Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 September 2017

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 September 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Transact-SQL
UK
6 months to
25 Sep 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 165 156 93
Rank change year-on-year -9 -63 +26
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 1566 1786 2606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.59% 1.69% 2.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.81% 4.23% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1167 1305 1981
UK median daily rate £413 £365 £375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +13.01% -2.67% -
10th Percentile £306 £250 £263
90th Percentile £575 £500 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £350 £335
% change year-on-year +3.57% +4.48% +3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 38 35
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £39.60 £21.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -30.56% +88.57% -40.00%
10th Percentile £19.90 £11.85 £15.50
90th Percentile £195.00 £45.00 £40.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -26.88% +90.48% -37.78%

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 41138 42182 43416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.89% 39.81% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 28402 28998 29257
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +3.23%
10th Percentile £306 £280 £263
90th Percentile £625 £588 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £363
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 768 908 967
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £36.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +12.31%
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £15.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £51.50 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.35% +10.45%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing T-SQL as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing T-SQL.

Contractor daily rate trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 25 September 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL.

Contractor hourly rate trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 25 September 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 September 2017. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -7 1464 £413 +10.00% 246
UK excluding London -24 790 £363 +3.57% 189
London +24 752 £450 +7.85% 71
South East -18 237 £375 - 45
North of England +7 224 £350 +3.32% 75
Yorkshire +17 117 £350 -1.06% 33
North West +20 97 £361 +11.15% 38
Midlands -44 93 £350 +1.45% 23
South West -3 80 £400 +23.08% 15
East of England -24 77 £360 +5.88% 17
West Midlands -39 60 £350 +2.94% 11
Scotland -8 53 £400 +14.29% 9
East Midlands -20 32 £363 +7.41% 12
Wales -8 21 £325 -1.89% 1
North East +14 10 £344 +12.70% 4
Northern Ireland -47 6 £413 +26.92% 2

For the 6 months to 25 September 2017, IT contractor jobs citing T-SQL also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for T-SQL.

1 1433 (91.51%) SQL
2 1166 (74.46%) SQL Server
3 678 (43.30%) .NET
4 633 (40.42%) C#
5 596 (38.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 543 (34.67%) Agile Software Development
7 532 (33.97%) Microsoft
8 484 (30.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 421 (26.88%) Business Intelligence
10 355 (22.67%) ASP.NET
11 353 (22.54%) ETL
12 350 (22.35%) MVC
13 345 (22.03%) Data Warehouse
14 320 (20.43%) Finance
15 314 (20.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 310 (19.80%) JavaScript
17 275 (17.56%) Web Services
18 269 (17.18%) HTML
19 233 (14.88%) SQL Server 2012
20 230 (14.69%) SQL Server 2008
21 225 (14.37%) CSS
22 216 (13.79%) Windows
23 212 (13.54%) Data Modelling
24 199 (12.71%) .NET Framework
25 195 (12.45%) ASP.NET Web API
26 192 (12.26%) jQuery
27 181 (11.56%) ASP.NET MVC
27 181 (11.56%) Visual Studio
28 177 (11.30%) Migration
29 176 (11.24%) TDD

T-SQL
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 78 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 62 (3.96%) IIS
3 47 (3.00%) CMS
4 29 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (1.40%) SAS
6 21 (1.34%) Apache
7 19 (1.21%) Umbraco
8 17 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
9 16 (1.02%) BizTalk Server
10 14 (0.89%) Apache Spark
11 13 (0.83%) Apache Solr
12 11 (0.70%) Drupal
13 9 (0.57%) NServiceBus
14 8 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
15 7 (0.45%) JBoss
15 7 (0.45%) Tomcat
16 6 (0.38%) Apache Pig
16 6 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 5 (0.32%) Confluence
17 5 (0.32%) DNN
Applications
1 100 (6.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.26%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 51 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.98%) Dynamics AX
3 28 (1.79%) Markit EDM
4 7 (0.45%) SAP APO
4 7 (0.45%) SAP MM
5 5 (0.32%) SAP MDM
6 4 (0.26%) thinkFolio
7 3 (0.19%) MetaTrader
7 3 (0.19%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.19%) SunGard GMI
8 2 (0.13%) Cognos TM1
8 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.13%) HFM
8 2 (0.13%) Hyperion Planning
8 2 (0.13%) iTrent
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle TCA
8 2 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.064%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 160 (10.22%) Microsoft Azure
2 66 (4.21%) Amazon AWS
3 19 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (1.09%) SaaS
5 12 (0.77%) GitHub
5 12 (0.77%) npm
6 10 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (0.57%) Office 365
8 8 (0.51%) Amazon ELB
8 8 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (0.45%) IaaS
9 7 (0.45%) PaaS
10 5 (0.32%) Boomi
10 5 (0.32%) Yarn
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.26%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (0.19%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.19%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (0.19%) Trello
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.77%) Internet
2 10 (0.64%) FTP
3 9 (0.57%) Intranet
4 8 (0.51%) Firewall
5 5 (0.32%) DNS
5 5 (0.32%) SAN
5 5 (0.32%) SSL
5 5 (0.32%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.19%) SMS
7 2 (0.13%) IPsec
7 2 (0.13%) VPN
7 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.064%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.064%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.064%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1166 (74.46%) SQL Server
2 596 (38.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 484 (30.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 345 (22.03%) Data Warehouse
5 314 (20.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 233 (14.88%) SQL Server 2012
7 230 (14.69%) SQL Server 2008
8 123 (7.85%) Power BI
8 123 (7.85%) SQL Server 2014
9 117 (7.47%) SQL Server 2016
10 112 (7.15%) Relational Database
11 76 (4.85%) SQL Server 2005
12 59 (3.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 58 (3.70%) OLAP
14 57 (3.64%) MongoDB
15 55 (3.51%) RDBMS
16 53 (3.38%) NoSQL
17 41 (2.62%) Big Data
18 39 (2.49%) MySQL
19 38 (2.43%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 181 (11.56%) Visual Studio
2 174 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 100 (6.39%) Git (software)
4 85 (5.43%) NUnit
5 62 (3.96%) JIRA
6 44 (2.81%) Subversion
7 37 (2.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 31 (1.98%) Moq
9 30 (1.92%) Jenkins
9 30 (1.92%) TeamCity
10 28 (1.79%) SpecFlow
11 25 (1.60%) MSTest
12 24 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
13 23 (1.47%) Selenium
14 21 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 21 (1.34%) Talend Open Studio
15 17 (1.09%) Maven
16 15 (0.96%) Ant
16 15 (0.96%) Eclipse
17 14 (0.89%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 320 (20.43%) Finance
2 132 (8.43%) Banking
3 71 (4.53%) Marketing
4 53 (3.38%) Front Office
5 52 (3.32%) Retail
6 44 (2.81%) Investment Banking
7 33 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 31 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 26 (1.66%) Legal
10 24 (1.53%) Electronics
11 23 (1.47%) Advertising
12 18 (1.15%) Back Office
12 18 (1.15%) Publishing
13 14 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (0.77%) Games
15 11 (0.70%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.70%) Law
16 10 (0.64%) Automotive
17 7 (0.45%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.26%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 1128 (72.03%) Developer
2 379 (24.20%) SQL Developer
3 307 (19.60%) .NET Developer
4 218 (13.92%) C# Developer
5 196 (12.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 132 (8.43%) SSIS Developer
7 127 (8.11%) C# .NET Developer
8 124 (7.92%) Analyst
9 116 (7.41%) Senior Developer
10 110 (7.02%) DBA
11 103 (6.58%) T-SQL Developer
12 88 (5.62%) SQL Server Developer
13 87 (5.56%) SQL DBA
14 80 (5.11%) SSRS Developer
15 73 (4.66%) SQL BI Developer
16 63 (4.02%) Database Developer
17 61 (3.90%) Data Analyst
17 61 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
18 54 (3.45%) ASP.NET Developer
18 54 (3.45%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 678 (43.30%) .NET
2 355 (22.67%) ASP.NET
3 275 (17.56%) Web Services
4 269 (17.18%) HTML
5 225 (14.37%) CSS
6 199 (12.71%) .NET Framework
7 195 (12.45%) ASP.NET Web API
8 192 (12.26%) jQuery
9 181 (11.56%) ASP.NET MVC
10 168 (10.73%) WCF
11 166 (10.60%) AngularJS
12 161 (10.28%) XML
13 118 (7.54%) HTML5
14 104 (6.64%) Entity Framework
15 101 (6.45%) REST
16 94 (6.00%) Ajax
17 85 (5.43%) MDX
18 74 (4.73%) JSON
19 71 (4.53%) WPF
20 65 (4.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
2 92 (5.87%) Greenfield Project
3 57 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 54 (3.45%) Fixed Income
5 51 (3.26%) Replication
6 45 (2.87%) Computer Science
7 41 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (2.17%) Clustering
9 33 (2.11%) Market Risk
10 32 (2.04%) Algorithms
11 29 (1.85%) Equities
12 25 (1.60%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.53%) Client/Server
14 22 (1.40%) Derivative
15 21 (1.34%) Credit Risk
15 21 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 21 (1.34%) Reference Data
16 17 (1.09%) Fintech
17 16 (1.02%) User Experience
18 15 (0.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 216 (13.79%) Windows
2 94 (6.00%) Linux
3 60 (3.83%) Unix
4 49 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 19 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 16 (1.02%) Solaris
8 15 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (0.57%) Android
10 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.19%) OpenVMS
11 3 (0.19%) VMS
11 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.064%) HPUX
13 1 (0.064%) MVS
13 1 (0.064%) Windows Phone
13 1 (0.064%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (34.67%) Agile Software Development
2 421 (26.88%) Business Intelligence
3 353 (22.54%) ETL
4 350 (22.35%) MVC
5 212 (13.54%) Data Modelling
6 177 (11.30%) Migration
7 176 (11.24%) TDD
8 174 (11.11%) Scrum
9 145 (9.26%) SDLC
10 124 (7.92%) Unit Testing
11 112 (7.15%) Performance Tuning
12 109 (6.96%) Web Development
13 104 (6.64%) Data Migration
14 94 (6.00%) Kimball Methodology
15 92 (5.87%) OO
16 88 (5.62%) Analytics
17 79 (5.04%) CRM
18 78 (4.98%) BDD
18 78 (4.98%) Continuous Integration
19 71 (4.53%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1433 (91.51%) SQL
2 633 (40.42%) C#
3 310 (19.80%) JavaScript
4 121 (7.73%) Java
5 118 (7.54%) PowerShell
6 101 (6.45%) PL/SQL
7 95 (6.07%) VB.NET
8 74 (4.73%) Python
9 54 (3.45%) VB
10 43 (2.75%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
10 43 (2.75%) TypeScript
11 41 (2.62%) C
12 39 (2.49%) Perl
13 38 (2.43%) VBA
14 36 (2.30%) C++
15 32 (2.04%) PHP
16 30 (1.92%) Shell Script
17 29 (1.85%) VB6
18 22 (1.40%) Korn
19 17 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (5.81%) Degree
2 58 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 43 (2.75%) SC Cleared
4 22 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (0.51%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.45%) ISEB
7 7 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.38%) MCITP
8 6 (0.38%) MCTS
9 5 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.13%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.13%) MCSA
11 2 (0.13%) MCSE
11 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.064%) CFA
12 1 (0.064%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.064%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.064%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 41 (2.62%) QA
3 22 (1.40%) MiFID
4 16 (1.02%) SLA
5 8 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.45%) GxP
7 6 (0.38%) EMIR
8 3 (0.19%) GAAP
8 3 (0.19%) HL7
8 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.19%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.064%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.064%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.064%) GAMP
10 1 (0.064%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.064%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.064%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.064%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (2.62%) Docker
2 20 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) HDFS
4 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) Firmware
5 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.064%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
2 11 (0.70%) Puppet
3 6 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (0.38%) Hadoop YARN
3 6 (0.38%) Nagios
4 4 (0.26%) Opscode Chef
4 4 (0.26%) SCOM
5 3 (0.19%) Control-M
6 2 (0.13%) Ansible
6 2 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.13%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.13%) Oozie
6 2 (0.13%) SCCM
6 2 (0.13%) Terraform
6 2 (0.13%) WSUS
7 1 (0.064%) HP Data Protector
7 1 (0.064%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.064%) Opsview
7 1 (0.064%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.064%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 532 (33.97%) Microsoft
2 132 (8.43%) Oracle
3 68 (4.34%) Tableau
4 64 (4.09%) SAP
5 48 (3.07%) Sybase
6 40 (2.55%) Sitecore
7 21 (1.34%) Talend
8 20 (1.28%) Salesforce.com
9 19 (1.21%) RedGate
10 16 (1.02%) IBM
11 13 (0.83%) Cognos
12 12 (0.77%) Informatica
13 10 (0.64%) Charles River
14 9 (0.57%) HP
14 9 (0.57%) JD Edwards
14 9 (0.57%) Splunk
14 9 (0.57%) VMware
15 8 (0.51%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.51%) Google
15 8 (0.51%) MuleSoft