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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 330 229
Rank change year-on-year -147 -101 +48
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 245 339 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.83% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 2.51% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 157 278 1,007
10th Percentile £29,500 £38,825 £37,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,687 £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 14,882 13,499 31,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 32.99% 34.72%
Number of salaries quoted 10,286 10,249 24,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £55,565 £54,000
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.90% -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 10 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 10 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 -162 194 £48,500 -15.65% 98
UK excluding London -73 193 £47,500 -2.06% 91
Work from Home -33 135 £47,500 -15.18% 47
Midlands -49 50 £48,500 - 19
London -103 47 £57,500 -11.54% 23
Scotland +26 42 - - 8
North of England -90 34 £51,000 -15.00% 16
West Midlands -2 31 £42,500 -22.73% 8
South East -22 31 £42,500 -14.55% 23
Yorkshire -69 20 £47,000 -21.67% 6
East Midlands -67 19 £59,000 +24.21% 11
South West -44 18 £42,500 +6.25% 14
East of England -57 12 £62,500 +31.58% 10
North West -37 11 £60,000 +37.14% 9
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -31 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 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.67%) IIS
2 9 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.63%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.63%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.22%) Confluence
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.82%) CMS
5 2 (0.82%) WordPress
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.08%) Magento
1 10 (4.08%) Shopify
2 9 (3.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.67%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (1.22%) 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
1 147 (60.00%) Azure
2 67 (27.35%) Entra ID
3 56 (22.86%) Google Workspace
4 54 (22.04%) Power Platform
5 30 (12.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.35%) AWS
7 18 (7.35%) SaaS
8 17 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (6.12%) GitHub
9 15 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (5.31%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.90%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.27%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.04%) GCP
15 5 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 56 (22.86%) Broadband
2 3 (1.22%) DNS
2 3 (1.22%) 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 (48.16%) SQL Server
2 52 (21.22%) Power BI
3 43 (17.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (16.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 30 (12.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (7.35%) Data Lake
7 13 (5.31%) Metadata
7 13 (5.31%) MySQL
7 13 (5.31%) Power Query
8 12 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (4.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 9 (3.67%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.63%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.63%) Tableau
13 3 (1.22%) 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 (7.76%) JIRA
2 12 (4.90%) Git
3 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.22%) 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 95 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 59 (24.08%) Organisational Skills
3 49 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (16.33%) Finance
5 38 (15.51%) Games
6 13 (5.31%) Law
7 12 (4.90%) Back Office
8 6 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.45%) Legal
8 6 (2.45%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.45%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.22%) Banking
9 3 (1.22%) Marketing
9 3 (1.22%) Retail
10 2 (0.82%) Billing
10 2 (0.82%) Front Office
10 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Automotive
11 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (24.90%) Developer
2 57 (23.27%) Senior
3 56 (22.86%) Analyst
4 31 (12.65%) Support Analyst
5 29 (11.84%) Applications Support
6 28 (11.43%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.39%) DBA
7 23 (9.39%) Senior Developer
8 21 (8.57%) IAM Developer
8 21 (8.57%) SQL DBA
9 20 (8.16%) Data Engineer
10 16 (6.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 16 (6.53%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (5.71%) SQL Developer
12 13 (5.31%) C# Developer
12 13 (5.31%) Data Analyst
13 12 (4.90%) SQL Analyst
14 11 (4.49%) Architect
15 10 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.61%) REST
2 69 (28.16%) SOAP
3 57 (23.27%) OAuth
3 57 (23.27%) OpenID
4 56 (22.86%) GraphQL
4 56 (22.86%) LDAP
4 56 (22.86%) SAML
5 40 (16.33%) .NET
6 15 (6.12%) ASP.NET
6 15 (6.12%) XML
7 14 (5.71%) JSON
8 11 (4.49%) .NET Framework
9 10 (4.08%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.67%) Entity Framework
10 9 (3.67%) Middleware
10 9 (3.67%) PySpark
11 8 (3.27%) CSS
11 8 (3.27%) HTML
12 7 (2.86%) WinForms
13 6 (2.45%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.86%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (22.86%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.35%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.67%) Clustering
6 8 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.27%) Replication
7 7 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.45%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (2.45%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.63%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
12 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.94%) Windows
2 9 (3.67%) Linux
3 7 (2.86%) VMS
4 6 (2.45%) 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 68 (27.76%) Mentoring
1 68 (27.76%) Roadmaps
2 59 (24.08%) Business Intelligence
3 57 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (22.86%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (22.86%) Identity Access Management
4 56 (22.86%) Programme Delivery
4 56 (22.86%) Regulatory Compliance
5 48 (19.59%) Analytics
6 47 (19.18%) Data Modelling
7 39 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (15.92%) ETL
8 34 (13.88%) DevOps
8 34 (13.88%) Performance Tuning
8 34 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (11.84%) Agile
9 29 (11.84%) Decision-Making
10 28 (11.43%) Change Control
10 28 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (11.02%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 212 (86.53%) SQL
2 83 (33.88%) PowerShell
3 56 (22.86%) Bash
4 47 (19.18%) Python
5 42 (17.14%) C#
6 21 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.45%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.04%) Java
9 5 (2.04%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.63%) R
11 3 (1.22%) 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 30 (12.24%) Degree
2 9 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.45%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.22%) 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 (22.86%) NCSC
1 56 (22.86%) NIST
2 42 (17.14%) Data Quality
3 36 (14.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.31%) QA
5 6 (2.45%) 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 (28.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.63%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.86%) Terraform
2 5 (2.04%) 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 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.57%) Databricks
3 10 (4.08%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.67%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.67%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.27%) Oracle
6 6 (2.45%) RedGate
6 6 (2.45%) Sage
6 6 (2.45%) Xamarin
7 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.63%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.22%) IFS
8 3 (1.22%) Infor
8 3 (1.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.22%) Zoho
9 2 (0.82%) Google
9 2 (0.82%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.82%) SAP
9 2 (0.82%) Talend
9 2 (0.82%) VMware