T-SQL Contracts in the South East

Transact-SQL
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 185 182
Rank change year-on-year +42 -3 +13
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 3 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.10% 0.34% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 1.50% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 17
10th Percentile £366 - £399
25th Percentile £391 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £491 £550 £575
90th Percentile £519 £713 £600
England median daily rate £463 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -11.06% +9.47% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
England median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £57.60
% change year-on-year +319.87% -86.37% +64.56%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 784 1,266 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.73% 22.55% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 874 1,043
10th Percentile £351 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -4.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £545 £565
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.48% +2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 81 85
10th Percentile £38.83 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £65.62 £77.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +19.05%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the South East

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing T-SQL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in the South East

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the South East

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing T-SQL in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in the South East

T-SQL
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Surrey +9 2 £525 +23.53% 12
Thames Valley +35 1 £350 -22.22% 60
Berkshire +25 1 £350 -22.22% 36
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Power Query
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Support Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (33.33%) R
3 1 (33.33%) XMLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft