T-SQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Transact-SQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 301 321 301
Rank change year-on-year +20 -20 -69
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 35 78 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.38% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 1.60% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 53 120
10th Percentile £307 £320 £348
25th Percentile £350 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £550
90th Percentile £538 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £31.50 - £23.25
25th Percentile £31.54 £6.57 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £52.22
Median % change year-on-year +319.87% -84.97% +49.20%
75th Percentile £34.38 £9.14 £79.19
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £36.00
% change year-on-year +319.87% -78.19% +2.86%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the UK excluding London

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing T-SQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in the UK excluding London

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the UK excluding London

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing T-SQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in the UK excluding London

T-SQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England +23 11 £375 -4.76% 33
Midlands +20 10 £425 +9.68% 24
South East +34 7 £438 -2.78% 47
North West +19 6 £410 -0.61% 16
West Midlands +13 6 £425 -5.56% 9
Yorkshire +10 5 £375 +15.38% 11
Scotland +1 4 - - 4
Wales -9 2 £167 -69.62% 4
South West +35 1 £525 -2.33% 12
East Midlands +6 1 - - 12
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.71%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.86%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 25 (71.43%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 12 (34.29%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.71%) SaaS
7 1 (2.86%) IaaS
7 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) Power BI
1 12 (34.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 11 (31.43%) SQL Server
3 8 (22.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (11.43%) Big Data
5 4 (11.43%) Tableau
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (8.57%) Dremio
6 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (8.57%) QlikView
7 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.71%) GIS
7 2 (5.71%) Metadata
7 2 (5.71%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (5.71%) MSDE
7 2 (5.71%) Power Query
7 2 (5.71%) PowerCenter
7 2 (5.71%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Visual Studio
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (5.71%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.86%) tSQLt
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Local Government
5 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Developer
3 7 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Software Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) DBA
5 3 (8.57%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) SQL DBA
6 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Technical Support
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) .NET
2 3 (8.57%) Blazor
2 3 (8.57%) CSS
2 3 (8.57%) HTML
2 3 (8.57%) PySpark
2 3 (8.57%) WPF
3 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.86%) FHIR
4 1 (2.86%) NumPy
4 1 (2.86%) Pandas
4 1 (2.86%) Web Services
4 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Clustering
2 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 12 (34.29%) Analytics
3 10 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (25.71%) ETL
4 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.14%) Agile
5 6 (17.14%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (17.14%) DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 5 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 5 (14.29%) Migration
6 5 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (11.43%) Data Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) Data Transformation
7 4 (11.43%) High Availability
8 3 (8.57%) Data Development
8 3 (8.57%) Data Governance
8 3 (8.57%) Data Science
8 3 (8.57%) Decision-Making
8 3 (8.57%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 29 (82.86%) SQL
2 9 (25.71%) Python
3 6 (17.14%) C#
4 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.57%) R
6 2 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.86%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (2.86%) Scala
7 1 (2.86%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Perfmon
1 1 (2.86%) SCOM
1 1 (2.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) Teradata
4 2 (5.71%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) Informatica
4 2 (5.71%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) RedGate
5 1 (2.86%) Sage
5 1 (2.86%) TSYS
5 1 (2.86%) VMware