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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 358 318
Rank change year-on-year -205 -40 -115
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 190 310 562
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.72% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 2.66% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 164 253 333
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,400 £82,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -7.89%

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 16,836 11,659 21,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.27% 26.90% 31.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,263 7,695 12,971
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,556
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -77 59 £70,000 -12.50% 59
South East -52 51 £55,000 +15.79% 30
North of England -95 31 £60,000 - 26
North West -28 17 £60,000 +4.35% 17
East of England -37 16 £58,750 +45.06% 17
South West -94 15 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Midlands -90 14 £59,366 +10.58% 21
Yorkshire -67 13 £60,500 +0.83% 8
West Midlands -59 10 £50,000 -13.04% 17
East Midlands -57 4 £59,732 +23.16% 4
North East -70 1 £47,500 -9.52% 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 12 (6.32%) IIS
1 12 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) MTS
Applications
1 12 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.63%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.63%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.63%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.11%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.11%) JDE World
4 3 (1.58%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.05%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.05%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.53%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 104 (54.74%) Azure
2 59 (31.05%) Power Platform
3 39 (20.53%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.47%) Power Automate
5 16 (8.42%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (7.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (7.37%) SaaS
7 13 (6.84%) AWS
8 12 (6.32%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (5.79%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.74%) Serverless
10 9 (4.74%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.68%) GitHub
13 6 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.63%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.63%) dbt
15 4 (2.11%) Entra ID
15 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
16 3 (1.58%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) DNS
1 3 (1.58%) Firewall
1 3 (1.58%) VLAN
2 2 (1.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (64.74%) SQL Server
2 48 (25.26%) Power BI
3 47 (24.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 37 (19.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (12.11%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (8.42%) Power Query
7 11 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (3.68%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.68%) Star Schema
10 6 (3.16%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.11%) Db2
11 4 (2.11%) Metadata
11 4 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.11%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.58%) Big Data
12 3 (1.58%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 21 (11.05%) Git
2 13 (6.84%) Visual Studio
3 10 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (3.68%) JIRA
5 2 (1.05%) Postman
6 1 (0.53%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (31.05%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.68%) Finance
4 17 (8.95%) Law
5 15 (7.89%) Legal
6 7 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.16%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.63%) Retail
9 3 (1.58%) Back Office
9 3 (1.58%) Billing
9 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.58%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.05%) Automotive
10 2 (1.05%) Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
11 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 90 (47.37%) Developer
2 39 (20.53%) Senior
3 24 (12.63%) .NET Developer
4 23 (12.11%) Analyst
5 20 (10.53%) SQL Developer
6 19 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 18 (9.47%) Data Engineer
8 16 (8.42%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.37%) DBA
9 14 (7.37%) SQL DBA
10 12 (6.32%) Applications Support
10 12 (6.32%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (5.26%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) Applications Developer
12 9 (4.74%) Lead
13 8 (4.21%) Business Developer
13 8 (4.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (4.21%) Database Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Software Support Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (33.68%) .NET
2 14 (7.37%) .NET Core
3 13 (6.84%) HTML
4 12 (6.32%) CSS
4 12 (6.32%) REST
5 11 (5.79%) JSON
6 10 (5.26%) ASP.NET
6 10 (5.26%) React
7 9 (4.74%) .NET Framework
7 9 (4.74%) WinForms
8 8 (4.21%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (4.21%) Blazor
9 7 (3.68%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.68%) Kafka
9 7 (3.68%) XML
10 6 (3.16%) Entity Framework
10 6 (3.16%) jQuery
10 6 (3.16%) PySpark
10 6 (3.16%) SOAP
10 6 (3.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.11%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.37%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.21%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.21%) Replication
6 6 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.11%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.58%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.58%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.58%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.58%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.05%) LIMS
9 2 (1.05%) NHS
9 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.05%) SystemC
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.53%) Windows
2 11 (5.79%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (41.05%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (27.37%) DevOps
3 50 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
4 42 (22.11%) Performance Tuning
5 41 (21.58%) CI/CD
6 40 (21.05%) ETL
7 34 (17.89%) Agile
8 32 (16.84%) Data Modelling
9 28 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (14.21%) Analytics
11 22 (11.58%) Software Engineering
12 20 (10.53%) AI
13 19 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (9.47%) SDLC
15 17 (8.95%) Data Integration
15 17 (8.95%) Secure Coding
16 16 (8.42%) Mentoring
17 15 (7.89%) Clean Code
17 15 (7.89%) Design Patterns
17 15 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 189 (99.47%) SQL
2 66 (34.74%) C#
3 32 (16.84%) PowerShell
4 30 (15.79%) Python
5 17 (8.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (8.95%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.74%) PL/SQL
6 9 (4.74%) VBScript
7 8 (4.21%) Delphi
7 8 (4.21%) VBA
8 6 (3.16%) VB.NET
9 4 (2.11%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.58%) XPath
11 2 (1.05%) Bash
11 2 (1.05%) Bicep
11 2 (1.05%) VB
12 1 (0.53%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (6.84%) Degree
2 5 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.58%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.32%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.89%) QA
3 8 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.16%) SLA
5 2 (1.05%) GDPR
5 2 (1.05%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 12 (6.32%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.63%) Docker
3 3 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.63%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.05%) SQL Sentry
4 1 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 78 (41.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.84%) Oracle
3 9 (4.74%) iManage
4 8 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.16%) JD Edwards
5 6 (3.16%) SAP
6 5 (2.63%) Databricks
6 5 (2.63%) IFS
6 5 (2.63%) Infor
6 5 (2.63%) Intapp
6 5 (2.63%) RedGate
6 5 (2.63%) Remedy
7 4 (2.11%) Epicor
7 4 (2.11%) Teradata
8 3 (1.58%) Veeam
8 3 (1.58%) VMware
9 2 (1.05%) Google
9 2 (1.05%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.05%) SolarWinds