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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 303 214
Rank change year-on-year -90 -89 +7
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 227 537 761
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.87% 1.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.17% 2.69% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 198 335 687
10th Percentile £32,088 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,950 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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 10,444 19,959 19,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.61% 32.45% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,808 12,041 15,742
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 -78 66 £80,000 +32.23% 21
Midlands +35 50 £46,250 +2.78% 10
South East +28 49 £42,500 -14.10% 14
North of England -5 35 £50,000 +5.26% 13
West Midlands +35 28 £42,500 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire +12 26 £40,000 -15.79% 6
East Midlands +26 22 £49,250 +6.49% 4
South West +19 18 £50,000 -6.98% 13
East of England -15 6 £50,000 +2.56% 3
North East +17 5 £52,500 -10.26%
North West +8 4 £57,500 +17.95% 7
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 17 (7.49%) IIS
2 10 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.32%) CMS
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.88%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.88%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (10.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Sage 1000
2 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (50.22%) Azure
2 62 (27.31%) Power Platform
3 44 (19.38%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (18.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (7.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (7.49%) GCP
7 16 (7.05%) Snowflake
8 13 (5.73%) AWS
9 12 (5.29%) SaaS
10 11 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.85%) GitHub
10 11 (4.85%) PowerApps
11 9 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.64%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.64%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.64%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.64%) Serverless
13 5 (2.20%) dbt
14 4 (1.76%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) DHCP
1 2 (0.88%) DNS
1 2 (0.88%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.88%) Firewall
1 2 (0.88%) SSL
1 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.88%) VLAN
1 2 (0.88%) Wireless
2 1 (0.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (54.63%) SQL Server
2 66 (29.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 61 (26.87%) Power BI
4 58 (25.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 33 (14.54%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (13.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (12.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 26 (11.45%) Data Lake
9 11 (4.85%) NoSQL
10 10 (4.41%) Metadata
10 10 (4.41%) MySQL
10 10 (4.41%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (3.08%) BigQuery
12 7 (3.08%) OLAP
13 6 (2.64%) Data Mining
14 5 (2.20%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.20%) RDBMS
14 5 (2.20%) Tableau
15 3 (1.32%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 18 (7.93%) Git
2 7 (3.08%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (2.64%) Bitbucket
3 6 (2.64%) JIRA
3 6 (2.64%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (2.20%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.44%) Mercurial
General
1 85 (37.44%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.15%) Finance
3 45 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.29%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (3.96%) Manufacturing
5 9 (3.96%) Retail
6 8 (3.52%) Law
7 6 (2.64%) Back Office
7 6 (2.64%) Games
7 6 (2.64%) Legal
8 5 (2.20%) Automotive
9 4 (1.76%) Billing
9 4 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.32%) Advertising
10 3 (1.32%) Front Office
10 3 (1.32%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.32%) Swedish Language
11 2 (0.88%) Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (31.72%) Developer
2 49 (21.59%) Senior
3 42 (18.50%) Data Engineer
4 39 (17.18%) Analyst
5 30 (13.22%) SQL Developer
6 24 (10.57%) DBA
7 23 (10.13%) Applications Support
8 22 (9.69%) Support Analyst
9 21 (9.25%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (9.25%) SQL DBA
10 19 (8.37%) Applications Support Analyst
11 18 (7.93%) Software Engineer
12 17 (7.49%) Senior Developer
13 15 (6.61%) IT Support
14 14 (6.17%) Administrator
15 13 (5.73%) Support Engineer
16 12 (5.29%) IT Engineer
16 12 (5.29%) IT Support Engineer
16 12 (5.29%) Software Support Engineer
17 9 (3.96%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (20.70%) .NET
2 22 (9.69%) .NET Framework
3 21 (9.25%) ASP.NET
4 20 (8.81%) CSS
5 19 (8.37%) Entity Framework
5 19 (8.37%) HTML
6 14 (6.17%) REST
7 13 (5.73%) PySpark
8 12 (5.29%) .NET Core
8 12 (5.29%) WinForms
9 11 (4.85%) Web Services
10 10 (4.41%) JSON
11 9 (3.96%) XML
12 7 (3.08%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.64%) DirectX
13 6 (2.64%) OpenGL
13 6 (2.64%) SOAP
14 5 (2.20%) ASP.NET MVC
14 5 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
15 4 (1.76%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.17%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.73%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.41%) Clustering
4 6 (2.64%) 3D Graphics
4 6 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.76%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.32%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.32%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.32%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.88%) Derivative
8 2 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.44%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.13%) Windows
2 9 (3.96%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.20%) Linux
4 2 (0.88%) Android
4 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.88%) VMS
4 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (35.68%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (30.40%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (28.19%) ETL
4 59 (25.99%) DevOps
5 41 (18.06%) Data Pipeline
6 37 (16.30%) Analytics
7 35 (15.42%) Data Engineering
8 33 (14.54%) Agile
9 32 (14.10%) Software Engineering
10 31 (13.66%) Data Modelling
11 27 (11.89%) CI/CD
12 22 (9.69%) Decision-Making
13 20 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (8.37%) Dimensional Modelling
15 18 (7.93%) Mentoring
15 18 (7.93%) Performance Tuning
16 17 (7.49%) Computer Science
17 16 (7.05%) Machine Learning
18 15 (6.61%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 222 (97.80%) SQL
2 53 (23.35%) Python
3 50 (22.03%) C#
4 23 (10.13%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.93%) PowerShell
6 12 (5.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (5.29%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.20%) VB.NET
8 4 (1.76%) VBA
9 3 (1.32%) Bicep
10 2 (0.88%) C++
10 2 (0.88%) PHP
10 2 (0.88%) Scala
11 1 (0.44%) Bash
11 1 (0.44%) R
11 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (14.10%) Degree
2 15 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.52%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.76%) ACCA
4 4 (1.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.76%) CIMA
4 4 (1.76%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.32%) MCSE
5 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.44%) MCITP
6 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.57%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.96%) GDPR
2 9 (3.96%) QA
3 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.44%) NCSC
4 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (4.41%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.52%) Docker
3 5 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.76%) Terraform
3 3 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 88 (38.77%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.74%) Databricks
3 16 (7.05%) Sage
4 15 (6.61%) Oracle
5 12 (5.29%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.52%) RedGate
7 7 (3.08%) Google
8 6 (2.64%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.20%) Informatica
9 5 (2.20%) Talend
9 5 (2.20%) VMware
9 5 (2.20%) Zoho
10 4 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.76%) Dataiku
10 4 (1.76%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.76%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.88%) Aderant
11 2 (0.88%) iManage
11 2 (0.88%) Intapp
11 2 (0.88%) Lotus