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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 290 201
Rank change year-on-year -136 -89 +52
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 205 460 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.99% 1.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 2.92% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 173 272 903
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,892 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.91% -0.20% -4.35%

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 10,693 15,766 24,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.92% 34.03% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,975 9,166 20,699
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,500 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 60 £80,000 +28.00% 19
Midlands -5 44 £50,000 +5.26% 14
South East +1 42 £40,000 -20.00% 21
North of England -27 33 £40,000 -16.23% 20
West Midlands +19 28 £42,500 -15.00% 9
Yorkshire -14 25 £25,000 -47.37% 6
South West -5 21 £50,000 +6.95% 8
East Midlands -12 16 £50,000 +11.11% 5
North West -6 5 £57,500 +17.95% 13
East of England -27 4 £42,175 -11.21% 10
North East -2 3 £51,000 -32.00% 1
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 15 (7.32%) IIS
2 8 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.46%) CMS
5 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.98%) Confluence
5 2 (0.98%) WordPress
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.49%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (7.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (3.41%) Magento
2 7 (3.41%) Shopify
3 2 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 101 (49.27%) Azure
2 42 (20.49%) Power Platform
3 29 (14.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 29 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (13.66%) Entra ID
5 20 (9.76%) Google Workspace
6 16 (7.80%) SaaS
7 14 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (6.83%) PowerApps
8 13 (6.34%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (5.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (5.37%) GitHub
10 9 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (3.90%) GCP
11 8 (3.90%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.93%) AWS
13 5 (2.44%) Azure Functions
13 5 (2.44%) dbt
13 5 (2.44%) Serverless
13 5 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.76%) Broadband
2 3 (1.46%) DNS
3 2 (0.98%) DHCP
3 2 (0.98%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.98%) Firewall
3 2 (0.98%) SSL
3 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.98%) VLAN
3 2 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (57.56%) SQL Server
2 48 (23.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 44 (21.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 41 (20.00%) Power BI
5 20 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (8.78%) Data Lake
6 18 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (7.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 12 (5.85%) MySQL
9 11 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (3.41%) Metadata
11 5 (2.44%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.95%) OLAP
13 3 (1.46%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.46%) GIS
13 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.46%) Power Query
13 3 (1.46%) Tableau
14 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (5.85%) JIRA
2 11 (5.37%) Git
3 7 (3.41%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (2.44%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.95%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 72 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (17.56%) Finance
4 20 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (5.37%) Back Office
6 9 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.41%) Law
8 6 (2.93%) Games
8 6 (2.93%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.95%) Billing
9 4 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.46%) Banking
10 3 (1.46%) Legal
11 2 (0.98%) Front Office
11 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.98%) Marketing
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Automotive
12 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (25.85%) Senior
2 48 (23.41%) Developer
3 40 (19.51%) Analyst
4 36 (17.56%) Data Engineer
5 31 (15.12%) Support Analyst
6 29 (14.15%) Applications Support
7 26 (12.68%) Applications Support Analyst
8 20 (9.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (9.27%) DBA
10 17 (8.29%) Software Engineer
11 16 (7.80%) SQL DBA
12 13 (6.34%) IT Support
12 13 (6.34%) Senior Developer
12 13 (6.34%) SQL Developer
13 12 (5.85%) IT Engineer
13 12 (5.85%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (5.85%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (5.85%) Software Support Engineer
13 12 (5.85%) Support Engineer
14 11 (5.37%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.02%) REST
2 33 (16.10%) .NET
3 32 (15.61%) SOAP
4 21 (10.24%) OAuth
4 21 (10.24%) OpenID
5 20 (9.76%) GraphQL
5 20 (9.76%) LDAP
5 20 (9.76%) SAML
6 16 (7.80%) .NET Framework
7 14 (6.83%) ASP.NET
7 14 (6.83%) Entity Framework
8 12 (5.85%) JSON
8 12 (5.85%) WinForms
8 12 (5.85%) XML
9 11 (5.37%) CSS
9 11 (5.37%) HTML
10 10 (4.88%) .NET Core
11 9 (4.39%) Middleware
12 6 (2.93%) DirectX
12 6 (2.93%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.76%) Cyber Threat
1 20 (9.76%) Cyberattack
2 12 (5.85%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.37%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.90%) Clustering
5 7 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.93%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.93%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.46%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.98%) Derivative
10 2 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.98%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.49%) Replication
11 1 (0.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.73%) Windows
2 10 (4.88%) Linux
3 6 (2.93%) VMS
3 6 (2.93%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.98%) Android
4 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (25.37%) ETL
2 49 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (22.93%) Business Intelligence
4 36 (17.56%) Mentoring
4 36 (17.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (16.10%) Data Modelling
5 33 (16.10%) DevOps
6 32 (15.61%) Analytics
6 32 (15.61%) Data Pipeline
7 30 (14.63%) Software Engineering
8 28 (13.66%) Roadmaps
9 27 (13.17%) Agile
10 26 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (11.71%) CI/CD
11 24 (11.71%) Data Engineering
12 23 (11.22%) Change Control
13 20 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (9.76%) Identity Access Management
13 20 (9.76%) Programme Delivery
13 20 (9.76%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 204 (99.51%) SQL
2 47 (22.93%) PowerShell
3 42 (20.49%) C#
4 41 (20.00%) Python
5 20 (9.76%) Bash
6 15 (7.32%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.34%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.46%) Bicep
9 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.98%) PHP
10 2 (0.98%) Scala
10 2 (0.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (14.15%) Degree
2 15 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.85%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.95%) ACCA
4 4 (1.95%) CIMA
4 4 (1.95%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.98%) MCSE
6 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.98%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.17%) Data Quality
1 27 (13.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (9.76%) NCSC
2 20 (9.76%) NIST
3 8 (3.90%) GDPR
4 7 (3.41%) QA
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (14.15%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.93%) Docker
3 2 (0.98%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 82 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.24%) Databricks
3 17 (8.29%) Oracle
4 13 (6.34%) Sage
5 12 (5.85%) Xamarin
6 7 (3.41%) ConnectWise
6 7 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.41%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.44%) Google
7 5 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.44%) Zoho
8 4 (1.95%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.46%) Informatica
9 3 (1.46%) RedGate
9 3 (1.46%) Talend
10 2 (0.98%) Citrix
10 2 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) VMware
11 1 (0.49%) Concur
11 1 (0.49%) Splunk