T-SQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Transact-SQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 231 275
Rank change year-on-year -38 +44 -27
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 72 259 412
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 1.03% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 2.76% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 212 342
10th Percentile £319 - £350
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -10.00% +15.61%
75th Percentile £541 £578 £600
90th Percentile £736 £703 £640
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +7.37% -7.77% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £23.85 -
25th Percentile £6.57 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £7.85 £30.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.26% - -
75th Percentile £9.14 £33.88 -
90th Percentile - £35.15 -
UK median hourly rate £7.85 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -78.19% +2.86% -36.36%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,048 9,374 16,677
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.49% 37.36% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 6,862 12,375
10th Percentile £350 £390 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 203 185
10th Percentile £34.38 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.38 £82.00 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

T-SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

T-SQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing T-SQL.

T-SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

T-SQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing T-SQL.

T-SQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (9.72%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.78%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.39%) CMS
3 1 (1.39%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (9.72%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Endur
2 2 (2.78%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.72%) Azure
2 16 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 10 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (11.11%) Collibra
5 6 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (8.33%) Power Automate
6 5 (6.94%) AWS
7 4 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (5.56%) PaaS
7 4 (5.56%) PowerApps
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (4.17%) Serverless
9 2 (2.78%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) BGP
1 3 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (4.17%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (68.06%) SQL Server
2 19 (26.39%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (19.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (16.67%) Power BI
4 12 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (11.11%) Data Lake
5 8 (11.11%) MongoDB
6 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (6.94%) Metadata
7 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (4.17%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (2.78%) MySQL
10 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (2.78%) Tableau
11 1 (1.39%) Big Data
11 1 (1.39%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) JIRA
1 9 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 5 (6.94%) MSI
2 5 (6.94%) WiX
3 4 (5.56%) Git
3 4 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.39%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.39%) Selenium
5 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.39%) tSQLt
General
1 24 (33.33%) Finance
2 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.94%) Banking
6 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.78%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) Advertising
9 1 (1.39%) Back Office
9 1 (1.39%) Electronics
9 1 (1.39%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.39%) Front Office
9 1 (1.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (33.33%) Developer
2 12 (16.67%) DBA
3 11 (15.28%) Senior
4 9 (12.50%) SQL DBA
5 8 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Analyst
7 6 (8.33%) SQL Server DBA
8 5 (6.94%) Senior DBA
8 5 (6.94%) Senior SQL DBA
8 5 (6.94%) Senior SQL Server DBA
8 5 (6.94%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) SQL Developer
9 4 (5.56%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (5.56%) C# Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Data Analyst
9 4 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.39%) .NET
2 14 (19.44%) JSON
3 11 (15.28%) XML
4 9 (12.50%) REST
5 7 (9.72%) Entity Framework
6 6 (8.33%) ASP.NET
6 6 (8.33%) LINQ
7 5 (6.94%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (6.94%) NHibernate
7 5 (6.94%) XSLT
8 4 (5.56%) .NET Core
8 4 (5.56%) ADO
8 4 (5.56%) Blazor
8 4 (5.56%) Django
9 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.17%) RESTful
9 3 (4.17%) YANG
10 2 (2.78%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.78%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) Client/Server
1 5 (6.94%) Web 2.0
2 4 (5.56%) NHS
3 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.78%) Replication
5 1 (1.39%) Clustering
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Robotics
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Windows
2 6 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.39%) CentOS
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.33%) ETL
2 20 (27.78%) Agile
3 14 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (19.44%) Migration
3 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (18.06%) Data Analysis
5 12 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 12 (16.67%) DevOps
6 10 (13.89%) Data Governance
6 10 (13.89%) Data Integration
6 10 (13.89%) SDLC
7 9 (12.50%) OO
7 9 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 8 (11.11%) Analytics
8 8 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (9.72%) CI/CD
9 7 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (9.72%) High Availability
10 6 (8.33%) Data Management
10 6 (8.33%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 67 (93.06%) SQL
2 25 (34.72%) C#
3 18 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 12 (16.67%) Python
5 11 (15.28%) PowerShell
6 8 (11.11%) Java
7 7 (9.72%) VB.NET
8 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.56%) Bash
9 4 (5.56%) X++
10 3 (4.17%) VBA
11 2 (2.78%) C++
11 2 (2.78%) Go
12 1 (1.39%) Bicep
12 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.39%) PHP
12 1 (1.39%) Scala
12 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Degree
2 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (5.56%) GDPR
3 3 (4.17%) QA
4 1 (1.39%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Ansible
1 3 (4.17%) Terraform
2 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.22%) Oracle
3 5 (6.94%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.56%) Informatica
4 4 (5.56%) RedGate
5 3 (4.17%) Cisco
5 3 (4.17%) JD Edwards
5 3 (4.17%) OpenLink
5 3 (4.17%) QAD
5 3 (4.17%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.78%) Databricks
6 2 (2.78%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.39%) Citrix
7 1 (1.39%) Google
7 1 (1.39%) IBM
7 1 (1.39%) Intel
7 1 (1.39%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.39%) SAP