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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 363 324
Rank change year-on-year -187 -39 -108
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 194 330 585
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.76% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 2.60% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 170 267 440
10th Percentile £41,975 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,813
90th Percentile £80,200 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 16,690 12,697 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 29.07% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,155 8,459 15,920
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,000 £36,494
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,031
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 12 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 12 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 - 81
South East -29 46 £52,500 +16.67% 17
North of England -92 34 £47,500 -20.83% 22
Midlands -60 20 £48,750 +0.52% 12
North West -22 19 £47,500 -17.39% 12
East of England -41 17 £62,500 +51.52% 9
South West -64 17 £51,250 +2.50% 4
West Midlands -33 15 £47,500 -17.39% 9
Yorkshire -62 13 £45,000 -25.00% 8
East Midlands -48 5 £59,732 +25.75% 3
North East -60 2 £45,500 -13.33% 3
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 13 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.19%) IIS
3 7 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.52%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.09%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.58%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (2.06%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (2.06%) Elite 3E
4 4 (2.06%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (2.06%) JDE World
5 2 (1.03%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.03%) Magento
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.03%) SAP Business One
5 2 (1.03%) Shopify
6 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.52%) FastStats
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 105 (54.12%) Azure
2 63 (32.47%) Power Platform
3 36 (18.56%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.76%) AWS
4 17 (8.76%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (8.76%) Power Automate
5 16 (8.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 13 (6.70%) PowerApps
6 13 (6.70%) SaaS
7 11 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (5.15%) Serverless
9 8 (4.12%) GitHub
9 8 (4.12%) Snowflake
10 6 (3.09%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.09%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.06%) GCP
11 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.06%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.06%) Firewall
2 3 (1.55%) DNS
2 3 (1.55%) VLAN
3 2 (1.03%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) Network Security
4 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (66.49%) SQL Server
2 52 (26.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 51 (26.29%) Power BI
4 40 (20.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (8.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (8.25%) Power Query
6 10 (5.15%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.09%) Star Schema
8 5 (2.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.06%) Db2
9 4 (2.06%) WhereScape RED
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.55%) MySQL
10 3 (1.55%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 23 (11.86%) Git
2 13 (6.70%) Visual Studio
3 10 (5.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (4.64%) JIRA
5 2 (1.03%) Postman
5 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.52%) Yeoman
General
1 59 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.71%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.46%) Finance
4 21 (10.82%) Law
5 14 (7.22%) Legal
6 7 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.58%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.58%) Retail
9 4 (2.06%) Back Office
10 3 (1.55%) Billing
10 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.03%) Automotive
11 2 (1.03%) Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.52%) Police
12 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (43.30%) Developer
2 30 (15.46%) Analyst
2 30 (15.46%) Senior
3 22 (11.34%) .NET Developer
4 21 (10.82%) SQL Developer
5 18 (9.28%) DBA
6 17 (8.76%) SQL DBA
7 16 (8.25%) Software Developer
8 15 (7.73%) Applications Support
8 15 (7.73%) Data Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) SQL Server DBA
9 12 (6.19%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.67%) Data Analyst
11 10 (5.15%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (5.15%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.64%) Lead
13 8 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 8 (4.12%) Software Support Engineer
13 8 (4.12%) Support Analyst
14 7 (3.61%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (31.96%) .NET
2 15 (7.73%) REST
3 14 (7.22%) .NET Core
3 14 (7.22%) ASP.NET
3 14 (7.22%) HTML
4 13 (6.70%) CSS
5 12 (6.19%) .NET Framework
6 11 (5.67%) JSON
7 9 (4.64%) Entity Framework
7 9 (4.64%) Kafka
7 9 (4.64%) SOAP
7 9 (4.64%) WinForms
7 9 (4.64%) XML
8 8 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (4.12%) Blazor
9 7 (3.61%) jQuery
9 7 (3.61%) React
9 7 (3.61%) WPF
10 6 (3.09%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.09%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.82%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.22%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.67%) Replication
4 9 (4.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.12%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.09%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.06%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.55%) LIMS
9 3 (1.55%) NHS
9 3 (1.55%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.03%) Clustering
10 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.79%) Windows
2 10 (5.15%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.03%) Linux
5 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (35.05%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (28.35%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (25.77%) Performance Tuning
4 47 (24.23%) DevOps
5 37 (19.07%) CI/CD
5 37 (19.07%) ETL
6 36 (18.56%) Data Modelling
7 33 (17.01%) Agile
8 32 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (13.40%) Analytics
10 19 (9.79%) AI
10 19 (9.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 18 (9.28%) Software Engineering
12 17 (8.76%) Decision-Making
12 17 (8.76%) SDLC
13 16 (8.25%) Migration
13 16 (8.25%) Roadmaps
13 16 (8.25%) Secure Coding
13 16 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (8.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 193 (99.48%) SQL
2 64 (32.99%) C#
3 33 (17.01%) PowerShell
4 30 (15.46%) Python
5 22 (11.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (7.73%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.64%) PL/SQL
7 9 (4.64%) VBScript
8 8 (4.12%) VBA
9 5 (2.58%) Delphi
9 5 (2.58%) VB.NET
10 4 (2.06%) R
10 4 (2.06%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.03%) Bash
11 2 (1.03%) VB
11 2 (1.03%) XPath
12 1 (0.52%) Bicep
12 1 (0.52%) Java
12 1 (0.52%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (7.22%) Degree
2 5 (2.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.43%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.25%) QA
3 9 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.61%) SLA
5 3 (1.55%) GDPR
6 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.03%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) HL7
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.58%) Docker
3 3 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.58%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.06%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.52%) SCCM
3 1 (0.52%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 76 (39.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.19%) Oracle
3 9 (4.64%) iManage
3 9 (4.64%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.61%) SAP
5 6 (3.09%) IFS
5 6 (3.09%) Infor
5 6 (3.09%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.58%) Databricks
6 5 (2.58%) RedGate
6 5 (2.58%) Remedy
7 4 (2.06%) Epicor
7 4 (2.06%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.55%) Intapp
8 3 (1.55%) Veeam
8 3 (1.55%) VMware
9 2 (1.03%) Google
9 2 (1.03%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.03%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.03%) WooCommerce