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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 382 310
Rank change year-on-year -197 -72 -104
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 190 265 551
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.62% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 2.36% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 166 214 333
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,532 £40,000
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 £68,938 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,125 £84,625 £86,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -4.55%

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 16,511 11,215 20,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.91% 26.17% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 12,026 7,435 12,257
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £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 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,112
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.97% -2.90%

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 12 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 12 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 -81 61 £70,000 -12.50% 84
South East -53 54 £55,000 +22.22% 29
North of England -72 33 £60,000 +14.29% 22
North West -25 17 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Yorkshire -55 15 £60,250 +20.50% 10
East of England -40 13 £55,000 +30.95% 13
Midlands -71 13 £60,000 +23.71% 17
South West -83 12 £52,500 +5.00% 4
West Midlands -54 9 £50,000 -13.04% 13
East Midlands -43 4 £65,000 +36.84% 4
North East -72 1 £47,500 -9.52% 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 11 (5.79%) IIS
1 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) MTS
Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.11%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.58%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.58%) Elite 3E
4 3 (1.58%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.58%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (1.58%) JDE World
4 3 (1.58%) SAP Business One
5 2 (1.05%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (1.05%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.53%) FastStats
6 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.53%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 107 (56.32%) Azure
2 59 (31.05%) Power Platform
3 41 (21.58%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.47%) Power Automate
5 17 (8.95%) SaaS
6 15 (7.89%) AWS
6 15 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (7.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (7.37%) PowerApps
8 12 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (5.26%) Serverless
10 10 (5.26%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.21%) GitHub
12 7 (3.68%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.68%) dbt
13 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (2.11%) Copilot Studio
14 4 (2.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) DNS
1 3 (1.58%) Firewall
1 3 (1.58%) VLAN
2 2 (1.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (66.32%) SQL Server
2 46 (24.21%) Power BI
3 44 (23.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (17.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 31 (16.32%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (7.37%) Power Query
7 11 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (3.68%) Star Schema
9 6 (3.16%) Metadata
10 5 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.11%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.11%) Db2
11 4 (2.11%) MS Access
11 4 (2.11%) OLTP
11 4 (2.11%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.11%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.58%) Big Data
12 3 (1.58%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (13.68%) Git
2 12 (6.32%) Visual Studio
3 8 (4.21%) JIRA
4 7 (3.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.05%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.05%) Postman
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.16%) Finance
4 19 (10.00%) Law
5 17 (8.95%) Legal
6 6 (3.16%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.63%) Retail
8 4 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.58%) Back Office
9 3 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.05%) Automotive
10 2 (1.05%) Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Local Government
10 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.05%) Publishing
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 98 (51.58%) Developer
2 43 (22.63%) Senior
3 24 (12.63%) .NET Developer
4 21 (11.05%) SQL Developer
5 20 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 20 (10.53%) Software Developer
6 18 (9.47%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.95%) Analyst
8 13 (6.84%) DBA
8 13 (6.84%) SQL DBA
9 11 (5.79%) SQL Server DBA
10 10 (5.26%) Applications Developer
10 10 (5.26%) Applications Support
10 10 (5.26%) Business Developer
10 10 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (5.26%) Lead
10 10 (5.26%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Database Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Senior Software Developer
11 8 (4.21%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (34.21%) .NET
2 13 (6.84%) .NET Core
2 13 (6.84%) HTML
2 13 (6.84%) REST
3 12 (6.32%) CSS
4 11 (5.79%) ASP.NET
5 10 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 10 (5.26%) JSON
5 10 (5.26%) React
6 8 (4.21%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (4.21%) Blazor
6 8 (4.21%) WinForms
6 8 (4.21%) XML
7 7 (3.68%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.68%) jQuery
8 6 (3.16%) Entity Framework
8 6 (3.16%) PySpark
8 6 (3.16%) SOAP
9 5 (2.63%) Kafka
9 5 (2.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.58%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.37%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.68%) Replication
6 6 (3.16%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.11%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.58%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.58%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.58%) NHS
9 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.05%) LIMS
9 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.05%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.05%) SystemC
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.47%) Windows
2 10 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (28.95%) DevOps
3 48 (25.26%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (22.63%) CI/CD
5 39 (20.53%) ETL
5 39 (20.53%) Performance Tuning
6 34 (17.89%) Data Modelling
7 32 (16.84%) Agile
8 28 (14.74%) Analytics
8 28 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (12.11%) Software Engineering
10 21 (11.05%) AI
10 21 (11.05%) Data Integration
11 18 (9.47%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (8.95%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.95%) SDLC
12 17 (8.95%) Visualisation
13 15 (7.89%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (7.89%) Secure Coding
13 15 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 190 (100.00%) SQL
2 69 (36.32%) C#
3 33 (17.37%) Python
4 30 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 18 (9.47%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (4.74%) VBA
8 8 (4.21%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.21%) VBScript
9 7 (3.68%) Delphi
9 7 (3.68%) VB.NET
10 4 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.58%) XPath
12 2 (1.05%) Bash
12 2 (1.05%) Bicep
13 1 (0.53%) Tcl
13 1 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (6.32%) Degree
2 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (2.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.11%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.58%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.32%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.84%) QA
3 7 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.16%) SLA
5 2 (1.05%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.11%) Docker
3 3 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.63%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.11%) SQL Sentry
3 3 (1.58%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 84 (44.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.32%) Oracle
3 8 (4.21%) iManage
3 8 (4.21%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.68%) Databricks
5 6 (3.16%) RedGate
5 6 (3.16%) SAP
6 5 (2.63%) Intapp
6 5 (2.63%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.63%) Remedy
6 5 (2.63%) Teradata
7 3 (1.58%) Epicor
7 3 (1.58%) IFS
7 3 (1.58%) Infor
7 3 (1.58%) Veeam
7 3 (1.58%) VMware
8 2 (1.05%) Google
8 2 (1.05%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.53%) SolarWinds