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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 335 212
Rank change year-on-year -100 -123 +57
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 251 407 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.89% 1.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 2.60% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 165 260 988
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +0.91% -0.36%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,100 £83,187 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +10.00%

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 13,144 15,642 28,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 34.33% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,295 9,952 23,261
10th Percentile £34,850 £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,294 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -149 199 £47,500 -15.18% 92
UK excluding London -26 196 £42,500 -10.53% 85
Work from Home -46 134 £42,500 -23.42% 43
London -76 53 £70,000 +11.55% 18
Midlands -22 47 £48,000 +6.67% 18
Scotland +27 44 - - 1
North of England -27 38 £47,500 -5.00% 14
South East -34 38 £37,500 -25.00% 25
West Midlands +14 30 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Yorkshire -28 26 £35,000 -27.08% 3
South West -18 18 £42,500 +2.41% 18
East Midlands -43 17 £50,000 +12.36% 7
North West -11 9 £57,500 +9.52% 9
East of England -34 5 £42,175 -11.21% 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -14 3 £51,000 -32.00% 2
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 15 (5.98%) IIS
2 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.79%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.59%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.59%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.20%) CMS
5 3 (1.20%) Confluence
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.80%) WordPress
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (3.98%) Magento
1 10 (3.98%) Shopify
2 9 (3.59%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 147 (58.57%) Azure
2 68 (27.09%) Entra ID
3 58 (23.11%) Google Workspace
4 48 (19.12%) Power Platform
5 31 (12.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (7.97%) SaaS
8 18 (7.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (6.77%) GitHub
9 17 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (5.98%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (5.18%) PowerApps
12 12 (4.78%) AWS
13 11 (4.38%) Snowflake
14 9 (3.59%) Power Automate
15 7 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (2.39%) GCP
17 5 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
18 4 (1.59%) Collibra
18 4 (1.59%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 58 (23.11%) Broadband
2 3 (1.20%) DNS
3 2 (0.80%) DHCP
3 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.80%) Firewall
3 2 (0.80%) SSL
3 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.80%) VLAN
3 2 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (45.82%) SQL Server
2 49 (19.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 47 (18.73%) Power BI
4 35 (13.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (9.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 22 (8.76%) Data Lake
7 16 (6.37%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (6.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 15 (5.98%) MySQL
9 13 (5.18%) Metadata
10 10 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.79%) Power Query
12 5 (1.99%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.20%) GIS
13 3 (1.20%) OLAP
13 3 (1.20%) Tableau
14 2 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.80%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.57%) JIRA
2 11 (4.38%) Git
3 5 (1.99%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (43.03%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.11%) Organisational Skills
3 50 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (16.73%) Finance
5 39 (15.54%) Games
6 13 (5.18%) Back Office
7 9 (3.59%) Law
8 6 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.59%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.20%) Banking
11 3 (1.20%) Billing
11 3 (1.20%) Legal
11 3 (1.20%) Marketing
12 2 (0.80%) Front Office
12 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
13 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 64 (25.50%) Senior
2 57 (22.71%) Developer
3 53 (21.12%) Analyst
4 37 (14.74%) Support Analyst
5 35 (13.94%) Applications Support
6 33 (13.15%) Applications Support Analyst
7 30 (11.95%) Data Engineer
8 23 (9.16%) IAM Developer
8 23 (9.16%) Senior Developer
9 19 (7.57%) DBA
9 19 (7.57%) Software Engineer
10 17 (6.77%) SQL DBA
11 16 (6.37%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (5.18%) IT Support
12 13 (5.18%) Senior Data Engineer
12 13 (5.18%) SQL Developer
13 12 (4.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 12 (4.78%) IT Engineer
13 12 (4.78%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (4.78%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (30.28%) REST
2 70 (27.89%) SOAP
3 59 (23.51%) OAuth
3 59 (23.51%) OpenID
4 58 (23.11%) GraphQL
4 58 (23.11%) LDAP
4 58 (23.11%) SAML
5 37 (14.74%) .NET
6 15 (5.98%) .NET Framework
6 15 (5.98%) JSON
6 15 (5.98%) XML
7 13 (5.18%) Entity Framework
8 12 (4.78%) ASP.NET
8 12 (4.78%) WinForms
9 10 (3.98%) CSS
9 10 (3.98%) HTML
10 9 (3.59%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.59%) Middleware
11 6 (2.39%) OpenGL
11 6 (2.39%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.11%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (23.11%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.17%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.38%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.38%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.79%) Clustering
6 6 (2.39%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.39%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.20%) Replication
9 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.80%) Derivative
10 2 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.80%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.76%) Windows
2 9 (3.59%) Linux
3 6 (2.39%) VMS
3 6 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.80%) Android
4 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.89%) Mentoring
2 66 (26.29%) Roadmaps
3 58 (23.11%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (23.11%) Identity Access Management
3 58 (23.11%) Programme Delivery
3 58 (23.11%) Regulatory Compliance
4 53 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (20.72%) Business Intelligence
6 45 (17.93%) DevOps
7 44 (17.53%) Analytics
7 44 (17.53%) Data Modelling
8 40 (15.94%) ETL
9 37 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (13.15%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (12.75%) Agile
13 31 (12.35%) Software Engineering
14 28 (11.16%) Change Control
14 28 (11.16%) Data Engineering
15 27 (10.76%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 217 (86.45%) SQL
2 86 (34.26%) PowerShell
3 58 (23.11%) Bash
4 50 (19.92%) Python
5 42 (16.73%) C#
6 14 (5.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (4.38%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.19%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.99%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.59%) Java
11 2 (0.80%) Bicep
11 2 (0.80%) PHP
11 2 (0.80%) R
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
11 2 (0.80%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (12.75%) Degree
2 14 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.59%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.20%) ACCA
4 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.20%) CIMA
4 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.80%) MCSE
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.40%) MCITP
6 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (23.11%) NCSC
1 58 (23.11%) NIST
2 38 (15.14%) Data Quality
3 35 (13.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.38%) QA
5 8 (3.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (27.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.59%) Docker
3 2 (0.80%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.79%) Kubernetes
1 7 (2.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (31.87%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.56%) Databricks
3 12 (4.78%) Sage
3 12 (4.78%) Xamarin
4 10 (3.98%) Oracle
4 10 (3.98%) WooCommerce
5 9 (3.59%) ConnectWise
5 9 (3.59%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.99%) Google
6 5 (1.99%) Zoho
7 4 (1.59%) Dataiku
7 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.20%) RedGate
8 3 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) Citrix
9 2 (0.80%) Informatica
9 2 (0.80%) Talend
9 2 (0.80%) VMware
10 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.40%) Siemens