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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 328 225
Rank change year-on-year -157 -103 +47
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 189 340 1,044
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.91% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 2.67% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 145 279 890
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,750 £37,245
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £49,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.78% +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 13,877 12,718 27,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 33.95% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,731 9,352 22,538
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,213
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £111,250 £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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -90 53 £70,000 +5.26% 25
Midlands -44 44 £46,750 -3.61% 6
North of England -102 34 £50,000 -16.67% 21
West Midlands -16 27 £42,500 -26.09% 2
South East -30 27 £42,500 -15.00% 23
Yorkshire -77 20 £44,000 -26.67% 6
South West -48 17 £42,500 +6.25% 1
East Midlands -65 17 £59,732 +24.44% 4
East of England -55 12 £62,500 +31.58% 5
North West -40 11 £61,250 +16.67% 15
North East -46 3 £51,000 -11.30%
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 12 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.82%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.23%) IIS
4 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.06%) CMS
4 2 (1.06%) Confluence
4 2 (1.06%) WordPress
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.29%) Magento
1 10 (5.29%) Shopify
2 9 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (2.12%) Infor M3
4 2 (1.06%) Elite 3E
4 2 (1.06%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (1.06%) JDE World
4 2 (1.06%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (49.74%) Azure
2 51 (26.98%) Power Platform
3 36 (19.05%) Entra ID
4 25 (13.23%) Google Workspace
5 20 (10.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (7.94%) SaaS
10 14 (7.41%) Power Automate
11 13 (6.88%) PowerApps
12 10 (5.29%) AWS
13 8 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.70%) GitHub
15 5 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.65%) Serverless
16 4 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
16 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.23%) Broadband
2 3 (1.59%) DNS
2 3 (1.59%) Firewall
3 2 (1.06%) DHCP
3 2 (1.06%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.06%) SSL
3 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.06%) VLAN
3 2 (1.06%) Wireless
4 1 (0.53%) LAN
4 1 (0.53%) Network Security
4 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.53%) WAN
4 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (56.61%) SQL Server
2 49 (25.93%) Power BI
3 38 (20.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 35 (18.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (12.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (7.94%) Power Query
7 12 (6.35%) MySQL
8 11 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.76%) Data Lake
10 8 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.23%) Relational Database
10 8 (4.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (2.65%) Metadata
12 4 (2.12%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.06%) Tableau
15 1 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (7.94%) JIRA
2 7 (3.70%) Git
3 5 (2.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (2.12%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.53%) Yeoman
General
1 53 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 44 (23.28%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (15.34%) Organisational Skills
4 26 (13.76%) Finance
5 16 (8.47%) Law
6 11 (5.82%) Back Office
7 8 (4.23%) Legal
8 7 (3.70%) Games
9 6 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.65%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.65%) Retail
11 3 (1.59%) Banking
11 3 (1.59%) Marketing
12 2 (1.06%) Automotive
12 2 (1.06%) Billing
12 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.06%) Front Office
12 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (26.98%) Analyst
2 50 (26.46%) Developer
3 39 (20.63%) Senior
4 25 (13.23%) Support Analyst
5 23 (12.17%) Applications Support
6 22 (11.64%) Applications Support Analyst
7 19 (10.05%) DBA
8 17 (8.99%) SQL DBA
9 16 (8.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 15 (7.94%) Senior Developer
11 14 (7.41%) Data Analyst
11 14 (7.41%) Data Engineer
12 13 (6.88%) C# Developer
13 12 (6.35%) SQL Analyst
14 9 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
14 9 (4.76%) Database Engineer
14 9 (4.76%) IAM Developer
14 9 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (4.76%) SQL Data Analyst
14 9 (4.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.69%) REST
2 37 (19.58%) SOAP
3 36 (19.05%) .NET
4 26 (13.76%) OAuth
4 26 (13.76%) OpenID
5 25 (13.23%) GraphQL
5 25 (13.23%) LDAP
5 25 (13.23%) SAML
6 13 (6.88%) ASP.NET
7 11 (5.82%) .NET Core
8 10 (5.29%) CSS
8 10 (5.29%) HTML
8 10 (5.29%) JSON
8 10 (5.29%) XML
9 9 (4.76%) Middleware
10 8 (4.23%) PySpark
11 7 (3.70%) .NET Framework
12 6 (3.17%) DirectX
12 6 (3.17%) Kafka
12 6 (3.17%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.23%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (13.23%) Cyberattack
2 14 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.29%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.76%) Clustering
4 9 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.23%) Replication
6 7 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.17%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (3.17%) Low-Code
7 6 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.12%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.12%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.12%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.59%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.47%) Windows
2 9 (4.76%) Linux
2 9 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.70%) VMS
4 3 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.06%) Android
5 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (20.11%) Mentoring
4 37 (19.58%) Data Modelling
5 36 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
6 35 (18.52%) Roadmaps
7 34 (17.99%) Analytics
8 31 (16.40%) ETL
8 31 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (14.81%) Change Control
9 28 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (13.23%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (13.23%) Identity Access Management
10 25 (13.23%) Programme Delivery
10 25 (13.23%) Regulatory Compliance
11 21 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 21 (11.11%) Decision-Making
12 20 (10.58%) DevOps
13 19 (10.05%) ERP
14 18 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 187 (98.94%) SQL
2 54 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 40 (21.16%) C#
4 35 (18.52%) Python
5 25 (13.23%) Bash
6 22 (11.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.17%) PL/SQL
7 6 (3.17%) VBA
8 4 (2.12%) R
8 4 (2.12%) VBScript
9 3 (1.59%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.06%) Bicep
10 2 (1.06%) Scala
11 1 (0.53%) Delphi
11 1 (0.53%) Java
11 1 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (9.52%) Degree
2 6 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.59%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.06%) MCSE
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.53%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (20.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (17.99%) Data Quality
3 25 (13.23%) NCSC
3 25 (13.23%) NIST
4 8 (4.23%) QA
5 6 (3.17%) GDPR
6 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.06%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.53%) HL7
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (21.69%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.17%) Docker
3 2 (1.06%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.12%) Terraform
3 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.53%) SCCM
3 1 (0.53%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 69 (36.51%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.82%) Databricks
3 10 (5.29%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.76%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.23%) Oracle
6 5 (2.65%) iManage
6 5 (2.65%) RedGate
7 4 (2.12%) IFS
7 4 (2.12%) Infor
7 4 (2.12%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.12%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.59%) SAP
9 2 (1.06%) Citrix
9 2 (1.06%) Informatica
9 2 (1.06%) Intapp
9 2 (1.06%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.06%) Talend
9 2 (1.06%) Xamarin