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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 332 231
Rank change year-on-year -133 -101 +46
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 243 345 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.84% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.61% 2.52% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 156 283 995
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,010 £37,219
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,999 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% -11.82% +6.80%

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 15,090 13,673 32,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.79% 33.17% 34.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,358 10,252 25,015
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,475
25th Percentile £46,891 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,625 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 13 April 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 17 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 13 April 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 -170 193 £48,500 -15.65% 105
UK excluding London -76 189 £47,500 -2.06% 86
Work from Home -41 135 £47,500 -15.18% 71
Midlands -42 49 £48,500 - 15
London -97 49 £57,500 -12.38% 34
Scotland +26 42 - - 8
North of England -87 34 £51,000 -15.00% 25
West Midlands +3 30 £42,500 -22.73% 6
South East -29 29 £42,500 -14.55% 24
Yorkshire -76 20 £47,000 -21.67% 9
East Midlands -61 19 £59,000 +24.21% 9
South West -41 18 £42,500 +6.25% 4
East of England -47 12 £62,500 +31.58% 8
North West -35 11 £60,000 +37.14% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 - 1
North East -32 3 £51,000 -11.30% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 10 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.88%) IIS
4 4 (1.65%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.65%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.23%) Confluence
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.82%) CMS
6 2 (0.82%) WordPress
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (7.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.12%) Magento
1 10 (4.12%) Shopify
2 9 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (1.23%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.82%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.41%) JDE OneWorld
5 1 (0.41%) JDE World
5 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 145 (59.67%) Azure
2 67 (27.57%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.05%) Google Workspace
4 54 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 29 (11.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.00%) AWS
7 17 (7.00%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (7.00%) SaaS
8 15 (6.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (6.17%) GitHub
8 15 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (5.35%) Power Automate
10 12 (4.94%) PowerApps
11 8 (3.29%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.88%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.65%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.05%) Broadband
2 3 (1.23%) DNS
2 3 (1.23%) Firewall
3 2 (0.82%) DHCP
3 2 (0.82%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.82%) SSL
3 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.82%) VLAN
3 2 (0.82%) Wireless
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) Network Security
4 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (48.56%) SQL Server
2 52 (21.40%) Power BI
3 41 (16.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 41 (16.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 30 (12.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (7.41%) Data Lake
6 14 (5.76%) Power Query
7 13 (5.35%) Metadata
7 13 (5.35%) MySQL
8 12 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (4.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 9 (3.70%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.65%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.65%) Tableau
13 3 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.82%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (7.82%) JIRA
2 12 (4.94%) Git
3 5 (2.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.23%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.41%) Yeoman
General
1 94 (38.68%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.69%) Organisational Skills
3 49 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (16.05%) Finance
5 38 (15.64%) Games
6 13 (5.35%) Law
7 12 (4.94%) Back Office
8 6 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.47%) Legal
8 6 (2.47%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.47%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.65%) Retail
10 3 (1.23%) Banking
10 3 (1.23%) Marketing
11 2 (0.82%) Billing
11 2 (0.82%) Front Office
11 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Automotive
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 62 (25.51%) Developer
2 56 (23.05%) Senior
3 55 (22.63%) Analyst
4 30 (12.35%) Support Analyst
5 28 (11.52%) Applications Support
6 27 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.47%) DBA
7 23 (9.47%) Senior Developer
8 21 (8.64%) IAM Developer
8 21 (8.64%) SQL DBA
9 19 (7.82%) Data Engineer
10 16 (6.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 16 (6.58%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (5.76%) SQL Developer
12 13 (5.35%) C# Developer
12 13 (5.35%) Data Analyst
13 12 (4.94%) SQL Analyst
14 11 (4.53%) Architect
15 9 (3.70%) Administrator
15 9 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (30.45%) REST
2 68 (27.98%) SOAP
3 57 (23.46%) OAuth
3 57 (23.46%) OpenID
4 56 (23.05%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.05%) LDAP
4 56 (23.05%) SAML
5 39 (16.05%) .NET
6 14 (5.76%) ASP.NET
6 14 (5.76%) XML
7 13 (5.35%) JSON
8 10 (4.12%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.70%) .NET Framework
9 9 (3.70%) Middleware
9 9 (3.70%) PySpark
10 8 (3.29%) CSS
10 8 (3.29%) HTML
11 7 (2.88%) Entity Framework
12 6 (2.47%) DirectX
12 6 (2.47%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.05%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.05%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.70%) Clustering
6 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.29%) Replication
7 7 (2.88%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.47%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (2.47%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.65%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.82%) Derivative
12 2 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
12 2 (0.82%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.17%) Windows
2 9 (3.70%) Linux
3 7 (2.88%) VMS
4 6 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.82%) Android
5 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (28.40%) Mentoring
2 67 (27.57%) Roadmaps
3 59 (24.28%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (23.05%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (23.05%) Identity Access Management
4 56 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (23.05%) Programme Delivery
4 56 (23.05%) Regulatory Compliance
5 47 (19.34%) Analytics
6 46 (18.93%) Data Modelling
7 39 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (15.64%) ETL
9 34 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (13.58%) DevOps
10 33 (13.58%) Performance Tuning
11 29 (11.93%) Agile
11 29 (11.93%) Decision-Making
12 28 (11.52%) Change Control
13 27 (11.11%) CI/CD
13 27 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 210 (86.42%) SQL
2 83 (34.16%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.05%) Bash
4 46 (18.93%) Python
5 41 (16.87%) C#
6 21 (8.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.88%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.47%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.06%) Java
9 5 (2.06%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.65%) R
11 3 (1.23%) VBA
12 2 (0.82%) Bicep
12 2 (0.82%) Scala
13 1 (0.41%) Delphi
13 1 (0.41%) PHP
13 1 (0.41%) VB
13 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (11.52%) Degree
2 7 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.47%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.82%) MCSE
6 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.41%) MCITP
6 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.05%) NCSC
1 56 (23.05%) NIST
2 43 (17.70%) Data Quality
3 36 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.35%) QA
5 6 (2.47%) GDPR
6 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.82%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (28.40%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.06%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.88%) Terraform
2 6 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.41%) SCCM
3 1 (0.41%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 74 (30.45%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.64%) Databricks
3 10 (4.12%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.70%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.29%) Oracle
6 6 (2.47%) RedGate
7 4 (1.65%) Sage
7 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.65%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.65%) Xamarin
8 3 (1.23%) IFS
8 3 (1.23%) Infor
8 3 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) Citrix
9 2 (0.82%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.82%) SAP
9 2 (0.82%) Talend
9 2 (0.82%) VMware
9 2 (0.82%) Zoho