T-SQL Job Trends in the North of England

Transact-SQL
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring T-SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 237 203
Rank change year-on-year -73 -34 -43
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 37 76 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.80% 1.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.04% 2.81% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 26 67 151
10th Percentile £40,875 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,565 2,708 4,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 28.47% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,689 1,452 3,313
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the North of England

T-SQL
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the North of England

T-SQL
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
North West +5 23 £47,500 -17.39% 12
Yorkshire -74 12 £45,000 -25.00% 4
North East -51 2 £45,500 -13.33% 4
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.11%) IIS
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (2.70%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.70%) Magento
2 1 (2.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) Azure
2 12 (32.43%) Power Platform
3 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.51%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (10.81%) GitHub
6 3 (8.11%) AWS
6 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
7 2 (5.41%) SaaS
7 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.70%) dbt
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
1 3 (8.11%) VLAN
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (64.86%) SQL Server
2 12 (32.43%) Power BI
2 12 (32.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (21.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.11%) Power Query
5 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.41%) MySQL
7 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.70%) Metadata
7 1 (2.70%) OLAP
7 1 (2.70%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Git
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (8.11%) Retail
4 2 (5.41%) Local Government
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Developer
2 8 (21.62%) Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Applications Support
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) SQL Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Business Developer
6 3 (8.11%) C# Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Data Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Database Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) IT Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Lead
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Administrator
7 2 (5.41%) Development Specialist
7 2 (5.41%) Marketing Administrator
7 2 (5.41%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) .NET
2 4 (10.81%) CSS
2 4 (10.81%) HTML
2 4 (10.81%) REST
3 3 (8.11%) Blazor
3 3 (8.11%) SOAP
3 3 (8.11%) Web Services
4 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (5.41%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (5.41%) JSON
4 2 (5.41%) XML
5 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.70%) React
5 1 (2.70%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.11%) Replication
1 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.41%) SystemC
3 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.70%) IoT
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Online Gambling
3 1 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (27.03%) DevOps
2 10 (27.03%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (21.62%) Analytics
3 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
3 8 (21.62%) ETL
4 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (16.22%) Agile
5 6 (16.22%) AI
5 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
6 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.51%) Data Engineering
6 5 (13.51%) ERP
6 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.51%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (10.81%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (10.81%) Customer Service
7 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) C#
3 8 (21.62%) Python
4 4 (10.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) Bicep
6 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.11%) Veeam
2 3 (8.11%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) IFS
3 2 (5.41%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Cognos
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) OutSystems
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) Teradata
4 1 (2.70%) WooCommerce
4 1 (2.70%) Workday