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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 251 233
Rank change year-on-year -75 -18 -102
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 33 48 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.51% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.94% 2.02% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 24 41 55
10th Percentile £39,721 £24,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £86,900 £70,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -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 3,529 2,379 3,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.68% 25.23% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,742 1,219 1,902
10th Percentile £38,984 £31,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £40,975 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -25 17 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Yorkshire -48 15 £60,250 +20.50% 11
North East -76 1 £47,500 -9.52% 1
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 3 (9.09%) IIS
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (3.03%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (12.12%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 3 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.03%) dbt
8 1 (3.03%) GCP
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.03%) SaaS
8 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) DNS
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
1 3 (9.09%) VLAN
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 12 (36.36%) Power BI
3 11 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (30.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (18.18%) Power Query
7 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (3.03%) BigQuery
9 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
9 1 (3.03%) Metadata
9 1 (3.03%) OLAP
9 1 (3.03%) OLTP
9 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.06%) Local Government
5 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Billing
6 1 (3.03%) Publishing
6 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Developer
2 12 (36.36%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Database Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Business Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Database Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Software Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) IT Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Data Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Support Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) .NET
2 4 (12.12%) React
3 3 (9.09%) Blazor
4 2 (6.06%) Terraform
5 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.03%) CSS
5 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.03%) HTML
5 1 (3.03%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (3.03%) JSON
5 1 (3.03%) REST
5 1 (3.03%) SOAP
5 1 (3.03%) Web Services
5 1 (3.03%) WebAssembly
5 1 (3.03%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.06%) Replication
2 2 (6.06%) SystemC
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) IoT
3 1 (3.03%) NHS
3 1 (3.03%) Online Gambling
3 1 (3.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (39.39%) Analytics
3 12 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (30.30%) ETL
5 9 (27.27%) AI
5 9 (27.27%) DevOps
6 7 (21.21%) Data Integration
6 7 (21.21%) Data Modelling
7 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 6 (18.18%) Visualisation
8 5 (15.15%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (15.15%) Agile
8 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (15.15%) Dimensional Modelling
8 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
8 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (12.12%) Coaching
9 4 (12.12%) Data Engineering
9 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (33.33%) Python
3 7 (21.21%) C#
4 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Teradata
3 3 (9.09%) Veeam
3 3 (9.09%) VMware
4 2 (6.06%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Informatica
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow