T-SQL Contracts

Transact-SQL
UK

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 291 274
Rank change year-on-year -47 -17 +9
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 251 500 873
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.89% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 2.61% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 380 709
10th Percentile £363 £385 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £600
90th Percentile £650 £726 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 9
10th Percentile - £24.31 £32.23
25th Percentile £6.57 £27.47 -
Median hourly rate £7.85 £57.60 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -86.37% +64.56% -36.36%
75th Percentile £9.14 £79.19 £60.00
90th Percentile - - £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £7.85 £79.19 £35.00
% change year-on-year -90.09% +126.26% -36.36%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing T-SQL.

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing T-SQL.

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 15 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 1 June 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
England -66 222 £520 +9.47% 163
London -26 161 £525 +5.00% 67
UK excluding London -17 75 £500 +5.26% 101
Work from Home -42 67 £475 - 82
South East +1 19 £450 -10.00% 11
South West +14 12 £538 +19.44% 20
Scotland +34 11 £427 +0.35% 10
Wales +28 11 £550 +46.67% 2
North of England -14 10 £400 -10.61% 23
Midlands +17 9 £350 -34.88% 21
North West 0 6 £413 -1.79% 11
East Midlands +15 5 £310 -31.11% 6
Yorkshire +6 4 £363 -29.27% 9
West Midlands +6 4 £438 -18.60% 15
East of England -9 3 £400 -24.71% 13

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (5.58%) IIS
2 12 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.79%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (2.39%) Apache
5 4 (1.59%) Confluence
6 3 (1.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.40%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 26 (10.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.78%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (2.39%) Endur
3 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.80%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.80%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.40%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.40%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 109 (43.43%) Azure
2 80 (31.87%) Power Platform
3 41 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (12.75%) AWS
4 32 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (6.77%) PaaS
6 16 (6.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (5.18%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (4.78%) Azure Functions
9 12 (4.78%) Power Automate
9 12 (4.78%) Serverless
10 10 (3.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (3.59%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.19%) Azure AKS
12 8 (3.19%) Azure Storage
13 7 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.18%) Internet
2 3 (1.20%) BGP
2 3 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (1.20%) IOS XR
3 1 (0.40%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (58.96%) SQL Server
2 78 (31.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 69 (27.49%) Power BI
4 54 (21.51%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (21.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 41 (16.33%) Relational Database
7 33 (13.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 27 (10.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 27 (10.76%) Data Lake
9 23 (9.16%) Oracle Database
10 18 (7.17%) Tableau
11 17 (6.77%) NoSQL
12 14 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (5.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 13 (5.18%) MySQL
13 13 (5.18%) RDBMS
14 12 (4.78%) Metadata
15 11 (4.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 10 (3.98%) Data Vault
16 10 (3.98%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 21 (8.37%) Git
2 12 (4.78%) JIRA
3 9 (3.59%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.19%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (1.99%) MSI
5 5 (1.99%) WiX
6 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.20%) Deequ
7 3 (1.20%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.20%) Selenium
7 3 (1.20%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.80%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.40%) Hudson
9 1 (0.40%) Newman
9 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 63 (25.10%) Finance
2 38 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.55%) Social Skills
4 27 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.98%) Banking
6 11 (4.38%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.98%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.19%) Back Office
8 8 (3.19%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.19%) Marketing
8 8 (3.19%) Publishing
9 7 (2.79%) Electronics
10 6 (2.39%) Legal
11 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.20%) Front Office
11 3 (1.20%) Retail
12 2 (0.80%) Police
13 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (45.82%) Developer
2 36 (14.34%) C# Developer
3 35 (13.94%) Data Engineer
4 26 (10.36%) .NET Developer
4 26 (10.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 23 (9.16%) Analyst
6 21 (8.37%) Senior
7 19 (7.57%) Architect
7 19 (7.57%) DBA
7 19 (7.57%) SQL Developer
8 15 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (5.58%) C# .NET Developer
9 14 (5.58%) Power BI Developer
10 13 (5.18%) Software Engineer
10 13 (5.18%) WPF Developer
11 12 (4.78%) Azure Data Engineer
12 11 (4.38%) C# WCF Developer
12 11 (4.38%) C# WPF Developer
12 11 (4.38%) WCF Developer
13 10 (3.98%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (29.08%) .NET
2 27 (10.76%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.76%) .NET Core
4 21 (8.37%) JSON
5 19 (7.57%) WCF
6 18 (7.17%) CSS
6 18 (7.17%) WPF
7 16 (6.37%) XML
8 15 (5.98%) ASP.NET
9 14 (5.58%) Blazor
10 13 (5.18%) Entity Framework
10 13 (5.18%) REST
11 12 (4.78%) PySpark
11 12 (4.78%) React
11 12 (4.78%) WinForms
12 10 (3.98%) HTML
13 8 (3.19%) LINQ
14 6 (2.39%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.39%) Apache Avro
14 6 (2.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.58%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (3.59%) Replication
4 8 (3.19%) Reference Data
5 7 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.99%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.99%) Web 2.0
7 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.80%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.12%) Windows
2 35 (13.94%) Linux
3 16 (6.37%) Unix
4 10 (3.98%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.39%) CentOS
7 2 (0.80%) VMS
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (28.29%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (27.49%) ETL
3 50 (19.92%) DevOps
4 48 (19.12%) Agile
5 46 (18.33%) Data Modelling
6 41 (16.33%) Data Analysis
7 36 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (11.55%) Migration
9 27 (10.76%) Software Engineering
10 24 (9.56%) Analytics
10 24 (9.56%) Disaster Recovery
10 24 (9.56%) Scrum
11 23 (9.16%) CI/CD
12 22 (8.76%) Data Integration
12 22 (8.76%) SDLC
13 16 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (6.37%) Data Governance
13 16 (6.37%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (5.58%) Data Migration
15 13 (5.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 241 (96.02%) SQL
2 87 (34.66%) C#
3 52 (20.72%) PL/SQL
4 50 (19.92%) Python
5 36 (14.34%) PowerShell
6 27 (10.76%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.37%) VB
8 20 (7.97%) Java
9 19 (7.57%) VBA
10 15 (5.98%) VB.NET
11 12 (4.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (4.78%) Perl
12 11 (4.38%) Bash
12 11 (4.38%) TypeScript
13 7 (2.79%) C++
13 7 (2.79%) Go
13 7 (2.79%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.99%) PHP
14 5 (1.99%) Scala
15 4 (1.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 36 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.17%) Degree
4 10 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.94%) QA
2 16 (6.37%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.79%) SLA
4 4 (1.59%) ISO 15022
5 3 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.20%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (0.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) KVM
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.59%) Ansible
2 4 (1.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Control-M
3 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.40%) Packer
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (31.08%) Microsoft
2 60 (23.90%) Oracle
3 22 (8.76%) Citrix
4 20 (7.97%) SAP
5 18 (7.17%) Databricks
6 13 (5.18%) Informatica
6 13 (5.18%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.98%) Sybase
8 8 (3.19%) Sparx
9 7 (2.79%) MuleSoft
10 6 (2.39%) Cadence
10 6 (2.39%) IBM
10 6 (2.39%) iManage
10 6 (2.39%) OpenLink
11 5 (1.99%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.99%) RedGate
11 5 (1.99%) Sun
11 5 (1.99%) Veritas
12 3 (1.20%) Cisco
12 3 (1.20%) Optimizely