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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 283 213
Rank change year-on-year -115 -70 +15
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 199 490 705
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 1.00% 1.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 2.95% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 175 299 638
10th Percentile £29,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,438 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -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 10,199 16,584 18,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.63% 33.94% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,688 9,767 15,198
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,219 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.28% +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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -76 58 £80,000 +28.00% 228
Midlands -1 45 £50,000 +11.11% 25
North of England -6 37 £40,000 -15.79% 39
South East -9 36 £40,000 -20.00% 169
Yorkshire +3 30 £37,500 -17.48% 4
West Midlands +22 28 £45,000 +4.65% 5
East Midlands -13 17 £50,000 +8.11% 20
South West -4 16 £50,000 -6.98% 37
North East +9 4 £51,750 -31.00% 20
East of England -25 4 £42,175 -11.21% 31
North West -8 3 £57,500 +21.05% 15
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 17 (8.54%) IIS
2 11 (5.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.51%) CMS
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) HCL Notes
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.01%) WordPress
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.51%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (2.51%) Magento
2 5 (2.51%) Shopify
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 92 (46.23%) Azure
2 46 (23.12%) Power Platform
3 33 (16.58%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (6.53%) Azure Logic Apps
4 13 (6.53%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (6.53%) PowerApps
5 12 (6.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (6.03%) Entra ID
6 11 (5.53%) GitHub
7 10 (5.03%) AWS
7 10 (5.03%) SaaS
7 10 (5.03%) Snowflake
8 9 (4.52%) GCP
8 9 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (4.02%) Power Automate
10 7 (3.52%) Google Workspace
11 5 (2.51%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.51%) dbt
11 5 (2.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) Broadband
2 3 (1.51%) DNS
3 2 (1.01%) DHCP
3 2 (1.01%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.01%) Firewall
3 2 (1.01%) SSL
3 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.01%) VLAN
3 2 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (59.80%) SQL Server
2 50 (25.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 46 (23.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 45 (22.61%) Power BI
5 25 (12.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (10.05%) Data Lake
6 20 (10.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 18 (9.05%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (4.02%) MySQL
8 8 (4.02%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.52%) Metadata
9 7 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (3.02%) OLAP
11 5 (2.51%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.51%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.01%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.51%) GIS
13 3 (1.51%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.51%) Power Query
13 3 (1.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.53%) Git
2 11 (5.53%) JIRA
3 7 (3.52%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (3.02%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.51%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.50%) Mercurial
General
1 74 (37.19%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.61%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (19.60%) Finance
4 10 (5.03%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.52%) Back Office
5 9 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (4.52%) Law
6 8 (4.02%) Legal
7 7 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.02%) Games
8 6 (3.02%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.01%) Billing
10 3 (1.51%) Front Office
11 2 (1.01%) Advertising
11 2 (1.01%) Banking
11 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.01%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) Automotive
12 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 52 (26.13%) Developer
2 49 (24.62%) Senior
3 38 (19.10%) Analyst
4 35 (17.59%) Data Engineer
5 27 (13.57%) Support Analyst
6 26 (13.07%) Applications Support
7 25 (12.56%) DBA
8 23 (11.56%) Applications Support Analyst
9 22 (11.06%) SQL DBA
10 19 (9.55%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (8.54%) Software Engineer
11 17 (8.54%) SQL Developer
12 15 (7.54%) Administrator
13 13 (6.53%) Senior Developer
14 12 (6.03%) IT Engineer
14 12 (6.03%) IT Support
14 12 (6.03%) IT Support Engineer
14 12 (6.03%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (6.03%) Software Support Engineer
14 12 (6.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.59%) .NET
2 24 (12.06%) REST
3 18 (9.05%) .NET Framework
4 17 (8.54%) SOAP
5 15 (7.54%) ASP.NET
5 15 (7.54%) Entity Framework
6 12 (6.03%) WinForms
7 10 (5.03%) CSS
7 10 (5.03%) HTML
7 10 (5.03%) JSON
8 9 (4.52%) .NET Core
8 9 (4.52%) XML
9 8 (4.02%) OAuth
9 8 (4.02%) OpenID
10 7 (3.52%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.52%) LDAP
10 7 (3.52%) Middleware
10 7 (3.52%) PySpark
10 7 (3.52%) SAML
10 7 (3.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.53%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.52%) Clustering
3 8 (4.02%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (3.52%) Cyberattack
5 6 (3.02%) 3D Graphics
6 5 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.51%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.01%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.51%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.01%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.01%) Derivative
9 2 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.01%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.01%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.50%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.06%) Windows
2 10 (5.03%) Linux
3 6 (3.02%) VMS
3 6 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.01%) Android
4 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.01%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (28.64%) ETL
3 55 (27.64%) Business Intelligence
4 41 (20.60%) DevOps
5 36 (18.09%) Analytics
6 33 (16.58%) Data Pipeline
7 31 (15.58%) Software Engineering
8 30 (15.08%) Data Modelling
9 28 (14.07%) Agile
10 25 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (12.06%) Data Engineering
11 24 (12.06%) Mentoring
12 23 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (10.55%) CI/CD
14 18 (9.05%) Computer Science
14 18 (9.05%) Decision-Making
15 15 (7.54%) ERP
15 15 (7.54%) Roadmaps
16 13 (6.53%) Data Analysis
16 13 (6.53%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 197 (98.99%) SQL
2 43 (21.61%) C#
3 39 (19.60%) Python
4 27 (13.57%) PowerShell
5 17 (8.54%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.03%) PL/SQL
7 11 (5.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (3.52%) Bash
9 3 (1.51%) Bicep
10 2 (1.01%) C++
10 2 (1.01%) PHP
10 2 (1.01%) Scala
10 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.01%) VBA
11 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (15.08%) Degree
2 15 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.53%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.51%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.01%) ACCA
5 4 (2.01%) CIMA
6 3 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.01%) MCSE
7 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) MCITP
8 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.07%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.52%) QA
3 8 (4.02%) GDPR
3 8 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.52%) NCSC
4 7 (3.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (7.54%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.51%) Docker
3 2 (1.01%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.51%) Terraform
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 86 (43.22%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.07%) Databricks
3 19 (9.55%) Oracle
4 13 (6.53%) Sage
5 12 (6.03%) Xamarin
6 7 (3.52%) RedGate
7 5 (2.51%) ConnectWise
7 5 (2.51%) Google
7 5 (2.51%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.51%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.51%) Zoho
8 4 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (2.01%) Dataiku
8 4 (2.01%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.01%) Informatica
8 4 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.01%) Talend
9 2 (1.01%) Aderant
9 2 (1.01%) iManage
9 2 (1.01%) Intapp