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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 348 264
Rank change year-on-year -161 -84 -7
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 233 353 1,130
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.80% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 2.53% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 153 271 905
10th Percentile £35,150 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +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 16,554 13,954 33,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.88% 31.52% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,645 9,172 25,600
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,364 £35,000
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,125 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -159 195 £50,000 -13.04% 64
UK excluding London -99 170 £47,500 -8.65% 52
Work from Home -10 133 £47,500 -13.64% 43
London -85 56 £65,000 -7.14% 21
South East -28 39 £46,250 +2.78% 19
North of England -68 36 £47,500 -20.83% 14
Scotland +34 32 - - 2
Midlands -48 27 £45,000 -7.22% 2
North West +12 21 £60,000 +23.08% 8
South West -60 20 £47,500 -2.56% 7
West Midlands -29 18 £44,000 -23.48% 1
East of England -32 13 £62,500 +48.81% 6
Yorkshire -68 13 £45,000 -25.00% 2
East Midlands -55 9 £59,000 +22.92% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
North East -43 2 £45,500 -17.27% 4

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 18 (7.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.72%) IIS
3 9 (3.86%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.29%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.29%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.86%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.86%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (3.00%) Magento
3 7 (3.00%) Shopify
4 6 (2.58%) Infor M3
5 4 (1.72%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.72%) JDE World
5 4 (1.72%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.86%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.43%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 147 (63.09%) Azure
2 67 (28.76%) Power Platform
3 63 (27.04%) Entra ID
4 53 (22.75%) Google Workspace
5 24 (10.30%) AWS
6 21 (9.01%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (9.01%) SaaS
7 19 (8.15%) Power Automate
8 18 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (7.30%) PowerApps
10 16 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (5.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (4.72%) GitHub
14 9 (3.86%) Snowflake
15 8 (3.43%) Serverless
16 7 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
18 5 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
19 4 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 50 (21.46%) Broadband
2 3 (1.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.86%) DNS
3 2 (0.86%) VLAN
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) Network Security
4 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (50.21%) SQL Server
2 60 (25.75%) Power BI
3 47 (20.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 43 (18.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 18 (7.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (6.87%) Power Query
7 12 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.72%) MySQL
9 10 (4.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (3.86%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.00%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.15%) Star Schema
13 4 (1.72%) Metadata
14 3 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.86%) RDBMS
16 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
16 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 16 (6.87%) JIRA
2 15 (6.44%) Git
3 9 (3.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 9 (3.86%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.86%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 85 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 57 (24.46%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.59%) Finance
5 27 (11.59%) Games
6 18 (7.73%) Law
7 11 (4.72%) Legal
8 7 (3.00%) Back Office
9 6 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.58%) Retail
10 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.29%) Billing
11 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.29%) Marketing
11 3 (1.29%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.86%) Automotive
12 2 (0.86%) Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (34.33%) Developer
2 53 (22.75%) Senior
3 46 (19.74%) Analyst
4 20 (8.58%) Applications Support
4 20 (8.58%) IAM Developer
4 20 (8.58%) Senior Developer
5 19 (8.15%) Support Analyst
6 18 (7.73%) Applications Support Analyst
7 16 (6.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (6.87%) Data Analyst
7 16 (6.87%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (6.44%) Software Developer
8 15 (6.44%) SQL Developer
9 14 (6.01%) DBA
10 13 (5.58%) Database Engineer
11 12 (5.15%) SQL Analyst
11 12 (5.15%) SQL DBA
12 11 (4.72%) Data Engineer
13 10 (4.29%) .NET Developer
14 9 (3.86%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (28.33%) REST
2 61 (26.18%) SOAP
3 53 (22.75%) GraphQL
3 53 (22.75%) LDAP
3 53 (22.75%) OAuth
3 53 (22.75%) OpenID
3 53 (22.75%) SAML
4 48 (20.60%) .NET
5 15 (6.44%) ASP.NET
6 14 (6.01%) HTML
7 13 (5.58%) CSS
7 13 (5.58%) JSON
8 12 (5.15%) XML
9 11 (4.72%) React
10 10 (4.29%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.86%) Blazor
11 9 (3.86%) Kafka
12 6 (2.58%) Middleware
12 6 (2.58%) PySpark
13 5 (2.15%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.46%) Cyber Threat
1 50 (21.46%) Cyberattack
2 14 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.15%) Replication
4 11 (4.72%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (3.86%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.00%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.58%) Clustering
8 6 (2.58%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.72%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.72%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.29%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.58%) Windows
2 8 (3.43%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.29%) Linux
4 3 (1.29%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.33%) Mentoring
2 65 (27.90%) Business Intelligence
3 60 (25.75%) Roadmaps
4 53 (22.75%) Cybersecurity
4 53 (22.75%) Identity Access Management
4 53 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (21.46%) Programme Delivery
5 50 (21.46%) Regulatory Compliance
6 46 (19.74%) Performance Tuning
7 41 (17.60%) Data Modelling
8 35 (15.02%) Agile
9 33 (14.16%) Analytics
9 33 (14.16%) CI/CD
9 33 (14.16%) ETL
10 32 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (13.30%) DevOps
12 29 (12.45%) Change Control
12 29 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (9.01%) Decision-Making
14 19 (8.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 206 (88.41%) SQL
2 81 (34.76%) PowerShell
3 53 (22.75%) Bash
4 49 (21.03%) C#
5 43 (18.45%) Python
6 23 (9.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (5.58%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.72%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.43%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.43%) VBScript
10 7 (3.00%) VBA
11 4 (1.72%) Java
11 4 (1.72%) R
12 2 (0.86%) Delphi
12 2 (0.86%) VB
13 1 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (9.44%) Degree
2 6 (2.58%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.72%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (22.75%) NIST
2 50 (21.46%) NCSC
3 42 (18.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (15.45%) Data Quality
5 11 (4.72%) QA
6 3 (1.29%) GDPR
7 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.86%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) HL7
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (30.47%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.72%) Docker
3 2 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.58%) Terraform
2 4 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 78 (33.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.29%) Oracle
3 8 (3.43%) Databricks
3 8 (3.43%) iManage
4 7 (3.00%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.00%) WooCommerce
5 6 (2.58%) ConnectWise
5 6 (2.58%) IFS
5 6 (2.58%) Infor
5 6 (2.58%) SAP
6 4 (1.72%) Epicor
6 4 (1.72%) JD Edwards
6 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.72%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.29%) Google
7 3 (1.29%) RedGate
7 3 (1.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.86%) Rollbar
8 2 (0.86%) Veeam
8 2 (0.86%) VMware