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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 366 319
Rank change year-on-year -228 -47 -96
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 200 339 659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.68% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 2.50% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 171 269 451
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,732 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year - +4.48% -4.29%

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 18,504 13,534 24,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.82% 27.16% 30.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,186 8,845 16,591
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
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 2 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 2 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 -197 190 £59,366 +3.25% 142
UK excluding London -183 135 £52,500 - 74
Work from Home -69 88 £62,500 +19.05% 51
London -90 55 £70,000 -6.67% 79
South East -37 49 £53,750 +13.16% 21
North of England -92 29 £47,500 -20.83% 17
East of England -28 19 £62,500 +51.52% 11
North West -17 17 £47,500 -17.39% 12
South West -79 16 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Midlands -80 16 £50,000 +1.52% 14
West Midlands -42 11 £50,000 -13.04% 11
Yorkshire -77 11 £45,000 -25.00% 4
Scotland -2 6 £85,000 +78.95% 2
East Midlands -52 5 £59,732 +23.16% 3
North East -63 1 £47,500 -9.52% 1

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 (7.00%) IIS
2 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (3.00%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.50%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.00%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.00%) JDE World
4 3 (1.50%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.00%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 114 (57.00%) Azure
2 64 (32.00%) Power Platform
3 38 (19.00%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.00%) AWS
5 17 (8.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 14 (7.00%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (6.50%) SaaS
9 12 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (6.00%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.50%) GitHub
10 9 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.50%) Serverless
11 8 (4.00%) Entra ID
11 8 (4.00%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.50%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.00%) GCP
13 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.00%) Firewall
2 3 (1.50%) DNS
2 3 (1.50%) VLAN
3 2 (1.00%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (66.00%) SQL Server
2 52 (26.00%) Power BI
3 50 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 39 (19.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (11.00%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (7.50%) Power Query
7 11 (5.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.00%) Star Schema
9 7 (3.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (3.00%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.00%) Db2
11 4 (2.00%) Metadata
11 4 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.00%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.50%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 26 (13.00%) Git
2 15 (7.50%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (4.00%) JIRA
5 2 (1.00%) Postman
5 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 61 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 49 (24.50%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.50%) Finance
4 20 (10.00%) Law
5 15 (7.50%) Legal
6 8 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.00%) Retail
10 3 (1.50%) Back Office
10 3 (1.50%) Billing
10 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.00%) Automotive
11 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.50%) Police
12 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 96 (48.00%) Developer
2 37 (18.50%) Senior
3 24 (12.00%) Analyst
4 23 (11.50%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.50%) SQL Developer
6 19 (9.50%) Software Developer
7 18 (9.00%) DBA
7 18 (9.00%) Senior Developer
8 17 (8.50%) Data Engineer
8 17 (8.50%) SQL DBA
9 15 (7.50%) SQL Server DBA
10 13 (6.50%) Applications Support
11 11 (5.50%) Lead
12 10 (5.00%) Data Analyst
12 10 (5.00%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (4.00%) Applications Developer
14 8 (4.00%) Software Support Engineer
15 7 (3.50%) 3rd Line Support
15 7 (3.50%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (33.50%) .NET
2 15 (7.50%) REST
3 14 (7.00%) ASP.NET
3 14 (7.00%) HTML
4 13 (6.50%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.50%) CSS
5 12 (6.00%) .NET Framework
6 11 (5.50%) JSON
7 9 (4.50%) Entity Framework
7 9 (4.50%) Kafka
7 9 (4.50%) SOAP
7 9 (4.50%) WinForms
7 9 (4.50%) XML
8 8 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (4.00%) Blazor
8 8 (4.00%) PySpark
9 7 (3.50%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.50%) jQuery
9 7 (3.50%) React
9 7 (3.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (5.00%) Replication
4 10 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.00%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.00%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.00%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.00%) NHS
9 3 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.50%) LIMS
9 3 (1.50%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.00%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.50%) Windows
2 10 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.00%) Linux
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.00%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (25.50%) Performance Tuning
4 50 (25.00%) DevOps
5 39 (19.50%) CI/CD
6 38 (19.00%) ETL
7 35 (17.50%) Agile
7 35 (17.50%) Data Modelling
8 33 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (12.50%) Analytics
10 21 (10.50%) SDLC
11 19 (9.50%) AI
11 19 (9.50%) Secure Coding
12 18 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 17 (8.50%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (8.50%) Software Engineering
13 17 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (8.00%) Clean Code
14 16 (8.00%) Roadmaps
14 16 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 199 (99.50%) SQL
2 68 (34.00%) C#
3 37 (18.50%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.50%) Python
5 21 (10.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.50%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.50%) VBScript
9 8 (4.00%) VBA
10 7 (3.50%) Delphi
11 6 (3.00%) VB.NET
12 4 (2.00%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.50%) Bash
13 3 (1.50%) XPath
14 2 (1.00%) Bicep
14 2 (1.00%) Java
14 2 (1.00%) R
14 2 (1.00%) VB
15 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (7.50%) Degree
2 5 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.50%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.00%) QA
3 11 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.00%) SLA
5 5 (2.50%) NIST
6 3 (1.50%) GDPR
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.50%) Docker
3 3 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.50%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 80 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.00%) Oracle
3 9 (4.50%) iManage
4 8 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.50%) SAP
6 6 (3.00%) Infor
6 6 (3.00%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.50%) Databricks
7 5 (2.50%) IFS
7 5 (2.50%) RedGate
7 5 (2.50%) Remedy
8 4 (2.00%) Epicor
8 4 (2.00%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.50%) Google
9 3 (1.50%) Intapp
9 3 (1.50%) Veeam
9 3 (1.50%) VMware
10 2 (1.00%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.00%) Rollbar