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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 384 334
Rank change year-on-year -208 -50 -112
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 201 346 658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.69% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 2.53% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 172 275 452
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,366 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £82,500 £83,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year - +3.96% -3.81%

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 18,547 13,660 24,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.87% 27.26% 30.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,191 8,941 16,585
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -200 191 £59,000 +2.61% 78
UK excluding London -208 136 £52,500 - 56
Work from Home -80 88 £62,500 +19.05% 37
London -83 55 £70,000 -5.72% 34
South East -30 49 £53,750 +13.16% 19
North of England -111 31 £47,500 -20.83% 16
East of England -21 18 £62,500 +51.52% 6
North West -12 17 £47,500 -17.39% 11
Midlands -74 16 £50,000 +3.09% 10
South West -78 16 £52,500 +5.00% 4
Yorkshire -70 13 £51,250 -14.58% 4
West Midlands -42 11 £50,000 -13.04% 7
Scotland -5 6 £85,000 +78.95%
East Midlands -50 5 £59,732 +23.16% 3
North East -67 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 (6.97%) IIS
2 12 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.99%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.49%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.49%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.99%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.99%) JDE World
4 3 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
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
6 1 (0.50%) Magento
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 116 (57.71%) Azure
2 65 (32.34%) Power Platform
3 40 (19.90%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.45%) AWS
5 17 (8.46%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (7.96%) Power Automate
7 14 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (6.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (6.47%) SaaS
9 12 (5.97%) PowerApps
10 10 (4.98%) GitHub
11 9 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.48%) Serverless
12 8 (3.98%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.98%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.49%) Azure Functions
13 5 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.99%) GCP
14 4 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Firewall
2 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 3 (1.49%) VLAN
3 2 (1.00%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (66.17%) SQL Server
2 53 (26.37%) Power BI
3 51 (25.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 39 (19.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (7.46%) Power Query
7 11 (5.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (3.98%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.98%) Star Schema
9 7 (3.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.99%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.99%) Db2
11 4 (1.99%) Metadata
11 4 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.99%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 27 (13.43%) Git
2 15 (7.46%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.98%) JIRA
5 2 (1.00%) Postman
5 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 60 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 49 (24.38%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.42%) Finance
4 20 (9.95%) Law
5 15 (7.46%) Legal
6 8 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.99%) Retail
10 3 (1.49%) Back Office
10 3 (1.49%) Billing
10 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.00%) Automotive
11 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.50%) Police
12 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 97 (48.26%) Developer
2 37 (18.41%) Senior
3 24 (11.94%) Analyst
4 23 (11.44%) .NET Developer
4 23 (11.44%) SQL Developer
5 19 (9.45%) Software Developer
6 18 (8.96%) DBA
6 18 (8.96%) Senior Developer
7 17 (8.46%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.46%) SQL DBA
8 15 (7.46%) SQL Server DBA
9 13 (6.47%) Applications Support
10 11 (5.47%) Lead
11 10 (4.98%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.98%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.98%) Software Support Engineer
14 7 (3.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 7 (3.48%) 3rd Line Support
14 7 (3.48%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (33.83%) .NET
2 17 (8.46%) REST
3 14 (6.97%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.97%) ASP.NET
3 14 (6.97%) HTML
4 13 (6.47%) .NET Framework
4 13 (6.47%) CSS
5 11 (5.47%) JSON
5 11 (5.47%) SOAP
6 9 (4.48%) Entity Framework
6 9 (4.48%) Kafka
6 9 (4.48%) WinForms
6 9 (4.48%) XML
7 8 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (3.98%) Blazor
7 8 (3.98%) PySpark
8 7 (3.48%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.48%) jQuery
8 7 (3.48%) React
8 7 (3.48%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.44%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (4.98%) Replication
4 10 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.48%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.99%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.49%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.99%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.99%) NHS
10 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.49%) LIMS
10 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.00%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.45%) Windows
2 10 (4.98%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.00%) Linux
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.32%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (27.86%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (26.37%) Performance Tuning
4 52 (25.87%) DevOps
5 41 (20.40%) CI/CD
6 40 (19.90%) ETL
7 35 (17.41%) Agile
7 35 (17.41%) Data Modelling
8 33 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (12.44%) Analytics
10 20 (9.95%) SDLC
11 19 (9.45%) AI
11 19 (9.45%) Secure Coding
12 18 (8.96%) Root Cause Analysis
13 17 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (8.46%) Software Engineering
13 17 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (7.96%) Clean Code
14 16 (7.96%) Roadmaps
14 16 (7.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 200 (99.50%) SQL
2 69 (34.33%) C#
3 37 (18.41%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.42%) Python
5 21 (10.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.96%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.47%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.48%) VBScript
9 8 (3.98%) VBA
10 6 (2.99%) Delphi
10 6 (2.99%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.49%) Bash
12 3 (1.49%) XPath
13 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 2 (1.00%) Java
13 2 (1.00%) R
13 2 (1.00%) VB
14 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (7.46%) Degree
2 5 (2.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.99%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.42%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.96%) QA
3 11 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.99%) SLA
5 5 (2.49%) NIST
6 3 (1.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.96%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.49%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 80 (39.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.97%) Oracle
3 9 (4.48%) iManage
4 8 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.48%) SAP
6 6 (2.99%) Infor
6 6 (2.99%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.49%) Databricks
7 5 (2.49%) IFS
7 5 (2.49%) RedGate
7 5 (2.49%) Remedy
8 4 (1.99%) Epicor
8 4 (1.99%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.49%) Google
9 3 (1.49%) Intapp
9 3 (1.49%) Veeam
9 3 (1.49%) VMware
10 2 (1.00%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.00%) Rollbar