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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 341 243
Rank change year-on-year -167 -98 +28
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 178 338 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.87% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 2.64% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 136 268 853
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,925 £36,288
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,625 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,125 £77,500
UK median annual salary £49,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.78% +4.55% -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 14,401 12,805 27,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.84% 32.96% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,144 8,979 22,382
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -95 47 £70,000 +3.70% 18
Midlands -50 35 £50,000 -2.44% 7
North of England -62 34 £47,500 -20.83% 25
South East -22 29 £44,000 -9.74% 16
West Midlands -23 19 £44,000 -23.48% 4
South West -42 18 £42,500 +6.25% 6
North West -4 17 £53,750 +7.50% 11
East Midlands -42 16 £59,732 +23.16% 3
Yorkshire -91 16 £44,000 -26.67% 12
East of England -34 12 £62,500 +48.81% 7
North East -38 1 £43,500 -24.35% 2
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 (8.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.49%) IIS
2 8 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.62%) Dynamics NAV
1 10 (5.62%) Magento
1 10 (5.62%) Shopify
2 9 (5.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (3.37%) Infor M3
4 4 (2.25%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (2.25%) JDE World
4 4 (2.25%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.12%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 88 (49.44%) Azure
2 54 (30.34%) Power Platform
3 34 (19.10%) Entra ID
4 24 (13.48%) Google Workspace
5 19 (10.67%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (8.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (7.87%) Power Automate
9 13 (7.30%) PowerApps
10 12 (6.74%) AWS
10 12 (6.74%) SaaS
11 8 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.37%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.81%) GitHub
14 5 (2.81%) Serverless
15 4 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.48%) Broadband
2 3 (1.69%) DNS
2 3 (1.69%) Firewall
3 2 (1.12%) VLAN
4 1 (0.56%) HTTP
4 1 (0.56%) LAN
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (58.99%) SQL Server
2 52 (29.21%) Power BI
3 40 (22.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 36 (20.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (12.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (7.87%) Power Query
7 10 (5.62%) MySQL
7 10 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (5.06%) Data Lake
8 9 (5.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (4.49%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.25%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.69%) Metadata
12 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 15 (8.43%) JIRA
2 6 (3.37%) Git
2 6 (3.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Yeoman
General
1 54 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 45 (25.28%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.73%) Organisational Skills
4 26 (14.61%) Finance
5 16 (8.99%) Law
6 10 (5.62%) Back Office
7 9 (5.06%) Legal
8 7 (3.93%) Games
9 5 (2.81%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.81%) Retail
10 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.69%) Marketing
10 3 (1.69%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.12%) Automotive
11 2 (1.12%) Billing
11 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Police
12 1 (0.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 53 (29.78%) Developer
2 49 (27.53%) Analyst
3 41 (23.03%) Senior
4 21 (11.80%) Support Analyst
5 19 (10.67%) Applications Support
6 18 (10.11%) Applications Support Analyst
7 16 (8.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (8.99%) Data Analyst
7 16 (8.99%) DBA
7 16 (8.99%) Senior Developer
8 14 (7.87%) SQL DBA
9 12 (6.74%) Data Engineer
9 12 (6.74%) SQL Analyst
10 11 (6.18%) C# Developer
10 11 (6.18%) Database Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 9 (5.06%) Software Developer
11 9 (5.06%) SQL Data Analyst
11 9 (5.06%) SQL Developer
12 8 (4.49%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (21.91%) REST
2 35 (19.66%) .NET
2 35 (19.66%) SOAP
3 25 (14.04%) OAuth
3 25 (14.04%) OpenID
4 24 (13.48%) GraphQL
4 24 (13.48%) LDAP
4 24 (13.48%) SAML
5 12 (6.74%) .NET Core
5 12 (6.74%) ASP.NET
6 11 (6.18%) CSS
6 11 (6.18%) HTML
6 11 (6.18%) JSON
7 10 (5.62%) XML
8 9 (5.06%) Middleware
9 8 (4.49%) Kafka
10 6 (3.37%) DirectX
10 6 (3.37%) OpenGL
10 6 (3.37%) PySpark
11 5 (2.81%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.48%) Cyber Threat
1 24 (13.48%) Cyberattack
2 13 (7.30%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.62%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.62%) Replication
4 9 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.93%) Clustering
6 7 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.37%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (3.37%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.25%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.25%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.25%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.25%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.18%) Windows
2 6 (3.37%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.81%) Linux
3 5 (2.81%) VMS
4 4 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (33.15%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (21.35%) Data Modelling
4 36 (20.22%) Mentoring
5 35 (19.66%) Performance Tuning
6 33 (18.54%) Analytics
6 33 (18.54%) Roadmaps
7 30 (16.85%) ETL
8 28 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (15.17%) Change Control
10 26 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (13.48%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (13.48%) Identity Access Management
11 24 (13.48%) Programme Delivery
11 24 (13.48%) Regulatory Compliance
12 22 (12.36%) CI/CD
13 20 (11.24%) Decision-Making
13 20 (11.24%) ERP
14 19 (10.67%) DevOps
15 18 (10.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 176 (98.88%) SQL
2 47 (26.40%) PowerShell
3 39 (21.91%) C#
4 36 (20.22%) Python
5 24 (13.48%) Bash
6 22 (12.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (4.49%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.37%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.37%) VBA
9 5 (2.81%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.81%) VBScript
10 4 (2.25%) R
11 2 (1.12%) Bicep
11 2 (1.12%) Scala
12 1 (0.56%) Delphi
12 1 (0.56%) Java
12 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (8.99%) Degree
2 6 (3.37%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.56%) MCITP
5 1 (0.56%) MCSE
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (21.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (17.98%) Data Quality
3 24 (13.48%) NCSC
3 24 (13.48%) NIST
4 6 (3.37%) GDPR
4 6 (3.37%) QA
5 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (22.47%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.25%) Docker
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.56%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (2.25%) Terraform
2 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.56%) SCCM
3 1 (0.56%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 64 (35.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.62%) Oracle
2 10 (5.62%) WooCommerce
3 9 (5.06%) ConnectWise
3 9 (5.06%) Databricks
3 9 (5.06%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.37%) IFS
4 6 (3.37%) iManage
4 6 (3.37%) Infor
5 5 (2.81%) SAP
6 4 (2.25%) Epicor
6 4 (2.25%) JD Edwards
6 4 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.25%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.69%) RedGate
7 3 (1.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Intapp
8 2 (1.12%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.12%) Veeam
8 2 (1.12%) VMware