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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 174 146
Rank change year-on-year -14 -28 +44
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 45 47 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.47% 0.89% 1.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.47% 3.28% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 43 36 143
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,875 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -23.01% +13.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £67,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% -0.36%

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 1,296 1,432 2,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.44% 27.20% 28.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 958 2,470
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
England 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 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 9 March 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 9 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
West Midlands +16 28 £42,500 -10.53% 9
East Midlands -36 17 £50,000 +16.28% 7
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 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (15.56%) SaaS
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (8.89%) PowerApps
5 3 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.44%) Google Workspace
6 2 (4.44%) Smartsheet
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 12 (26.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (24.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (17.78%) Data Lake
4 8 (17.78%) Power BI
5 7 (15.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (6.67%) Power Query
8 2 (4.44%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.44%) Metadata
8 2 (4.44%) Tableau
9 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Law
4 6 (13.33%) Games
5 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 3 (6.67%) Legal
6 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Senior
2 13 (28.89%) Developer
3 11 (24.44%) Analyst
4 10 (22.22%) DBA
5 9 (20.00%) SQL DBA
6 7 (15.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 7 (15.56%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (15.56%) Applications Support
6 7 (15.56%) Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (15.56%) C# Developer
6 7 (15.56%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (15.56%) Senior Applications Support
6 7 (15.56%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (15.56%) Senior Developer
6 7 (15.56%) Senior Support Analyst
6 7 (15.56%) Support Analyst
7 6 (13.33%) Senior C# Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Administrator
8 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) .NET
2 6 (13.33%) .NET Core
2 6 (13.33%) DirectX
2 6 (13.33%) OpenGL
3 3 (6.67%) REST
4 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.44%) JSON
4 2 (4.44%) LDAP
4 2 (4.44%) OAuth
4 2 (4.44%) OpenID
4 2 (4.44%) SAML
4 2 (4.44%) SOAP
4 2 (4.44%) XML
5 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.22%) Pandas
5 1 (2.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Data Structures
2 6 (13.33%) 3D Graphics
3 4 (8.89%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.67%) Clustering
4 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.44%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.22%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Analytics
2 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (24.44%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (24.44%) ETL
4 10 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 9 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (15.56%) B2B
6 7 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (15.56%) Decision-Making
6 7 (15.56%) Product Roadmap
6 7 (15.56%) Reverse Engineering
6 7 (15.56%) Software Testing
6 7 (15.56%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (13.33%) CAD
7 6 (13.33%) Data Analysis
7 6 (13.33%) DataOps
7 6 (13.33%) Mathematics
7 6 (13.33%) Physics
7 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (20.00%) C#
3 6 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) Bicep
5 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.44%) R
5 2 (4.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.89%) GDPR
2 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.44%) NCSC
3 2 (4.44%) NIST
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Databricks