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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.72% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.11% - -
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 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -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 37 153 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.87% 31.61% 47.48%
Number of salaries quoted 21 76 130
10th Percentile £39,250 £37,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,500 £47,303 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +32.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,500 £77,625
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.77%

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 4 November 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 Antrim - 1 £50,000 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) EDI
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (33.33%) RedGate