T-SQL Job Trends in the Midlands

Transact-SQL
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring T-SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 178 124
Rank change year-on-year +1 -54 +69
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 46 64 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.57% 1.02% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.99% 3.77% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 44 33 126
10th Percentile £31,975 £38,750 £38,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,500 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,784 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.73% -0.39% -4.35%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,154 1,698 2,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.37% 27.04% 31.82%
Number of salaries quoted 928 924 1,898
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,753 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -3.85% +7.89% -7.31%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing T-SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

T-SQL
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the Midlands

T-SQL
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
West Midlands +24 29 £43,750 -7.89% 9
East Midlands -15 17 £50,000 +11.11% 20
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) Power Platform
3 7 (15.22%) SaaS
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.70%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.17%) GCP
7 1 (2.17%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (63.04%) SQL Server
2 15 (32.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (28.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (26.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (19.57%) Data Lake
6 8 (17.39%) Power BI
7 5 (10.87%) Data Mining
7 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.35%) Metadata
8 2 (4.35%) Tableau
9 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
9 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.26%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Finance
4 7 (15.22%) Law
5 6 (13.04%) Games
6 3 (6.52%) Legal
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Senior
2 16 (34.78%) Developer
3 10 (21.74%) Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) DBA
4 9 (19.57%) SQL DBA
5 8 (17.39%) Applications Support
5 8 (17.39%) Data Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Senior Applications Support
5 8 (17.39%) Senior Developer
6 7 (15.22%) Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (15.22%) C# Developer
6 7 (15.22%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (15.22%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (15.22%) Senior Support Analyst
6 7 (15.22%) Support Analyst
7 6 (13.04%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (10.87%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 5 (10.87%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (10.87%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) .NET
2 6 (13.04%) .NET Core
2 6 (13.04%) DirectX
2 6 (13.04%) OpenGL
3 2 (4.35%) JSON
3 2 (4.35%) REST
3 2 (4.35%) XML
4 1 (2.17%) Ajax
4 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.17%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.17%) jQuery
4 1 (2.17%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (2.17%) Laravel
4 1 (2.17%) OAuth
4 1 (2.17%) OpenID
4 1 (2.17%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (2.17%) Symfony
4 1 (2.17%) WCF
4 1 (2.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Data Structures
2 6 (13.04%) 3D Graphics
2 6 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.70%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.52%) Clustering
4 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.17%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) VMS
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) ETL
2 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (30.43%) Analytics
3 14 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
5 9 (19.57%) Data Modelling
6 8 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 7 (15.22%) B2B
7 7 (15.22%) Data Analysis
7 7 (15.22%) Data Engineering
7 7 (15.22%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (15.22%) Product Roadmap
7 7 (15.22%) Reverse Engineering
7 7 (15.22%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
7 7 (15.22%) Software Testing
8 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.04%) Data Architecture
8 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) C#
3 5 (10.87%) Python
4 4 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
5 2 (4.35%) Scala
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.70%) GDPR
3 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.17%) NCSC
4 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) Databricks