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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 378 264
Rank change year-on-year -155 -114 -20
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 228 351 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.73% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 2.45% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 167 280 841
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,658 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £44,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £51,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.62% -6.59% +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 17,559 14,353 32,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.01% 29.82% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,476 9,554 24,537
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%

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 8 July 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 16 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 8 July 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 -170 202 £52,500 -8.70% 69
UK excluding London -118 162 £49,000 -4.62% 56
Work from Home -17 124 £52,500 -4.55% 47
London -77 58 £70,000 - 24
South East -25 45 £52,500 +16.67% 19
North of England -79 35 £47,500 -20.83% 19
Midlands -57 25 £45,000 -7.22% 6
Scotland +24 22 - - 4
North West -9 22 £53,750 - 12
South West -54 21 £48,750 - 5
West Midlands -23 17 £44,000 -23.48% 3
East of England -38 13 £62,500 +48.81% 5
Yorkshire -61 11 £45,000 -25.00% 6
East Midlands -50 8 £59,000 +24.21% 3
North East -49 2 £45,500 -17.27% 1
Northern Ireland -59 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 20 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.14%) IIS
3 7 (3.07%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) JBoss
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.07%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.63%) Infor M3
4 5 (2.19%) Magento
4 5 (2.19%) Shopify
5 4 (1.75%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.75%) JDE World
5 4 (1.75%) NetSuite
6 3 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.88%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.88%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.44%) FastStats
8 1 (0.44%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 146 (64.04%) Azure
2 67 (29.39%) Power Platform
3 50 (21.93%) Entra ID
4 39 (17.11%) Google Workspace
5 26 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.65%) SaaS
7 21 (9.21%) AWS
8 20 (8.77%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (7.02%) Power Automate
11 14 (6.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (5.26%) PowerApps
14 9 (3.95%) GitHub
15 8 (3.51%) Serverless
16 7 (3.07%) Snowflake
17 5 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 5 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
18 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
18 4 (1.75%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.79%) Broadband
2 4 (1.75%) Firewall
3 3 (1.32%) DNS
3 3 (1.32%) VLAN
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (52.63%) SQL Server
2 55 (24.12%) Power BI
3 49 (21.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 48 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.58%) Power Query
7 14 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (4.82%) MySQL
9 11 (4.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.51%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.19%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.19%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.88%) Metadata
13 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.88%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 22 (9.65%) Git
2 14 (6.14%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.26%) JIRA
4 10 (4.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.88%) Postman
5 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 75 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (18.86%) Organisational Skills
4 30 (13.16%) Finance
5 20 (8.77%) Law
6 19 (8.33%) Games
7 10 (4.39%) Legal
8 7 (3.07%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.63%) Back Office
9 6 (2.63%) Retail
10 5 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Marketing
11 4 (1.75%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.32%) Billing
12 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.88%) Automotive
13 2 (0.88%) Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Advertising
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (37.28%) Developer
2 47 (20.61%) Senior
3 43 (18.86%) Analyst
4 20 (8.77%) Applications Support
5 17 (7.46%) Data Analyst
5 17 (7.46%) Senior Developer
5 17 (7.46%) Software Developer
5 17 (7.46%) SQL Developer
6 16 (7.02%) Applications Support Analyst
6 16 (7.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 15 (6.58%) DBA
7 15 (6.58%) IAM Developer
7 15 (6.58%) Support Analyst
7 15 (6.58%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (6.14%) .NET Developer
8 14 (6.14%) Data Engineer
9 13 (5.70%) SQL DBA
10 12 (5.26%) SQL Analyst
11 10 (4.39%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (4.39%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.00%) .NET
2 51 (22.37%) REST
3 45 (19.74%) SOAP
4 39 (17.11%) GraphQL
4 39 (17.11%) LDAP
4 39 (17.11%) OAuth
4 39 (17.11%) OpenID
4 39 (17.11%) SAML
5 17 (7.46%) HTML
5 17 (7.46%) JSON
6 16 (7.02%) ASP.NET
6 16 (7.02%) CSS
7 14 (6.14%) XML
8 13 (5.70%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.95%) Blazor
9 9 (3.95%) Kafka
9 9 (3.95%) React
10 8 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (3.07%) .NET Framework
11 7 (3.07%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.79%) Cyber Threat
1 36 (15.79%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.14%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (4.82%) Replication
6 9 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.19%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.19%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.75%) Clustering
8 4 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.32%) LIMS
9 3 (1.32%) NHS
9 3 (1.32%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.58%) Windows
2 9 (3.95%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (26.75%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (22.37%) Roadmaps
4 49 (21.49%) Mentoring
4 49 (21.49%) Performance Tuning
5 42 (18.42%) Data Modelling
6 39 (17.11%) Cybersecurity
6 39 (17.11%) Identity Access Management
7 37 (16.23%) DevOps
7 37 (16.23%) ETL
8 36 (15.79%) Programme Delivery
8 36 (15.79%) Regulatory Compliance
9 35 (15.35%) Agile
9 35 (15.35%) CI/CD
10 31 (13.60%) Analytics
11 30 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (10.53%) Validation
13 21 (9.21%) Change Control
14 18 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 209 (91.67%) SQL
2 72 (31.58%) PowerShell
3 58 (25.44%) C#
4 39 (17.11%) Bash
5 38 (16.67%) Python
6 22 (9.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (7.46%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.82%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.95%) VBScript
10 7 (3.07%) VBA
11 6 (2.63%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.75%) Java
12 4 (1.75%) R
13 3 (1.32%) Delphi
13 3 (1.32%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.88%) VB
15 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (7.89%) Degree
2 3 (1.32%) DBS Check
2 3 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (17.11%) NIST
2 36 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (15.79%) NCSC
3 34 (14.91%) Data Quality
4 17 (7.46%) QA
5 5 (2.19%) SLA
6 4 (1.75%) GDPR
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.44%) HL7
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (25.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Docker
3 3 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.75%) Terraform
2 3 (1.32%) ZABBIX
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.44%) SCCM
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 78 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.51%) iManage
2 8 (3.51%) Oracle
2 8 (3.51%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.07%) SAP
4 6 (2.63%) Databricks
4 6 (2.63%) IFS
4 6 (2.63%) Infor
5 5 (2.19%) JD Edwards
5 5 (2.19%) WooCommerce
6 4 (1.75%) ConnectWise
6 4 (1.75%) Epicor
6 4 (1.75%) RedGate
6 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.32%) Google
7 3 (1.32%) Remedy
7 3 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.32%) Veeam
7 3 (1.32%) VMware