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 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 345 284 277
Rank change year-on-year -61 -7 -12
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 251 525 871
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.92% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 2.66% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 401 704
10th Percentile £363 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £607
90th Percentile £648 £725 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +16.67% -9.09% +23.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 7
10th Percentile - £23.40 £25.95
25th Percentile £6.57 £24.31 £30.63
Median hourly rate £7.85 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.19% +2.86% -36.36%
75th Percentile £9.14 £79.19 £61.80
90th Percentile - - £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £7.85 £52.22 £35.00
% change year-on-year -84.97% +49.20% -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 12,689 19,768 31,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.82% 34.70% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,018 14,250 23,099
10th Percentile £350 £390 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 448 510
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.21 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -59 218 £500 +5.26% 187
London -30 156 £520 +9.47% 61
UK excluding London -18 79 £525 +16.67% 132
Work from Home -33 75 £450 - 103
South East +4 19 £450 -5.26% 17
Scotland +24 13 £575 +35.29% 13
Wales +28 12 £550 +7.32%
Midlands +19 12 £388 -22.50% 41
South West +17 12 £538 +19.44% 19
North of England -11 10 £400 -5.88% 33
West Midlands +18 7 £450 -16.28% 28
North West 0 6 £413 -0.60% 19
East Midlands +14 5 £310 -29.14% 13
Yorkshire +1 4 £363 -27.50% 12
East of England -12 1 - - 10

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 12 (4.78%) IIS
1 12 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.98%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.79%) Confluence
4 6 (2.39%) Apache
5 3 (1.20%) CMS
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.40%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (11.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.98%) MS Visio
3 10 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.99%) Endur
3 2 (0.80%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.80%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.40%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 105 (41.83%) Azure
2 78 (31.08%) Power Platform
3 43 (17.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 34 (13.55%) AWS
5 27 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (7.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (6.37%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (5.58%) PaaS
9 13 (5.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 12 (4.78%) Azure Functions
10 12 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (4.78%) Power Automate
10 12 (4.78%) Serverless
11 10 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.98%) Azure Storage
12 9 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (3.19%) Azure AKS
13 8 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (3.19%) Collibra
13 8 (3.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.38%) 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
1 146 (58.17%) SQL Server
2 77 (30.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 67 (26.69%) Power BI
4 54 (21.51%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (19.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 41 (16.33%) Relational Database
7 32 (12.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 27 (10.76%) Data Lake
9 26 (10.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (7.57%) Oracle Database
11 18 (7.17%) Tableau
12 17 (6.77%) NoSQL
12 17 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (5.98%) Metadata
13 15 (5.98%) MongoDB
14 13 (5.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 13 (5.18%) RDBMS
15 11 (4.38%) MySQL
16 10 (3.98%) Data Vault
16 10 (3.98%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 19 (7.57%) Git
2 16 (6.37%) JIRA
3 10 (3.98%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.19%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.99%) MSI
6 5 (1.99%) WiX
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%) Newman
9 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.40%) Postman
9 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.40%) tSQLt
9 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 67 (26.69%) Finance
2 38 (15.14%) Social Skills
3 37 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.55%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.98%) Banking
6 10 (3.98%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.98%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.59%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.59%) Publishing
8 8 (3.19%) Marketing
9 7 (2.79%) Back Office
9 7 (2.79%) Electronics
10 6 (2.39%) Legal
11 3 (1.20%) Front Office
11 3 (1.20%) Retail
12 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 107 (42.63%) Developer
2 35 (13.94%) Data Engineer
3 31 (12.35%) C# Developer
4 26 (10.36%) Senior
5 24 (9.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 24 (9.56%) DBA
6 22 (8.76%) .NET Developer
6 22 (8.76%) Analyst
7 18 (7.17%) SQL Developer
8 17 (6.77%) Architect
9 14 (5.58%) Power BI Developer
10 13 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.18%) Software Engineer
10 13 (5.18%) SQL DBA
11 12 (4.78%) Azure Data Engineer
11 12 (4.78%) C# .NET Developer
12 11 (4.38%) Full Stack Developer
12 11 (4.38%) WPF Developer
13 10 (3.98%) Lead
14 9 (3.59%) C# WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (27.89%) .NET
2 23 (9.16%) .NET Core
3 22 (8.76%) .NET Framework
4 21 (8.37%) JSON
5 17 (6.77%) XML
6 16 (6.37%) Blazor
6 16 (6.37%) WPF
7 15 (5.98%) WCF
8 14 (5.58%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.58%) CSS
8 14 (5.58%) REST
9 13 (5.18%) PySpark
10 11 (4.38%) Entity Framework
10 11 (4.38%) React
11 10 (3.98%) WinForms
12 8 (3.19%) HTML
12 8 (3.19%) LINQ
13 7 (2.79%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.39%) Apache Avro
15 5 (1.99%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.58%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.98%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (3.98%) Replication
3 8 (3.19%) Reference Data
4 5 (1.99%) Client/Server
4 5 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.99%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.99%) NHS
4 5 (1.99%) Web 2.0
5 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.80%) Clustering
7 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 47 (18.73%) Windows
2 31 (12.35%) Linux
3 16 (6.37%) Unix
4 9 (3.59%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.99%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (28.29%) ETL
2 70 (27.89%) Business Intelligence
3 55 (21.91%) Agile
4 48 (19.12%) Data Modelling
5 46 (18.33%) DevOps
6 41 (16.33%) Data Analysis
7 40 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (11.55%) Software Engineering
9 27 (10.76%) Migration
10 26 (10.36%) Data Integration
11 25 (9.96%) Disaster Recovery
11 25 (9.96%) SDLC
12 24 (9.56%) Analytics
12 24 (9.56%) CI/CD
13 23 (9.16%) Scrum
14 19 (7.57%) Data Governance
15 18 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (6.77%) Data Pipeline
17 15 (5.98%) Data Management
18 14 (5.58%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 238 (94.82%) SQL
2 80 (31.87%) C#
3 54 (21.51%) PL/SQL
4 50 (19.92%) Python
5 34 (13.55%) PowerShell
6 27 (10.76%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.97%) Java
8 19 (7.57%) VB
8 19 (7.57%) VBA
9 16 (6.37%) VB.NET
10 14 (5.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (3.98%) Bash
11 10 (3.98%) C++
11 10 (3.98%) Go
11 10 (3.98%) TypeScript
12 9 (3.59%) Perl
13 5 (1.99%) Scala
14 4 (1.59%) PHP
14 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 40 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.77%) 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 38 (15.14%) QA
2 17 (6.77%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.79%) SLA
4 4 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (1.59%) GDPR
4 4 (1.59%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.40%) HL7
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (1.99%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (0.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) KVM
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (4.38%) 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 76 (30.28%) Microsoft
2 61 (24.30%) Oracle
3 20 (7.97%) Databricks
4 19 (7.57%) SAP
5 18 (7.17%) Citrix
6 13 (5.18%) Informatica
6 13 (5.18%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.98%) MuleSoft
8 8 (3.19%) Sparx
8 8 (3.19%) Sybase
9 6 (2.39%) Cadence
9 6 (2.39%) IBM
9 6 (2.39%) iManage
9 6 (2.39%) RedGate
10 5 (1.99%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.99%) OpenLink
10 5 (1.99%) Sun
10 5 (1.99%) Veritas
11 4 (1.59%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.20%) JD Edwards