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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 363 305
Rank change year-on-year -197 -58 -67
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 214 356 769
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.72% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 2.50% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 176 282 596
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,688 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,499 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,875 £83,625 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.36% +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 18,204 14,253 26,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.69% 28.84% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,982 9,428 19,180
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -180 201 £54,498 -5.22% 60
UK excluding London -148 150 £51,250 -0.49% 45
Work from Home -51 102 £59,000 +9.77% 30
London -86 55 £70,000 - 20
South East -35 46 £52,500 +16.67% 11
North of England -69 35 £47,500 -20.83% 13
Midlands -77 23 £46,250 -4.64% 11
North West +2 21 £47,500 -17.39% 7
East of England -28 18 £62,500 +51.52% 2
South West -64 18 £50,000 +2.56% 6
West Midlands -30 16 £44,000 -23.48% 11
Yorkshire -69 12 £45,000 -25.00% 3
Scotland +10 10 - - 1
East Midlands -50 7 £59,366 +26.99%
North East -54 2 £45,500 -13.33% 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 16 (7.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.54%) IIS
3 7 (3.27%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.47%) JBoss
6 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.80%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (2.34%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.87%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.87%) JDE World
5 3 (1.40%) Elite 3E
5 3 (1.40%) Magento
5 3 (1.40%) Shopify
6 2 (0.93%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.93%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.47%) FastStats
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 122 (57.01%) Azure
2 69 (32.24%) Power Platform
3 33 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.28%) Entra ID
5 20 (9.35%) AWS
6 18 (8.41%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (7.94%) Power Automate
7 17 (7.94%) SaaS
8 15 (7.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (7.01%) Google Workspace
9 13 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.07%) PowerApps
10 12 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (4.21%) GitHub
11 9 (4.21%) Serverless
12 8 (3.74%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.34%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.87%) GCP
14 4 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.61%) Broadband
2 4 (1.87%) Firewall
3 3 (1.40%) DNS
3 3 (1.40%) VLAN
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (62.62%) SQL Server
2 57 (26.64%) Power BI
3 51 (23.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 43 (20.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (7.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (7.48%) Power Query
6 10 (4.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (4.21%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (3.27%) MySQL
10 6 (2.80%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.80%) Star Schema
11 4 (1.87%) Db2
11 4 (1.87%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.40%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 25 (11.68%) Git
2 15 (7.01%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.67%) JIRA
3 10 (4.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.93%) Postman
4 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.47%) Yeoman
General
1 70 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.49%) Finance
4 20 (9.35%) Law
5 19 (8.88%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.61%) Legal
7 7 (3.27%) Games
7 7 (3.27%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.80%) Retail
9 5 (2.34%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.87%) Back Office
11 3 (1.40%) Billing
11 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.93%) Automotive
12 2 (0.93%) Local Government
12 2 (0.93%) Marketing
13 1 (0.47%) Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Police
13 1 (0.47%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 89 (41.59%) Developer
2 36 (16.82%) Senior
3 35 (16.36%) Analyst
4 20 (9.35%) .NET Developer
5 19 (8.88%) DBA
5 19 (8.88%) SQL Developer
6 18 (8.41%) Applications Support
6 18 (8.41%) Software Developer
7 17 (7.94%) SQL DBA
8 16 (7.48%) Data Engineer
9 15 (7.01%) Senior Developer
10 14 (6.54%) SQL Server DBA
11 13 (6.07%) Data Analyst
12 12 (5.61%) Applications Support Analyst
12 12 (5.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 10 (4.67%) Lead
13 10 (4.67%) Support Analyst
13 10 (4.67%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.74%) Software Support Engineer
14 8 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (29.91%) .NET
2 28 (13.08%) REST
3 22 (10.28%) SOAP
4 15 (7.01%) GraphQL
4 15 (7.01%) HTML
4 15 (7.01%) LDAP
4 15 (7.01%) OAuth
4 15 (7.01%) OpenID
4 15 (7.01%) SAML
5 14 (6.54%) .NET Core
5 14 (6.54%) ASP.NET
5 14 (6.54%) CSS
5 14 (6.54%) JSON
6 11 (5.14%) XML
7 10 (4.67%) .NET Framework
8 9 (4.21%) Kafka
8 9 (4.21%) WinForms
9 8 (3.74%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (3.74%) Blazor
9 8 (3.74%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.28%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.54%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.61%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (5.61%) Cyberattack
3 12 (5.61%) Replication
4 11 (5.14%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (4.21%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.74%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.80%) Legacy Code
9 5 (2.34%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.87%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.87%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.40%) LIMS
11 3 (1.40%) NHS
11 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.93%) Clustering
12 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.88%) Windows
2 10 (4.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.47%) Linux
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (32.71%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (28.50%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (24.30%) Performance Tuning
4 43 (20.09%) DevOps
5 41 (19.16%) Data Modelling
6 38 (17.76%) ETL
7 37 (17.29%) CI/CD
8 34 (15.89%) Agile
9 33 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (14.02%) Analytics
11 29 (13.55%) Roadmaps
12 27 (12.62%) Mentoring
13 22 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (9.81%) Validation
15 18 (8.41%) AI
15 18 (8.41%) Decision-Making
15 18 (8.41%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (8.41%) Secure Coding
16 17 (7.94%) Data Pipeline
16 17 (7.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 207 (96.73%) SQL
2 66 (30.84%) C#
3 49 (22.90%) PowerShell
4 36 (16.82%) Python
5 23 (10.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.48%) JavaScript
7 15 (7.01%) Bash
8 11 (5.14%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.21%) VBScript
10 7 (3.27%) VBA
11 5 (2.34%) Delphi
12 4 (1.87%) R
12 4 (1.87%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.87%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.40%) Java
14 2 (0.93%) VB
15 1 (0.47%) Bicep
15 1 (0.47%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (7.94%) Degree
2 5 (2.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (1.40%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.89%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.94%) QA
4 15 (7.01%) NIST
5 12 (5.61%) NCSC
6 7 (3.27%) SLA
7 3 (1.40%) GDPR
8 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.47%) HL7
9 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (14.02%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.34%) Docker
3 3 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.34%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.87%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.87%) Terraform
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.47%) SCCM
3 1 (0.47%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 79 (36.92%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.14%) Oracle
3 9 (4.21%) iManage
3 9 (4.21%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.27%) SAP
5 6 (2.80%) Databricks
5 6 (2.80%) IFS
5 6 (2.80%) Infor
5 6 (2.80%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.34%) RedGate
6 5 (2.34%) Remedy
7 4 (1.87%) Epicor
7 4 (1.87%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.40%) Google
8 3 (1.40%) Intapp
8 3 (1.40%) Veeam
8 3 (1.40%) VMware
8 3 (1.40%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.93%) ConnectWise
9 2 (0.93%) Rollbar