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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 361 334
Rank change year-on-year -212 -27 -132
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 195 312 557
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.72% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 2.66% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 169 255 333
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,195 £37,259
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,100 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% -7.46%

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 16,939 11,742 20,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.44% 27.27% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,314 7,772 13,108
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
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 24 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 24 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% 67
South East -56 52 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North of England -101 31 £60,000 - 31
East of England -40 18 £62,500 +54.32% 17
North West -25 17 £60,000 +4.35% 24
South West -87 16 £52,500 +5.00% 7
Midlands -87 15 £59,000 +9.89% 21
Yorkshire -73 13 £60,500 +0.83% 7
West Midlands -63 11 £50,000 -13.04% 19
East Midlands -47 4 £59,732 +23.16% 2
North East -72 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 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.13%) 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 60 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 40 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.23%) Power Automate
5 17 (8.72%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.67%) SaaS
8 12 (6.15%) AWS
8 12 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (5.64%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.62%) Serverless
11 8 (4.10%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.59%) GitHub
13 6 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.56%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.56%) Entra ID
15 4 (2.05%) dbt
15 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
16 3 (1.54%) Amazon MSK
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
1 127 (65.13%) SQL Server
2 49 (25.13%) Power BI
3 48 (24.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 36 (18.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (11.79%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (8.21%) Power Query
7 14 (7.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (5.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (4.10%) Relational Database
9 8 (4.10%) Star Schema
10 7 (3.59%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.56%) Metadata
13 4 (2.05%) Db2
13 4 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (2.05%) WhereScape RED
14 3 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.54%) Big Data
14 3 (1.54%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (10.77%) Git
2 13 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 10 (5.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (3.08%) JIRA
5 2 (1.03%) Postman
6 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 50 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.36%) Finance
4 17 (8.72%) Law
5 15 (7.69%) Legal
6 7 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.56%) Retail
9 4 (2.05%) Public Sector
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%) Local Government
12 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Police
12 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 92 (47.18%) Developer
2 39 (20.00%) Senior
3 25 (12.82%) .NET Developer
4 24 (12.31%) Analyst
5 20 (10.26%) SQL Developer
6 19 (9.74%) Software Developer
7 18 (9.23%) Data Engineer
8 16 (8.21%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.69%) DBA
9 15 (7.69%) SQL DBA
10 13 (6.67%) SQL Server DBA
11 12 (6.15%) Applications Support
12 10 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 10 (5.13%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Applications Developer
13 9 (4.62%) Lead
14 8 (4.10%) Business Developer
14 8 (4.10%) Database Engineer
14 8 (4.10%) Software Support Engineer
15 7 (3.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (33.33%) .NET
2 15 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 14 (7.18%) HTML
4 13 (6.67%) CSS
5 12 (6.15%) REST
6 11 (5.64%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.64%) JSON
7 10 (5.13%) .NET Framework
7 10 (5.13%) React
8 9 (4.62%) WinForms
9 8 (4.10%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.10%) Blazor
10 7 (3.59%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.59%) Entity Framework
10 7 (3.59%) jQuery
10 7 (3.59%) Kafka
10 7 (3.59%) PySpark
10 7 (3.59%) XML
11 6 (3.08%) SOAP
11 6 (3.08%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.31%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.18%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.62%) Replication
4 9 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.56%) Legacy Code
8 4 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.05%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.03%) LIMS
10 2 (1.03%) NHS
10 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.03%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.26%) Windows
2 11 (5.64%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.03%) Linux
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (27.18%) DevOps
3 52 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (22.05%) Performance Tuning
5 42 (21.54%) ETL
6 41 (21.03%) CI/CD
7 33 (16.92%) Agile
7 33 (16.92%) Data Modelling
8 29 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (14.36%) Analytics
10 22 (11.28%) Software Engineering
11 21 (10.77%) AI
12 19 (9.74%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (9.23%) SDLC
14 17 (8.72%) Data Integration
14 17 (8.72%) Mentoring
14 17 (8.72%) Secure Coding
15 15 (7.69%) Clean Code
15 15 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
15 15 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 194 (99.49%) SQL
2 66 (33.85%) C#
3 32 (16.41%) PowerShell
4 30 (15.38%) Python
5 19 (9.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (9.23%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.13%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.62%) VBScript
9 8 (4.10%) Delphi
9 8 (4.10%) VBA
10 6 (3.08%) VB.NET
11 4 (2.05%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.54%) XPath
13 2 (1.03%) Bash
13 2 (1.03%) Bicep
13 2 (1.03%) VB
14 1 (0.51%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (7.18%) Degree
2 5 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.56%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.54%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.90%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.69%) QA
3 8 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.08%) SLA
5 2 (1.03%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) HL7
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.56%) Docker
3 3 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
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%) SCOM
3 1 (0.51%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 81 (41.54%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.18%) 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%) IFS
7 5 (2.56%) Intapp
7 5 (2.56%) RedGate
7 5 (2.56%) Remedy
8 4 (2.05%) Databricks
8 4 (2.05%) Epicor
8 4 (2.05%) Teradata
9 3 (1.54%) SolarWinds
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