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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 457 316
Rank change year-on-year +18 -141 -17
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 256 103 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.31% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.80% 0.96% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 84 186
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £611
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £25.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +112.73%

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 14,253 10,783 12,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.08% 32.86% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,255 7,085 7,960
10th Percentile £363 £341 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £648
90th Percentile £725 £730 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 301 330
10th Percentile £23.67 £29.00 £26.22
25th Percentile £46.00 £41.25 £46.05
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.98 £75.00 £77.63
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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -4 213 £453 +0.67% 197
London -32 123 £453 +0.67% 85
UK excluding London -37 99 £425 - 117
Work from Home -25 76 £513 +19.19% 86
North of England -41 40 £405 -1.82% 28
North West -26 28 £475 +5.56% 15
South East -33 24 £446 +18.96% 38
Scotland -12 15 £475 -32.14% 5
Yorkshire -26 12 £350 -6.67% 10
Midlands -40 10 £413 -2.94% 21
West Midlands -39 9 £413 -2.94% 17
South West -34 5 £750 +44.23% 7
Wales -17 3 £313 -38.12% 2
East of England -25 1 £425 - 17
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 27 (10.55%) IIS
2 21 (8.20%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.30%) Confluence
4 5 (1.95%) Appian
4 5 (1.95%) Camunda
4 5 (1.95%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) MTS
6 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 32 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.73%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.73%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.95%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.17%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.39%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 93 (36.33%) Azure
2 74 (28.91%) Power Platform
3 32 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (10.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 25 (9.77%) AWS
6 15 (5.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.52%) GitHub
8 9 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.13%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.73%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.73%) GCP
11 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.34%) Serverless
12 4 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.69%) SSL
2 10 (3.91%) Internet
3 5 (1.95%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.78%) DHCP
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
4 2 (0.78%) LAN
4 2 (0.78%) PABX
4 2 (0.78%) VLAN
4 2 (0.78%) VoIP
4 2 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (76.17%) SQL Server
2 69 (26.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 67 (26.17%) Power BI
4 43 (16.80%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (12.89%) Oracle Database
6 29 (11.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (9.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (8.20%) MySQL
9 15 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (5.08%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.91%) MS Access
12 9 (3.52%) Star Schema
12 9 (3.52%) Tableau
13 8 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (2.73%) OLAP
15 5 (1.95%) BigQuery
15 5 (1.95%) Data Lake
15 5 (1.95%) Data Vault
15 5 (1.95%) Spark SQL
16 4 (1.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (11.33%) Git
2 11 (4.30%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (4.30%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.52%) JIRA
3 9 (3.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.13%) tSQLt
5 7 (2.73%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.17%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.17%) GitLab
6 3 (1.17%) Mocha
6 3 (1.17%) MSTest
6 3 (1.17%) Subversion
7 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.39%) Moq
8 1 (0.39%) Toad
8 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 70 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 69 (26.95%) Finance
3 42 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (14.45%) Banking
5 13 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.13%) Front Office
7 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.56%) Retail
9 3 (1.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.17%) Legal
9 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.78%) Law
10 2 (0.78%) Local Government
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (0.78%) Publishing
11 1 (0.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 104 (40.63%) Developer
2 35 (13.67%) SQL Developer
3 34 (13.28%) Data Engineer
3 34 (13.28%) DBA
4 31 (12.11%) Senior
5 30 (11.72%) SQL DBA
6 27 (10.55%) Lead
7 26 (10.16%) C# Developer
8 20 (7.81%) .NET Developer
8 20 (7.81%) Applications Support
9 15 (5.86%) Microsoft Engineer
10 13 (5.08%) Lead Developer
11 12 (4.69%) SQL Server DBA
12 11 (4.30%) Analyst
13 10 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.91%) SQL Server Developer
14 9 (3.52%) Consultant
14 9 (3.52%) Senior Developer
15 7 (2.73%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (35.55%) .NET
2 32 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.59%) ASP.NET
4 21 (8.20%) WinForms
5 20 (7.81%) XML
6 18 (7.03%) HTML
7 14 (5.47%) JSON
7 14 (5.47%) XSLT
8 12 (4.69%) AngularJS
8 12 (4.69%) Web Services
9 11 (4.30%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (4.30%) PySpark
9 11 (4.30%) React
9 11 (4.30%) REST
9 11 (4.30%) SOAP
9 11 (4.30%) WPF
10 10 (3.91%) CSS
11 9 (3.52%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.52%) WCF
12 8 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.59%) Replication
2 16 (6.25%) Clustering
3 14 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.30%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.34%) NHS
6 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.56%) Derivative
6 4 (1.56%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.17%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.17%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.78%) Equities
8 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 78 (30.47%) Windows
2 43 (16.80%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.69%) Linux
4 7 (2.73%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) HPUX
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.86%) Business Intelligence
2 78 (30.47%) ETL
3 69 (26.95%) DevOps
4 64 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 53 (20.70%) CI/CD
6 51 (19.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 50 (19.53%) Data Modelling
7 50 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (18.75%) Agile
9 42 (16.41%) Data Analysis
10 36 (14.06%) AI
11 35 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (12.50%) Migration
13 28 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (9.77%) Lakehouse
15 24 (9.38%) Analytics
16 23 (8.98%) Change Management
16 23 (8.98%) Data Integration
16 23 (8.98%) Root Cause Analysis
16 23 (8.98%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 253 (98.83%) SQL
2 93 (36.33%) C#
3 64 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 50 (19.53%) Python
5 33 (12.89%) PowerShell
6 29 (11.33%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.59%) VBA
8 15 (5.86%) VB.NET
9 13 (5.08%) VB
10 12 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (4.69%) XPath
11 8 (3.13%) Bash
11 8 (3.13%) VBScript
12 7 (2.73%) Java
12 7 (2.73%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.78%) Scala
15 1 (0.39%) R
15 1 (0.39%) Ruby
15 1 (0.39%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 41 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.28%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.94%) Degree
4 14 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.39%) CISA
10 1 (0.39%) CISSP
10 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.84%) Data Quality
2 26 (10.16%) QA
3 6 (2.34%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.39%) ITGC
5 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.34%) Docker
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (4.69%) SCOM
2 3 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.39%) Control-M
3 1 (0.39%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.39%) Puppet
3 1 (0.39%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 111 (43.36%) Microsoft
2 75 (29.30%) Oracle
3 25 (9.77%) Citrix
4 20 (7.81%) Databricks
5 16 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.34%) Intapp
6 6 (2.34%) RedGate
6 6 (2.34%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.34%) Sybase
7 5 (1.95%) OpenText
8 4 (1.56%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.56%) Google
9 3 (1.17%) BMC
9 3 (1.17%) eFront
9 3 (1.17%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.17%) Teradata
10 2 (0.78%) Informatica
10 2 (0.78%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.78%) Remedy
11 1 (0.39%) Northgate