T-SQL Contracts in the North West

Transact-SQL
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 115 112 118
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 10 10 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.42% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.83% 1.89% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 21
10th Percentile £313 £363 £394
25th Percentile £315 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £415
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.41% -10.27%
75th Percentile £494 £509 £450
90th Percentile £520 £579 £488
England median daily rate £488 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.53% -7.32%

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 545 529 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.82% 22.10% 27.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 378 614
10th Percentile £313 £350 £363
25th Percentile £367 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £466 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% -11.19% +1.94%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £610 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 31
10th Percentile £27.12 £37.55 £37.55
25th Percentile £48.75 £46.59 £42.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +26.87%
75th Percentile £86.63 £73.50 £51.62
90th Percentile £91.25 £94.60 £65.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the North West

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in the North West

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 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the North West

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in the North West

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 2 August 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 +7 6 £314 -23.88% 16
Lancashire - 2 £450 - 8
Merseyside - 1 £475 -
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) Power BI
3 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (30.00%) Dremio
3 3 (30.00%) Metadata
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (30.00%) WebFOCUS
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (30.00%) Metadata Management
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) Korn
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) MCSA
1 1 (10.00%) MCSE
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks