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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.55% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.71% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary £51,375 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.24% -6.36% -

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 35 146 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.70% 30.48% 49.43%
Number of salaries quoted 20 74 142
10th Percentile £39,225 £37,650 £33,075
25th Percentile £44,750 £46,910 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £79,092 £80,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £83,000 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +3.45%

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 30 October 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
County Armagh - 1 - -
County Londonderry - 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) EDI
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAI