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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 292 209
Rank change year-on-year -128 -83 +48
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 203 474 892
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 1.00% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 2.95% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 170 283 802
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,125 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,650 £83,625 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -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 10,592 16,058 22,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.03% 33.99% 37.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,920 9,408 19,224
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,869 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 29 January 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 29 January 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
London -81 60 £80,000 +28.00% 60
Midlands -13 44 £50,000 +8.11% 20
South East -2 41 £40,000 -20.00% 48
North of England -14 33 £40,000 -15.79% 28
West Midlands +23 28 £45,000 -5.26% 8
Yorkshire -10 26 £25,000 -46.20% 6
South West -3 20 £50,000 +5.26% 22
East Midlands -25 16 £50,000 +11.11% 12
North West -7 4 £57,500 +21.05% 21
East of England -24 4 £42,175 -11.21% 17
North East -2 3 £51,000 -32.00% 1
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 16 (7.88%) IIS
2 9 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.48%) CMS
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) Confluence
4 2 (0.99%) WordPress
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.49%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.49%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (8.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.96%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (2.96%) Magento
2 6 (2.96%) Shopify
3 2 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 100 (49.26%) Azure
2 41 (20.20%) Power Platform
3 30 (14.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 30 (14.78%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (12.32%) Entra ID
5 19 (9.36%) Google Workspace
6 14 (6.90%) PowerApps
6 14 (6.90%) SaaS
7 12 (5.91%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (5.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (5.42%) GitHub
9 10 (4.93%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (3.94%) GCP
10 8 (3.94%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.45%) AWS
12 6 (2.96%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.46%) dbt
13 5 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.36%) Broadband
2 3 (1.48%) DNS
3 2 (0.99%) DHCP
3 2 (0.99%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.99%) Firewall
3 2 (0.99%) SSL
3 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.99%) VLAN
3 2 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (57.64%) SQL Server
2 47 (23.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 46 (22.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 40 (19.70%) Power BI
5 21 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (8.87%) Data Lake
6 18 (8.87%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (7.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 10 (4.93%) MySQL
9 9 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (3.45%) Metadata
11 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.97%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.97%) OLAP
13 3 (1.48%) GIS
13 3 (1.48%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.48%) Power Query
13 3 (1.48%) Tableau
14 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (5.42%) Git
1 11 (5.42%) JIRA
2 7 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (2.46%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.97%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 71 (34.98%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (17.73%) Finance
4 19 (9.36%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (4.93%) Back Office
6 9 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.45%) Law
7 7 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.96%) Games
9 5 (2.46%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.97%) Billing
10 4 (1.97%) Legal
11 3 (1.48%) Banking
12 2 (0.99%) Front Office
12 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.49%) Advertising
13 1 (0.49%) Automotive
13 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (26.11%) Senior
2 48 (23.65%) Developer
3 38 (18.72%) Analyst
4 36 (17.73%) Data Engineer
5 30 (14.78%) Support Analyst
6 28 (13.79%) Applications Support
7 25 (12.32%) Applications Support Analyst
8 20 (9.85%) DBA
8 20 (9.85%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (8.37%) Software Engineer
9 17 (8.37%) SQL DBA
10 13 (6.40%) IT Support
10 13 (6.40%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.40%) SQL Developer
11 12 (5.91%) IT Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) IT Support Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (5.91%) Software Support Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) Support Engineer
12 11 (5.42%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.23%) REST
2 34 (16.75%) .NET
3 30 (14.78%) SOAP
4 20 (9.85%) OAuth
4 20 (9.85%) OpenID
5 19 (9.36%) GraphQL
5 19 (9.36%) LDAP
5 19 (9.36%) SAML
6 16 (7.88%) .NET Framework
7 15 (7.39%) ASP.NET
8 14 (6.90%) Entity Framework
9 12 (5.91%) WinForms
10 11 (5.42%) JSON
10 11 (5.42%) XML
11 10 (4.93%) .NET Core
11 10 (4.93%) CSS
11 10 (4.93%) HTML
12 8 (3.94%) Middleware
13 6 (2.96%) OpenGL
13 6 (2.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.36%) Cyber Threat
1 19 (9.36%) Cyberattack
2 11 (5.42%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.93%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.94%) Clustering
5 7 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.96%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.96%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.48%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.99%) Derivative
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.99%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.49%) Replication
10 1 (0.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.84%) Windows
2 10 (4.93%) Linux
3 6 (2.96%) VMS
3 6 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.99%) Android
4 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (26.60%) ETL
2 52 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (23.65%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (17.24%) Mentoring
4 35 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (16.75%) DevOps
6 33 (16.26%) Analytics
7 32 (15.76%) Data Modelling
7 32 (15.76%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (14.78%) Software Engineering
9 27 (13.30%) Agile
9 27 (13.30%) Roadmaps
10 25 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (11.82%) CI/CD
11 24 (11.82%) Data Engineering
12 23 (11.33%) Change Control
13 20 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (9.36%) Identity Access Management
14 19 (9.36%) Programme Delivery
14 19 (9.36%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 202 (99.51%) SQL
2 44 (21.67%) PowerShell
3 43 (21.18%) C#
4 40 (19.70%) Python
5 19 (9.36%) Bash
6 15 (7.39%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.40%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.48%) Bicep
9 3 (1.48%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.99%) PHP
10 2 (0.99%) Scala
10 2 (0.99%) VBA
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (14.29%) Degree
2 15 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.91%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.97%) ACCA
4 4 (1.97%) CIMA
4 4 (1.97%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.99%) MCSE
6 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.81%) Data Quality
2 24 (11.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (9.36%) NCSC
3 19 (9.36%) NIST
4 8 (3.94%) GDPR
4 8 (3.94%) QA
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (12.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.96%) Docker
3 2 (0.99%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 83 (40.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.84%) Databricks
3 18 (8.87%) Oracle
4 13 (6.40%) Sage
5 12 (5.91%) Xamarin
6 6 (2.96%) ConnectWise
6 6 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.96%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.46%) Google
7 5 (2.46%) Zoho
8 4 (1.97%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.48%) Informatica
9 3 (1.48%) RedGate
9 3 (1.48%) Talend
10 2 (0.99%) Citrix
10 2 (0.99%) VMware
11 1 (0.49%) Lotus
11 1 (0.49%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.49%) Siemens