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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 287 216
Rank change year-on-year -120 -71 +29
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 202 479 726
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 1.00% 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 2.95% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 174 288 656
10th Percentile £28,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,984 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,892 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -2.01% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,438 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £84,125 £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 10,216 16,221 19,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.44% 33.81% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,711 9,522 15,997
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,275 £38,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 13 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 13 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 -78 60 £80,000 +28.00% 61
Midlands +8 44 £50,000 +11.11% 17
South East -5 38 £40,000 -20.00% 48
North of England +2 35 £40,000 -15.79% 24
Yorkshire +2 30 £37,500 -19.30% 5
West Midlands +18 28 £45,000 +5.88% 6
South West -2 18 £50,000 -6.98% 21
East Midlands -20 16 £50,000 +11.11% 11
East of England -26 4 £42,175 -11.21% 19
North East +4 3 £51,000 -32.00% 1
North West -7 2 £57,500 +15.00% 18
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 17 (8.42%) IIS
2 11 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) CMS
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.99%) 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%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (2.48%) Magento
2 5 (2.48%) Shopify
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (46.53%) Azure
2 45 (22.28%) Power Platform
3 33 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (15.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (7.92%) Entra ID
6 14 (6.93%) PowerApps
7 13 (6.44%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (5.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (5.94%) Google Workspace
9 11 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (5.45%) GitHub
10 10 (4.95%) SaaS
11 9 (4.46%) AWS
11 9 (4.46%) GCP
11 9 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.46%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.46%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.48%) dbt
12 5 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.94%) Broadband
2 3 (1.49%) DNS
3 2 (0.99%) DHCP
3 2 (0.99%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.99%) Firewall
3 2 (0.99%) SSL
3 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.99%) VLAN
3 2 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (58.91%) SQL Server
2 49 (24.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 46 (22.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 44 (21.78%) Power BI
5 23 (11.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (9.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 19 (9.41%) Data Lake
7 19 (9.41%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.47%) Metadata
8 7 (3.47%) MySQL
8 7 (3.47%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.97%) OLAP
9 6 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.48%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.98%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.49%) GIS
12 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.49%) Power Query
12 3 (1.49%) Tableau
13 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Git
2 11 (5.45%) JIRA
3 7 (3.47%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (2.48%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.48%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.50%) Mercurial
General
1 72 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.29%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (17.82%) Finance
4 12 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (4.46%) Back Office
5 9 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (4.46%) Law
5 9 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.96%) Legal
7 6 (2.97%) Games
7 6 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.98%) Billing
9 3 (1.49%) Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Front Office
10 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Advertising
11 1 (0.50%) Automotive
11 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (26.24%) Developer
2 51 (25.25%) Senior
3 37 (18.32%) Analyst
4 36 (17.82%) Data Engineer
5 27 (13.37%) Support Analyst
6 26 (12.87%) Applications Support
7 23 (11.39%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (11.39%) DBA
8 20 (9.90%) Senior Data Engineer
8 20 (9.90%) SQL DBA
9 17 (8.42%) Software Engineer
10 16 (7.92%) SQL Developer
11 14 (6.93%) Administrator
11 14 (6.93%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.94%) IT Engineer
12 12 (5.94%) IT Support
12 12 (5.94%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (5.94%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (5.94%) Software Support Engineer
12 12 (5.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (17.82%) .NET
2 28 (13.86%) REST
3 22 (10.89%) SOAP
4 17 (8.42%) .NET Framework
5 16 (7.92%) ASP.NET
6 15 (7.43%) Entity Framework
7 13 (6.44%) OAuth
7 13 (6.44%) OpenID
8 12 (5.94%) GraphQL
8 12 (5.94%) LDAP
8 12 (5.94%) SAML
8 12 (5.94%) WinForms
9 10 (4.95%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.95%) CSS
9 10 (4.95%) HTML
9 10 (4.95%) JSON
10 9 (4.46%) XML
11 7 (3.47%) Middleware
11 7 (3.47%) PySpark
11 7 (3.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.44%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.94%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (5.94%) Cyberattack
3 8 (3.96%) Clustering
3 8 (3.96%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.97%) 3D Graphics
4 6 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.97%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.98%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.99%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.99%) Derivative
7 2 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.99%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.99%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.50%) Replication
8 1 (0.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.88%) Windows
2 10 (4.95%) Linux
3 6 (2.97%) VMS
3 6 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.99%) Android
4 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (29.21%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (28.22%) ETL
3 54 (26.73%) Business Intelligence
4 40 (19.80%) DevOps
5 34 (16.83%) Analytics
6 32 (15.84%) Data Pipeline
7 30 (14.85%) Data Modelling
7 30 (14.85%) Mentoring
7 30 (14.85%) Software Engineering
8 29 (14.36%) Agile
9 28 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (11.88%) Data Engineering
12 23 (11.39%) CI/CD
13 20 (9.90%) Roadmaps
14 19 (9.41%) Decision-Making
15 17 (8.42%) Change Control
15 17 (8.42%) Computer Science
16 16 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
17 15 (7.43%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 200 (99.01%) SQL
2 43 (21.29%) C#
3 38 (18.81%) Python
4 33 (16.34%) PowerShell
5 17 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 13 (6.44%) PL/SQL
7 12 (5.94%) Bash
8 10 (4.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.49%) Bicep
9 3 (1.49%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.99%) C++
10 2 (0.99%) PHP
10 2 (0.99%) Scala
10 2 (0.99%) VBA
11 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (14.85%) Degree
2 15 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.94%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.98%) ACCA
4 4 (1.98%) CIMA
4 4 (1.98%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.99%) MCSE
6 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.37%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.94%) NCSC
3 12 (5.94%) NIST
4 9 (4.46%) QA
5 8 (3.96%) GDPR
6 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (9.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.97%) Docker
3 2 (0.99%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.48%) Terraform
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 86 (42.57%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.88%) Databricks
3 19 (9.41%) Oracle
4 13 (6.44%) Sage
5 12 (5.94%) Xamarin
6 6 (2.97%) RedGate
7 5 (2.48%) ConnectWise
7 5 (2.48%) Google
7 5 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.48%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.48%) Zoho
8 4 (1.98%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.49%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.49%) Informatica
9 3 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.49%) Talend
10 2 (0.99%) Citrix
10 2 (0.99%) Lotus
10 2 (0.99%) Salesforce