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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 220 134
Rank change year-on-year -11 -86 +36
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 37 71 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.35% 0.72% 2.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.12% 2.49% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 32 43 122
10th Percentile - £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £24,500 £42,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.38% -0.48%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,400 £63,750 £71,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

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 1,742 2,846 2,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.57% 28.88% 38.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,559 2,110
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,187 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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
Yorkshire -5 30 £40,000 -16.23% 1
North East +6 4 £51,750 -31.00% 1
North West -4 3 £57,500 +15.00% 8
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 (13.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.11%) IIS
3 2 (5.41%) HCL Notes
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.70%) CMS
4 1 (2.70%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (13.51%) GitHub
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.70%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.70%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.70%) Firebase
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.70%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (62.16%) SQL Server
2 11 (29.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 8 (21.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (16.22%) OLAP
5 5 (13.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (10.81%) Metadata
6 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
6 4 (10.81%) MySQL
6 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (10.81%) Power BI
7 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.41%) Git
General
1 20 (54.05%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Advertising
5 2 (5.41%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Analyst
2 11 (29.73%) Applications Support
3 10 (27.03%) 1st Line Support
3 10 (27.03%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 10 (27.03%) Applications Support Analyst
3 10 (27.03%) Developer
3 10 (27.03%) Support Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Data Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) SQL Developer
5 4 (10.81%) DBA
5 4 (10.81%) Principal Data Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) SQL DBA
6 3 (8.11%) Analyst Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Data Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Principal Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Report Developer
6 3 (8.11%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) .NET
2 4 (10.81%) PySpark
3 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (5.41%) React
4 2 (5.41%) WCF
5 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.70%) HTML
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.70%) OpenID
5 1 (2.70%) React Native
5 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Clustering
3 3 (8.11%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) VMS
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) ETL
2 10 (27.03%) Customer Service
2 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (21.62%) DevOps
4 7 (18.92%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (18.92%) AI
4 7 (18.92%) Data Engineering
4 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.22%) Analytics
5 6 (16.22%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (16.22%) Migration
5 6 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (13.51%) Machine Learning
6 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
6 5 (13.51%) Predictive Analytics
7 4 (10.81%) Agile
7 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
7 4 (10.81%) High Availability
7 4 (10.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (97.30%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) Python
3 4 (10.81%) C#
3 4 (10.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.41%) C++
5 2 (5.41%) VBA
6 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) MCITP
2 1 (2.70%) MCSE
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Databricks
3 4 (10.81%) Informatica
3 4 (10.81%) RedGate
3 4 (10.81%) Talend
4 2 (5.41%) Citrix
4 2 (5.41%) Lotus
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Foundry