T-SQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Transact-SQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 263 267 231
Rank change year-on-year +4 -36 +51
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 41 78 275
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.51% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 1.52% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 55 226
10th Percentile £363 £321 -
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £563 £575
90th Percentile £750 £733 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.85
25th Percentile - £6.57 £25.88
Median hourly rate - £7.85 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year - -74.26% -
75th Percentile - £9.14 £33.88
90th Percentile - - £35.15
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £36.00
% change year-on-year +319.87% -78.19% +2.86%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

T-SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

T-SQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing T-SQL.

T-SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

T-SQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing T-SQL.

T-SQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) IIS
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.44%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.44%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 25 (60.98%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) Power Platform
3 11 (26.83%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (17.07%) Serverless
5 6 (14.63%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (14.63%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (14.63%) GitHub
6 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.88%) Azure API Management
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.88%) GCP
8 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.88%) SaaS
8 2 (4.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) HTTP
2 2 (4.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (51.22%) SQL Server
2 15 (36.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (29.27%) Power BI
3 12 (29.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (21.95%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (14.63%) DynamoDB
5 6 (14.63%) Tableau
6 5 (12.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (7.32%) Big Data
8 3 (7.32%) Oracle Database
8 3 (7.32%) Power Query
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (4.88%) Dremio
9 2 (4.88%) Metadata
9 2 (4.88%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (2.44%) Informix
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Git
2 5 (12.20%) git-flow
3 4 (9.76%) Visual Studio
4 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.88%) JIRA
5 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.44%) GitLab
6 1 (2.44%) Postman
6 1 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.44%) tSQLt
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Banking
3 4 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Finance
5 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Local Government
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Back Office
6 1 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.44%) French Language
6 1 (2.44%) Front Office
6 1 (2.44%) German Language
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
6 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Data Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Senior
4 6 (14.63%) Node.js Developer
5 4 (9.76%) .NET Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Consultant
5 4 (9.76%) Head of Business Intelligence
6 3 (7.32%) Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Backend Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Data Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Data Migration Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Migration Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Report Specialist
7 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (29.27%) .NET
2 8 (19.51%) Web Services
3 7 (17.07%) CSS
3 7 (17.07%) HTML
4 6 (14.63%) AWS CDK
4 6 (14.63%) Node.js
4 6 (14.63%) Redux
4 6 (14.63%) REST
4 6 (14.63%) RESTful
5 5 (12.20%) .NET Core
5 5 (12.20%) Apache Cordova
5 5 (12.20%) Jest
5 5 (12.20%) JSON
5 5 (12.20%) LESS
5 5 (12.20%) React
5 5 (12.20%) Sass
5 5 (12.20%) WebSockets
6 4 (9.76%) .NET Framework
6 4 (9.76%) ASP.NET
6 4 (9.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Reference Data
2 2 (4.88%) Clustering
2 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Replication
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.44%) Derivative
3 1 (2.44%) Equities
3 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.44%) Housing Association
3 1 (2.44%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) TWAP
3 1 (2.44%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) DevOps
2 11 (26.83%) Agile
2 11 (26.83%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (26.83%) Data Modelling
3 10 (24.39%) Migration
4 9 (21.95%) Analytics
5 8 (19.51%) Decision-Making
5 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
5 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.07%) Clean Code
6 7 (17.07%) Data Engineering
6 7 (17.07%) ETL
6 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
7 6 (14.63%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (14.63%) Data Analysis
7 6 (14.63%) Data Integration
7 6 (14.63%) Data Migration
8 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
8 5 (12.20%) Data Strategy
8 5 (12.20%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 37 (90.24%) SQL
2 10 (24.39%) C#
3 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 8 (19.51%) Python
5 6 (14.63%) PL/SQL
5 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
6 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
7 3 (7.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (4.88%) R
9 1 (2.44%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (2.44%) C++
9 1 (2.44%) Go
9 1 (2.44%) Ruby
9 1 (2.44%) Scala
9 1 (2.44%) VB
9 1 (2.44%) VB.NET
9 1 (2.44%) VB6
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) MCPD
3 1 (2.44%) MCSD
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.20%) Accessibility
2 5 (12.20%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.44%) EMIR
4 1 (2.44%) HL7
4 1 (2.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Databricks
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
3 4 (9.76%) SAP
4 2 (4.88%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (2.44%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.44%) CQG
5 1 (2.44%) Dell
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) Informatica
5 1 (2.44%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.44%) Kronos
5 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.44%) NEC
5 1 (2.44%) RedGate
5 1 (2.44%) Reuters
5 1 (2.44%) Telerik
5 1 (2.44%) Teradata