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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 421 339
Rank change year-on-year +22 -82 -41
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 256 105 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.35% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 1.04% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 81 191
10th Percentile £362 £315 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £429
% change year-on-year +5.28% -6.76% -9.68%
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 13,634 10,131 13,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.92% 33.93% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,886 6,872 9,316
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £751 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 235 553
10th Percentile £35.08 £25.45 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +3.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.93 £84.80 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +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 20 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 20 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 +30 235 £453 -0.71% 49
London -12 126 £490 +1.82% 17
UK excluding London -38 106 £421 +5.28% 47
Work from Home -14 68 £550 -3.72% 40
South East -13 51 £405 -7.43% 11
North of England -59 31 £403 +7.40% 18
North West -30 22 £403 +1.96% 11
Yorkshire -56 9 £408 +8.67% 5
South West -22 8 £475 -8.65% 4
Midlands -63 5 £400 -5.88% 2
Scotland -8 4 £475 - 2
West Midlands -59 4 £400 -5.88% 1
East of England - 4 £211 - 3
Wales -14 2 £313 +53.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 23 (8.98%) IIS
2 13 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.34%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (1.95%) Appian
4 5 (1.95%) Camunda
5 4 (1.56%) Confluence
6 3 (1.17%) Apache
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.39%) Mule
8 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (17.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.39%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Elite 3E
1 5 (1.95%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (1.95%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.17%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.39%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 86 (33.59%) Azure
2 77 (30.08%) Power Platform
3 40 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (12.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (9.77%) AWS
6 23 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (4.69%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.91%) Serverless
9 9 (3.52%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.34%) GitHub
11 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.91%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (65.63%) SQL Server
2 65 (25.39%) Power BI
3 63 (24.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 47 (18.36%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (15.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (12.11%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (8.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (6.64%) Data Lake
10 13 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.13%) MySQL
11 8 (3.13%) OLAP
11 8 (3.13%) Spark SQL
12 7 (2.73%) Power Query
13 6 (2.34%) DataStage
13 6 (2.34%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.34%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.34%) Tableau
14 5 (1.95%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (6.64%) Git
2 12 (4.69%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (2.73%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.34%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.34%) JIRA
5 6 (2.34%) Mocha
5 6 (2.34%) MSTest
5 6 (2.34%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.78%) Postman
7 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.39%) ERwin
7 1 (0.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.39%) Moq
7 1 (0.39%) MSI
7 1 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 73 (28.52%) Finance
2 61 (23.83%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.23%) Banking
4 34 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.95%) Legal
7 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.56%) Advertising
9 3 (1.17%) Law
9 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (40.23%) Developer
2 42 (16.41%) Data Engineer
3 38 (14.84%) SQL Developer
4 34 (13.28%) Consultant
5 33 (12.89%) C# Developer
6 28 (10.94%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (9.38%) Microsoft Engineer
8 22 (8.59%) DBA
8 22 (8.59%) Senior
9 19 (7.42%) SQL DBA
10 18 (7.03%) .NET Developer
11 13 (5.08%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (4.69%) Lead
13 10 (3.91%) SQL Server DBA
14 9 (3.52%) Analyst
15 8 (3.13%) Database Developer
15 8 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
15 8 (3.13%) Workflow Consultant
16 7 (2.73%) C# .NET Developer
16 7 (2.73%) C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (28.13%) .NET
2 41 (16.02%) .NET Framework
2 41 (16.02%) XML
3 17 (6.64%) REST
4 16 (6.25%) CSS
4 16 (6.25%) PySpark
5 15 (5.86%) HTML
6 13 (5.08%) WinForms
7 12 (4.69%) JSON
7 12 (4.69%) React
8 11 (4.30%) RESTful
8 11 (4.30%) WPF
9 10 (3.91%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.13%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.13%) SOAP
10 8 (3.13%) SPFx
10 8 (3.13%) XSLT
11 6 (2.34%) Web Services
12 5 (1.95%) jQuery
12 5 (1.95%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.08%) Replication
3 10 (3.91%) Clustering
3 10 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.73%) NHS
5 6 (2.34%) Wiki
6 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.56%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.17%) Equities
8 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.39%) Derivative
10 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (18.36%) Windows
2 22 (8.59%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.73%) Linux
4 4 (1.56%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) HPUX
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (36.33%) ETL
2 91 (35.55%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (20.70%) DevOps
4 52 (20.31%) Agile
4 52 (20.31%) Data Modelling
4 52 (20.31%) Performance Tuning
5 49 (19.14%) CI/CD
6 47 (18.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 46 (17.97%) Analytics
8 44 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (16.02%) Data Analysis
10 38 (14.84%) Migration
11 34 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (11.72%) AI
13 29 (11.33%) Workflow
14 27 (10.55%) Unit Testing
15 26 (10.16%) Change Management
15 26 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (9.77%) Data Engineering
17 23 (8.98%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 251 (98.05%) SQL
2 75 (29.30%) C#
3 65 (25.39%) PL/SQL
4 54 (21.09%) Python
5 29 (11.33%) PowerShell
6 25 (9.77%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.08%) VBA
9 11 (4.30%) VB
10 8 (3.13%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.34%) Bash
11 6 (2.34%) Bicep
11 6 (2.34%) XPath
12 5 (1.95%) Java
13 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.78%) VBScript
15 1 (0.39%) C
15 1 (0.39%) C++
15 1 (0.39%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (9.77%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.42%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.03%) Degree
4 6 (2.34%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.95%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.19%) Data Quality
2 42 (16.41%) QA
3 5 (1.95%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.34%) Terraform
2 3 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.17%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Control-M
4 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 101 (39.45%) Microsoft
2 61 (23.83%) Oracle
3 33 (12.89%) Citrix
4 24 (9.38%) Databricks
5 6 (2.34%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.95%) Intapp
6 5 (1.95%) OpenText
6 5 (1.95%) Sybase
6 5 (1.95%) VMware
7 4 (1.56%) Remedy
8 3 (1.17%) BMC
8 3 (1.17%) RedGate
8 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.17%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.78%) Google
9 2 (0.78%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.39%) Telerik
10 1 (0.39%) Teradata