T-SQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Transact-SQL
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for T-SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited T-SQL over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 298 244
Rank change year-on-year -28 -54 +21
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 77 163 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.68% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 2.34% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 120 262
10th Percentile £320 £348 £325
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -8.75% +25.00%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £571
90th Percentile £600 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +9.47% -7.77% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £23.25 £29.75
25th Percentile £6.57 £24.16 -
Median hourly rate £7.85 £52.22 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -84.97% +49.20% -36.36%
75th Percentile £9.14 £79.19 £63.60
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £7.85 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -78.19% +2.86% -36.36%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

T-SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,853 6,953 8,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.48% 29.08% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 4,965 6,234
10th Percentile £317 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £680 £643
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 341 337
10th Percentile £37.63 £22.50 £17.27
25th Percentile £52.19 £49.68 £28.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +23.49% +17.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.50 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +13.64%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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
South East +6 19 £450 -5.26% 17
Scotland +31 15 £563 +32.35% 18
Wales +29 12 £550 +29.41% 2
South West +25 12 £538 +19.44% 15
Midlands +20 12 £388 -20.51% 51
West Midlands +16 7 £450 -16.28% 29
North of England -12 7 £394 -7.35% 29
East Midlands +22 5 £310 -29.14% 22
North West -4 4 £413 -0.60% 13
Yorkshire +5 3 £325 -35.00% 14
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 7 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) IIS
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 42 (54.55%) Azure
2 38 (49.35%) Power Platform
3 19 (24.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (12.99%) Power Automate
6 8 (10.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (7.79%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (6.49%) PowerApps
9 4 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (5.19%) PaaS
9 4 (5.19%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.90%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (2.60%) AWS
12 1 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
12 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) BGP
1 3 (3.90%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (3.90%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (50.65%) SQL Server
2 33 (42.86%) Power BI
3 32 (41.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 19 (24.68%) Relational Database
4 19 (24.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 18 (23.38%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (22.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (19.48%) Tableau
8 13 (16.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (7.79%) MongoDB
11 5 (6.49%) Data Lake
11 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (6.49%) MySQL
11 5 (6.49%) Power Query
12 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
12 2 (2.60%) SAP HANA
13 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (1.30%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) JIRA
2 7 (9.09%) Git
3 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (2.60%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.30%) Hudson
5 1 (1.30%) tSQLt
5 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
1 19 (24.68%) Public Sector
2 12 (15.58%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.60%) Banking
5 2 (2.60%) Retail
5 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.30%) Advertising
6 1 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (44.16%) Developer
2 17 (22.08%) Senior
3 15 (19.48%) Data Engineer
4 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 10 (12.99%) DBA
5 10 (12.99%) SQL DBA
6 9 (11.69%) Power BI Developer
7 8 (10.39%) Analyst
7 8 (10.39%) Senior DBA
7 8 (10.39%) Senior SQL DBA
8 7 (9.09%) SQL Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (7.79%) Senior SQL Server DBA
9 6 (7.79%) SQL Server DBA
10 5 (6.49%) Senior Developer
11 4 (5.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 4 (5.19%) Integration Developer
11 4 (5.19%) Senior Software Developer
11 4 (5.19%) Senior SQL Developer
11 4 (5.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) JSON
2 6 (7.79%) XML
3 5 (6.49%) .NET
4 4 (5.19%) ADO
4 4 (5.19%) REST
4 4 (5.19%) RESTful
5 3 (3.90%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.90%) Django
5 3 (3.90%) Entity Framework
5 3 (3.90%) Web Services
5 3 (3.90%) YANG
6 2 (2.60%) Blazor
7 1 (1.30%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (1.30%) FHIR
7 1 (1.30%) MDX
7 1 (1.30%) Sass
7 1 (1.30%) SOAP
7 1 (1.30%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Clustering
4 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.60%) NHS
4 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.60%) Replication
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 3 (3.90%) Windows
3 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (32.47%) ETL
3 18 (23.38%) Data Modelling
4 14 (18.18%) DevOps
5 12 (15.58%) Performance Optimisation
5 12 (15.58%) Translating Business Requirements
6 10 (12.99%) High Availability
7 9 (11.69%) Agile
7 9 (11.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (9.09%) Analytics
8 7 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (9.09%) Problem Management
8 7 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.09%) Visualisation
9 6 (7.79%) Data Protection
9 6 (7.79%) ETL Development
10 5 (6.49%) Acceptance Criteria
10 5 (6.49%) Scrum
10 5 (6.49%) Test Automation
10 5 (6.49%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 70 (90.91%) SQL
2 15 (19.48%) PowerShell
3 12 (15.58%) C#
4 9 (11.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (11.69%) Python
5 6 (7.79%) PL/SQL
6 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.19%) Java
7 4 (5.19%) VB
7 4 (5.19%) X++
8 3 (3.90%) Bash
9 1 (1.30%) Bicep
9 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.68%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.30%) Degree
5 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) QA
2 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) HL7
Systems Management
1 3 (3.90%) Ansible
2 1 (1.30%) Control-M
2 1 (1.30%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (32.47%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Atlassian
3 5 (6.49%) Informatica
3 5 (6.49%) RedGate
4 4 (5.19%) Databricks
5 3 (3.90%) Cisco
5 3 (3.90%) JD Edwards
5 3 (3.90%) QAD
5 3 (3.90%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.60%) SAP
7 1 (1.30%) Intel