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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 329 221
Rank change year-on-year -162 -108 +54
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 194 323 1,073
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.88% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.46% 2.64% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 152 267 925
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,750 £37,350
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,063 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% -1.79%

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 13,277 12,245 26,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.93% 33.51% 33.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9,478 9,354 22,468
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,532
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 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% +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 10 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 10 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
Midlands -49 50 £48,500 - 19
London -103 47 £57,500 -11.54% 23
North of England -90 34 £51,000 -15.00% 16
West Midlands -2 31 £42,500 -22.73% 8
South East -22 31 £42,500 -14.55% 23
Yorkshire -69 20 £47,000 -21.67% 6
East Midlands -67 19 £59,000 +24.21% 11
South West -44 18 £42,500 +6.25% 14
East of England -57 12 £62,500 +31.58% 10
North West -37 11 £60,000 +37.14% 9
North East -31 3 £51,000 -11.30% 1
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 10 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.64%) IIS
2 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.03%) CMS
3 2 (1.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) WordPress
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.15%) Magento
1 10 (5.15%) Shopify
2 9 (4.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.64%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (1.55%) Infor M3
4 2 (1.03%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.52%) JDE OneWorld
5 1 (0.52%) JDE World
5 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (51.03%) Azure
2 51 (26.29%) Power Platform
3 36 (18.56%) Entra ID
4 25 (12.89%) Google Workspace
5 21 (10.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (8.76%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (8.76%) SaaS
8 15 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.70%) Power Automate
10 12 (6.19%) PowerApps
11 10 (5.15%) AWS
12 8 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (4.12%) GitHub
13 6 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.58%) GCP
14 5 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (2.06%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.89%) Broadband
2 3 (1.55%) DNS
2 3 (1.55%) Firewall
3 2 (1.03%) DHCP
3 2 (1.03%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.03%) SSL
3 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.03%) VLAN
3 2 (1.03%) Wireless
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
1 110 (56.70%) SQL Server
2 49 (25.26%) Power BI
3 40 (20.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 38 (19.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (13.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (6.70%) Power Query
7 12 (6.19%) MySQL
8 11 (5.67%) Data Lake
8 11 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (4.12%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.09%) Metadata
13 4 (2.06%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.06%) Tableau
14 3 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (1.03%) Data Mining
15 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
15 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (7.22%) JIRA
2 7 (3.61%) Git
3 4 (2.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.52%) Yeoman
General
1 55 (28.35%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.23%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.43%) Organisational Skills
4 26 (13.40%) Finance
5 13 (6.70%) Law
6 12 (6.19%) Back Office
7 7 (3.61%) Games
8 6 (3.09%) Legal
8 6 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.55%) Banking
9 3 (1.55%) Marketing
9 3 (1.55%) Retail
10 2 (1.03%) Billing
10 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Front Office
10 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Advertising
11 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (26.80%) Analyst
2 46 (23.71%) Developer
3 41 (21.13%) Senior
4 27 (13.92%) Support Analyst
5 25 (12.89%) Applications Support
6 24 (12.37%) Applications Support Analyst
7 21 (10.82%) DBA
8 19 (9.79%) Data Engineer
8 19 (9.79%) SQL DBA
9 16 (8.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 15 (7.73%) Senior Developer
11 13 (6.70%) C# Developer
11 13 (6.70%) Data Analyst
12 12 (6.19%) SQL Analyst
12 12 (6.19%) SQL Developer
13 10 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (5.15%) Senior Support Analyst
14 9 (4.64%) Administrator
14 9 (4.64%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
14 9 (4.64%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.16%) REST
2 37 (19.07%) SOAP
3 34 (17.53%) .NET
4 26 (13.40%) OAuth
4 26 (13.40%) OpenID
5 25 (12.89%) GraphQL
5 25 (12.89%) LDAP
5 25 (12.89%) SAML
6 15 (7.73%) ASP.NET
7 14 (7.22%) XML
8 13 (6.70%) JSON
9 11 (5.67%) .NET Framework
10 10 (5.15%) .NET Core
11 9 (4.64%) Entity Framework
11 9 (4.64%) Middleware
12 8 (4.12%) PySpark
13 7 (3.61%) CSS
13 7 (3.61%) HTML
13 7 (3.61%) WinForms
14 6 (3.09%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.89%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (12.89%) Cyberattack
2 16 (8.25%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.64%) Clustering
5 8 (4.12%) Replication
6 7 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.09%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (3.09%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.06%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.03%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.76%) Windows
2 9 (4.64%) Linux
3 7 (3.61%) VMS
4 6 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.03%) Android
5 2 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.03%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Unix
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (28.87%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (19.59%) Data Modelling
4 37 (19.07%) Analytics
4 37 (19.07%) Roadmaps
5 36 (18.56%) ETL
5 36 (18.56%) Mentoring
6 33 (17.01%) Performance Tuning
6 33 (17.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (14.43%) Change Control
9 25 (12.89%) Cybersecurity
9 25 (12.89%) Identity Access Management
9 25 (12.89%) Programme Delivery
9 25 (12.89%) Regulatory Compliance
10 22 (11.34%) Decision-Making
10 22 (11.34%) DevOps
11 19 (9.79%) CI/CD
11 19 (9.79%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (9.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 192 (98.97%) SQL
2 52 (26.80%) PowerShell
3 40 (20.62%) C#
4 36 (18.56%) Python
5 25 (12.89%) Bash
6 21 (10.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.09%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.06%) R
9 3 (1.55%) VBA
10 2 (1.03%) Bicep
10 2 (1.03%) Scala
10 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.52%) Delphi
11 1 (0.52%) Java
11 1 (0.52%) VB
11 1 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (12.89%) Degree
2 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.09%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.03%) MCSE
5 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.52%) MCITP
6 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (18.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (18.04%) Data Quality
3 25 (12.89%) NCSC
3 25 (12.89%) NIST
4 9 (4.64%) QA
5 6 (3.09%) GDPR
6 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.03%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.52%) HL7
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (19.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.06%) Docker
3 2 (1.03%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.06%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.06%) Terraform
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.52%) SCCM
2 1 (0.52%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 72 (37.11%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.70%) Databricks
3 10 (5.15%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.64%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.64%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.12%) Oracle
6 6 (3.09%) Sage
6 6 (3.09%) Xamarin
7 5 (2.58%) RedGate
8 4 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.06%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.55%) IFS
9 3 (1.55%) Infor
9 3 (1.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.55%) Zoho
10 2 (1.03%) Google
10 2 (1.03%) Intapp
10 2 (1.03%) Rollbar
10 2 (1.03%) Talend
10 2 (1.03%) VMware