T-SQL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Transact-SQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring T-SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 306 246
Rank change year-on-year -75 -60 +15
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 183 196 785
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.74% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 2.49% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 120 172 661
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +6.80%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -1.79%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,390 7,880 21,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.95% 29.82% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6,377 5,791 16,492
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% +8.33% -7.69%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

T-SQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK excluding London

T-SQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Midlands -41 46 £46,750 -3.61% 14
Scotland +14 42 - - 5
North of England -91 34 £50,500 -15.83% 25
West Midlands -13 28 £42,500 -26.09% 3
South East -34 27 £42,500 -15.00% 18
Yorkshire -88 20 £44,000 -26.67% 6
East Midlands -64 18 £59,366 +23.68% 11
South West -48 17 £42,500 +6.25% 3
East of England -52 12 £62,500 +31.58% 5
North West -31 11 £60,000 +26.32% 19
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 -
North East -33 3 £51,000 -11.30%
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (6.01%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.19%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.19%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.64%) Confluence
4 3 (1.64%) IIS
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.09%) CMS
5 2 (1.09%) WordPress
6 1 (0.55%) JBoss
Applications
1 15 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (5.46%) Magento
1 10 (5.46%) Shopify
2 9 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.92%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (2.19%) Infor M3
4 2 (1.09%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (1.09%) JDE World
4 2 (1.09%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 104 (56.83%) Azure
2 48 (26.23%) Entra ID
3 42 (22.95%) Power Platform
4 38 (20.77%) Google Workspace
5 24 (13.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (9.29%) SaaS
7 15 (8.20%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (7.10%) AWS
9 13 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (6.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (6.56%) GitHub
11 10 (5.46%) Power Automate
12 9 (4.92%) PowerApps
13 8 (4.37%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.83%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (2.19%) Smartsheet
17 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 38 (20.77%) Broadband
2 3 (1.64%) DNS
2 3 (1.64%) Firewall
3 2 (1.09%) DHCP
3 2 (1.09%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.09%) SSL
3 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.09%) VLAN
3 2 (1.09%) Wireless
4 1 (0.55%) LAN
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.55%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.55%) WAN
4 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (50.27%) SQL Server
2 40 (21.86%) Power BI
3 28 (15.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 26 (14.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (12.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (8.74%) Data Lake
7 13 (7.10%) MySQL
8 12 (6.56%) Metadata
9 11 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (6.01%) Power Query
10 9 (4.92%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (2.19%) Star Schema
14 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
15 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database 12c
15 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.38%) JIRA
2 8 (4.37%) Git
3 4 (2.19%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (43.17%) Social Skills
2 43 (23.50%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (21.31%) Organisational Skills
4 38 (20.77%) Games
5 28 (15.30%) Finance
6 10 (5.46%) Back Office
6 10 (5.46%) Law
7 6 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.73%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.64%) Legal
9 3 (1.64%) Marketing
10 2 (1.09%) Retail
11 1 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.55%) Police
11 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 49 (26.78%) Analyst
2 44 (24.04%) Developer
3 43 (23.50%) Senior
4 29 (15.85%) Support Analyst
5 27 (14.75%) Applications Support
6 26 (14.21%) Applications Support Analyst
7 19 (10.38%) Senior Developer
8 15 (8.20%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 15 (8.20%) DBA
8 15 (8.20%) IAM Developer
9 14 (7.65%) Data Engineer
10 13 (7.10%) SQL DBA
11 11 (6.01%) C# Developer
11 11 (6.01%) Data Analyst
11 11 (6.01%) SQL Analyst
12 10 (5.46%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Administrator
13 9 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.92%) Senior Support Analyst
14 8 (4.37%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (28.96%) REST
2 49 (26.78%) SOAP
3 39 (21.31%) OAuth
3 39 (21.31%) OpenID
4 38 (20.77%) GraphQL
4 38 (20.77%) LDAP
4 38 (20.77%) SAML
5 33 (18.03%) .NET
6 12 (6.56%) ASP.NET
7 11 (6.01%) JSON
7 11 (6.01%) XML
8 10 (5.46%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.92%) Middleware
10 7 (3.83%) CSS
10 7 (3.83%) HTML
11 6 (3.28%) .NET Framework
11 6 (3.28%) DirectX
11 6 (3.28%) OpenGL
12 5 (2.73%) PySpark
12 5 (2.73%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.77%) Cyber Threat
1 38 (20.77%) Cyberattack
2 13 (7.10%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.28%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (3.28%) Clustering
5 6 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.28%) Replication
6 5 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.19%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.19%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.09%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.09%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.01%) Windows
2 7 (3.83%) Linux
2 7 (3.83%) VMS
3 4 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Android
4 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (25.14%) Roadmaps
2 43 (23.50%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (23.50%) Mentoring
3 38 (20.77%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (20.77%) Data Modelling
3 38 (20.77%) Identity Access Management
3 38 (20.77%) Programme Delivery
3 38 (20.77%) Regulatory Compliance
4 37 (20.22%) Analytics
5 36 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (15.85%) ETL
8 26 (14.21%) Performance Tuning
9 25 (13.66%) Decision-Making
10 24 (13.11%) DevOps
11 21 (11.48%) Agile
12 20 (10.93%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (10.38%) Data Engineering
14 18 (9.84%) CI/CD
14 18 (9.84%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 150 (81.97%) SQL
2 53 (28.96%) PowerShell
3 38 (20.77%) Bash
4 35 (19.13%) Python
5 29 (15.85%) C#
6 20 (10.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (2.73%) Java
7 5 (2.73%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.73%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.19%) R
9 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.09%) Bicep
10 2 (1.09%) Scala
10 2 (1.09%) VBA
11 1 (0.55%) Delphi
11 1 (0.55%) PHP
11 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (10.38%) Degree
2 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (1.64%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.55%) MCITP
3 1 (0.55%) MCSE
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (20.77%) NCSC
1 38 (20.77%) NIST
2 34 (18.58%) Data Quality
3 17 (9.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.28%) GDPR
4 6 (3.28%) QA
5 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.09%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.55%) HL7
System Software
1 49 (26.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) Terminal Services
2 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.73%) Terraform
2 3 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.55%) SCCM
3 1 (0.55%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 52 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.84%) Databricks
3 10 (5.46%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.92%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.83%) Oracle
6 5 (2.73%) RedGate
7 4 (2.19%) IFS
7 4 (2.19%) Infor
7 4 (2.19%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.64%) SAP
8 3 (1.64%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.09%) Citrix
9 2 (1.09%) Epicor
9 2 (1.09%) Informatica
9 2 (1.09%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.09%) Sage
9 2 (1.09%) VMware
9 2 (1.09%) Xamarin