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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 345 252
Rank change year-on-year -159 -93 +5
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 195 335 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.85% 1.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% 2.65% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 150 262 822
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,375 £46,250 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £67,188 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,375 £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 15,068 12,650 28,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.28% 32.17% 30.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10,846 8,458 22,993
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 12 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 12 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 -85 56 £65,000 -7.14% 21
South East -28 39 £46,250 +2.78% 19
North of England -68 36 £47,500 -20.83% 14
Midlands -48 27 £45,000 -7.22% 2
North West +12 21 £60,000 +23.08% 8
South West -60 20 £47,500 -2.56% 7
West Midlands -29 18 £44,000 -23.48% 1
East of England -32 13 £62,500 +48.81% 6
Yorkshire -68 13 £45,000 -25.00% 2
East Midlands -55 9 £59,000 +22.92% 1
North East -43 2 £45,500 -17.27% 4
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 (9.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.62%) IIS
2 9 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.03%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (4.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (3.59%) Magento
3 7 (3.59%) Shopify
4 6 (3.08%) Infor M3
5 4 (2.05%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (2.05%) JDE World
5 4 (2.05%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.03%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.51%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 112 (57.44%) Azure
2 66 (33.85%) Power Platform
3 36 (18.46%) Entra ID
4 26 (13.33%) Google Workspace
5 21 (10.77%) Dynamics 365
5 21 (10.77%) SaaS
6 19 (9.74%) Power Automate
7 18 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (8.72%) PowerApps
9 16 (8.21%) AWS
9 16 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (4.10%) Serverless
13 7 (3.59%) GitHub
13 7 (3.59%) Snowflake
14 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
16 4 (2.05%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.31%) Broadband
2 3 (1.54%) Firewall
3 2 (1.03%) DNS
3 2 (1.03%) VLAN
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (57.44%) SQL Server
2 59 (30.26%) Power BI
3 47 (24.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 43 (22.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 18 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (8.21%) Power Query
7 12 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (5.64%) MySQL
9 10 (5.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (4.62%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.56%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.56%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (1.03%) Metadata
13 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.51%) OLTP
14 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (6.67%) JIRA
2 10 (5.13%) Git
3 9 (4.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (3.59%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.51%) Yeoman
General
1 52 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.59%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 29 (14.87%) Finance
5 18 (9.23%) Law
6 11 (5.64%) Legal
7 7 (3.59%) Back Office
8 6 (3.08%) Retail
9 4 (2.05%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.54%) Billing
10 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.54%) Marketing
10 3 (1.54%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.03%) Automotive
11 2 (1.03%) Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Advertising
12 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.51%) Games
12 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (34.87%) Developer
2 43 (22.05%) Analyst
3 39 (20.00%) Senior
4 17 (8.72%) Applications Support
5 16 (8.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 16 (8.21%) Data Analyst
5 16 (8.21%) Support Analyst
6 15 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
6 15 (7.69%) SQL Developer
7 14 (7.18%) DBA
7 14 (7.18%) Senior Developer
8 13 (6.67%) Database Engineer
8 13 (6.67%) Software Developer
9 12 (6.15%) SQL Analyst
9 12 (6.15%) SQL DBA
10 11 (5.64%) Data Engineer
11 10 (5.13%) .NET Developer
11 10 (5.13%) IAM Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
12 9 (4.62%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.05%) .NET
2 39 (20.00%) REST
3 34 (17.44%) SOAP
4 26 (13.33%) GraphQL
4 26 (13.33%) LDAP
4 26 (13.33%) OAuth
4 26 (13.33%) OpenID
4 26 (13.33%) SAML
5 15 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 14 (7.18%) HTML
7 13 (6.67%) CSS
7 13 (6.67%) JSON
8 12 (6.15%) XML
9 10 (5.13%) .NET Core
10 9 (4.62%) Blazor
10 9 (4.62%) Kafka
11 8 (4.10%) React
12 6 (3.08%) Middleware
13 5 (2.56%) .NET Framework
13 5 (2.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.31%) Cyber Threat
1 24 (12.31%) Cyberattack
2 14 (7.18%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (6.15%) Replication
4 11 (5.64%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.64%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.08%) Clustering
8 6 (3.08%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.05%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.05%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.54%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.67%) Windows
2 8 (4.10%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.54%) Linux
4 3 (1.54%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.82%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (23.59%) Performance Tuning
4 39 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 38 (19.49%) Data Modelling
6 34 (17.44%) Roadmaps
7 32 (16.41%) ETL
8 31 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (15.38%) Analytics
10 29 (14.87%) Agile
10 29 (14.87%) CI/CD
11 27 (13.85%) Change Control
11 27 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (13.33%) DevOps
12 26 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
13 24 (12.31%) Programme Delivery
13 24 (12.31%) Regulatory Compliance
14 19 (9.74%) Decision-Making
14 19 (9.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 194 (99.49%) SQL
2 54 (27.69%) PowerShell
3 47 (24.10%) C#
4 36 (18.46%) Python
5 26 (13.33%) Bash
6 23 (11.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.62%) PL/SQL
9 8 (4.10%) VBScript
10 7 (3.59%) VBA
11 5 (2.56%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.05%) R
13 2 (1.03%) Delphi
13 2 (1.03%) VB
14 1 (0.51%) Bicep
14 1 (0.51%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (8.72%) Degree
2 6 (3.08%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.05%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (21.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (16.41%) Data Quality
3 26 (13.33%) NIST
4 24 (12.31%) NCSC
5 8 (4.10%) QA
6 3 (1.54%) GDPR
7 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.03%) SLA
8 1 (0.51%) HL7
8 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (22.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.05%) Docker
3 2 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.54%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.51%) SCCM
3 1 (0.51%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.13%) Oracle
3 8 (4.10%) iManage
4 7 (3.59%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.59%) WooCommerce
5 6 (3.08%) ConnectWise
5 6 (3.08%) Databricks
5 6 (3.08%) IFS
5 6 (3.08%) Infor
5 6 (3.08%) SAP
6 4 (2.05%) Epicor
6 4 (2.05%) JD Edwards
6 4 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.05%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.54%) RedGate
7 3 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Google
8 2 (1.03%) Intapp
8 2 (1.03%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.03%) Veeam