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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 436 330
Rank change year-on-year +37 -106 -51
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 280 118 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.36% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 1.09% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 96 199
10th Percentile £350 £314 £363
25th Percentile £404 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £481 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% -8.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £674 £681 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +5.28% -5.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £21.25 - -
25th Percentile £22.13 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £26.38 £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 14,166 10,812 12,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.74% 33.05% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,200 7,280 8,888
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 258 444
10th Percentile £33.70 £27.98 £30.11
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.06 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.89 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +22 246 £453 -8.25% 61
UK excluding London +3 126 £421 +5.28% 47
London -15 126 £490 -2.00% 17
Work from Home -20 80 £523 -5.00% 31
South East -22 49 £404 +15.36% 10
North of England -47 42 £405 +8.00% 15
North West -31 29 £403 +1.96% 7
Yorkshire -40 13 £450 +20.00% 6
Scotland -11 10 £465 +16.25% 1
Midlands -54 9 £400 -5.88% 6
South West -25 8 £425 -18.27% 9
West Midlands -50 8 £400 -5.88% 6
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Wales -15 3 £313 +53.00% 1
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 31 (11.07%) IIS
2 20 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.50%) Confluence
4 6 (2.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.79%) Appian
5 5 (1.79%) 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 54 (19.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.14%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.79%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.07%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (34.29%) Azure
2 81 (28.93%) Power Platform
3 38 (13.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.00%) AWS
6 26 (9.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.29%) Power Automate
8 11 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.57%) Serverless
10 9 (3.21%) PowerApps
11 8 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.50%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.14%) GitHub
14 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.93%) Internet
2 6 (2.14%) SSL
3 4 (1.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.36%) DHCP
4 1 (0.36%) DNS
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.36%) PABX
4 1 (0.36%) SMTP
4 1 (0.36%) VLAN
4 1 (0.36%) VoIP
4 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (69.29%) SQL Server
2 77 (27.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 68 (24.29%) Power BI
4 54 (19.29%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 35 (12.50%) Oracle Database
7 27 (9.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (7.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (5.00%) Data Lake
9 14 (5.00%) MySQL
10 13 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.93%) MS Access
12 9 (3.21%) OLAP
13 8 (2.86%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.50%) Tableau
15 6 (2.14%) Metadata
15 6 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (2.14%) Spark SQL
16 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 5 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (8.57%) Git
2 13 (4.64%) Visual Studio
3 12 (4.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 12 (4.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.14%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.14%) JIRA
5 6 (2.14%) Mocha
5 6 (2.14%) MSTest
5 6 (2.14%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.71%) GitLab
7 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.36%) ERwin
7 1 (0.36%) Moq
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 73 (26.07%) Finance
2 70 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.64%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (14.29%) Banking
5 16 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.79%) Legal
9 4 (1.43%) Advertising
10 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.07%) Law
10 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.71%) Billing
11 2 (0.71%) Front Office
11 2 (0.71%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (39.29%) Developer
2 41 (14.64%) SQL Developer
3 38 (13.57%) Data Engineer
4 36 (12.86%) Consultant
5 34 (12.14%) C# Developer
6 30 (10.71%) DBA
7 28 (10.00%) Implementation Consultant
8 27 (9.64%) Senior
8 27 (9.64%) SQL DBA
9 24 (8.57%) .NET Developer
10 22 (7.86%) Lead
11 20 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (4.64%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.29%) Analyst
13 12 (4.29%) SQL Server DBA
14 11 (3.93%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.93%) Software Developer
15 10 (3.57%) C# .NET Developer
15 10 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
16 8 (2.86%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (31.07%) .NET
2 49 (17.50%) XML
3 40 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.86%) HTML
4 22 (7.86%) WinForms
5 21 (7.50%) ASP.NET
6 18 (6.43%) JSON
7 16 (5.71%) REST
8 15 (5.36%) CSS
9 14 (5.00%) XSLT
10 12 (4.29%) PySpark
10 12 (4.29%) React
10 12 (4.29%) WPF
11 11 (3.93%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (3.57%) RESTful
13 9 (3.21%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.21%) WCF
14 8 (2.86%) SOAP
14 8 (2.86%) SPFx
15 7 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.57%) Replication
2 16 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.36%) Clustering
4 10 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.21%) NHS
6 6 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.14%) Wiki
7 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.43%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.07%) Equities
8 3 (1.07%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.71%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.71%) Derivative
9 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.14%) Windows
2 28 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.21%) Linux
4 4 (1.43%) 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 91 (32.50%) Business Intelligence
1 91 (32.50%) ETL
2 66 (23.57%) DevOps
3 63 (22.50%) Performance Tuning
4 56 (20.00%) Agile
5 52 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (17.86%) Data Modelling
7 47 (16.79%) Disaster Recovery
8 45 (16.07%) CI/CD
9 42 (15.00%) Data Analysis
10 41 (14.64%) Migration
11 37 (13.21%) Analytics
12 33 (11.79%) Workflow
13 32 (11.43%) AI
14 31 (11.07%) Data Pipeline
15 30 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (8.93%) Data Engineering
17 23 (8.21%) Change Management
17 23 (8.21%) Data Integration
17 23 (8.21%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 275 (98.21%) SQL
2 92 (32.86%) C#
3 73 (26.07%) PL/SQL
4 49 (17.50%) Python
5 32 (11.43%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.50%) VBA
8 17 (6.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.71%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.29%) VB
10 12 (4.29%) XPath
11 8 (2.86%) VBScript
12 7 (2.50%) Java
13 6 (2.14%) Bash
13 6 (2.14%) Bicep
14 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) R
15 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.57%) Degree
4 10 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 40 (14.29%) QA
3 6 (2.14%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 9 (3.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.14%) SCOM
2 5 (1.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.07%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
5 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 114 (40.71%) Microsoft
2 70 (25.00%) Oracle
3 32 (11.43%) Citrix
4 17 (6.07%) Databricks
5 11 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.79%) Intapp
6 5 (1.79%) OpenText
6 5 (1.79%) RedGate
6 5 (1.79%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.79%) Sybase
7 4 (1.43%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.43%) Remedy
7 4 (1.43%) VMware
8 3 (1.07%) BMC
8 3 (1.07%) Google
8 3 (1.07%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.71%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.36%) Telerik
10 1 (0.36%) Teradata