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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 176 154
Rank change year-on-year -3 -22 +52
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 28 21 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.71% 0.44% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.15% 1.58% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11 18 32
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £36,250 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.91% -
75th Percentile £56,875 £52,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +9.52%

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 675 1,325 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.19% 27.52% 41.98%
Number of salaries quoted 390 843 1,153
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,563 £45,000 £47,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £93,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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
Buckinghamshire +6 25 £51,500 - 5
Oxfordshire +28 2 £52,500 -8.70% 2
Berkshire -17 1 £60,000 +60.00% 6
T-SQL
South East

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (57.14%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
1 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (78.57%) Data Warehouse
1 22 (78.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 11 (39.29%) SQL Server
3 8 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (21.43%) Power BI
5 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (7.14%) MySQL
6 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) DBA
2 4 (14.29%) SQL DBA
3 3 (10.71%) Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Report Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Production DBA
5 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) SQL BI Developer
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Production DBA
5 1 (3.57%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Middleware
1 2 (7.14%) Mongoose
1 2 (7.14%) REST
1 2 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (10.71%) Clustering
2 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 8 (28.57%) ETL
4 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
5 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (10.71%) High Availability
5 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
6 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 2 (7.14%) CRM
6 2 (7.14%) Data Collection
6 2 (7.14%) Data Integration
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) ERP
6 2 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.57%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (3.57%) Dashboard Development
7 1 (3.57%) MVC
7 1 (3.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) SQL
2 18 (64.29%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Salesforce