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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 382 314
Rank change year-on-year -223 -68 -103
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 200 318 610
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.64% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 2.48% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 170 251 361
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18,581 12,828 23,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 25.88% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 13,166 8,226 14,021
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,753 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -201 188 £60,000 +9.09% 202
UK excluding London -219 128 £55,000 +10.00% 121
Work from Home -68 87 £62,500 +19.05% 92
London -82 63 £70,000 -12.50% 88
South East -52 51 £55,000 +22.22% 34
North of England -96 32 £60,000 +2.13% 29
North West -32 17 £60,000 +4.35% 18
Yorkshire -70 14 £61,500 +2.50% 9
East of England -47 13 £55,000 +33.33% 18
South West -86 13 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Midlands -80 12 £54,866 +11.40% 25
West Midlands -53 10 £50,000 -13.04% 18
Scotland -1 7 £85,000 +78.95% 7
East Midlands -57 2 £65,616 +35.29% 7
North East -68 1 £47,500 -9.52% 2

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 (7.00%) IIS
2 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.50%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.00%) Elite 3E
3 4 (2.00%) Infor M3
3 4 (2.00%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.00%) JDE World
4 3 (1.50%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.00%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.00%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 114 (57.00%) Azure
2 62 (31.00%) Power Platform
3 43 (21.50%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 18 (9.00%) SaaS
6 16 (8.00%) AWS
7 15 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (7.50%) PowerApps
8 13 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.50%) Serverless
10 11 (5.50%) Snowflake
11 9 (4.50%) GitHub
12 8 (4.00%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.50%) Azure Functions
13 7 (3.50%) dbt
14 5 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (2.00%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.50%) DNS
1 3 (1.50%) Firewall
1 3 (1.50%) VLAN
2 2 (1.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (65.50%) SQL Server
2 49 (24.50%) Power BI
3 48 (24.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 37 (18.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 30 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.50%) Power Query
7 11 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (4.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (3.00%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.00%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.00%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.00%) Db2
11 4 (2.00%) Metadata
11 4 (2.00%) OLTP
11 4 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.00%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.50%) Big Data
12 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (14.00%) Git
2 15 (7.50%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.50%) JIRA
3 9 (4.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.00%) Postman
5 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 51 (25.50%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.00%) Finance
4 20 (10.00%) Law
5 18 (9.00%) Legal
6 6 (3.00%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.50%) Retail
8 4 (2.00%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.50%) Back Office
9 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.00%) Automotive
10 2 (1.00%) Banking
10 2 (1.00%) Billing
10 2 (1.00%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 102 (51.00%) Developer
2 48 (24.00%) Senior
3 24 (12.00%) .NET Developer
3 24 (12.00%) Senior Developer
4 21 (10.50%) Software Developer
5 20 (10.00%) Analyst
6 19 (9.50%) SQL Developer
7 18 (9.00%) Data Engineer
8 14 (7.00%) DBA
8 14 (7.00%) SQL DBA
9 13 (6.50%) Applications Support
10 12 (6.00%) SQL Server DBA
11 11 (5.50%) Lead
12 10 (5.00%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.50%) Applications Developer
13 9 (4.50%) Database Engineer
14 8 (4.00%) Business Developer
14 8 (4.00%) Senior Database Engineer
14 8 (4.00%) Software Support Engineer
15 7 (3.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (34.00%) .NET
2 19 (9.50%) REST
3 14 (7.00%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.50%) HTML
5 12 (6.00%) CSS
6 11 (5.50%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.50%) JSON
7 10 (5.00%) React
7 10 (5.00%) SOAP
8 9 (4.50%) .NET Framework
9 8 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.00%) Blazor
9 8 (4.00%) WinForms
10 7 (3.50%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.50%) Kafka
10 7 (3.50%) XML
11 6 (3.00%) Entity Framework
11 6 (3.00%) jQuery
11 6 (3.00%) OAuth
11 6 (3.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.50%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.00%) Replication
4 8 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.00%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.00%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.50%) NHS
7 3 (1.50%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.00%) LIMS
8 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.00%) SystemC
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.50%) Windows
2 11 (5.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.00%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (28.00%) DevOps
3 52 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (22.50%) CI/CD
4 45 (22.50%) Performance Tuning
5 38 (19.00%) ETL
6 37 (18.50%) Agile
7 32 (16.00%) Data Modelling
8 30 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (13.50%) Analytics
10 23 (11.50%) Software Engineering
11 20 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 20 (10.00%) SDLC
12 19 (9.50%) AI
12 19 (9.50%) Data Integration
12 19 (9.50%) Mentoring
13 18 (9.00%) Secure Coding
14 16 (8.00%) Clean Code
14 16 (8.00%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 200 (100.00%) SQL
2 72 (36.00%) C#
3 37 (18.50%) PowerShell
4 31 (15.50%) Python
5 18 (9.00%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (6.50%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.50%) VBScript
9 8 (4.00%) VBA
10 7 (3.50%) Delphi
11 6 (3.00%) VB.NET
12 4 (2.00%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.50%) Bash
13 3 (1.50%) XPath
14 2 (1.00%) Bicep
14 2 (1.00%) VB
15 1 (0.50%) Java
15 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 12 (6.00%) Degree
2 5 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.50%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.50%) QA
3 12 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.00%) NIST
4 6 (3.00%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.50%) Docker
3 3 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.50%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.00%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 84 (42.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.50%) Oracle
3 9 (4.50%) iManage
4 8 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.50%) RedGate
6 6 (3.00%) Databricks
6 6 (3.00%) Intapp
6 6 (3.00%) JD Edwards
6 6 (3.00%) SAP
7 5 (2.50%) IFS
7 5 (2.50%) Remedy
7 5 (2.50%) Teradata
8 4 (2.00%) Epicor
8 4 (2.00%) Infor
9 3 (1.50%) Google
9 3 (1.50%) Veeam
9 3 (1.50%) VMware
10 2 (1.00%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.00%) SolarWinds