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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 169 154
Rank change year-on-year +20 -15 +41
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 41 25 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.08% 0.57% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.97% 1.92% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24 18 32
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £49,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% -5.71% -8.70%
75th Percentile £52,625 £52,250 £72,813
90th Percentile £58,125 £63,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +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 588 1,299 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.48% 29.50% 43.31%
Number of salaries quoted 376 731 1,037
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,965 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £56,509 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% -1.72% +0.32%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +23 38 £40,000 -22.33% 5
Oxfordshire - 2 £52,500 -
Berkshire -7 1 £60,000 +60.00% 4
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 10 (24.39%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 5 (12.20%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (53.66%) Data Warehouse
1 22 (53.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 19 (46.34%) SQL Server
3 18 (43.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (14.63%) Power BI
5 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.88%) MySQL
6 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Git
1 2 (4.88%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Software Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) IT Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) IT Support
2 10 (24.39%) IT Support Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Software Support Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Support Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) DBA
4 5 (12.20%) Developer
4 5 (12.20%) SQL Developer
5 4 (9.76%) SQL DBA
6 3 (7.32%) Administrator
6 3 (7.32%) Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Data Integration Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Data Integration Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Integration Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Report Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) SQL Server DBA
7 1 (2.44%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) .NET
2 10 (24.39%) .NET Framework
2 10 (24.39%) Entity Framework
2 10 (24.39%) WinForms
3 6 (14.63%) ASP.NET
4 5 (12.20%) REST
5 3 (7.32%) JSON
5 3 (7.32%) XML
6 2 (4.88%) Middleware
6 2 (4.88%) Mongoose
6 2 (4.88%) SOAP
7 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (7.32%) Clustering
2 3 (7.32%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (39.02%) Data Engineering
3 12 (29.27%) DevOps
3 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
5 10 (24.39%) Computer Science
6 8 (19.51%) ETL
7 5 (12.20%) Agile
7 5 (12.20%) CAD
7 5 (12.20%) Data Integration
7 5 (12.20%) Data Management
7 5 (12.20%) SDLC
8 4 (9.76%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (7.32%) Data Protection
9 3 (7.32%) Decision-Making
9 3 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (7.32%) High Availability
9 3 (7.32%) Process Improvement
10 2 (4.88%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) SQL
2 18 (43.90%) Python
3 11 (26.83%) C#
4 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) Degree
2 10 (24.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (24.39%) Sage
2 10 (24.39%) Xamarin
3 5 (12.20%) Google
3 5 (12.20%) Zoho
4 2 (4.88%) Salesforce