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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 363 258
Rank change year-on-year -140 -105 +1
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 233 354 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.80% 1.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 2.53% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 153 272 913
10th Percentile £35,150 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £65,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,875 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.77% -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 16,555 13,971 33,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 31.60% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11,594 9,186 25,567
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,625 £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 £110,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -158 195 £50,000 -13.04% 67
UK excluding London -87 171 £47,500 -7.77% 55
Work from Home -5 135 £47,500 -13.64% 47
London -80 55 £67,500 -3.57% 23
South East -24 38 £45,000 - 18
North of England -67 36 £47,500 -20.83% 16
Scotland +38 32 - - 3
Midlands -47 28 £45,000 -7.22% 1
North West +5 21 £60,000 +23.08% 10
South West -47 20 £47,500 -2.56% 8
West Midlands -25 19 £44,000 -23.48%
East of England -30 14 £55,750 +32.74% 6
Yorkshire -72 13 £45,000 -25.00% 2
East Midlands -46 9 £59,000 +24.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
North East -47 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 11 (4.72%) 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
1 146 (62.66%) Azure
2 66 (28.33%) 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
7 20 (8.58%) SaaS
8 19 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (8.15%) Power Automate
9 17 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (7.30%) PowerApps
10 16 (6.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (5.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (4.72%) GitHub
13 9 (3.86%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.43%) Serverless
15 7 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
17 5 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
18 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 59 (25.32%) Power BI
3 47 (20.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 43 (18.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (8.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.44%) Power Query
7 12 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.72%) MySQL
9 10 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (4.29%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.43%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.15%) Metadata
12 4 (1.72%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.86%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
15 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 86 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 57 (24.46%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (20.17%) 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%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (33.91%) Developer
2 54 (23.18%) Senior
3 47 (20.17%) Analyst
4 21 (9.01%) Applications Support
5 20 (8.58%) IAM Developer
5 20 (8.58%) Senior Developer
5 20 (8.58%) Support Analyst
6 19 (8.15%) 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%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.15%) SQL Analyst
11 12 (5.15%) SQL DBA
12 10 (4.29%) .NET Developer
13 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%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.46%) Cyber Threat
1 50 (21.46%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.58%) 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%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
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%) LIMS
11 2 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.01%) Windows
2 8 (3.43%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.72%) Linux
5 3 (1.29%) VMS
6 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 54 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (22.75%) Cybersecurity
5 53 (22.75%) Identity Access Management
6 50 (21.46%) Programme Delivery
6 50 (21.46%) Regulatory Compliance
7 45 (19.31%) Performance Tuning
8 41 (17.60%) Data Modelling
9 35 (15.02%) Agile
10 34 (14.59%) CI/CD
10 34 (14.59%) ETL
11 33 (14.16%) Analytics
12 32 (13.73%) DevOps
12 32 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (12.45%) Change Control
13 29 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (9.01%) Decision-Making
15 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 44 (18.88%) Python
6 22 (9.44%) 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%) Bicep
12 2 (0.86%) Delphi
12 2 (0.86%) VB
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (9.87%) 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 4 (1.72%) 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 7 (3.00%) 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 77 (33.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.72%) Oracle
3 9 (3.86%) Databricks
4 8 (3.43%) iManage
5 7 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.00%) WooCommerce
6 6 (2.58%) ConnectWise
6 6 (2.58%) IFS
6 6 (2.58%) Infor
6 6 (2.58%) SAP
7 4 (1.72%) Epicor
7 4 (1.72%) JD Edwards
7 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.72%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.29%) Google
8 3 (1.29%) RedGate
8 3 (1.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.86%) Veeam
9 2 (0.86%) VMware