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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 441 326
Rank change year-on-year +37 -115 -30
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 281 118 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.36% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 1.09% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 95 198
10th Percentile £352 £329 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £668 £683 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 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 £25.81 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £27.50 - -
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 14,192 10,825 12,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.62% 32.91% 31.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,222 7,296 8,681
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £499
% change year-on-year +3.16% -4.81% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 256 417
10th Percentile £31.30 £27.97 £27.45
25th Percentile £50.56 £36.19 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.95 £81.48 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +7.35%

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 1 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 1 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 +11 246 £453 -7.08% 68
UK excluding London +2 128 £425 - 54
London -20 125 £475 -5.00% 23
Work from Home -7 82 £519 -5.64% 38
South East -16 49 £405 +15.71% 14
North of England -37 45 £403 -10.50% 16
North West -31 31 £403 -10.50% 9
Yorkshire -26 14 £400 - 4
Scotland -7 10 £465 +16.25% 3
Midlands -52 10 £400 -5.88% 11
West Midlands -57 9 £400 -5.88% 11
South West -33 8 £425 -18.27% 6
Wales -10 3 £313 +53.00% 1
East of England - 2 - - 2
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 31 (11.03%) IIS
2 22 (7.83%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.49%) Confluence
4 6 (2.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.78%) Appian
5 5 (1.78%) Camunda
6 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.71%) Apache
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) Mule
8 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 56 (19.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.49%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.49%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.78%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.71%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
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
Cloud Services
1 98 (34.88%) Azure
2 83 (29.54%) Power Platform
3 41 (14.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 28 (9.96%) AWS
7 14 (4.98%) Power Automate
8 12 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.91%) PowerApps
10 10 (3.56%) Serverless
11 9 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.49%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.42%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.91%) Internet
2 7 (2.49%) SSL
3 4 (1.42%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.71%) DHCP
4 2 (0.71%) DNS
4 2 (0.71%) Firewall
4 2 (0.71%) LAN
4 2 (0.71%) PABX
4 2 (0.71%) VLAN
4 2 (0.71%) VoIP
4 2 (0.71%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (69.40%) SQL Server
2 76 (27.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 70 (24.91%) Power BI
4 54 (19.22%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (13.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 36 (12.81%) Oracle Database
7 25 (8.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 24 (8.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (5.34%) MySQL
10 14 (4.98%) Data Lake
11 13 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (3.91%) MS Access
13 9 (3.20%) OLAP
14 8 (2.85%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.49%) Star Schema
15 7 (2.49%) Tableau
16 6 (2.14%) Metadata
16 6 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (2.14%) Spark SQL
17 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (8.54%) Git
2 12 (4.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (4.27%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.49%) tSQLt
5 6 (2.14%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.14%) Mocha
5 6 (2.14%) MSTest
6 5 (1.78%) JIRA
7 2 (0.71%) GitLab
8 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.36%) ERwin
8 1 (0.36%) Moq
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 74 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 72 (25.62%) Finance
3 44 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (14.23%) Banking
5 17 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Legal
8 4 (1.42%) Advertising
8 4 (1.42%) Law
9 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Billing
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
10 2 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (38.08%) Developer
2 39 (13.88%) Data Engineer
3 37 (13.17%) Consultant
3 37 (13.17%) SQL Developer
4 33 (11.74%) C# Developer
5 31 (11.03%) DBA
6 28 (9.96%) Implementation Consultant
6 28 (9.96%) SQL DBA
7 27 (9.61%) Senior
8 24 (8.54%) .NET Developer
9 23 (8.19%) Lead
10 20 (7.12%) Microsoft Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (4.27%) SQL Server DBA
13 11 (3.91%) Analyst
13 11 (3.91%) Lead Developer
13 11 (3.91%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.56%) C# .NET Developer
14 10 (3.56%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (2.85%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (31.32%) .NET
2 49 (17.44%) XML
3 39 (13.88%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.83%) ASP.NET
4 22 (7.83%) HTML
4 22 (7.83%) WinForms
5 18 (6.41%) JSON
6 16 (5.69%) REST
7 15 (5.34%) CSS
8 14 (4.98%) XSLT
9 12 (4.27%) PySpark
9 12 (4.27%) React
9 12 (4.27%) WPF
10 11 (3.91%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (3.56%) RESTful
12 9 (3.20%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.20%) WCF
13 8 (2.85%) SOAP
13 8 (2.85%) SPFx
14 7 (2.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.19%) Replication
2 17 (6.05%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.69%) Clustering
4 10 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.49%) NHS
6 6 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.14%) Wiki
7 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.07%) Equities
8 3 (1.07%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.07%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.71%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.71%) Derivative
9 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.71%) Handset
9 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.42%) Windows
2 30 (10.68%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.85%) Linux
4 4 (1.42%) Unix
5 2 (0.71%) HPUX
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.10%) ETL
2 90 (32.03%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (24.56%) DevOps
4 63 (22.42%) Performance Tuning
5 56 (19.93%) Agile
6 54 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (18.86%) Data Modelling
8 48 (17.08%) CI/CD
9 46 (16.37%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (15.30%) Data Analysis
11 39 (13.88%) Migration
12 37 (13.17%) Analytics
13 35 (12.46%) Workflow
14 32 (11.39%) AI
15 30 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
16 28 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (9.25%) Data Engineering
18 23 (8.19%) Change Management
18 23 (8.19%) Data Integration
18 23 (8.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 276 (98.22%) SQL
2 93 (33.10%) C#
3 72 (25.62%) PL/SQL
4 48 (17.08%) Python
5 32 (11.39%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.68%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.47%) VBA
8 19 (6.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.69%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.27%) VB
10 12 (4.27%) XPath
11 8 (2.85%) VBScript
12 7 (2.49%) Java
13 6 (2.14%) Bicep
14 5 (1.78%) Bash
15 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
16 1 (0.36%) Groovy
16 1 (0.36%) R
16 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.54%) Degree
4 11 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.85%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.78%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.95%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.88%) QA
3 6 (2.14%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.49%) SCOM
2 5 (1.78%) Terraform
3 3 (1.07%) 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
1 118 (41.99%) Microsoft
2 70 (24.91%) Oracle
3 31 (11.03%) Citrix
4 19 (6.76%) Databricks
5 12 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.14%) Intapp
7 5 (1.78%) OpenText
7 5 (1.78%) RedGate
7 5 (1.78%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.78%) Sybase
8 4 (1.42%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.42%) Remedy
9 3 (1.07%) BMC
9 3 (1.07%) Google
9 3 (1.07%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.71%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.71%) VMware
11 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.36%) Telerik
11 1 (0.36%) Teradata