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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 339 309
Rank change year-on-year -118 -30 -51
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 113 227 357
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.62% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.01% 1.94% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 158 228
10th Percentile £304 £363 £397
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £679 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -3.53% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.56
25th Percentile - £45.63 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%
75th Percentile - - £32.31
90th Percentile - - £41.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%

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 11,193 11,702 14,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.37% 32.04% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,353 7,566 10,347
10th Percentile £342 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £620 £645 £663
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 284 438
10th Percentile £29.00 £25.14 £33.67
25th Percentile £42.81 £40.06 £47.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.92
Median % change year-on-year - +0.94% +0.68%
75th Percentile £67.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £78.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 -110 100 £450 -16.28% 340
London -50 64 £450 -23.73% 138
Work from Home -34 39 £450 -6.49% 347
UK excluding London -83 37 £410 -3.53% 369
North of England -56 14 £390 -2.50% 57
North West -30 10 £420 -1.18% 17
Wales +6 7 £410 +154.66% 23
Midlands -26 7 £550 +22.22% 28
East Midlands -13 6 £550 +54.49% 8
South West +11 4 £520 +26.06% 25
Yorkshire -34 4 £375 +21.60% 15
Scotland -4 3 £700 +66.67% 77
South East -25 3 £375 -31.82% 151
East of England -20 1 - - 31
West Midlands -24 1 - - 18

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 10 (8.85%) IIS
2 3 (2.65%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) Appian
4 1 (0.88%) Camunda
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (16.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (3.54%) OpenText MBPM
2 4 (3.54%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (2.65%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 51 (45.13%) Azure
2 30 (26.55%) Power Platform
3 21 (18.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 19 (16.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (10.62%) Serverless
6 11 (9.73%) Azure Functions
6 11 (9.73%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (7.08%) AWS
7 8 (7.08%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (6.19%) GitHub
8 7 (6.19%) Power Automate
8 7 (6.19%) PowerApps
8 7 (6.19%) SaaS
9 6 (5.31%) AtomSphere
9 6 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (5.31%) Boomi
10 5 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.42%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.42%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.73%) Internet
2 2 (1.77%) DHCP
2 2 (1.77%) DNS
2 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (71.68%) SQL Server
2 28 (24.78%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (23.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 24 (21.24%) Power BI
5 21 (18.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (14.16%) Data Lake
7 13 (11.50%) Oracle Database
8 12 (10.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (7.96%) Metadata
9 9 (7.96%) Relational Database
10 7 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (4.42%) NoSQL
11 5 (4.42%) WebFOCUS
12 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (3.54%) Power Query
12 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
12 4 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (3.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (2.65%) Star Schema
13 3 (2.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Git
2 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (4.42%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.54%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.65%) ERwin
5 2 (1.77%) Postman
5 2 (1.77%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.88%) Appium
6 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.88%) GitLab
6 1 (0.88%) JIRA
6 1 (0.88%) JMeter
6 1 (0.88%) Moq
6 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.88%) Poetry
6 1 (0.88%) Pylint
6 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.88%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.88%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (27.43%) Finance
2 27 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.62%) Banking
4 8 (7.08%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.42%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.65%) Back Office
8 3 (2.65%) Front Office
9 2 (1.77%) Advertising
9 2 (1.77%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.88%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.88%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Local Government
10 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (65.49%) Developer
2 18 (15.93%) SQL Developer
3 14 (12.39%) C# Developer
4 12 (10.62%) .NET Developer
4 12 (10.62%) Data Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) Integration Developer
5 10 (8.85%) C# WPF Developer
5 10 (8.85%) DBA
5 10 (8.85%) WPF Developer
6 9 (7.96%) C# WCF Developer
6 9 (7.96%) WCF Developer
7 7 (6.19%) Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Architect
8 6 (5.31%) Azure Architect
8 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.42%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 5 (4.42%) ETL Developer
9 5 (4.42%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (30.97%) .NET
2 16 (14.16%) .NET Framework
2 16 (14.16%) XML
3 14 (12.39%) WPF
4 13 (11.50%) JSON
5 11 (9.73%) REST
5 11 (9.73%) WCF
6 10 (8.85%) Web Services
7 9 (7.96%) SOAP
7 9 (7.96%) WinForms
8 8 (7.08%) Kafka
9 7 (6.19%) React
10 6 (5.31%) .NET Core
10 6 (5.31%) PySpark
10 6 (5.31%) RESTful
11 5 (4.42%) ASP.NET
11 5 (4.42%) ASP.NET Web API
12 4 (3.54%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.54%) Middleware
13 3 (2.65%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.31%) NHS
2 4 (3.54%) Clustering
2 4 (3.54%) Data Fabric
2 4 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.65%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.65%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.65%) Replication
4 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.88%) IoT
5 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.16%) Windows
2 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.74%) ETL
2 34 (30.09%) DevOps
3 33 (29.20%) Business Intelligence
4 32 (28.32%) CI/CD
5 31 (27.43%) Agile
6 30 (26.55%) Migration
7 29 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (22.12%) Analytics
9 23 (20.35%) Data Analysis
10 22 (19.47%) Data Modelling
11 16 (14.16%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (14.16%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (12.39%) Data Migration
12 14 (12.39%) Validation
13 13 (11.50%) Data Integration
13 13 (11.50%) Data Management
14 12 (10.62%) Data Engineering
15 11 (9.73%) Data Governance
15 11 (9.73%) Scrum
16 10 (8.85%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 105 (92.92%) SQL
2 41 (36.28%) C#
3 21 (18.58%) PL/SQL
4 20 (17.70%) Python
5 17 (15.04%) VBA
6 15 (13.27%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.96%) VB
9 6 (5.31%) Bicep
9 6 (5.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (5.31%) Groovy
9 6 (5.31%) Java
10 5 (4.42%) X++
11 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.88%) Korn
12 1 (0.88%) Scala
12 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.39%) Degree
3 11 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.08%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.65%) MCSE
8 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.88%) MCSA
9 1 (0.88%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.27%) QA
2 13 (11.50%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.54%) GDPR
3 4 (3.54%) MiFID
4 3 (2.65%) EMIR
4 3 (2.65%) HL7
5 2 (1.77%) WCAG
6 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.77%) Docker
2 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.42%) Terraform
2 4 (3.54%) Control-M
2 4 (3.54%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 44 (38.94%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.35%) Oracle
3 10 (8.85%) Citrix
4 7 (6.19%) Databricks
4 7 (6.19%) VMware
5 5 (4.42%) EMC
6 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.65%) CQG
7 3 (2.65%) Google
7 3 (2.65%) OpenText
7 3 (2.65%) SAP
7 3 (2.65%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.77%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.77%) RedGate
9 1 (0.88%) iManage
9 1 (0.88%) Northgate
9 1 (0.88%) Okta
9 1 (0.88%) Sybase
9 1 (0.88%) Workday