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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 375 274
Rank change year-on-year -171 -101 -34
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 218 352 977
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.72% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.23% 2.45% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 171 281 780
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,188 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,750 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% -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 17,689 14,363 30,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.81% 29.29% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,666 9,544 22,873
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,206
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -181 199 £52,500 -8.70% 54
UK excluding London -141 155 £49,750 -3.40% 44
Work from Home -29 113 £52,500 -4.55% 30
London -68 54 £70,000 - 18
South East -22 46 £52,500 +16.67% 16
North of England -87 35 £47,500 -20.83% 11
Midlands -67 23 £44,000 -9.28% 6
North West +1 22 £53,750 -6.52% 7
South West -58 19 £48,750 - 4
East of England -23 16 £62,500 +48.81% 5
West Midlands -30 16 £44,000 -23.48% 6
Scotland +19 15 - - 1
Yorkshire -67 11 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -41 7 £59,366 +24.98%
North East -58 2 £45,500 -13.33%
Northern Ireland -61 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 (9.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.42%) IIS
3 7 (3.21%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.46%) JBoss
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.75%) Infor M3
4 5 (2.29%) Magento
4 5 (2.29%) NetSuite
4 5 (2.29%) Shopify
5 4 (1.83%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.83%) JDE World
5 4 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.92%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.92%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.46%) FastStats
7 1 (0.46%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 131 (60.09%) Azure
2 67 (30.73%) Power Platform
3 38 (17.43%) Entra ID
4 27 (12.39%) Google Workspace
5 26 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (10.09%) SaaS
7 20 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (8.72%) AWS
9 17 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (7.34%) Power Automate
11 14 (6.42%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (5.05%) PowerApps
14 8 (3.67%) GitHub
14 8 (3.67%) Snowflake
15 7 (3.21%) Serverless
16 4 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (1.83%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.01%) Broadband
2 4 (1.83%) Firewall
3 3 (1.38%) DNS
3 3 (1.38%) VLAN
4 1 (0.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.46%) LAN
4 1 (0.46%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.46%) WAN
4 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (57.34%) SQL Server
2 56 (25.69%) Power BI
3 47 (21.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (21.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (7.34%) Power Query
6 15 (6.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (5.05%) MySQL
10 9 (4.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (3.67%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.75%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.29%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (1.38%) Db2
15 3 (1.38%) WhereScape RED
16 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
16 2 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
16 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (10.09%) Git
2 14 (6.42%) Visual Studio
3 11 (5.05%) JIRA
4 10 (4.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.92%) Postman
5 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 71 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.85%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.22%) Organisational Skills
4 29 (13.30%) Finance
5 19 (8.72%) Law
6 13 (5.96%) Games
7 10 (4.59%) Legal
8 7 (3.21%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.75%) Back Office
9 6 (2.75%) Retail
10 4 (1.83%) Marketing
10 4 (1.83%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.38%) Billing
11 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.92%) Automotive
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (38.07%) Developer
2 42 (19.27%) Analyst
3 40 (18.35%) Senior
4 19 (8.72%) Applications Support
5 17 (7.80%) Data Analyst
5 17 (7.80%) Software Developer
5 17 (7.80%) SQL Developer
6 16 (7.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 16 (7.34%) DBA
7 15 (6.88%) .NET Developer
7 15 (6.88%) Applications Support Analyst
7 15 (6.88%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.42%) Data Engineer
8 14 (6.42%) SQL DBA
8 14 (6.42%) Support Analyst
9 12 (5.50%) SQL Analyst
10 11 (5.05%) IAM Developer
10 11 (5.05%) SQL Server DBA
10 11 (5.05%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (26.15%) .NET
2 39 (17.89%) REST
3 33 (15.14%) SOAP
4 27 (12.39%) GraphQL
4 27 (12.39%) LDAP
4 27 (12.39%) OAuth
4 27 (12.39%) OpenID
4 27 (12.39%) SAML
5 17 (7.80%) HTML
5 17 (7.80%) JSON
6 16 (7.34%) CSS
7 14 (6.42%) ASP.NET
7 14 (6.42%) XML
8 13 (5.96%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.13%) Kafka
10 8 (3.67%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (3.67%) Blazor
10 8 (3.67%) React
10 8 (3.67%) WinForms
11 7 (3.21%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.01%) Cyber Threat
1 24 (11.01%) Cyberattack
2 19 (8.72%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.42%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.50%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (5.50%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (5.05%) Replication
6 9 (4.13%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.29%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.83%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.38%) Clustering
10 3 (1.38%) LIMS
10 3 (1.38%) NHS
10 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.34%) Windows
2 9 (4.13%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (27.52%) Business Intelligence
3 49 (22.48%) Performance Tuning
4 41 (18.81%) Data Modelling
5 40 (18.35%) Roadmaps
6 37 (16.97%) DevOps
6 37 (16.97%) Mentoring
7 36 (16.51%) ETL
8 34 (15.60%) Agile
8 34 (15.60%) CI/CD
9 30 (13.76%) Analytics
9 30 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (12.39%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (12.39%) Identity Access Management
11 25 (11.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (11.01%) Programme Delivery
12 24 (11.01%) Regulatory Compliance
12 24 (11.01%) Validation
13 17 (7.80%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (7.34%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 205 (94.04%) SQL
2 61 (27.98%) PowerShell
3 59 (27.06%) C#
4 39 (17.89%) Python
5 27 (12.39%) Bash
6 23 (10.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (7.34%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.59%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.13%) VBScript
10 7 (3.21%) VBA
11 5 (2.29%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.83%) Delphi
12 4 (1.83%) R
13 3 (1.38%) Java
13 3 (1.38%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.92%) VB
15 1 (0.46%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (7.80%) Degree
2 4 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.92%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.60%) Data Quality
2 29 (13.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (12.39%) NIST
4 24 (11.01%) NCSC
5 16 (7.34%) QA
6 6 (2.75%) SLA
7 3 (1.38%) GDPR
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.46%) HL7
9 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (21.10%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.83%) Docker
3 3 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.29%) Terraform
2 4 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.83%) ZABBIX
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.46%) SCCM
3 1 (0.46%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 77 (35.32%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.13%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.67%) iManage
3 8 (3.67%) Oracle
4 7 (3.21%) SAP
5 6 (2.75%) IFS
5 6 (2.75%) Infor
6 5 (2.29%) Databricks
6 5 (2.29%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.29%) WooCommerce
7 4 (1.83%) ConnectWise
7 4 (1.83%) Epicor
7 4 (1.83%) RedGate
7 4 (1.83%) Remedy
7 4 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.83%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.38%) Google
8 3 (1.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.38%) Veeam
8 3 (1.38%) VMware