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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 288 276
Rank change year-on-year -63 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 243 532 863
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.92% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 2.63% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 405 697
10th Percentile £363 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -7.77% +14.44%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £613
90th Percentile £625 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 7
10th Percentile - £23.40 £25.95
25th Percentile £6.57 £24.31 £30.63
Median hourly rate £7.85 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.19% +2.86% -36.36%
75th Percentile £9.14 £79.19 £61.80
90th Percentile - - £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £7.85 £52.22 £35.00
% change year-on-year -84.97% +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 12,657 20,243 31,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.55% 34.85% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,005 14,597 23,243
10th Percentile £350 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.10% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 460 505
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.12 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.67 £78.00 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £49.75
% change year-on-year +2.56% +22.49% +19.88%

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 7 May 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
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 7 May 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 -71 211 £493 +3.68% 192
London -36 154 £500 +5.26% 59
UK excluding London -10 75 £525 +16.67% 146
Work from Home -36 72 £456 +1.39% 113
South East +10 19 £450 -5.26% 19
Scotland +36 13 £575 +35.29% 16
Wales +29 12 £550 +7.32% 2
Midlands +24 12 £388 -20.51% 53
South West +23 12 £538 +19.44% 14
West Midlands +16 7 £450 -16.28% 30
North of England -14 7 £394 -7.35% 30
East Midlands +21 5 £310 -29.14% 23
North West +3 4 £413 -0.60% 14
Yorkshire +11 3 £325 -32.99% 14

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 (4.53%) IIS
1 11 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.70%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.88%) Confluence
4 6 (2.47%) Apache
5 3 (1.23%) CMS
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.41%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (12.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.17%) MS Visio
3 10 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.06%) Endur
3 2 (0.82%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.82%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.41%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 101 (41.56%) Azure
2 74 (30.45%) Power Platform
3 43 (17.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 34 (13.99%) AWS
5 26 (10.70%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (5.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 13 (5.35%) PaaS
7 13 (5.35%) Power Automate
8 12 (4.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (4.53%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.53%) Serverless
10 9 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.70%) Azure Storage
11 8 (3.29%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.29%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (3.29%) Collibra
11 8 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.70%) Internet
2 3 (1.23%) BGP
2 3 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (1.23%) IOS XR
3 1 (0.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (59.67%) SQL Server
2 75 (30.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 63 (25.93%) Power BI
4 53 (21.81%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (19.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 41 (16.87%) Relational Database
7 31 (12.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 28 (11.52%) Data Lake
9 25 (10.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (8.64%) Oracle Database
11 19 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (7.41%) NoSQL
12 18 (7.41%) Tableau
13 15 (6.17%) Metadata
13 15 (6.17%) MongoDB
14 14 (5.76%) RDBMS
15 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 13 (5.35%) MySQL
16 10 (4.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 9 (3.70%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 17 (7.00%) Git
2 15 (6.17%) JIRA
3 11 (4.53%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (2.06%) MSI
6 5 (2.06%) WiX
7 3 (1.23%) Deequ
7 3 (1.23%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.23%) Selenium
7 3 (1.23%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.82%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.41%) Hudson
9 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.41%) tSQLt
9 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 67 (27.57%) Finance
2 38 (15.64%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.58%) Banking
6 10 (4.12%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.12%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.70%) Publishing
7 9 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.29%) Marketing
9 7 (2.88%) Back Office
9 7 (2.88%) Electronics
10 6 (2.47%) Legal
11 3 (1.23%) Front Office
12 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Retail
13 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 104 (42.80%) Developer
2 36 (14.81%) Data Engineer
3 32 (13.17%) C# Developer
4 25 (10.29%) Senior
5 24 (9.88%) .NET Developer
5 24 (9.88%) DBA
6 21 (8.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 19 (7.82%) Analyst
8 17 (7.00%) SQL Developer
9 15 (6.17%) Architect
10 14 (5.76%) C# .NET Developer
10 14 (5.76%) SQL DBA
11 12 (4.94%) Azure Data Engineer
11 12 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.94%) Power BI Developer
11 12 (4.94%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.12%) Full Stack Developer
12 10 (4.12%) Lead
12 10 (4.12%) WPF Developer
13 9 (3.70%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (28.40%) .NET
2 24 (9.88%) .NET Framework
3 22 (9.05%) JSON
4 21 (8.64%) .NET Core
5 17 (7.00%) XML
6 15 (6.17%) Blazor
6 15 (6.17%) WPF
7 14 (5.76%) ASP.NET
7 14 (5.76%) WCF
8 13 (5.35%) CSS
8 13 (5.35%) PySpark
8 13 (5.35%) REST
9 11 (4.53%) Entity Framework
10 10 (4.12%) React
11 9 (3.70%) WinForms
12 8 (3.29%) HTML
12 8 (3.29%) LINQ
13 7 (2.88%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.47%) Apache Avro
15 5 (2.06%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.76%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.12%) Replication
3 9 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.29%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.06%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.06%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.06%) Web 2.0
6 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.65%) NHS
6 4 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.23%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.82%) Clustering
8 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.70%) Windows
2 29 (11.93%) Linux
3 14 (5.76%) Unix
4 7 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.06%) CentOS
6 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (29.63%) ETL
2 68 (27.98%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (21.40%) Agile
4 46 (18.93%) Data Modelling
5 45 (18.52%) DevOps
6 42 (17.28%) Data Analysis
7 38 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (11.52%) Software Engineering
9 27 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 26 (10.70%) Data Integration
10 26 (10.70%) Migration
11 25 (10.29%) SDLC
12 24 (9.88%) Analytics
12 24 (9.88%) Scrum
13 22 (9.05%) CI/CD
14 18 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (7.41%) Data Governance
15 17 (7.00%) Data Pipeline
16 15 (6.17%) Data Management
17 14 (5.76%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 230 (94.65%) SQL
2 80 (32.92%) C#
3 54 (22.22%) PL/SQL
4 47 (19.34%) Python
5 34 (13.99%) PowerShell
6 25 (10.29%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.64%) VB
7 21 (8.64%) VBA
8 19 (7.82%) VB.NET
9 18 (7.41%) Java
10 13 (5.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (4.12%) Bash
12 9 (3.70%) C++
12 9 (3.70%) Go
12 9 (3.70%) TypeScript
13 6 (2.47%) Perl
14 5 (2.06%) Scala
15 4 (1.65%) PHP
15 4 (1.65%) R
15 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.17%) Degree
4 10 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.64%) QA
2 17 (7.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.88%) SLA
4 4 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (1.65%) GDPR
4 4 (1.65%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.41%) HL7
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Docker
3 1 (0.41%) KVM
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.65%) Ansible
2 4 (1.65%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Control-M
3 1 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.41%) Packer
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (30.86%) Microsoft
2 61 (25.10%) Oracle
3 20 (8.23%) Databricks
4 19 (7.82%) Citrix
5 18 (7.41%) SAP
6 13 (5.35%) Informatica
7 12 (4.94%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.70%) MuleSoft
9 8 (3.29%) Sparx
10 7 (2.88%) Sybase
11 6 (2.47%) Cadence
11 6 (2.47%) iManage
11 6 (2.47%) RedGate
12 5 (2.06%) Atlassian
12 5 (2.06%) IBM
12 5 (2.06%) OpenLink
13 4 (1.65%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.65%) Sun
13 4 (1.65%) Veritas
14 3 (1.23%) Cisco