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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 224 138
Rank change year-on-year -9 -86 +66
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 36 44 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.29% 0.55% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.81% 1.87% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 32 23 200
10th Percentile - £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £24,500 £41,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £59,063 £58,750 £60,063
90th Percentile £81,525 £63,650 £63,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -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 1,992 2,356 4,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.85% 29.67% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,533 1,325 3,539
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 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 15 February 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 15 February 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
Yorkshire -19 25 £25,000 -47.92% 6
North West -3 8 £58,750 +17.50% 12
North East -3 3 £51,000 -32.00% 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 4 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) IIS
2 1 (2.78%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (8.33%) SaaS
5 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.78%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.78%) Firebase
7 1 (2.78%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (61.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.67%) Power BI
2 6 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (11.11%) Metadata
4 4 (11.11%) MySQL
5 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (8.33%) OLAP
5 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (8.33%) Power Query
6 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 15 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Marketing
6 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.78%) Advertising
7 1 (2.78%) Back Office
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Analyst
1 12 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 11 (30.56%) Applications Support Analyst
2 11 (30.56%) Support Analyst
3 10 (27.78%) 1st Line Support
3 10 (27.78%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 7 (19.44%) Data Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Administrator
5 5 (13.89%) Developer
6 4 (11.11%) DBA
6 4 (11.11%) Principal Data Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Cloud Administrator
7 3 (8.33%) Marketing Administrator
7 3 (8.33%) Principal Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Principal Data Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Report Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Administrator
7 3 (8.33%) SQL DBA
7 3 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) PySpark
2 3 (8.33%) CSS
2 3 (8.33%) HTML
3 2 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.78%) OAuth
4 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.78%) OpenID
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (8.33%) Clustering
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (2.78%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) VMS
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Customer Service
1 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 9 (25.00%) ETL
3 7 (19.44%) AI
3 7 (19.44%) Analytics
3 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (19.44%) Migration
4 6 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (13.89%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (13.89%) CRM
5 5 (13.89%) DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 4 (11.11%) Data Security
6 4 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 4 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (11.11%) Predictive Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (97.22%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (11.11%) Python
4 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.56%) VBA
6 1 (2.78%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
1 1 (2.78%) MCITP
1 1 (2.78%) MCSE
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Databricks
2 4 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.33%) Informatica
3 3 (8.33%) RedGate
3 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) Talend
4 2 (5.56%) Citrix
5 1 (2.78%) Foundry
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (2.78%) Workday