T-SQL Job Trends

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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 306 221
Rank change year-on-year -108 -85 +5
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 250 576 809
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.86% 1.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.10% 2.64% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 207 353 725
10th Percentile £30,875 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,100 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,250 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -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 11,929 21,782 20,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 32.42% 40.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,632 13,039 17,227
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,568
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 November 2025.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 19 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 November 2025. 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 -101 224 £51,000 +2.00% 84
UK excluding London -34 174 £49,250 +3.68% 82
Work from Home -60 92 £50,000 - 51
London -74 66 £80,000 +32.23% 22
Midlands +21 50 £46,250 +2.78% 10
South East +20 46 £42,500 -14.10% 22
North of England +9 36 £45,000 -5.76% 16
West Midlands +35 28 £42,500 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire +12 27 £40,000 -16.23% 8
East Midlands +21 22 £49,250 +6.49% 4
South West +11 18 £50,000 -6.98% 16
Scotland +1 13 £37,500 -17.58% 9
North East +19 5 £52,500 -10.26%
East of England -22 5 £50,000 +2.56% 5
North West +5 4 £57,500 +17.95% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £50,000 - 1
Wales +11 1 £35,000 -18.13% 3
Isle of Man +10 1 - -
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 17 (6.80%) IIS
2 9 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.20%) CMS
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.80%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 27 (10.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.80%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.80%) Sage 1000
1 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 135 (54.00%) Azure
2 65 (26.00%) Power Platform
3 48 (19.20%) Azure Data Factory
4 47 (18.80%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (7.60%) Snowflake
7 18 (7.20%) AWS
8 17 (6.80%) GCP
9 15 (6.00%) GitHub
10 13 (5.20%) SaaS
11 12 (4.80%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (4.80%) Entra ID
12 10 (4.00%) PowerApps
13 8 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.40%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.40%) Google Workspace
14 6 (2.40%) Serverless
15 5 (2.00%) dbt
15 5 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.40%) Broadband
2 3 (1.20%) DNS
3 2 (0.80%) DHCP
3 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.80%) Firewall
3 2 (0.80%) SSL
3 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.80%) VLAN
3 2 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (52.40%) SQL Server
2 67 (26.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 64 (25.60%) Power BI
4 60 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 35 (14.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (13.60%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (12.00%) Data Lake
8 29 (11.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 13 (5.20%) Metadata
10 11 (4.40%) MySQL
10 11 (4.40%) NoSQL
10 11 (4.40%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.80%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.80%) OLAP
13 6 (2.40%) Data Mining
14 5 (2.00%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.00%) RDBMS
14 5 (2.00%) Tableau
15 4 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (8.40%) Git
2 8 (3.20%) JIRA
2 8 (3.20%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (2.40%) Bitbucket
3 6 (2.40%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (2.40%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.40%) Mercurial
General
1 93 (37.20%) Social Skills
2 61 (24.40%) Finance
3 47 (18.80%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.80%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.40%) Games
5 11 (4.40%) Law
6 9 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.60%) Legal
6 9 (3.60%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.60%) Retail
7 8 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.40%) Back Office
10 5 (2.00%) Automotive
11 4 (1.60%) Billing
12 3 (1.20%) Advertising
12 3 (1.20%) Front Office
12 3 (1.20%) Marketing
13 2 (0.80%) Banking
13 2 (0.80%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (33.20%) Developer
2 53 (21.20%) Senior
3 44 (17.60%) Data Engineer
4 41 (16.40%) Analyst
5 31 (12.40%) SQL Developer
6 27 (10.80%) DBA
7 26 (10.40%) Applications Support
8 24 (9.60%) SQL DBA
8 24 (9.60%) Support Analyst
9 22 (8.80%) Applications Support Analyst
10 21 (8.40%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (8.40%) Software Engineer
11 20 (8.00%) Senior Developer
12 15 (6.00%) IT Support
13 14 (5.60%) Administrator
13 14 (5.60%) Support Engineer
14 13 (5.20%) IT Engineer
14 13 (5.20%) IT Support Engineer
15 12 (4.80%) Software Support Engineer
16 10 (4.00%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.40%) .NET
2 24 (9.60%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.80%) CSS
4 21 (8.40%) HTML
4 21 (8.40%) REST
5 20 (8.00%) ASP.NET
6 19 (7.60%) Entity Framework
7 15 (6.00%) PySpark
8 13 (5.20%) .NET Core
9 12 (4.80%) SOAP
9 12 (4.80%) WinForms
10 11 (4.40%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.40%) JSON
10 11 (4.40%) Web Services
11 10 (4.00%) XML
12 8 (3.20%) React
13 7 (2.80%) OAuth
13 7 (2.80%) OpenID
14 6 (2.40%) GraphQL
14 6 (2.40%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.80%) Data Structures
2 14 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.00%) Clustering
5 6 (2.40%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.40%) Cyberattack
5 6 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.00%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.20%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.80%) Derivative
9 2 (0.80%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.80%) Windows
2 8 (3.20%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.00%) Linux
4 3 (1.20%) VMS
5 2 (0.80%) Android
5 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (32.40%) Business Intelligence
2 76 (30.40%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (27.60%) ETL
4 68 (27.20%) DevOps
5 47 (18.80%) Data Pipeline
6 45 (18.00%) Analytics
7 43 (17.20%) Agile
8 37 (14.80%) Data Modelling
8 37 (14.80%) Software Engineering
9 36 (14.40%) CI/CD
9 36 (14.40%) Data Engineering
10 30 (12.00%) Decision-Making
11 23 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (9.20%) Mentoring
12 21 (8.40%) Dimensional Modelling
12 21 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (7.60%) Machine Learning
15 18 (7.20%) AI
15 18 (7.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 240 (96.00%) SQL
2 55 (22.00%) C#
2 55 (22.00%) Python
3 25 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 24 (9.60%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.00%) PL/SQL
6 13 (5.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.40%) Bash
8 5 (2.00%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.60%) Java
10 3 (1.20%) Bicep
10 3 (1.20%) PHP
10 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.20%) VBA
11 2 (0.80%) C++
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) Dart
12 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (14.40%) Degree
2 16 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.60%) ACCA
5 4 (1.60%) CIMA
5 4 (1.60%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.20%) MCSE
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) MCITP
7 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.20%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.00%) QA
3 9 (3.60%) GDPR
4 6 (2.40%) NCSC
4 6 (2.40%) NIST
5 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.20%) Docker
3 4 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.00%) Terraform
3 2 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 91 (36.40%) Microsoft
2 43 (17.20%) Databricks
3 19 (7.60%) Oracle
4 15 (6.00%) Sage
5 12 (4.80%) Xamarin
6 9 (3.60%) RedGate
7 7 (2.80%) Google
8 5 (2.00%) Informatica
8 5 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.00%) Talend
8 5 (2.00%) Zoho
9 4 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.60%) Dataiku
9 4 (1.60%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.60%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.60%) VMware
10 2 (0.80%) Aderant
10 2 (0.80%) iManage
10 2 (0.80%) Intapp
10 2 (0.80%) Lotus