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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 296 219
Rank change year-on-year -129 -77 +27
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 245 508 954
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.96% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.06% 2.86% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 175 297 829
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,125 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,400 £83,375 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -

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 11,901 17,758 25,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 33.63% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,610 10,323 20,911
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -134 201 £50,000 -5.66% 209
UK excluding London -44 181 £48,500 +2.11% 225
Work from Home -49 122 £48,500 -3.96% 183
London -89 59 £80,000 +28.00% 62
Midlands -8 44 £50,000 +8.11% 26
South East +1 39 £40,000 -20.00% 64
Scotland +4 36 £37,500 -18.48% 26
North of England -20 33 £40,000 -15.79% 39
West Midlands +19 28 £45,000 -5.26% 9
Yorkshire -12 27 £25,000 -46.20% 11
South West -12 20 £50,000 -6.98% 32
East Midlands -16 16 £50,000 +11.11% 16
East of England -28 4 £42,175 -11.21% 28
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 - 3
North East +2 3 £51,000 -32.00% 3
North West -17 3 £57,500 +21.05% 25
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 (6.94%) IIS
2 10 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.22%) CMS
3 3 (1.22%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.82%) WordPress
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (2.45%) Magento
2 6 (2.45%) Shopify
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 136 (55.51%) Azure
2 47 (19.18%) Entra ID
3 43 (17.55%) Power Platform
4 42 (17.14%) Google Workspace
5 39 (15.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 31 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (7.35%) GitHub
8 14 (5.71%) PowerApps
8 14 (5.71%) SaaS
8 14 (5.71%) Snowflake
9 13 (5.31%) AWS
10 12 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.27%) GCP
13 8 (3.27%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (2.04%) Azure Functions
15 5 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 42 (17.14%) Broadband
2 3 (1.22%) DNS
3 2 (0.82%) DHCP
3 2 (0.82%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.82%) Firewall
3 2 (0.82%) SSL
3 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.82%) VLAN
3 2 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (50.61%) SQL Server
2 51 (20.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 51 (20.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 42 (17.14%) Power BI
4 25 (10.20%) Data Lake
5 24 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (7.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 14 (5.71%) Metadata
9 10 (4.08%) MySQL
10 8 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.45%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.63%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.63%) OLAP
13 3 (1.22%) GIS
13 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.22%) Power Query
13 3 (1.22%) Tableau
14 2 (0.82%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (6.53%) Git
2 14 (5.71%) JIRA
3 8 (3.27%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.63%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.41%) Mercurial
General
1 104 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.00%) Finance
3 46 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
5 31 (12.65%) Games
6 10 (4.08%) Back Office
7 9 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.86%) Law
8 7 (2.86%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.04%) Legal
11 4 (1.63%) Billing
11 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Front Office
13 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Advertising
14 1 (0.41%) Automotive
14 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 67 (27.35%) Senior
2 64 (26.12%) Developer
3 39 (15.92%) Analyst
4 37 (15.10%) Data Engineer
5 32 (13.06%) Support Analyst
6 30 (12.24%) Applications Support
7 27 (11.02%) Applications Support Analyst
8 22 (8.98%) DBA
8 22 (8.98%) Senior Developer
9 20 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (7.76%) Software Engineer
10 19 (7.76%) SQL DBA
11 17 (6.94%) IAM Developer
12 15 (6.12%) SQL Developer
13 14 (5.71%) IT Support
14 13 (5.31%) IT Engineer
14 13 (5.31%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (5.31%) Support Engineer
15 12 (4.90%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (4.90%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (24.90%) REST
2 54 (22.04%) SOAP
3 43 (17.55%) OAuth
3 43 (17.55%) OpenID
4 42 (17.14%) GraphQL
4 42 (17.14%) LDAP
4 42 (17.14%) SAML
5 40 (16.33%) .NET
6 16 (6.53%) .NET Framework
6 16 (6.53%) ASP.NET
7 14 (5.71%) Entity Framework
8 12 (4.90%) CSS
8 12 (4.90%) HTML
8 12 (4.90%) WinForms
9 11 (4.49%) JSON
9 11 (4.49%) XML
10 10 (4.08%) .NET Core
11 8 (3.27%) Middleware
12 6 (2.45%) DirectX
12 6 (2.45%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.14%) Cyber Threat
1 42 (17.14%) Cyberattack
2 11 (4.49%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.49%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.49%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.27%) Clustering
3 8 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.45%) 3D Graphics
4 6 (2.45%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.63%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.22%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.82%) Derivative
7 2 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.98%) Windows
2 10 (4.08%) Linux
3 6 (2.45%) VMS
3 6 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.82%) Android
4 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (23.67%) Mentoring
3 56 (22.86%) ETL
4 50 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
4 50 (20.41%) Roadmaps
5 45 (18.37%) DevOps
6 43 (17.55%) Analytics
6 43 (17.55%) Cybersecurity
7 42 (17.14%) Identity Access Management
7 42 (17.14%) Programme Delivery
7 42 (17.14%) Regulatory Compliance
8 40 (16.33%) Data Modelling
8 40 (16.33%) Data Pipeline
9 38 (15.51%) Agile
10 34 (13.88%) Software Engineering
10 34 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (13.06%) CI/CD
13 31 (12.65%) Data Engineering
14 25 (10.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 219 (89.39%) SQL
2 66 (26.94%) PowerShell
3 49 (20.00%) Python
4 46 (18.78%) C#
5 42 (17.14%) Bash
6 17 (6.94%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.71%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.04%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.22%) Bicep
10 3 (1.22%) Java
10 3 (1.22%) PHP
11 2 (0.82%) C++
11 2 (0.82%) Scala
11 2 (0.82%) VBA
12 1 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (13.88%) Degree
2 15 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.31%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.63%) ACCA
4 4 (1.63%) CIMA
4 4 (1.63%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.82%) MCSE
6 2 (0.82%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.41%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (17.14%) NCSC
1 42 (17.14%) NIST
2 33 (13.47%) Data Quality
3 21 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.90%) QA
5 8 (3.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (19.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.45%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 87 (35.51%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.24%) Databricks
3 20 (8.16%) Oracle
4 13 (5.31%) Sage
5 12 (4.90%) Xamarin
6 6 (2.45%) ConnectWise
6 6 (2.45%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.45%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.04%) Google
7 5 (2.04%) Zoho
8 4 (1.63%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.63%) RedGate
9 3 (1.22%) Informatica
9 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.22%) Talend
10 2 (0.82%) Citrix
10 2 (0.82%) Lotus
10 2 (0.82%) VMware
11 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.41%) Red Hat