T-SQL Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Transact-SQL
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring T-SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.81% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.80% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £52,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 51 106 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.25% 28.12% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 28 38 133
10th Percentile £43,625 £59,375 £38,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £78,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,915 £86,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% +50.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £87,188 £95,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £89,500
UK 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 Northern Ireland

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

T-SQL
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 29 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
County Antrim - 4 £50,000 -
County Armagh - 1 - -
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) EDI
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Logistics
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) RedGate