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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 383 327
Rank change year-on-year -232 -56 -113
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 197 329 609
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.67% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 2.56% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 166 259 359
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% -7.49%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,875 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -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 18,657 12,849 23,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.88% 26.05% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13,194 8,261 14,329
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £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 £107,500
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 28 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 28 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 -221 187 £60,000 +9.09% 143
UK excluding London -226 131 £53,750 +7.50% 99
Work from Home -63 83 £62,500 +19.05% 77
London -69 58 £70,000 -12.50% 49
South East -58 51 £55,000 +15.79% 24
North of England -103 31 £60,000 - 24
North West -35 17 £60,000 +4.35% 15
South West -93 15 £52,500 +5.00% 5
East of England -35 14 £58,750 +45.06% 16
Midlands -85 14 £59,366 +9.24% 20
Yorkshire -62 13 £60,500 +0.83% 8
West Midlands -54 10 £50,000 -13.04% 16
Scotland +1 6 £85,000 +78.95% 9
East Midlands -55 4 £59,732 +23.16% 4
North East -72 1 £47,500 -9.52% 1

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 (7.11%) IIS
2 12 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.54%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.54%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.54%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.54%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.03%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.03%) JDE World
4 3 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.02%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.02%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.51%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 111 (56.35%) Azure
2 61 (30.96%) Power Platform
3 41 (20.81%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.14%) Power Automate
5 16 (8.12%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (8.12%) SaaS
6 15 (7.61%) AWS
7 14 (7.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (5.58%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.57%) GitHub
10 9 (4.57%) Serverless
10 9 (4.57%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.55%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.54%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.54%) dbt
15 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
16 3 (1.52%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) DNS
1 3 (1.52%) Firewall
1 3 (1.52%) VLAN
2 2 (1.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (63.96%) SQL Server
2 50 (25.38%) Power BI
3 48 (24.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 37 (18.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 26 (13.20%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.61%) Power Query
7 11 (5.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (5.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (4.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (4.06%) Star Schema
10 7 (3.55%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.05%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.03%) Db2
12 4 (2.03%) Metadata
12 4 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (2.03%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.52%) Big Data
13 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 24 (12.18%) Git
2 15 (7.61%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (3.55%) JIRA
5 2 (1.02%) Postman
6 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 52 (26.40%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.21%) Finance
4 17 (8.63%) Law
5 15 (7.61%) Legal
6 7 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.54%) Retail
9 4 (2.03%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.52%) Back Office
10 3 (1.52%) Billing
10 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.02%) Automotive
11 2 (1.02%) Banking
11 2 (1.02%) Local Government
12 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Publishing
12 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 96 (48.73%) Developer
2 45 (22.84%) Senior
3 24 (12.18%) .NET Developer
4 23 (11.68%) Analyst
5 22 (11.17%) Senior Developer
6 21 (10.66%) Software Developer
7 19 (9.64%) Data Engineer
7 19 (9.64%) SQL Developer
8 14 (7.11%) DBA
8 14 (7.11%) SQL DBA
9 13 (6.60%) Applications Support
10 12 (6.09%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (5.08%) Lead
11 10 (5.08%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.57%) Applications Developer
13 8 (4.06%) Business Developer
13 8 (4.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (4.06%) Database Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) Software Support Engineer
14 7 (3.55%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (33.50%) .NET
2 16 (8.12%) REST
3 14 (7.11%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.60%) HTML
5 12 (6.09%) CSS
6 11 (5.58%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.58%) JSON
7 10 (5.08%) React
8 9 (4.57%) .NET Framework
8 9 (4.57%) SOAP
9 8 (4.06%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.06%) Blazor
9 8 (4.06%) WinForms
10 7 (3.55%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.55%) Kafka
10 7 (3.55%) XML
11 6 (3.05%) Entity Framework
11 6 (3.05%) jQuery
11 6 (3.05%) PySpark
12 5 (2.54%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.68%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.11%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.06%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.06%) Replication
6 6 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.03%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.03%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.52%) NHS
9 3 (1.52%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.02%) LIMS
10 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.02%) SystemC
11 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.64%) Windows
2 11 (5.58%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (40.61%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (27.41%) DevOps
3 52 (26.40%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (22.84%) CI/CD
5 43 (21.83%) Performance Tuning
6 41 (20.81%) ETL
7 35 (17.77%) Agile
8 33 (16.75%) Data Modelling
9 31 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (14.21%) Analytics
11 23 (11.68%) Software Engineering
12 20 (10.15%) AI
12 20 (10.15%) SDLC
13 19 (9.64%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (9.14%) Mentoring
14 18 (9.14%) Secure Coding
15 17 (8.63%) Data Integration
16 16 (8.12%) Clean Code
16 16 (8.12%) Data Pipeline
17 15 (7.61%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 196 (99.49%) SQL
2 68 (34.52%) C#
3 37 (18.78%) PowerShell
4 32 (16.24%) Python
5 18 (9.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (9.14%) JavaScript
6 13 (6.60%) PL/SQL
7 9 (4.57%) VBScript
8 8 (4.06%) VBA
9 7 (3.55%) Delphi
10 6 (3.05%) VB.NET
11 4 (2.03%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.52%) Bash
12 3 (1.52%) XPath
13 2 (1.02%) Bicep
13 2 (1.02%) VB
14 1 (0.51%) Java
14 1 (0.51%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (7.61%) Degree
2 5 (2.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.54%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.03%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.75%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.61%) QA
3 11 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.05%) SLA
5 5 (2.54%) NIST
6 2 (1.02%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (7.61%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.54%) Docker
3 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.54%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) SQL Sentry
4 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 80 (40.61%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.61%) Oracle
3 9 (4.57%) iManage
4 8 (4.06%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.05%) JD Edwards
5 6 (3.05%) SAP
6 5 (2.54%) Databricks
6 5 (2.54%) IFS
6 5 (2.54%) Infor
6 5 (2.54%) Intapp
6 5 (2.54%) RedGate
6 5 (2.54%) Remedy
7 4 (2.03%) Epicor
7 4 (2.03%) Teradata
8 3 (1.52%) Google
8 3 (1.52%) Veeam
8 3 (1.52%) VMware
9 2 (1.02%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.02%) SolarWinds