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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 322 267
Rank change year-on-year -80 -55 +7
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 96 240 450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.64% 0.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 2.09% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 186 337
10th Percentile £363 £363 £398
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -7.77%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £695 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.53% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £31.50 - £24.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £6.57 £30.31
Median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +319.87% -82.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £34.38 £9.14 £79.19
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £45.00
% change year-on-year +319.87% -82.56% +28.57%

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 8,788 11,494 16,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.66% 30.75% 34.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,065 8,224 11,759
10th Percentile £352 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £555
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -2.70% +0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.60% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 481 407
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.52 £28.84
25th Percentile £36.19 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £81.48 £77.50 £80.55
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -53 66 £500 -9.09% 181
North of England +2 13 £375 -6.25% 113
Midlands +15 9 £425 +23.64% 59
North West +5 8 £395 -7.06% 54
Yorkshire +3 5 £375 +42.62% 42
East Midlands +3 5 £385 +24.19% 27
West Midlands +8 3 £425 +21.43% 31
South West +21 2 £520 -3.26% 43
South East +26 1 £350 -17.65% 91
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 (14.58%) IIS
2 4 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.04%) Appian
5 1 (1.04%) Camunda
Applications
1 19 (19.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) OpenText MBPM
1 4 (4.17%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (3.13%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (2.08%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.04%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.04%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 44 (45.83%) Azure
2 26 (27.08%) Power Platform
3 20 (20.83%) AWS
4 18 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (14.58%) Serverless
6 11 (11.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (6.25%) Azure Functions
10 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.21%) GCP
10 5 (5.21%) GitHub
10 5 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (5.21%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.50%) Internet
2 5 (5.21%) HTTP
3 1 (1.04%) Intranet
3 1 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (61.46%) SQL Server
2 22 (22.92%) Power BI
3 18 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 15 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (15.63%) Oracle Database
5 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (8.33%) DynamoDB
6 8 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (7.29%) Metadata
7 7 (7.29%) Relational Database
8 6 (6.25%) NoSQL
9 5 (5.21%) Data Lake
9 5 (5.21%) Tableau
9 5 (5.21%) WebFOCUS
10 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
11 3 (3.13%) Big Data
11 3 (3.13%) Power Query
11 3 (3.13%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Git
2 9 (9.38%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.21%) git-flow
3 5 (5.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (4.17%) ERwin
5 2 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.04%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.04%) GitLab
6 1 (1.04%) JIRA
6 1 (1.04%) tSQLt
General
1 23 (23.96%) Finance
2 15 (15.63%) Banking
3 13 (13.54%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.21%) Front Office
7 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.17%) Retail
8 3 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.08%) Back Office
9 2 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.08%) Local Government
10 1 (1.04%) Advertising
10 1 (1.04%) Digital Health
10 1 (1.04%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.04%) Law
10 1 (1.04%) Publishing
10 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (54.17%) Developer
2 16 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 15 (15.63%) C# WPF Developer
3 15 (15.63%) WPF Developer
4 14 (14.58%) Data Engineer
5 12 (12.50%) C# WCF Developer
5 12 (12.50%) Senior
5 12 (12.50%) WCF Developer
6 11 (11.46%) Analyst
7 10 (10.42%) Architect
8 9 (9.38%) SQL Developer
9 7 (7.29%) DBA
10 6 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Data Architect
10 6 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (5.21%) Azure Architect
11 5 (5.21%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (4.17%) Azure Data Architect
12 4 (4.17%) BPM Developer
12 4 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (39.58%) .NET
2 22 (22.92%) .NET Framework
3 17 (17.71%) WCF
3 17 (17.71%) WPF
4 12 (12.50%) Web Services
4 12 (12.50%) WinForms
5 9 (9.38%) .NET Core
5 9 (9.38%) CSS
5 9 (9.38%) HTML
5 9 (9.38%) JSON
5 9 (9.38%) RESTful
6 8 (8.33%) ASP.NET
6 8 (8.33%) REST
7 7 (7.29%) Node.js
7 7 (7.29%) React
8 6 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (6.25%) AWS CDK
8 6 (6.25%) Entity Framework
8 6 (6.25%) Redux
8 6 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (6.25%) N-Tier
2 4 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (4.17%) Replication
3 3 (3.13%) TWAP
3 3 (3.13%) VWAP
4 2 (2.08%) Clustering
4 2 (2.08%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.08%) NHS
4 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.04%) Equities
5 1 (1.04%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.17%) ETL
2 27 (28.13%) Data Analysis
3 23 (23.96%) Analytics
4 21 (21.88%) Data Modelling
5 19 (19.79%) Agile
5 19 (19.79%) Migration
6 18 (18.75%) Data Management
7 17 (17.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (16.67%) DevOps
9 13 (13.54%) Data Integration
9 13 (13.54%) Data Migration
10 12 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (11.46%) CI/CD
12 10 (10.42%) OOP
12 10 (10.42%) Unit Testing
13 9 (9.38%) Data Architecture
13 9 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (8.33%) Clean Code
14 8 (8.33%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 92 (95.83%) SQL
2 40 (41.67%) C#
3 25 (26.04%) PL/SQL
3 25 (26.04%) Python
4 20 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 17 (17.71%) VBA
6 13 (13.54%) VB
7 12 (12.50%) PowerShell
8 8 (8.33%) R
8 8 (8.33%) TypeScript
9 6 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (3.13%) C++
10 3 (3.13%) Go
10 3 (3.13%) Scala
11 2 (2.08%) Ruby
11 2 (2.08%) X++
12 1 (1.04%) Java
12 1 (1.04%) Korn
12 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.04%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (9.38%) Degree
3 7 (7.29%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.21%) MCPD
5 5 (5.21%) MCSD
6 3 (3.13%) MCSE
7 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.04%) ISEB
8 1 (1.04%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.79%) QA
2 8 (8.33%) GDPR
3 5 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.21%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.08%) EMIR
4 2 (2.08%) MiFID
5 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.04%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Control-M
2 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
2 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 23 (23.96%) Oracle
3 13 (13.54%) Citrix
4 3 (3.13%) Databricks
4 3 (3.13%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.13%) OpenText
4 3 (3.13%) Talend
5 2 (2.08%) CQG
5 2 (2.08%) EMC
5 2 (2.08%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) Informatica
5 2 (2.08%) VMware
6 1 (1.04%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.04%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.04%) NEC
6 1 (1.04%) Northgate
6 1 (1.04%) Reuters
6 1 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) Teradata
6 1 (1.04%) TOWER Software