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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 281 224
Rank change year-on-year -120 -57 +15
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 200 485 725
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 1.01% 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 2.98% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 173 294 655
10th Percentile £28,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £83,750 £78,250
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 10,129 16,276 19,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.39% 33.84% 38.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,643 9,568 16,015
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 12 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 12 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 -72 59 £80,000 +28.00% 62
Midlands -1 44 £50,000 +11.11% 17
South East -2 37 £40,000 -20.00% 48
North of England -16 35 £40,000 -15.79% 25
Yorkshire -1 30 £37,500 -19.30% 5
West Midlands +15 28 £45,000 +4.65% 6
South West +1 18 £50,000 -6.98% 21
East Midlands -20 16 £50,000 +11.11% 11
East of England -24 4 £42,175 -11.21% 19
North East +5 3 £51,000 -32.00% 2
North West -3 2 £57,500 +21.05% 18
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 (8.50%) IIS
2 11 (5.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.50%) CMS
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.00%) HCL Notes
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.00%) 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 20 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (2.50%) Magento
2 5 (2.50%) Shopify
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.00%) 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 93 (46.50%) Azure
2 45 (22.50%) Power Platform
3 32 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (15.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 14 (7.00%) PowerApps
7 13 (6.50%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (6.00%) Google Workspace
9 11 (5.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (5.00%) GitHub
10 10 (5.00%) SaaS
11 9 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.50%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.50%) Snowflake
12 8 (4.00%) AWS
12 8 (4.00%) GCP
13 5 (2.50%) dbt
14 4 (2.00%) Collibra
14 4 (2.00%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.00%) Broadband
2 3 (1.50%) DNS
3 2 (1.00%) DHCP
3 2 (1.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.00%) Firewall
3 2 (1.00%) SSL
3 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.00%) VLAN
3 2 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (59.00%) SQL Server
2 48 (24.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 45 (22.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 44 (22.00%) Power BI
5 23 (11.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (9.50%) Data Lake
6 19 (9.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 18 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.50%) Metadata
8 7 (3.50%) MySQL
8 7 (3.50%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.00%) OLAP
9 6 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.50%) Data Mining
11 4 (2.00%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.50%) GIS
12 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.50%) Power Query
12 3 (1.50%) Tableau
13 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.50%) Git
2 11 (5.50%) JIRA
3 7 (3.50%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.50%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.50%) Mercurial
General
1 72 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.50%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (18.00%) Finance
4 12 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (4.50%) Back Office
5 9 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (4.50%) Law
5 9 (4.50%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.00%) Legal
7 6 (3.00%) Games
7 6 (3.00%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.00%) Billing
9 2 (1.00%) Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Front Office
9 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Advertising
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (26.00%) Developer
2 50 (25.00%) Senior
3 37 (18.50%) Analyst
4 35 (17.50%) Data Engineer
5 27 (13.50%) Support Analyst
6 26 (13.00%) Applications Support
7 23 (11.50%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (11.50%) DBA
8 20 (10.00%) SQL DBA
9 19 (9.50%) Senior Data Engineer
10 17 (8.50%) Software Engineer
11 16 (8.00%) SQL Developer
12 14 (7.00%) Administrator
12 14 (7.00%) Senior Developer
13 12 (6.00%) IT Engineer
13 12 (6.00%) IT Support
13 12 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (6.00%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (6.00%) Software Support Engineer
13 12 (6.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.50%) .NET
2 28 (14.00%) REST
3 22 (11.00%) SOAP
4 17 (8.50%) .NET Framework
5 15 (7.50%) ASP.NET
5 15 (7.50%) Entity Framework
6 13 (6.50%) OAuth
6 13 (6.50%) OpenID
7 12 (6.00%) GraphQL
7 12 (6.00%) LDAP
7 12 (6.00%) SAML
7 12 (6.00%) WinForms
8 10 (5.00%) CSS
8 10 (5.00%) HTML
8 10 (5.00%) JSON
9 9 (4.50%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.50%) XML
10 7 (3.50%) Middleware
10 7 (3.50%) PySpark
10 7 (3.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.50%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (6.00%) Cyberattack
3 8 (4.00%) Clustering
3 8 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.00%) 3D Graphics
4 6 (3.00%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.50%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.00%) Derivative
8 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.00%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.00%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.00%) Windows
2 10 (5.00%) Linux
3 6 (3.00%) VMS
3 6 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Android
4 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (28.00%) ETL
3 53 (26.50%) Business Intelligence
4 39 (19.50%) DevOps
5 33 (16.50%) Analytics
6 32 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
7 30 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 30 (15.00%) Software Engineering
8 29 (14.50%) Data Modelling
9 28 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (13.50%) Agile
11 25 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (12.00%) Data Engineering
13 21 (10.50%) CI/CD
14 20 (10.00%) Roadmaps
15 18 (9.00%) Decision-Making
16 17 (8.50%) Change Control
16 17 (8.50%) Computer Science
17 16 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
18 15 (7.50%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 198 (99.00%) SQL
2 42 (21.00%) C#
3 38 (19.00%) Python
4 33 (16.50%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.00%) Bash
6 12 (6.00%) PL/SQL
7 10 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.50%) Bicep
9 2 (1.00%) C++
9 2 (1.00%) PHP
9 2 (1.00%) Scala
9 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.00%) VBA
10 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (15.00%) Degree
2 15 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.00%) ACCA
4 4 (2.00%) CIMA
4 4 (2.00%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.00%) MCSE
6 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.00%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.00%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (6.00%) NCSC
3 12 (6.00%) NIST
4 9 (4.50%) QA
5 8 (4.00%) GDPR
6 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (9.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.50%) Docker
3 2 (1.00%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.50%) Terraform
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 85 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.00%) Databricks
3 19 (9.50%) Oracle
4 13 (6.50%) Sage
5 12 (6.00%) Xamarin
6 6 (3.00%) RedGate
7 5 (2.50%) ConnectWise
7 5 (2.50%) Google
7 5 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.50%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.50%) Zoho
8 4 (2.00%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.50%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.50%) Informatica
9 3 (1.50%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.50%) Talend
10 2 (1.00%) Citrix
10 2 (1.00%) Lotus
10 2 (1.00%) Salesforce