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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 395 312
Rank change year-on-year -199 -83 -97
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 210 282 590
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.57% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.14% 2.26% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 179 220 355
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,125 £41,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £71,125 £68,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -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 18,486 12,502 22,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.56% 25.41% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,150 8,123 13,402
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,862 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £83,938 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 15 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 15 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 -187 197 £60,000 +9.09% 47
UK excluding London -206 139 £56,250 +12.50% 35
Work from Home -67 87 £62,500 +21.95% 23
London -90 61 £70,000 -12.50% 15
South East -54 59 £55,000 +25.71% 13
North of England -84 33 £60,000 +14.29% 6
North West -24 17 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Yorkshire -49 15 £60,250 +20.50% 5
Midlands -66 15 £60,000 +26.32% 10
East of England -46 13 £55,000 +30.95% 4
South West -84 12 £52,500 +5.00% 2
West Midlands -57 10 £55,000 -4.35% 8
Scotland +12 7 £85,000 +78.95%
East Midlands -38 5 £65,000 +40.54% 2
North East -68 1 £47,500 -9.52%

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 (5.71%) IIS
2 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.29%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.48%) MTS
Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.38%) SAP Business One
3 4 (1.90%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.43%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.43%) Elite 3E
4 3 (1.43%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.43%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (1.43%) JDE World
4 3 (1.43%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.95%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.48%) FastStats
6 1 (0.48%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 119 (56.67%) Azure
2 64 (30.48%) Power Platform
3 44 (20.95%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.05%) AWS
4 19 (9.05%) Power Automate
4 19 (9.05%) SaaS
5 16 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (7.14%) PowerApps
7 14 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (5.24%) Serverless
10 10 (4.76%) GitHub
10 10 (4.76%) Snowflake
11 8 (3.81%) Azure Functions
11 8 (3.81%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.33%) dbt
13 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (2.38%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) DNS
1 3 (1.43%) Firewall
1 3 (1.43%) VLAN
2 2 (0.95%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (65.71%) SQL Server
2 51 (24.29%) Power BI
3 47 (22.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 36 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (15.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 14 (6.67%) Power Query
7 11 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (3.81%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.86%) Metadata
11 5 (2.38%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.38%) MS Access
11 5 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (1.90%) Db2
12 4 (1.90%) OLTP
12 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.90%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (14.76%) Git
2 14 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.81%) JIRA
4 7 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.90%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.95%) Postman
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 52 (24.76%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (13.81%) Finance
4 19 (9.05%) Law
5 17 (8.10%) Legal
6 6 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.38%) Retail
8 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Back Office
9 3 (1.43%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.95%) Automotive
10 2 (0.95%) Banking
10 2 (0.95%) Local Government
10 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 112 (53.33%) Developer
2 55 (26.19%) Senior
3 30 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 25 (11.90%) .NET Developer
5 22 (10.48%) Software Developer
5 22 (10.48%) SQL Developer
6 19 (9.05%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.10%) Analyst
8 13 (6.19%) DBA
8 13 (6.19%) SQL DBA
9 12 (5.71%) Lead
10 11 (5.24%) Applications Support
10 11 (5.24%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (4.76%) Applications Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Business Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.29%) Senior Software Developer
12 9 (4.29%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.81%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (36.67%) .NET
2 21 (10.00%) REST
3 14 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.67%) HTML
4 13 (6.19%) .NET Framework
4 13 (6.19%) ASP.NET
4 13 (6.19%) CSS
5 11 (5.24%) JSON
6 10 (4.76%) React
6 10 (4.76%) SOAP
7 9 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.81%) Blazor
8 8 (3.81%) WinForms
8 8 (3.81%) XML
9 7 (3.33%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.33%) Entity Framework
9 7 (3.33%) jQuery
10 6 (2.86%) OAuth
10 6 (2.86%) OpenID
10 6 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.95%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (7.62%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.33%) Replication
6 6 (2.86%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.90%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.90%) NHS
9 3 (1.43%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.43%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.95%) LIMS
10 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.95%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.95%) SystemC
11 1 (0.48%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.57%) Windows
2 9 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (28.57%) DevOps
3 53 (25.24%) Business Intelligence
4 49 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 42 (20.00%) ETL
5 42 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 38 (18.10%) Data Modelling
7 35 (16.67%) Agile
8 32 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (13.81%) Analytics
10 26 (12.38%) Software Engineering
11 24 (11.43%) SDLC
12 23 (10.95%) Data Integration
13 22 (10.48%) AI
14 21 (10.00%) Mentoring
15 19 (9.05%) Visualisation
16 18 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
16 18 (8.57%) Root Cause Analysis
16 18 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (7.62%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 210 (100.00%) SQL
2 81 (38.57%) C#
3 37 (17.62%) Python
4 35 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 20 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (5.71%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.29%) VBA
9 7 (3.33%) Delphi
9 7 (3.33%) VB.NET
9 7 (3.33%) VBScript
10 4 (1.90%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.43%) Bash
11 3 (1.43%) XPath
12 2 (0.95%) Bicep
12 2 (0.95%) Java
13 1 (0.48%) Tcl
13 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (7.62%) Degree
2 7 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (1.90%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.90%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.90%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.19%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.19%) QA
3 10 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.86%) NIST
4 6 (2.86%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.90%) Docker
3 3 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.38%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.90%) SQL Sentry
3 3 (1.43%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 92 (43.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.67%) Oracle
3 8 (3.81%) SAP
3 8 (3.81%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.33%) Databricks
4 7 (3.33%) iManage
5 6 (2.86%) Intapp
5 6 (2.86%) RedGate
6 5 (2.38%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.38%) Remedy
6 5 (2.38%) Teradata
7 3 (1.43%) Epicor
7 3 (1.43%) Google
7 3 (1.43%) IFS
7 3 (1.43%) Infor
7 3 (1.43%) New Relic
7 3 (1.43%) Veeam
7 3 (1.43%) VMware
8 2 (0.95%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (0.95%) SolarWinds