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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 297 206
Rank change year-on-year -104 -91 +16
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 228 533 794
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.88% 1.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.17% 2.74% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 199 330 721
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -

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 10,501 19,418 19,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.96% 31.98% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7,795 11,584 16,130
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £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 16 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 16 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 -79 66 £80,000 +30.08% 53
South East +8 49 £42,500 -15.00% 17
Midlands +27 47 £45,000 - 25
North of England +2 36 £50,000 +2.56% 21
West Midlands +30 29 £42,500 -5.56% 7
Yorkshire +9 24 £40,000 -17.95% 10
South West +23 21 £50,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands +20 18 £48,000 +6.67% 17
North East +16 7 £52,500 +25.00% 3
East of England -20 6 £50,000 +5.26% 7
North West +5 5 £57,500 +15.00% 8
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 (7.02%) IIS
2 11 (4.82%) 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%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.32%) Sage 1000
3 2 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (51.75%) Azure
2 66 (28.95%) Power Platform
3 46 (20.18%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (19.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (7.89%) GCP
7 17 (7.46%) Snowflake
8 14 (6.14%) GitHub
9 13 (5.70%) AWS
10 12 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (5.26%) SaaS
11 11 (4.82%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.63%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.63%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.63%) Power Automate
14 6 (2.63%) Serverless
15 5 (2.19%) dbt
16 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
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
1 120 (52.63%) SQL Server
2 68 (29.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 65 (28.51%) Power BI
4 60 (26.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 33 (14.47%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (13.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 29 (12.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 27 (11.84%) Data Lake
9 13 (5.70%) Relational Database
10 12 (5.26%) MySQL
10 12 (5.26%) NoSQL
11 10 (4.39%) Metadata
11 10 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (3.51%) BigQuery
13 7 (3.07%) MongoDB
13 7 (3.07%) OLAP
13 7 (3.07%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.63%) Data Mining
15 5 (2.19%) Tableau
16 3 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (8.33%) Git
2 8 (3.51%) Bitbucket
3 7 (3.07%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (2.63%) JIRA
4 6 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.19%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.44%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 85 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.93%) Finance
3 44 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 12 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.39%) Retail
6 9 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.95%) Law
7 7 (3.07%) Legal
8 6 (2.63%) Back Office
9 5 (2.19%) Automotive
9 5 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.75%) Advertising
10 4 (1.75%) Billing
11 3 (1.32%) Front Office
11 3 (1.32%) Social Housing
11 3 (1.32%) Swedish Language
12 2 (0.88%) Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 71 (31.14%) Developer
2 46 (20.18%) Senior
3 43 (18.86%) Data Engineer
4 40 (17.54%) Analyst
5 31 (13.60%) SQL Developer
6 26 (11.40%) DBA
7 23 (10.09%) SQL DBA
8 21 (9.21%) Applications Support
8 21 (9.21%) Senior Data Engineer
8 21 (9.21%) Support Analyst
9 18 (7.89%) Applications Support Analyst
9 18 (7.89%) Software Engineer
10 15 (6.58%) Administrator
10 15 (6.58%) IT Support
11 13 (5.70%) Support Engineer
12 12 (5.26%) IT Engineer
12 12 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (5.26%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.26%) Software Support Engineer
13 9 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (19.30%) .NET
2 23 (10.09%) ASP.NET
3 22 (9.65%) .NET Framework
4 21 (9.21%) CSS
5 20 (8.77%) HTML
6 19 (8.33%) Entity Framework
7 14 (6.14%) PySpark
7 14 (6.14%) REST
8 12 (5.26%) Web Services
8 12 (5.26%) WinForms
9 10 (4.39%) JSON
10 9 (3.95%) XML
11 8 (3.51%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.07%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.63%) SOAP
14 5 (2.19%) ASP.NET Core
14 5 (2.19%) ASP.NET MVC
14 5 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.19%) React
15 4 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.70%) Data Structures
1 13 (5.70%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.82%) Clustering
3 6 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.32%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.32%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.32%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.32%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.88%) Derivative
7 2 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.44%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.09%) Windows
2 9 (3.95%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.19%) 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 85 (37.28%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (28.51%) ETL
4 62 (27.19%) DevOps
5 42 (18.42%) Data Pipeline
6 38 (16.67%) Analytics
7 36 (15.79%) Data Engineering
8 35 (15.35%) Agile
9 31 (13.60%) Data Modelling
10 28 (12.28%) Software Engineering
11 27 (11.84%) CI/CD
12 22 (9.65%) Decision-Making
13 20 (8.77%) Dimensional Modelling
13 20 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (8.33%) Mentoring
15 18 (7.89%) Computer Science
15 18 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
16 17 (7.46%) Disaster Recovery
16 17 (7.46%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 224 (98.25%) SQL
2 55 (24.12%) Python
3 47 (20.61%) C#
4 24 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.46%) PowerShell
6 12 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (4.82%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.19%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.75%) VBA
10 3 (1.32%) Bicep
11 2 (0.88%) C++
11 2 (0.88%) PHP
11 2 (0.88%) Scala
11 2 (0.88%) X++
12 1 (0.44%) Bash
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (14.47%) Degree
2 16 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.63%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.75%) ACCA
5 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.75%) CIMA
6 2 (0.88%) MCSE
6 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.39%) GDPR
3 9 (3.95%) QA
4 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.51%) Docker
3 5 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.75%) Terraform
3 3 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 89 (39.04%) Microsoft
2 40 (17.54%) Databricks
3 16 (7.02%) Sage
4 14 (6.14%) Oracle
5 12 (5.26%) Xamarin
6 10 (4.39%) RedGate
7 7 (3.07%) Google
7 7 (3.07%) Informatica
7 7 (3.07%) Talend
8 6 (2.63%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.19%) VMware
9 5 (2.19%) Zoho
10 4 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.75%) Dataiku
10 4 (1.75%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.75%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.88%) Aderant
11 2 (0.88%) iManage
11 2 (0.88%) Intapp
11 2 (0.88%) Lotus