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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 360 329
Rank change year-on-year -175 -31 -98
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 201 336 591
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.77% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 2.59% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 173 272 452
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,499 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% -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 16,565 12,988 21,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.02% 29.70% 29.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,070 8,734 16,155
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -92 54 £70,000 - 25
South East -19 45 £52,500 +16.67% 13
North of England -78 36 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Midlands -64 24 £47,500 -2.06% 11
North West 0 21 £47,500 -17.39% 8
East of England -33 18 £62,500 +51.52% 2
South West -69 18 £50,000 - 7
West Midlands -40 17 £44,000 -23.48% 11
Yorkshire -72 13 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -47 7 £59,366 +26.99%
North East -59 2 £45,500 -13.33% 4
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 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.97%) IIS
3 7 (3.48%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) JBoss
6 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.99%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.49%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (2.49%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.99%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.99%) JDE World
5 3 (1.49%) Elite 3E
5 3 (1.49%) Magento
5 3 (1.49%) Shopify
6 2 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (1.00%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.50%) FastStats
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 110 (54.73%) Azure
2 67 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 34 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (8.46%) AWS
5 17 (8.46%) Power Automate
6 15 (7.46%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (7.46%) SaaS
7 13 (6.47%) Entra ID
7 13 (6.47%) PowerApps
8 12 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (4.98%) Serverless
10 8 (3.98%) GitHub
10 8 (3.98%) Snowflake
11 7 (3.48%) Google Workspace
12 6 (2.99%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.99%) GCP
13 4 (1.99%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.49%) Broadband
2 4 (1.99%) Firewall
3 3 (1.49%) DNS
3 3 (1.49%) VLAN
4 2 (1.00%) HTTP
5 1 (0.50%) LAN
5 1 (0.50%) Network Security
5 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.50%) WAN
5 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (65.17%) SQL Server
2 55 (27.36%) Power BI
3 52 (25.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 42 (20.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (8.46%) Power Query
6 16 (7.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (4.48%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.99%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.99%) MySQL
10 6 (2.99%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.99%) Db2
12 4 (1.99%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.00%) Big Data
14 2 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 23 (11.44%) Git
2 13 (6.47%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (4.48%) JIRA
5 2 (1.00%) Postman
5 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 62 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 49 (24.38%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (13.93%) Finance
4 20 (9.95%) Law
5 12 (5.97%) Legal
6 11 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.48%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.99%) Retail
9 4 (1.99%) Back Office
9 4 (1.99%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.49%) Billing
10 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.00%) Automotive
11 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
11 2 (1.00%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Advertising
12 1 (0.50%) Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (41.79%) Developer
2 33 (16.42%) Analyst
3 30 (14.93%) Senior
4 21 (10.45%) .NET Developer
5 19 (9.45%) DBA
5 19 (9.45%) SQL Developer
6 17 (8.46%) SQL DBA
7 16 (7.96%) Applications Support
7 16 (7.96%) Data Engineer
7 16 (7.96%) Software Developer
8 14 (6.97%) SQL Server DBA
9 12 (5.97%) Data Analyst
10 11 (5.47%) Applications Support Analyst
10 11 (5.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 11 (5.47%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.98%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.48%) Support Analyst
13 8 (3.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.98%) Lead
13 8 (3.98%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (30.35%) .NET
2 21 (10.45%) REST
3 15 (7.46%) HTML
3 15 (7.46%) SOAP
4 14 (6.97%) .NET Core
4 14 (6.97%) ASP.NET
4 14 (6.97%) CSS
5 13 (6.47%) JSON
6 11 (5.47%) .NET Framework
7 10 (4.98%) XML
8 9 (4.48%) Entity Framework
8 9 (4.48%) Kafka
8 9 (4.48%) WinForms
9 8 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (3.98%) Blazor
10 7 (3.48%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.48%) jQuery
10 7 (3.48%) OpenID
10 7 (3.48%) React
10 7 (3.48%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.45%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.97%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.97%) Replication
4 10 (4.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (4.98%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.99%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.49%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.99%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.49%) LIMS
10 3 (1.49%) NHS
10 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.45%) Windows
2 10 (4.98%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.83%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (29.35%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (25.37%) Performance Tuning
4 44 (21.89%) DevOps
5 40 (19.90%) Data Modelling
6 38 (18.91%) ETL
7 35 (17.41%) CI/CD
8 33 (16.42%) Agile
9 32 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (14.43%) Analytics
11 21 (10.45%) Roadmaps
12 20 (9.95%) Validation
13 19 (9.45%) AI
13 19 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (8.96%) Decision-Making
14 18 (8.96%) Mentoring
15 17 (8.46%) Migration
15 17 (8.46%) Root Cause Analysis
15 17 (8.46%) Software Engineering
16 16 (7.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 200 (99.50%) SQL
2 64 (31.84%) C#
3 39 (19.40%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.42%) Python
5 24 (11.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (7.46%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.48%) VBScript
8 8 (3.98%) PL/SQL
9 7 (3.48%) Bash
9 7 (3.48%) VBA
10 5 (2.49%) Delphi
11 4 (1.99%) R
11 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.99%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.00%) VB
13 1 (0.50%) Bicep
13 1 (0.50%) Java
13 1 (0.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (6.97%) Degree
2 5 (2.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.49%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.42%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (7.96%) QA
3 7 (3.48%) NIST
3 7 (3.48%) SLA
4 5 (2.49%) NCSC
5 3 (1.49%) GDPR
6 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (10.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.49%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.99%) Terraform
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 78 (38.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.98%) Oracle
3 9 (4.48%) iManage
3 9 (4.48%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.48%) SAP
5 6 (2.99%) Databricks
5 6 (2.99%) IFS
5 6 (2.99%) Infor
5 6 (2.99%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.49%) RedGate
6 5 (2.49%) Remedy
7 4 (1.99%) Epicor
7 4 (1.99%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.49%) Intapp
8 3 (1.49%) Veeam
8 3 (1.49%) VMware
8 3 (1.49%) WooCommerce
9 2 (1.00%) ConnectWise
9 2 (1.00%) Google
9 2 (1.00%) Rollbar