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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 352 240
Rank change year-on-year -143 -112 +34
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 219 353 1,147
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.81% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 2.51% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 139 279 940
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,950 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,375 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +5.77%

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 16,000 14,052 32,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.64% 32.36% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,955 9,820 24,889
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,195
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -167 178 £48,625 -15.43% 84
UK excluding London -101 167 £47,500 -9.52% 68
Work from Home -18 133 £47,500 -15.18% 39
London -95 47 £70,000 +3.70% 21
Scotland +28 35 - - 5
Midlands -50 35 £50,000 -2.44% 10
North of England -62 34 £47,500 -20.83% 25
South East -22 29 £44,000 -9.74% 20
West Midlands -23 19 £44,000 -23.48% 7
South West -42 18 £42,500 +6.25% 4
North West -4 17 £53,750 +7.50% 9
East Midlands -42 16 £59,732 +23.16% 3
Yorkshire -91 16 £44,000 -26.67% 14
East of England -34 12 £62,500 +48.81% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -38 1 £43,500 -24.35% 2
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 15 (6.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.11%) IIS
3 8 (3.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.37%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.91%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) JBoss
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.57%) Dynamics NAV
1 10 (4.57%) Magento
1 10 (4.57%) Shopify
2 9 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.74%) Infor M3
4 4 (1.83%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.83%) JDE World
4 4 (1.83%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.91%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 126 (57.53%) Azure
2 62 (28.31%) Entra ID
3 55 (25.11%) Power Platform
4 52 (23.74%) Google Workspace
5 20 (9.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (8.68%) AWS
6 19 (8.68%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (6.39%) Power Automate
9 13 (5.94%) PowerApps
10 12 (5.48%) SaaS
11 11 (5.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (4.57%) GitHub
12 10 (4.57%) Snowflake
13 8 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.28%) Serverless
15 4 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.83%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 52 (23.74%) Broadband
2 3 (1.37%) DNS
2 3 (1.37%) Firewall
3 2 (0.91%) VLAN
4 1 (0.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.46%) LAN
4 1 (0.46%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.46%) WAN
4 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (50.23%) SQL Server
2 53 (24.20%) Power BI
3 40 (18.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 36 (16.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (10.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.39%) Power Query
7 13 (5.94%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.57%) MySQL
8 10 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.11%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (3.20%) Metadata
12 4 (1.83%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
15 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 18 (8.22%) JIRA
2 10 (4.57%) Git
3 6 (2.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (2.28%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 90 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 56 (25.57%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.98%) Games
5 34 (15.53%) Finance
6 16 (7.31%) Law
7 10 (4.57%) Back Office
8 9 (4.11%) Legal
9 5 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.28%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.28%) Retail
10 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.37%) Marketing
10 3 (1.37%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.91%) Automotive
11 2 (0.91%) Billing
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
12 1 (0.46%) Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 64 (29.22%) Developer
2 55 (25.11%) Senior
3 52 (23.74%) Analyst
4 24 (10.96%) Support Analyst
5 22 (10.05%) Applications Support
5 22 (10.05%) Senior Developer
6 21 (9.59%) Applications Support Analyst
7 18 (8.22%) IAM Developer
8 16 (7.31%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (7.31%) Data Analyst
8 16 (7.31%) DBA
8 16 (7.31%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (6.39%) SQL DBA
10 12 (5.48%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.48%) SQL Analyst
11 11 (5.02%) C# Developer
11 11 (5.02%) Database Engineer
12 10 (4.57%) Software Developer
13 9 (4.11%) Architect
13 9 (4.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (30.59%) REST
2 63 (28.77%) SOAP
3 53 (24.20%) OAuth
3 53 (24.20%) OpenID
4 52 (23.74%) GraphQL
4 52 (23.74%) LDAP
4 52 (23.74%) SAML
5 40 (18.26%) .NET
6 12 (5.48%) .NET Core
6 12 (5.48%) ASP.NET
6 12 (5.48%) CSS
6 12 (5.48%) HTML
7 11 (5.02%) JSON
8 10 (4.57%) XML
9 9 (4.11%) Middleware
10 8 (3.65%) Kafka
10 8 (3.65%) React
11 7 (3.20%) PySpark
12 6 (2.74%) DirectX
12 6 (2.74%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.74%) Cyber Threat
1 52 (23.74%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.94%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.57%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.57%) Replication
4 9 (4.11%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.20%) Clustering
7 6 (2.74%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.74%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.83%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.83%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.02%) Windows
2 6 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.28%) Linux
3 5 (2.28%) VMS
4 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (29.68%) Mentoring
2 61 (27.85%) Roadmaps
3 60 (27.40%) Business Intelligence
4 52 (23.74%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (23.74%) Identity Access Management
4 52 (23.74%) Programme Delivery
4 52 (23.74%) Regulatory Compliance
5 45 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (19.63%) Data Modelling
7 38 (17.35%) Analytics
8 35 (15.98%) Performance Tuning
9 31 (14.16%) ETL
10 30 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (12.79%) Change Control
13 27 (12.33%) CI/CD
13 27 (12.33%) DevOps
14 25 (11.42%) Agile
15 24 (10.96%) Decision-Making
16 20 (9.13%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 189 (86.30%) SQL
2 75 (34.25%) PowerShell
3 52 (23.74%) Bash
4 44 (20.09%) Python
5 41 (18.72%) C#
6 22 (10.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (4.11%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.65%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.20%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.74%) VBA
11 5 (2.28%) VBScript
12 4 (1.83%) Java
12 4 (1.83%) R
13 2 (0.91%) Bicep
13 2 (0.91%) Scala
14 1 (0.46%) Delphi
14 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (9.13%) Degree
2 6 (2.74%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.37%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.91%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.46%) MCITP
5 1 (0.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (23.74%) NCSC
1 52 (23.74%) NIST
2 38 (17.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (16.89%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.11%) QA
5 6 (2.74%) GDPR
6 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.91%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) HL7
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (31.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.83%) Docker
3 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (3.20%) Terraform
2 4 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.46%) SCCM
3 1 (0.46%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 66 (30.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.94%) Databricks
3 10 (4.57%) Oracle
3 10 (4.57%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.11%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.11%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.74%) IFS
5 6 (2.74%) iManage
5 6 (2.74%) Infor
6 5 (2.28%) SAP
7 4 (1.83%) Epicor
7 4 (1.83%) JD Edwards
7 4 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.83%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.37%) RedGate
8 3 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.91%) Intapp
9 2 (0.91%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.91%) Veeam
9 2 (0.91%) VMware