T-SQL Contracts in the North of England

Transact-SQL
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 155 178 173
Rank change year-on-year +23 -5 -43
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 11 7 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.15% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 0.58% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 36
10th Percentile £298 £251 £378
25th Percentile £331 £328 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £394 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.35% -8.11%
75th Percentile £481 £430 £550
90th Percentile £525 £444 £600
England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £36.00
% change year-on-year +319.87% -78.19% +2.86%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the North of England

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in the North of England

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the North of England

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in the North of England

T-SQL
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +19 6 £410 -0.61% 16
Yorkshire +10 5 £375 +15.38% 11
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Power Platform
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Power BI
2 7 (63.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (27.27%) Dremio
5 3 (27.27%) QlikView
5 3 (27.27%) Tableau
6 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (18.18%) GIS
6 2 (18.18%) Metadata
6 2 (18.18%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (18.18%) MSDE
6 2 (18.18%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (9.09%) DTS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DBA
2 2 (18.18%) Report Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) SQL DBA
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
3 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (18.18%) CRM
4 2 (18.18%) Data Collection
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) ERP
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Quality Management
4 2 (18.18%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Perfmon
1 1 (9.09%) SCOM
1 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Databricks
3 2 (18.18%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (18.18%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) VMware