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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 331 230
Rank change year-on-year -136 -101 +45
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 244 344 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.84% 1.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 2.53% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 156 283 998
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,010 £37,235
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% -4.35%
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 15,044 13,610 32,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 33.11% 34.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,325 10,242 24,956
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,475
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +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 12 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 12 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 -169 193 £48,500 -15.65% 96
UK excluding London -72 190 £47,500 -2.06% 76
Work from Home -29 135 £47,500 -15.18% 59
Midlands -43 49 £48,500 - 15
London -102 49 £57,500 -12.38% 33
Scotland +21 42 - - 7
North of England -88 34 £51,000 -15.00% 22
West Midlands -1 30 £42,500 -22.73% 5
South East -28 29 £42,500 -14.55% 23
Yorkshire -71 20 £47,000 -21.67% 7
East Midlands -60 19 £59,000 +24.21% 10
South West -39 18 £42,500 +6.25% 3
East of England -46 12 £62,500 +31.58% 6
North West -39 11 £60,000 +37.14% 15
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -32 3 £51,000 -11.30%
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 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.87%) IIS
4 4 (1.64%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.64%) 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 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.10%) Magento
1 10 (4.10%) Shopify
2 9 (3.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.69%) 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
1 146 (59.84%) Azure
2 67 (27.46%) Entra ID
3 56 (22.95%) Google Workspace
4 55 (22.54%) Power Platform
5 30 (12.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.38%) AWS
8 17 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (6.97%) SaaS
9 15 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (6.15%) GitHub
9 15 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (5.33%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.92%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.28%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (2.87%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (1.64%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (22.95%) 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 (48.36%) SQL Server
2 53 (21.72%) Power BI
3 41 (16.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 41 (16.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 30 (12.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (7.38%) Data Lake
6 14 (5.74%) Power Query
7 13 (5.33%) Metadata
7 13 (5.33%) MySQL
8 12 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (4.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 9 (3.69%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.64%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.64%) 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 (7.79%) JIRA
2 12 (4.92%) Git
3 5 (2.05%) 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 (38.52%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.59%) Organisational Skills
3 49 (20.08%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (16.39%) Finance
5 38 (15.57%) Games
6 13 (5.33%) Law
7 12 (4.92%) Back Office
8 6 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.46%) Legal
8 6 (2.46%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.46%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.64%) 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 (25.41%) Developer
2 56 (22.95%) Senior
3 55 (22.54%) Analyst
4 30 (12.30%) Support Analyst
5 28 (11.48%) Applications Support
6 27 (11.07%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.43%) DBA
7 23 (9.43%) Senior Developer
8 21 (8.61%) IAM Developer
8 21 (8.61%) SQL DBA
9 20 (8.20%) Data Engineer
10 16 (6.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 16 (6.56%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (5.74%) SQL Developer
12 13 (5.33%) C# Developer
12 13 (5.33%) Data Analyst
13 12 (4.92%) SQL Analyst
14 11 (4.51%) Architect
15 9 (3.69%) Administrator
15 9 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.74%) REST
2 69 (28.28%) SOAP
3 57 (23.36%) OAuth
3 57 (23.36%) OpenID
4 56 (22.95%) GraphQL
4 56 (22.95%) LDAP
4 56 (22.95%) SAML
5 39 (15.98%) .NET
6 15 (6.15%) XML
7 14 (5.74%) ASP.NET
7 14 (5.74%) JSON
8 10 (4.10%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.69%) .NET Framework
9 9 (3.69%) Middleware
9 9 (3.69%) PySpark
10 8 (3.28%) CSS
10 8 (3.28%) HTML
11 7 (2.87%) Entity Framework
12 6 (2.46%) DirectX
12 6 (2.46%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.95%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (22.95%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.38%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.69%) Clustering
6 8 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.28%) Replication
7 7 (2.87%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.46%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (2.46%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.64%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.64%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.82%) Derivative
12 2 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.15%) Windows
2 9 (3.69%) Linux
3 7 (2.87%) VMS
4 6 (2.46%) 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 (28.28%) Mentoring
2 67 (27.46%) Roadmaps
3 60 (24.59%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (22.95%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (22.95%) Identity Access Management
4 56 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (22.95%) Programme Delivery
4 56 (22.95%) Regulatory Compliance
5 48 (19.67%) Analytics
6 47 (19.26%) Data Modelling
7 39 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (15.98%) ETL
8 34 (13.93%) Performance Tuning
8 34 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (13.52%) DevOps
10 29 (11.89%) Agile
10 29 (11.89%) Decision-Making
11 28 (11.48%) Change Control
11 28 (11.48%) CI/CD
11 28 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 211 (86.48%) SQL
2 83 (34.02%) PowerShell
3 56 (22.95%) Bash
4 47 (19.26%) Python
5 41 (16.80%) C#
6 21 (8.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.87%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.46%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.05%) Java
9 5 (2.05%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.64%) 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 (11.48%) Degree
2 7 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.46%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.82%) MCSE
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.41%) MCITP
7 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (22.95%) NCSC
1 56 (22.95%) NIST
2 43 (17.62%) Data Quality
3 36 (14.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.33%) QA
5 6 (2.46%) 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 (28.28%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.05%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.87%) Terraform
2 6 (2.46%) 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 75 (30.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.61%) Databricks
3 10 (4.10%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.69%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.69%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.28%) Oracle
6 6 (2.46%) RedGate
7 4 (1.64%) Sage
7 4 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.64%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.64%) 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