T-SQL Job Trends in Scotland

Transact-SQL
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 135 167 132
Rank change year-on-year +32 -35 +31
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 11 37 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.44% 0.84% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 1.92% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 33
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,200 £33,775
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,250 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% +9.79% -7.62%
75th Percentile £48,750 £56,000 £52,500
90th Percentile - £59,600 £67,070
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 647 1,923 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.66% 43.47% 39.16%
Number of salaries quoted 228 697 841
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,733
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,114 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +67 5 £37,500 -30.56% 1
Edinburgh +7 5 £47,500 -2.56%
Fife - 1 - -
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) AWS
3 6 (54.55%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Datadog
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (36.36%) Law
1 4 (36.36%) Legal
1 4 (36.36%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Games
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DBA
1 5 (45.45%) SQL DBA
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server DBA
2 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) IAM Developer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
1 4 (36.36%) React
1 4 (36.36%) Spring
1 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Data Centre
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
2 4 (36.36%) Document Management
2 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
2 4 (36.36%) Operational Stability
2 4 (36.36%) SDLC
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle