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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 327 204
Rank change year-on-year -122 -123 +69
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 189 359 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.91% 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 2.60% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 151 256 953
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,625 £39,750
25th Percentile £36,625 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% -0.36%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% -0.36%

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 11,643 13,810 25,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.10% 35.01% 34.65%
Number of salaries quoted 8,485 9,387 21,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £101,250
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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -95 50 £70,000 +11.11% 25
Midlands -17 45 £47,500 +9.20% 20
South East -27 36 £35,000 -29.63% 21
North of England -42 34 £50,000 -4.76% 20
West Midlands +11 28 £42,500 -10.53% 12
Yorkshire -45 22 £37,500 -31.82% 7
South West -27 18 £42,500 +14.86% 25
East Midlands -39 17 £50,000 +16.28% 8
North West -21 9 £57,500 +15.00% 11
East of England -30 5 £42,175 -11.21% 5
North East -21 3 £51,000 -32.00% 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 15 (7.94%) IIS
2 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.59%) CMS
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.06%) Confluence
5 2 (1.06%) WordPress
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.29%) Magento
1 10 (5.29%) Shopify
2 9 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 96 (50.79%) Azure
2 41 (21.69%) Power Platform
3 35 (18.52%) Entra ID
4 29 (15.34%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (13.23%) Google Workspace
6 21 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (10.05%) SaaS
8 16 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (5.82%) PowerApps
11 10 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (5.29%) GitHub
12 9 (4.76%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.17%) AWS
13 6 (3.17%) GCP
14 5 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
16 3 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
16 3 (1.59%) dbt
16 3 (1.59%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.23%) Broadband
2 3 (1.59%) DNS
3 2 (1.06%) DHCP
3 2 (1.06%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.06%) Firewall
3 2 (1.06%) SSL
3 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.06%) VLAN
3 2 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (55.03%) SQL Server
2 43 (22.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 40 (21.16%) Power BI
4 32 (16.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (11.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (6.88%) Data Lake
6 13 (6.88%) MySQL
7 11 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (5.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 10 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (3.70%) Power Query
10 6 (3.17%) Metadata
11 4 (2.12%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.59%) GIS
12 3 (1.59%) Tableau
13 2 (1.06%) Data Mining
13 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (6.88%) JIRA
2 7 (3.70%) Git
3 5 (2.65%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 44 (23.28%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.23%) Organisational Skills
4 21 (11.11%) Finance
5 13 (6.88%) Back Office
6 9 (4.76%) Law
7 6 (3.17%) Games
8 4 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.12%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.12%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.59%) Banking
9 3 (1.59%) Legal
9 3 (1.59%) Marketing
10 2 (1.06%) Front Office
10 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Retail
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 46 (24.34%) Analyst
2 43 (22.75%) Senior
3 39 (20.63%) Developer
4 31 (16.40%) Support Analyst
5 28 (14.81%) Applications Support
6 27 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
7 25 (13.23%) Data Engineer
8 18 (9.52%) DBA
9 16 (8.47%) Software Engineer
9 16 (8.47%) SQL DBA
10 13 (6.88%) IT Support
10 13 (6.88%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 12 (6.35%) C# Developer
11 12 (6.35%) IT Engineer
11 12 (6.35%) IT Support Engineer
11 12 (6.35%) Software Support Engineer
11 12 (6.35%) Support Engineer
12 11 (5.82%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (5.82%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.75%) REST
2 37 (19.58%) SOAP
3 32 (16.93%) .NET
4 26 (13.76%) OAuth
4 26 (13.76%) OpenID
5 25 (13.23%) GraphQL
5 25 (13.23%) LDAP
5 25 (13.23%) SAML
6 15 (7.94%) .NET Framework
7 14 (7.41%) JSON
7 14 (7.41%) XML
8 13 (6.88%) ASP.NET
8 13 (6.88%) Entity Framework
9 12 (6.35%) WinForms
10 9 (4.76%) .NET Core
10 9 (4.76%) Middleware
11 8 (4.23%) CSS
11 8 (4.23%) HTML
12 6 (3.17%) DirectX
12 6 (3.17%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.23%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (13.23%) Cyberattack
2 16 (8.47%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.29%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.23%) Clustering
4 8 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.17%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (3.17%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.12%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.12%) Replication
7 3 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.59%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.06%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.06%) Derivative
8 2 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.64%) Windows
2 9 (4.76%) Linux
3 6 (3.17%) VMS
3 6 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.06%) Android
4 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.28%) Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (18.52%) Mentoring
3 34 (17.99%) ETL
4 33 (17.46%) Data Modelling
4 33 (17.46%) Roadmaps
4 33 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (16.93%) Analytics
6 31 (16.40%) DevOps
7 28 (14.81%) Change Control
8 27 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (13.76%) Software Engineering
10 25 (13.23%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (13.23%) Identity Access Management
10 25 (13.23%) Programme Delivery
10 25 (13.23%) Regulatory Compliance
11 21 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (10.58%) CI/CD
12 20 (10.58%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (10.05%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 188 (99.47%) SQL
2 53 (28.04%) PowerShell
3 40 (21.16%) C#
4 35 (18.52%) Python
5 25 (13.23%) Bash
6 13 (6.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.23%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.06%) Bicep
9 2 (1.06%) R
9 2 (1.06%) Scala
9 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.06%) VBA
10 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (14.81%) Degree
2 14 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.59%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.06%) MCSE
5 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.53%) ACCA
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) CIMA
6 1 (0.53%) MCITP
6 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (16.93%) Data Quality
3 25 (13.23%) NCSC
3 25 (13.23%) NIST
4 7 (3.70%) GDPR
5 6 (3.17%) QA
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.12%) Docker
3 2 (1.06%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.65%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (39.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.41%) Databricks
3 12 (6.35%) Sage
3 12 (6.35%) Xamarin
4 10 (5.29%) Oracle
4 10 (5.29%) WooCommerce
5 9 (4.76%) ConnectWise
5 9 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.65%) Google
6 5 (2.65%) Zoho
7 4 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.59%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Citrix
9 2 (1.06%) Informatica
9 2 (1.06%) RedGate
9 2 (1.06%) Talend
9 2 (1.06%) VMware
10 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.53%) Siemens