T-SQL Contracts in England

Transact-SQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring T-SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited T-SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 331 266
Rank change year-on-year -51 -65 +2
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 103 217 497
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.58% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 1.99% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 164 378
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £588
90th Percentile £725 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £31.50 - £23.40
25th Percentile £31.54 £6.57 £24.31
Median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +319.87% -78.19% +2.86%
75th Percentile £34.38 £9.14 £79.19
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £36.00
% change year-on-year +319.87% -78.19% +2.86%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in England

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing T-SQL in England.

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in England

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in England

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing T-SQL in England.

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in England

T-SQL
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London -54 66 £513 +7.89% 86
North of England +23 11 £375 -4.76% 33
Midlands +20 10 £425 +9.68% 24
South East +34 7 £438 -2.78% 47
North West +19 6 £410 -0.61% 16
West Midlands +13 6 £425 -5.56% 9
Yorkshire +10 5 £375 +15.38% 11
South West +35 1 £525 -2.33% 12
East Midlands +6 1 - - 12
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (13.59%) IIS
2 8 (7.77%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (6.80%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.97%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.97%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 57 (55.34%) Azure
2 24 (23.30%) AWS
2 24 (23.30%) Power Platform
3 22 (21.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (12.62%) Serverless
5 9 (8.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.77%) GCP
6 8 (7.77%) GitHub
6 8 (7.77%) Snowflake
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (5.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Storage
9 4 (3.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) Internet
2 5 (4.85%) HTTP
3 2 (1.94%) Network Security
4 1 (0.97%) Intranet
4 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (50.49%) SQL Server
2 24 (23.30%) Power BI
3 23 (22.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 22 (21.36%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (18.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (15.53%) Oracle Database
7 15 (14.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (8.74%) Tableau
10 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
11 6 (5.83%) Big Data
11 6 (5.83%) DynamoDB
11 6 (5.83%) Relational Database
11 6 (5.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (4.85%) Data Lake
13 4 (3.88%) Metadata
14 3 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (2.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 3 (2.91%) Dremio
14 3 (2.91%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Git
2 8 (7.77%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.85%) git-flow
4 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (2.91%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.91%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.94%) JIRA
7 1 (0.97%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.97%) ERwin
7 1 (0.97%) GitLab
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.97%) Serena SBM
7 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.97%) Subversion
7 1 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.97%) tSQLt
General
1 21 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.45%) Finance
3 12 (11.65%) Banking
4 7 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.85%) Front Office
7 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Retail
8 3 (2.91%) Marketing
9 2 (1.94%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.94%) Local Government
9 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Back Office
10 1 (0.97%) Billing
10 1 (0.97%) Electronics
10 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.97%) Publishing
10 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (36.89%) Developer
2 23 (22.33%) Data Engineer
3 21 (20.39%) Senior
4 15 (14.56%) C# Developer
5 13 (12.62%) C# WPF Developer
5 13 (12.62%) WPF Developer
6 11 (10.68%) C# WCF Developer
6 11 (10.68%) WCF Developer
7 8 (7.77%) Analyst
7 8 (7.77%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) .NET Developer
8 7 (6.80%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.80%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Architect
10 5 (4.85%) DBA
10 5 (4.85%) Head of Business Intelligence
10 5 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (42.72%) .NET
2 20 (19.42%) .NET Framework
3 16 (15.53%) WCF
3 16 (15.53%) WPF
4 14 (13.59%) .NET Core
5 12 (11.65%) ASP.NET
6 11 (10.68%) CSS
6 11 (10.68%) HTML
6 11 (10.68%) Web Services
6 11 (10.68%) WinForms
7 10 (9.71%) REST
8 9 (8.74%) Blazor
9 7 (6.80%) Node.js
10 6 (5.83%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (5.83%) AWS CDK
10 6 (5.83%) JSON
10 6 (5.83%) Redux
10 6 (5.83%) RESTful
10 6 (5.83%) WebSockets
11 5 (4.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.83%) Clustering
2 6 (5.83%) N-Tier
2 6 (5.83%) Replication
3 5 (4.85%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.88%) TWAP
4 4 (3.88%) VWAP
5 3 (2.91%) NHS
6 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.97%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.97%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.97%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (26.21%) Windows
2 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.97%) Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Solaris
3 1 (0.97%) Unix
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.24%) Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.24%) Data Modelling
2 24 (23.30%) Agile
3 23 (22.33%) Analytics
3 23 (22.33%) Data Analysis
3 23 (22.33%) ETL
3 23 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.39%) DevOps
5 18 (17.48%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (16.50%) CI/CD
6 17 (16.50%) Data Integration
6 17 (16.50%) Migration
7 14 (13.59%) Data Engineering
8 12 (11.65%) Decision-Making
8 12 (11.65%) Visualisation
9 11 (10.68%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (10.68%) Data Governance
9 11 (10.68%) Data Management
9 11 (10.68%) Data Migration
10 10 (9.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 94 (91.26%) SQL
2 41 (39.81%) C#
3 33 (32.04%) Python
4 27 (26.21%) PL/SQL
5 22 (21.36%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.65%) PowerShell
6 12 (11.65%) VBA
7 11 (10.68%) VB
8 9 (8.74%) R
9 6 (5.83%) C++
9 6 (5.83%) Go
9 6 (5.83%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (3.88%) Scala
12 3 (2.91%) ANSI SQL
12 3 (2.91%) Ruby
13 2 (1.94%) Java
14 1 (0.97%) Perl
14 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.97%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 17 (16.50%) Degree
2 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.85%) MCPD
3 5 (4.85%) MCSD
3 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.97%) ISEB
6 1 (0.97%) MCDBA
6 1 (0.97%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.62%) QA
2 11 (10.68%) GDPR
3 10 (9.71%) Data Quality
4 8 (7.77%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.94%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.97%) EMIR
6 1 (0.97%) HL7
6 1 (0.97%) MiFID
6 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.88%) Docker
3 2 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.88%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) Control-M
3 1 (0.97%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.97%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (0.97%) Perfmon
3 1 (0.97%) QRadar
3 1 (0.97%) SCOM
3 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.97%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.97%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (0.97%) VxRail
Vendors
1 36 (34.95%) Microsoft
2 25 (24.27%) Oracle
3 11 (10.68%) Citrix
4 10 (9.71%) Databricks
5 6 (5.83%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.88%) SAP
7 3 (2.91%) Talend
8 2 (1.94%) Google
8 2 (1.94%) Informatica
8 2 (1.94%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (1.94%) VMware
9 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.97%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.97%) CQG
9 1 (0.97%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.97%) NEC
9 1 (0.97%) Qualys
9 1 (0.97%) Reuters
9 1 (0.97%) Serena
9 1 (0.97%) Teradata