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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 229 184
Rank change year-on-year -67 -45 +3
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 35 73 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.18% 0.89% 1.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 2.78% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 26 65 228
10th Percentile £40,875 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £50,625
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +18.52% -2.64%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £88,500 £70,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -

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 3,308 2,630 5,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.60% 32.18% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,495 1,380 4,433
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +2 21 £60,000 +23.08% 8
Yorkshire -68 12 £45,000 -25.00% 3
North East -48 2 £45,500 -17.27% 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 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.71%) IIS
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.86%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.86%) Magento
2 1 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Power Platform
3 8 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub
6 3 (8.57%) AWS
6 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
6 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
6 3 (8.57%) SaaS
6 3 (8.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.71%) GCP
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.86%) dbt
8 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (37.14%) Power BI
2 13 (37.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (22.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.43%) Power Query
5 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.71%) MySQL
7 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.86%) Metadata
7 1 (2.86%) OLAP
7 1 (2.86%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) JIRA
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 9 (25.71%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.57%) Marketing
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Developer
2 8 (22.86%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Administrator
4 4 (11.43%) Applications Support
4 4 (11.43%) Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) SQL Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Business Developer
5 3 (8.57%) C# Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Database Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Marketing Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Salesforce Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Data Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Development Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) .NET
2 5 (14.29%) CSS
2 5 (14.29%) HTML
3 3 (8.57%) Blazor
3 3 (8.57%) REST
4 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (5.71%) JSON
4 2 (5.71%) SOAP
4 2 (5.71%) Web Services
4 2 (5.71%) XML
5 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.86%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.86%) J2EE
5 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.86%) RESTful
5 1 (2.86%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (8.57%) Replication
1 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (28.57%) DevOps
3 10 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (25.71%) Analytics
4 9 (25.71%) Data Modelling
4 9 (25.71%) ETL
5 8 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (17.14%) Agile
6 6 (17.14%) AI
7 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.29%) Data Engineering
7 5 (14.29%) ERP
7 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 4 (11.43%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (11.43%) Customer Service
8 4 (11.43%) Data Strategy
8 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
8 4 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (11.43%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (25.71%) C#
3 8 (22.86%) Python
4 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) Bicep
6 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) IFS
4 2 (5.71%) Veeam
4 2 (5.71%) VMware
5 1 (2.86%) Cognos
5 1 (2.86%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) OutSystems
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) Teradata
5 1 (2.86%) WooCommerce
5 1 (2.86%) Workday