T-SQL Contracts

Transact-SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring T-SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited T-SQL over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 337 292
Rank change year-on-year -86 -45 -11
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 107 260 490
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.60% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.02% 1.96% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 195 365
10th Percentile £354 £363 £378
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +10.53% -7.32%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £595
90th Percentile £714 £675 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £435 £475
% change year-on-year -8.10% -8.37% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £31.50 - £24.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £6.57 £30.31
Median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +319.87% -82.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £34.38 £9.14 £79.19
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £62.10
% change year-on-year +319.87% -87.36% +77.41%

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 10,441 13,271 18,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.66% 30.58% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,047 9,322 13,425
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £753 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 538 447
10th Percentile £26.46 £31.25 £28.84
25th Percentile £34.75 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £79.74 £75.00 £79.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% +18.92%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing T-SQL.

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing T-SQL.

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 14 Contract 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 2 July 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 -77 96 £500 -4.76% 469
London -57 66 £500 -9.09% 182
UK excluding London +6 33 £400 -8.10% 308
Work from Home +1 33 £600 +26.32% 218
North of England +4 13 £375 -6.25% 86
Midlands +7 9 £425 +23.64% 50
North West +8 8 £395 -7.06% 48
East Midlands +3 5 £385 +24.19% 21
Scotland +2 5 £400 -6.21% 21
Yorkshire -4 5 £375 +42.62% 25
West Midlands +10 3 £425 +21.43% 28
Wales +4 3 £204 -62.86% 9
South West +27 2 £520 -3.26% 32
South East +38 1 £350 -17.65% 77

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (13.08%) IIS
2 4 (3.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.80%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (2.80%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) Appian
5 1 (0.93%) Camunda
Applications
1 20 (18.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.74%) OpenText MBPM
1 4 (3.74%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.80%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.87%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.93%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.93%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 48 (44.86%) Azure
2 27 (25.23%) Power Platform
3 24 (22.43%) AWS
4 19 (17.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (14.02%) Serverless
6 11 (10.28%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (10.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (7.48%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (7.48%) Snowflake
8 7 (6.54%) GCP
9 6 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (5.61%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (5.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.61%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.67%) GitHub
10 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.74%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.21%) Internet
2 5 (4.67%) HTTP
3 1 (0.93%) Intranet
3 1 (0.93%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (61.68%) SQL Server
2 23 (21.50%) Power BI
3 21 (19.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 17 (15.89%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (14.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (14.02%) Oracle Database
6 12 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (9.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (7.48%) DynamoDB
8 8 (7.48%) Relational Database
9 7 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (6.54%) Metadata
9 7 (6.54%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
10 5 (4.67%) Tableau
10 5 (4.67%) WebFOCUS
11 4 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (3.74%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.80%) PowerCenter
12 3 (2.80%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 11 (10.28%) Git
2 9 (8.41%) Visual Studio
3 7 (6.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (4.67%) git-flow
5 4 (3.74%) ERwin
6 3 (2.80%) GitLab
6 3 (2.80%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.87%) Postman
8 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.93%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.93%) JIRA
8 1 (0.93%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.93%) tSQLt
General
1 26 (24.30%) Finance
2 18 (16.82%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.95%) Banking
4 9 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.67%) Front Office
7 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.74%) Retail
8 3 (2.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.87%) Back Office
9 2 (1.87%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.87%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
10 1 (0.93%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.93%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (53.27%) Developer
2 16 (14.95%) C# Developer
2 16 (14.95%) Data Engineer
3 15 (14.02%) C# WPF Developer
3 15 (14.02%) WPF Developer
4 14 (13.08%) Senior
5 12 (11.21%) Analyst
5 12 (11.21%) C# WCF Developer
5 12 (11.21%) SQL Developer
5 12 (11.21%) WCF Developer
6 10 (9.35%) Architect
7 7 (6.54%) DBA
8 6 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Data Architect
8 6 (5.61%) Node.js Developer
8 6 (5.61%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.67%) Azure Architect
9 5 (4.67%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Azure Data Architect
10 4 (3.74%) BPM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (38.32%) .NET
2 22 (20.56%) .NET Framework
3 17 (15.89%) WCF
3 17 (15.89%) WPF
4 15 (14.02%) Web Services
5 12 (11.21%) WinForms
6 10 (9.35%) ASP.NET
6 10 (9.35%) JSON
6 10 (9.35%) RESTful
7 9 (8.41%) .NET Core
7 9 (8.41%) CSS
7 9 (8.41%) HTML
8 8 (7.48%) Node.js
8 8 (7.48%) REST
9 7 (6.54%) React
9 7 (6.54%) WebSockets
10 6 (5.61%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (5.61%) AWS CDK
10 6 (5.61%) Entity Framework
10 6 (5.61%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (6.54%) N-Tier
3 5 (4.67%) Replication
4 4 (3.74%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.80%) Clustering
5 3 (2.80%) NHS
5 3 (2.80%) TWAP
5 3 (2.80%) VWAP
6 2 (1.87%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.87%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.87%) PKI
6 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.93%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.84%) ETL
2 29 (27.10%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (26.17%) Data Analysis
4 25 (23.36%) Data Modelling
4 25 (23.36%) Migration
5 23 (21.50%) Analytics
6 21 (19.63%) Agile
7 19 (17.76%) DevOps
8 18 (16.82%) Data Management
8 18 (16.82%) Data Migration
8 18 (16.82%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (14.02%) Data Integration
10 14 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (12.15%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (11.21%) CI/CD
13 11 (10.28%) OOP
14 10 (9.35%) Data Governance
14 10 (9.35%) Unit Testing
15 9 (8.41%) Data Architecture
15 9 (8.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 103 (96.26%) SQL
2 42 (39.25%) C#
3 27 (25.23%) Python
4 25 (23.36%) PL/SQL
5 21 (19.63%) JavaScript
6 17 (15.89%) VBA
7 14 (13.08%) VB
8 12 (11.21%) PowerShell
9 8 (7.48%) R
9 8 (7.48%) TypeScript
10 6 (5.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.80%) C++
11 3 (2.80%) Go
11 3 (2.80%) Ruby
11 3 (2.80%) Scala
12 2 (1.87%) Java
12 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.87%) X++
13 1 (0.93%) Korn
13 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (12.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (10.28%) Degree
3 7 (6.54%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.67%) MCPD
5 5 (4.67%) MCSD
6 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.80%) MCSE
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) ISEB
7 1 (0.93%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.76%) QA
2 8 (7.48%) GDPR
3 6 (5.61%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.87%) EMIR
5 2 (1.87%) HL7
5 2 (1.87%) MiFID
6 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.93%) Control-M
3 1 (0.93%) Terraform
3 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 24 (22.43%) Oracle
3 13 (12.15%) Citrix
4 4 (3.74%) Informatica
4 4 (3.74%) Teradata
5 3 (2.80%) Databricks
5 3 (2.80%) Google
5 3 (2.80%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.80%) OpenText
5 3 (2.80%) Talend
6 2 (1.87%) CQG
6 2 (1.87%) EMC
6 2 (1.87%) RedGate
6 2 (1.87%) TSYS
6 2 (1.87%) VMware
7 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.93%) Dell
7 1 (0.93%) Reuters
7 1 (0.93%) Sage
7 1 (0.93%) SAP