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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 301 207
Rank change year-on-year -110 -94 +16
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 201 522 746
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.91% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 2.75% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 179 331 672
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £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 10,245 19,014 18,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.72% 33.20% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,662 11,425 15,383
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,603 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,822 £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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -67 61 £80,000 +30.08% 23
Midlands +19 46 £46,250 +1.81% 8
South East +4 40 £42,500 -14.10% 20
North of England +3 35 £40,000 -16.23% 23
Yorkshire +3 28 £40,000 -16.23% 6
West Midlands +29 27 £42,500 -5.56% 7
East Midlands +15 19 £48,500 +2.11% 1
South West +8 15 £50,000 -16.67% 13
North East +13 4 £51,750 -31.00% 2
North West +7 3 £57,500 +21.05% 16
East of England -22 1 - - 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 (8.46%) IIS
2 8 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.49%) CMS
4 2 (1.00%) Apache
4 2 (1.00%) HCL Notes
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.00%) WordPress
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (10.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.00%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Sage 1000
Cloud Services
1 99 (49.25%) Azure
2 53 (26.37%) Power Platform
3 44 (21.89%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (19.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (7.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (7.46%) Snowflake
7 13 (6.47%) GCP
8 12 (5.97%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (5.47%) AWS
9 11 (5.47%) GitHub
10 9 (4.48%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.48%) SaaS
11 7 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.99%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.99%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.99%) Serverless
13 5 (2.49%) dbt
14 4 (1.99%) Collibra
14 4 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 2 (1.00%) DHCP
2 2 (1.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.00%) Firewall
2 2 (1.00%) SSL
2 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.00%) VLAN
2 2 (1.00%) Wireless
3 1 (0.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (56.72%) SQL Server
2 53 (26.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 52 (25.87%) Power BI
4 50 (24.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 26 (12.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 26 (12.94%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (11.94%) Data Lake
7 23 (11.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (3.98%) Metadata
8 8 (3.98%) MySQL
9 7 (3.48%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.48%) OLAP
9 7 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (3.48%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.99%) BigQuery
10 6 (2.99%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.99%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.99%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.49%) GIS
12 3 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.96%) Git
2 7 (3.48%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (2.99%) JIRA
4 5 (2.49%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.49%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.99%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.50%) Mercurial
General
1 72 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.89%) Finance
3 43 (21.39%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.98%) Law
6 8 (3.98%) Retail
7 6 (2.99%) Games
7 6 (2.99%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.49%) Back Office
8 5 (2.49%) Legal
9 4 (1.99%) Billing
9 4 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.49%) Front Office
11 2 (1.00%) Advertising
11 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Automotive
12 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (28.36%) Developer
2 45 (22.39%) Senior
3 43 (21.39%) Data Engineer
4 38 (18.91%) Analyst
5 25 (12.44%) SQL Developer
6 24 (11.94%) Applications Support
7 21 (10.45%) DBA
7 21 (10.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (10.45%) Support Analyst
8 20 (9.95%) Applications Support Analyst
9 18 (8.96%) Software Engineer
9 18 (8.96%) SQL DBA
10 13 (6.47%) Administrator
10 13 (6.47%) IT Support
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.47%) Support Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) IT Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) IT Support Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Software Support Engineer
12 10 (4.98%) 1st Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.90%) .NET
2 18 (8.96%) .NET Framework
3 16 (7.96%) ASP.NET
3 16 (7.96%) Entity Framework
4 14 (6.97%) PySpark
5 13 (6.47%) CSS
5 13 (6.47%) REST
6 12 (5.97%) HTML
6 12 (5.97%) WinForms
7 10 (4.98%) JSON
8 9 (4.48%) .NET Core
8 9 (4.48%) XML
9 8 (3.98%) Web Services
10 7 (3.48%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.99%) DirectX
11 6 (2.99%) OpenGL
11 6 (2.99%) SOAP
12 5 (2.49%) ASP.NET MVC
13 4 (1.99%) Razor View Engine
13 4 (1.99%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.46%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.97%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.48%) Clustering
4 6 (2.99%) 3D Graphics
5 4 (1.99%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.00%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.00%) Derivative
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.00%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.00%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.00%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.95%) Windows
2 6 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.49%) Linux
4 3 (1.49%) VMS
5 2 (1.00%) Android
5 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (32.84%) Business Intelligence
2 62 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (29.35%) ETL
4 57 (28.36%) DevOps
5 41 (20.40%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (17.91%) Analytics
7 32 (15.92%) Software Engineering
8 30 (14.93%) Agile
9 28 (13.93%) Data Modelling
10 27 (13.43%) Data Engineering
11 26 (12.94%) CI/CD
12 22 (10.95%) Decision-Making
13 18 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (8.96%) Dimensional Modelling
14 17 (8.46%) Computer Science
14 17 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (7.96%) Mentoring
16 14 (6.97%) CAD
16 14 (6.97%) Data Analysis
17 13 (6.47%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 199 (99.00%) SQL
2 46 (22.89%) Python
3 43 (21.39%) C#
4 19 (9.45%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.46%) PowerShell
6 12 (5.97%) PL/SQL
7 10 (4.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.49%) Bicep
9 2 (1.00%) C++
9 2 (1.00%) PHP
9 2 (1.00%) Scala
9 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.00%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.00%) VBA
10 1 (0.50%) Bash
10 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (14.93%) Degree
2 15 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.99%) ACCA
4 4 (1.99%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.99%) CIMA
5 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.00%) MCSE
5 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.50%) MCITP
6 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.44%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.48%) GDPR
2 9 (4.48%) QA
3 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.50%) NCSC
3 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.49%) Terraform
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 81 (40.30%) Microsoft
2 38 (18.91%) Databricks
3 15 (7.46%) Oracle
4 14 (6.97%) Sage
5 12 (5.97%) Xamarin
6 7 (3.48%) RedGate
7 5 (2.49%) Google
7 5 (2.49%) Zoho
8 4 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.99%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.99%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.99%) Informatica
8 4 (1.99%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.99%) Talend
9 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.49%) VMware
10 2 (1.00%) Aderant
10 2 (1.00%) iManage
10 2 (1.00%) Intapp
10 2 (1.00%) Lotus