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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 396 321
Rank change year-on-year -187 -75 -124
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 197 262 548
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.61% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 2.34% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 171 212 333
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,532 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £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 £70,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.24% - -6.67%

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 16,609 11,203 20,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.89% 26.14% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,144 7,468 12,170
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,918 £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 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -90 61 £70,000 -12.50% 15
South East -54 59 £55,000 +25.71% 12
North of England -84 33 £60,000 +14.29% 6
North West -24 17 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Yorkshire -49 15 £60,250 +20.50% 5
Midlands -66 15 £60,000 +26.32% 10
East of England -46 13 £55,000 +30.95% 4
South West -84 12 £52,500 +5.00% 2
West Midlands -57 10 £55,000 -4.35% 8
East Midlands -38 5 £65,000 +40.54% 2
North East -68 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 10 (5.08%) IIS
1 10 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.54%) SAP Business One
3 4 (2.03%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.52%) Elite 3E
4 3 (1.52%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.52%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (1.52%) JDE World
4 3 (1.52%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (1.02%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (1.02%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.51%) FastStats
6 1 (0.51%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 110 (55.84%) Azure
2 60 (30.46%) Power Platform
3 41 (20.81%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.14%) Power Automate
5 17 (8.63%) AWS
5 17 (8.63%) SaaS
6 16 (8.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (7.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (7.11%) PowerApps
8 12 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.08%) Serverless
10 10 (5.08%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.06%) GitHub
12 7 (3.55%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.55%) dbt
13 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (2.03%) Copilot Studio
14 4 (2.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) DNS
1 3 (1.52%) Firewall
1 3 (1.52%) VLAN
2 2 (1.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (66.50%) SQL Server
2 47 (23.86%) Power BI
3 46 (23.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 33 (16.75%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (16.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (7.11%) Power Query
6 11 (5.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 7 (3.55%) Star Schema
8 6 (3.05%) Metadata
9 5 (2.54%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.54%) MS Access
9 5 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.03%) Db2
10 4 (2.03%) OLTP
10 4 (2.03%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.03%) WhereScape RED
11 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (13.20%) Git
2 12 (6.09%) Visual Studio
3 8 (4.06%) JIRA
4 7 (3.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (2.03%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.02%) Postman
7 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 50 (25.38%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.20%) Finance
4 18 (9.14%) Law
5 16 (8.12%) Legal
6 6 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.54%) Retail
8 4 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.52%) Back Office
9 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.02%) Automotive
10 2 (1.02%) Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Local Government
10 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.02%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 101 (51.27%) Developer
2 48 (24.37%) Senior
3 24 (12.18%) .NET Developer
4 23 (11.68%) Senior Developer
5 22 (11.17%) SQL Developer
6 20 (10.15%) Software Developer
7 18 (9.14%) Data Engineer
8 17 (8.63%) Analyst
9 13 (6.60%) DBA
9 13 (6.60%) SQL DBA
10 11 (5.58%) Lead
10 11 (5.58%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (5.08%) Applications Developer
11 10 (5.08%) Applications Support
11 10 (5.08%) Business Developer
11 10 (5.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (5.08%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.57%) Senior Software Developer
12 9 (4.57%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (36.04%) .NET
2 14 (7.11%) REST
3 13 (6.60%) .NET Core
3 13 (6.60%) HTML
4 12 (6.09%) .NET Framework
4 12 (6.09%) CSS
5 11 (5.58%) ASP.NET
5 11 (5.58%) JSON
6 10 (5.08%) React
7 8 (4.06%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (4.06%) Blazor
7 8 (4.06%) WinForms
7 8 (4.06%) XML
8 7 (3.55%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.55%) jQuery
9 6 (3.05%) Entity Framework
9 6 (3.05%) PySpark
9 6 (3.05%) SOAP
10 5 (2.54%) RESTful
10 5 (2.54%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.17%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (8.12%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.55%) Replication
6 6 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.54%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.03%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.52%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.52%) NHS
10 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.02%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.02%) LIMS
10 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.02%) SystemC
11 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.63%) Windows
2 9 (4.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (38.58%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (28.93%) DevOps
3 49 (24.87%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (22.84%) CI/CD
5 41 (20.81%) ETL
6 39 (19.80%) Performance Tuning
7 37 (18.78%) Data Modelling
8 32 (16.24%) Agile
9 29 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (14.21%) Analytics
11 25 (12.69%) Software Engineering
12 23 (11.68%) Data Integration
13 22 (11.17%) AI
14 20 (10.15%) SDLC
15 19 (9.64%) Mentoring
16 18 (9.14%) Root Cause Analysis
17 17 (8.63%) Visualisation
18 16 (8.12%) Data Pipeline
19 15 (7.61%) Clean Code
19 15 (7.61%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 197 (100.00%) SQL
2 75 (38.07%) C#
3 35 (17.77%) Python
4 29 (14.72%) PowerShell
5 18 (9.14%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (4.57%) VBA
8 8 (4.06%) PL/SQL
9 7 (3.55%) Delphi
9 7 (3.55%) VB.NET
9 7 (3.55%) VBScript
10 4 (2.03%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.52%) XPath
12 2 (1.02%) Bash
12 2 (1.02%) Bicep
13 1 (0.51%) Java
13 1 (0.51%) Tcl
13 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (7.11%) Degree
2 7 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (2.03%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.03%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.74%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.60%) QA
3 6 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.05%) SLA
4 2 (1.02%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.03%) Docker
3 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.54%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.03%) SQL Sentry
3 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 88 (44.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.09%) Oracle
3 8 (4.06%) SAP
3 8 (4.06%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.55%) Databricks
4 7 (3.55%) iManage
5 6 (3.05%) RedGate
6 5 (2.54%) Intapp
6 5 (2.54%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.54%) Remedy
6 5 (2.54%) Teradata
7 3 (1.52%) Epicor
7 3 (1.52%) IFS
7 3 (1.52%) Infor
7 3 (1.52%) New Relic
7 3 (1.52%) Veeam
7 3 (1.52%) VMware
8 2 (1.02%) Google
8 2 (1.02%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (1.02%) OpenAI