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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 354 267
Rank change year-on-year -164 -87 -37
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 200 330 921
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.76% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 2.52% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 166 269 740
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £69,688 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

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 15,999 13,089 27,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.41% 30.29% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,622 8,861 21,741
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 July 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 July 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 -72 57 £70,000 - 26
South East -38 45 £52,500 +16.67% 22
North of England -75 35 £47,500 -20.83% 29
Midlands -63 25 £45,000 -7.22% 10
North West -2 22 £53,750 - 18
South West -57 19 £48,750 - 7
West Midlands -22 17 £44,000 -23.48% 8
East of England -24 14 £62,500 +48.81% 4
Yorkshire -63 11 £45,000 -25.00% 9
East Midlands -47 8 £59,000 +24.21% 2
North East -51 2 £45,500 -13.33% 2
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 20 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.00%) IIS
3 7 (3.50%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.50%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (3.00%) Infor M3
4 5 (2.50%) Magento
4 5 (2.50%) NetSuite
4 5 (2.50%) Shopify
5 4 (2.00%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (2.00%) JDE World
6 3 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (1.00%) Elite 3E
7 2 (1.00%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.50%) FastStats
8 1 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 118 (59.00%) Azure
2 67 (33.50%) Power Platform
3 27 (13.50%) Entra ID
4 26 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (10.50%) SaaS
6 20 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (8.00%) AWS
8 16 (8.00%) Google Workspace
8 16 (8.00%) Power Automate
9 14 (7.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (6.00%) PowerApps
12 8 (4.00%) Serverless
12 8 (4.00%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.50%) GitHub
14 5 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (2.00%) Azure Functions
15 4 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (2.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.00%) Broadband
2 4 (2.00%) Firewall
3 3 (1.50%) DNS
3 3 (1.50%) VLAN
4 1 (0.50%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (59.00%) SQL Server
2 55 (27.50%) Power BI
3 50 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 48 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (8.00%) Power Query
6 12 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.50%) MySQL
7 11 (5.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.00%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.50%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.50%) Db2
12 3 (1.50%) WhereScape RED
13 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (9.50%) Git
2 12 (6.00%) Visual Studio
3 10 (5.00%) JIRA
3 10 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.00%) Postman
4 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 54 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 52 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (13.50%) Finance
4 20 (10.00%) Law
4 20 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (5.00%) Legal
6 7 (3.50%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.00%) Back Office
7 6 (3.00%) Retail
8 4 (2.00%) Marketing
9 3 (1.50%) Billing
9 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.50%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.00%) Automotive
10 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Advertising
11 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.50%) Games
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (37.00%) Developer
2 41 (20.50%) Analyst
3 35 (17.50%) Senior
4 17 (8.50%) Applications Support
4 17 (8.50%) Data Analyst
4 17 (8.50%) SQL Developer
5 16 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 16 (8.00%) Data Engineer
6 15 (7.50%) DBA
6 15 (7.50%) Software Developer
7 14 (7.00%) .NET Developer
7 14 (7.00%) Applications Support Analyst
8 13 (6.50%) SQL DBA
8 13 (6.50%) Support Analyst
9 12 (6.00%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.00%) SQL Analyst
10 10 (5.00%) SQL Server DBA
10 10 (5.00%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 9 (4.50%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (26.00%) .NET
2 28 (14.00%) REST
3 22 (11.00%) SOAP
4 17 (8.50%) HTML
4 17 (8.50%) JSON
5 16 (8.00%) ASP.NET
5 16 (8.00%) CSS
5 16 (8.00%) GraphQL
5 16 (8.00%) LDAP
5 16 (8.00%) OAuth
5 16 (8.00%) OpenID
5 16 (8.00%) SAML
6 14 (7.00%) XML
7 13 (6.50%) .NET Core
8 9 (4.50%) Blazor
8 9 (4.50%) Kafka
9 8 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.00%) React
10 7 (3.50%) .NET Framework
10 7 (3.50%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.50%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.00%) Cyber Threat
2 14 (7.00%) Cyberattack
2 14 (7.00%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (5.50%) Replication
5 9 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.50%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.00%) Clustering
7 4 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.00%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.50%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.50%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.50%) LIMS
8 3 (1.50%) NHS
8 3 (1.50%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.50%) Windows
2 9 (4.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (30.50%) Business Intelligence
1 61 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 42 (21.00%) Data Modelling
4 37 (18.50%) ETL
5 36 (18.00%) DevOps
6 34 (17.00%) CI/CD
7 33 (16.50%) Agile
8 31 (15.50%) Analytics
9 29 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (14.00%) Roadmaps
11 25 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 25 (12.50%) Validation
12 24 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (8.50%) Decision-Making
14 16 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
14 16 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
15 15 (7.50%) Change Control
15 15 (7.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 199 (99.50%) SQL
2 56 (28.00%) C#
3 50 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 37 (18.50%) Python
5 23 (11.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (8.00%) Bash
6 16 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.50%) PL/SQL
7 9 (4.50%) VBScript
8 7 (3.50%) VBA
9 5 (2.50%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.00%) R
11 3 (1.50%) Delphi
11 3 (1.50%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.00%) VB
13 1 (0.50%) Bicep
13 1 (0.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (7.00%) Degree
2 3 (1.50%) DBS Check
2 3 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.50%) Data Quality
2 31 (15.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.00%) NIST
4 15 (7.50%) QA
5 14 (7.00%) NCSC
6 5 (2.50%) SLA
7 4 (2.00%) GDPR
8 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.50%) HL7
9 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.50%) Docker
3 3 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.00%) Terraform
2 3 (1.50%) ZABBIX
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 76 (38.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.00%) iManage
2 8 (4.00%) Oracle
2 8 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.50%) SAP
4 6 (3.00%) Databricks
4 6 (3.00%) IFS
4 6 (3.00%) Infor
5 5 (2.50%) JD Edwards
5 5 (2.50%) WooCommerce
6 4 (2.00%) ConnectWise
6 4 (2.00%) Epicor
6 4 (2.00%) RedGate
6 4 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.00%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.50%) Remedy
7 3 (1.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.50%) Veeam
7 3 (1.50%) VMware
8 2 (1.00%) Intapp