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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 377 327
Rank change year-on-year -225 -50 -106
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 205 335 629
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.67% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 2.55% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 175 265 404
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,825 £36,876
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,892
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.20% -4.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,300 £81,500 £84,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 18,712 13,139 24,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.56% 26.45% 30.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,335 8,501 15,343
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,400
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.16% -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -212 195 £60,000 +9.09% 79
UK excluding London -197 141 £52,500 +1.94% 58
Work from Home -70 89 £62,500 +19.05% 35
London -90 55 £70,000 -12.50% 29
South East -21 51 £55,000 +10.00% 16
North of England -92 32 £53,750 -10.42% 9
East of England -33 20 £62,500 +54.32% 7
North West -12 18 £53,750 -6.52% 7
Midlands -85 16 £50,000 -2.44% 16
South West -87 16 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire -76 13 £60,500 +0.83% 2
West Midlands -46 11 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Scotland +2 6 £85,000 +78.95% 1
East Midlands -47 5 £59,732 +23.16% 2
North East -66 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 14 (6.83%) IIS
2 12 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.93%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.44%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.95%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.95%) JDE World
4 3 (1.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.98%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.98%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.49%) FastStats
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 116 (56.59%) Azure
2 65 (31.71%) Power Platform
3 39 (19.02%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 17 (8.29%) Power Automate
5 16 (7.80%) AWS
6 14 (6.83%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.34%) SaaS
8 12 (5.85%) PowerApps
9 9 (4.39%) GitHub
9 9 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.39%) Serverless
10 8 (3.90%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.90%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.44%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.95%) GCP
12 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.95%) Firewall
2 3 (1.46%) DNS
2 3 (1.46%) VLAN
3 2 (0.98%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (65.85%) SQL Server
2 53 (25.85%) Power BI
3 52 (25.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 39 (19.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (11.71%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (7.32%) Power Query
7 11 (5.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (3.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.90%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.90%) Star Schema
9 6 (2.93%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.95%) Db2
10 4 (1.95%) Metadata
10 4 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.95%) WhereScape RED
11 3 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.46%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.98%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 25 (12.20%) Git
2 15 (7.32%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (3.41%) JIRA
5 2 (0.98%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.49%) Yeoman
General
1 64 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 49 (23.90%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.10%) Finance
4 20 (9.76%) Law
5 15 (7.32%) Legal
6 8 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.93%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.93%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.95%) Retail
9 3 (1.46%) Back Office
9 3 (1.46%) Billing
9 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.98%) Automotive
10 2 (0.98%) Banking
10 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Police
11 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 98 (47.80%) Developer
2 40 (19.51%) Senior
3 25 (12.20%) Analyst
4 23 (11.22%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.24%) SQL Developer
6 20 (9.76%) Software Developer
7 18 (8.78%) Data Engineer
7 18 (8.78%) Senior Developer
8 17 (8.29%) DBA
9 16 (7.80%) SQL DBA
10 14 (6.83%) SQL Server DBA
11 13 (6.34%) Applications Support
12 12 (5.85%) Lead
13 10 (4.88%) Data Analyst
13 10 (4.88%) Support Engineer
14 9 (4.39%) Applications Developer
14 9 (4.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 8 (3.90%) Software Support Engineer
16 7 (3.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 7 (3.41%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (33.17%) .NET
2 15 (7.32%) REST
3 14 (6.83%) HTML
4 13 (6.34%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.34%) ASP.NET
4 13 (6.34%) CSS
5 11 (5.37%) .NET Framework
5 11 (5.37%) JSON
6 9 (4.39%) SOAP
6 9 (4.39%) WinForms
6 9 (4.39%) XML
7 8 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (3.90%) Blazor
7 8 (3.90%) Entity Framework
7 8 (3.90%) Kafka
7 8 (3.90%) PySpark
7 8 (3.90%) React
8 7 (3.41%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.41%) jQuery
8 7 (3.41%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (8.29%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (4.88%) Replication
4 10 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.93%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.93%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.95%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.95%) NHS
9 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.46%) LIMS
9 3 (1.46%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.98%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.27%) Windows
2 10 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.98%) Linux
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.05%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (27.32%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (24.88%) DevOps
4 50 (24.39%) Performance Tuning
5 42 (20.49%) ETL
6 40 (19.51%) CI/CD
7 36 (17.56%) Data Modelling
8 34 (16.59%) Agile
8 34 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (13.17%) Analytics
10 22 (10.73%) SDLC
11 20 (9.76%) AI
12 19 (9.27%) Secure Coding
13 18 (8.78%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (8.78%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (8.78%) Software Engineering
14 17 (8.29%) Mentoring
14 17 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (7.80%) Data Engineering
15 16 (7.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 204 (99.51%) SQL
2 69 (33.66%) C#
3 37 (18.05%) PowerShell
4 34 (16.59%) Python
5 21 (10.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 17 (8.29%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.34%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.39%) VBScript
9 8 (3.90%) Delphi
9 8 (3.90%) VBA
10 6 (2.93%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.95%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.46%) Bash
12 3 (1.46%) XPath
13 2 (0.98%) Bicep
13 2 (0.98%) Java
13 2 (0.98%) R
13 2 (0.98%) VB
14 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (7.32%) Degree
2 5 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.95%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.46%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.46%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.80%) QA
3 11 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.93%) SLA
5 5 (2.44%) NIST
6 3 (1.46%) GDPR
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.49%) HL7
7 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.44%) Docker
3 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.44%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.49%) SCCM
3 1 (0.49%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 84 (40.98%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.83%) Oracle
3 9 (4.39%) iManage
4 8 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.41%) SAP
6 6 (2.93%) Infor
6 6 (2.93%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.44%) Databricks
7 5 (2.44%) IFS
7 5 (2.44%) RedGate
7 5 (2.44%) Remedy
8 4 (1.95%) Epicor
8 4 (1.95%) Intapp
8 4 (1.95%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.46%) Google
9 3 (1.46%) Teradata
9 3 (1.46%) Veeam
9 3 (1.46%) VMware
10 2 (0.98%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.98%) OpenAI