.91%) Power BI
3 61 (24.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (18.22%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (14.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 29 (11.74%) Oracle Database
7 28 (11.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (8.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (8.91%) Data Lake
9 12 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (4.05%) Spark SQL
11 8 (3.24%) Delta Lake
11 8 (3.24%) MySQL
12 7 (2.83%) OLAP
12 7 (2.83%) Power Query
12 7 (2.83%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.43%) DataStage
13 6 (2.43%) Metadata
13 6 (2.43%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.29%) Git
2 12 (4.86%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (2.83%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.43%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.43%) JIRA
4 6 (2.43%) Mocha
4 6 (2.43%) MSTest
4 6 (2.43%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.81%) Postman
6 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.40%) ERwin
6 1 (0.40%) GitLab
6 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) Moq
6 1 (0.40%) MSI
6 1 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 67 (27.13%) Finance
2 57 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.77%) Banking
4 32 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.02%) Legal
7 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.62%) Advertising
9 3 (1.21%) Law
9 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.81%) Billing
10 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.81%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (36.84%) Developer
2 41 (16.60%) Data Engineer
3 35 (14.17%) SQL Developer
4 34 (13.77%) Consultant
5 30 (12.15%) C# Developer
6 28 (11.34%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (9.72%) Microsoft Engineer
8 21 (8.50%) Senior
9 20 (8.10%) DBA
10 18 (7.29%) SQL DBA
11 16 (6.48%) .NET Developer
12 13 (5.26%) Payroll Consultant
13 11 (4.45%) Architect
14 10 (4.05%) Analyst
14 10 (4.05%) Lead
15 9 (3.64%) Data Architect
15 9 (3.64%) SQL Server DBA
16 8 (3.24%) Database Developer
16 8 (3.24%) Integration Engineer
16 8 (3.24%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (25.51%) .NET
2 38 (15.38%) XML
3 37 (14.98%) .NET Framework
4 18 (7.29%) PySpark
5 16 (6.48%) CSS
6 15 (6.07%) HTML
6 15 (6.07%) REST
7 12 (4.86%) JSON
8 11 (4.45%) RESTful
8 11 (4.45%) WinForms
9 10 (4.05%) React
9 10 (4.05%) WPF
10 8 (3.24%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.24%) SPFx
11 7 (2.83%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.43%) SOAP
12 6 (2.43%) XSLT
13 5 (2.02%) Entity Framework
13 5 (2.02%) Kafka
14 4 (1.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.26%) Replication
1 13 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (4.05%) Clustering
2 10 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.83%) NHS
4 6 (2.43%) Wiki
5 5 (2.02%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.62%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.21%) Equities
7 3 (1.21%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.81%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.41%) Windows
2 20 (8.10%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.83%) Linux
4 4 (1.62%) Unix
5 2 (0.81%) HPUX
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (36.44%) Business Intelligence
1 90 (36.44%) ETL
2 53 (21.46%) Data Modelling
3 50 (20.24%) Analytics
4 49 (19.84%) DevOps
4 49 (19.84%) Performance Tuning
5 48 (19.43%) Agile
5 48 (19.43%) CI/CD
6 45 (18.22%) Disaster Recovery
7 40 (16.19%) Migration
8 38 (15.38%) Data Analysis
8 38 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
10 27 (10.93%) AI
11 26 (10.53%) Data Engineering
12 25 (10.12%) Unit Testing
12 25 (10.12%) Workflow
13 24 (9.72%) Change Management
13 24 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (8.50%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 242 (97.98%) SQL
2 67 (27.13%) C#
3 62 (25.10%) PL/SQL
4 57 (23.08%) Python
5 30 (12.15%) PowerShell
6 23 (9.31%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.26%) VBA
9 11 (4.45%) VB
10 6 (2.43%) Bash
10 6 (2.43%) Bicep
10 6 (2.43%) VB.NET
11 5 (2.02%) Java
12 4 (1.62%) XPath
13 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.81%) VBScript
15 1 (0.40%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.40%) Groovy
15 1 (0.40%) R
15 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.07%) Degree
4 8 (3.24%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.02%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.81%) Data Quality
2 41 (16.60%) QA
3 5 (2.02%) GDPR
4 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.02%) Terraform
2 3 (1.21%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.21%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Control-M
4 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 102 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 57 (23.08%) Oracle
3 30 (12.15%) Citrix
4 28 (11.34%) Databricks
5 6 (2.43%) Alteryx
6 5 (2.02%) Sybase
6 5 (2.02%) VMware
7 4 (1.62%) Remedy
8 3 (1.21%) BMC
8 3 (1.21%) Intapp
8 3 (1.21%) OpenText
8 3 (1.21%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.81%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.81%) Google
9 2 (0.81%) Informatica
9 2 (0.81%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.81%) RedGate
9 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.81%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.40%) Foundry