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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 236 274
Rank change year-on-year -23 +38 -72
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 42 41 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.28% 0.52% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 2.15% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 37 23 113
10th Percentile £41,250 - £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £57,000 £94,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -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 2,645 1,903 5,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.69% 24.01% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,034 1,291 4,203
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +3 14 £52,500 +16.67% 3
Surrey -12 13 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Buckinghamshire -18 9 £52,500 +11.70% 2
Hampshire -33 7 £60,000 +41.18% 1
Kent -25 5 £44,000 +3.53% 3
Berkshire +19 4 £45,000 - 1
West Sussex -15 3 £48,500 -46.11%
Oxfordshire - 1 £70,000 -
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 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Infor M3
1 4 (9.52%) JDE OneWorld
1 4 (9.52%) JDE World
1 4 (9.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (76.19%) Azure
2 17 (40.48%) SaaS
3 12 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 10 (23.81%) Entra ID
5 8 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (11.90%) AWS
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.76%) Google Workspace
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.38%) GCP
10 1 (2.38%) GitHub
10 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (73.81%) SQL Server
2 14 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (28.57%) Power BI
4 9 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (19.05%) MySQL
5 8 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Postman
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (45.24%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Law
4 2 (4.76%) Automotive
4 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Developer
2 12 (28.57%) Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) Data Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) Senior
3 8 (19.05%) Software Support Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) SQL Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) SQL Data Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) SSRS Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) Support Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Database Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) SQL Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Support Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) Applications Support
6 4 (9.52%) ERP Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) ERP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) .NET
2 9 (21.43%) JSON
2 9 (21.43%) XML
3 5 (11.90%) .NET Core
3 5 (11.90%) ASP.NET
4 4 (9.52%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (9.52%) Kafka
4 4 (9.52%) React
5 3 (7.14%) .NET Framework
5 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (7.14%) CSS
5 3 (7.14%) Entity Framework
5 3 (7.14%) HTML
5 3 (7.14%) jQuery
6 2 (4.76%) LDAP
6 2 (4.76%) OAuth
6 2 (4.76%) OpenID
6 2 (4.76%) SAML
6 2 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Data Structures
1 8 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (19.05%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 3 (7.14%) Replication
4 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.76%) Cyberattack
4 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) Data Modelling
1 12 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
3 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (19.05%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (19.05%) Data Validation
4 8 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (19.05%) Task Automation
4 8 (19.05%) Validation
5 6 (14.29%) DevOps
6 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.90%) Database Security
7 4 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (9.52%) ERP
7 4 (9.52%) ETL
7 4 (9.52%) MVC
7 4 (9.52%) Time Management
7 4 (9.52%) Visualisation
8 3 (7.14%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) SQL
2 16 (38.10%) C#
3 13 (30.95%) PowerShell
4 8 (19.05%) Python
5 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.52%) PL/SQL
6 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.76%) Bash
8 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.38%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (19.05%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.76%) NCSC
3 2 (4.76%) NIST
3 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Oracle
3 4 (9.52%) Epicor
3 4 (9.52%) IFS
3 4 (9.52%) Infor
3 4 (9.52%) JD Edwards
3 4 (9.52%) SAP
4 1 (2.38%) Rollbar