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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 361 278
Rank change year-on-year -161 -83 -47
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 199 331 851
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.76% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 2.53% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 168 271 687
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,125 £83,750 £78,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

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 16,088 13,097 26,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.20% 30.18% 30.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11,776 8,853 20,328
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £48,738 £47,500 £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 £85,000 £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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -91 54 £70,000 - 18
South East -29 46 £52,500 +16.67% 16
North of England -72 35 £47,500 -20.83% 13
Midlands -64 23 £44,000 -9.28% 6
North West -10 22 £53,750 -6.52% 9
South West -63 19 £48,750 - 4
West Midlands -26 16 £44,000 -23.48% 6
East of England -30 16 £62,500 +48.81% 5
Yorkshire -67 11 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -41 7 £59,366 +24.98%
North East -52 2 £45,500 -13.33%
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 20 (10.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.03%) IIS
3 7 (3.52%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (5.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (3.02%) Infor M3
4 5 (2.51%) Magento
4 5 (2.51%) NetSuite
4 5 (2.51%) Shopify
5 4 (2.01%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (2.01%) JDE World
5 4 (2.01%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (1.01%) Elite 3E
6 2 (1.01%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.50%) FastStats
7 1 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 114 (57.29%) Azure
2 66 (33.17%) Power Platform
3 26 (13.07%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (12.56%) Entra ID
5 21 (10.55%) SaaS
6 20 (10.05%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (8.04%) Power Automate
9 15 (7.54%) AWS
10 14 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (7.04%) Google Workspace
11 12 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (5.53%) PowerApps
13 8 (4.02%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.52%) Serverless
15 6 (3.02%) GitHub
16 4 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
16 4 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (2.01%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.03%) Broadband
2 4 (2.01%) Firewall
3 3 (1.51%) DNS
3 3 (1.51%) VLAN
4 1 (0.50%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (61.31%) SQL Server
2 55 (27.64%) Power BI
3 47 (23.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (23.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (8.04%) Power Query
6 15 (7.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (5.53%) MySQL
10 9 (4.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (4.02%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.02%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.51%) Data Lake
14 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (1.51%) Db2
15 3 (1.51%) WhereScape RED
16 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
16 2 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
16 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (9.55%) Git
2 12 (6.03%) Visual Studio
3 10 (5.03%) JIRA
3 10 (5.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.01%) Postman
4 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 56 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 52 (26.13%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (13.57%) Finance
4 19 (9.55%) Law
5 18 (9.05%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (5.03%) Legal
7 7 (3.52%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.02%) Back Office
8 6 (3.02%) Retail
9 4 (2.01%) Marketing
10 3 (1.51%) Billing
10 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.51%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.01%) Automotive
11 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Advertising
12 1 (0.50%) Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.50%) Games
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (38.19%) Developer
2 41 (20.60%) Analyst
3 33 (16.58%) Senior
4 17 (8.54%) Applications Support
4 17 (8.54%) Data Analyst
4 17 (8.54%) SQL Developer
5 16 (8.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 16 (8.04%) DBA
6 15 (7.54%) .NET Developer
6 15 (7.54%) Software Developer
7 14 (7.04%) Applications Support Analyst
7 14 (7.04%) Data Engineer
7 14 (7.04%) SQL DBA
8 13 (6.53%) Support Analyst
9 12 (6.03%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.03%) SQL Analyst
10 11 (5.53%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (5.03%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.52%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
12 9 (4.52%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (26.63%) .NET
2 26 (13.07%) REST
3 20 (10.05%) SOAP
4 17 (8.54%) HTML
4 17 (8.54%) JSON
5 16 (8.04%) CSS
6 14 (7.04%) ASP.NET
6 14 (7.04%) GraphQL
6 14 (7.04%) LDAP
6 14 (7.04%) OAuth
6 14 (7.04%) OpenID
6 14 (7.04%) SAML
6 14 (7.04%) XML
7 13 (6.53%) .NET Core
8 9 (4.52%) Kafka
9 8 (4.02%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.02%) Blazor
9 8 (4.02%) WinForms
10 7 (3.52%) .NET Framework
10 7 (3.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.05%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.04%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.03%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (6.03%) Cyberattack
3 12 (6.03%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (5.53%) Replication
5 9 (4.52%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.51%) Legacy Code
8 4 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.01%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.51%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.51%) Clustering
9 3 (1.51%) LIMS
9 3 (1.51%) NHS
9 3 (1.51%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.04%) Windows
2 9 (4.52%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.66%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (29.65%) Business Intelligence
3 49 (24.62%) Performance Tuning
4 40 (20.10%) Data Modelling
5 36 (18.09%) DevOps
6 35 (17.59%) ETL
7 32 (16.08%) Agile
7 32 (16.08%) CI/CD
8 29 (14.57%) Analytics
8 29 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (13.57%) Roadmaps
10 24 (12.06%) Validation
11 23 (11.56%) Mentoring
11 23 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (8.04%) Decision-Making
12 16 (8.04%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (7.54%) AI
13 15 (7.54%) Migration
14 14 (7.04%) ERP
14 14 (7.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 198 (99.50%) SQL
2 56 (28.14%) C#
3 48 (24.12%) PowerShell
4 36 (18.09%) Python
5 23 (11.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (7.54%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.04%) Bash
8 9 (4.52%) VBScript
9 8 (4.02%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.52%) VBA
11 4 (2.01%) Delphi
11 4 (2.01%) R
11 4 (2.01%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.51%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.01%) VB
14 1 (0.50%) Bicep
14 1 (0.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (7.04%) Degree
2 4 (2.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.51%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.01%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.08%) Data Quality
2 28 (14.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (7.54%) QA
4 14 (7.04%) NIST
5 12 (6.03%) NCSC
6 6 (3.02%) SLA
7 3 (1.51%) GDPR
8 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.50%) HL7
9 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (16.58%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.01%) Docker
3 3 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.01%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.01%) Terraform
1 4 (2.01%) ZABBIX
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.50%) SCCM
2 1 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 74 (37.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.52%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.02%) iManage
3 8 (4.02%) Oracle
4 7 (3.52%) SAP
5 6 (3.02%) IFS
5 6 (3.02%) Infor
6 5 (2.51%) Databricks
6 5 (2.51%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.51%) WooCommerce
7 4 (2.01%) ConnectWise
7 4 (2.01%) Epicor
7 4 (2.01%) RedGate
7 4 (2.01%) Remedy
7 4 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.01%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.51%) Veeam
8 3 (1.51%) VMware
9 2 (1.01%) Intapp