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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 351 225
Rank change year-on-year -112 -126 +48
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 240 313 1,203
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.77% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.68% 2.28% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 155 254 1,012
10th Percentile £30,500 £38,825 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,719 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,219 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,625 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +8.37%

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 14,317 13,721 31,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.04% 33.58% 35.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,934 10,202 24,655
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,531
25th Percentile £46,276 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £56,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -0.88% +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 1 April 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 1 April 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
UK excluding London -29 191 £45,000 -5.26% 91
England -133 189 £48,000 -16.52% 98
Work from Home -38 134 £46,250 -19.57% 47
Midlands -23 49 £45,000 -5.26% 19
London -108 44 £57,500 -11.54% 23
Scotland +20 42 - - 8
South East -27 32 £40,000 -20.00% 23
North of England -57 32 £51,000 -5.12% 16
West Midlands +5 31 £42,500 -21.79% 8
South West -31 18 £42,500 +14.86% 14
Yorkshire -51 18 £50,000 -16.67% 6
East Midlands -54 18 £54,500 +16.58% 11
East of England -43 12 £62,500 +31.58% 10
North West -25 11 £60,000 +37.14% 9
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -26 3 £51,000 -23.02% 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 10 (4.17%) IIS
2 9 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.67%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.67%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.25%) Confluence
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.83%) CMS
6 2 (0.83%) WordPress
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
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 2 (0.83%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 144 (60.00%) Azure
2 67 (27.92%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.33%) Google Workspace
4 50 (20.83%) Power Platform
5 31 (12.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.92%) SaaS
8 17 (7.08%) AWS
9 16 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (6.25%) GitHub
11 14 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (4.58%) Power Automate
12 11 (4.58%) PowerApps
13 7 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.92%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.50%) GCP
15 5 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.33%) Broadband
2 3 (1.25%) DNS
2 3 (1.25%) Firewall
3 2 (0.83%) DHCP
3 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.83%) SSL
3 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.83%) VLAN
3 2 (0.83%) Wireless
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) Network Security
4 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (47.08%) SQL Server
2 48 (20.00%) Power BI
3 41 (17.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 38 (15.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 28 (11.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (7.92%) Data Lake
7 13 (5.42%) Metadata
7 13 (5.42%) MySQL
8 11 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (4.17%) Power Query
10 9 (3.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (2.92%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.67%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.25%) Tableau
14 2 (0.83%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (7.92%) JIRA
2 12 (5.00%) Git
3 3 (1.25%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 90 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.17%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (19.58%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.83%) Finance
4 38 (15.83%) Games
5 12 (5.00%) Back Office
6 11 (4.58%) Law
7 6 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.08%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.67%) Legal
10 3 (1.25%) Banking
10 3 (1.25%) Marketing
11 2 (0.83%) Front Office
11 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.83%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 59 (24.58%) Developer
2 57 (23.75%) Senior
3 53 (22.08%) Analyst
4 31 (12.92%) Support Analyst
5 28 (11.67%) Applications Support
6 27 (11.25%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.58%) Senior Developer
8 22 (9.17%) Data Engineer
8 22 (9.17%) DBA
9 21 (8.75%) IAM Developer
10 20 (8.33%) SQL DBA
11 16 (6.67%) SQL Developer
11 16 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 13 (5.42%) C# Developer
13 13 (5.42%) Data Analyst
13 13 (5.42%) Software Engineer
14 11 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (4.58%) Senior Support Analyst
14 11 (4.58%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (31.25%) REST
2 69 (28.75%) SOAP
3 57 (23.75%) OAuth
3 57 (23.75%) OpenID
4 56 (23.33%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.33%) LDAP
4 56 (23.33%) SAML
5 40 (16.67%) .NET
6 16 (6.67%) ASP.NET
6 16 (6.67%) XML
7 14 (5.83%) JSON
8 13 (5.42%) .NET Framework
9 11 (4.58%) Entity Framework
10 10 (4.17%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.75%) Middleware
11 9 (3.75%) PySpark
11 9 (3.75%) WinForms
12 7 (2.92%) CSS
12 7 (2.92%) HTML
13 6 (2.50%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.33%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.33%) Cyberattack
2 17 (7.08%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.75%) Clustering
5 8 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.92%) Replication
7 6 (2.50%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.50%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.67%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.83%) Derivative
11 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.50%) Windows
2 9 (3.75%) Linux
3 7 (2.92%) VMS
4 5 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.83%) Android
5 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Unix
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (28.33%) Roadmaps
2 67 (27.92%) Mentoring
3 56 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
3 56 (23.33%) Identity Access Management
3 56 (23.33%) Programme Delivery
3 56 (23.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 54 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
4 54 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (19.17%) Analytics
5 46 (19.17%) Data Modelling
6 39 (16.25%) ETL
7 37 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (14.17%) DevOps
8 34 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
9 29 (12.08%) Decision-Making
9 29 (12.08%) Performance Tuning
10 28 (11.67%) Change Control
11 27 (11.25%) Agile
12 26 (10.83%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 207 (86.25%) SQL
2 82 (34.17%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.33%) Bash
4 48 (20.00%) Python
5 42 (17.50%) C#
6 19 (7.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.92%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.50%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.08%) Java
9 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.67%) R
11 2 (0.83%) Bicep
11 2 (0.83%) Scala
11 2 (0.83%) VBA
12 1 (0.42%) Delphi
12 1 (0.42%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (13.33%) Degree
2 11 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.83%) MCSE
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) MCITP
7 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.33%) NCSC
1 56 (23.33%) NIST
2 41 (17.08%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.58%) QA
5 6 (2.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (28.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.25%) Docker
3 2 (0.83%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.92%) Terraform
2 4 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 74 (30.83%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.17%) Databricks
3 10 (4.17%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.75%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.33%) Oracle
5 8 (3.33%) Sage
5 8 (3.33%) Xamarin
6 5 (2.08%) RedGate
7 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.67%) Zoho
8 3 (1.25%) Google
8 3 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.25%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.83%) Citrix
9 2 (0.83%) Infor
9 2 (0.83%) Informatica
9 2 (0.83%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.83%) Talend
9 2 (0.83%) VMware