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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 343 240
Rank change year-on-year -158 -103 +36
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 218 359 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.82% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 2.56% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 137 283 949
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +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 15,961 14,044 32,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 32.11% 33.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,944 9,978 24,982
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 12 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 12 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 -172 178 £48,500 -15.65% 81
UK excluding London -81 168 £47,500 -5.00% 64
Work from Home -5 132 £46,250 -17.41% 43
London -91 47 £70,000 +3.70% 21
North of England -70 36 £47,500 -20.83% 22
Scotland +29 35 - - 3
Midlands -47 35 £50,000 - 7
South East -17 28 £44,000 -9.74% 22
West Midlands -25 19 £44,000 -23.48% 4
South West -43 18 £42,500 +6.25% 4
Yorkshire -80 18 £44,000 -26.67% 10
North West -11 17 £53,750 +7.50% 10
East Midlands -47 16 £59,732 +23.16% 3
East of England -35 12 £62,500 +48.81% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -40 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 (6.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.67%) IIS
4 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.38%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.92%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) JBoss
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.59%) Dynamics NAV
1 10 (4.59%) Magento
1 10 (4.59%) Shopify
2 9 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.75%) Infor M3
4 4 (1.83%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.83%) JDE World
4 4 (1.83%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.92%) 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
1 125 (57.34%) Azure
2 62 (28.44%) Entra ID
3 55 (25.23%) Power Platform
4 52 (23.85%) Google Workspace
5 21 (9.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (8.72%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (7.80%) AWS
9 14 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (6.42%) Power Automate
10 13 (5.96%) PowerApps
11 11 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (5.05%) SaaS
12 10 (4.59%) Snowflake
13 8 (3.67%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.67%) GitHub
14 5 (2.29%) Serverless
15 4 (1.83%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.83%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 52 (23.85%) Broadband
2 3 (1.38%) DNS
2 3 (1.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.92%) VLAN
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
1 109 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 53 (24.31%) Power BI
3 40 (18.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 36 (16.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (10.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.42%) Power Query
7 13 (5.96%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.59%) MySQL
9 9 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.13%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.67%) Metadata
11 4 (1.83%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.92%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 18 (8.26%) JIRA
2 9 (4.13%) Git
3 6 (2.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 91 (41.74%) Social Skills
2 56 (25.69%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (20.64%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.06%) Games
5 34 (15.60%) Finance
6 16 (7.34%) Law
7 10 (4.59%) Back Office
8 9 (4.13%) Legal
9 6 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.29%) Retail
11 4 (1.83%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.38%) Marketing
13 2 (0.92%) Automotive
13 2 (0.92%) Billing
14 1 (0.46%) Advertising
14 1 (0.46%) Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 62 (28.44%) Developer
2 53 (24.31%) Senior
3 52 (23.85%) Analyst
4 24 (11.01%) Support Analyst
5 22 (10.09%) Applications Support
6 21 (9.63%) Applications Support Analyst
6 21 (9.63%) Senior Developer
7 18 (8.26%) IAM Developer
8 16 (7.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (7.34%) Data Analyst
8 16 (7.34%) DBA
8 16 (7.34%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (6.42%) SQL DBA
10 13 (5.96%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.50%) SQL Analyst
12 11 (5.05%) C# Developer
12 11 (5.05%) Database Engineer
13 9 (4.13%) Lead
13 9 (4.13%) Senior Architect
13 9 (4.13%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (30.28%) REST
2 63 (28.90%) SOAP
3 53 (24.31%) OAuth
3 53 (24.31%) OpenID
4 52 (23.85%) GraphQL
4 52 (23.85%) LDAP
4 52 (23.85%) SAML
5 38 (17.43%) .NET
6 12 (5.50%) .NET Core
6 12 (5.50%) ASP.NET
6 12 (5.50%) CSS
6 12 (5.50%) HTML
7 10 (4.59%) JSON
7 10 (4.59%) XML
8 9 (4.13%) Middleware
9 8 (3.67%) Kafka
9 8 (3.67%) PySpark
9 8 (3.67%) React
10 6 (2.75%) DirectX
10 6 (2.75%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.85%) Cyber Threat
1 52 (23.85%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.96%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.59%) Replication
4 9 (4.13%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.21%) Clustering
7 6 (2.75%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.75%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.83%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.83%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.38%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.50%) Windows
2 7 (3.21%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.29%) Linux
3 5 (2.29%) VMS
4 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (30.28%) Mentoring
2 60 (27.52%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (27.52%) Roadmaps
3 52 (23.85%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (23.85%) Identity Access Management
3 52 (23.85%) Programme Delivery
3 52 (23.85%) Regulatory Compliance
4 45 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (19.72%) Data Modelling
6 39 (17.89%) Analytics
7 34 (15.60%) Performance Tuning
8 31 (14.22%) ETL
9 30 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (12.39%) Change Control
10 27 (12.39%) DevOps
11 25 (11.47%) Agile
11 25 (11.47%) CI/CD
12 24 (11.01%) Decision-Making
13 20 (9.17%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 188 (86.24%) SQL
2 76 (34.86%) PowerShell
3 52 (23.85%) Bash
4 44 (20.18%) Python
5 39 (17.89%) C#
6 22 (10.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (3.67%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.21%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.21%) VBA
9 6 (2.75%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.29%) VBScript
11 4 (1.83%) Java
11 4 (1.83%) R
12 2 (0.92%) Bicep
12 2 (0.92%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) Delphi
13 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (8.72%) Degree
2 6 (2.75%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.92%) 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 (23.85%) NCSC
1 52 (23.85%) NIST
2 38 (17.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (16.51%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.13%) QA
5 6 (2.75%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) HL7
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (31.19%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.83%) Docker
3 2 (0.92%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (3.21%) Terraform
2 5 (2.29%) 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 (30.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.42%) Databricks
3 10 (4.59%) Oracle
3 10 (4.59%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.13%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.13%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.75%) IFS
5 6 (2.75%) iManage
5 6 (2.75%) Infor
6 5 (2.29%) SAP
7 4 (1.83%) Epicor
7 4 (1.83%) JD Edwards
7 4 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.83%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.38%) RedGate
8 3 (1.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Intapp
9 2 (0.92%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.92%) Veeam
9 2 (0.92%) VMware