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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 289 196
Rank change year-on-year -129 -93 +69
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 209 448 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 1.00% 1.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.89% 2.91% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 172 269 905
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £83,249 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

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 11,075 15,414 24,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.84% 34.36% 36.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8,227 9,255 20,610
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -71 62 £80,000 +28.00% 13
Midlands -10 46 £48,500 +2.11% 20
South East +2 41 £40,000 -20.00% 26
North of England -11 35 £47,500 -3.06% 18
West Midlands +9 28 £42,500 -19.05% 12
Yorkshire -25 25 £25,000 -47.92% 6
South West -18 19 £42,500 -7.61% 6
East Midlands -25 18 £50,000 +11.11% 8
North West -8 7 £57,500 +17.95% 11
East of England -31 5 £42,175 -11.21% 8
North East -4 3 £51,000 -32.00% 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 15 (7.18%) IIS
2 8 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) WordPress
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (4.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.83%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (3.83%) Magento
2 8 (3.83%) Shopify
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 103 (49.28%) Azure
2 44 (21.05%) Power Platform
3 36 (17.22%) Entra ID
4 28 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (12.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 25 (11.96%) Google Workspace
7 19 (9.09%) SaaS
8 17 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (6.70%) PowerApps
10 13 (6.22%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (4.78%) GitHub
13 8 (3.83%) Power Automate
14 7 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (2.87%) GCP
16 5 (2.39%) dbt
17 4 (1.91%) Collibra
17 4 (1.91%) Fivetran
17 4 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (1.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.96%) Broadband
2 3 (1.44%) DNS
3 2 (0.96%) DHCP
3 2 (0.96%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.96%) Firewall
3 2 (0.96%) SSL
3 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.96%) VLAN
3 2 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (55.98%) SQL Server
2 48 (22.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 43 (20.57%) Power BI
4 41 (19.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (8.13%) Data Lake
7 16 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (7.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (6.70%) MySQL
10 12 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.87%) Metadata
12 4 (1.91%) OLAP
12 4 (1.91%) Power Query
13 3 (1.44%) GIS
13 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.44%) Tableau
14 2 (0.96%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (6.22%) JIRA
2 8 (3.83%) Git
3 6 (2.87%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (2.39%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (15.79%) Finance
4 25 (11.96%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.74%) Back Office
6 8 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.35%) Law
8 6 (2.87%) Games
9 5 (2.39%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.91%) Billing
11 3 (1.44%) Banking
11 3 (1.44%) Legal
11 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.44%) Marketing
12 2 (0.96%) Front Office
12 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.48%) Advertising
13 1 (0.48%) Automotive
13 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (25.36%) Senior
2 44 (21.05%) Analyst
2 44 (21.05%) Developer
3 34 (16.27%) Data Engineer
4 32 (15.31%) Support Analyst
5 30 (14.35%) Applications Support
6 27 (12.92%) Applications Support Analyst
7 19 (9.09%) DBA
8 18 (8.61%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (8.13%) Software Engineer
10 16 (7.66%) SQL DBA
11 13 (6.22%) IT Support
11 13 (6.22%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.74%) IT Engineer
12 12 (5.74%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (5.74%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (5.74%) Software Support Engineer
12 12 (5.74%) Support Engineer
13 11 (5.26%) Senior Support Analyst
13 11 (5.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.57%) REST
2 36 (17.22%) SOAP
3 32 (15.31%) .NET
4 26 (12.44%) OAuth
4 26 (12.44%) OpenID
5 25 (11.96%) GraphQL
5 25 (11.96%) LDAP
5 25 (11.96%) SAML
6 16 (7.66%) .NET Framework
7 14 (6.70%) Entity Framework
7 14 (6.70%) JSON
7 14 (6.70%) XML
8 13 (6.22%) ASP.NET
9 12 (5.74%) WinForms
10 11 (5.26%) CSS
10 11 (5.26%) HTML
11 9 (4.31%) .NET Core
11 9 (4.31%) Middleware
12 6 (2.87%) DirectX
12 6 (2.87%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.96%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (11.96%) Cyberattack
2 15 (7.18%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.83%) Clustering
4 8 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.87%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.87%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.91%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.44%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.96%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.96%) Derivative
8 2 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.96%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.53%) Windows
2 10 (4.78%) Linux
3 6 (2.87%) VMS
3 6 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.96%) Android
4 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (22.97%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (22.01%) ETL
4 40 (19.14%) Mentoring
5 39 (18.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (16.75%) Analytics
6 35 (16.75%) Data Modelling
7 33 (15.79%) Roadmaps
8 32 (15.31%) DevOps
9 30 (14.35%) Data Pipeline
10 28 (13.40%) Change Control
10 28 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (13.40%) Software Engineering
11 25 (11.96%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (11.96%) Identity Access Management
11 25 (11.96%) Programme Delivery
11 25 (11.96%) Regulatory Compliance
12 24 (11.48%) Agile
13 23 (11.00%) Data Engineering
14 19 (9.09%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 208 (99.52%) SQL
2 53 (25.36%) PowerShell
3 41 (19.62%) C#
4 40 (19.14%) Python
5 25 (11.96%) Bash
6 13 (6.22%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.74%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.44%) Bicep
10 2 (0.96%) PHP
10 2 (0.96%) Scala
10 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (13.40%) Degree
2 15 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.78%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.91%) ACCA
4 4 (1.91%) CIMA
4 4 (1.91%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.96%) MCSE
6 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) MCITP
7 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (13.88%) Data Quality
3 25 (11.96%) NCSC
3 25 (11.96%) NIST
4 8 (3.83%) GDPR
5 7 (3.35%) QA
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (17.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.91%) Docker
3 2 (0.96%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 83 (39.71%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.09%) Databricks
3 15 (7.18%) Oracle
4 13 (6.22%) Sage
5 12 (5.74%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.83%) ConnectWise
6 8 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.83%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.39%) Google
7 5 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.39%) Zoho
8 4 (1.91%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.44%) Informatica
9 3 (1.44%) RedGate
9 3 (1.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) Talend
10 2 (0.96%) Citrix
10 2 (0.96%) VMware
11 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.48%) Siemens