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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 377 312
Rank change year-on-year -201 -65 -111
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 188 294 565
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.68% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 2.55% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 163 240 335
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,625 £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 £66,563 £68,125
90th Percentile £83,400 £83,525 £85,750
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 16,694 11,538 20,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.05% 26.69% 31.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,167 7,582 12,689
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £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 £85,000 £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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -82 63 £70,000 -12.50% 92
South East -52 51 £55,000 +22.22% 39
North of England -96 32 £60,000 +2.13% 29
North West -32 17 £60,000 +4.35% 17
Yorkshire -70 14 £61,500 +2.50% 9
East of England -47 13 £55,000 +33.33% 18
South West -86 13 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Midlands -80 12 £54,866 +11.40% 26
West Midlands -53 10 £50,000 -13.04% 19
East Midlands -57 2 £65,616 +35.29% 7
North East -68 1 £47,500 -9.52% 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 12 (6.38%) IIS
1 12 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.66%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.13%) Elite 3E
3 4 (2.13%) Infor M3
3 4 (2.13%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.13%) JDE World
4 3 (1.60%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.06%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.06%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.53%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 105 (55.85%) Azure
2 58 (30.85%) Power Platform
3 40 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (10.11%) Power Automate
5 16 (8.51%) SaaS
6 15 (7.98%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (7.45%) AWS
7 14 (7.45%) PowerApps
8 13 (6.91%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.85%) Snowflake
11 10 (5.32%) Serverless
12 7 (3.72%) dbt
12 7 (3.72%) GitHub
13 6 (3.19%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (2.13%) Entra ID
15 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
16 3 (1.60%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) DNS
1 3 (1.60%) Firewall
1 3 (1.60%) VLAN
2 2 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (66.49%) SQL Server
2 47 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 45 (23.94%) Power BI
4 37 (19.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 27 (14.36%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.91%) Power Query
7 11 (5.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (3.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (3.19%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.66%) Star Schema
12 4 (2.13%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.13%) Db2
12 4 (2.13%) Metadata
12 4 (2.13%) OLTP
12 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (2.13%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.60%) Big Data
13 3 (1.60%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (12.77%) Git
2 13 (6.91%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.79%) JIRA
3 9 (4.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.06%) Postman
5 1 (0.53%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 49 (26.06%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.30%) Finance
4 19 (10.11%) Law
5 17 (9.04%) Legal
6 6 (3.19%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.66%) Retail
8 3 (1.60%) Back Office
8 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.06%) Automotive
9 2 (1.06%) Banking
9 2 (1.06%) Billing
9 2 (1.06%) Local Government
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (48.94%) Developer
2 41 (21.81%) Senior
3 23 (12.23%) .NET Developer
4 20 (10.64%) Analyst
5 19 (10.11%) Software Developer
5 19 (10.11%) SQL Developer
6 17 (9.04%) Data Engineer
6 17 (9.04%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.45%) DBA
7 14 (7.45%) SQL DBA
8 12 (6.38%) Applications Support
8 12 (6.38%) SQL Server DBA
9 10 (5.32%) Lead
9 10 (5.32%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.79%) Applications Developer
10 9 (4.79%) Database Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) Business Developer
11 8 (4.26%) Senior Database Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) Software Support Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (33.51%) .NET
2 13 (6.91%) .NET Core
2 13 (6.91%) HTML
2 13 (6.91%) REST
3 12 (6.38%) CSS
4 11 (5.85%) JSON
5 10 (5.32%) ASP.NET
5 10 (5.32%) React
6 9 (4.79%) .NET Framework
7 8 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (4.26%) Blazor
7 8 (4.26%) WinForms
8 7 (3.72%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.72%) Kafka
8 7 (3.72%) XML
9 6 (3.19%) Entity Framework
9 6 (3.19%) jQuery
9 6 (3.19%) SOAP
10 5 (2.66%) PySpark
10 5 (2.66%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.70%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.45%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.26%) Replication
4 8 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.66%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.13%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.13%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.60%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.06%) LIMS
8 2 (1.06%) NHS
8 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.06%) SystemC
9 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.11%) Windows
2 11 (5.85%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (39.36%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (28.19%) DevOps
3 48 (25.53%) Business Intelligence
4 42 (22.34%) Performance Tuning
5 41 (21.81%) CI/CD
6 37 (19.68%) ETL
7 34 (18.09%) Agile
8 31 (16.49%) Data Modelling
9 27 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (13.83%) Analytics
11 22 (11.70%) Software Engineering
12 20 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
13 19 (10.11%) AI
13 19 (10.11%) Data Integration
14 17 (9.04%) Mentoring
15 16 (8.51%) SDLC
15 16 (8.51%) Secure Coding
16 15 (7.98%) Clean Code
17 14 (7.45%) Data Pipeline
17 14 (7.45%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 188 (100.00%) SQL
2 67 (35.64%) C#
3 31 (16.49%) PowerShell
4 29 (15.43%) Python
5 17 (9.04%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (4.79%) PL/SQL
7 9 (4.79%) VBScript
8 8 (4.26%) VBA
9 7 (3.72%) Delphi
10 6 (3.19%) VB.NET
11 4 (2.13%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.60%) XPath
13 2 (1.06%) Bash
13 2 (1.06%) Bicep
13 2 (1.06%) VB
14 1 (0.53%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (5.32%) Degree
2 5 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.66%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.43%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.91%) QA
3 8 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.19%) SLA
5 2 (1.06%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 12 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.66%) Docker
3 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.66%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.13%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 80 (42.55%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.91%) Oracle
3 9 (4.79%) iManage
4 8 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.72%) RedGate
6 6 (3.19%) Databricks
6 6 (3.19%) JD Edwards
6 6 (3.19%) SAP
7 5 (2.66%) IFS
7 5 (2.66%) Intapp
7 5 (2.66%) Remedy
7 5 (2.66%) Teradata
8 4 (2.13%) Epicor
8 4 (2.13%) Infor
9 3 (1.60%) Veeam
9 3 (1.60%) VMware
10 2 (1.06%) Google
10 2 (1.06%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.06%) SolarWinds