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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 355 323
Rank change year-on-year -205 -32 -109
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 195 311 573
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.72% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 2.62% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 170 253 371
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £37,199
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £82,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.39% -4.72%

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 16,823 11,869 21,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.79% 27.31% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,332 7,839 13,864
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 11 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 11 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 -82 55 £70,000 -12.50% 51
South East -42 51 £55,000 +10.00% 19
North of England -78 32 £53,750 -10.42% 11
East of England -34 20 £62,500 +54.32% 7
North West -21 18 £53,750 -6.52% 9
South West -84 16 £52,500 +5.00% 11
Midlands -87 16 £50,000 -2.44% 18
Yorkshire -77 13 £60,500 +0.83% 2
West Midlands -48 11 £50,000 -13.04% 16
East Midlands -56 5 £59,732 +23.16% 2
North East -63 1 £47,500 -9.52%
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 (6.15%) IIS
1 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (3.08%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.56%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.56%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.05%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.05%) JDE World
4 3 (1.54%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.03%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.03%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.51%) FastStats
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 109 (55.90%) Azure
2 61 (31.28%) Power Platform
3 38 (19.49%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.72%) Azure Logic Apps
4 17 (8.72%) Power Automate
5 14 (7.18%) AWS
5 14 (7.18%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (6.15%) PowerApps
7 12 (6.15%) SaaS
8 9 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (4.62%) Serverless
9 8 (4.10%) Snowflake
10 7 (3.59%) GitHub
11 5 (2.56%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.05%) GCP
12 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.05%) Firewall
2 3 (1.54%) DNS
2 3 (1.54%) VLAN
3 2 (1.03%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 51 (26.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 49 (25.13%) Power BI
4 39 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (10.77%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (7.69%) Power Query
7 10 (5.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (4.10%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.59%) Star Schema
10 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.05%) Db2
11 4 (2.05%) Metadata
11 4 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.05%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.54%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.54%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 22 (11.28%) Git
2 13 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (3.59%) JIRA
5 2 (1.03%) Postman
6 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.51%) Yeoman
General
1 61 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 48 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.38%) Finance
4 20 (10.26%) Law
5 15 (7.69%) Legal
6 7 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.05%) Retail
10 3 (1.54%) Back Office
10 3 (1.54%) Billing
10 3 (1.54%) 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 (0.51%) Games
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (46.67%) Developer
2 35 (17.95%) Senior
3 25 (12.82%) Analyst
4 23 (11.79%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.77%) SQL Developer
6 18 (9.23%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.72%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.72%) DBA
8 16 (8.21%) SQL DBA
9 14 (7.18%) SQL Server DBA
10 13 (6.67%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.15%) Applications Support
12 10 (5.13%) Data Analyst
12 10 (5.13%) Lead
12 10 (5.13%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Applications Developer
13 9 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (4.10%) Software Support Engineer
15 7 (3.59%) Applications Support Analyst
15 7 (3.59%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (33.33%) .NET
2 14 (7.18%) HTML
3 13 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 13 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 13 (6.67%) CSS
4 12 (6.15%) REST
5 11 (5.64%) .NET Framework
5 11 (5.64%) JSON
6 9 (4.62%) WinForms
6 9 (4.62%) XML
7 8 (4.10%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (4.10%) Blazor
7 8 (4.10%) Entity Framework
7 8 (4.10%) Kafka
7 8 (4.10%) React
8 7 (3.59%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.59%) jQuery
8 7 (3.59%) PySpark
8 7 (3.59%) WPF
9 6 (3.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.31%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (8.72%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (5.13%) Replication
4 10 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.08%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.08%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.05%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.54%) LIMS
8 3 (1.54%) NHS
8 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.03%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.74%) Windows
2 10 (5.13%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.03%) Linux
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (38.97%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (25.64%) DevOps
4 47 (24.10%) Performance Tuning
5 40 (20.51%) ETL
6 37 (18.97%) CI/CD
7 34 (17.44%) Data Modelling
8 32 (16.41%) Agile
9 31 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (12.82%) Analytics
11 20 (10.26%) AI
11 20 (10.26%) SDLC
12 18 (9.23%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (9.23%) Software Engineering
13 17 (8.72%) Secure Coding
14 15 (7.69%) Clean Code
14 15 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (7.69%) Mentoring
14 15 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (99.49%) SQL
2 66 (33.85%) C#
3 32 (16.41%) PowerShell
3 32 (16.41%) Python
4 20 (10.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (8.21%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.62%) PL/SQL
6 9 (4.62%) VBScript
7 8 (4.10%) Delphi
7 8 (4.10%) VBA
8 6 (3.08%) VB.NET
9 4 (2.05%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.54%) XPath
11 2 (1.03%) Bash
11 2 (1.03%) Bicep
11 2 (1.03%) R
11 2 (1.03%) VB
12 1 (0.51%) Java
12 1 (0.51%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (6.67%) Degree
2 5 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.05%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.54%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.54%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.36%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.21%) QA
3 8 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.08%) SLA
5 3 (1.54%) GDPR
6 2 (1.03%) NIST
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) HL7
7 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.56%) Docker
3 3 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.56%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.51%) SCCM
3 1 (0.51%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 80 (41.03%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.15%) Oracle
3 9 (4.62%) iManage
4 8 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.59%) SAP
6 6 (3.08%) Infor
6 6 (3.08%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.56%) Databricks
7 5 (2.56%) IFS
7 5 (2.56%) RedGate
7 5 (2.56%) Remedy
8 4 (2.05%) Epicor
8 4 (2.05%) Intapp
8 4 (2.05%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.54%) Teradata
9 3 (1.54%) Veeam
9 3 (1.54%) VMware
10 2 (1.03%) Google
10 2 (1.03%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (1.03%) OpenAI