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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 359 242
Rank change year-on-year -159 -117 +26
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 217 335 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.78% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 2.51% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 136 262 943
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,775 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,504
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,063 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +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 16,197 13,343 32,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.46% 31.13% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11,223 8,996 24,966
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -166 176 £47,500 -17.39% 81
UK excluding London -98 160 £47,500 -9.52% 58
Work from Home +14 134 £47,500 -15.18% 44
London -87 51 £65,000 -5.80% 24
Scotland +28 35 - - 2
North of England -73 35 £47,500 -20.83% 20
South East -23 29 £44,000 -2.22% 17
Midlands -60 27 £45,000 -7.22% 6
North West -4 20 £53,750 +10.26% 10
South West -54 19 £42,500 -2.86% 8
West Midlands -32 18 £44,000 -23.48% 5
Yorkshire -79 14 £45,000 -25.00% 8
East of England -28 12 £62,500 +51.52% 6
East Midlands -47 9 £48,500 +2.11% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -45 1 £43,500 -24.35% 2

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 17 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.07%) IIS
3 8 (3.69%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.38%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.92%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) JBoss
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.07%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (4.61%) Magento
2 10 (4.61%) Shopify
3 9 (4.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (2.76%) Infor M3
5 4 (1.84%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.84%) JDE World
5 4 (1.84%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.92%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 129 (59.45%) Azure
2 61 (28.11%) Entra ID
3 57 (26.27%) Power Platform
4 52 (23.96%) Google Workspace
5 21 (9.68%) AWS
6 20 (9.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (9.22%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (6.45%) Power Automate
9 13 (5.99%) PowerApps
9 13 (5.99%) SaaS
10 12 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (5.07%) GitHub
12 10 (4.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (4.61%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.76%) Serverless
15 5 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
16 4 (1.84%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 52 (23.96%) Broadband
2 3 (1.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.92%) DNS
3 2 (0.92%) 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
1 105 (48.39%) SQL Server
2 55 (25.35%) Power BI
3 44 (20.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 37 (17.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (10.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.45%) Power Query
7 12 (5.53%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.61%) MySQL
8 10 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.15%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (2.76%) Metadata
11 4 (1.84%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.92%) Big Data
13 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.92%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 18 (8.29%) JIRA
2 12 (5.53%) Git
3 7 (3.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.76%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 87 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 56 (25.81%) Organisational Skills
3 43 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.13%) Finance
5 29 (13.36%) Games
6 17 (7.83%) Law
7 11 (5.07%) Legal
8 10 (4.61%) Back Office
9 6 (2.76%) Retail
10 5 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.38%) Billing
11 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.38%) Marketing
11 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.92%) Automotive
12 2 (0.92%) Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 65 (29.95%) Developer
2 51 (23.50%) Analyst
3 49 (22.58%) Senior
4 23 (10.60%) Support Analyst
5 22 (10.14%) Applications Support
6 20 (9.22%) Applications Support Analyst
7 18 (8.29%) IAM Developer
8 17 (7.83%) Senior Developer
9 16 (7.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (7.37%) Data Analyst
9 16 (7.37%) DBA
9 16 (7.37%) Systems Engineer
10 14 (6.45%) SQL DBA
11 13 (5.99%) Software Developer
12 12 (5.53%) Data Engineer
12 12 (5.53%) Database Engineer
12 12 (5.53%) SQL Analyst
13 10 (4.61%) SQL Developer
14 9 (4.15%) Senior Architect
14 9 (4.15%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (30.88%) REST
2 63 (29.03%) SOAP
3 52 (23.96%) GraphQL
3 52 (23.96%) LDAP
3 52 (23.96%) OAuth
3 52 (23.96%) OpenID
3 52 (23.96%) SAML
4 35 (16.13%) .NET
5 13 (5.99%) ASP.NET
5 13 (5.99%) CSS
5 13 (5.99%) HTML
6 11 (5.07%) JSON
6 11 (5.07%) XML
7 9 (4.15%) Middleware
8 8 (3.69%) Kafka
8 8 (3.69%) React
9 7 (3.23%) .NET Core
9 7 (3.23%) PySpark
10 5 (2.30%) Blazor
10 5 (2.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.96%) Cyber Threat
1 52 (23.96%) Cyberattack
2 12 (5.53%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.07%) Replication
4 10 (4.61%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.61%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.15%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.23%) Clustering
6 7 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.76%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.84%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.38%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.99%) Windows
2 8 (3.69%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (2.30%) Linux
5 4 (1.84%) VMS
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (30.41%) Mentoring
2 62 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (28.11%) Roadmaps
4 52 (23.96%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (23.96%) Identity Access Management
4 52 (23.96%) Programme Delivery
4 52 (23.96%) Regulatory Compliance
5 47 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (19.82%) Data Modelling
7 37 (17.05%) Analytics
7 37 (17.05%) Performance Tuning
8 33 (15.21%) ETL
9 30 (13.82%) CI/CD
10 29 (13.36%) Change Control
10 29 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (12.90%) Agile
11 28 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (12.44%) DevOps
13 23 (10.60%) Decision-Making
14 20 (9.22%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 188 (86.64%) SQL
2 77 (35.48%) PowerShell
3 52 (23.96%) Bash
4 45 (20.74%) Python
5 36 (16.59%) C#
6 22 (10.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (4.61%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.69%) VBA
9 7 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.23%) VBScript
10 4 (1.84%) Java
10 4 (1.84%) R
11 1 (0.46%) Bicep
11 1 (0.46%) Delphi
11 1 (0.46%) Scala
11 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (10.14%) Degree
2 6 (2.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (23.96%) NCSC
1 52 (23.96%) NIST
2 40 (18.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (17.05%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.15%) QA
5 5 (2.30%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) HL7
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (32.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.84%) Docker
3 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (2.76%) Terraform
2 3 (1.38%) Kubernetes
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 69 (31.80%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.99%) Databricks
3 10 (4.61%) Oracle
3 10 (4.61%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.15%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.69%) iManage
6 6 (2.76%) IFS
6 6 (2.76%) Infor
7 5 (2.30%) SAP
8 4 (1.84%) Epicor
8 4 (1.84%) JD Edwards
8 4 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.84%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.38%) RedGate
9 3 (1.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.92%) Intapp
10 2 (0.92%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.92%) Veeam
10 2 (0.92%) VMware