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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 288 269
Rank change year-on-year -63 -19 +2
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 249 504 885
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.89% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 2.62% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 382 716
10th Percentile £363 £385 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £588 £592 £603
90th Percentile £650 £725 £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% -32.27%
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 12,877 19,217 31,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.04% 34.09% 36.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,129 13,860 23,261
10th Percentile £350 £385 £388
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £663
90th Percentile £763 £788 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 432 489
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.54 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +21.95% +15.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.06 £61.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.07 £71.90
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 3 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 3 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 -63 220 £520 +9.47% 159
London -31 160 £525 +7.69% 66
UK excluding London -11 74 £500 +5.26% 98
Work from Home -37 65 £475 - 80
South East +4 19 £450 -10.00% 10
South West +17 12 £538 +19.44% 20
Scotland +43 11 £427 +0.35% 10
Wales +32 11 £550 +46.67% 2
North of England -10 10 £400 -10.61% 24
Midlands +17 8 £344 -36.05% 21
North West -11 6 £413 -1.79% 12
East Midlands +13 5 £310 -31.11% 5
Yorkshire +3 4 £363 -29.27% 9
West Midlands +7 3 £350 -34.88% 16
East of England -11 3 £400 -23.81% 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 14 (5.62%) IIS
2 12 (4.82%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.81%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (2.41%) Apache
5 4 (1.61%) Confluence
6 3 (1.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.40%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 25 (10.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.42%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (2.41%) 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
1 108 (43.37%) Azure
2 80 (32.13%) Power Platform
3 40 (16.06%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (12.85%) AWS
4 32 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (6.83%) PaaS
6 16 (6.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (4.82%) Azure Functions
9 12 (4.82%) Power Automate
9 12 (4.82%) Serverless
10 10 (4.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (3.61%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.21%) Azure AKS
12 8 (3.21%) Azure Storage
13 7 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.22%) 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
1 147 (59.04%) SQL Server
2 78 (31.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 69 (27.71%) Power BI
4 53 (21.29%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (21.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 41 (16.47%) Relational Database
6 33 (13.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 27 (10.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 27 (10.84%) Data Lake
8 23 (9.24%) Oracle Database
9 18 (7.23%) Tableau
10 17 (6.83%) NoSQL
11 14 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (5.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 13 (5.22%) MySQL
12 13 (5.22%) RDBMS
13 12 (4.82%) Metadata
14 11 (4.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (4.02%) Data Vault
15 10 (4.02%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 21 (8.43%) Git
2 12 (4.82%) JIRA
3 9 (3.61%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.21%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (2.01%) MSI
5 5 (2.01%) WiX
6 4 (1.61%) 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 62 (24.90%) Finance
2 37 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.65%) Social Skills
4 27 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.02%) Banking
6 11 (4.42%) Investment Banking
7 10 (4.02%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.21%) Back Office
8 8 (3.21%) Marketing
8 8 (3.21%) Publishing
9 7 (2.81%) Electronics
9 7 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.41%) 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 (46.18%) Developer
2 36 (14.46%) C# Developer
3 34 (13.65%) Data Engineer
4 26 (10.44%) .NET Developer
4 26 (10.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 23 (9.24%) Analyst
6 21 (8.43%) Senior
7 19 (7.63%) Architect
7 19 (7.63%) DBA
7 19 (7.63%) SQL Developer
8 15 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (5.62%) C# .NET Developer
9 14 (5.62%) Power BI Developer
10 13 (5.22%) Software Engineer
10 13 (5.22%) WPF Developer
11 12 (4.82%) Azure Data Engineer
12 11 (4.42%) C# WCF Developer
12 11 (4.42%) C# WPF Developer
12 11 (4.42%) WCF Developer
13 10 (4.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (29.32%) .NET
2 27 (10.84%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.84%) .NET Core
4 21 (8.43%) JSON
5 19 (7.63%) WCF
6 18 (7.23%) CSS
6 18 (7.23%) WPF
7 16 (6.43%) XML
8 15 (6.02%) ASP.NET
9 14 (5.62%) Blazor
10 13 (5.22%) Entity Framework
10 13 (5.22%) REST
11 12 (4.82%) PySpark
11 12 (4.82%) React
11 12 (4.82%) WinForms
12 10 (4.02%) HTML
13 8 (3.21%) LINQ
14 6 (2.41%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.41%) Apache Avro
14 6 (2.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.62%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.02%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (3.61%) Replication
4 8 (3.21%) Reference Data
5 7 (2.81%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.01%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.01%) Web 2.0
7 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.61%) 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 (19.28%) Windows
2 35 (14.06%) Linux
3 16 (6.43%) Unix
4 10 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.41%) CentOS
7 2 (0.80%) VMS
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.11%) Business Intelligence
2 67 (26.91%) ETL
3 50 (20.08%) DevOps
4 47 (18.88%) Agile
5 45 (18.07%) Data Modelling
6 40 (16.06%) Data Analysis
7 35 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (11.65%) Migration
9 27 (10.84%) Software Engineering
10 24 (9.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 24 (9.64%) Scrum
11 23 (9.24%) Analytics
11 23 (9.24%) CI/CD
12 22 (8.84%) SDLC
13 21 (8.43%) Data Integration
14 16 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (6.02%) Data Governance
15 15 (6.02%) Data Pipeline
16 14 (5.62%) Data Migration
17 13 (5.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 239 (95.98%) SQL
2 86 (34.54%) C#
3 50 (20.08%) PL/SQL
3 50 (20.08%) Python
4 36 (14.46%) PowerShell
5 27 (10.84%) JavaScript
6 21 (8.43%) VB
7 19 (7.63%) Java
7 19 (7.63%) VBA
8 15 (6.02%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (4.82%) Perl
10 11 (4.42%) Bash
10 11 (4.42%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.81%) C++
11 7 (2.81%) Go
11 7 (2.81%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.01%) PHP
12 5 (2.01%) Scala
13 4 (1.61%) X++
Qualifications
1 36 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.83%) Degree
4 10 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.01%) 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 (16.06%) QA
2 16 (6.43%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.81%) SLA
4 4 (1.61%) ISO 15022
5 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.01%) 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 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.61%) Ansible
2 4 (1.61%) 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 77 (30.92%) Microsoft
2 59 (23.69%) Oracle
3 22 (8.84%) Citrix
4 20 (8.03%) SAP
5 18 (7.23%) Databricks
6 13 (5.22%) Informatica
6 13 (5.22%) ServiceNow
7 10 (4.02%) Sybase
8 8 (3.21%) Sparx
9 7 (2.81%) MuleSoft
10 6 (2.41%) Cadence
10 6 (2.41%) IBM
10 6 (2.41%) iManage
10 6 (2.41%) OpenLink
11 5 (2.01%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.01%) RedGate
11 5 (2.01%) Sun
11 5 (2.01%) Veritas
12 3 (1.20%) Cisco
12 3 (1.20%) Optimizely