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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 407 298
Rank change year-on-year -193 -109 -87
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 206 280 587
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.57% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 2.24% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 176 218 352
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £41,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £71,063 £68,938 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £84,125 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18,559 12,494 22,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.64% 25.40% 31.36%
Number of salaries quoted 13,136 8,117 13,315
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £109,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 15 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 14 October 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 -179 194 £60,000 +9.09% 168
UK excluding London -183 137 £55,000 +10.00% 87
Work from Home -62 86 £62,500 +21.95% 79
London -75 60 £70,000 -12.50% 80
South East -42 57 £55,000 +25.71% 24
North of England -75 33 £60,000 +14.29% 22
North West -25 17 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Yorkshire -48 15 £60,250 +20.50% 11
Midlands -73 15 £60,000 +26.32% 19
East of England -32 13 £55,000 +30.95% 14
South West -76 12 £52,500 +5.00% 4
West Midlands -47 10 £55,000 -4.35% 15
Scotland +8 7 £85,000 +78.95% 3
East Midlands -49 5 £65,000 +40.54% 4
North East -76 1 £47,500 -9.52% 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 12 (5.83%) IIS
2 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.37%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.43%) SAP Business One
3 4 (1.94%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.46%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.46%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.46%) Elite 3E
4 3 (1.46%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.46%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (1.46%) JDE World
4 3 (1.46%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.97%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.49%) FastStats
6 1 (0.49%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 118 (57.28%) Azure
2 64 (31.07%) Power Platform
3 44 (21.36%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.22%) Power Automate
4 19 (9.22%) SaaS
5 17 (8.25%) AWS
6 16 (7.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (7.28%) PowerApps
8 14 (6.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.34%) Serverless
11 10 (4.85%) GitHub
11 10 (4.85%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.88%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.88%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.40%) dbt
14 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (2.43%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.46%) DNS
1 3 (1.46%) Firewall
1 3 (1.46%) VLAN
2 2 (0.97%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (65.05%) SQL Server
2 51 (24.76%) Power BI
3 46 (22.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 36 (17.48%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (16.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 14 (6.80%) Power Query
7 11 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (3.88%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.91%) Metadata
11 5 (2.43%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.43%) MS Access
11 5 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (1.94%) Db2
12 4 (1.94%) OLTP
12 4 (1.94%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.94%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (14.56%) Git
2 14 (6.80%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.88%) JIRA
4 7 (3.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.97%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.97%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.24%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (13.59%) Finance
4 19 (9.22%) Law
5 17 (8.25%) Legal
6 6 (2.91%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.43%) Retail
8 4 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Back Office
9 3 (1.46%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.97%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.97%) Automotive
10 2 (0.97%) Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Local Government
10 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Publishing
11 1 (0.49%) Billing
11 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 110 (53.40%) Developer
2 53 (25.73%) Senior
3 30 (14.56%) Senior Developer
4 25 (12.14%) .NET Developer
5 22 (10.68%) Software Developer
5 22 (10.68%) SQL Developer
6 19 (9.22%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.25%) Analyst
8 13 (6.31%) DBA
8 13 (6.31%) SQL DBA
9 11 (5.34%) Applications Support
9 11 (5.34%) Lead
9 11 (5.34%) SQL Server DBA
10 10 (4.85%) Applications Developer
10 10 (4.85%) Business Developer
10 10 (4.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (4.85%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.37%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (3.88%) Database Engineer
12 8 (3.88%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (35.92%) .NET
2 20 (9.71%) REST
3 14 (6.80%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.31%) HTML
5 12 (5.83%) .NET Framework
5 12 (5.83%) ASP.NET
5 12 (5.83%) CSS
6 11 (5.34%) JSON
7 10 (4.85%) React
7 10 (4.85%) SOAP
8 8 (3.88%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.88%) Blazor
8 8 (3.88%) WinForms
8 8 (3.88%) XML
9 7 (3.40%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.40%) jQuery
10 6 (2.91%) Entity Framework
10 6 (2.91%) OAuth
10 6 (2.91%) OpenID
10 6 (2.91%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.17%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (7.77%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.40%) Replication
6 6 (2.91%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.94%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.94%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.94%) NHS
9 3 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.46%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.97%) LIMS
10 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.97%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.97%) SystemC
11 1 (0.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.25%) Windows
2 9 (4.37%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.83%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (28.16%) DevOps
3 53 (25.73%) Business Intelligence
4 47 (22.82%) CI/CD
5 42 (20.39%) Performance Tuning
6 41 (19.90%) ETL
7 38 (18.45%) Data Modelling
8 35 (16.99%) Agile
9 32 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (14.08%) Analytics
11 24 (11.65%) SDLC
11 24 (11.65%) Software Engineering
12 22 (10.68%) AI
12 22 (10.68%) Data Integration
13 20 (9.71%) Mentoring
14 19 (9.22%) Visualisation
15 18 (8.74%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (8.74%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (7.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 206 (100.00%) SQL
2 78 (37.86%) C#
3 37 (17.96%) Python
4 35 (16.99%) PowerShell
5 19 (9.22%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (5.83%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.37%) VBA
9 7 (3.40%) Delphi
9 7 (3.40%) VB.NET
9 7 (3.40%) VBScript
10 4 (1.94%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.46%) Bash
11 3 (1.46%) XPath
12 2 (0.97%) Bicep
12 2 (0.97%) Java
13 1 (0.49%) Tcl
13 1 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (6.80%) Degree
2 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (1.94%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.94%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.46%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.50%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.31%) QA
3 10 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.91%) NIST
4 6 (2.91%) SLA
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.94%) Docker
3 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.43%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.94%) SQL Sentry
3 3 (1.46%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 92 (44.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.80%) Oracle
3 8 (3.88%) SAP
3 8 (3.88%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.40%) Databricks
4 7 (3.40%) iManage
5 6 (2.91%) Intapp
5 6 (2.91%) RedGate
6 5 (2.43%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.43%) Remedy
6 5 (2.43%) Teradata
7 3 (1.46%) Epicor
7 3 (1.46%) Google
7 3 (1.46%) IFS
7 3 (1.46%) Infor
7 3 (1.46%) Veeam
7 3 (1.46%) VMware
8 2 (0.97%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.49%) New Relic