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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 167 194
Rank change year-on-year -6 +27 -31
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 17 28 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.25% 0.74% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 3.85% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17 11 12
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,000 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - +40.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,875 £53,125
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £59,875
South East median annual salary £53,750 £45,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +19.44% -20.00% -2.17%

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 1,051 728 1,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.28% 19.11% 26.11%
Number of salaries quoted 817 426 957
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,078
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% +0.91% -5.58%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -16 11 £52,500 +1.94% 3
Berkshire +20 5 £45,000 -25.00% 1
Oxfordshire -23 1 £70,000 +33.33%
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) SaaS
3 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (29.41%) Power BI
4 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Law
3 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Software Support Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Support Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 6 (35.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) SQL Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior SQL Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior SQL Server Developer
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) WinForms
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Software Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (47.06%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
4 5 (29.41%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (29.41%) ETL
4 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
5 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Data Management
5 3 (17.65%) Database Optimisation
5 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) OO
5 3 (17.65%) OOP
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
2 12 (70.59%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) VB.NET
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Rollbar