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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 310 283
Rank change year-on-year -34 -27 +6
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 33 66 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.36% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% 1.51% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 48 101
10th Percentile £296 £277 £375
25th Percentile £333 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £481 £544 £550
90th Percentile £520 £579 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.25
25th Percentile £31.76 - £24.63
Median hourly rate £33.11 - £45.00
75th Percentile £34.46 - £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £33.11 - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - +15.71%

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 4,198 4,378 6,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.44% 23.84% 26.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 2,948 4,121
10th Percentile £310 £325 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -0.45% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £594
90th Percentile £619 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 327 322
10th Percentile £29.29 £30.52 £30.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £48.08
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £78.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%

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 August 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 3 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
North of England -16 12 £450 +12.50% 29
North West +2 10 £450 +5.88% 22
Midlands -5 10 £425 +28.79% 23
East Midlands -1 5 £385 +50.98% 2
Scotland -10 5 £400 -4.76% 6
West Midlands -5 4 £425 -8.11% 21
Wales +10 3 £204 -28.79% 12
South West +15 2 £520 -3.26% 22
Yorkshire -14 2 - - 6
South East +11 1 £350 -30.00% 43
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 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (3.03%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (18.18%) AWS
4 6 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (12.12%) Azure Functions
5 4 (12.12%) Serverless
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (9.09%) GCP
6 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (6.06%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (57.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (30.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (24.24%) Power BI
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (15.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (12.12%) Metadata
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (9.09%) Dremio
6 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (9.09%) WebFOCUS
7 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
7 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
7 2 (6.06%) Power Query
7 2 (6.06%) PowerCenter
7 2 (6.06%) Tableau
8 1 (3.03%) Big Data
8 1 (3.03%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (15.15%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.03%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) Postman
4 1 (3.03%) SoapUI
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Retail
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) SQL Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Analyst
4 5 (15.15%) DBA
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Database Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Integration Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior SQL Developer
7 1 (3.03%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) CSS
2 3 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (6.06%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.06%) Blazor
3 2 (6.06%) Web Services
3 2 (6.06%) WPF
3 2 (6.06%) XML
4 1 (3.03%) FHIR
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.09%) Replication
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.03%) Clustering
4 1 (3.03%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.03%) NHS
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) ETL
1 10 (30.30%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (27.27%) Migration
3 8 (24.24%) Analytics
3 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
4 7 (21.21%) Data Migration
4 7 (21.21%) DevOps
5 6 (18.18%) Data Integration
5 6 (18.18%) High Availability
6 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.15%) Data Governance
6 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) Task Automation
7 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
7 4 (12.12%) Data Protection
7 4 (12.12%) Data Transformation
7 4 (12.12%) Database Security
7 4 (12.12%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (87.88%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) C#
3 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) Python
4 2 (6.06%) Bicep
4 2 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.06%) R
4 2 (6.06%) X++
5 1 (3.03%) Korn
5 1 (3.03%) VB
5 1 (3.03%) VBA
5 1 (3.03%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) MCSE
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.06%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) HL7
3 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Databricks
2 3 (9.09%) Teradata
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) Informatica
4 1 (3.03%) iManage
4 1 (3.03%) RedGate
4 1 (3.03%) Sage
4 1 (3.03%) TSYS