T-SQL Job Trends in the North West

Transact-SQL
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring T-SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 168 107
Rank change year-on-year -16 -61 +54
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 2 37 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.031% 0.73% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% 2.59% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2 20 89
10th Percentile - £38,625 £39,950
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,563 £60,250
90th Percentile - £64,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,784 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.73% -0.39% -4.35%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 879 1,431 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.80% 28.31% 36.42%
Number of salaries quoted 738 822 1,335
10th Percentile £32,125 £33,300 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,813 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing T-SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the North West

T-SQL
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Manchester +4 2 £57,500 +24.32% 1
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft