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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 168 159
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 +26
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 36 27 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.02% 0.63% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.06% 2.03% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £30,500 £34,750 £37,625
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £53,000 £55,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £61,263 £72,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £49,479 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.10% -10.04% +4.76%

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 594 1,327 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.88% 30.82% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 402 739 1,007
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +21 32 £35,000 -32.04% 4
Oxfordshire - 3 £52,500 - 1
Berkshire -5 1 £60,000 +71.43% 23
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 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) Azure
2 14 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) GCP
3 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DHCP
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) SSL
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.78%) VLAN
1 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (52.78%) SQL Server
1 19 (52.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 13 (36.11%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (36.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (13.89%) Power BI
4 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.56%) MySQL
5 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
1 2 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Software Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) IT Support
2 12 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Software Support Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) DBA
3 6 (16.67%) Developer
3 6 (16.67%) SQL Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Data Integration Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Data Integration Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Integration Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) SQL DBA
5 3 (8.33%) Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Report Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (2.78%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) .NET
2 12 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 12 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 12 (33.33%) WinForms
3 8 (22.22%) ASP.NET
4 6 (16.67%) REST
5 4 (11.11%) JSON
5 4 (11.11%) XML
6 2 (5.56%) Middleware
6 2 (5.56%) Mongoose
6 2 (5.56%) SOAP
7 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (8.33%) Clustering
2 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Android
2 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) DevOps
1 14 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (36.11%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (36.11%) Software Engineering
3 12 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 8 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 7 (19.44%) ETL
6 6 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 5 (13.89%) Agile
7 5 (13.89%) CAD
7 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (13.89%) Data Management
7 5 (13.89%) SDLC
8 4 (11.11%) Data Protection
8 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (8.33%) High Availability
9 3 (8.33%) Process Improvement
10 2 (5.56%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) SQL
2 13 (36.11%) C#
3 10 (27.78%) Python
4 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Degree
2 12 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (33.33%) Sage
2 12 (33.33%) Xamarin
3 5 (13.89%) Google
3 5 (13.89%) Zoho
4 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.78%) VMware