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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 128 118
Rank change year-on-year -9 -10 +62
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 14 24 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.50% 0.73% 1.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 2.29% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 36
10th Percentile - £33,125 £33,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,063 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,500 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.58% -7.61% -6.19%
75th Percentile £38,750 £49,750 £55,313
90th Percentile - £51,875 £67,285
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -

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 670 1,049 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.06% 32.09% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 243 555 756
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £78,790 £68,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.63%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend 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 8 November 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 -9 6 £37,500 -7.98% 3
Edinburgh -3 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
2 5 (35.71%) Google Workspace
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub Copilot
3 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.14%) Datadog
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
2 3 (21.43%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Games
3 5 (35.71%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (28.57%) Law
4 4 (28.57%) Legal
4 4 (28.57%) Marketing
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IAM Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) GraphQL
1 5 (35.71%) LDAP
1 5 (35.71%) OAuth
1 5 (35.71%) OpenID
1 5 (35.71%) REST
1 5 (35.71%) SAML
1 5 (35.71%) SOAP
2 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 4 (28.57%) React
2 4 (28.57%) Spring
2 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (35.71%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (35.71%) Cyberattack
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) AI
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (35.71%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 5 (35.71%) Programme Delivery
2 5 (35.71%) Regulatory Compliance
2 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
3 4 (28.57%) Document Management
3 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 4 (28.57%) Operational Stability
3 4 (28.57%) SDLC
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Asset Management
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Bash
2 5 (35.71%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (21.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) NCSC
1 5 (35.71%) NIST
2 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Databricks