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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 289 210
Rank change year-on-year -135 -79 +29
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 201 473 883
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 1.00% 1.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 2.96% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 169 281 791
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,800 £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 10,474 15,989 22,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.99% 33.73% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,834 9,346 19,120
10th Percentile £32,887 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 26 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 26 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 -84 59 £80,000 +28.00% 62
Midlands -2 44 £50,000 +8.11% 30
South East +1 40 £40,000 -20.00% 67
North of England -13 32 £40,000 -15.79% 40
West Midlands +22 28 £45,000 -5.26% 9
Yorkshire -5 26 £25,000 -46.20% 12
South West -8 20 £50,000 +5.26% 35
East Midlands -25 16 £50,000 +11.11% 20
East of England -32 4 £42,175 -11.21% 28
North East 0 3 £51,000 -32.00% 3
North West -3 3 £57,500 +21.05% 25
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 16 (7.96%) IIS
2 9 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) CMS
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.99%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (2.99%) Magento
2 6 (2.99%) Shopify
3 2 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 97 (48.26%) Azure
2 41 (20.40%) Power Platform
3 30 (14.93%) Azure Data Factory
3 30 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (11.44%) Entra ID
5 18 (8.96%) Google Workspace
6 14 (6.97%) PowerApps
7 12 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (5.97%) SaaS
8 11 (5.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (5.47%) GitHub
8 11 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (4.98%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (3.98%) GCP
10 8 (3.98%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.48%) AWS
11 7 (3.48%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.49%) dbt
12 5 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.96%) Broadband
2 3 (1.49%) 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
1 116 (57.71%) SQL Server
2 47 (23.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 47 (23.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 40 (19.90%) Power BI
4 21 (10.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (8.96%) Data Lake
5 18 (8.96%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (7.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (4.48%) MySQL
8 8 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (3.48%) Metadata
10 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.99%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.99%) OLAP
12 3 (1.49%) GIS
12 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.49%) Power Query
12 3 (1.49%) Tableau
13 2 (1.00%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (5.97%) Git
2 10 (4.98%) JIRA
3 7 (3.48%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (2.49%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.99%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.50%) Mercurial
General
1 71 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.39%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (17.91%) Finance
4 18 (8.96%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (4.98%) Back Office
6 9 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.48%) Law
7 7 (3.48%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.99%) Games
9 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.99%) Billing
10 4 (1.99%) Legal
11 3 (1.49%) Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Front Office
12 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Automotive
13 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (25.87%) Senior
2 49 (24.38%) Developer
3 36 (17.91%) Analyst
3 36 (17.91%) Data Engineer
4 29 (14.43%) Support Analyst
5 27 (13.43%) Applications Support
6 24 (11.94%) Applications Support Analyst
7 20 (9.95%) DBA
7 20 (9.95%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (8.46%) Software Engineer
8 17 (8.46%) SQL DBA
9 13 (6.47%) IT Support
9 13 (6.47%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.47%) SQL Developer
10 12 (5.97%) IT Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (5.97%) Software Support Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Support Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (17.91%) REST
2 34 (16.92%) .NET
3 29 (14.43%) SOAP
4 19 (9.45%) OAuth
4 19 (9.45%) OpenID
5 18 (8.96%) GraphQL
5 18 (8.96%) LDAP
5 18 (8.96%) SAML
6 16 (7.96%) .NET Framework
7 15 (7.46%) ASP.NET
8 14 (6.97%) Entity Framework
9 12 (5.97%) WinForms
10 10 (4.98%) .NET Core
10 10 (4.98%) CSS
10 10 (4.98%) HTML
10 10 (4.98%) JSON
10 10 (4.98%) XML
11 8 (3.98%) Middleware
12 6 (2.99%) OpenGL
12 6 (2.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.96%) Cyber Threat
1 18 (8.96%) Cyberattack
2 11 (5.47%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.48%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.98%) Clustering
5 7 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.99%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.99%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.99%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.49%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.00%) Derivative
9 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.00%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.95%) Windows
2 10 (4.98%) Linux
3 6 (2.99%) VMS
3 6 (2.99%) 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 54 (26.87%) ETL
2 52 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (16.92%) DevOps
4 34 (16.92%) Mentoring
4 34 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (16.42%) Analytics
6 32 (15.92%) Data Modelling
6 32 (15.92%) Data Pipeline
7 30 (14.93%) Software Engineering
8 27 (13.43%) Agile
9 26 (12.94%) Roadmaps
10 25 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (11.94%) CI/CD
11 24 (11.94%) Data Engineering
12 22 (10.95%) Change Control
13 19 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (8.96%) Identity Access Management
14 18 (8.96%) Programme Delivery
14 18 (8.96%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 200 (99.50%) SQL
2 43 (21.39%) C#
3 42 (20.90%) PowerShell
4 39 (19.40%) Python
5 18 (8.96%) Bash
6 15 (7.46%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.47%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.49%) Bicep
9 3 (1.49%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.00%) PHP
10 2 (1.00%) Scala
10 2 (1.00%) VBA
11 1 (0.50%) C++
11 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (14.43%) Degree
2 15 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.97%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.99%) ACCA
4 4 (1.99%) CIMA
4 4 (1.99%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.49%) 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 (12.94%) Data Quality
2 22 (10.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (8.96%) NCSC
3 18 (8.96%) NIST
4 8 (3.98%) GDPR
4 8 (3.98%) QA
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (11.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.99%) Docker
3 2 (1.00%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 84 (41.79%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.95%) Databricks
3 18 (8.96%) Oracle
4 13 (6.47%) Sage
5 12 (5.97%) Xamarin
6 6 (2.99%) ConnectWise
6 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.99%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.49%) Google
7 5 (2.49%) Zoho
8 4 (1.99%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.49%) Informatica
9 3 (1.49%) RedGate
9 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.49%) Talend
10 2 (1.00%) Citrix
10 2 (1.00%) VMware
11 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.50%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.50%) Foundry