Transact-SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring T-SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 378 331
Rank change year-on-year -223 -47 -103
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 202 332 634
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.68% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 2.55% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 173 262 426
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,400 £82,250 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -4.76%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18,482 13,035 24,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 26.57% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,182 8,419 16,033
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the UK

T-SQL
Salary Trend

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

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

T-SQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 15 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 4 September 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
England -183 192 £59,866 +8.85% 148
UK excluding London -192 138 £52,500 +0.96% 83
Work from Home -77 88 £62,500 +19.05% 113
London -80 55 £70,000 -12.50% 77
South East -43 50 £55,000 +10.00% 21
North of England -92 31 £47,500 -20.83% 16
East of England -30 19 £62,500 +54.32% 11
North West -18 17 £47,500 -17.39% 12
Midlands -77 16 £50,000 +1.52% 16
South West -81 16 £52,500 +5.00% 13
Yorkshire -70 13 £60,500 +0.83% 4
West Midlands -43 11 £50,000 -13.04% 13
Scotland +3 6 £85,000 +78.95% 4
East Midlands -58 5 £59,732 +23.16% 3
North East -69 1 £47,500 -9.52%

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (6.93%) IIS
2 12 (5.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.97%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.48%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.48%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.98%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.98%) JDE World
4 3 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.99%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.99%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 116 (57.43%) Azure
2 65 (32.18%) Power Platform
3 39 (19.31%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.42%) Azure Logic Apps
4 17 (8.42%) Power Automate
5 16 (7.92%) AWS
6 14 (6.93%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.44%) SaaS
8 12 (5.94%) PowerApps
9 9 (4.46%) GitHub
9 9 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.46%) Serverless
10 8 (3.96%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.96%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.48%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.98%) GCP
12 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) Firewall
2 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 3 (1.49%) VLAN
3 2 (0.99%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (65.35%) SQL Server
2 53 (26.24%) Power BI
3 51 (25.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 39 (19.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (11.88%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (7.43%) Power Query
7 11 (5.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (3.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.96%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.96%) Star Schema
9 6 (2.97%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.98%) Db2
10 4 (1.98%) Metadata
10 4 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.98%) WhereScape RED
11 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.99%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 25 (12.38%) Git
2 15 (7.43%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (3.47%) JIRA
5 2 (0.99%) Postman
6 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 63 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.76%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.34%) Finance
4 20 (9.90%) Law
5 15 (7.43%) Legal
6 8 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.97%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.98%) Retail
10 3 (1.49%) Back Office
10 3 (1.49%) Billing
10 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.99%) Banking
11 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Police
12 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 95 (47.03%) Developer
2 39 (19.31%) Senior
3 25 (12.38%) Analyst
4 23 (11.39%) .NET Developer
5 20 (9.90%) SQL Developer
6 19 (9.41%) Software Developer
7 18 (8.91%) Data Engineer
8 17 (8.42%) DBA
8 17 (8.42%) Senior Developer
9 16 (7.92%) SQL DBA
10 14 (6.93%) SQL Server DBA
11 13 (6.44%) Applications Support
12 12 (5.94%) Lead
13 10 (4.95%) Data Analyst
13 10 (4.95%) Support Engineer
14 9 (4.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 8 (3.96%) Applications Developer
15 8 (3.96%) Software Support Engineer
16 7 (3.47%) 3rd Line Support
16 7 (3.47%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (32.67%) .NET
2 15 (7.43%) REST
3 14 (6.93%) HTML
4 13 (6.44%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.44%) ASP.NET
4 13 (6.44%) CSS
5 11 (5.45%) .NET Framework
5 11 (5.45%) JSON
6 9 (4.46%) SOAP
6 9 (4.46%) WinForms
6 9 (4.46%) XML
7 8 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (3.96%) Blazor
7 8 (3.96%) Entity Framework
7 8 (3.96%) Kafka
7 8 (3.96%) PySpark
8 7 (3.47%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.47%) jQuery
8 7 (3.47%) React
8 7 (3.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.88%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (7.92%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (4.95%) Replication
4 10 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.97%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.97%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.48%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.98%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.98%) NHS
9 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.49%) LIMS
9 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.99%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.41%) Windows
2 10 (4.95%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Linux
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (37.62%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (27.72%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (25.25%) DevOps
4 50 (24.75%) Performance Tuning
5 41 (20.30%) ETL
6 39 (19.31%) CI/CD
7 36 (17.82%) Data Modelling
8 34 (16.83%) Agile
8 34 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (12.87%) Analytics
10 21 (10.40%) SDLC
11 19 (9.41%) AI
11 19 (9.41%) Secure Coding
12 18 (8.91%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (8.91%) Root Cause Analysis
13 17 (8.42%) Mentoring
13 17 (8.42%) Software Engineering
13 17 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (7.92%) Data Engineering
14 16 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 201 (99.50%) SQL
2 67 (33.17%) C#
3 37 (18.32%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.34%) Python
5 21 (10.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.92%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.44%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.46%) VBScript
9 8 (3.96%) VBA
10 7 (3.47%) Delphi
11 6 (2.97%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.98%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.49%) Bash
13 3 (1.49%) XPath
14 2 (0.99%) Bicep
14 2 (0.99%) Java
14 2 (0.99%) R
14 2 (0.99%) VB
15 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (6.93%) Degree
2 5 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.98%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.85%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.92%) QA
3 11 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.97%) SLA
5 5 (2.48%) NIST
6 3 (1.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.48%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.48%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 83 (41.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.93%) Oracle
3 9 (4.46%) iManage
4 8 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.47%) SAP
6 6 (2.97%) Infor
6 6 (2.97%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.48%) Databricks
7 5 (2.48%) IFS
7 5 (2.48%) RedGate
7 5 (2.48%) Remedy
8 4 (1.98%) Epicor
8 4 (1.98%) Intapp
8 4 (1.98%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.49%) Google
9 3 (1.49%) Teradata
9 3 (1.49%) Veeam
9 3 (1.49%) VMware
10 2 (0.99%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.99%) OpenAI