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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 304 203
Rank change year-on-year -119 -101 +57
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 207 435 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.99% 1.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 2.85% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 170 256 900
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%

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 11,130 15,271 24,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.71% 34.60% 36.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,273 9,109 20,700
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -88 62 £80,000 +28.00% 15
Midlands -8 45 £48,500 +4.86% 21
South East -7 41 £40,000 -20.00% 30
North of England -20 36 £48,750 +1.56% 17
West Midlands +10 27 £42,500 -17.07% 12
Yorkshire -31 25 £25,000 -47.37% 3
South West -14 18 £42,500 -7.61% 8
East Midlands -18 18 £50,000 +11.11% 9
North West -6 8 £58,750 +17.50% 13
East of England -26 5 £42,175 -11.21% 8
North East -6 3 £51,000 -32.00% 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 15 (7.25%) IIS
2 8 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.45%) CMS
4 2 (0.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) WordPress
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.35%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (4.35%) Magento
2 9 (4.35%) Shopify
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 102 (49.28%) Azure
2 44 (21.26%) Power Platform
3 36 (17.39%) Entra ID
4 28 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (12.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 25 (12.08%) Google Workspace
6 19 (9.18%) SaaS
7 17 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (6.76%) PowerApps
9 10 (4.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (4.83%) GitHub
10 8 (3.86%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.90%) GCP
13 5 (2.42%) dbt
14 4 (1.93%) Collibra
14 4 (1.93%) Fivetran
14 4 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.08%) Broadband
2 3 (1.45%) DNS
3 2 (0.97%) DHCP
3 2 (0.97%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.97%) Firewall
3 2 (0.97%) SSL
3 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.97%) VLAN
3 2 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (56.04%) SQL Server
2 47 (22.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 43 (20.77%) Power BI
4 39 (18.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (9.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (8.21%) Data Lake
7 16 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (7.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (6.76%) MySQL
10 12 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.90%) Metadata
12 5 (2.42%) Power Query
13 4 (1.93%) OLAP
14 3 (1.45%) GIS
14 3 (1.45%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.45%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.45%) Tableau
15 2 (0.97%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (6.76%) JIRA
2 7 (3.38%) Git
3 5 (2.42%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (1.93%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (15.94%) Finance
4 25 (12.08%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (6.28%) Back Office
6 8 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.38%) Law
8 6 (2.90%) Games
9 5 (2.42%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.93%) Billing
11 3 (1.45%) Banking
11 3 (1.45%) Legal
11 3 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.45%) Marketing
12 2 (0.97%) Front Office
12 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.48%) Advertising
13 1 (0.48%) Automotive
13 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (24.64%) Senior
2 46 (22.22%) Analyst
3 42 (20.29%) Developer
4 33 (15.94%) Support Analyst
5 32 (15.46%) Data Engineer
6 31 (14.98%) Applications Support
7 28 (13.53%) Applications Support Analyst
8 19 (9.18%) DBA
9 17 (8.21%) Software Engineer
10 16 (7.73%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (7.73%) SQL DBA
11 13 (6.28%) IT Support
11 13 (6.28%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.80%) IT Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (5.80%) Software Support Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) Support Engineer
13 11 (5.31%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 11 (5.31%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.26%) REST
2 37 (17.87%) SOAP
3 31 (14.98%) .NET
4 26 (12.56%) OAuth
4 26 (12.56%) OpenID
5 25 (12.08%) GraphQL
5 25 (12.08%) LDAP
5 25 (12.08%) SAML
6 15 (7.25%) .NET Framework
7 14 (6.76%) JSON
7 14 (6.76%) XML
8 13 (6.28%) Entity Framework
9 12 (5.80%) ASP.NET
9 12 (5.80%) WinForms
10 10 (4.83%) Middleware
11 9 (4.35%) CSS
11 9 (4.35%) HTML
12 8 (3.86%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.90%) DirectX
13 6 (2.90%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.08%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (12.08%) Cyberattack
2 15 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.31%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.86%) Clustering
4 8 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.90%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.90%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.93%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.45%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.97%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.97%) Derivative
9 2 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.97%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.63%) Windows
2 10 (4.83%) Linux
3 6 (2.90%) VMS
3 6 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.97%) Android
4 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (22.71%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (21.74%) ETL
4 38 (18.36%) Mentoring
4 38 (18.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (17.39%) Data Modelling
6 34 (16.43%) Analytics
7 33 (15.94%) Roadmaps
8 32 (15.46%) DevOps
9 29 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
10 28 (13.53%) Change Control
11 27 (13.04%) Software Engineering
12 25 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (12.08%) Identity Access Management
12 25 (12.08%) Programme Delivery
12 25 (12.08%) Regulatory Compliance
13 23 (11.11%) Agile
14 21 (10.14%) Data Engineering
15 20 (9.66%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 206 (99.52%) SQL
2 53 (25.60%) PowerShell
3 40 (19.32%) C#
4 39 (18.84%) Python
5 25 (12.08%) Bash
6 11 (5.31%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.31%) PL/SQL
7 10 (4.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.97%) Bicep
8 2 (0.97%) PHP
8 2 (0.97%) Scala
8 2 (0.97%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.97%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (13.04%) Degree
2 15 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.93%) ACCA
4 4 (1.93%) CIMA
4 4 (1.93%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.97%) MCSE
6 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) MCITP
7 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (14.01%) Data Quality
3 25 (12.08%) NCSC
3 25 (12.08%) NIST
4 8 (3.86%) GDPR
5 7 (3.38%) QA
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (17.87%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.93%) Docker
3 2 (0.97%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 83 (40.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.18%) Databricks
3 14 (6.76%) Oracle
4 13 (6.28%) Sage
5 12 (5.80%) Xamarin
6 9 (4.35%) ConnectWise
6 9 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.35%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.42%) Google
7 5 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.42%) Zoho
8 4 (1.93%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.45%) Informatica
9 3 (1.45%) RedGate
9 3 (1.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.45%) Talend
10 2 (0.97%) Citrix
10 2 (0.97%) VMware
11 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.48%) Siemens