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 16 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 331 268
Rank change year-on-year -24 -63 -16
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 140 226 590
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.59% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 2.03% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 148 470
10th Percentile £340 £354 £363
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -6.40%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £575
90th Percentile £630 £641 £700
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £27.82 £9.19 £24.50
25th Percentile £30.17 £13.13 £27.50
Median hourly rate £48.91 £18.41 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.68% -47.41% +27.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £23.29 £58.35
90th Percentile - £25.67 £70.85
UK median hourly rate £48.91 £18.41 £35.00
% change year-on-year +165.68% -47.41% +12.00%

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 8,630 11,139 21,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.44% 29.31% 36.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,566 8,019 15,258
10th Percentile £356 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £531 £563
% change year-on-year -1.13% -5.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 475 467
10th Percentile £25.26 £36.25 £34.00
25th Percentile £42.63 £46.25 £50.24
Median hourly rate £63.00 £60.14 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.48% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +32.65%

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 16 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing T-SQL in England over the 6 months to 16 February 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 February 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 -57 68 £500 +5.26% 32
South East +70 28 £575 +35.29% 6
North of England +32 19 £356 -30.54% 19
Midlands +28 18 £425 +9.68% 8
West Midlands +17 10 £450 -7.69% 5
Yorkshire +36 8 £375 -31.82% 3
North West +16 7 £338 -34.05% 10
East Midlands +12 5 £356 +18.67% 3
North East - 4 - - 6
South West +25 1 £525 +76.47% 7
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 15 (10.71%) IIS
2 9 (6.43%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.29%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (3.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.71%) Confluence
6 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.71%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 60 (42.86%) Azure
2 41 (29.29%) Power Platform
3 24 (17.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (8.57%) AWS
6 9 (6.43%) Serverless
7 8 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (5.00%) Azure Functions
8 7 (5.00%) Power Automate
9 6 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.29%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.86%) Azure Storage
10 4 (2.86%) dbt
10 4 (2.86%) GCP
10 4 (2.86%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.14%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (2.14%) GitHub
11 3 (2.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.00%) Internet
2 2 (1.43%) Network Security
3 1 (0.71%) Firewall
3 1 (0.71%) Intranet
3 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (55.00%) SQL Server
2 43 (30.71%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 39 (27.86%) Power BI
5 35 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (12.86%) Oracle Database
7 15 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (8.57%) Data Lake
8 12 (8.57%) Tableau
9 11 (7.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (7.14%) Big Data
11 9 (6.43%) Power Query
12 8 (5.71%) QlikView
13 5 (3.57%) DTS
13 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
13 5 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
13 5 (3.57%) Spark SQL
14 4 (2.86%) MS Access
14 4 (2.86%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Git
2 8 (5.71%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.86%) git-flow
3 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (1.43%) JIRA
5 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.43%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.71%) Deequ
6 1 (0.71%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.71%) Serena SBM
6 1 (0.71%) Subversion
6 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.71%) Finance
3 16 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.43%) Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.86%) Law
6 4 (2.86%) Marketing
6 4 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.43%) Local Government
8 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Billing
9 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.71%) French Language
9 1 (0.71%) German Language
9 1 (0.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 53 (37.86%) Developer
2 29 (20.71%) Data Engineer
3 23 (16.43%) Senior
4 19 (13.57%) Analyst
4 19 (13.57%) C# Developer
5 14 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 13 (9.29%) C# WCF Developer
6 13 (9.29%) C# WPF Developer
6 13 (9.29%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.29%) WCF Developer
6 13 (9.29%) WPF Developer
7 10 (7.14%) DBA
7 10 (7.14%) SQL DBA
7 10 (7.14%) SQL Developer
8 9 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) C# Software Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Lead
10 7 (5.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (41.43%) .NET
2 21 (15.00%) .NET Framework
3 19 (13.57%) WinForms
4 17 (12.14%) WPF
5 15 (10.71%) PySpark
6 13 (9.29%) WCF
7 11 (7.86%) ASP.NET
8 9 (6.43%) CSS
8 9 (6.43%) HTML
8 9 (6.43%) SOAP
9 8 (5.71%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.00%) Blazor
11 5 (3.57%) COM
12 4 (2.86%) Pandas
12 4 (2.86%) React
12 4 (2.86%) REST
13 3 (2.14%) ASP.NET Core
13 3 (2.14%) jQuery
14 2 (1.43%) AngularJS
14 2 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.14%) Clustering
2 9 (6.43%) NHS
3 8 (5.71%) Replication
4 5 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.86%) IoT
6 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.43%) TWAP
7 2 (1.43%) VWAP
8 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.71%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.71%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 38 (27.14%) Windows
2 4 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.43%) Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Solaris
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 39 (27.86%) Data Modelling
3 36 (25.71%) Agile
3 36 (25.71%) ETL
4 35 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (23.57%) DevOps
6 24 (17.14%) Data Analysis
7 23 (16.43%) CI/CD
8 22 (15.71%) Analytics
9 20 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (13.57%) Data Integration
11 17 (12.14%) Migration
12 16 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (10.71%) Data Engineering
13 15 (10.71%) Decision-Making
13 15 (10.71%) Software Engineering
14 14 (10.00%) Scrum
15 13 (9.29%) Artificial Intelligence
16 12 (8.57%) Data Management
16 12 (8.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 134 (95.71%) SQL
2 52 (37.14%) C#
3 35 (25.00%) Python
4 26 (18.57%) PL/SQL
5 22 (15.71%) PowerShell
6 19 (13.57%) JavaScript
7 17 (12.14%) VBA
8 13 (9.29%) VB
9 7 (5.00%) R
10 6 (4.29%) Delphi
11 4 (2.86%) ANSI SQL
11 4 (2.86%) C++
11 4 (2.86%) Go
12 3 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.14%) Scala
13 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.71%) Bash
13 1 (0.71%) Java
13 1 (0.71%) Ruby
13 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (12.14%) Degree
2 11 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.71%) MCDBA
6 1 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.14%) QA
2 14 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 9 (6.43%) GDPR
4 5 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.43%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.71%) HL7
6 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.14%) Docker
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.86%) Terraform
3 2 (1.43%) Control-M
4 1 (0.71%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.71%) Perfmon
4 1 (0.71%) QRadar
4 1 (0.71%) SCOM
4 1 (0.71%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (0.71%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (16.43%) Oracle
3 14 (10.00%) Citrix
3 14 (10.00%) Databricks
4 4 (2.86%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.86%) SAP
4 4 (2.86%) SIMUL8
5 2 (1.43%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.43%) BMC
5 2 (1.43%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (1.43%) VMware
6 1 (0.71%) EMC
6 1 (0.71%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.71%) Qualys
6 1 (0.71%) RedGate
6 1 (0.71%) Serena
6 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.71%) Splunk
6 1 (0.71%) Talend
6 1 (0.71%) Telerik