T-SQL Job Trends

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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 350 221
Rank change year-on-year -108 -129 +56
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 242 315 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.77% 1.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.72% 2.28% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 158 255 1,014
10th Percentile £30,500 £38,780 £38,750
25th Percentile £39,438 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.37% -13.64% +10.00%

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 14,109 13,804 31,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.07% 33.82% 35.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,842 10,205 24,552
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,528
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.42% +3.31% -1.82%

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 28 March 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 17 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 28 March 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 -114 191 £47,500 -17.39% 98
UK excluding London -22 188 £44,000 -7.37% 91
Work from Home -42 133 £45,000 -19.64% 47
London -94 49 £70,000 +7.69% 23
Midlands -22 47 £45,000 -1.10% 19
Scotland +15 42 - - 8
South East -30 33 £40,000 -19.58% 23
North of England -55 33 £51,000 +2.00% 16
West Midlands +11 31 £42,500 -10.53% 8
Yorkshire -57 19 £50,000 -16.67% 6
South West -35 16 £42,500 +14.86% 14
East Midlands -58 16 £50,000 +11.11% 11
North West -25 11 £60,000 +50.00% 9
East of England -48 11 £62,500 +31.58% 10
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -24 3 £51,000 -32.00% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 11 (4.55%) IIS
2 9 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.65%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.65%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.24%) CMS
5 3 (1.24%) Confluence
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.83%) WordPress
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.13%) Magento
1 10 (4.13%) Shopify
2 9 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.72%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.41%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 145 (59.92%) Azure
2 67 (27.69%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.14%) Google Workspace
4 48 (19.83%) Power Platform
5 30 (12.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.85%) SaaS
8 17 (7.02%) GitHub
9 16 (6.61%) AWS
9 16 (6.61%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (6.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (4.55%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.72%) Power Automate
13 8 (3.31%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.48%) GCP
16 5 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
17 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.14%) Broadband
2 3 (1.24%) DNS
2 3 (1.24%) Firewall
3 2 (0.83%) DHCP
3 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.83%) SSL
3 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.83%) VLAN
3 2 (0.83%) Wireless
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) Network Security
4 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (48.35%) SQL Server
2 46 (19.01%) Power BI
3 41 (16.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 37 (15.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 29 (11.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (7.44%) Data Lake
7 13 (5.37%) Metadata
7 13 (5.37%) MySQL
8 12 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (4.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (3.31%) Power Query
12 6 (2.48%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.24%) GIS
13 3 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.24%) Tableau
14 2 (0.83%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.85%) JIRA
2 13 (5.37%) Git
3 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.41%) Yeoman
General
1 93 (38.43%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.55%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.70%) Games
5 37 (15.29%) Finance
6 13 (5.37%) Back Office
7 10 (4.13%) Law
8 6 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.07%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.24%) Banking
10 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.24%) Legal
10 3 (1.24%) Marketing
11 2 (0.83%) Front Office
11 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.83%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Automotive
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 60 (24.79%) Developer
2 58 (23.97%) Senior
3 51 (21.07%) Analyst
4 32 (13.22%) Support Analyst
5 29 (11.98%) Applications Support
6 28 (11.57%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.50%) Data Engineer
8 22 (9.09%) DBA
8 22 (9.09%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.68%) IAM Developer
10 20 (8.26%) SQL DBA
11 17 (7.02%) SQL Developer
12 16 (6.61%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (5.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 13 (5.37%) C# Developer
13 13 (5.37%) Data Analyst
13 13 (5.37%) Software Engineer
14 11 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (4.55%) Senior Support Analyst
15 10 (4.13%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (31.40%) REST
2 69 (28.51%) SOAP
3 57 (23.55%) OAuth
3 57 (23.55%) OpenID
4 56 (23.14%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.14%) LDAP
4 56 (23.14%) SAML
5 41 (16.94%) .NET
6 17 (7.02%) XML
7 16 (6.61%) ASP.NET
8 15 (6.20%) JSON
9 13 (5.37%) .NET Framework
10 11 (4.55%) .NET Core
10 11 (4.55%) Entity Framework
11 9 (3.72%) Middleware
11 9 (3.72%) WinForms
12 8 (3.31%) PySpark
13 7 (2.89%) CSS
13 7 (2.89%) HTML
14 6 (2.48%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.14%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.14%) Cyberattack
2 16 (6.61%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.13%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.13%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.72%) Clustering
5 8 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.89%) Replication
7 6 (2.48%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.48%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.65%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.83%) Derivative
11 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.85%) Windows
2 9 (3.72%) Linux
3 7 (2.89%) VMS
4 6 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.83%) Android
5 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.69%) Mentoring
1 67 (27.69%) Roadmaps
2 56 (23.14%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (23.14%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (23.14%) Programme Delivery
2 56 (23.14%) Regulatory Compliance
3 54 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (21.07%) Business Intelligence
5 44 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 43 (17.77%) Analytics
7 37 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (15.29%) DevOps
8 36 (14.88%) ETL
9 34 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (11.98%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (11.98%) Decision-Making
10 29 (11.98%) Performance Tuning
11 28 (11.57%) Change Control
11 28 (11.57%) CI/CD
12 26 (10.74%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 210 (86.78%) SQL
2 84 (34.71%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.14%) Bash
4 49 (20.25%) Python
5 43 (17.77%) C#
6 16 (6.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.89%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.48%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.07%) Java
9 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.65%) R
11 2 (0.83%) Bicep
11 2 (0.83%) Scala
11 2 (0.83%) VBA
12 1 (0.41%) Delphi
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
12 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (11.98%) Degree
2 11 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.48%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.83%) MCSE
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.41%) MCITP
7 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.14%) NCSC
1 56 (23.14%) NIST
2 39 (16.12%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.55%) QA
5 6 (2.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (28.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.24%) Docker
3 2 (0.83%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.89%) Terraform
2 4 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.41%) SCCM
3 1 (0.41%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 77 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.09%) Databricks
3 10 (4.13%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.72%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.31%) Oracle
5 8 (3.31%) Sage
5 8 (3.31%) Xamarin
6 5 (2.07%) RedGate
7 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.24%) Google
8 3 (1.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.24%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.24%) Zoho
9 2 (0.83%) Citrix
9 2 (0.83%) Informatica
9 2 (0.83%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.83%) Talend
9 2 (0.83%) VMware
10 1 (0.41%) Siemens