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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 127 122
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +69
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 13 21 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.47% 0.69% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.13% 1.99% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 32
10th Percentile - £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,063 £37,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,500 £47,529
Median % change year-on-year -17.58% -4.27% -9.47%
75th Percentile £38,750 £52,563 £52,500
90th Percentile - £57,500 £67,000
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 609 1,057 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.05% 34.58% 43.51%
Number of salaries quoted 252 564 770
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,625 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £78,760 £69,850 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,624 £82,505
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 9 December 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
Edinburgh -12 5 - - 9
Glasgow +9 3 £37,500 -7.98% 3
West Lothian - 2 - - 3
Clackmannanshire - 1 - - 6
Fife - 1 - - 2
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 (7.69%) WebSphere
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub Copilot
2 5 (38.46%) Google Workspace
2 5 (38.46%) Snowflake
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Data Lake
1 5 (38.46%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Games
2 5 (38.46%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) IAM Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) GraphQL
1 5 (38.46%) LDAP
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth
1 5 (38.46%) OpenID
1 5 (38.46%) REST
1 5 (38.46%) SAML
1 5 (38.46%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 5 (38.46%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (38.46%) Cyberattack
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) AI
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
1 6 (46.15%) Decision-Making
2 5 (38.46%) Coaching
2 5 (38.46%) Data Architecture
2 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Data Integration
2 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 5 (38.46%) Observability
2 5 (38.46%) Portfolio Management
2 5 (38.46%) Programme Delivery
2 5 (38.46%) Regulatory Compliance
2 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
2 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
2 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) Bash
2 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
1 5 (38.46%) NCSC
1 5 (38.46%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle