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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 334 209
Rank change year-on-year -117 -125 +65
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 240 378 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.86% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.82% 2.48% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 155 265 1,028
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% -0.36%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +10.00%

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 13,176 15,212 29,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.10% 34.64% 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,255 10,302 24,196
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,096
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -122 189 £47,500 -15.18% 106
UK excluding London -34 187 £42,500 -10.53% 98
Work from Home -30 129 £42,500 -24.11% 47
London -95 50 £70,000 +11.11% 26
Midlands -17 45 £47,500 +9.20% 18
Scotland +18 43 - - 9
South East -27 36 £35,000 -29.63% 20
North of England -42 34 £50,000 -4.76% 16
West Midlands +11 28 £42,500 -10.53% 10
Yorkshire -45 22 £37,500 -31.82% 4
South West -27 18 £42,500 +14.86% 27
East Midlands -39 17 £50,000 +16.28% 8
North West -21 9 £57,500 +15.00% 10
East of England -30 5 £42,175 -11.21% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -21 3 £51,000 -32.00% 2
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 15 (6.25%) IIS
2 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.67%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.67%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.25%) CMS
5 3 (1.25%) Confluence
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.83%) WordPress
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.17%) Magento
1 10 (4.17%) Shopify
2 9 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.75%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 144 (60.00%) Azure
2 67 (27.92%) Entra ID
3 57 (23.75%) Google Workspace
4 43 (17.92%) Power Platform
5 30 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 30 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (8.33%) SaaS
7 17 (7.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (7.08%) GitHub
8 16 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (5.83%) AWS
9 14 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (4.58%) PowerApps
11 10 (4.17%) Snowflake
12 9 (3.75%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.50%) GCP
15 5 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
17 3 (1.25%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 57 (23.75%) Broadband
2 3 (1.25%) DNS
3 2 (0.83%) DHCP
3 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.83%) Firewall
3 2 (0.83%) SSL
3 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.83%) VLAN
3 2 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (46.67%) SQL Server
2 46 (19.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 42 (17.50%) Power BI
4 35 (14.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (10.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (8.33%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.83%) MySQL
8 13 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (5.42%) Metadata
9 12 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.92%) Power Query
12 5 (2.08%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.25%) GIS
13 3 (1.25%) Tableau
14 2 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.83%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
15 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 18 (7.50%) JIRA
2 12 (5.00%) Git
3 5 (2.08%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.25%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (42.08%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.75%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.83%) Games
5 35 (14.58%) Finance
6 13 (5.42%) Back Office
7 9 (3.75%) Law
8 5 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.67%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.25%) Banking
10 3 (1.25%) Legal
10 3 (1.25%) Marketing
11 2 (0.83%) Front Office
11 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.83%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 60 (25.00%) Senior
2 55 (22.92%) Developer
3 50 (20.83%) Analyst
4 35 (14.58%) Support Analyst
5 32 (13.33%) Applications Support
6 31 (12.92%) Applications Support Analyst
7 26 (10.83%) Data Engineer
8 22 (9.17%) IAM Developer
8 22 (9.17%) Senior Developer
9 20 (8.33%) DBA
10 19 (7.92%) Software Engineer
11 18 (7.50%) SQL DBA
12 16 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (5.42%) IT Support
13 13 (5.42%) SQL Developer
14 12 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 12 (5.00%) C# Developer
14 12 (5.00%) IT Engineer
14 12 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
14 12 (5.00%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (31.67%) REST
2 70 (29.17%) SOAP
3 58 (24.17%) OAuth
3 58 (24.17%) OpenID
4 57 (23.75%) GraphQL
4 57 (23.75%) LDAP
4 57 (23.75%) SAML
5 38 (15.83%) .NET
6 15 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 15 (6.25%) JSON
6 15 (6.25%) XML
7 13 (5.42%) ASP.NET
7 13 (5.42%) Entity Framework
8 12 (5.00%) WinForms
9 9 (3.75%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.75%) CSS
9 9 (3.75%) HTML
9 9 (3.75%) Middleware
10 6 (2.50%) OpenGL
10 6 (2.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.75%) Cyber Threat
1 57 (23.75%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.50%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.33%) Clustering
5 8 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.50%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.50%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.67%) Replication
9 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.25%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.83%) Derivative
10 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.17%) Windows
2 9 (3.75%) Linux
3 6 (2.50%) VMS
3 6 (2.50%) 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 2019
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.92%) Mentoring
2 65 (27.08%) Roadmaps
3 57 (23.75%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (23.75%) Identity Access Management
3 57 (23.75%) Programme Delivery
3 57 (23.75%) Regulatory Compliance
4 51 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (19.17%) Business Intelligence
6 43 (17.92%) DevOps
7 42 (17.50%) Analytics
8 41 (17.08%) Data Modelling
9 36 (15.00%) ETL
10 35 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 29 (12.08%) Agile
13 29 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (11.67%) Change Control
14 28 (11.67%) CI/CD
15 26 (10.83%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 207 (86.25%) SQL
2 85 (35.42%) PowerShell
3 57 (23.75%) Bash
4 46 (19.17%) Python
5 42 (17.50%) C#
6 13 (5.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (4.17%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.33%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.67%) Java
11 2 (0.83%) Bicep
11 2 (0.83%) PHP
11 2 (0.83%) R
11 2 (0.83%) Scala
11 2 (0.83%) VBA
12 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (13.75%) Degree
2 14 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.75%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.25%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.83%) MCSE
6 1 (0.42%) ACCA
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.42%) CIMA
6 1 (0.42%) MCITP
6 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (23.75%) NCSC
1 57 (23.75%) NIST
2 39 (16.25%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.17%) QA
5 7 (2.92%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (28.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.67%) Docker
3 2 (0.83%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.33%) Terraform
2 6 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 76 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.17%) Databricks
3 12 (5.00%) Sage
3 12 (5.00%) Xamarin
4 10 (4.17%) Oracle
4 10 (4.17%) WooCommerce
5 9 (3.75%) ConnectWise
5 9 (3.75%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.08%) Google
6 5 (2.08%) Zoho
7 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.25%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.25%) RedGate
8 3 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Citrix
9 2 (0.83%) Informatica
9 2 (0.83%) Talend
9 2 (0.83%) VMware
10 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.42%) Siemens