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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 363 260
Rank change year-on-year -152 -103 -4
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 229 345 1,103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.76% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 2.46% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 164 274 877
10th Percentile £39,721 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £67,813 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +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 17,088 14,028 33,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 30.80% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,120 9,259 25,320
10th Percentile £36,795 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%

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 27 June 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 16 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 27 June 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 -173 200 £52,500 -8.70% 60
UK excluding London -108 162 £48,000 -6.80% 48
Work from Home -8 126 £52,500 -4.55% 37
London -77 59 £70,000 - 21
South East -28 42 £48,000 +6.67% 16
North of England -64 35 £47,500 -20.83% 20
Midlands -62 25 £45,000 -7.22% 4
Scotland +28 24 - - 1
North West +2 22 £53,750 - 11
South West -50 21 £48,750 -2.50% 4
West Midlands -23 17 £44,000 -23.48% 3
East of England -31 13 £62,500 +48.81% 3
Yorkshire -67 11 £45,000 -25.00% 8
East Midlands -48 8 £59,000 +22.92% 1
North East -45 2 £45,500 -17.27% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1

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 20 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.11%) IIS
3 7 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) JBoss
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.06%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.62%) Infor M3
4 5 (2.18%) Magento
4 5 (2.18%) Shopify
5 4 (1.75%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.75%) JDE World
5 4 (1.75%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.87%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.87%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.44%) FastStats
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 146 (63.76%) Azure
2 68 (29.69%) Power Platform
3 53 (23.14%) Entra ID
4 42 (18.34%) Google Workspace
5 23 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.61%) AWS
6 22 (9.61%) SaaS
7 21 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (7.86%) Power Automate
9 17 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (6.11%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (5.68%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.93%) GitHub
13 8 (3.49%) Serverless
14 7 (3.06%) Snowflake
15 5 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
16 4 (1.75%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 39 (17.03%) Broadband
2 4 (1.75%) Firewall
3 3 (1.31%) DNS
3 3 (1.31%) VLAN
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (51.09%) SQL Server
2 57 (24.89%) Power BI
3 48 (20.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 48 (20.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (6.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (6.55%) Power Query
6 14 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.80%) MySQL
9 10 (4.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.49%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.18%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.18%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.87%) Db2
13 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.87%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 22 (9.61%) Git
2 14 (6.11%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.24%) JIRA
4 10 (4.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.87%) Postman
5 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 78 (34.06%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.40%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (20.09%) Organisational Skills
4 30 (13.10%) Finance
5 21 (9.17%) Games
6 20 (8.73%) Law
7 10 (4.37%) Legal
8 6 (2.62%) Back Office
8 6 (2.62%) Retail
9 5 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.75%) Marketing
10 4 (1.75%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.31%) Billing
11 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.87%) Automotive
12 2 (0.87%) Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Advertising
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
13 1 (0.44%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (36.68%) Developer
2 48 (20.96%) Senior
3 43 (18.78%) Analyst
4 20 (8.73%) Applications Support
5 18 (7.86%) Senior Developer
6 17 (7.42%) Data Analyst
6 17 (7.42%) Software Developer
6 17 (7.42%) SQL Developer
7 16 (6.99%) Applications Support Analyst
7 16 (6.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (6.99%) IAM Developer
8 15 (6.55%) Support Analyst
9 14 (6.11%) .NET Developer
9 14 (6.11%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.68%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (5.24%) DBA
11 12 (5.24%) SQL Analyst
12 11 (4.80%) Database Engineer
13 10 (4.37%) SQL DBA
13 10 (4.37%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (24.02%) .NET
2 54 (23.58%) REST
3 48 (20.96%) SOAP
4 42 (18.34%) GraphQL
4 42 (18.34%) LDAP
4 42 (18.34%) OAuth
4 42 (18.34%) OpenID
4 42 (18.34%) SAML
5 17 (7.42%) HTML
5 17 (7.42%) JSON
6 16 (6.99%) ASP.NET
6 16 (6.99%) CSS
7 14 (6.11%) XML
8 13 (5.68%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.37%) React
10 9 (3.93%) Blazor
10 9 (3.93%) Kafka
11 8 (3.49%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (3.06%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (3.06%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.03%) Cyber Threat
1 39 (17.03%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.86%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (5.68%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (4.80%) Replication
6 9 (3.93%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.18%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.18%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.75%) Clustering
8 4 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.31%) LIMS
9 3 (1.31%) NHS
9 3 (1.31%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.55%) Windows
2 9 (3.93%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.51%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (23.58%) Mentoring
4 52 (22.71%) Roadmaps
5 48 (20.96%) Performance Tuning
6 42 (18.34%) Cybersecurity
6 42 (18.34%) Identity Access Management
7 41 (17.90%) Data Modelling
8 39 (17.03%) Programme Delivery
8 39 (17.03%) Regulatory Compliance
9 37 (16.16%) ETL
10 36 (15.72%) Agile
11 35 (15.28%) CI/CD
11 35 (15.28%) DevOps
12 31 (13.54%) Analytics
13 30 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (10.48%) Validation
16 22 (9.61%) Change Control
17 18 (7.86%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 208 (90.83%) SQL
2 75 (32.75%) PowerShell
3 57 (24.89%) C#
4 42 (18.34%) Bash
5 41 (17.90%) Python
6 22 (9.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (7.42%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.80%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.93%) VBScript
10 7 (3.06%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.06%) VBA
11 4 (1.75%) Java
11 4 (1.75%) R
12 3 (1.31%) Delphi
13 2 (0.87%) VB
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
14 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (8.30%) Degree
2 4 (1.75%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.31%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.87%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (18.34%) NIST
2 39 (17.03%) NCSC
3 37 (16.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (15.28%) Data Quality
5 17 (7.42%) QA
6 4 (1.75%) GDPR
7 3 (1.31%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.44%) HL7
9 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (26.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Docker
3 3 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.18%) Terraform
2 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.44%) SCCM
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (34.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.49%) iManage
3 7 (3.06%) Oracle
3 7 (3.06%) SAP
4 6 (2.62%) Databricks
4 6 (2.62%) IFS
4 6 (2.62%) Infor
4 6 (2.62%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.18%) WooCommerce
6 4 (1.75%) ConnectWise
6 4 (1.75%) Epicor
6 4 (1.75%) JD Edwards
6 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.31%) Google
7 3 (1.31%) RedGate
7 3 (1.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.31%) Veeam
7 3 (1.31%) VMware
8 2 (0.87%) Intapp