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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 323 212
Rank change year-on-year -43 -111 +24
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 310 563 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.82% 1.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.62% 2.66% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 252 350 774
10th Percentile £39,750 £36,738 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,784 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -4.72% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,125 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%

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 11,827 21,201 22,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.37% 30.72% 40.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,806 13,616 18,138
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -77 82 £80,000 +23.08% 28
North of England -3 71 £60,000 +26.32% 35
Midlands +16 53 £53,688 +7.38% 26
South East +41 51 £50,000 - 44
Yorkshire +30 46 £60,000 +32.68% 13
West Midlands +1 28 £57,500 +7.19% 13
South West +69 25 £50,000 -16.67% 17
East Midlands +41 25 £48,500 +4.86% 12
East of England -18 25 £40,500 -19.00% 17
North West -24 17 £57,500 +21.05% 17
North East +26 8 £52,500 -6.25% 5
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (7.42%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.90%) IIS
4 5 (1.61%) Apache
4 5 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.65%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 24 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.29%) Sage 1000
3 2 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 188 (60.65%) Azure
2 117 (37.74%) Power Platform
3 49 (15.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (6.77%) Azure Logic Apps
5 21 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (6.77%) Power Automate
6 20 (6.45%) AWS
7 18 (5.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (5.81%) PowerApps
7 18 (5.81%) Snowflake
8 15 (4.84%) GCP
8 15 (4.84%) SaaS
9 13 (4.19%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (2.90%) Azure Functions
10 9 (2.90%) Serverless
11 7 (2.26%) GitHub
12 5 (1.61%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.61%) Fivetran
13 4 (1.29%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.26%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (60.32%) SQL Server
2 110 (35.48%) Power BI
3 98 (31.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 68 (21.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 53 (17.10%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (12.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 35 (11.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 31 (10.00%) Data Lake
9 16 (5.16%) Relational Database
10 15 (4.84%) Metadata
10 15 (4.84%) MySQL
11 13 (4.19%) Data Hub
11 13 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (4.19%) SQL CLR
12 12 (3.87%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (2.58%) BigQuery
14 7 (2.26%) OLAP
14 7 (2.26%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.61%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 27 (8.71%) Git
2 10 (3.23%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (1.94%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.94%) JIRA
5 4 (1.29%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.65%) MSTest
7 2 (0.65%) NUnit
7 2 (0.65%) Selenium
8 1 (0.32%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.32%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 101 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.94%) Finance
3 45 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.19%) Back Office
4 13 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (3.87%) Manufacturing
6 11 (3.55%) Law
7 10 (3.23%) Retail
8 8 (2.58%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.26%) Legal
9 7 (2.26%) Local Government
10 5 (1.61%) Automotive
11 4 (1.29%) Advertising
11 4 (1.29%) Billing
11 4 (1.29%) Social Housing
11 4 (1.29%) Swedish Language
12 2 (0.65%) Police
13 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (50.65%) Developer
2 95 (30.65%) SQL Developer
3 59 (19.03%) Senior
4 39 (12.58%) Database Developer
4 39 (12.58%) SQL Database Developer
5 38 (12.26%) Data Engineer
6 32 (10.32%) Analyst
7 28 (9.03%) DBA
8 26 (8.39%) SQL DBA
9 25 (8.06%) Senior Developer
10 21 (6.77%) Administrator
11 18 (5.81%) Senior Data Engineer
12 15 (4.84%) Applications Support
13 13 (4.19%) Analyst Developer
13 13 (4.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 13 (4.19%) Microsoft Developer
13 13 (4.19%) SaaS Developer
13 13 (4.19%) Senior Microsoft Developer
13 13 (4.19%) Senior SQL Developer
13 13 (4.19%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.23%) .NET
2 30 (9.68%) HTML
3 27 (8.71%) CSS
4 24 (7.74%) ASP.NET
5 15 (4.84%) .NET Framework
5 15 (4.84%) Web Services
5 15 (4.84%) XML
6 14 (4.52%) PySpark
6 14 (4.52%) REST
7 11 (3.55%) SOAP
8 8 (2.58%) .NET Core
8 8 (2.58%) Entity Framework
8 8 (2.58%) JSON
8 8 (2.58%) React
9 6 (1.94%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.94%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (1.61%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (1.61%) HTML5
10 5 (1.61%) HTML5 Canvas
10 5 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.81%) Data Structures
2 13 (4.19%) Private Cloud
3 12 (3.87%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.90%) Clustering
6 6 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.61%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.29%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.97%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.97%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) Social Media
10 2 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.65%) Replication
11 1 (0.32%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.32%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.16%) Windows
2 7 (2.26%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.97%) Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (49.03%) Business Intelligence
2 87 (28.06%) ETL
3 80 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (20.65%) Analytics
5 51 (16.45%) DevOps
6 43 (13.87%) Data Engineering
7 39 (12.58%) Agile
8 37 (11.94%) Data Modelling
9 35 (11.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 33 (10.65%) Performance Tuning
11 32 (10.32%) High Availability
12 31 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (9.35%) CI/CD
14 28 (9.03%) Visualisation
15 27 (8.71%) Decision-Making
16 26 (8.39%) Artificial Intelligence
16 26 (8.39%) Database Optimisation
17 25 (8.06%) Migration
18 23 (7.42%) Data Visualisation
19 20 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 304 (98.06%) SQL
2 65 (20.97%) Python
3 49 (15.81%) C#
4 30 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 24 (7.74%) PowerShell
6 17 (5.48%) PL/SQL
7 13 (4.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (2.26%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.29%) VBA
10 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.65%) Bicep
11 2 (0.65%) C++
11 2 (0.65%) PHP
11 2 (0.65%) X++
12 1 (0.32%) Java
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (16.13%) DBS Check
2 37 (11.94%) Degree
3 11 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.26%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.61%) ACCA
5 5 (1.61%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.29%) CIMA
7 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.32%) MCSD
8 1 (0.32%) MCSE
8 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.74%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.23%) GDPR
3 8 (2.58%) QA
4 4 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.26%) Docker
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (4.19%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.94%) Terraform
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.32%) Ansible
5 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 153 (49.35%) Microsoft
2 42 (13.55%) Databricks
3 19 (6.13%) Oracle
4 14 (4.52%) VMware
5 11 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.58%) RedGate
7 6 (1.94%) Google
8 5 (1.61%) Informatica
8 5 (1.61%) Sage
8 5 (1.61%) Talend
9 4 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.29%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.29%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.97%) Xero
11 2 (0.65%) Aderant
11 2 (0.65%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.65%) iManage
11 2 (0.65%) Intapp
11 2 (0.65%) Lotus
12 1 (0.32%) SAP