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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 239 274
Rank change year-on-year -33 +35 -10
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 75 252 422
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 1.02% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% 2.75% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 208 350
10th Percentile £320 £398 £350
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year - -7.93% +11.71%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £600
90th Percentile £713 £703 £638
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +9.47% -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 £7.85 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -78.19% +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 5,002 9,174 16,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.80% 37.22% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,731 12,427
10th Percentile £356 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 195 194
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

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 16 May 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 7 (9.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.67%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.33%) CMS
3 1 (1.33%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.33%) IIS
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (9.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Endur
2 2 (2.67%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) Azure
2 16 (21.33%) Power Platform
3 11 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (10.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (10.67%) Collibra
6 6 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 5 (6.67%) PaaS
8 4 (5.33%) AWS
8 4 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.33%) PowerApps
9 3 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.00%) Azure Functions
9 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.00%) GCP
9 3 (4.00%) Serverless
10 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.67%) GitHub
10 2 (2.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) BGP
1 3 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (4.00%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (65.33%) SQL Server
2 20 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (16.00%) Power BI
4 12 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (10.67%) Data Lake
6 7 (9.33%) MongoDB
7 6 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (6.67%) Metadata
8 5 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
10 3 (4.00%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
11 2 (2.67%) Data Vault
11 2 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (2.67%) Tableau
12 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (1.33%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) JIRA
2 9 (12.00%) Visual Studio
3 6 (8.00%) Git
4 5 (6.67%) MSI
4 5 (6.67%) WiX
5 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.33%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.33%) Newman
7 1 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.33%) Postman
7 1 (1.33%) Selenium
7 1 (1.33%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.33%) tSQLt
General
1 25 (33.33%) Finance
2 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Banking
6 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.67%) Marketing
8 1 (1.33%) Advertising
8 1 (1.33%) Back Office
8 1 (1.33%) Billing
8 1 (1.33%) Electronics
8 1 (1.33%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.33%) Front Office
8 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.33%) Law
8 1 (1.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (32.00%) Developer
2 12 (16.00%) DBA
3 11 (14.67%) Senior
4 9 (12.00%) SQL DBA
5 8 (10.67%) Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) Data Engineer
5 8 (10.67%) Integration Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) SQL Server DBA
7 5 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Senior DBA
7 5 (6.67%) Senior SQL DBA
7 5 (6.67%) Senior SQL Server DBA
7 5 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) SQL Developer
8 4 (5.33%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.33%) .NET
2 14 (18.67%) JSON
3 11 (14.67%) XML
4 10 (13.33%) REST
5 7 (9.33%) Entity Framework
6 6 (8.00%) ASP.NET
6 6 (8.00%) LINQ
7 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (6.67%) NHibernate
7 5 (6.67%) XSLT
8 4 (5.33%) .NET Core
8 4 (5.33%) ADO
8 4 (5.33%) Blazor
8 4 (5.33%) Django
9 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.00%) RESTful
9 3 (4.00%) YANG
10 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Client/Server
1 5 (6.67%) Web 2.0
2 4 (5.33%) NHS
3 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.33%) Clustering
5 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Robotics
5 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.33%) Windows
2 6 (8.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.33%) CentOS
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.00%) ETL
2 22 (29.33%) Agile
3 16 (21.33%) Migration
4 15 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (17.33%) Data Analysis
6 13 (17.33%) Data Modelling
6 13 (17.33%) DevOps
7 10 (13.33%) Data Governance
7 10 (13.33%) Data Integration
7 10 (13.33%) SDLC
8 9 (12.00%) OO
8 9 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.67%) Analytics
9 8 (10.67%) CI/CD
10 7 (9.33%) Data Mapping
10 7 (9.33%) Data Migration
10 7 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (9.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 70 (93.33%) SQL
2 25 (33.33%) C#
3 18 (24.00%) PL/SQL
4 12 (16.00%) Python
5 10 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 8 (10.67%) Java
7 7 (9.33%) VB.NET
8 5 (6.67%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.33%) Bash
9 4 (5.33%) X++
10 3 (4.00%) VBA
11 2 (2.67%) C++
11 2 (2.67%) Go
12 1 (1.33%) Bicep
12 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.33%) PHP
12 1 (1.33%) Scala
12 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Degree
2 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (5.33%) GDPR
2 4 (5.33%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Ansible
1 3 (4.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (34.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.33%) Oracle
3 5 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.33%) Informatica
4 4 (5.33%) RedGate
5 3 (4.00%) Cisco
5 3 (4.00%) JD Edwards
5 3 (4.00%) OpenLink
5 3 (4.00%) QAD
5 3 (4.00%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.67%) Databricks
6 2 (2.67%) Google
6 2 (2.67%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.33%) Citrix
7 1 (1.33%) IBM
7 1 (1.33%) Intel
7 1 (1.33%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.33%) SAP