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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 337 254
Rank change year-on-year -170 -83 +1
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 194 334 1,017
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.84% 1.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 2.64% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 149 263 829
10th Percentile £35,600 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,125 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,400 £85,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 15,227 12,662 29,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.27% 31.93% 30.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,990 8,493 23,300
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £85,000 £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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -79 59 £70,000 - 21
South East -20 37 £46,250 +2.78% 13
North of England -74 35 £47,500 -20.83% 14
Midlands -56 26 £45,000 -7.22% 2
North West +7 21 £60,000 +20.00% 9
South West -58 20 £48,125 -3.75% 5
West Midlands -24 17 £44,000 -23.48% 1
East of England -31 13 £62,500 +48.81% 3
Yorkshire -67 12 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -48 9 £59,000 +24.21% 1
North East -51 2 £45,500 -17.27% 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 18 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.64%) IIS
3 7 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (5.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (4.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (3.09%) Infor M3
3 6 (3.09%) Magento
3 6 (3.09%) Shopify
4 4 (2.06%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (2.06%) JDE World
4 4 (2.06%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.03%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.52%) FastStats
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.52%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 114 (58.76%) Azure
2 65 (33.51%) Power Platform
3 36 (18.56%) Entra ID
4 26 (13.40%) Google Workspace
5 22 (11.34%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (10.31%) SaaS
7 19 (9.79%) Power Automate
8 17 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (8.25%) AWS
10 15 (7.73%) PowerApps
11 13 (6.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (6.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (4.12%) Serverless
13 7 (3.61%) GitHub
13 7 (3.61%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (2.06%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.37%) Broadband
2 3 (1.55%) Firewall
3 2 (1.03%) DNS
3 2 (1.03%) VLAN
4 1 (0.52%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) Network Security
4 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (55.67%) SQL Server
2 56 (28.87%) Power BI
3 46 (23.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 44 (22.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (8.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (7.73%) Power Query
7 12 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (5.67%) MySQL
9 10 (5.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (4.12%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.58%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.58%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.03%) Metadata
14 1 (0.52%) Big Data
14 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (6.70%) Git
2 11 (5.67%) JIRA
3 9 (4.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 9 (4.64%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.52%) Yeoman
General
1 52 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.23%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.46%) Organisational Skills
4 28 (14.43%) Finance
5 18 (9.28%) Law
6 10 (5.15%) Legal
7 6 (3.09%) Back Office
7 6 (3.09%) Retail
8 4 (2.06%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.06%) Marketing
9 3 (1.55%) Billing
9 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.55%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.03%) Automotive
10 2 (1.03%) Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Advertising
11 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.52%) Games
11 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (35.05%) Developer
2 43 (22.16%) Analyst
3 38 (19.59%) Senior
4 17 (8.76%) Applications Support
4 17 (8.76%) Data Analyst
5 16 (8.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 15 (7.73%) Applications Support Analyst
6 15 (7.73%) SQL Developer
6 15 (7.73%) Support Analyst
7 14 (7.22%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.22%) Software Developer
8 13 (6.70%) DBA
9 12 (6.19%) Data Engineer
9 12 (6.19%) Database Engineer
9 12 (6.19%) SQL Analyst
10 11 (5.67%) SQL DBA
11 10 (5.15%) .NET Developer
11 10 (5.15%) IAM Developer
12 9 (4.64%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
12 9 (4.64%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.16%) .NET
2 38 (19.59%) REST
3 33 (17.01%) SOAP
4 26 (13.40%) GraphQL
4 26 (13.40%) LDAP
4 26 (13.40%) OAuth
4 26 (13.40%) OpenID
4 26 (13.40%) SAML
5 14 (7.22%) ASP.NET
5 14 (7.22%) HTML
5 14 (7.22%) JSON
6 13 (6.70%) CSS
7 12 (6.19%) XML
8 10 (5.15%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.64%) Blazor
9 9 (4.64%) Kafka
10 8 (4.12%) React
11 5 (2.58%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.58%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (2.58%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.37%) Cyber Threat
1 24 (12.37%) Cyberattack
2 14 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (6.19%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.67%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.67%) Replication
5 10 (5.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (4.64%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.58%) Clustering
9 4 (2.06%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.06%) Legacy Code
9 4 (2.06%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.55%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.70%) Windows
2 8 (4.12%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.03%) Linux
4 2 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (31.96%) Business Intelligence
2 51 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (23.71%) Performance Tuning
4 38 (19.59%) Data Modelling
4 38 (19.59%) Mentoring
5 34 (17.53%) Roadmaps
6 32 (16.49%) ETL
7 31 (15.98%) Agile
7 31 (15.98%) CI/CD
7 31 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (15.46%) Analytics
9 28 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (13.92%) DevOps
11 26 (13.40%) Change Control
11 26 (13.40%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (13.40%) Identity Access Management
12 24 (12.37%) Programme Delivery
12 24 (12.37%) Regulatory Compliance
13 21 (10.82%) Validation
14 18 (9.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 193 (99.48%) SQL
2 54 (27.84%) PowerShell
3 47 (24.23%) C#
4 36 (18.56%) Python
5 26 (13.40%) Bash
6 22 (11.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (6.70%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.64%) PL/SQL
9 8 (4.12%) VBScript
10 7 (3.61%) VBA
11 5 (2.58%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.06%) R
13 2 (1.03%) Delphi
13 2 (1.03%) VB
14 1 (0.52%) Bicep
14 1 (0.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (8.76%) Degree
2 5 (2.58%) DBS Check
2 5 (2.58%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (21.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (16.49%) Data Quality
3 26 (13.40%) NIST
4 24 (12.37%) NCSC
5 11 (5.67%) QA
6 4 (2.06%) GDPR
7 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.03%) SLA
8 1 (0.52%) HL7
8 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (22.68%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.06%) Docker
3 2 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.55%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.52%) SCCM
3 1 (0.52%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 73 (37.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.64%) Oracle
3 8 (4.12%) iManage
4 6 (3.09%) Databricks
4 6 (3.09%) IFS
4 6 (3.09%) Infor
4 6 (3.09%) SAP
4 6 (3.09%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.09%) WooCommerce
5 5 (2.58%) ConnectWise
6 4 (2.06%) Epicor
6 4 (2.06%) JD Edwards
6 4 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.06%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.55%) RedGate
7 3 (1.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Intapp
8 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.03%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.03%) VMware