Transact-SQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for T-SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited T-SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 287 281
Rank change year-on-year -70 -6 -15
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 252 552 878
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.92% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 2.63% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 417 702
10th Percentile £363 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £585 £585 £609
90th Percentile £650 £703 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +16.67% -9.55% +24.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £7.85 £23.40 £25.95
25th Percentile £9.78 £24.31 £30.63
Median hourly rate £14.28 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.34% +2.86% -36.36%
75th Percentile £18.76 £79.19 £61.80
90th Percentile £20.68 - £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.28 £52.22 £35.00
% change year-on-year -72.66% +49.20% -36.36%

All Programming Languages
UK

T-SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

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 27 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 27 April 2024. 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 -55 215 £475 - 172
London -34 158 £475 - 58
Work from Home -39 80 £475 +5.56% 96
UK excluding London -16 79 £525 +16.67% 124
South East +16 19 £450 -5.26% 19
Scotland +28 16 £563 +32.35% 13
South West +28 12 £538 +19.44% 11
Wales +26 12 £550 +2.33%
Midlands +13 12 £388 -18.42% 35
North of England -7 8 £394 -7.35% 39
West Midlands +20 7 £450 -11.11% 21
East Midlands +19 5 £310 -29.14% 14
Yorkshire +6 4 £325 -32.99% 20
North West -6 4 £413 -0.60% 17

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 11 (4.37%) IIS
1 11 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.57%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (3.57%) Confluence
3 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.19%) Apache
4 3 (1.19%) CMS
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.79%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.95%) MS Visio
3 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.98%) Endur
3 2 (0.79%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.79%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 106 (42.06%) Azure
2 74 (29.37%) Power Platform
3 44 (17.46%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (12.30%) AWS
5 27 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (6.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (5.56%) PaaS
8 13 (5.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 13 (5.16%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (5.16%) Power Automate
9 11 (4.37%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (4.37%) Serverless
10 10 (3.97%) Azure Storage
11 9 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.17%) Azure AKS
12 8 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (3.17%) Collibra
12 8 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.57%) Internet
2 3 (1.19%) BGP
2 3 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (1.19%) IOS XR
3 1 (0.40%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (62.70%) SQL Server
2 77 (30.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 63 (25.00%) Power BI
4 54 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (17.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 41 (16.27%) Relational Database
7 30 (11.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 27 (10.71%) Data Lake
8 27 (10.71%) Oracle Database
9 25 (9.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (7.54%) Tableau
12 17 (6.75%) Metadata
12 17 (6.75%) MongoDB
13 15 (5.95%) NoSQL
13 15 (5.95%) RDBMS
14 13 (5.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 13 (5.16%) MySQL
15 10 (3.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (3.97%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 18 (7.14%) Git
2 17 (6.75%) JIRA
3 13 (5.16%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.98%) MSI
6 5 (1.98%) WiX
7 4 (1.59%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.59%) Selenium
7 4 (1.59%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.79%) Deequ
8 2 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.79%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.40%) Hudson
9 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.40%) Postman
9 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.40%) tSQLt
9 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 72 (28.57%) Finance
2 40 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 37 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.35%) Banking
6 10 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.57%) Publishing
7 9 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.17%) Marketing
9 7 (2.78%) Back Office
9 7 (2.78%) Electronics
10 6 (2.38%) Legal
11 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Front Office
13 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.79%) Retail
14 1 (0.40%) Advertising
14 1 (0.40%) Local Government
14 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 115 (45.63%) Developer
2 38 (15.08%) C# Developer
3 37 (14.68%) Data Engineer
4 30 (11.90%) .NET Developer
5 29 (11.51%) Senior
6 26 (10.32%) DBA
7 21 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 20 (7.94%) SQL Developer
9 19 (7.54%) Analyst
9 19 (7.54%) C# .NET Developer
10 16 (6.35%) SQL DBA
11 12 (4.76%) Architect
11 12 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
12 11 (4.37%) Azure Data Engineer
12 11 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.37%) Full Stack Developer
12 11 (4.37%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.97%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.97%) WPF Developer
14 9 (3.57%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (28.97%) .NET
2 28 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 21 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 21 (8.33%) JSON
4 17 (6.75%) XML
5 15 (5.95%) Blazor
5 15 (5.95%) REST
6 14 (5.56%) WPF
7 13 (5.16%) ASP.NET
7 13 (5.16%) WCF
8 12 (4.76%) Entity Framework
9 11 (4.37%) PySpark
10 10 (3.97%) CSS
11 9 (3.57%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.57%) LINQ
11 9 (3.57%) WinForms
12 8 (3.17%) HTML
13 7 (2.78%) React
14 5 (1.98%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.37%) Replication
3 9 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.17%) Reference Data
5 5 (1.98%) Client/Server
5 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.98%) NHS
5 5 (1.98%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.98%) Web 2.0
6 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.59%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.06%) Windows
2 29 (11.51%) Linux
3 14 (5.56%) Unix
4 7 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.98%) CentOS
6 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.76%) ETL
2 72 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 55 (21.83%) Agile
4 48 (19.05%) DevOps
5 46 (18.25%) Data Analysis
5 46 (18.25%) Data Modelling
6 36 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
8 27 (10.71%) Scrum
8 27 (10.71%) Software Engineering
9 26 (10.32%) Data Integration
10 25 (9.92%) Migration
11 24 (9.52%) SDLC
12 23 (9.13%) Analytics
12 23 (9.13%) CI/CD
13 18 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (6.35%) Data Governance
15 14 (5.56%) Data Engineering
15 14 (5.56%) Data Lineage
15 14 (5.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 236 (93.65%) SQL
2 83 (32.94%) C#
3 60 (23.81%) PL/SQL
4 47 (18.65%) Python
5 38 (15.08%) PowerShell
6 25 (9.92%) VB
6 25 (9.92%) VBA
7 23 (9.13%) JavaScript
7 23 (9.13%) VB.NET
8 18 (7.14%) Java
9 13 (5.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (3.97%) Bash
11 9 (3.57%) C++
11 9 (3.57%) Go
12 6 (2.38%) Perl
12 6 (2.38%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.98%) R
14 4 (1.59%) PHP
14 4 (1.59%) Scala
14 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.35%) Degree
4 10 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.67%) QA
2 14 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.78%) SLA
4 4 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (1.59%) GDPR
4 4 (1.59%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.40%) HL7
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.40%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) KVM
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.59%) Ansible
2 4 (1.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Control-M
3 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.40%) Packer
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 68 (26.98%) Oracle
3 23 (9.13%) Citrix
4 20 (7.94%) Databricks
5 18 (7.14%) SAP
6 13 (5.16%) Informatica
7 12 (4.76%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.57%) MuleSoft
9 8 (3.17%) Sparx
10 7 (2.78%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.78%) Sybase
11 6 (2.38%) Cadence
11 6 (2.38%) iManage
11 6 (2.38%) RedGate
12 5 (1.98%) IBM
12 5 (1.98%) OpenLink
13 4 (1.59%) Optimizely
13 4 (1.59%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.59%) Sun
13 4 (1.59%) Veritas