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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 329 232
Rank change year-on-year -171 -97 +40
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 177 341 1,025
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.89% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 2.72% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 134 275 866
10th Percentile £30,100 £39,750 £36,820
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +0.44% -0.43%
75th Percentile £67,188 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,625 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.43% +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 13,989 12,556 27,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.40% 32.67% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,808 9,192 22,430
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £35,238
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,663 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -79 49 £70,000 +3.70% 24
Midlands -50 37 £50,000 +1.52% 6
North of England -101 32 £47,500 -20.83% 20
South East -35 27 £44,000 -9.74% 22
West Midlands -11 21 £44,000 -23.48% 3
Yorkshire -81 19 £44,000 -26.67% 8
South West -47 18 £42,500 +6.25% 2
East Midlands -61 16 £59,732 +23.16% 3
East of England -36 12 £62,500 +39.66% 5
North West -39 12 £61,250 +16.67% 12
North East -40 1 £43,500 -24.35%
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 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.39%) IIS
4 2 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.13%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
5 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.65%) Magento
1 10 (5.65%) Shopify
2 9 (5.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (5.08%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (3.39%) Infor M3
4 4 (2.26%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (2.26%) JDE World
4 4 (2.26%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.13%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 85 (48.02%) Azure
2 52 (29.38%) Power Platform
3 35 (19.77%) Entra ID
4 25 (14.12%) Google Workspace
5 18 (10.17%) Dynamics 365
5 18 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (9.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (7.91%) Power Automate
8 13 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (7.34%) PowerApps
9 12 (6.78%) SaaS
10 9 (5.08%) AWS
11 8 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (2.82%) Serverless
14 4 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (2.26%) Smartsheet
15 3 (1.69%) iPaaS
15 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.12%) Broadband
2 2 (1.13%) DNS
2 2 (1.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) DHCP
3 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.56%) LAN
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.56%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.56%) VLAN
3 1 (0.56%) WAN
3 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (57.63%) SQL Server
2 50 (28.25%) Power BI
3 36 (20.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 34 (19.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (12.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (7.91%) Power Query
7 10 (5.65%) MySQL
8 9 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (4.52%) Data Lake
9 8 (4.52%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (3.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (2.26%) Metadata
11 4 (2.26%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.13%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
13 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (8.47%) JIRA
2 5 (2.82%) Git
2 5 (2.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (2.26%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Yeoman
General
1 53 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 46 (25.99%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (16.38%) Organisational Skills
4 25 (14.12%) Finance
5 16 (9.04%) Law
6 11 (6.21%) Back Office
7 9 (5.08%) Legal
8 7 (3.95%) Games
9 6 (3.39%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.82%) Retail
11 4 (2.26%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.69%) Marketing
13 2 (1.13%) Automotive
13 2 (1.13%) Billing
13 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.56%) Advertising
14 1 (0.56%) Banking
14 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (28.81%) Analyst
1 51 (28.81%) Developer
2 38 (21.47%) Senior
3 24 (13.56%) Support Analyst
4 22 (12.43%) Applications Support
5 21 (11.86%) Applications Support Analyst
6 16 (9.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 16 (9.04%) DBA
6 16 (9.04%) Senior Developer
7 15 (8.47%) Data Analyst
8 14 (7.91%) SQL DBA
9 13 (7.34%) Data Engineer
10 12 (6.78%) SQL Analyst
11 11 (6.21%) C# Developer
12 9 (5.08%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
12 9 (5.08%) Database Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) IAM Developer
12 9 (5.08%) Software Developer
12 9 (5.08%) SQL Data Analyst
12 9 (5.08%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.03%) REST
2 36 (20.34%) SOAP
3 34 (19.21%) .NET
4 26 (14.69%) OAuth
4 26 (14.69%) OpenID
5 25 (14.12%) GraphQL
5 25 (14.12%) LDAP
5 25 (14.12%) SAML
6 12 (6.78%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.78%) ASP.NET
7 11 (6.21%) CSS
7 11 (6.21%) HTML
8 10 (5.65%) JSON
8 10 (5.65%) XML
9 9 (5.08%) Middleware
10 7 (3.95%) PySpark
11 6 (3.39%) DirectX
11 6 (3.39%) Kafka
11 6 (3.39%) OpenGL
12 5 (2.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.12%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (14.12%) Cyberattack
2 13 (7.34%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.65%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.52%) Replication
5 7 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.95%) Clustering
5 7 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.39%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (3.39%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.26%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.26%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.26%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.69%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.34%) Windows
2 8 (4.52%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.39%) Linux
4 5 (2.82%) VMS
5 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.56%) Android
6 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.20%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (20.90%) Data Modelling
3 37 (20.90%) Mentoring
4 34 (19.21%) Performance Tuning
5 32 (18.08%) Analytics
5 32 (18.08%) Roadmaps
6 30 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (16.38%) ETL
8 28 (15.82%) Change Control
9 27 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (14.12%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (14.12%) Identity Access Management
10 25 (14.12%) Programme Delivery
10 25 (14.12%) Regulatory Compliance
11 21 (11.86%) CI/CD
12 20 (11.30%) Decision-Making
12 20 (11.30%) ERP
13 18 (10.17%) Validation
14 17 (9.60%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 175 (98.87%) SQL
2 50 (28.25%) PowerShell
3 38 (21.47%) C#
4 35 (19.77%) Python
5 25 (14.12%) Bash
6 21 (11.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (4.52%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.95%) VBA
9 5 (2.82%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.82%) VBScript
10 4 (2.26%) R
10 4 (2.26%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.13%) Bicep
11 2 (1.13%) Scala
12 1 (0.56%) Delphi
12 1 (0.56%) Java
12 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (9.04%) Degree
2 6 (3.39%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.56%) MCITP
5 1 (0.56%) MCSE
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (22.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (18.08%) Data Quality
3 25 (14.12%) NCSC
3 25 (14.12%) NIST
4 6 (3.39%) GDPR
4 6 (3.39%) QA
5 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.13%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (22.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.26%) Docker
3 2 (1.13%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.26%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.26%) Terraform
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.56%) SCCM
2 1 (0.56%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 62 (35.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.65%) Databricks
2 10 (5.65%) Oracle
2 10 (5.65%) WooCommerce
3 9 (5.08%) ConnectWise
3 9 (5.08%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.39%) IFS
4 6 (3.39%) iManage
4 6 (3.39%) Infor
5 5 (2.82%) SAP
6 4 (2.26%) Epicor
6 4 (2.26%) JD Edwards
6 4 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.26%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.69%) RedGate
7 3 (1.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.13%) Citrix
8 2 (1.13%) Intapp
8 2 (1.13%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.56%) Siemens