T-SQL Contract Job Trends in the North West

Transact-SQL
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 112 123
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +22
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 13 11 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.53% 0.49% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 2.15% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 10
10th Percentile £313 £374 £391
25th Percentile £315 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £469 £575 £488
90th Percentile £475 £583 £576
England median daily rate £415 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -20.95% +10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 656 512 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.75% 22.79% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 320 541
10th Percentile £310 £350 £325
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% -7.18% -5.11%
75th Percentile £525 £549 £575
90th Percentile £606 £610 £663
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 42
10th Percentile £35.97 £44.31 £45.88
25th Percentile £59.80 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% +40.75% +20.26%
75th Percentile - £86.00 £51.19
90th Percentile £83.75 £92.50 £73.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the North West

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in the North West over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the North West

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

T-SQL
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester -3 10 £390 -20.00% 7
Lancashire - 2 £450 - 5
Cheshire -22 1 - - 1
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) AtomSphere
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (15.38%) Boomi
2 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (30.77%) Power BI
3 3 (23.08%) Metadata
3 3 (23.08%) WebFOCUS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (15.38%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (7.69%) Power Query
5 1 (7.69%) Star Schema
5 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 2 (15.38%) Banking
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) DBA
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Integration Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Business Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft BI Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) SOAP
1 2 (15.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (23.08%) Metadata Management
4 3 (23.08%) SQL Optimisation
4 3 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) ETL Development
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Bicep
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) Groovy
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Sage
3 1 (7.69%) SAP