T-SQL Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Transact-SQL
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 53 59
Rank change year-on-year -20 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.28% 0.74% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 2.91% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £284 -
25th Percentile £506 £298 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £320 £438
Median % change year-on-year +60.16% -26.86% -18.60%
75th Percentile £519 £338 £456
90th Percentile - £349 -
North West median daily rate £426 £356 £450
% change year-on-year +19.66% -20.89% +8.43%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 185 103 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 26.28% 25.31% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 77 108
10th Percentile £313 £321 £311
25th Percentile £358 £358 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -15.00% +1.42%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £582
90th Percentile £621 £638 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £471 £475
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile - £75.20 £40.00
25th Percentile - £79.25 £40.63
Median hourly rate £86.00 £86.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +102.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £69.00 £70.00 £49.22
% change year-on-year -1.43% +42.23% +18.59%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing T-SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

T-SQL job vacancy trend in Cheshire

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing T-SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing T-SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 March 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
Chester - 1 £513 - 1
Crewe - 1 - -
T-SQL
North West

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Query
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Database Mirroring
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) BMC
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) Sage
2 1 (50.00%) SAP