T-SQL Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Transact-SQL
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring T-SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 154 163
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 +14
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 25 26 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.62% 0.76% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.24% 2.28% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 25 20 32
10th Percentile £27,200 £39,250 -
25th Percentile £30,500 £49,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £60,544 £72,000 £68,750
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £51,750
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.38% -1.43%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 589 1,141 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.69% 33.36% 33.58%
Number of salaries quoted 436 675 1,004
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,688 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,430 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,125 £88,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

T-SQL
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the Thames Valley

T-SQL
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Buckinghamshire 0 18 £35,000 -33.33% 1
Oxfordshire - 4 £54,562 -
Berkshire +1 3 £24,000 -31.43% 1
T-SQL
South East

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (48.00%) IIS
2 2 (8.00%) CMS
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DHCP
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) SSL
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.00%) VLAN
1 2 (8.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (56.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 13 (52.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) IT Engineer
1 12 (48.00%) IT Support
1 12 (48.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 12 (48.00%) Software Engineer
1 12 (48.00%) Software Support Engineer
1 12 (48.00%) Support Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Developer
3 6 (24.00%) SQL Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Data Integration Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Data Integration Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Integration Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) DBA
5 3 (12.00%) Graduate
5 3 (12.00%) Graduate Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Graduate Technical Support
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Support
6 2 (8.00%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (60.00%) .NET
2 12 (48.00%) .NET Framework
2 12 (48.00%) Entity Framework
2 12 (48.00%) WinForms
3 10 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 6 (24.00%) REST
5 4 (16.00%) JSON
5 4 (16.00%) XML
6 2 (8.00%) Middleware
6 2 (8.00%) Mongoose
6 2 (8.00%) SOAP
6 2 (8.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 15 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Android
3 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (52.00%) Computer Science
3 12 (48.00%) DevOps
3 12 (48.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Data Integration
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) CAD
5 5 (20.00%) Data Management
5 5 (20.00%) SDLC
6 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (16.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (16.00%) ETL
7 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.00%) Computer Security
7 2 (8.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (8.00%) Network Management
7 2 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (8.00%) Server Management
7 2 (8.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (60.00%) C#
3 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Degree
2 12 (48.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Sage
1 12 (48.00%) Xamarin
2 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.00%) Google
3 5 (20.00%) Zoho
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.00%) VMware