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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 335 235
Rank change year-on-year -138 -100 +39
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 242 351 1,183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.85% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.61% 2.57% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 155 289 989
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,565 £37,059
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,625 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £49,479 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -10.04% +6.80%

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 15,040 13,664 32,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 33.17% 34.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,317 10,257 24,947
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £46,833 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +3.18% +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 April 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 April 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 -164 192 £48,625 -15.43% 94
UK excluding London -81 187 £47,500 -4.00% 74
Work from Home -31 135 £47,500 -15.18% 60
London -110 50 £63,750 -2.86% 32
Midlands -41 49 £48,500 - 13
Scotland +22 42 - - 8
North of England -79 33 £51,000 -15.00% 21
West Midlands -5 30 £42,500 -26.09% 5
South East -36 28 £42,500 -14.55% 23
East Midlands -67 19 £59,000 +24.21% 8
Yorkshire -80 19 £44,000 -26.67% 7
South West -45 18 £42,500 +6.25% 3
East of England -49 12 £62,500 +31.58% 6
North West -34 11 £60,000 +26.32% 14
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 -
North East -34 3 £51,000 -11.30%
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 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.31%) IIS
3 4 (1.65%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.65%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.24%) Confluence
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.83%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) WordPress
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.13%) Magento
1 10 (4.13%) Shopify
2 9 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.72%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (1.24%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.83%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.41%) JDE OneWorld
5 1 (0.41%) JDE World
5 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 144 (59.50%) Azure
2 67 (27.69%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.14%) Google Workspace
4 54 (22.31%) Power Platform
5 28 (11.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.02%) AWS
7 17 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (7.02%) SaaS
8 16 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (6.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (6.20%) GitHub
10 13 (5.37%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.96%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.31%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.65%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.14%) Broadband
2 3 (1.24%) DNS
2 3 (1.24%) Firewall
3 2 (0.83%) DHCP
3 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.83%) SSL
3 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.83%) VLAN
3 2 (0.83%) Wireless
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) Network Security
4 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (48.76%) SQL Server
2 52 (21.49%) Power BI
3 42 (17.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (16.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 30 (12.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (7.44%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.79%) Power Query
8 13 (5.37%) MySQL
9 12 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (4.96%) Metadata
10 11 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (4.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (3.72%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.65%) Star Schema
13 4 (1.65%) Tableau
14 3 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.83%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (7.85%) JIRA
2 12 (4.96%) Git
3 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.24%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.41%) Yeoman
General
1 94 (38.84%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.79%) Organisational Skills
3 49 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (16.53%) Finance
5 38 (15.70%) Games
6 14 (5.79%) Law
7 12 (4.96%) Back Office
8 7 (2.89%) Legal
9 6 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.07%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.65%) Retail
12 3 (1.24%) Banking
12 3 (1.24%) Marketing
13 2 (0.83%) Billing
13 2 (0.83%) Front Office
13 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.41%) Police
14 1 (0.41%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 62 (25.62%) Developer
2 56 (23.14%) Senior
3 55 (22.73%) Analyst
4 30 (12.40%) Support Analyst
5 28 (11.57%) Applications Support
6 27 (11.16%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.50%) DBA
7 23 (9.50%) Senior Developer
8 21 (8.68%) IAM Developer
8 21 (8.68%) SQL DBA
9 17 (7.02%) Data Engineer
10 16 (6.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 16 (6.61%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (5.37%) C# Developer
11 13 (5.37%) Data Analyst
11 13 (5.37%) SQL Developer
12 12 (4.96%) SQL Analyst
13 10 (4.13%) Architect
14 9 (3.72%) Administrator
14 9 (3.72%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (30.17%) REST
2 68 (28.10%) SOAP
3 57 (23.55%) OAuth
3 57 (23.55%) OpenID
4 56 (23.14%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.14%) LDAP
4 56 (23.14%) SAML
5 39 (16.12%) .NET
6 14 (5.79%) ASP.NET
7 13 (5.37%) XML
8 12 (4.96%) JSON
9 10 (4.13%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.72%) .NET Framework
10 9 (3.72%) CSS
10 9 (3.72%) HTML
10 9 (3.72%) Middleware
11 8 (3.31%) PySpark
12 7 (2.89%) Entity Framework
13 6 (2.48%) DirectX
13 6 (2.48%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.14%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.14%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.44%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.13%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.72%) Clustering
6 8 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.31%) Replication
7 6 (2.48%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.48%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.65%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.61%) Windows
2 9 (3.72%) Linux
3 7 (2.89%) VMS
3 7 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Android
4 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (28.10%) Mentoring
2 67 (27.69%) Roadmaps
3 59 (24.38%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (23.14%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (23.14%) Identity Access Management
4 56 (23.14%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (23.14%) Programme Delivery
4 56 (23.14%) Regulatory Compliance
5 46 (19.01%) Analytics
5 46 (19.01%) Data Modelling
6 39 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (15.70%) ETL
8 34 (14.05%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (13.64%) DevOps
9 33 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (11.98%) Agile
10 29 (11.98%) Decision-Making
11 28 (11.57%) Change Control
12 27 (11.16%) CI/CD
13 26 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 209 (86.36%) SQL
2 84 (34.71%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.14%) Bash
4 45 (18.60%) Python
5 41 (16.94%) C#
6 21 (8.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.89%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.48%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.07%) Java
9 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.65%) R
10 4 (1.65%) VBA
11 2 (0.83%) Bicep
11 2 (0.83%) Scala
11 2 (0.83%) VBScript
12 1 (0.41%) Delphi
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
12 1 (0.41%) VB
12 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (11.57%) Degree
2 7 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.48%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.83%) MCSE
6 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.41%) MCITP
6 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.14%) NCSC
1 56 (23.14%) NIST
2 42 (17.36%) Data Quality
3 37 (15.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.37%) QA
5 6 (2.48%) GDPR
6 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.83%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (28.93%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.07%) Docker
3 2 (0.83%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.89%) Terraform
2 5 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.41%) SCCM
3 1 (0.41%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 73 (30.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.26%) Databricks
3 10 (4.13%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.72%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.31%) Oracle
6 6 (2.48%) RedGate
7 4 (1.65%) Sage
7 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.65%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.65%) Xamarin
8 3 (1.24%) IFS
8 3 (1.24%) Infor
8 3 (1.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) iManage
9 2 (0.83%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.83%) SAP
9 2 (0.83%) Talend
9 2 (0.83%) VMware
9 2 (0.83%) Zoho