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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 315 225
Rank change year-on-year -177 -90 +54
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 187 328 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.88% 1.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 2.61% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 145 270 912
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,750 £37,204
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -1.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,625 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.43% +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 13,589 12,579 26,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.85% 33.94% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,548 9,309 22,587
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,490
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 16 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 16 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 -44 48 £48,500 - 13
London -92 47 £57,500 -13.21% 29
North of England -86 33 £51,000 -15.00% 23
West Midlands -1 30 £42,500 -26.09% 4
South East -36 28 £42,500 -15.00% 23
Yorkshire -71 19 £44,000 -26.67% 6
East Midlands -66 18 £59,366 +24.98% 9
South West -57 17 £42,500 +6.25% 5
East of England -47 12 £62,500 +31.58% 6
North West -35 11 £60,000 +26.32% 17
North East -35 3 £51,000 -11.30%
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 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.74%) IIS
3 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.07%) CMS
3 2 (1.07%) Confluence
3 2 (1.07%) WordPress
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.35%) Magento
1 10 (5.35%) Shopify
2 9 (4.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.81%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (2.14%) Infor M3
4 2 (1.07%) Elite 3E
4 2 (1.07%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (1.07%) JDE World
4 2 (1.07%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 93 (49.73%) Azure
2 51 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 36 (19.25%) Entra ID
4 25 (13.37%) Google Workspace
5 19 (10.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (8.56%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (8.56%) SaaS
8 13 (6.95%) Power Automate
9 12 (6.42%) PowerApps
10 10 (5.35%) AWS
11 8 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.74%) GitHub
13 5 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.14%) GCP
14 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (2.14%) Serverless
14 4 (2.14%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.37%) Broadband
2 3 (1.60%) DNS
2 3 (1.60%) Firewall
3 2 (1.07%) DHCP
3 2 (1.07%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.07%) SSL
3 2 (1.07%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.07%) VLAN
3 2 (1.07%) Wireless
4 1 (0.53%) LAN
4 1 (0.53%) Network Security
4 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.53%) WAN
4 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (57.22%) SQL Server
2 49 (26.20%) Power BI
3 36 (19.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 36 (19.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (13.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (7.49%) Power Query
6 12 (6.42%) MySQL
7 11 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (5.35%) Data Lake
8 10 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (4.28%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.67%) Metadata
12 4 (2.14%) Star Schema
12 4 (2.14%) Tableau
13 3 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (1.07%) Data Mining
14 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (1.07%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.07%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (7.49%) JIRA
2 7 (3.74%) Git
3 5 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.60%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.60%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.53%) Yeoman
General
1 53 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 46 (24.60%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (15.51%) Organisational Skills
4 26 (13.90%) Finance
5 14 (7.49%) Law
6 11 (5.88%) Back Office
7 7 (3.74%) Games
7 7 (3.74%) Legal
8 6 (3.21%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.67%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.14%) Retail
11 3 (1.60%) Banking
11 3 (1.60%) Marketing
12 2 (1.07%) Billing
12 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.07%) Front Office
12 2 (1.07%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Automotive
13 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 51 (27.27%) Analyst
2 46 (24.60%) Developer
3 39 (20.86%) Senior
4 26 (13.90%) Support Analyst
5 24 (12.83%) Applications Support
6 23 (12.30%) Applications Support Analyst
7 20 (10.70%) DBA
8 18 (9.63%) SQL DBA
9 16 (8.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (8.56%) Data Engineer
10 15 (8.02%) Senior Developer
11 13 (6.95%) C# Developer
11 13 (6.95%) Data Analyst
12 12 (6.42%) SQL Analyst
13 10 (5.35%) SQL Developer
14 9 (4.81%) Administrator
14 9 (4.81%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
14 9 (4.81%) Database Engineer
14 9 (4.81%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (4.81%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (22.46%) REST
2 37 (19.79%) SOAP
3 32 (17.11%) .NET
4 26 (13.90%) OAuth
4 26 (13.90%) OpenID
5 25 (13.37%) GraphQL
5 25 (13.37%) LDAP
5 25 (13.37%) SAML
6 13 (6.95%) ASP.NET
6 13 (6.95%) XML
7 12 (6.42%) JSON
8 10 (5.35%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.81%) Middleware
10 8 (4.28%) .NET Framework
11 7 (3.74%) CSS
11 7 (3.74%) HTML
11 7 (3.74%) PySpark
12 6 (3.21%) DirectX
12 6 (3.21%) Entity Framework
12 6 (3.21%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.37%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (13.37%) Cyberattack
2 15 (8.02%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.35%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.81%) Clustering
5 8 (4.28%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.28%) Replication
6 7 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.21%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (3.21%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.14%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.07%) Derivative
11 2 (1.07%) Driving Licence
11 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.07%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.02%) Windows
2 9 (4.81%) Linux
3 7 (3.74%) VMS
3 7 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.07%) Android
4 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.07%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Unix
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.95%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (19.79%) Data Modelling
4 36 (19.25%) Mentoring
4 36 (19.25%) Roadmaps
5 35 (18.72%) Analytics
5 35 (18.72%) ETL
6 34 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
7 31 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (14.97%) Change Control
10 25 (13.37%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (13.37%) Identity Access Management
10 25 (13.37%) Programme Delivery
10 25 (13.37%) Regulatory Compliance
11 21 (11.23%) Decision-Making
12 19 (10.16%) CI/CD
12 19 (10.16%) DevOps
12 19 (10.16%) ERP
13 18 (9.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 185 (98.93%) SQL
2 52 (27.81%) PowerShell
3 38 (20.32%) C#
4 33 (17.65%) Python
5 25 (13.37%) Bash
6 21 (11.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.21%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.67%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.14%) R
9 4 (2.14%) VBA
10 2 (1.07%) Bicep
10 2 (1.07%) Scala
10 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.07%) VBScript
11 1 (0.53%) Delphi
11 1 (0.53%) Java
11 1 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (11.23%) Degree
2 6 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.07%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.07%) MCSE
5 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) MCITP
6 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (19.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (18.72%) Data Quality
3 25 (13.37%) NCSC
3 25 (13.37%) NIST
4 8 (4.28%) QA
5 6 (3.21%) GDPR
6 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.07%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.53%) HL7
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (20.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.67%) Docker
3 2 (1.07%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.14%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.53%) SCCM
2 1 (0.53%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 69 (36.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.88%) Databricks
3 10 (5.35%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.81%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.28%) Oracle
6 5 (2.67%) RedGate
7 4 (2.14%) IFS
7 4 (2.14%) Infor
7 4 (2.14%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.14%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.60%) Sage
8 3 (1.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) SAP
8 3 (1.60%) Xamarin
9 2 (1.07%) iManage
9 2 (1.07%) Intapp
9 2 (1.07%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.07%) Talend
9 2 (1.07%) Zoho