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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 304 205
Rank change year-on-year -111 -99 +16
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 209 535 754
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.90% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.00% 2.74% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 186 334 679
10th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -0.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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 10,435 19,518 18,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.20% 32.89% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,796 11,739 15,559
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -73 63 £80,000 +32.23% 21
Midlands +28 48 £48,000 +5.66% 7
South East +20 41 £42,500 -14.10% 17
North of England +11 35 £40,000 -16.23% 16
West Midlands +35 27 £42,500 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire +1 27 £40,000 -16.23% 5
East Midlands +20 21 £50,000 +5.26% 3
South West +11 16 £50,000 -6.98% 11
North East +15 4 £51,750 -11.54%
North West +15 4 £57,500 +17.95% 11
East of England -18 3 £50,000 +5.26% 6
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 17 (8.13%) IIS
2 9 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.44%) CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 2 (0.96%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.96%) WordPress
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.96%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.96%) Sage 1000
1 2 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (49.76%) Azure
2 57 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 44 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (19.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (7.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (7.18%) GCP
6 15 (7.18%) Snowflake
7 12 (5.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (5.26%) AWS
8 11 (5.26%) GitHub
9 10 (4.78%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.31%) SaaS
11 8 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.87%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.87%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.87%) Serverless
13 5 (2.39%) dbt
13 5 (2.39%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.91%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) DNS
2 2 (0.96%) DHCP
2 2 (0.96%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.96%) Firewall
2 2 (0.96%) SSL
2 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.96%) VLAN
2 2 (0.96%) Wireless
3 1 (0.48%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (55.50%) SQL Server
2 56 (26.79%) Power BI
2 56 (26.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 52 (24.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 27 (12.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 26 (12.44%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (11.96%) Data Lake
7 24 (11.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (4.31%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.83%) Metadata
9 8 (3.83%) MySQL
9 8 (3.83%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.35%) OLAP
10 7 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.87%) BigQuery
11 6 (2.87%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.91%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.91%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.44%) GIS
13 3 (1.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (8.61%) Git
2 7 (3.35%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (2.87%) JIRA
4 5 (2.39%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.39%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.48%) Mercurial
General
1 74 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.01%) Finance
3 43 (20.57%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.74%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.83%) Law
6 8 (3.83%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.83%) Retail
7 6 (2.87%) Games
8 5 (2.39%) Back Office
8 5 (2.39%) Legal
9 4 (1.91%) Billing
9 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.44%) Automotive
10 3 (1.44%) Front Office
11 2 (0.96%) Advertising
11 2 (0.96%) Banking
11 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.96%) Social Housing
11 2 (0.96%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 66 (31.58%) Developer
2 47 (22.49%) Senior
3 43 (20.57%) Data Engineer
4 38 (18.18%) Analyst
5 26 (12.44%) SQL Developer
6 23 (11.00%) Applications Support
7 21 (10.05%) DBA
7 21 (10.05%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (10.05%) Support Analyst
8 19 (9.09%) Applications Support Analyst
9 18 (8.61%) Software Engineer
9 18 (8.61%) SQL DBA
10 15 (7.18%) Senior Developer
11 14 (6.70%) IT Support
12 13 (6.22%) Administrator
12 13 (6.22%) Support Engineer
13 12 (5.74%) IT Engineer
13 12 (5.74%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (5.74%) Software Support Engineer
14 9 (4.31%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.53%) .NET
2 22 (10.53%) .NET Framework
3 19 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 18 (8.61%) CSS
4 18 (8.61%) Entity Framework
5 17 (8.13%) HTML
6 14 (6.70%) PySpark
7 13 (6.22%) REST
8 12 (5.74%) WinForms
9 11 (5.26%) .NET Core
10 10 (4.78%) JSON
10 10 (4.78%) Web Services
11 9 (4.31%) XML
12 7 (3.35%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.87%) DirectX
13 6 (2.87%) OpenGL
13 6 (2.87%) SOAP
14 5 (2.39%) ASP.NET MVC
14 5 (2.39%) React
15 4 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.70%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.74%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.35%) Clustering
4 6 (2.87%) 3D Graphics
5 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.91%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.96%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.96%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.96%) Derivative
8 2 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.96%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.96%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.96%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.96%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.05%) Windows
2 7 (3.35%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.39%) Linux
4 3 (1.44%) VMS
5 2 (0.96%) Android
5 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (33.49%) Business Intelligence
2 66 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (29.19%) ETL
4 57 (27.27%) DevOps
5 41 (19.62%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (17.22%) Analytics
7 33 (15.79%) Agile
8 32 (15.31%) Software Engineering
9 30 (14.35%) Data Modelling
10 28 (13.40%) CI/CD
10 28 (13.40%) Data Engineering
11 22 (10.53%) Decision-Making
12 19 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (8.61%) Dimensional Modelling
14 17 (8.13%) Computer Science
14 17 (8.13%) Mentoring
15 14 (6.70%) CAD
15 14 (6.70%) Data Analysis
15 14 (6.70%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 205 (98.09%) SQL
2 48 (22.97%) C#
3 47 (22.49%) Python
4 22 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.13%) PowerShell
6 12 (5.74%) PL/SQL
7 11 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.44%) Bicep
8 3 (1.44%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.44%) VBA
9 2 (0.96%) C++
9 2 (0.96%) PHP
9 2 (0.96%) Scala
9 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.48%) Bash
10 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (14.35%) Degree
2 15 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.83%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.91%) ACCA
4 4 (1.91%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.91%) CIMA
5 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.96%) MCSE
6 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.48%) MCITP
7 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.31%) GDPR
2 9 (4.31%) QA
3 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) NCSC
4 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (4.31%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.35%) Docker
3 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 10 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.39%) Terraform
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 83 (39.71%) Microsoft
2 38 (18.18%) Databricks
3 15 (7.18%) Oracle
3 15 (7.18%) Sage
4 12 (5.74%) Xamarin
5 7 (3.35%) RedGate
6 6 (2.87%) Google
7 5 (2.39%) Zoho
8 4 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.91%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.91%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.91%) Informatica
8 4 (1.91%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.91%) Talend
9 3 (1.44%) VMware
10 2 (0.96%) Aderant
10 2 (0.96%) iManage
10 2 (0.96%) Intapp
10 2 (0.96%) Lotus