T-SQL Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Transact-SQL
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 140 159
Rank change year-on-year -46 +19 +20
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 15 24 28
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.32% 0.66% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 2.65% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 19
10th Percentile £348 £225 £361
25th Percentile £379 £294 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% -13.89% -
75th Percentile £470 £475 £556
90th Percentile £475 £576 £710
England median daily rate £415 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -20.95% +10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £34.00 £15.73
25th Percentile - £45.63 £16.35
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year - +253.12% -47.41%
75th Percentile - - £20.70
90th Percentile - - £21.46
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%

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 1,348 906 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.10% 25.03% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 585 872
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £383 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £575
90th Percentile £626 £650 £650
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 51
10th Percentile £40.25 £34.10 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.84 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% +6.11% +11.28%
75th Percentile £73.20 £81.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £74.26 £97.99 £66.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -0.79%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing T-SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the North of England

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing T-SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing T-SQL

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 14 December 2025.

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

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing T-SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing T-SQL

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 14 December 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 -21 11 £450 +9.09% 12
Yorkshire -47 4 £375 +21.60% 2
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AtomSphere
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Boomi
1 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
1 4 (26.67%) SaaS
2 3 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (26.67%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Power Query
4 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
4 1 (6.67%) Tableau
4 1 (6.67%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Law
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) DBA
2 4 (26.67%) Integration Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Database Developer
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Business Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft BI Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Database Developer
4 1 (6.67%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) JSON
1 4 (26.67%) REST
1 4 (26.67%) SOAP
1 4 (26.67%) XML
2 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (26.67%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (26.67%) Intelligent Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (26.67%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (13.33%) High Availability
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) Groovy
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) Bicep
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Sage
3 1 (6.67%) SAP