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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 354 225
Rank change year-on-year -108 -129 +50
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 236 323 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.79% 1.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 2.36% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 151 264 1,009
10th Percentile £30,500 £39,103 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +6.80%

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 14,393 13,705 31,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.97% 33.51% 34.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9,994 10,211 24,741
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,551 £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 £83,750 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,562 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -0.77% +5.56% -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 3 April 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 17 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 3 April 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
UK excluding London -29 187 £47,500 - 91
England -159 185 £48,000 -16.52% 98
Work from Home -37 132 £46,250 -18.50% 47
Midlands -32 48 £46,750 -1.58% 19
London -106 44 £57,500 -11.54% 23
Scotland +14 42 - - 8
North of England -78 31 £51,000 -11.30% 16
West Midlands -3 30 £42,500 -20.84% 8
South East -29 30 £40,000 -19.58% 23
South West -33 18 £42,500 +10.39% 14
East Midlands -54 18 £54,500 +16.58% 11
Yorkshire -66 17 £50,000 -16.67% 6
East of England -44 12 £62,500 +31.58% 10
North West -31 11 £60,000 +37.14% 9
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -22 3 £51,000 -23.02% 1
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 9 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.39%) IIS
2 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.69%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.69%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.27%) Confluence
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.85%) CMS
5 2 (0.85%) WordPress
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.24%) Magento
1 10 (4.24%) Shopify
2 9 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.81%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.85%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 142 (60.17%) Azure
2 67 (28.39%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.73%) Google Workspace
4 51 (21.61%) Power Platform
5 31 (13.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.63%) SaaS
8 17 (7.20%) AWS
9 16 (6.78%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (6.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (6.36%) GitHub
11 14 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (4.66%) Power Automate
12 11 (4.66%) PowerApps
13 7 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.97%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.12%) GCP
14 5 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.69%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.73%) Broadband
2 3 (1.27%) DNS
2 3 (1.27%) Firewall
3 2 (0.85%) DHCP
3 2 (0.85%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.85%) SSL
3 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.85%) VLAN
3 2 (0.85%) Wireless
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) Network Security
4 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (47.88%) SQL Server
2 49 (20.76%) Power BI
3 40 (16.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 39 (16.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 28 (11.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (8.05%) Data Lake
7 13 (5.51%) Metadata
7 13 (5.51%) MySQL
8 11 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (4.24%) Power Query
10 9 (3.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (3.39%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.69%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.69%) Tableau
13 3 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.85%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (7.63%) JIRA
2 12 (5.08%) Git
3 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 90 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.58%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (16.10%) Finance
4 38 (16.10%) Games
5 12 (5.08%) Back Office
6 11 (4.66%) Law
7 6 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.12%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.69%) Legal
10 3 (1.27%) Banking
10 3 (1.27%) Marketing
11 2 (0.85%) Front Office
11 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 59 (25.00%) Developer
2 56 (23.73%) Senior
3 52 (22.03%) Analyst
4 30 (12.71%) Support Analyst
5 27 (11.44%) Applications Support
6 26 (11.02%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.75%) Senior Developer
8 22 (9.32%) Data Engineer
8 22 (9.32%) DBA
9 21 (8.90%) IAM Developer
10 20 (8.47%) SQL DBA
11 16 (6.78%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (6.36%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 15 (6.36%) SQL Developer
13 13 (5.51%) C# Developer
13 13 (5.51%) Data Analyst
14 11 (4.66%) SQL Analyst
15 10 (4.24%) Architect
15 10 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (4.24%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (31.78%) REST
2 69 (29.24%) SOAP
3 57 (24.15%) OAuth
3 57 (24.15%) OpenID
4 56 (23.73%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.73%) LDAP
4 56 (23.73%) SAML
5 38 (16.10%) .NET
6 16 (6.78%) XML
7 15 (6.36%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.93%) JSON
9 11 (4.66%) .NET Framework
10 10 (4.24%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.81%) Entity Framework
11 9 (3.81%) Middleware
11 9 (3.81%) PySpark
12 7 (2.97%) WinForms
13 6 (2.54%) CSS
13 6 (2.54%) DirectX
13 6 (2.54%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.73%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.73%) Cyberattack
2 17 (7.20%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.24%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.81%) Clustering
5 8 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.97%) Replication
7 6 (2.54%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.54%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.69%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.85%) Derivative
11 2 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.78%) Windows
2 9 (3.81%) Linux
3 7 (2.97%) VMS
4 5 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.85%) Android
5 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Unix
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (28.39%) Mentoring
1 67 (28.39%) Roadmaps
2 56 (23.73%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (23.73%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (23.73%) Programme Delivery
2 56 (23.73%) Regulatory Compliance
3 55 (23.31%) Business Intelligence
4 51 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (19.92%) Analytics
6 46 (19.49%) Data Modelling
7 39 (16.53%) ETL
8 38 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (13.14%) DevOps
11 30 (12.71%) Performance Tuning
12 29 (12.29%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (12.29%) Decision-Making
13 28 (11.86%) Change Control
14 27 (11.44%) Agile
15 26 (11.02%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 203 (86.02%) SQL
2 82 (34.75%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.73%) Bash
4 48 (20.34%) Python
5 40 (16.95%) C#
6 19 (8.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.54%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.12%) Java
8 5 (2.12%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.12%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.69%) R
10 2 (0.85%) Bicep
10 2 (0.85%) Scala
10 2 (0.85%) VBA
11 1 (0.42%) Delphi
11 1 (0.42%) PHP
11 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (12.29%) Degree
2 9 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.12%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.85%) MCSE
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) MCITP
7 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.73%) NCSC
1 56 (23.73%) NIST
2 41 (17.37%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.66%) QA
5 6 (2.54%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (28.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.27%) Docker
3 2 (0.85%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.97%) Terraform
2 4 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 74 (31.36%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.32%) Databricks
3 10 (4.24%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.81%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.97%) Oracle
6 6 (2.54%) Sage
6 6 (2.54%) Xamarin
7 5 (2.12%) RedGate
8 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.27%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.27%) Zoho
10 2 (0.85%) Citrix
10 2 (0.85%) Google
10 2 (0.85%) Infor
10 2 (0.85%) Informatica
10 2 (0.85%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.85%) Talend
10 2 (0.85%) VMware