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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 350 255
Rank change year-on-year -144 -95 +1
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 202 329 998
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.82% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.31% 2.59% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 157 263 809
10th Percentile £35,750 £39,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,125 £42,500
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 £78,750 £85,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,250
% change year-on-year -13.04% +0.44% -0.43%

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 15,440 12,694 29,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.35% 31.72% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 11,166 8,548 23,353
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £112,500 £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 22 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 22 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 -78 59 £70,000 - 19
South East -23 42 £48,500 +7.78% 12
North of England -68 36 £47,500 -20.83% 17
Midlands -59 26 £45,000 -7.22% 1
North West +3 22 £53,750 - 10
South West -59 21 £48,750 -2.50% 4
West Midlands -24 17 £44,000 -23.48%
East of England -29 14 £62,500 +48.81% 3
Yorkshire -61 12 £45,000 -25.00% 5
East Midlands -46 9 £59,000 +24.21% 1
North East -54 2 £45,500 -17.27% 2
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 20 (9.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.94%) IIS
3 8 (3.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.96%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.97%) Infor M3
3 6 (2.97%) Magento
3 6 (2.97%) Shopify
4 4 (1.98%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.98%) JDE World
4 4 (1.98%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.99%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.50%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 122 (60.40%) Azure
2 67 (33.17%) Power Platform
3 37 (18.32%) Entra ID
4 26 (12.87%) Google Workspace
5 23 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (10.89%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (10.89%) SaaS
7 19 (9.41%) Power Automate
8 18 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (7.92%) AWS
10 15 (7.43%) PowerApps
11 13 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (6.44%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.96%) Serverless
13 7 (3.47%) GitHub
13 7 (3.47%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.98%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.88%) Broadband
2 4 (1.98%) Firewall
3 3 (1.49%) DNS
3 3 (1.49%) VLAN
4 1 (0.50%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (55.94%) SQL Server
2 57 (28.22%) Power BI
3 48 (23.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 44 (21.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (7.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (7.43%) Power Query
7 12 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (5.45%) MySQL
9 10 (4.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.96%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.48%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.48%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.99%) Metadata
13 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
14 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (8.42%) Git
2 11 (5.45%) JIRA
2 11 (5.45%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.99%) Postman
4 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 53 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 49 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (14.85%) Organisational Skills
4 28 (13.86%) Finance
5 19 (9.41%) Law
6 10 (4.95%) Legal
7 6 (2.97%) Back Office
7 6 (2.97%) Retail
8 5 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.98%) Marketing
10 3 (1.49%) Billing
10 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.99%) Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Advertising
12 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.50%) Games
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (36.63%) Developer
2 42 (20.79%) Analyst
3 39 (19.31%) Senior
4 17 (8.42%) Applications Support
4 17 (8.42%) Data Analyst
5 16 (7.92%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 16 (7.92%) SQL Developer
6 15 (7.43%) Software Developer
7 14 (6.93%) .NET Developer
7 14 (6.93%) Applications Support Analyst
7 14 (6.93%) Senior Developer
7 14 (6.93%) Support Analyst
8 12 (5.94%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.94%) Database Engineer
8 12 (5.94%) DBA
8 12 (5.94%) SQL Analyst
9 10 (4.95%) IAM Developer
9 10 (4.95%) SQL DBA
9 10 (4.95%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.46%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (24.75%) .NET
2 38 (18.81%) REST
3 33 (16.34%) SOAP
4 26 (12.87%) GraphQL
4 26 (12.87%) LDAP
4 26 (12.87%) OAuth
4 26 (12.87%) OpenID
4 26 (12.87%) SAML
5 17 (8.42%) HTML
6 16 (7.92%) ASP.NET
6 16 (7.92%) CSS
6 16 (7.92%) JSON
7 13 (6.44%) .NET Core
7 13 (6.44%) XML
8 9 (4.46%) Blazor
8 9 (4.46%) Kafka
9 8 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (3.96%) React
10 7 (3.47%) .NET Framework
10 7 (3.47%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.88%) Cyber Threat
1 24 (11.88%) Cyberattack
2 17 (8.42%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.94%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.94%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (5.45%) Replication
5 10 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (4.46%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.48%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.98%) Clustering
8 4 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.98%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.98%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.92%) Windows
2 9 (4.46%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.19%) Business Intelligence
2 55 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (22.77%) Performance Tuning
4 39 (19.31%) Data Modelling
5 38 (18.81%) Mentoring
6 35 (17.33%) Roadmaps
7 33 (16.34%) DevOps
7 33 (16.34%) ETL
8 32 (15.84%) Agile
8 32 (15.84%) CI/CD
9 31 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (14.85%) Analytics
11 29 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (12.87%) Identity Access Management
13 25 (12.38%) Change Control
14 24 (11.88%) Programme Delivery
14 24 (11.88%) Regulatory Compliance
15 21 (10.40%) Validation
16 18 (8.91%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 201 (99.50%) SQL
2 57 (28.22%) PowerShell
3 54 (26.73%) C#
4 36 (17.82%) Python
5 26 (12.87%) Bash
6 22 (10.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (7.92%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.46%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.96%) VBScript
10 7 (3.47%) VBA
11 5 (2.48%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.98%) R
13 3 (1.49%) Delphi
14 2 (0.99%) VB
15 1 (0.50%) Bicep
15 1 (0.50%) Java
15 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (7.92%) Degree
2 5 (2.48%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.98%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (20.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (15.84%) Data Quality
3 26 (12.87%) NIST
4 24 (11.88%) NCSC
5 14 (6.93%) QA
6 4 (1.98%) GDPR
7 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.99%) SLA
8 1 (0.50%) HL7
8 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (22.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.98%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.49%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 78 (38.61%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.96%) iManage
2 8 (3.96%) Oracle
3 6 (2.97%) Databricks
3 6 (2.97%) IFS
3 6 (2.97%) Infor
3 6 (2.97%) SAP
3 6 (2.97%) ServiceNow
3 6 (2.97%) WooCommerce
4 5 (2.48%) ConnectWise
5 4 (1.98%) Epicor
5 4 (1.98%) JD Edwards
5 4 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.98%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.49%) RedGate
6 3 (1.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (1.49%) Veeam
6 3 (1.49%) VMware
7 2 (0.99%) Intapp
7 2 (0.99%) Rollbar