T-SQL Contracts in Manchester

Transact-SQL
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 83 91
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 6 6 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.60% 0.49% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.26% 1.73% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 13
10th Percentile - £386 £403
25th Percentile £313 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £314 £413 £415
Median % change year-on-year -23.88% -0.60% -10.27%
75th Percentile £371 £488 £488
90th Percentile £471 £548 £623
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £415
% change year-on-year +5.88% +2.41% -10.27%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 265 347 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.39% 28.37% 29.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 248 421
10th Percentile £318 £354 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -
75th Percentile £545 £550 £625
90th Percentile £632 £638 £675
North West median daily rate £438 £466 £525
% change year-on-year -6.17% -11.19% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 4
10th Percentile £45.16 £52.50 £39.38
25th Percentile £68.13 £55.00 £53.44
Median hourly rate £74.50 £70.94 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +11.27% -8.93%
75th Percentile £87.69 £80.88 £68.13
90th Percentile £91.88 £99.25 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +26.87%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata
2 3 (50.00%) WebFOCUS
3 2 (33.33%) Dremio
3 2 (33.33%) Power BI
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft