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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 345 216
Rank change year-on-year -123 -129 +60
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 238 340 1,213
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.80% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 2.35% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 154 257 1,027
10th Percentile £28,750 £38,795 £39,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £76,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -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 13,768 14,464 30,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 34.04% 35.27%
Number of salaries quoted 9,645 10,260 24,479
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,623
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 £85,294 £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 23 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 23 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 -136 188 £46,250 -19.57% 95
UK excluding London -30 187 £42,500 -10.53% 92
Work from Home -41 130 £42,500 -24.11% 45
Midlands -37 47 £45,000 +2.27% 15
London -95 47 £70,000 +7.69% 25
Scotland +23 42 - - 9
North of England -45 35 £50,000 -9.09% 15
South East -32 34 £37,500 -24.61% 27
West Midlands +18 30 £42,500 -10.53% 9
Yorkshire -41 21 £40,000 -33.33% 5
East Midlands -52 17 £50,000 +14.94% 6
South West -20 16 £42,500 +14.86% 14
North West -21 11 £57,500 +17.95% 10
East of England -30 7 £49,000 +3.16% 10
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -23 3 £51,000 -32.00%
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 13 (5.46%) IIS
2 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.68%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.68%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.26%) CMS
4 3 (1.26%) Confluence
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.84%) WordPress
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.20%) Magento
1 10 (4.20%) Shopify
2 9 (3.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.78%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 141 (59.24%) Azure
2 66 (27.73%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.53%) Google Workspace
4 45 (18.91%) Power Platform
5 29 (12.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.98%) SaaS
8 17 (7.14%) GitHub
9 16 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (6.30%) AWS
10 15 (6.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (4.62%) PowerApps
13 9 (3.78%) Power Automate
14 8 (3.36%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (2.52%) GCP
17 5 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
18 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
18 4 (1.68%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.53%) Broadband
2 3 (1.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.84%) DHCP
3 2 (0.84%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.84%) Firewall
3 2 (0.84%) SSL
3 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.84%) VLAN
3 2 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 44 (18.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 43 (18.07%) Power BI
4 37 (15.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (10.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (7.56%) Data Lake
7 13 (5.46%) MySQL
8 12 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.04%) Metadata
9 11 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (4.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (2.94%) Power Query
12 5 (2.10%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.26%) GIS
13 3 (1.26%) Tableau
14 2 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.84%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.98%) JIRA
2 12 (5.04%) Git
3 3 (1.26%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.26%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (39.50%) Social Skills
2 56 (23.53%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.97%) Games
5 33 (13.87%) Finance
6 13 (5.46%) Back Office
7 11 (4.62%) Law
8 6 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.68%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.26%) Banking
10 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Legal
10 3 (1.26%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 57 (23.95%) Senior
2 56 (23.53%) Developer
3 52 (21.85%) Analyst
4 34 (14.29%) Support Analyst
5 31 (13.03%) Applications Support
6 30 (12.61%) Applications Support Analyst
7 24 (10.08%) Data Engineer
8 21 (8.82%) DBA
8 21 (8.82%) IAM Developer
8 21 (8.82%) Senior Developer
9 18 (7.56%) SQL DBA
10 16 (6.72%) Software Engineer
10 16 (6.72%) SQL Developer
10 16 (6.72%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (5.46%) C# Developer
12 12 (5.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 12 (5.04%) Data Analyst
13 11 (4.62%) IT Support
13 11 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (4.62%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (31.93%) REST
2 69 (28.99%) SOAP
3 57 (23.95%) OAuth
3 57 (23.95%) OpenID
4 56 (23.53%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.53%) LDAP
4 56 (23.53%) SAML
5 39 (16.39%) .NET
6 16 (6.72%) XML
7 15 (6.30%) ASP.NET
7 15 (6.30%) JSON
8 14 (5.88%) .NET Framework
9 12 (5.04%) Entity Framework
10 10 (4.20%) WinForms
11 9 (3.78%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.78%) Middleware
12 7 (2.94%) CSS
12 7 (2.94%) HTML
13 6 (2.52%) DirectX
13 6 (2.52%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.53%) Cyberattack
2 17 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.20%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.20%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.78%) Clustering
5 7 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.52%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.52%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.52%) Replication
7 4 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.26%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.84%) Derivative
9 2 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.84%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.40%) Windows
2 9 (3.78%) Linux
3 6 (2.52%) VMS
3 6 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.84%) Android
4 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.31%) Mentoring
1 65 (27.31%) Roadmaps
2 56 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (23.53%) Programme Delivery
2 56 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
3 51 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (19.75%) Business Intelligence
5 41 (17.23%) Analytics
6 40 (16.81%) Data Modelling
7 39 (16.39%) DevOps
8 36 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (14.71%) ETL
10 33 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (12.18%) CI/CD
12 28 (11.76%) Change Control
12 28 (11.76%) Decision-Making
13 27 (11.34%) Agile
13 27 (11.34%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (10.92%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 206 (86.55%) SQL
2 85 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.53%) Bash
4 47 (19.75%) Python
5 41 (17.23%) C#
6 15 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.52%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.10%) Java
9 5 (2.10%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.68%) R
11 2 (0.84%) Bicep
11 2 (0.84%) Scala
11 2 (0.84%) VBA
12 1 (0.42%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (13.03%) Degree
2 12 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.84%) MCSE
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.42%) MCITP
6 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.53%) NCSC
1 56 (23.53%) NIST
2 40 (16.81%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.20%) QA
5 6 (2.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (28.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.26%) Docker
3 2 (0.84%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.36%) Terraform
2 5 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 74 (31.09%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.24%) Databricks
3 10 (4.20%) Sage
3 10 (4.20%) WooCommerce
3 10 (4.20%) Xamarin
4 9 (3.78%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.78%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.36%) Oracle
6 4 (1.68%) Google
6 4 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.68%) Zoho
7 3 (1.26%) RedGate
7 3 (1.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Citrix
8 2 (0.84%) Informatica
8 2 (0.84%) Rollbar
8 2 (0.84%) Talend
8 2 (0.84%) VMware
9 1 (0.42%) IFS
9 1 (0.42%) OpenAI