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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 356 329
Rank change year-on-year -186 -27 -108
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 194 333 587
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.76% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 2.60% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 170 269 446
10th Percentile £41,700 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - -
75th Percentile £69,688 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,075 £82,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 16,747 12,830 21,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.93% 29.31% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,174 8,566 15,968
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +4.10% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,031
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -102 52 £70,000 - 33
South East -39 45 £52,500 +16.67% 16
North of England -82 34 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Midlands -66 22 £47,500 -2.06% 8
North West -9 19 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East of England -38 18 £62,500 +51.52% 3
South West -63 17 £51,250 +2.50% 3
West Midlands -40 16 £45,750 -20.43% 7
Yorkshire -73 13 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -52 6 £59,366 +24.98% 1
North East -57 2 £45,500 -13.33% 3
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 13 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.19%) IIS
3 7 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.09%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.58%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (2.06%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (2.06%) Elite 3E
4 4 (2.06%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (2.06%) JDE World
5 2 (1.03%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.03%) Magento
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.03%) SAP Business One
5 2 (1.03%) Shopify
6 1 (0.52%) FastStats
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 107 (55.15%) Azure
2 65 (33.51%) Power Platform
3 36 (18.56%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.28%) Power Automate
5 17 (8.76%) AWS
5 17 (8.76%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (8.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (7.22%) PowerApps
8 13 (6.70%) SaaS
9 12 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.15%) Serverless
11 8 (4.12%) GitHub
11 8 (4.12%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.61%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.09%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (2.06%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.06%) Firewall
2 3 (1.55%) DNS
2 3 (1.55%) VLAN
3 2 (1.03%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) Broadband
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) Network Security
4 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (65.98%) SQL Server
2 53 (27.32%) Power BI
3 51 (26.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 40 (20.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (8.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (8.76%) Power Query
6 16 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 10 (5.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (3.09%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.09%) Star Schema
9 5 (2.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.06%) Db2
10 4 (2.06%) WhereScape RED
11 3 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.55%) MySQL
11 3 (1.55%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 23 (11.86%) Git
2 13 (6.70%) Visual Studio
3 10 (5.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (4.12%) JIRA
5 2 (1.03%) Postman
5 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.52%) Yeoman
General
1 60 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 48 (24.74%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.95%) Finance
4 21 (10.82%) Law
5 13 (6.70%) Legal
6 7 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.58%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.58%) Retail
8 3 (1.55%) Back Office
8 3 (1.55%) Billing
8 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.03%) Automotive
9 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 85 (43.81%) Developer
2 30 (15.46%) Analyst
2 30 (15.46%) Senior
3 22 (11.34%) .NET Developer
4 21 (10.82%) SQL Developer
5 18 (9.28%) DBA
6 17 (8.76%) SQL DBA
7 16 (8.25%) Software Developer
8 15 (7.73%) Applications Support
8 15 (7.73%) Data Engineer
9 14 (7.22%) SQL Server DBA
10 12 (6.19%) Senior Developer
11 10 (5.15%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (5.15%) Data Analyst
11 10 (5.15%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 9 (4.64%) Lead
13 8 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (4.12%) Software Support Engineer
13 8 (4.12%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (31.96%) .NET
2 16 (8.25%) REST
3 14 (7.22%) .NET Core
3 14 (7.22%) ASP.NET
3 14 (7.22%) HTML
4 13 (6.70%) CSS
5 12 (6.19%) .NET Framework
6 11 (5.67%) JSON
7 10 (5.15%) SOAP
8 9 (4.64%) Entity Framework
8 9 (4.64%) Kafka
8 9 (4.64%) WinForms
8 9 (4.64%) XML
9 8 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.12%) Blazor
10 7 (3.61%) jQuery
10 7 (3.61%) React
10 7 (3.61%) WPF
11 6 (3.09%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.09%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.82%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.22%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.67%) Replication
4 9 (4.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.12%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.09%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.06%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.55%) LIMS
9 3 (1.55%) NHS
9 3 (1.55%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.03%) Clustering
10 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.79%) Windows
2 10 (5.15%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.52%) Linux
4 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.08%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (29.38%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (26.29%) Performance Tuning
4 47 (24.23%) DevOps
5 38 (19.59%) Data Modelling
6 37 (19.07%) CI/CD
6 37 (19.07%) ETL
7 33 (17.01%) Agile
7 33 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (14.43%) Analytics
9 19 (9.79%) AI
10 18 (9.28%) Decision-Making
10 18 (9.28%) Root Cause Analysis
10 18 (9.28%) Software Engineering
10 18 (9.28%) Validation
11 17 (8.76%) Roadmaps
11 17 (8.76%) SDLC
12 16 (8.25%) Migration
12 16 (8.25%) Secure Coding
12 16 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 193 (99.48%) SQL
2 64 (32.99%) C#
3 34 (17.53%) PowerShell
4 31 (15.98%) Python
5 24 (12.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (7.73%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.64%) VBScript
8 8 (4.12%) PL/SQL
9 7 (3.61%) VBA
10 5 (2.58%) Delphi
10 5 (2.58%) VB.NET
11 4 (2.06%) R
11 4 (2.06%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.55%) Bash
13 2 (1.03%) VB
13 2 (1.03%) XPath
14 1 (0.52%) Bicep
14 1 (0.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (7.22%) Degree
2 5 (2.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.95%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.25%) QA
3 10 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.61%) SLA
5 3 (1.55%) GDPR
5 3 (1.55%) NIST
6 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) HL7
7 1 (0.52%) NCSC
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (7.73%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.58%) Docker
3 3 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.58%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.06%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.52%) SCCM
3 1 (0.52%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 76 (39.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.67%) Oracle
3 9 (4.64%) iManage
3 9 (4.64%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.61%) SAP
5 6 (3.09%) Databricks
5 6 (3.09%) IFS
5 6 (3.09%) Infor
5 6 (3.09%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.58%) RedGate
6 5 (2.58%) Remedy
7 4 (2.06%) Epicor
7 4 (2.06%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.55%) Intapp
8 3 (1.55%) Veeam
8 3 (1.55%) VMware
9 2 (1.03%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.03%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.03%) WooCommerce