T-SQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Transact-SQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 225 277
Rank change year-on-year -47 +52 -28
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 79 275 417
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 1.05% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.54% 2.80% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 225 341
10th Percentile £323 - £350
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +11.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £730 £702 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.32% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
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 £14.28 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -60.34% +2.86% -36.36%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,144 9,809 17,057
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.18% 37.47% 38.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,712 7,184 12,660
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £631
90th Percentile £775 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 225 193
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +32.65% +10.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.65 £66.85
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% +21.88% +14.94%

T-SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

T-SQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 9 (11.39%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.53%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.27%) Apache
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.27%) CMS
4 1 (1.27%) EPiServer
4 1 (1.27%) IIS
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (8.86%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Endur
2 2 (2.53%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.18%) Azure
2 15 (18.99%) Power Platform
3 9 (11.39%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (11.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (10.13%) Collibra
5 5 (6.33%) AWS
5 5 (6.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (6.33%) Power Automate
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (5.06%) PaaS
7 3 (3.80%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.80%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.80%) Serverless
8 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) BGP
1 3 (3.80%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (3.80%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (68.35%) SQL Server
2 21 (26.58%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (20.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (15.19%) Power BI
4 12 (15.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (12.66%) MongoDB
6 9 (11.39%) Data Lake
7 8 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (7.59%) Metadata
8 6 (7.59%) Relational Database
9 5 (6.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (6.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (3.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.80%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.80%) Oracle Database
11 2 (2.53%) MySQL
11 2 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (2.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) JIRA
2 9 (11.39%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.33%) MSI
3 5 (6.33%) WiX
4 4 (5.06%) Git
4 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (3.80%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.27%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.27%) Selenium
6 1 (1.27%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.27%) tSQLt
General
1 25 (31.65%) Finance
2 15 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.19%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.59%) Banking
6 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.27%) Advertising
8 1 (1.27%) Back Office
8 1 (1.27%) Electronics
8 1 (1.27%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.27%) Front Office
8 1 (1.27%) Marketing
8 1 (1.27%) Police
8 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (32.91%) Developer
2 16 (20.25%) Senior
3 15 (18.99%) DBA
4 12 (15.19%) SQL DBA
5 9 (11.39%) Data Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Senior DBA
6 8 (10.13%) Senior SQL DBA
6 8 (10.13%) SQL Server DBA
7 7 (8.86%) Analyst
7 7 (8.86%) Senior SQL Server DBA
7 7 (8.86%) SQL Developer
8 5 (6.33%) C# Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Data Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) ETL Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.05%) .NET
2 13 (16.46%) JSON
3 10 (12.66%) XML
4 9 (11.39%) REST
5 7 (8.86%) Entity Framework
6 6 (7.59%) ASP.NET
6 6 (7.59%) LINQ
7 5 (6.33%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (6.33%) NHibernate
7 5 (6.33%) XSLT
8 4 (5.06%) .NET Core
8 4 (5.06%) Blazor
8 4 (5.06%) Django
9 3 (3.80%) ADO
9 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.80%) RESTful
9 3 (3.80%) YANG
10 2 (2.53%) HTML
10 2 (2.53%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Client/Server
1 5 (6.33%) Web 2.0
2 4 (5.06%) NHS
3 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.80%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) Replication
5 1 (1.27%) Clustering
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Robotics
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.66%) Windows
2 6 (7.59%) Linux
3 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.27%) CentOS
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.91%) ETL
2 23 (29.11%) Agile
3 16 (20.25%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (18.99%) Migration
5 13 (16.46%) Data Analysis
5 13 (16.46%) Data Modelling
5 13 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.19%) Analytics
6 12 (15.19%) DevOps
7 11 (13.92%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (12.66%) Data Governance
8 10 (12.66%) Data Integration
8 10 (12.66%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (12.66%) High Availability
8 10 (12.66%) SDLC
9 9 (11.39%) CI/CD
9 9 (11.39%) OO
9 9 (11.39%) Software Engineering
10 8 (10.13%) Problem Management
10 8 (10.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 72 (91.14%) SQL
2 25 (31.65%) C#
3 20 (25.32%) PL/SQL
4 14 (17.72%) PowerShell
5 13 (16.46%) Python
6 8 (10.13%) Java
7 7 (8.86%) VB.NET
8 5 (6.33%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.06%) Bash
10 3 (3.80%) Scala
10 3 (3.80%) VBA
10 3 (3.80%) X++
11 2 (2.53%) C++
11 2 (2.53%) Go
11 2 (2.53%) R
12 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.27%) PHP
12 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (15.19%) SC Cleared
1 12 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.92%) Degree
3 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
2 4 (5.06%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) Ansible
1 3 (3.80%) Terraform
2 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.27%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 28 (35.44%) Microsoft
2 18 (22.78%) Oracle
3 7 (8.86%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.06%) Informatica
4 4 (5.06%) RedGate
5 3 (3.80%) Cisco
5 3 (3.80%) Databricks
5 3 (3.80%) JD Edwards
5 3 (3.80%) OpenLink
5 3 (3.80%) QAD
5 3 (3.80%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.53%) IBM
6 2 (2.53%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.27%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.27%) Citrix
7 1 (1.27%) Google
7 1 (1.27%) Intel
7 1 (1.27%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.27%) SAP