Transact-SQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for T-SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited T-SQL over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 231 233 197
Rank change year-on-year +2 -36 -41
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 791 2,001 2,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 1.64% 1.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.71% 3.56% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 693 1,566 2,089
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £31,450
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £76,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% +5.56%

All Programming Languages
UK

T-SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,309 56,138 66,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.76% 45.93% 51.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16,539 35,840 45,476
10th Percentile £39,740 £38,443 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,845 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing T-SQL.

Salary trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England +3 719 £55,000 -4.35% 258
UK excluding London +2 490 £50,000 -2.91% 195
Work from Home -10 384 £55,000 - 151
London +19 268 £65,000 - 71
North of England +34 153 £52,500 - 60
Midlands +81 130 £50,000 - 41
North West +78 111 £53,750 +7.50% 36
South East +21 102 £55,000 +4.76% 44
East Midlands +62 67 £49,990 -0.02% 16
West Midlands +72 63 £52,250 +4.50% 25
Scotland +36 45 £47,500 -9.52% 7
Yorkshire -12 37 £51,500 -1.90% 9
South West -34 33 £52,500 - 14
East of England +67 21 £42,500 -15.00% 23
North East +35 5 £45,000 +12.50% 15
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Wales -9 2 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Northern Ireland +15 1 - -

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 40 (5.06%) IIS
2 20 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.02%) Confluence
4 6 (0.76%) CMS
4 6 (0.76%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.63%) IBM Domino
5 5 (0.63%) SAS
6 3 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.25%) Mendix
8 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 57 (7.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.76%) BusinessWorks
4 5 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.51%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.38%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.25%) Shopify
8 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.13%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 409 (51.71%) Azure
2 232 (29.33%) Power Platform
3 114 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
4 76 (9.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 60 (7.59%) AWS
6 44 (5.56%) SaaS
7 35 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (4.17%) PowerApps
9 29 (3.67%) Serverless
10 28 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 28 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (2.91%) GCP
12 21 (2.65%) PaaS
12 21 (2.65%) Power Automate
13 17 (2.15%) Snowflake
14 14 (1.77%) Entra ID
15 12 (1.52%) IaaS
16 11 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
17 10 (1.26%) Azure Functions
18 9 (1.14%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.26%) Network Security
2 7 (0.88%) BIG-IP
3 5 (0.63%) FTP
3 5 (0.63%) iSCSI
4 3 (0.38%) DNS
4 3 (0.38%) HTTP
4 3 (0.38%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) LAN
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) SSL
6 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) VLAN
6 1 (0.13%) VoIP
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Wireless
6 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 548 (69.28%) SQL Server
2 262 (33.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 221 (27.94%) Power BI
4 163 (20.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 161 (20.35%) Data Warehouse
6 89 (11.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 72 (9.10%) Relational Database
8 62 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 49 (6.19%) Data Lake
10 35 (4.42%) Tableau
11 18 (2.28%) Power Query
12 17 (2.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 17 (2.15%) MongoDB
13 16 (2.02%) MySQL
14 15 (1.90%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.90%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.77%) Oracle Database
16 13 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (1.64%) Metadata
16 13 (1.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 89 (11.25%) Git
2 56 (7.08%) Visual Studio
3 33 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 24 (3.03%) JIRA
5 18 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
5 18 (2.28%) TeamCity
6 16 (2.02%) NUnit
6 16 (2.02%) Selenium
7 15 (1.90%) Postman
8 11 (1.39%) Jasmine
9 9 (1.14%) Visual Studio Team System
10 7 (0.88%) Jenkins
10 7 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
10 7 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.76%) git-flow
11 6 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.63%) MSTest
12 5 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.51%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 222 (28.07%) Finance
2 136 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 86 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (8.98%) Law
5 56 (7.08%) Banking
6 28 (3.54%) Legal
7 24 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.28%) Retail
10 15 (1.90%) Automotive
11 14 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.64%) Marketing
13 11 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.26%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.14%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.01%) Private Banking
17 7 (0.88%) Games
18 6 (0.76%) Social Housing
19 5 (0.63%) Advertising
19 5 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 384 (48.55%) Developer
2 141 (17.83%) Senior
3 114 (14.41%) Analyst
4 95 (12.01%) SQL Developer
5 93 (11.76%) Data Engineer
6 90 (11.38%) .NET Developer
7 74 (9.36%) DBA
8 67 (8.47%) Software Developer
9 66 (8.34%) Senior Developer
10 60 (7.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 60 (7.59%) C# Developer
10 60 (7.59%) Full Stack Developer
11 52 (6.57%) Lead
12 51 (6.45%) Administrator
13 49 (6.19%) Applications Support
14 46 (5.82%) SQL DBA
15 40 (5.06%) Support Analyst
16 36 (4.55%) Data Analyst
17 32 (4.05%) C# .NET Developer
18 30 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (39.70%) .NET
2 160 (20.23%) ASP.NET
3 151 (19.09%) HTML
4 133 (16.81%) CSS
5 131 (16.56%) .NET Framework
6 109 (13.78%) AngularJS
7 102 (12.90%) jQuery
8 101 (12.77%) .NET Core
9 85 (10.75%) React
10 81 (10.24%) Entity Framework
11 76 (9.61%) JSON
12 74 (9.36%) ASP.NET Web API
13 71 (8.98%) ASP.NET MVC
13 71 (8.98%) Web Services
14 53 (6.70%) RESTful
15 48 (6.07%) XML
16 46 (5.82%) REST
17 40 (5.06%) HTML5
18 32 (4.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 30 (3.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.54%) Product Ownership
1 28 (3.54%) Replication
1 28 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (3.29%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (2.65%) Clustering
5 14 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
6 13 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.52%) CCTV
7 12 (1.52%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.26%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.76%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.51%) NHS
13 4 (0.51%) Pricing Data
13 4 (0.51%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 73 (9.23%) Windows
2 33 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 23 (2.91%) Android
4 17 (2.15%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.39%) Linux
6 9 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Unix
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.13%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (32.11%) Business Intelligence
2 196 (24.78%) Agile
3 193 (24.40%) DevOps
4 175 (22.12%) ETL
5 145 (18.33%) MVC
6 118 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (14.66%) Data Modelling
8 113 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
9 102 (12.90%) Analytics
10 100 (12.64%) Visualisation
11 96 (12.14%) CI/CD
12 84 (10.62%) Data Analysis
13 69 (8.72%) Scrum
14 68 (8.60%) SOLID
14 68 (8.60%) TDD
15 67 (8.47%) Performance Tuning
16 63 (7.96%) CRM
17 62 (7.84%) Design Patterns
17 62 (7.84%) Migration
18 58 (7.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 752 (95.07%) SQL
2 318 (40.20%) C#
3 226 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 112 (14.16%) Python
5 80 (10.11%) PowerShell
6 62 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 54 (6.83%) PL/SQL
8 29 (3.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 22 (2.78%) VB.NET
10 20 (2.53%) Java
11 17 (2.15%) VBScript
12 16 (2.02%) R
13 13 (1.64%) PHP
13 13 (1.64%) VB
13 13 (1.64%) VBA
14 5 (0.63%) C++
14 5 (0.63%) XPath
15 4 (0.51%) Ruby
15 4 (0.51%) XAML
16 3 (0.38%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 105 (13.27%) Degree
2 19 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.26%) Security Cleared
6 8 (1.01%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.51%) ACCA
10 4 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.38%) MCSA
11 3 (0.38%) MCSE
12 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.25%) IIBA
12 2 (0.25%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.25%) MCTS
13 1 (0.13%) HND
13 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.95%) QA
3 23 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.88%) GDPR
4 7 (0.88%) WAI
5 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.38%) WCAG
8 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.25%) SLA
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.16%) Docker
3 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (1.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.14%) Terraform
3 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (0.38%) Ansible
6 3 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.13%) Foglight
7 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 303 (38.31%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.32%) Oracle
3 46 (5.82%) Databricks
4 14 (1.77%) iManage
5 12 (1.52%) Alteryx
5 12 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.39%) VMware
7 8 (1.01%) Xamarin
8 7 (0.88%) Aderant
8 7 (0.88%) F5
8 7 (0.88%) RedGate
9 6 (0.76%) Computacenter
9 6 (0.76%) NEC
9 6 (0.76%) SAP
9 6 (0.76%) TIBCO
10 5 (0.63%) Cognos
10 5 (0.63%) Unisys
11 4 (0.51%) Google
11 4 (0.51%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.51%) Sun