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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 344 301
Rank change year-on-year -108 -43 -39
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 122 217 352
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.59% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 1.84% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 150 227
10th Percentile £363 £355 -
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £663 £676 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.56
25th Percentile - £45.63 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%
75th Percentile - - £32.31
90th Percentile - - £41.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%

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 11,522 11,774 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.07% 32.05% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,597 7,554 10,267
10th Percentile £350 £350 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £756 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 293 446
10th Percentile £29.53 £21.37 £32.16
25th Percentile £48.44 £37.55 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.07 £62.50 £60.36
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +3.55% -0.24%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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 -110 110 £450 -18.18% 123
London -45 71 £440 -25.42% 52
Work from Home -33 38 £469 - 78
UK excluding London -86 38 £450 +5.88% 86
North of England -44 17 £402 +3.74% 25
North West -22 13 £426 +0.24% 15
Midlands -43 7 £550 +22.22% 14
East Midlands -11 6 £550 +54.49% 5
Wales -1 5 £600 +272.67% 3
South West 0 4 £520 +26.06% 15
Yorkshire -44 4 £375 +55.09% 10
Scotland -5 3 £700 +66.67% 7
South East -25 3 £375 -31.82% 15
East of England -17 1 - - 7
West Midlands -33 1 - - 9

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 14 (11.48%) IIS
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.82%) Appian
3 1 (0.82%) Camunda
3 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (16.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.46%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.46%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.46%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.82%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 52 (42.62%) Azure
2 30 (24.59%) Power Platform
3 23 (18.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 21 (17.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (9.84%) Serverless
6 11 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (9.02%) Azure Functions
6 11 (9.02%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (6.56%) AWS
8 7 (5.74%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.74%) GitHub
8 7 (5.74%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.74%) PowerApps
8 7 (5.74%) SaaS
9 6 (4.92%) AtomSphere
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (4.92%) Boomi
10 5 (4.10%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.10%) GCP
10 5 (4.10%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.84%) Internet
2 3 (2.46%) DHCP
2 3 (2.46%) DNS
2 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (72.13%) SQL Server
2 30 (24.59%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (19.67%) Power BI
4 22 (18.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (17.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (13.93%) Oracle Database
7 16 (13.11%) Data Lake
8 12 (9.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (8.20%) Metadata
9 10 (8.20%) Relational Database
10 7 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (4.92%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
12 5 (4.10%) Power Query
12 5 (4.10%) WebFOCUS
13 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (3.28%) RDBMS
13 4 (3.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (3.28%) Star Schema
14 3 (2.46%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) Git
2 7 (5.74%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.46%) ERwin
4 2 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.82%) Appium
5 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.82%) GitLab
5 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.82%) JIRA
5 1 (0.82%) JMeter
5 1 (0.82%) Moq
5 1 (0.82%) Poetry
5 1 (0.82%) Postman
5 1 (0.82%) Pylint
5 1 (0.82%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.82%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (31.97%) Finance
2 30 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.30%) Banking
4 8 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.74%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.46%) Back Office
8 3 (2.46%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.46%) Front Office
9 2 (1.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.82%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.82%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.82%) Law
10 1 (0.82%) Local Government
10 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 81 (66.39%) Developer
2 23 (18.85%) C# Developer
3 14 (11.48%) .NET Developer
3 14 (11.48%) SQL Developer
4 13 (10.66%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.84%) DBA
5 12 (9.84%) Integration Developer
6 11 (9.02%) C# WPF Developer
6 11 (9.02%) WPF Developer
7 10 (8.20%) C# WCF Developer
7 10 (8.20%) WCF Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Analyst
9 6 (4.92%) Architect
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Architect
9 6 (4.92%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (4.92%) ETL Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Azure Data Architect
10 5 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (36.07%) .NET
2 25 (20.49%) .NET Framework
3 16 (13.11%) WPF
4 14 (11.48%) XML
5 13 (10.66%) JSON
5 13 (10.66%) WCF
6 11 (9.02%) REST
6 11 (9.02%) WinForms
7 9 (7.38%) SOAP
7 9 (7.38%) Web Services
8 8 (6.56%) Kafka
8 8 (6.56%) PySpark
8 8 (6.56%) React
9 7 (5.74%) .NET Core
9 7 (5.74%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (4.92%) RESTful
11 5 (4.10%) AngularJS
11 5 (4.10%) ASP.NET
11 5 (4.10%) Middleware
12 3 (2.46%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.28%) Data Fabric
1 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (3.28%) NHS
2 3 (2.46%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.46%) Fixed Income
2 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.64%) Clustering
3 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.64%) Replication
4 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.82%) IoT
4 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.49%) Windows
2 8 (6.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.15%) CI/CD
2 37 (30.33%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (30.33%) ETL
3 35 (28.69%) DevOps
4 34 (27.87%) Agile
5 31 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (22.95%) Migration
7 27 (22.13%) Analytics
7 27 (22.13%) Data Analysis
8 25 (20.49%) Data Modelling
9 21 (17.21%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (11.48%) Data Engineering
10 14 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (11.48%) Validation
11 13 (10.66%) Data Integration
12 12 (9.84%) Data Governance
12 12 (9.84%) Data Management
12 12 (9.84%) Data Migration
12 12 (9.84%) OOP
12 12 (9.84%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 113 (92.62%) SQL
2 50 (40.98%) C#
3 29 (23.77%) PL/SQL
4 23 (18.85%) Python
5 18 (14.75%) VBA
6 15 (12.30%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.20%) PowerShell
7 10 (8.20%) VB
8 7 (5.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (4.92%) Bicep
9 6 (4.92%) Groovy
9 6 (4.92%) Java
10 5 (4.10%) X++
11 3 (2.46%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.82%) Bash
12 1 (0.82%) Korn
12 1 (0.82%) Scala
12 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.93%) Degree
3 13 (10.66%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (6.56%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.46%) MCSE
8 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.82%) MCSA
9 1 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.21%) QA
2 13 (10.66%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.28%) GDPR
3 4 (3.28%) MiFID
4 3 (2.46%) EMIR
5 2 (1.64%) WCAG
6 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.82%) HL7
6 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.64%) Docker
4 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.92%) Terraform
2 4 (3.28%) Control-M
2 4 (3.28%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 50 (40.98%) Microsoft
2 31 (25.41%) Oracle
3 16 (13.11%) Citrix
4 10 (8.20%) Databricks
5 8 (6.56%) VMware
6 5 (4.10%) EMC
7 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.28%) SAP
8 3 (2.46%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.46%) CQG
8 3 (2.46%) Google
8 3 (2.46%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.64%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.64%) OpenText
9 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.82%) iManage
10 1 (0.82%) Northgate
10 1 (0.82%) Sage
10 1 (0.82%) Sybase
10 1 (0.82%) Workday