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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 185 165
Rank change year-on-year -103 -20 +34
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 33 75 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.18% 1.04% 1.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 3.30% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 22 65 229
10th Percentile £24,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,438 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +17.07% -1.44%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £57,250
% change year-on-year -15.65% +0.44% -0.43%

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 2,828 2,276 4,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.27% 31.65% 29.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,000 1,498 4,136
10th Percentile £33,225 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,954 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -85 19 £44,000 -26.67% 8
North West -32 13 £61,250 +16.67% 13
North East -35 1 £43,500 -24.35%
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 8 (24.24%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) IIS
3 1 (3.03%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Magento
1 1 (3.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.12%) Power Automate
4 4 (12.12%) PowerApps
5 3 (9.09%) AWS
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (9.09%) SaaS
5 3 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (9.09%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.06%) GCP
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.06%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.03%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (33.33%) Power BI
3 9 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (15.15%) Power Query
6 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.06%) MySQL
6 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 16 (48.48%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 10 (30.30%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.09%) Marketing
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Analyst
2 9 (27.27%) Applications Support
3 8 (24.24%) Applications Support Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Support Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) 1st Line Support
5 4 (12.12%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Administrator
5 4 (12.12%) Senior
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Administrator
6 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 3 (9.09%) Marketing Administrator
6 3 (9.09%) Salesforce Administrator
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Data Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) SQL Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Systems Support
7 2 (6.06%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) .NET
2 5 (15.15%) CSS
2 5 (15.15%) HTML
3 3 (9.09%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (6.06%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (6.06%) JSON
4 2 (6.06%) PySpark
4 2 (6.06%) SOAP
4 2 (6.06%) Web Services
4 2 (6.06%) XML
5 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.03%) J2EE
5 1 (3.03%) OAuth
5 1 (3.03%) OpenID
5 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Low-Code
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
1 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 8 (24.24%) AI
3 8 (24.24%) Analytics
3 8 (24.24%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 6 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 6 (18.18%) DevOps
5 6 (18.18%) ETL
6 5 (15.15%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (15.15%) CRM
6 5 (15.15%) Data Strategy
6 5 (15.15%) ERP
6 5 (15.15%) Visualisation
7 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (96.97%) SQL
2 7 (21.21%) C#
2 7 (21.21%) Python
3 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) VBA
6 1 (3.03%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.03%) MCITP
1 1 (3.03%) MCSE
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.06%) SLA
3 1 (3.03%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Salesforce
3 3 (9.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Citrix
4 2 (6.06%) Databricks
4 2 (6.06%) IFS
5 1 (3.03%) Cognos
5 1 (3.03%) Foundry
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) OutSystems
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) WooCommerce
5 1 (3.03%) Workday