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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 329 224
Rank change year-on-year -150 -105 +51
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 187 317 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.87% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 2.55% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 147 261 923
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,719 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,124 £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 13,042 12,430 26,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.98% 33.93% 33.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9,317 9,362 22,267
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,624
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,683 £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 £63,217 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.74% +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 6 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 6 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 -31 48 £46,750 -1.58% 19
London -92 46 £57,500 -11.54% 23
North of England -76 32 £51,000 -11.30% 16
West Midlands +2 30 £42,500 -22.73% 8
South East -30 29 £40,000 -19.58% 23
South West -41 18 £42,500 +6.25% 14
East Midlands -57 18 £54,500 +16.58% 11
Yorkshire -62 18 £50,000 -16.67% 6
East of England -50 12 £62,500 +31.58% 10
North West -31 11 £60,000 +26.32% 9
North East -27 3 £51,000 -23.02% 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 9 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.28%) IIS
2 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
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 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 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 2 (1.07%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.53%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 96 (51.34%) Azure
2 49 (26.20%) Power Platform
3 36 (19.25%) Entra ID
4 25 (13.37%) Google Workspace
5 22 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (9.09%) SaaS
8 16 (8.56%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.88%) Power Automate
10 11 (5.88%) PowerApps
11 9 (4.81%) AWS
12 8 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (4.28%) GitHub
13 6 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.67%) GCP
14 5 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
15 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
1 106 (56.68%) SQL Server
2 47 (25.13%) Power BI
3 37 (19.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 36 (19.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (13.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (6.42%) Data Lake
6 12 (6.42%) MySQL
7 11 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.88%) Power Query
8 9 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (4.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (3.74%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.21%) 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 13 (6.95%) JIRA
2 7 (3.74%) Git
3 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.60%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.53%) Yeoman
General
1 50 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.97%) Organisational Skills
4 24 (12.83%) Finance
5 12 (6.42%) Back Office
6 11 (5.88%) Law
7 7 (3.74%) Games
8 6 (3.21%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.21%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.14%) Legal
10 3 (1.60%) Banking
10 3 (1.60%) Marketing
10 3 (1.60%) Retail
11 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Front Office
11 2 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.53%) Police
12 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 48 (25.67%) Analyst
2 44 (23.53%) Developer
3 41 (21.93%) Senior
4 26 (13.90%) Support Analyst
5 23 (12.30%) Applications Support
6 22 (11.76%) Applications Support Analyst
7 20 (10.70%) Data Engineer
7 20 (10.70%) DBA
8 18 (9.63%) SQL DBA
9 15 (8.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 15 (8.02%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.95%) C# Developer
10 13 (6.95%) Data Analyst
11 12 (6.42%) SQL Developer
12 11 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
13 10 (5.35%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (5.35%) Senior Support Analyst
14 9 (4.81%) Administrator
14 9 (4.81%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
14 9 (4.81%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.99%) REST
2 37 (19.79%) SOAP
3 33 (17.65%) .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 15 (8.02%) ASP.NET
7 14 (7.49%) XML
8 12 (6.42%) JSON
9 11 (5.88%) .NET Framework
10 10 (5.35%) .NET Core
11 9 (4.81%) Entity Framework
11 9 (4.81%) Middleware
12 8 (4.28%) PySpark
13 7 (3.74%) WinForms
14 6 (3.21%) DirectX
14 6 (3.21%) OpenGL
15 5 (2.67%) Web Services
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 7 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.74%) Replication
6 6 (3.21%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (3.21%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.14%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.07%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.07%) Derivative
10 2 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.07%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.56%) Windows
2 9 (4.81%) Linux
3 7 (3.74%) VMS
4 5 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.07%) Android
5 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.34%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (20.32%) Data Modelling
4 36 (19.25%) Analytics
4 36 (19.25%) ETL
4 36 (19.25%) Mentoring
4 36 (19.25%) Roadmaps
5 33 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (16.04%) Performance Tuning
7 28 (14.97%) Change Control
8 25 (13.37%) Cybersecurity
8 25 (13.37%) Identity Access Management
8 25 (13.37%) Programme Delivery
8 25 (13.37%) Regulatory Compliance
9 22 (11.76%) Decision-Making
10 20 (10.70%) Data Pipeline
10 20 (10.70%) DevOps
11 19 (10.16%) CI/CD
11 19 (10.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 185 (98.93%) SQL
2 51 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 39 (20.86%) C#
4 37 (19.79%) Python
5 25 (13.37%) Bash
6 19 (10.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.67%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.14%) R
9 2 (1.07%) Bicep
9 2 (1.07%) Scala
9 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.07%) VBA
10 1 (0.53%) Delphi
10 1 (0.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (12.83%) Degree
2 9 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.21%) 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 35 (18.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 25 (13.37%) NCSC
3 25 (13.37%) NIST
4 7 (3.74%) QA
5 6 (3.21%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) HL7
6 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (19.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.14%) 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 71 (37.97%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.49%) Databricks
3 10 (5.35%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.81%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.74%) Oracle
6 6 (3.21%) Sage
6 6 (3.21%) Xamarin
7 4 (2.14%) RedGate
7 4 (2.14%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.60%) Zoho
9 2 (1.07%) Citrix
9 2 (1.07%) Google
9 2 (1.07%) Infor
9 2 (1.07%) Informatica
9 2 (1.07%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.07%) Talend
9 2 (1.07%) VMware