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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 306 227
Rank change year-on-year -111 -79 +6
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 256 571 826
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.85% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.13% 2.66% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 209 344 745
10th Percentile £32,225 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,800 £83,562 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -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 12,032 21,446 21,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 31.92% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 8,638 12,721 17,353
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £105,000
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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -93 229 £50,500 - 135
UK excluding London -48 178 £48,000 +1.05% 95
Work from Home -56 98 £50,000 - 85
London -95 67 £80,000 +28.00% 55
South East +23 49 £42,500 -14.55% 17
Midlands +35 48 £45,000 - 15
North of England +1 35 £50,000 +2.56% 27
West Midlands +22 29 £42,500 -5.56% 9
Yorkshire +2 24 £40,000 -17.95% 11
South West +18 21 £50,000 -6.98% 18
East Midlands +19 19 £48,500 +7.78% 6
Scotland -5 14 £37,500 -16.67% 8
North East +11 6 £51,875 +23.51% 1
East of England -21 6 £50,000 +5.26% 7
North West -4 5 £57,500 +15.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 3 £50,000 - 1
Isle of Man +10 1 - -
Wales +9 1 £35,000 -18.13% 4

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 16 (6.25%) IIS
2 11 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.17%) CMS
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.78%) WordPress
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 27 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.17%) Sage 1000
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (53.91%) Azure
2 71 (27.73%) Power Platform
3 48 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 47 (18.36%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (8.20%) Snowflake
7 19 (7.42%) AWS
8 18 (7.03%) GCP
9 16 (6.25%) GitHub
10 14 (5.47%) SaaS
11 12 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (4.30%) Entra ID
12 11 (4.30%) PowerApps
13 9 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (2.73%) Power Automate
16 6 (2.34%) Azure Functions
16 6 (2.34%) Google Workspace
16 6 (2.34%) Serverless
17 5 (1.95%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.34%) Broadband
2 2 (0.78%) DHCP
2 2 (0.78%) DNS
2 2 (0.78%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.78%) Firewall
2 2 (0.78%) SSL
2 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.78%) VLAN
2 2 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 72 (28.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 70 (27.34%) Power BI
4 64 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 38 (14.84%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (13.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 30 (11.72%) Data Lake
7 30 (11.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 14 (5.47%) Metadata
9 12 (4.69%) MySQL
9 12 (4.69%) NoSQL
9 12 (4.69%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.13%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.73%) OLAP
13 6 (2.34%) Data Mining
13 6 (2.34%) MongoDB
13 6 (2.34%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.95%) Tableau
15 4 (1.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (8.20%) Git
2 8 (3.13%) JIRA
2 8 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
3 7 (2.73%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.34%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.34%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.39%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 95 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.00%) Finance
3 46 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.08%) Law
4 13 (5.08%) Manufacturing
5 12 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.30%) Legal
7 10 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.91%) Retail
8 9 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.73%) Games
11 6 (2.34%) Back Office
12 5 (1.95%) Automotive
13 4 (1.56%) Billing
13 4 (1.56%) Marketing
14 3 (1.17%) Advertising
14 3 (1.17%) Front Office
14 3 (1.17%) Social Housing
14 3 (1.17%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 84 (32.81%) Developer
2 52 (20.31%) Senior
3 44 (17.19%) Data Engineer
4 43 (16.80%) Analyst
5 33 (12.89%) SQL Developer
6 28 (10.94%) DBA
7 25 (9.77%) SQL DBA
8 24 (9.38%) Applications Support
8 24 (9.38%) Support Analyst
9 22 (8.59%) Software Engineer
10 21 (8.20%) Applications Support Analyst
10 21 (8.20%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (6.64%) Senior Developer
12 16 (6.25%) IT Support
13 15 (5.86%) Administrator
14 14 (5.47%) Support Engineer
15 13 (5.08%) IT Engineer
15 13 (5.08%) IT Support Engineer
16 12 (4.69%) Software Support Engineer
17 10 (3.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (18.75%) .NET
2 23 (8.98%) .NET Framework
2 23 (8.98%) ASP.NET
2 23 (8.98%) CSS
3 22 (8.59%) HTML
4 21 (8.20%) REST
5 19 (7.42%) Entity Framework
6 15 (5.86%) PySpark
7 12 (4.69%) SOAP
7 12 (4.69%) Web Services
7 12 (4.69%) WinForms
8 11 (4.30%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.30%) JSON
9 10 (3.91%) .NET Core
9 10 (3.91%) XML
10 9 (3.52%) React
11 6 (2.34%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.34%) LDAP
11 6 (2.34%) OAuth
11 6 (2.34%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.64%) Data Structures
2 13 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.30%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.91%) Clustering
5 6 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.34%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.95%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.17%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.17%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.17%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.78%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (0.78%) Derivative
9 2 (0.78%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.98%) Windows
2 9 (3.52%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.95%) Linux
4 2 (0.78%) Android
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.78%) VMS
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.77%) Business Intelligence
2 76 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (27.73%) ETL
4 68 (26.56%) DevOps
5 47 (18.36%) Data Pipeline
6 46 (17.97%) Analytics
7 45 (17.58%) Agile
8 39 (15.23%) Data Engineering
9 36 (14.06%) Data Modelling
10 35 (13.67%) CI/CD
11 34 (13.28%) Software Engineering
12 30 (11.72%) Decision-Making
13 24 (9.38%) Mentoring
14 23 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (8.20%) Dimensional Modelling
16 20 (7.81%) Machine Learning
16 20 (7.81%) Performance Tuning
16 20 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (7.42%) Computer Science
17 19 (7.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 247 (96.48%) SQL
2 59 (23.05%) Python
3 52 (20.31%) C#
4 25 (9.77%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.86%) PL/SQL
7 12 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.34%) Bash
8 6 (2.34%) VB.NET
9 5 (1.95%) Java
10 4 (1.56%) VBA
11 3 (1.17%) Bicep
11 3 (1.17%) PHP
12 2 (0.78%) C++
12 2 (0.78%) Scala
12 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.78%) X++
13 1 (0.39%) Dart
13 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (14.45%) Degree
2 17 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.52%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.95%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.56%) ACCA
5 4 (1.56%) CIMA
5 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.78%) MCSE
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.30%) GDPR
3 10 (3.91%) QA
4 6 (2.34%) NCSC
4 6 (2.34%) NIST
5 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.13%) Docker
3 5 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 12 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.56%) Terraform
3 3 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 94 (36.72%) Microsoft
2 44 (17.19%) Databricks
3 20 (7.81%) Oracle
4 16 (6.25%) Sage
5 12 (4.69%) Xamarin
6 10 (3.91%) RedGate
7 8 (3.13%) Google
8 7 (2.73%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.34%) Informatica
9 6 (2.34%) Talend
10 5 (1.95%) VMware
10 5 (1.95%) Zoho
11 4 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.56%) Dataiku
11 4 (1.56%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.56%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.78%) Aderant
12 2 (0.78%) iManage
12 2 (0.78%) Intapp
12 2 (0.78%) Lotus