T-SQL Job Trends

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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 301 226
Rank change year-on-year -126 -75 +7
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 236 528 771
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.95% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.04% 2.81% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 187 320 680
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,438 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,125 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,562 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -

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 11,594 18,762 20,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.54% 33.88% 39.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8,503 11,078 16,636
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +2.36% -2.31%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 18 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 29 December 2025. 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 -129 203 £50,000 -4.76% 143
UK excluding London -51 172 £48,500 +2.11% 139
Work from Home -53 104 £48,500 -3.00% 99
London -92 57 £80,000 +28.00% 28
Midlands +2 47 £50,000 +11.11% 28
North of England -22 38 £40,000 -15.79% 28
South East +1 36 £40,000 -20.00% 33
Yorkshire +6 31 £40,000 -12.92% 11
West Midlands +15 29 £47,500 +10.47% 17
Scotland +11 23 £37,500 -17.58% 18
South West +4 18 £50,000 -6.98% 18
East Midlands -20 18 £50,000 +8.11% 10
North East +13 4 £51,750 -31.00% 1
East of England -18 4 £42,175 -11.21% 11
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 - 3
North West -13 3 £57,500 +21.05% 16
Wales +1 1 £35,000 -18.13% 2
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 17 (7.20%) IIS
2 11 (4.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.27%) CMS
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Confluence
4 2 (0.85%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.85%) WordPress
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 26 (11.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.12%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (2.12%) Magento
2 5 (2.12%) Shopify
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 123 (52.12%) Azure
2 50 (21.19%) Power Platform
3 44 (18.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (10.17%) Entra ID
6 21 (8.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 19 (8.05%) Google Workspace
8 18 (7.63%) GitHub
8 18 (7.63%) Snowflake
9 14 (5.93%) AWS
10 13 (5.51%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (5.08%) PowerApps
11 12 (5.08%) SaaS
12 10 (4.24%) GCP
12 10 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.97%) Power Automate
14 5 (2.12%) dbt
14 5 (2.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.05%) Broadband
2 3 (1.27%) DNS
3 2 (0.85%) DHCP
3 2 (0.85%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.85%) Firewall
3 2 (0.85%) SSL
3 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.85%) VLAN
3 2 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (53.81%) SQL Server
2 54 (22.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 50 (21.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 49 (20.76%) Power BI
5 31 (13.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 29 (12.29%) Data Lake
7 22 (9.32%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (9.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 15 (6.36%) Metadata
9 10 (4.24%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.81%) MySQL
11 7 (2.97%) OLAP
11 7 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.12%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.12%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
14 3 (1.27%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.27%) GIS
14 3 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.78%) Git
2 15 (6.36%) JIRA
3 8 (3.39%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (2.54%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.54%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.42%) Mercurial
General
1 92 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.03%) Finance
3 45 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.05%) Games
4 19 (8.05%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.81%) Back Office
6 9 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.81%) Law
7 8 (3.39%) Legal
8 7 (2.97%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.69%) Billing
10 3 (1.27%) Front Office
10 3 (1.27%) Retail
11 2 (0.85%) Advertising
11 2 (0.85%) Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 67 (28.39%) Developer
2 57 (24.15%) Senior
3 43 (18.22%) Analyst
4 38 (16.10%) Data Engineer
5 29 (12.29%) Support Analyst
6 28 (11.86%) Applications Support
6 28 (11.86%) DBA
7 25 (10.59%) Applications Support Analyst
7 25 (10.59%) SQL DBA
8 21 (8.90%) SQL Developer
9 20 (8.47%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (8.05%) Senior Developer
11 18 (7.63%) Software Engineer
12 15 (6.36%) Administrator
13 13 (5.51%) IT Engineer
13 13 (5.51%) IT Support
13 13 (5.51%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (5.51%) Support Engineer
14 12 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (5.08%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (18.22%) .NET
2 38 (16.10%) REST
3 30 (12.71%) SOAP
4 20 (8.47%) OAuth
4 20 (8.47%) OpenID
5 19 (8.05%) .NET Framework
5 19 (8.05%) GraphQL
5 19 (8.05%) LDAP
5 19 (8.05%) SAML
6 15 (6.36%) ASP.NET
6 15 (6.36%) Entity Framework
7 13 (5.51%) CSS
7 13 (5.51%) HTML
8 12 (5.08%) WinForms
9 11 (4.66%) JSON
10 10 (4.24%) .NET Core
10 10 (4.24%) XML
11 8 (3.39%) PySpark
12 7 (2.97%) Middleware
12 7 (2.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.05%) Cyber Threat
1 19 (8.05%) Cyberattack
2 15 (6.36%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.51%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.08%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.81%) Clustering
6 6 (2.54%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.69%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.85%) Derivative
10 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.85%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.42%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.17%) Windows
2 10 (4.24%) Linux
3 6 (2.54%) VMS
3 6 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.85%) Android
4 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (26.27%) ETL
3 61 (25.85%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (23.73%) DevOps
5 48 (20.34%) Analytics
6 43 (18.22%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (16.53%) Agile
7 39 (16.53%) Data Modelling
8 35 (14.83%) Mentoring
9 34 (14.41%) Software Engineering
10 33 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (13.14%) Data Engineering
12 30 (12.71%) CI/CD
13 27 (11.44%) Roadmaps
14 26 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (10.59%) Decision-Making
16 23 (9.75%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (8.90%) AI
18 19 (8.05%) Identity Access Management
18 19 (8.05%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 221 (93.64%) SQL
2 49 (20.76%) Python
3 46 (19.49%) C#
4 38 (16.10%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.05%) Bash
5 19 (8.05%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.93%) PL/SQL
7 11 (4.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.69%) Bicep
8 4 (1.69%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.27%) PHP
9 3 (1.27%) Scala
10 2 (0.85%) C++
10 2 (0.85%) Java
10 2 (0.85%) VBA
11 1 (0.42%) Dart
11 1 (0.42%) R
11 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (14.41%) Degree
2 15 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.66%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.12%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.69%) ACCA
5 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.69%) CIMA
5 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.85%) MCSE
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) MCITP
7 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.83%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.05%) NCSC
2 19 (8.05%) NIST
3 11 (4.66%) GDPR
3 11 (4.66%) QA
4 7 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (11.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.12%) Docker
3 2 (0.85%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.97%) Terraform
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 89 (37.71%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.68%) Databricks
3 20 (8.47%) Oracle
4 13 (5.51%) Sage
5 12 (5.08%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.39%) RedGate
7 5 (2.12%) ConnectWise
7 5 (2.12%) Google
7 5 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.12%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.12%) Zoho
8 4 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.69%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.69%) Informatica
8 4 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.69%) Talend
9 2 (0.85%) Aderant
9 2 (0.85%) iManage
9 2 (0.85%) Intapp