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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 371 278
Rank change year-on-year -175 -93 -39
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 220 355 978
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.72% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 2.46% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 171 282 780
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,918 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,188 £42,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,750 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% -6.36% +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 17,604 14,419 30,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.79% 29.35% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,591 9,580 22,957
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,195
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 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 17 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 17 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 -180 200 £52,500 -8.70% 57
UK excluding London -139 156 £49,750 -3.40% 46
Work from Home -47 115 £52,500 -4.55% 30
London -73 55 £70,000 - 19
South East -22 46 £52,500 +16.67% 16
North of England -66 35 £47,500 -20.83% 12
Midlands -66 23 £44,000 -9.28% 7
North West -6 22 £53,750 -6.52% 8
South West -52 19 £48,750 - 4
Scotland +13 16 - - 1
East of England -24 16 £62,500 +48.81% 5
West Midlands -28 16 £44,000 -23.48% 7
Yorkshire -68 11 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -40 7 £59,366 +24.98%
North East -62 2 £45,500 -13.33%
Northern Ireland -57 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.36%) IIS
3 7 (3.18%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.18%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.73%) Infor M3
4 5 (2.27%) Magento
4 5 (2.27%) NetSuite
4 5 (2.27%) Shopify
5 4 (1.82%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.82%) JDE World
5 4 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.91%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.91%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.45%) FastStats
7 1 (0.45%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 133 (60.45%) Azure
2 67 (30.45%) Power Platform
3 40 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 29 (13.18%) Google Workspace
5 26 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (10.00%) SaaS
7 20 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (8.64%) AWS
9 17 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (7.27%) Power Automate
11 14 (6.36%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (5.00%) PowerApps
14 8 (3.64%) GitHub
14 8 (3.64%) Snowflake
15 7 (3.18%) Serverless
16 4 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (1.82%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.82%) Broadband
2 4 (1.82%) Firewall
3 3 (1.36%) DNS
3 3 (1.36%) 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
1 125 (56.82%) SQL Server
2 56 (25.45%) Power BI
3 47 (21.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (20.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (7.27%) Power Query
6 15 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (5.00%) MySQL
10 9 (4.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (3.64%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.73%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.27%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (1.36%) Db2
15 3 (1.36%) WhereScape RED
16 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
16 2 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
16 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (10.00%) Git
2 14 (6.36%) Visual Studio
3 11 (5.00%) JIRA
4 10 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.91%) Postman
5 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 72 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 29 (13.18%) Finance
5 19 (8.64%) Law
6 14 (6.36%) Games
7 10 (4.55%) Legal
8 7 (3.18%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.73%) Back Office
9 6 (2.73%) Retail
10 4 (1.82%) Marketing
10 4 (1.82%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.36%) Billing
11 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.91%) Automotive
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (37.73%) Developer
2 42 (19.09%) Analyst
2 42 (19.09%) Senior
3 19 (8.64%) Applications Support
4 17 (7.73%) Data Analyst
4 17 (7.73%) Software Developer
4 17 (7.73%) SQL Developer
5 16 (7.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 16 (7.27%) DBA
6 15 (6.82%) .NET Developer
6 15 (6.82%) Applications Support Analyst
6 15 (6.82%) Senior Developer
7 14 (6.36%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.36%) SQL DBA
7 14 (6.36%) Support Analyst
8 12 (5.45%) SQL Analyst
9 11 (5.00%) IAM Developer
9 11 (5.00%) SQL Server DBA
9 11 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.91%) .NET
2 41 (18.64%) REST
3 35 (15.91%) SOAP
4 29 (13.18%) GraphQL
4 29 (13.18%) LDAP
4 29 (13.18%) OAuth
4 29 (13.18%) OpenID
4 29 (13.18%) SAML
5 17 (7.73%) HTML
5 17 (7.73%) JSON
6 16 (7.27%) CSS
7 14 (6.36%) ASP.NET
7 14 (6.36%) XML
8 13 (5.91%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.09%) Kafka
10 8 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (3.64%) Blazor
10 8 (3.64%) React
10 8 (3.64%) WinForms
11 7 (3.18%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.82%) Cyber Threat
1 26 (11.82%) Cyberattack
2 19 (8.64%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.36%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (5.00%) Replication
6 9 (4.09%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.27%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.82%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.36%) Clustering
10 3 (1.36%) LIMS
10 3 (1.36%) NHS
10 3 (1.36%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.27%) Windows
2 9 (4.09%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.73%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 49 (22.27%) Performance Tuning
4 42 (19.09%) Roadmaps
5 41 (18.64%) Data Modelling
6 39 (17.73%) Mentoring
7 37 (16.82%) DevOps
8 36 (16.36%) ETL
9 34 (15.45%) Agile
9 34 (15.45%) CI/CD
10 30 (13.64%) Analytics
10 30 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (13.18%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (13.18%) Identity Access Management
12 26 (11.82%) Programme Delivery
12 26 (11.82%) Regulatory Compliance
12 26 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (10.91%) Validation
14 17 (7.73%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (7.27%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 206 (93.64%) SQL
2 63 (28.64%) PowerShell
3 59 (26.82%) C#
4 39 (17.73%) Python
5 29 (13.18%) Bash
6 23 (10.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (7.27%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.55%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.09%) VBScript
10 7 (3.18%) VBA
11 5 (2.27%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.82%) Delphi
12 4 (1.82%) R
13 3 (1.36%) Java
13 3 (1.36%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.91%) VB
15 1 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (7.73%) Degree
2 4 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.36%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.91%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.45%) Data Quality
2 30 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (13.18%) NIST
4 26 (11.82%) NCSC
5 16 (7.27%) QA
6 6 (2.73%) SLA
7 3 (1.36%) GDPR
8 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) HL7
9 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (21.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.82%) Docker
3 3 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.27%) Terraform
2 4 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.82%) ZABBIX
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 77 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.09%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.64%) iManage
3 8 (3.64%) Oracle
4 7 (3.18%) SAP
5 6 (2.73%) IFS
5 6 (2.73%) Infor
6 5 (2.27%) Databricks
6 5 (2.27%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.27%) WooCommerce
7 4 (1.82%) ConnectWise
7 4 (1.82%) Epicor
7 4 (1.82%) RedGate
7 4 (1.82%) Remedy
7 4 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.82%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.36%) Google
8 3 (1.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.36%) Veeam
8 3 (1.36%) VMware