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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 444 344
Rank change year-on-year +41 -100 -58
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 269 108 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 1.02% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 85 196
10th Percentile £356 £355 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £710 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £400 £435
% change year-on-year +4.31% -8.10% -8.37%
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% -82.56%
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% -87.36%

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 13,883 10,624 13,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.90% 33.68% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,009 7,164 9,321
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £750 £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 539 254 537
10th Percentile £34.01 £26.52 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £34.55 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.15 £79.61 £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 4 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 4 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 +22 244 £453 -9.40% 74
London -4 129 £490 -2.00% 24
UK excluding London -14 114 £417 +4.31% 64
Work from Home -17 71 £525 -11.95% 44
South East -6 51 £405 +15.71% 24
North of England -47 40 £405 +8.00% 23
North West -21 27 £403 +1.96% 16
Yorkshire -46 13 £450 +20.00% 6
South West -27 7 £425 -18.27% 5
Midlands -59 5 £400 -5.88% 4
Scotland -12 4 £475 +18.75% 3
West Midlands -62 4 £400 -5.88% 2
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Wales -17 2 £313 +53.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 26 (9.67%) IIS
2 15 (5.58%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.97%) Confluence
4 6 (2.23%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.86%) Appian
5 5 (1.86%) Camunda
6 3 (1.12%) Apache
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.37%) Mule
8 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 49 (18.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.23%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.86%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.12%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.37%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (33.46%) Azure
2 79 (29.37%) Power Platform
3 36 (13.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (10.41%) AWS
5 26 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (9.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (4.46%) Power Automate
7 10 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.72%) Serverless
8 9 (3.35%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.60%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.23%) GitHub
11 4 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (1.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.09%) Internet
2 5 (1.86%) SSL
3 4 (1.49%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.37%) HTTP
4 1 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (67.29%) SQL Server
2 67 (24.91%) Power BI
2 67 (24.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 51 (18.96%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (15.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 33 (12.27%) Oracle Database
6 28 (10.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 19 (7.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (5.95%) Data Lake
9 13 (4.83%) MySQL
9 13 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.97%) OLAP
11 7 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (2.23%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.23%) Spark SQL
12 6 (2.23%) Tableau
13 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.86%) Metadata
13 5 (1.86%) MS Access
13 5 (1.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.06%) Git
2 11 (4.09%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (2.97%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.60%) JIRA
6 6 (2.23%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.23%) Mocha
6 6 (2.23%) MSTest
6 6 (2.23%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.74%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.37%) ERwin
8 1 (0.37%) GitLab
8 1 (0.37%) Moq
8 1 (0.37%) MSI
8 1 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 75 (27.88%) Finance
2 67 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.61%) Banking
4 39 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.09%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.86%) Legal
7 5 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.49%) Advertising
9 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.12%) Law
9 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Billing
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.37%) Games
11 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 109 (40.52%) Developer
2 40 (14.87%) SQL Developer
3 37 (13.75%) Data Engineer
4 35 (13.01%) C# Developer
5 34 (12.64%) Consultant
6 28 (10.41%) Implementation Consultant
7 27 (10.04%) DBA
8 24 (8.92%) Senior
8 24 (8.92%) SQL DBA
9 22 (8.18%) Microsoft Engineer
10 20 (7.43%) .NET Developer
11 16 (5.95%) Lead
12 13 (4.83%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.46%) Analyst
14 10 (3.72%) SQL Server DBA
15 9 (3.35%) Database Developer
16 8 (2.97%) C# .NET Developer
16 8 (2.97%) Workflow Consultant
17 7 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
17 7 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (30.86%) .NET
2 43 (15.99%) .NET Framework
2 43 (15.99%) XML
3 17 (6.32%) REST
4 16 (5.95%) CSS
4 16 (5.95%) HTML
4 16 (5.95%) WinForms
5 15 (5.58%) ASP.NET
6 13 (4.83%) JSON
6 13 (4.83%) PySpark
6 13 (4.83%) React
7 12 (4.46%) WPF
8 11 (4.09%) RESTful
9 9 (3.35%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.35%) XSLT
10 8 (2.97%) SOAP
10 8 (2.97%) SPFx
11 7 (2.60%) Web Services
12 6 (2.23%) jQuery
12 6 (2.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.32%) Replication
2 16 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.20%) Clustering
4 11 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.97%) NHS
6 6 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.23%) Wiki
7 5 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.49%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.12%) Equities
9 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.74%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.74%) Derivative
10 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.37%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.37%) Life Science
11 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 55 (20.45%) Windows
2 27 (10.04%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.97%) Linux
4 4 (1.49%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) HPUX
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.20%) Business Intelligence
2 91 (33.83%) ETL
3 59 (21.93%) Agile
3 59 (21.93%) DevOps
4 57 (21.19%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (18.22%) CI/CD
6 49 (18.22%) Data Modelling
7 47 (17.47%) Disaster Recovery
8 43 (15.99%) Data Analysis
9 42 (15.61%) Analytics
10 40 (14.87%) Migration
11 33 (12.27%) Workflow
12 32 (11.90%) AI
13 31 (11.52%) Data Pipeline
14 29 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.04%) Unit Testing
16 25 (9.29%) Change Management
16 25 (9.29%) Data Engineering
17 22 (8.18%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 264 (98.14%) SQL
2 88 (32.71%) C#
3 69 (25.65%) PL/SQL
4 50 (18.59%) Python
5 31 (11.52%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.78%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (5.58%) VBA
9 12 (4.46%) VB
10 10 (3.72%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.60%) XPath
12 6 (2.23%) Bash
12 6 (2.23%) Bicep
12 6 (2.23%) Java
13 4 (1.49%) VBScript
14 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.37%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.37%) Groovy
15 1 (0.37%) R
15 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (10.04%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.55%) Degree
2 23 (8.55%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.97%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.86%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.61%) QA
2 40 (14.87%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.23%) GDPR
4 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.23%) Terraform
2 5 (1.86%) SCOM
3 3 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.12%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Control-M
5 1 (0.37%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 109 (40.52%) Microsoft
2 63 (23.42%) Oracle
3 34 (12.64%) Citrix
4 18 (6.69%) Databricks
5 10 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.86%) Intapp
6 5 (1.86%) OpenText
6 5 (1.86%) Sybase
6 5 (1.86%) VMware
7 4 (1.49%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.49%) Remedy
8 3 (1.12%) BMC
8 3 (1.12%) Google
8 3 (1.12%) RedGate
8 3 (1.12%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.12%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.74%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.37%) Splunk