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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 152 124
Rank change year-on-year +11 -28 +39
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 28 73 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.86% 1.21% 1.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.88% 5.26% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 26 46 73
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,875 £33,900
25th Percentile £47,172 £41,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,642 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.19% +15.98% -10.84%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,875 £63,750 £62,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,784 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -4.72% +4.55%

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 721 1,387 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.11% 23.03% 32.79%
Number of salaries quoted 567 852 1,046
10th Percentile £32,125 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £67,063
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.56%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 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
Birmingham +11 11 £66,000 +10.00% 4
Staffordshire -6 6 £57,500 - 2
Walsall - 4 £43,250 -
Worcestershire - 3 £42,500 -
Solihull - 2 - -
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
1 16 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.29%) Snowflake
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (57.14%) Power BI
1 16 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.71%) Metadata
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (7.14%) Data Hub
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (7.14%) SQL CLR
6 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Back Office
3 2 (7.14%) Police
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Senior
3 10 (35.71%) SQL Developer
4 7 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) Database Developer
4 7 (25.00%) SQL Database Developer
5 6 (21.43%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Analyst
6 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Applications Support
7 2 (7.14%) Business Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Applications Support
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) .NET
2 4 (14.29%) Web Services
3 2 (7.14%) Ajax
3 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 2 (7.14%) CSS
3 2 (7.14%) Entity Framework
3 2 (7.14%) HTML
3 2 (7.14%) jQuery
3 2 (7.14%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (7.14%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (7.14%) WCF
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (42.86%) Analytics
2 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (39.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 11 (39.29%) ETL
4 8 (28.57%) Database Optimisation
5 7 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
6 6 (21.43%) Data Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 6 (21.43%) Visualisation
7 5 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (17.86%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
7 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
8 4 (14.29%) Migration
8 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) C#
3 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.57%) Bicep
6 1 (3.57%) R
6 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) VMware