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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 224 138
Rank change year-on-year +4 -86 +14
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 70 98 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.74% 0.69% 2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.78% 2.61% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 63 73 177
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,199 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,784 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -4.72% +4.55%

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 2,522 3,757 3,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.79% 26.61% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 2,302 2,668
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £81,150 £80,000 £82,623
England median annual salary £62,617 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.85% +1.63%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +15 45 £60,000 +32.68% 9
North West -26 17 £57,500 +21.05% 14
North East +24 8 £52,500 -6.25% 5
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.86%) HCL Notes
2 2 (2.86%) IIS
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 52 (74.29%) Azure
2 15 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.14%) GitHub
4 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.71%) Azure Stack
5 3 (4.29%) SaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (81.43%) SQL Server
2 15 (21.43%) Power BI
3 14 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 8 (11.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (11.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (8.57%) Relational Database
6 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 5 (7.14%) MySQL
6 5 (7.14%) OLAP
6 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (7.14%) RDBMS
7 4 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.29%) Data Hub
8 3 (4.29%) Metadata
8 3 (4.29%) SQL CLR
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 5 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Git
General
1 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.86%) Finance
3 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Advertising
4 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.29%) Back Office
6 2 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (77.14%) Developer
2 46 (65.71%) SQL Developer
3 22 (31.43%) Database Developer
3 22 (31.43%) SQL Database Developer
4 10 (14.29%) Senior
5 7 (10.00%) Analyst
5 7 (10.00%) DBA
5 7 (10.00%) SQL DBA
6 5 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.71%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (5.71%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Applications Support
7 4 (5.71%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Support Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Analyst Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Data Migration Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Developer
8 3 (4.29%) SaaS Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Senior SQL Developer
8 3 (4.29%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) .NET
1 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
2 2 (2.86%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (2.86%) CSS
2 2 (2.86%) Entity Framework
2 2 (2.86%) HTML
2 2 (2.86%) WCF
3 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.43%) React
3 1 (1.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.71%) Clustering
3 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.29%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.43%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.14%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (17.14%) ETL
3 10 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
3 10 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.86%) Agile
4 9 (12.86%) Analytics
4 9 (12.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (12.86%) DevOps
5 8 (11.43%) High Availability
6 7 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (10.00%) Migration
7 6 (8.57%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (7.14%) Customer Service
8 5 (7.14%) Open Source
9 4 (5.71%) Performance Metrics
9 4 (5.71%) SDLC
9 4 (5.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 70 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (5.71%) C#
2 4 (5.71%) Python
3 3 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.29%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.86%) C++
4 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 39 (55.71%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 47 (67.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) Informatica
2 5 (7.14%) RedGate
2 5 (7.14%) Talend
3 3 (4.29%) Databricks
3 3 (4.29%) VMware
4 2 (2.86%) Lotus
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle