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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 406 321
Rank change year-on-year -201 -85 -107
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 201 296 598
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.59% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 2.32% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 171 233 359
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,626 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,125 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £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 18,350 12,783 22,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 25.68% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,988 8,186 13,630
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,264
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.21% -2.67%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 9 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 9 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 -200 189 £60,000 +9.09% 185
UK excluding London -203 128 £55,000 +10.00% 99
Work from Home -53 85 £62,500 +20.48% 82
London -77 64 £70,000 -12.50% 87
South East -56 53 £55,000 +22.22% 31
North of England -99 30 £60,000 +4.35% 26
North West -21 17 £60,000 -5.88% 12
East of England -44 13 £55,000 +30.95% 14
Midlands -72 13 £50,000 +3.09% 17
Yorkshire -58 12 £62,500 +8.70% 12
South West -87 12 £52,500 +5.00% 4
West Midlands -53 10 £50,000 -13.04% 13
Scotland +8 7 £85,000 +78.95% 6
East Midlands -49 3 £65,000 +35.42% 4
North East -70 1 £47,500 -9.52% 2

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 13 (6.47%) IIS
2 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.48%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.99%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.99%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.49%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.49%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.49%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (1.49%) JDE World
4 3 (1.49%) SAP Business One
5 2 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (57.71%) Azure
2 60 (29.85%) Power Platform
3 44 (21.89%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.45%) Power Automate
4 19 (9.45%) SaaS
5 17 (8.46%) AWS
6 15 (7.46%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (7.46%) PowerApps
7 14 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.97%) Serverless
9 11 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.98%) GitHub
10 10 (4.98%) Snowflake
11 8 (3.98%) Azure Functions
11 8 (3.98%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.48%) dbt
13 6 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.49%) Copilot Studio
14 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) DNS
1 3 (1.49%) Firewall
1 3 (1.49%) VLAN
2 2 (1.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (64.68%) SQL Server
2 47 (23.38%) Power BI
3 45 (22.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (16.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 30 (14.93%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (5.47%) Power Query
7 9 (4.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (3.48%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.99%) Metadata
11 5 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.99%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.99%) Db2
12 4 (1.99%) OLTP
12 4 (1.99%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.49%) Big Data
13 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.49%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 30 (14.93%) Git
2 14 (6.97%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.98%) JIRA
3 8 (3.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.00%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.00%) Postman
5 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 51 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.43%) Finance
4 21 (10.45%) Law
5 19 (9.45%) Legal
6 6 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.99%) Retail
7 5 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Back Office
8 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.00%) Automotive
9 2 (1.00%) Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Billing
9 2 (1.00%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (52.24%) Developer
2 49 (24.38%) Senior
3 26 (12.94%) Senior Developer
4 25 (12.44%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.45%) Software Developer
5 21 (10.45%) SQL Developer
6 19 (9.45%) Analyst
6 19 (9.45%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) DBA
7 14 (6.97%) SQL DBA
8 12 (5.97%) Applications Support
8 12 (5.97%) Lead
8 12 (5.97%) SQL Server DBA
9 10 (4.98%) Applications Developer
9 10 (4.98%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) Business Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Database Engineer
11 8 (3.98%) Software Support Engineer
12 7 (3.48%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (35.32%) .NET
2 19 (9.45%) REST
3 14 (6.97%) .NET Core
4 12 (5.97%) ASP.NET
4 12 (5.97%) HTML
5 11 (5.47%) CSS
6 10 (4.98%) .NET Framework
6 10 (4.98%) JSON
6 10 (4.98%) React
6 10 (4.98%) SOAP
7 8 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (3.98%) Blazor
7 8 (3.98%) WinForms
8 7 (3.48%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.48%) XML
9 6 (2.99%) jQuery
9 6 (2.99%) Kafka
9 6 (2.99%) LDAP
9 6 (2.99%) OAuth
9 6 (2.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.44%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.97%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.48%) Replication
6 6 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.49%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.99%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.49%) NHS
9 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.00%) LIMS
10 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.00%) SystemC
11 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.96%) Windows
2 10 (4.98%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.81%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (29.35%) DevOps
3 50 (24.88%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (23.88%) CI/CD
5 43 (21.39%) Performance Tuning
6 39 (19.40%) ETL
7 36 (17.91%) Agile
8 33 (16.42%) Data Modelling
9 29 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (12.94%) Analytics
11 24 (11.94%) Software Engineering
12 21 (10.45%) SDLC
13 20 (9.95%) AI
13 20 (9.95%) Data Integration
13 20 (9.95%) Mentoring
13 20 (9.95%) Root Cause Analysis
14 17 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (8.46%) Secure Coding
14 17 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (7.96%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 201 (100.00%) SQL
2 75 (37.31%) C#
3 36 (17.91%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.42%) Python
5 18 (8.96%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (5.97%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.98%) VBA
8 8 (3.98%) VBScript
9 7 (3.48%) Delphi
9 7 (3.48%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.49%) Bash
11 3 (1.49%) XPath
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 1 (0.50%) Java
13 1 (0.50%) Tcl
13 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (6.97%) Degree
2 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (1.99%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.99%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.42%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.97%) QA
3 11 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.48%) SLA
5 6 (2.99%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (7.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.49%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.99%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 84 (41.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.97%) Oracle
3 8 (3.98%) iManage
3 8 (3.98%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.48%) Intapp
4 7 (3.48%) RedGate
5 6 (2.99%) Databricks
5 6 (2.99%) SAP
6 5 (2.49%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.49%) Remedy
6 5 (2.49%) Teradata
7 4 (1.99%) IFS
8 3 (1.49%) Epicor
8 3 (1.49%) Google
8 3 (1.49%) Infor
8 3 (1.49%) Veeam
8 3 (1.49%) VMware
9 2 (1.00%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.00%) SolarWinds