T-SQL Job Trends in the West Midlands

Transact-SQL
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring T-SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 139 145
Rank change year-on-year -45 +6 +14
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 19 20 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.68% 1.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 2.75% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18 20 96
10th Percentile £28,000 £45,775 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £53,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% -2.13% +17.50%
75th Percentile £63,125 £62,188 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,075 £65,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.65% - -

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 959 726 1,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.21% 24.62% 25.13%
Number of salaries quoted 718 548 1,662
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,750 £76,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

T-SQL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the West Midlands

T-SQL
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 May 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
Birmingham -13 6 £65,000 +13.04% 5
Staffordshire -9 5 £36,000 -35.24%
Warwickshire - 5 £28,000 -
Walsall +2 3 £44,000 +4.76%
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Power Platform
3 4 (21.05%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (21.05%) Power Automate
3 4 (21.05%) PowerApps
3 4 (21.05%) Smartsheet
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (36.84%) Power BI
3 6 (31.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (15.79%) Power Query
4 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.26%) Metadata
6 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Law
2 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Legal
4 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) DBA
2 5 (26.32%) SQL DBA
3 4 (21.05%) Data Scientist
4 3 (15.79%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Data Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Junior
4 3 (15.79%) Junior Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Junior Data Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Junior Data Scientist
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (5.26%) Blazor
2 1 (5.26%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (42.11%) Decision-Making
3 6 (31.58%) Analytics
3 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
4 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis
5 4 (21.05%) Data Science
5 4 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
6 3 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (15.79%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.79%) ETL
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (15.79%) Runbook
6 3 (15.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 4 (21.05%) R
5 2 (10.53%) C#
6 1 (5.26%) Bicep
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.79%) GDPR
3 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) RedGate
3 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.26%) OpenAI