T-SQL Job Trends in the South East

Transact-SQL
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring T-SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 224 196
Rank change year-on-year -11 -28 +4
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 41 65 154
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.78% 1.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.30% 2.37% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 36 39 149
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £46,250 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £67,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,780 2,737 4,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.72% 32.98% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,396 1,606 3,407
10th Percentile £33,250 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
England 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 the South East

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the South East

T-SQL
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in the South East over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the South East

T-SQL
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 February 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
Thames Valley +8 22 £35,000 -33.33% 6
Buckinghamshire -1 16 £35,000 -37.78% 4
Surrey -1 12 £42,500 +6.25%
Hampshire +12 6 £50,000 +2.56% 3
Berkshire -1 3 £24,000 -46.67% 2
Oxfordshire - 3 £56,623 -
Kent -27 1 £55,000 +41.94% 1
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (29.27%) IIS
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (9.76%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.88%) CMS
4 2 (4.88%) WordPress
5 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (56.10%) Azure
2 14 (34.15%) Power Platform
3 13 (31.71%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (24.39%) Entra ID
5 8 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (19.51%) SaaS
6 6 (14.63%) GCP
7 5 (12.20%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.88%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.44%) AWS
9 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.44%) GitHub
9 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.44%) OCI
9 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Broadband
1 2 (4.88%) DHCP
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
1 2 (4.88%) Ethernet
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
1 2 (4.88%) SSL
1 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.88%) VLAN
1 2 (4.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (53.66%) SQL Server
2 20 (48.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 14 (34.15%) Power BI
4 8 (19.51%) MySQL
4 8 (19.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Billing
5 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) IT Support
2 12 (29.27%) IT Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) IT Support Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Software Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Software Support Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Support Engineer
3 9 (21.95%) Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Developer
3 9 (21.95%) SQL Analyst
4 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 8 (19.51%) Data Analyst
4 8 (19.51%) SQL Data Analyst
4 8 (19.51%) SSRS Analyst
5 5 (12.20%) Accountant
5 5 (12.20%) Systems Accountant
6 4 (9.76%) Data Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Data Integration Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (39.02%) .NET
2 12 (29.27%) .NET Framework
2 12 (29.27%) Entity Framework
2 12 (29.27%) JSON
2 12 (29.27%) WinForms
2 12 (29.27%) XML
3 11 (26.83%) ASP.NET
4 7 (17.07%) REST
5 3 (7.32%) SOAP
6 2 (4.88%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.88%) LDAP
6 2 (4.88%) OAuth
6 2 (4.88%) OpenID
6 2 (4.88%) SAML
6 2 (4.88%) Web Services
7 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.44%) Blazor
7 1 (2.44%) Mongoose
7 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Data Structures
1 8 (19.51%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.88%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (4.88%) Cyberattack
2 2 (4.88%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (36.59%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Android
3 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.88%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) Computer Science
1 13 (31.71%) DevOps
2 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (29.27%) Software Engineering
3 8 (19.51%) Collaborative Working
3 8 (19.51%) Data Modelling
3 8 (19.51%) Data Validation
3 8 (19.51%) Task Automation
3 8 (19.51%) Validation
4 7 (17.07%) ERP
5 6 (14.63%) Agile
6 5 (12.20%) Analytics
6 5 (12.20%) CAD
6 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
6 5 (12.20%) Data Integration
6 5 (12.20%) Data Management
6 5 (12.20%) SDLC
7 4 (9.76%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) SQL
2 16 (39.02%) C#
3 12 (29.27%) PowerShell
4 8 (19.51%) Python
5 2 (4.88%) Bash
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Degree
2 12 (29.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.76%) ACCA
3 4 (9.76%) CIMA
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (29.27%) Data Quality
2 10 (24.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.88%) NCSC
3 2 (4.88%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Sage
1 12 (29.27%) Xamarin
2 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.20%) Google
3 5 (12.20%) Zoho
4 2 (4.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.44%) Siemens