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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 307 207
Rank change year-on-year -91 -100 +17
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 217 539 750
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.90% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.06% 2.74% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 193 336 675
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% -0.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,700 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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 10,532 19,678 18,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.45% 32.87% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,860 11,802 15,499
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,683 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 -81 65 £80,000 +28.00% 20
Midlands +35 48 £48,000 +6.67% 7
South East +16 44 £42,500 -14.10% 18
North of England -14 35 £40,000 -16.23% 14
West Midlands +36 27 £42,500 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire +14 27 £40,000 -16.23% 5
East Midlands +17 21 £50,000 +8.11% 3
South West +6 18 £50,000 -6.98% 13
North East +13 4 £51,750 -11.54%
North West +9 4 £57,500 +17.95% 9
East of England -18 4 £50,000 +5.26% 6
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 17 (7.83%) IIS
2 9 (4.15%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.38%) CMS
4 2 (0.92%) Apache
4 2 (0.92%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.92%) WordPress
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (10.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.92%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.92%) Sage 1000
1 2 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (50.69%) Azure
2 59 (27.19%) Power Platform
3 46 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (19.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (8.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (7.37%) GCP
7 15 (6.91%) Snowflake
8 12 (5.53%) AWS
8 12 (5.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (5.07%) GitHub
10 10 (4.61%) PowerApps
10 10 (4.61%) SaaS
11 8 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.23%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.76%) Azure Functions
13 6 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.76%) Serverless
14 5 (2.30%) dbt
14 5 (2.30%) Power Automate
15 4 (1.84%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.38%) DNS
2 2 (0.92%) DHCP
2 2 (0.92%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.92%) Firewall
2 2 (0.92%) SSL
2 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.92%) VLAN
2 2 (0.92%) Wireless
3 1 (0.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (55.30%) SQL Server
2 59 (27.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 58 (26.73%) Power BI
4 55 (25.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 30 (13.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 27 (12.44%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (12.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 26 (11.98%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.61%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.69%) Metadata
9 8 (3.69%) MySQL
9 8 (3.69%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.23%) OLAP
10 7 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.76%) BigQuery
11 6 (2.76%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.30%) Tableau
13 4 (1.84%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.84%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (8.76%) Git
2 7 (3.23%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (2.76%) JIRA
3 6 (2.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (2.30%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.30%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.46%) Mercurial
General
1 77 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.66%) Finance
3 45 (20.74%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.69%) Law
6 8 (3.69%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.69%) Retail
7 6 (2.76%) Games
8 5 (2.30%) Automotive
8 5 (2.30%) Back Office
8 5 (2.30%) Legal
9 4 (1.84%) Billing
9 4 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.38%) Front Office
11 2 (0.92%) Advertising
11 2 (0.92%) Banking
11 2 (0.92%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.92%) Social Housing
11 2 (0.92%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 69 (31.80%) Developer
2 47 (21.66%) Senior
3 43 (19.82%) Data Engineer
4 38 (17.51%) Analyst
5 27 (12.44%) SQL Developer
6 23 (10.60%) Applications Support
6 23 (10.60%) DBA
7 21 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (9.68%) Support Analyst
8 20 (9.22%) SQL DBA
9 19 (8.76%) Applications Support Analyst
10 18 (8.29%) Software Engineer
11 15 (6.91%) Senior Developer
12 14 (6.45%) Administrator
12 14 (6.45%) IT Support
13 13 (5.99%) Support Engineer
14 12 (5.53%) IT Engineer
14 12 (5.53%) IT Support Engineer
14 12 (5.53%) Software Support Engineer
15 9 (4.15%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (21.66%) .NET
2 23 (10.60%) .NET Framework
3 20 (9.22%) ASP.NET
4 19 (8.76%) CSS
4 19 (8.76%) Entity Framework
5 18 (8.29%) HTML
6 14 (6.45%) PySpark
6 14 (6.45%) REST
7 12 (5.53%) .NET Core
7 12 (5.53%) WinForms
8 11 (5.07%) Web Services
9 10 (4.61%) JSON
10 9 (4.15%) XML
11 7 (3.23%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.76%) DirectX
12 6 (2.76%) OpenGL
12 6 (2.76%) SOAP
13 5 (2.30%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.30%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.53%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.15%) Clustering
4 6 (2.76%) 3D Graphics
4 6 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.84%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.38%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.38%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.38%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.92%) Derivative
8 2 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.92%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.92%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.14%) Windows
2 8 (3.69%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.30%) Linux
4 3 (1.38%) VMS
5 2 (0.92%) Android
5 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.18%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (31.80%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (28.57%) ETL
4 60 (27.65%) DevOps
5 41 (18.89%) Data Pipeline
6 38 (17.51%) Analytics
7 33 (15.21%) Agile
8 32 (14.75%) Data Modelling
8 32 (14.75%) Software Engineering
9 30 (13.82%) Data Engineering
10 29 (13.36%) CI/CD
11 23 (10.60%) Decision-Making
12 20 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (8.76%) Dimensional Modelling
14 18 (8.29%) Mentoring
15 17 (7.83%) Computer Science
15 17 (7.83%) Performance Tuning
16 16 (7.37%) Machine Learning
17 14 (6.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 212 (97.70%) SQL
2 50 (23.04%) C#
3 48 (22.12%) Python
4 22 (10.14%) JavaScript
5 18 (8.29%) PowerShell
6 13 (5.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (5.53%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.84%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.38%) Bicep
9 3 (1.38%) VBA
10 2 (0.92%) C++
10 2 (0.92%) PHP
10 2 (0.92%) Scala
10 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.46%) Bash
11 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (14.75%) Degree
2 15 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.84%) ACCA
4 4 (1.84%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.84%) CIMA
5 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.38%) MCSE
5 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.46%) MCITP
6 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.06%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.15%) GDPR
2 9 (4.15%) QA
3 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) NCSC
4 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (4.61%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.69%) Docker
3 3 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.30%) Terraform
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 86 (39.63%) Microsoft
2 38 (17.51%) Databricks
3 15 (6.91%) Oracle
3 15 (6.91%) Sage
4 12 (5.53%) Xamarin
5 7 (3.23%) Google
5 7 (3.23%) RedGate
6 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.30%) Zoho
7 4 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.84%) Dataiku
7 4 (1.84%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.84%) Informatica
7 4 (1.84%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.84%) Talend
8 3 (1.38%) VMware
9 2 (0.92%) Aderant
9 2 (0.92%) iManage
9 2 (0.92%) Intapp
9 2 (0.92%) Lotus