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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 402 350
Rank change year-on-year -14 -52 -54
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 209 121 247
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.41% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 1.21% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 86 173
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £601 £575
90th Percentile £634 £706 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +6.25% -23.81% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £31.50 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £31.54 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -60.34%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £18.76
90th Percentile - £34.43 £20.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
% change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -72.66%

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 12,866 10,035 12,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.81% 34.08% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,550 6,803 9,074
10th Percentile £355 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 241 481
10th Percentile £42.44 £22.48 £31.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -1.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.87 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.20% -

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 April 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 April 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 -39 196 £415 -17.00% 87
London -11 107 £415 -19.02% 28
UK excluding London -50 86 £425 +6.25% 67
Work from Home -22 51 £550 +4.76% 56
South East -21 39 £417 -4.64% 19
North of England -48 28 £475 +26.67% 24
North West -32 20 £475 +33.43% 18
Yorkshire -54 8 £408 +8.67% 6
South West -22 7 £475 -9.52% 3
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland -2 2 £465 - 5
West Midlands -67 2 £398 -6.47% 2
Midlands -77 2 £398 -6.47% 12
Wales -9 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 23 (11.00%) IIS
2 6 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.91%) Confluence
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) Mule
6 1 (0.48%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.48%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.44%) SystmOne
2 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.48%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (38.76%) Azure
2 51 (24.40%) Power Platform
3 46 (22.01%) Azure Data Factory
4 42 (20.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 30 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.18%) AWS
7 11 (5.26%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.35%) GitHub
8 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.35%) Serverless
9 6 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.87%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.91%) Azure Storage
10 4 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.44%) AtomSphere
11 3 (1.44%) Boomi
11 3 (1.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.74%) Internet
2 2 (0.96%) DHCP
2 2 (0.96%) DNS
2 2 (0.96%) HTTP
2 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) LAN
3 1 (0.48%) SMTP
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
3 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (66.03%) SQL Server
2 47 (22.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 45 (21.53%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (20.10%) Power BI
5 28 (13.40%) Oracle Database
6 25 (11.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (11.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (11.00%) Data Lake
9 17 (8.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (6.22%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (4.31%) Metadata
12 8 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (3.83%) Power Query
12 8 (3.83%) Spark SQL
12 8 (3.83%) Star Schema
13 7 (3.35%) Delta Lake
14 6 (2.87%) MySQL
15 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 5 (2.39%) OLAP
16 4 (1.91%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 17 (8.13%) Git
2 15 (7.18%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.87%) JIRA
5 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.44%) Mocha
5 3 (1.44%) MSTest
5 3 (1.44%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.96%) Postman
7 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.48%) GitLab
7 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.48%) Selenium
7 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 61 (29.19%) Finance
2 52 (24.88%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.92%) Banking
5 14 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.39%) Legal
8 4 (1.91%) Advertising
8 4 (1.91%) Law
9 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.96%) Local Government
9 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (42.58%) Developer
2 39 (18.66%) C# Developer
3 34 (16.27%) Data Engineer
4 33 (15.79%) Consultant
5 29 (13.88%) Implementation Consultant
6 20 (9.57%) SQL Developer
7 15 (7.18%) .NET Developer
7 15 (7.18%) DBA
7 15 (7.18%) Senior
8 13 (6.22%) Payroll Consultant
9 12 (5.74%) SQL DBA
10 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Architect
11 10 (4.78%) Database Developer
12 9 (4.31%) Analyst
13 8 (3.83%) Applications Developer
13 8 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.83%) C# .NET Developer
13 8 (3.83%) Data Architect
13 8 (3.83%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.23%) .NET
2 42 (20.10%) .NET Framework
3 35 (16.75%) XML
4 19 (9.09%) PySpark
5 15 (7.18%) WinForms
6 14 (6.70%) JSON
6 14 (6.70%) WPF
7 13 (6.22%) React
7 13 (6.22%) REST
8 11 (5.26%) CSS
9 9 (4.31%) HTML
10 8 (3.83%) SOAP
11 7 (3.35%) RESTful
11 7 (3.35%) YAML
12 6 (2.87%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.87%) SPFx
13 4 (1.91%) ASP.NET
13 4 (1.91%) Entity Framework
13 4 (1.91%) WCF
14 3 (1.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.74%) Replication
1 12 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (2.87%) Clustering
2 6 (2.87%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (2.87%) NHS
2 6 (2.87%) Wiki
3 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.44%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.96%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.48%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.48%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.48%) Equities
6 1 (0.48%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 44 (21.05%) Windows
2 23 (11.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.44%) Linux
4 1 (0.48%) VMS
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.28%) Business Intelligence
2 64 (30.62%) ETL
3 50 (23.92%) Agile
4 49 (23.44%) Analytics
4 49 (23.44%) CI/CD
5 47 (22.49%) DevOps
6 43 (20.57%) Data Modelling
7 42 (20.10%) Disaster Recovery
8 41 (19.62%) Data Analysis
9 37 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (16.27%) Migration
11 33 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
12 32 (15.31%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (12.44%) Change Management
13 26 (12.44%) Unit Testing
14 25 (11.96%) Data Engineering
15 24 (11.48%) Dimensional Modelling
16 23 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (10.53%) AI
18 18 (8.61%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 200 (95.69%) SQL
2 67 (32.06%) C#
3 62 (29.67%) PL/SQL
4 49 (23.44%) Python
5 24 (11.48%) PowerShell
6 20 (9.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.22%) VBA
9 12 (5.74%) VB
10 8 (3.83%) Bicep
11 7 (3.35%) Bash
11 7 (3.35%) Java
12 5 (2.39%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.91%) Groovy
14 1 (0.48%) C
14 1 (0.48%) C++
14 1 (0.48%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.48%) Scala
14 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (11.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.13%) Degree
3 16 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.83%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.91%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.48%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (22.49%) QA
2 39 (18.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) IFRS
4 1 (0.48%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (3.83%) Terraform
2 3 (1.44%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.48%) Control-M
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 83 (39.71%) Microsoft
2 56 (26.79%) Oracle
3 34 (16.27%) Citrix
4 30 (14.35%) Databricks
5 8 (3.83%) VMware
6 3 (1.44%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.44%) Remedy
6 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.44%) Sybase
7 2 (0.96%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.96%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.96%) BMC
7 2 (0.96%) Informatica
8 1 (0.48%) Adobe
8 1 (0.48%) Google
8 1 (0.48%) Sage
8 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.48%) SAP
8 1 (0.48%) Telerik
8 1 (0.48%) Teradata