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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 360 243
Rank change year-on-year -150 -117 +25
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 222 332 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.78% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 2.51% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 140 260 943
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,504
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,875 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,063 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +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 16,249 13,241 32,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.51% 31.11% 33.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 8,910 25,001
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 26 May 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 26 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 -170 181 £48,500 -15.65% 81
UK excluding London -82 166 £47,500 -9.52% 60
Work from Home +1 136 £47,500 -15.18% 40
London -86 50 £65,000 -5.80% 22
North of England -71 36 £47,500 -20.83% 19
Scotland +28 35 - - 2
South East -14 32 £44,000 -2.22% 20
Midlands -62 29 £46,750 -3.61% 6
North West -10 20 £53,750 +10.26% 9
West Midlands -45 19 £44,000 -23.48% 5
South West -59 19 £42,500 -2.86% 8
Yorkshire -78 15 £45,000 -25.00% 8
East of England -37 12 £62,500 +51.52% 6
East Midlands -53 10 £53,750 +13.16% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -45 1 £43,500 -24.35% 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 17 (7.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.95%) IIS
3 8 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.35%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.35%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.90%) Confluence
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (7.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.95%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (4.50%) Magento
2 10 (4.50%) Shopify
3 9 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (2.70%) Infor M3
5 4 (1.80%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.80%) JDE World
5 4 (1.80%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.90%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 133 (59.91%) Azure
2 61 (27.48%) Entra ID
3 58 (26.13%) Power Platform
4 52 (23.42%) Google Workspace
5 22 (9.91%) AWS
6 20 (9.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (9.01%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (8.56%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (6.76%) Power Automate
8 15 (6.76%) SaaS
9 14 (6.31%) PowerApps
10 12 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.41%) GitHub
11 11 (4.95%) Snowflake
12 10 (4.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (3.15%) Serverless
15 5 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 52 (23.42%) Broadband
2 3 (1.35%) Firewall
3 2 (0.90%) DNS
3 2 (0.90%) VLAN
4 1 (0.45%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) LAN
4 1 (0.45%) Network Security
4 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
4 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 55 (24.77%) Power BI
3 45 (20.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 38 (17.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (9.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.31%) Power Query
7 11 (4.95%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.50%) MySQL
8 10 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (4.50%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (3.15%) Metadata
11 4 (1.80%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 18 (8.11%) JIRA
2 11 (4.95%) Git
3 7 (3.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.70%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 88 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 56 (25.23%) Organisational Skills
3 44 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (16.22%) Finance
5 29 (13.06%) Games
6 17 (7.66%) Law
7 11 (4.95%) Legal
8 10 (4.50%) Back Office
9 6 (2.70%) Retail
10 5 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.25%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.35%) Billing
11 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.35%) Marketing
11 3 (1.35%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.90%) Automotive
12 2 (0.90%) Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 67 (30.18%) Developer
2 51 (22.97%) Analyst
2 51 (22.97%) Senior
3 23 (10.36%) Support Analyst
4 22 (9.91%) Applications Support
5 20 (9.01%) Applications Support Analyst
6 18 (8.11%) IAM Developer
7 17 (7.66%) Senior Developer
8 16 (7.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (7.21%) Data Analyst
8 16 (7.21%) DBA
8 16 (7.21%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (6.31%) SQL DBA
10 13 (5.86%) Database Engineer
10 13 (5.86%) Software Developer
11 12 (5.41%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.41%) SQL Analyst
12 11 (4.95%) SQL Developer
13 9 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
13 9 (4.05%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (30.18%) REST
2 63 (28.38%) SOAP
3 52 (23.42%) GraphQL
3 52 (23.42%) LDAP
3 52 (23.42%) OAuth
3 52 (23.42%) OpenID
3 52 (23.42%) SAML
4 39 (17.57%) .NET
5 14 (6.31%) ASP.NET
6 13 (5.86%) CSS
6 13 (5.86%) HTML
7 11 (4.95%) JSON
7 11 (4.95%) XML
8 9 (4.05%) Kafka
8 9 (4.05%) Middleware
9 8 (3.60%) .NET Core
9 8 (3.60%) React
10 6 (2.70%) Blazor
10 6 (2.70%) PySpark
11 5 (2.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.42%) Cyber Threat
1 52 (23.42%) Cyberattack
2 12 (5.41%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.41%) Replication
3 10 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.50%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.15%) Clustering
5 7 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.70%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.80%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.35%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.35%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.86%) Windows
2 8 (3.60%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (2.25%) Linux
5 4 (1.80%) VMS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.73%) Mentoring
2 62 (27.93%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (27.48%) Roadmaps
4 52 (23.42%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (23.42%) Identity Access Management
4 52 (23.42%) Programme Delivery
4 52 (23.42%) Regulatory Compliance
5 48 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (18.92%) Data Modelling
6 42 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
7 37 (16.67%) Analytics
8 33 (14.86%) ETL
9 32 (14.41%) CI/CD
10 30 (13.51%) Agile
10 30 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (13.06%) Change Control
12 28 (12.61%) DevOps
12 28 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (10.36%) Decision-Making
14 20 (9.01%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 193 (86.94%) SQL
2 78 (35.14%) PowerShell
3 52 (23.42%) Bash
4 45 (20.27%) Python
5 40 (18.02%) C#
6 21 (9.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (4.50%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.60%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.60%) VBA
9 7 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.15%) VBScript
10 4 (1.80%) Java
10 4 (1.80%) R
11 2 (0.90%) Bicep
12 1 (0.45%) Delphi
12 1 (0.45%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (9.91%) Degree
2 6 (2.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (23.42%) NCSC
1 52 (23.42%) NIST
2 40 (18.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (17.12%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.05%) QA
5 5 (2.25%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) HL7
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (31.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.80%) Docker
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (2.70%) Terraform
2 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.45%) SCCM
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 72 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.41%) Databricks
3 10 (4.50%) Oracle
3 10 (4.50%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.50%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.05%) ConnectWise
5 8 (3.60%) iManage
6 6 (2.70%) IFS
6 6 (2.70%) Infor
7 5 (2.25%) SAP
8 4 (1.80%) Epicor
8 4 (1.80%) JD Edwards
8 4 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.80%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.35%) RedGate
9 3 (1.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Intapp
10 2 (0.90%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.90%) Veeam
10 2 (0.90%) VMware