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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 365 335
Rank change year-on-year -219 -30 -104
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 205 357 677
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.72% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 2.53% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 174 282 507
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,918 £36,365
25th Percentile £44,375 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,688 £65,000 £66,375
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £77,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -

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 18,470 14,138 25,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 28.50% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,121 9,294 17,967
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 15 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 7 August 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 -189 195 £55,000 -4.35% 71
UK excluding London -158 144 £52,500 +1.94% 47
Work from Home -68 89 £60,000 +14.29% 43
London -81 52 £70,000 - 32
South East -24 45 £52,500 +16.67% 16
North of England -92 34 £47,500 -20.83% 17
Midlands -71 23 £47,500 -2.06% 8
North West -12 19 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East of England -36 18 £62,500 +51.52%
West Midlands -41 17 £44,000 -23.48% 7
South West -65 17 £51,250 +2.50% 3
Yorkshire -58 13 £45,000 -25.00% 5
Scotland +14 7 - - 2
East Midlands -55 6 £59,366 +26.99% 1
North East -57 2 £45,500 -13.33% 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 14 (6.83%) IIS
1 14 (6.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.93%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.44%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.95%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (1.95%) Elite 3E
4 4 (1.95%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.95%) JDE World
5 2 (0.98%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.98%) Magento
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.98%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.98%) Shopify
6 1 (0.49%) FastStats
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 114 (55.61%) Azure
2 69 (33.66%) Power Platform
3 36 (17.56%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.76%) AWS
5 18 (8.78%) Power Automate
6 17 (8.29%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (7.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (7.32%) SaaS
9 14 (6.83%) PowerApps
10 12 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (5.37%) Entra ID
11 11 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (4.88%) GitHub
12 10 (4.88%) Serverless
13 8 (3.90%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.93%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.93%) Google Workspace
15 4 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (1.95%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.95%) Firewall
2 3 (1.46%) Broadband
2 3 (1.46%) DNS
2 3 (1.46%) VLAN
3 2 (0.98%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (65.37%) SQL Server
2 57 (27.80%) Power BI
3 51 (24.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 41 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (8.29%) Power Query
7 16 (7.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (4.88%) Relational Database
8 10 (4.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (3.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.93%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.93%) Star Schema
11 4 (1.95%) Db2
11 4 (1.95%) MySQL
11 4 (1.95%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.46%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 26 (12.68%) Git
2 15 (7.32%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (4.39%) JIRA
5 2 (0.98%) Postman
5 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) Yeoman
General
1 65 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 49 (23.90%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.10%) Finance
4 21 (10.24%) Law
5 13 (6.34%) Legal
6 10 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.41%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.93%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.44%) Retail
10 3 (1.46%) Back Office
10 3 (1.46%) Billing
10 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Games
10 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.98%) Automotive
11 2 (0.98%) Local Government
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (43.90%) Developer
2 35 (17.07%) Senior
3 32 (15.61%) Analyst
4 22 (10.73%) .NET Developer
5 20 (9.76%) SQL Developer
6 18 (8.78%) DBA
6 18 (8.78%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.29%) Applications Support
7 17 (8.29%) SQL DBA
8 16 (7.80%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.32%) Data Engineer
10 14 (6.83%) SQL Server DBA
11 11 (5.37%) Applications Support Analyst
11 11 (5.37%) Data Analyst
11 11 (5.37%) Lead
12 10 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 10 (4.88%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.39%) Support Analyst
14 8 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (3.90%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (32.20%) .NET
2 19 (9.27%) REST
3 14 (6.83%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.83%) ASP.NET
3 14 (6.83%) HTML
4 13 (6.34%) CSS
4 13 (6.34%) SOAP
5 12 (5.85%) .NET Framework
5 12 (5.85%) JSON
6 10 (4.88%) XML
7 9 (4.39%) Entity Framework
7 9 (4.39%) Kafka
7 9 (4.39%) WinForms
8 8 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.90%) Blazor
9 7 (3.41%) jQuery
9 7 (3.41%) React
9 7 (3.41%) WPF
10 6 (2.93%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (2.93%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.73%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.83%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.37%) Replication
4 9 (4.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.39%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.39%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.93%) Legacy Code
5 6 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.95%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.95%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.46%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.46%) LIMS
8 3 (1.46%) NHS
8 3 (1.46%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.27%) Windows
2 10 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.49%) Linux
4 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.12%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (29.76%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (25.37%) Performance Tuning
4 46 (22.44%) DevOps
5 40 (19.51%) Data Modelling
6 38 (18.54%) CI/CD
6 38 (18.54%) ETL
7 36 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (16.59%) Agile
9 29 (14.15%) Analytics
10 20 (9.76%) Roadmaps
11 19 (9.27%) AI
11 19 (9.27%) Mentoring
11 19 (9.27%) Root Cause Analysis
11 19 (9.27%) Validation
12 18 (8.78%) Decision-Making
12 18 (8.78%) Secure Coding
12 18 (8.78%) Software Engineering
13 17 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (8.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 202 (98.54%) SQL
2 67 (32.68%) C#
3 40 (19.51%) PowerShell
4 34 (16.59%) Python
5 24 (11.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.80%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.85%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.39%) VBScript
9 7 (3.41%) VBA
10 6 (2.93%) Bash
11 5 (2.44%) Delphi
11 5 (2.44%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.95%) R
12 4 (1.95%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.46%) Java
14 2 (0.98%) VB
14 2 (0.98%) XPath
15 1 (0.49%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (8.29%) Degree
2 5 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (1.95%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.46%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.46%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.61%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.29%) QA
3 12 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.41%) SLA
5 6 (2.93%) NIST
6 3 (1.46%) GDPR
6 3 (1.46%) NCSC
7 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) HL7
8 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (9.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.44%) Docker
3 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.44%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.95%) Terraform
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.49%) SCCM
3 1 (0.49%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 80 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.34%) Oracle
3 9 (4.39%) iManage
3 9 (4.39%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.41%) SAP
5 6 (2.93%) Databricks
5 6 (2.93%) IFS
5 6 (2.93%) Infor
5 6 (2.93%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.44%) RedGate
6 5 (2.44%) Remedy
7 4 (1.95%) Epicor
7 4 (1.95%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.46%) Google
8 3 (1.46%) Intapp
8 3 (1.46%) Veeam
8 3 (1.46%) VMware
9 2 (0.98%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (0.98%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.98%) WooCommerce