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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 304 209
Rank change year-on-year -121 -95 +58
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 262 465 1,105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.95% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.06% 2.74% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 177 267 966
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,500 £78,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +5.00%

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 12,735 16,949 27,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.76% 34.45% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,078 10,058 22,747
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,869 £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 £83,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -117 209 £50,000 -9.09% 85
UK excluding London -39 198 £42,500 -10.53% 84
Work from Home -40 144 £45,000 -18.18% 43
London -85 62 £80,000 +28.00% 14
Midlands -5 46 £48,500 +4.86% 21
Scotland +21 45 £37,500 -18.48%
South East -8 41 £40,000 -20.00% 30
North of England -22 37 £47,500 -1.04% 17
West Midlands +9 28 £42,500 -17.07% 12
Yorkshire -19 25 £25,000 -47.37% 3
South West -7 18 £42,500 -7.61% 8
East Midlands -25 18 £50,000 +11.11% 9
North West -5 9 £57,500 +15.00% 13
East of England -30 5 £42,175 -11.21% 8
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 1
North East -5 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 15 (5.73%) IIS
2 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.53%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.53%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.15%) CMS
4 3 (1.15%) Confluence
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.76%) WordPress
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (3.44%) Magento
2 9 (3.44%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 151 (57.63%) Azure
2 69 (26.34%) Entra ID
3 58 (22.14%) Google Workspace
4 48 (18.32%) Power Platform
5 34 (12.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (8.02%) SaaS
8 17 (6.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (6.49%) GitHub
8 17 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (5.73%) PowerApps
10 14 (5.34%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (4.58%) AWS
12 11 (4.20%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.44%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.29%) GCP
16 5 (1.91%) dbt
17 4 (1.53%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 58 (22.14%) Broadband
2 3 (1.15%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) DHCP
3 2 (0.76%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.76%) Firewall
3 2 (0.76%) SSL
3 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.76%) VLAN
3 2 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (47.71%) SQL Server
2 51 (19.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 47 (17.94%) Power BI
4 43 (16.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (9.16%) Data Lake
6 22 (8.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (6.11%) MySQL
8 16 (6.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 13 (4.96%) Metadata
10 12 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.29%) Power Query
12 4 (1.53%) OLAP
12 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.15%) GIS
13 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.15%) Tableau
14 2 (0.76%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.76%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (7.25%) JIRA
2 12 (4.58%) Git
3 5 (1.91%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (1.53%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 115 (43.89%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.14%) Organisational Skills
3 51 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (17.94%) Finance
5 39 (14.89%) Games
6 13 (4.96%) Back Office
7 8 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.67%) Law
9 5 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.91%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.53%) Billing
11 3 (1.15%) Banking
11 3 (1.15%) Legal
11 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing
12 2 (0.76%) Front Office
12 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.76%) Retail
13 1 (0.38%) Advertising
13 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 70 (26.72%) Senior
2 59 (22.52%) Developer
3 51 (19.47%) Analyst
4 37 (14.12%) Support Analyst
5 35 (13.36%) Applications Support
6 33 (12.60%) Data Engineer
7 32 (12.21%) Applications Support Analyst
8 23 (8.78%) IAM Developer
8 23 (8.78%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.02%) DBA
10 20 (7.63%) Software Engineer
11 18 (6.87%) SQL DBA
12 16 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (6.11%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (5.34%) IT Support
14 13 (4.96%) IT Engineer
14 13 (4.96%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (4.96%) SQL Developer
14 13 (4.96%) Support Engineer
15 12 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (29.77%) REST
2 71 (27.10%) SOAP
3 59 (22.52%) OAuth
3 59 (22.52%) OpenID
4 58 (22.14%) GraphQL
4 58 (22.14%) LDAP
4 58 (22.14%) SAML
5 37 (14.12%) .NET
6 15 (5.73%) .NET Framework
6 15 (5.73%) JSON
6 15 (5.73%) XML
7 13 (4.96%) Entity Framework
8 12 (4.58%) ASP.NET
8 12 (4.58%) WinForms
9 10 (3.82%) CSS
9 10 (3.82%) HTML
9 10 (3.82%) Middleware
10 8 (3.05%) .NET Core
11 6 (2.29%) DirectX
11 6 (2.29%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 58 (22.14%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (22.14%) Cyberattack
2 17 (6.49%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.20%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.20%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.05%) Clustering
6 6 (2.29%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.29%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.15%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.15%) Replication
8 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.76%) Derivative
9 2 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.76%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.40%) Windows
2 10 (3.82%) Linux
3 6 (2.29%) VMS
3 6 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.76%) Android
4 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.10%) Mentoring
2 66 (25.19%) Roadmaps
3 58 (22.14%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (22.14%) Identity Access Management
3 58 (22.14%) Programme Delivery
3 58 (22.14%) Regulatory Compliance
4 54 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (19.47%) Business Intelligence
6 48 (18.32%) ETL
7 46 (17.56%) Analytics
8 45 (17.18%) Data Modelling
9 44 (16.79%) DevOps
10 39 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
13 35 (13.36%) Agile
14 31 (11.83%) Software Engineering
15 29 (11.07%) Data Engineering
16 28 (10.69%) Change Control
17 26 (9.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 228 (87.02%) SQL
2 86 (32.82%) PowerShell
3 58 (22.14%) Bash
4 50 (19.08%) Python
5 42 (16.03%) C#
6 12 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (4.20%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.91%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.53%) Java
10 3 (1.15%) PHP
11 2 (0.76%) Bicep
11 2 (0.76%) Scala
11 2 (0.76%) VBA
12 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (12.21%) Degree
2 15 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.44%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.53%) ACCA
4 4 (1.53%) CIMA
4 4 (1.53%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.76%) MCSE
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) MCITP
7 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (22.14%) NCSC
1 58 (22.14%) NIST
2 37 (14.12%) Data Quality
3 35 (13.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.20%) QA
5 8 (3.05%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 70 (26.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.53%) Docker
3 2 (0.76%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 87 (33.21%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.31%) Databricks
3 14 (5.34%) Oracle
4 13 (4.96%) Sage
5 12 (4.58%) Xamarin
6 9 (3.44%) ConnectWise
6 9 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.44%) WooCommerce
7 5 (1.91%) Google
7 5 (1.91%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.91%) Zoho
8 4 (1.53%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.53%) RedGate
9 3 (1.15%) Informatica
9 3 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.15%) Talend
10 2 (0.76%) Citrix
10 2 (0.76%) VMware
11 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.38%) Foundry