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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 287 209
Rank change year-on-year -127 -78 +13
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 202 508 694
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 1.00% 1.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 2.93% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 185 322 628
10th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -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 10,339 17,323 17,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.97% 34.18% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,821 10,404 14,671
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,025 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £110,000
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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -76 56 £80,000 +28.00% 24
Midlands 0 48 £48,500 +6.76% 10
South East +4 37 £41,250 -17.50% 21
North of England -9 37 £40,000 -18.37% 10
West Midlands +20 30 £45,000 +4.65% 6
Yorkshire +5 30 £40,000 -16.23% 1
South West -6 18 £50,000 -16.67% 8
East Midlands -12 18 £49,250 +3.68% 4
North East +9 4 £51,750 -31.00% 2
North West -1 3 £57,500 +15.00% 7
East of England -26 3 £42,175 -11.21% 4
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 (8.42%) IIS
2 10 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) CMS
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.99%) WordPress
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (11.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.98%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.98%) Magento
2 4 (1.98%) Shopify
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 93 (46.04%) Azure
2 49 (24.26%) Power Platform
3 38 (18.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 38 (18.81%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 13 (6.44%) Snowflake
6 12 (5.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (5.45%) AWS
7 11 (5.45%) GCP
7 11 (5.45%) GitHub
8 10 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.95%) PowerApps
9 9 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.46%) SaaS
10 6 (2.97%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.48%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.48%) dbt
11 5 (2.48%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.48%) Serverless
12 4 (1.98%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 2 (0.99%) DHCP
2 2 (0.99%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.99%) Firewall
2 2 (0.99%) SSL
2 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.99%) VLAN
2 2 (0.99%) Wireless
3 1 (0.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (58.42%) SQL Server
2 51 (25.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 48 (23.76%) Power BI
4 46 (22.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 28 (13.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 23 (11.39%) Data Lake
7 21 (10.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 20 (9.90%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.46%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.96%) Metadata
10 8 (3.96%) MySQL
11 7 (3.47%) OLAP
11 7 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (2.97%) Data Mining
13 5 (2.48%) NoSQL
13 5 (2.48%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.98%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.98%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.49%) GIS
15 3 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Git
2 11 (5.45%) JIRA
3 7 (3.47%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (2.97%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.48%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.50%) Mercurial
General
1 72 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.29%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (20.79%) Finance
4 12 (5.94%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (4.46%) Law
6 8 (3.96%) Back Office
6 8 (3.96%) Legal
7 6 (2.97%) Games
7 6 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.98%) Billing
8 4 (1.98%) Retail
9 3 (1.49%) Front Office
9 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.99%) Advertising
10 2 (0.99%) Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Automotive
11 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (26.24%) Developer
2 46 (22.77%) Senior
3 41 (20.30%) Analyst
4 40 (19.80%) Data Engineer
5 25 (12.38%) Applications Support
5 25 (12.38%) DBA
5 25 (12.38%) Support Analyst
6 22 (10.89%) Applications Support Analyst
6 22 (10.89%) SQL DBA
7 21 (10.40%) SQL Developer
8 20 (9.90%) Senior Data Engineer
9 18 (8.91%) Software Engineer
10 15 (7.43%) Administrator
11 12 (5.94%) IT Engineer
11 12 (5.94%) IT Support
11 12 (5.94%) IT Support Engineer
11 12 (5.94%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.94%) Software Support Engineer
11 12 (5.94%) Support Engineer
12 11 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.31%) .NET
2 18 (8.91%) .NET Framework
3 17 (8.42%) REST
4 15 (7.43%) ASP.NET
4 15 (7.43%) Entity Framework
5 12 (5.94%) WinForms
6 11 (5.45%) PySpark
7 10 (4.95%) CSS
7 10 (4.95%) HTML
7 10 (4.95%) JSON
7 10 (4.95%) SOAP
8 9 (4.46%) .NET Core
8 9 (4.46%) XML
9 7 (3.47%) Web Services
10 6 (2.97%) DirectX
10 6 (2.97%) Middleware
10 6 (2.97%) OpenGL
11 5 (2.48%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.48%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (1.49%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.43%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.45%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.46%) Clustering
4 6 (2.97%) 3D Graphics
5 5 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.98%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.49%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.99%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.99%) Derivative
8 2 (0.99%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.99%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.39%) Windows
2 9 (4.46%) Linux
3 6 (2.97%) VMS
3 6 (2.97%) 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 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.19%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (29.70%) Business Intelligence
3 59 (29.21%) ETL
4 49 (24.26%) DevOps
5 39 (19.31%) Analytics
6 38 (18.81%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (15.84%) Software Engineering
8 31 (15.35%) Data Modelling
9 28 (13.86%) Agile
10 24 (11.88%) CI/CD
11 23 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (11.39%) Data Engineering
12 21 (10.40%) Decision-Making
13 18 (8.91%) Computer Science
14 17 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (7.92%) Mentoring
16 14 (6.93%) CAD
16 14 (6.93%) Data Analysis
16 14 (6.93%) ERP
16 14 (6.93%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 200 (99.01%) SQL
2 43 (21.29%) C#
2 43 (21.29%) Python
3 19 (9.41%) PowerShell
4 17 (8.42%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.94%) PL/SQL
6 11 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.98%) Bicep
8 3 (1.49%) Scala
9 2 (0.99%) C++
9 2 (0.99%) PHP
9 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.99%) VBA
10 1 (0.50%) Bash
10 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (15.35%) Degree
2 15 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.46%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.98%) ACCA
4 4 (1.98%) CIMA
4 4 (1.98%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.99%) MCSE
6 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) MCITP
7 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.37%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.45%) GDPR
3 9 (4.46%) QA
4 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
5 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (4.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.48%) Docker
3 2 (0.99%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.97%) Terraform
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 85 (42.08%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.83%) Databricks
3 18 (8.91%) Oracle
4 13 (6.44%) Sage
5 12 (5.94%) Xamarin
6 7 (3.47%) RedGate
7 5 (2.48%) Google
7 5 (2.48%) Zoho
8 4 (1.98%) ConnectWise
8 4 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.98%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.98%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.98%) Informatica
8 4 (1.98%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.98%) Talend
8 4 (1.98%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.99%) Aderant
9 2 (0.99%) iManage
9 2 (0.99%) Intapp