T-SQL Job Trends

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 292 233
Rank change year-on-year -122 -59 0
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 236 520 781
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.96% 1.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.04% 2.84% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 184 310 685
10th Percentile £30,500 £41,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,266 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,813 £65,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £83,750 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -

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 11,586 18,335 20,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.39% 33.78% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,493 10,719 17,015
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 January 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 18 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 January 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 -115 201 £50,000 -4.76% 128
UK excluding London -49 170 £48,500 +2.11% 136
Work from Home -64 106 £48,500 -3.00% 153
London -79 59 £80,000 +28.00% 59
Midlands -1 45 £50,000 +11.11% 11
South East -4 37 £40,000 -20.00% 42
North of England -13 37 £40,000 -15.79% 21
Yorkshire -2 30 £37,500 -17.48% 5
West Midlands +16 28 £45,000 +4.65% 3
Scotland +3 25 £37,500 -17.58% 24
East Midlands -11 17 £50,000 +8.11% 8
South West -3 16 £50,000 -6.98% 18
North East +7 4 £51,750 -31.00% 1
East of England -27 4 £42,175 -11.21% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 - 1
North West -13 3 £57,500 +21.05% 15
Wales +6 1 £35,000 -18.13% 10
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 17 (7.20%) IIS
2 11 (4.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.27%) CMS
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Confluence
4 2 (0.85%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.85%) WordPress
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (10.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.12%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (2.12%) Magento
2 5 (2.12%) Shopify
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 122 (51.69%) Azure
2 49 (20.76%) Power Platform
3 42 (17.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 34 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (11.44%) Entra ID
6 22 (9.32%) Google Workspace
7 19 (8.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (7.63%) GitHub
9 17 (7.20%) Snowflake
10 15 (6.36%) AWS
11 14 (5.93%) PowerApps
12 13 (5.51%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (5.51%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (5.08%) SaaS
14 9 (3.81%) GCP
14 9 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.81%) Power Automate
15 7 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
16 5 (2.12%) dbt
16 5 (2.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.32%) Broadband
2 3 (1.27%) DNS
3 2 (0.85%) DHCP
3 2 (0.85%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.85%) Firewall
3 2 (0.85%) SSL
3 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.85%) VLAN
3 2 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (54.24%) SQL Server
2 53 (22.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 49 (20.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 48 (20.34%) Power BI
5 28 (11.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 27 (11.44%) Data Lake
7 21 (8.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 20 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (5.93%) Metadata
10 9 (3.81%) MySQL
10 9 (3.81%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (2.54%) OLAP
13 5 (2.12%) Data Mining
13 5 (2.12%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.27%) GIS
15 3 (1.27%) NoSQL
15 3 (1.27%) Power Query
15 3 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.78%) Git
2 14 (5.93%) JIRA
3 8 (3.39%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (2.54%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.54%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.42%) Mercurial
General
1 96 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.03%) Finance
3 45 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.32%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (8.90%) Games
6 10 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.81%) Back Office
7 9 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.81%) Law
8 8 (3.39%) Legal
9 6 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.69%) Billing
11 3 (1.27%) Front Office
12 2 (0.85%) Advertising
12 2 (0.85%) Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Retail
13 1 (0.42%) Automotive
13 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 66 (27.97%) Developer
2 59 (25.00%) Senior
3 40 (16.95%) Analyst
4 36 (15.25%) Data Engineer
5 29 (12.29%) Support Analyst
6 28 (11.86%) Applications Support
7 27 (11.44%) DBA
8 25 (10.59%) Applications Support Analyst
9 24 (10.17%) SQL DBA
10 20 (8.47%) Senior Developer
11 19 (8.05%) Senior Data Engineer
11 19 (8.05%) Software Engineer
11 19 (8.05%) SQL Developer
12 15 (6.36%) Administrator
13 13 (5.51%) IT Engineer
13 13 (5.51%) IT Support
13 13 (5.51%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (5.51%) Support Engineer
14 12 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (5.08%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.80%) .NET
2 41 (17.37%) REST
3 33 (13.98%) SOAP
4 23 (9.75%) OAuth
4 23 (9.75%) OpenID
5 22 (9.32%) GraphQL
5 22 (9.32%) LDAP
5 22 (9.32%) SAML
6 19 (8.05%) .NET Framework
7 15 (6.36%) ASP.NET
7 15 (6.36%) Entity Framework
8 13 (5.51%) CSS
8 13 (5.51%) HTML
9 12 (5.08%) WinForms
10 11 (4.66%) JSON
11 10 (4.24%) .NET Core
11 10 (4.24%) XML
12 7 (2.97%) Middleware
12 7 (2.97%) PySpark
12 7 (2.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.32%) Cyber Threat
1 22 (9.32%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.51%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.66%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.81%) Clustering
5 6 (2.54%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.54%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.85%) Derivative
8 2 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.42%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.17%) Windows
2 10 (4.24%) Linux
3 6 (2.54%) VMS
3 6 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.85%) Android
4 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (28.39%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (25.42%) ETL
3 58 (24.58%) Business Intelligence
4 53 (22.46%) DevOps
5 46 (19.49%) Analytics
6 41 (17.37%) Data Pipeline
7 40 (16.95%) Agile
7 40 (16.95%) Mentoring
8 38 (16.10%) Data Modelling
9 35 (14.83%) Software Engineering
10 33 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (13.14%) Data Engineering
12 30 (12.71%) Roadmaps
13 29 (12.29%) CI/CD
14 27 (11.44%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (10.59%) Decision-Making
16 24 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (9.32%) Identity Access Management
17 22 (9.32%) Programme Delivery
17 22 (9.32%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 219 (92.80%) SQL
2 50 (21.19%) Python
3 47 (19.92%) C#
4 43 (18.22%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.32%) Bash
6 19 (8.05%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.93%) PL/SQL
8 11 (4.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.12%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.27%) Bicep
10 3 (1.27%) PHP
11 2 (0.85%) C++
11 2 (0.85%) Java
11 2 (0.85%) Scala
11 2 (0.85%) VBA
12 1 (0.42%) Dart
12 1 (0.42%) R
12 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (14.83%) Degree
2 15 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.51%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.12%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.69%) ACCA
5 4 (1.69%) CIMA
6 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.85%) MCSE
7 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) MCITP
8 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.98%) Data Quality
2 22 (9.32%) NCSC
2 22 (9.32%) NIST
3 11 (4.66%) QA
4 8 (3.39%) GDPR
4 8 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (12.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.12%) Docker
3 2 (0.85%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.97%) Terraform
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 89 (37.71%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.41%) Databricks
3 20 (8.47%) Oracle
4 13 (5.51%) Sage
5 12 (5.08%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.39%) RedGate
7 5 (2.12%) ConnectWise
7 5 (2.12%) Google
7 5 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.12%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.12%) Zoho
8 4 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.69%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.69%) Informatica
8 4 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.69%) Talend
9 2 (0.85%) Aderant
9 2 (0.85%) iManage
9 2 (0.85%) Intapp