T-SQL Job Trends in England

Transact-SQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring T-SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 338 205
Rank change year-on-year -126 -133 +65
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 190 331 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.87% 1.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 2.52% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 152 250 944
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,063 £69,219 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%

All Programming Languages
England

T-SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,984 13,155 25,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.04% 34.51% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,700 9,309 21,794
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing T-SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

T-SQL job vacancy trend in England

T-SQL
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in England over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in England

T-SQL
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the England region over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -16 48 £45,000 +2.27% 18
London -98 48 £70,000 +7.69% 37
North of England -45 36 £50,500 -3.81% 20
South East -31 34 £37,500 -24.61% 29
West Midlands +13 30 £42,500 -10.53% 10
Yorkshire -34 22 £45,000 -25.00% 6
East Midlands -56 18 £49,250 +13.22% 8
South West -26 16 £42,500 +14.86% 24
North West -15 11 £57,500 +17.95% 11
East of England -38 7 £49,000 +3.16% 10
North East -20 3 £51,000 -32.00% 3
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (6.84%) IIS
2 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.58%) CMS
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) WordPress
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.26%) Magento
1 10 (5.26%) Shopify
2 9 (4.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.74%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 96 (50.53%) Azure
2 44 (23.16%) Power Platform
3 35 (18.42%) Entra ID
4 26 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (13.16%) Google Workspace
6 21 (11.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (9.47%) SaaS
8 16 (8.42%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.79%) PowerApps
11 10 (5.26%) GitHub
12 9 (4.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (4.74%) Power Automate
13 7 (3.68%) AWS
14 6 (3.16%) GCP
15 5 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 4 (2.11%) Smartsheet
17 3 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
17 3 (1.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.16%) Broadband
2 3 (1.58%) DNS
3 2 (1.05%) DHCP
3 2 (1.05%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.05%) Firewall
3 2 (1.05%) SSL
3 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.05%) VLAN
3 2 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (55.79%) SQL Server
2 42 (22.11%) Power BI
2 42 (22.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 35 (18.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 24 (12.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (6.32%) Data Lake
5 12 (6.32%) MySQL
6 11 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (3.68%) Power Query
9 6 (3.16%) Metadata
10 4 (2.11%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.58%) GIS
11 3 (1.58%) Tableau
12 2 (1.05%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 14 (7.37%) JIRA
2 7 (3.68%) Git
3 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.16%) Organisational Skills
4 20 (10.53%) Finance
5 13 (6.84%) Back Office
6 12 (6.32%) Law
7 7 (3.68%) Games
8 6 (3.16%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.58%) Banking
10 3 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.58%) Legal
10 3 (1.58%) Marketing
11 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.05%) Front Office
11 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Advertising
12 1 (0.53%) Automotive
12 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 47 (24.74%) Analyst
2 42 (22.11%) Senior
3 41 (21.58%) Developer
4 30 (15.79%) Support Analyst
5 27 (14.21%) Applications Support
6 26 (13.68%) Applications Support Analyst
7 25 (13.16%) Data Engineer
8 20 (10.53%) DBA
9 17 (8.95%) SQL DBA
10 14 (7.37%) SQL Developer
11 13 (6.84%) C# Developer
11 13 (6.84%) Senior Developer
11 13 (6.84%) Software Engineer
12 12 (6.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 11 (5.79%) Data Analyst
13 11 (5.79%) IT Support
13 11 (5.79%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (5.79%) Senior Support Analyst
14 10 (5.26%) Administrator
14 10 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (23.16%) REST
2 37 (19.47%) SOAP
3 33 (17.37%) .NET
4 26 (13.68%) OAuth
4 26 (13.68%) OpenID
5 25 (13.16%) GraphQL
5 25 (13.16%) LDAP
5 25 (13.16%) SAML
6 15 (7.89%) ASP.NET
6 15 (7.89%) XML
7 14 (7.37%) .NET Framework
7 14 (7.37%) JSON
8 12 (6.32%) Entity Framework
9 10 (5.26%) WinForms
10 9 (4.74%) .NET Core
10 9 (4.74%) Middleware
11 7 (3.68%) PySpark
12 6 (3.16%) CSS
12 6 (3.16%) HTML
12 6 (3.16%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.16%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (13.16%) Cyberattack
2 16 (8.42%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.74%) Clustering
5 7 (3.68%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.16%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.16%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.16%) Replication
7 4 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.58%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.05%) Derivative
9 2 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.05%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.53%) Windows
2 9 (4.74%) Linux
3 6 (3.16%) VMS
3 6 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.05%) Android
4 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.21%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (18.42%) Mentoring
4 34 (17.89%) ETL
4 34 (17.89%) Roadmaps
5 33 (17.37%) Analytics
5 33 (17.37%) Data Modelling
5 33 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (14.74%) Change Control
6 28 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (14.74%) DevOps
7 25 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
7 25 (13.16%) Programme Delivery
7 25 (13.16%) Regulatory Compliance
8 24 (12.63%) Performance Tuning
9 22 (11.58%) Software Engineering
10 21 (11.05%) CI/CD
10 21 (11.05%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (11.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 189 (99.47%) SQL
2 54 (28.42%) PowerShell
3 40 (21.05%) C#
4 38 (20.00%) Python
5 25 (13.16%) Bash
6 15 (7.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.16%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.11%) R
9 2 (1.05%) Bicep
9 2 (1.05%) Scala
9 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.05%) VBA
10 1 (0.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 26 (13.68%) Degree
2 12 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.68%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.58%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.58%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.05%) MCSE
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) MCITP
6 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (17.37%) Data Quality
3 25 (13.16%) NCSC
3 25 (13.16%) NIST
4 7 (3.68%) GDPR
5 6 (3.16%) QA
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (18.95%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.58%) Docker
3 2 (1.05%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.63%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.89%) Databricks
3 10 (5.26%) Sage
3 10 (5.26%) WooCommerce
3 10 (5.26%) Xamarin
4 9 (4.74%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.74%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.21%) Oracle
6 4 (2.11%) Google
6 4 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.11%) Zoho
7 3 (1.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Citrix
8 2 (1.05%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.05%) Informatica
8 2 (1.05%) RedGate
8 2 (1.05%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.05%) Talend
8 2 (1.05%) VMware
9 1 (0.53%) Siemens