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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 236 214
Rank change year-on-year -83 -22 -79
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 30 69 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.13% 0.73% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 2.64% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 60 105
10th Percentile £41,760 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £65,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £59,732 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.88% +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 3,583 2,613 3,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.64% 27.67% 26.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,740 1,353 2,657
10th Percentile £36,545 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,075 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -18 17 £47,500 -17.39% 14
Yorkshire -81 12 £52,750 -12.08% 3
North East -64 1 £47,500 -9.52%
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 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.00%) IIS
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.33%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (10.00%) GCP
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (6.67%) AWS
7 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.33%) dbt
8 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.33%) SaaS
8 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
1 3 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (30.00%) Power BI
4 7 (23.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (10.00%) Power Query
7 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
8 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (3.33%) Metadata
8 1 (3.33%) OLAP
8 1 (3.33%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.67%) Local Government
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Billing
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 3 (10.00%) Business Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Data Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Applications Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Applications Support Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Database Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) .NET
2 3 (10.00%) Blazor
2 3 (10.00%) Web Services
3 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (6.67%) CSS
3 2 (6.67%) HTML
3 2 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (6.67%) JSON
3 2 (6.67%) REST
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) XML
4 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.33%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) RESTful
4 1 (3.33%) SOAP
4 1 (3.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Replication
2 2 (6.67%) SystemC
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) IoT
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Online Gambling
3 1 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 7 (23.33%) Analytics
4 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (20.00%) AI
5 6 (20.00%) ETL
5 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.67%) Agile
6 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 5 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (13.33%) Coaching
7 4 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) Python
3 7 (23.33%) C#
4 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.67%) Bicep
7 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.33%) HL7
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (63.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Veeam
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (6.67%) Teradata
4 1 (3.33%) Cognos
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) IFS
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) OutSystems
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow