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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 369 321
Rank change year-on-year -201 -48 -116
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 192 301 556
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.70% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 2.62% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 166 245 328
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £82,875 £83,100 £85,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -7.08%

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 16,919 11,499 20,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.29% 26.74% 31.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,290 7,567 12,663
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -86 63 £70,000 -12.50% 51
South East -58 51 £55,000 +22.22% 24
North of England -105 31 £60,000 - 26
North West -29 17 £60,000 +4.35% 17
South West -86 15 £52,500 +5.00% 5
East of England -41 14 £58,750 +45.06% 13
Midlands -90 14 £59,366 +20.54% 22
Yorkshire -69 13 £60,500 +0.83% 7
West Midlands -60 10 £50,000 -13.04% 18
East Midlands -57 4 £59,732 +23.16% 4
North East -72 1 £47,500 -9.52% 2
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 (6.25%) IIS
1 12 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.60%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.60%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.60%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.08%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.08%) JDE World
4 3 (1.56%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.04%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.04%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.52%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 108 (56.25%) Azure
2 62 (32.29%) Power Platform
3 41 (21.35%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.94%) Power Automate
5 16 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (7.81%) SaaS
7 14 (7.29%) AWS
7 14 (7.29%) PowerApps
8 12 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.21%) Serverless
10 10 (5.21%) Snowflake
11 7 (3.65%) GitHub
12 6 (3.13%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (3.13%) dbt
13 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (2.08%) Entra ID
15 3 (1.56%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) DNS
1 3 (1.56%) Firewall
1 3 (1.56%) VLAN
2 2 (1.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (65.10%) SQL Server
2 49 (25.52%) Power BI
3 48 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 38 (19.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (13.02%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.81%) Power Query
7 12 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (3.65%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.65%) Star Schema
10 6 (3.13%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.08%) Db2
11 4 (2.08%) Metadata
11 4 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.08%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.56%) Big Data
12 3 (1.56%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.56%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 23 (11.98%) Git
2 13 (6.77%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (1.04%) Postman
6 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 51 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.54%) Finance
4 20 (10.42%) Law
5 18 (9.38%) Legal
6 6 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.60%) Retail
8 3 (1.56%) Back Office
8 3 (1.56%) Billing
8 3 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.56%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.04%) Automotive
9 2 (1.04%) Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
10 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 92 (47.92%) Developer
2 40 (20.83%) Senior
3 23 (11.98%) .NET Developer
3 23 (11.98%) Analyst
4 19 (9.90%) Data Engineer
4 19 (9.90%) Software Developer
4 19 (9.90%) SQL Developer
5 17 (8.85%) Senior Developer
6 14 (7.29%) DBA
6 14 (7.29%) SQL DBA
7 12 (6.25%) Applications Support
7 12 (6.25%) SQL Server DBA
8 10 (5.21%) Lead
8 10 (5.21%) Support Engineer
9 9 (4.69%) Applications Developer
10 8 (4.17%) Business Developer
10 8 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (4.17%) Database Engineer
10 8 (4.17%) Software Support Engineer
11 7 (3.65%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (32.81%) .NET
2 13 (6.77%) .NET Core
2 13 (6.77%) HTML
2 13 (6.77%) REST
3 12 (6.25%) CSS
4 11 (5.73%) JSON
5 10 (5.21%) ASP.NET
5 10 (5.21%) React
6 9 (4.69%) .NET Framework
7 8 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (4.17%) Blazor
7 8 (4.17%) WinForms
8 7 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.65%) Kafka
8 7 (3.65%) XML
9 6 (3.13%) Entity Framework
9 6 (3.13%) jQuery
9 6 (3.13%) PySpark
9 6 (3.13%) SOAP
10 5 (2.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.46%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.29%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.73%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.17%) Replication
6 6 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.08%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.08%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.56%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.56%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.04%) LIMS
9 2 (1.04%) NHS
9 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.04%) SystemC
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.90%) Windows
2 11 (5.73%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (28.13%) DevOps
3 53 (27.60%) Business Intelligence
4 42 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 41 (21.35%) ETL
5 41 (21.35%) Performance Tuning
6 35 (18.23%) Agile
7 34 (17.71%) Data Modelling
8 28 (14.58%) Analytics
8 28 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (11.46%) Software Engineering
10 20 (10.42%) AI
10 20 (10.42%) Root Cause Analysis
11 18 (9.38%) Data Integration
12 17 (8.85%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.85%) SDLC
13 16 (8.33%) Secure Coding
14 15 (7.81%) Clean Code
14 15 (7.81%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (7.81%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 191 (99.48%) SQL
2 66 (34.38%) C#
3 32 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 31 (16.15%) Python
5 17 (8.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (8.85%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.69%) PL/SQL
6 9 (4.69%) VBScript
7 8 (4.17%) VBA
8 7 (3.65%) Delphi
9 6 (3.13%) VB.NET
10 4 (2.08%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.56%) XPath
12 2 (1.04%) Bash
12 2 (1.04%) Bicep
12 2 (1.04%) VB
13 1 (0.52%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (6.77%) Degree
2 5 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.60%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.08%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.56%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.81%) QA
3 8 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.13%) SLA
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) HL7
System Software
1 12 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.60%) Docker
3 3 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.60%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.56%) SQL Sentry
4 1 (0.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 81 (42.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.77%) Oracle
3 9 (4.69%) iManage
4 8 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.13%) Databricks
5 6 (3.13%) Intapp
5 6 (3.13%) JD Edwards
5 6 (3.13%) RedGate
5 6 (3.13%) SAP
6 5 (2.60%) IFS
6 5 (2.60%) Infor
6 5 (2.60%) Remedy
7 4 (2.08%) Epicor
7 4 (2.08%) Teradata
8 3 (1.56%) Veeam
8 3 (1.56%) VMware
9 2 (1.04%) Google
9 2 (1.04%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds