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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 228 258
Rank change year-on-year -54 +30 -79
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 53 58 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.28% 0.65% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 3.40% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 49 40 47
10th Percentile £43,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,625 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £71,000 £57,750 £71,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%

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 2,845 1,704 3,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.07% 18.95% 30.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,285 1,171 2,293
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £40,008 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -23 15 £52,500 +23.53% 14
Hampshire -44 13 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Surrey -23 12 £65,000 +30.00% 7
Buckinghamshire -23 11 £52,500 +27.27% 4
Kent -18 8 £44,000 +3.53% 4
Berkshire +15 4 £45,000 -25.00% 8
West Sussex - 3 £48,500 -
East Sussex - 2 £70,000 - 2
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 2 (3.77%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Infor M3
1 3 (5.66%) JDE OneWorld
1 3 (5.66%) JDE World
1 3 (5.66%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.77%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.89%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.89%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (64.15%) Azure
2 13 (24.53%) Power Platform
3 11 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (16.98%) SaaS
5 5 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (7.55%) AWS
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.77%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.89%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.89%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (66.04%) SQL Server
2 11 (20.75%) Power BI
3 10 (18.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (7.55%) Metadata
5 4 (7.55%) Power Query
5 4 (7.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (7.55%) Star Schema
6 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.77%) MS Access
7 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.89%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) Postman
3 1 (1.89%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (33.96%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Finance
3 4 (7.55%) Law
4 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.77%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.77%) Automotive
5 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Developer
2 11 (20.75%) DBA
2 11 (20.75%) SQL DBA
3 10 (18.87%) Senior
3 10 (18.87%) SQL Server DBA
4 9 (16.98%) Analyst
4 9 (16.98%) SQL Developer
5 8 (15.09%) Software Support Engineer
5 8 (15.09%) Support Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Software Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) 3rd Line Support
7 6 (11.32%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Developer
9 4 (7.55%) Analyst Developer
9 4 (7.55%) Business Developer
9 4 (7.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (7.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (7.55%) Developer Analyst
9 4 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.85%) .NET
2 4 (7.55%) .NET Core
2 4 (7.55%) PySpark
2 4 (7.55%) WinForms
3 3 (5.66%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET
3 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (5.66%) CSS
3 3 (5.66%) HTML
3 3 (5.66%) jQuery
3 3 (5.66%) React
4 2 (3.77%) Ajax
4 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.77%) Bootstrap
4 2 (3.77%) Entity Framework
4 2 (3.77%) Kafka
4 2 (3.77%) Vue
4 2 (3.77%) YAML
5 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.66%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.77%) Replication
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (28.30%) DevOps
2 15 (28.30%) Performance Tuning
2 15 (28.30%) Software Engineering
3 12 (22.64%) Data Modelling
4 11 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (18.87%) ETL
5 10 (18.87%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (18.87%) SQL Optimisation
6 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
7 8 (15.09%) Visualisation
8 6 (11.32%) High Availability
9 5 (9.43%) Business Analysis
9 5 (9.43%) Data Engineering
9 5 (9.43%) Data Integration
9 5 (9.43%) Design Patterns
9 5 (9.43%) OOP
9 5 (9.43%) SDLC
10 4 (7.55%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (7.55%) Database Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (100.00%) SQL
2 20 (37.74%) C#
3 5 (9.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (9.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (9.43%) Python
4 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Oracle
3 5 (9.43%) JD Edwards
4 4 (7.55%) SAP
5 3 (5.66%) Epicor
5 3 (5.66%) IFS
5 3 (5.66%) Infor
6 2 (3.77%) Intapp
6 2 (3.77%) RedGate
6 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.89%) New Relic