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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 336 239
Rank change year-on-year -145 -97 +36
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 236 348 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.84% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.54% 2.51% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 149 284 984
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,750 £37,199
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,375 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +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 15,307 13,838 32,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 33.25% 34.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,418 10,227 25,122
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +3.60% +2.78% -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 18 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 18 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
England -164 187 £48,500 -15.65% 89
UK excluding London -75 183 £47,500 -5.00% 68
Work from Home -34 133 £47,500 -15.18% 58
London -81 49 £70,000 +6.67% 29
Midlands -41 46 £46,750 -3.61% 14
Scotland +14 42 - - 5
North of England -91 34 £50,500 -15.83% 25
West Midlands -13 28 £42,500 -26.09% 3
South East -34 27 £42,500 -15.00% 17
Yorkshire -88 20 £44,000 -26.67% 6
East Midlands -64 18 £59,366 +23.68% 11
South West -48 17 £42,500 +6.25% 3
East of England -52 12 £62,500 +31.58% 5
North West -31 11 £60,000 +26.32% 19
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 -
North East -33 3 £51,000 -11.30%
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 11 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.54%) IIS
4 4 (1.69%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.69%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.27%) Confluence
6 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.85%) CMS
6 2 (0.85%) WordPress
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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 4 (1.69%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.85%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.85%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (0.85%) JDE World
4 2 (0.85%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 139 (58.90%) Azure
2 67 (28.39%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.73%) Google Workspace
4 52 (22.03%) Power Platform
5 27 (11.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (7.63%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (7.20%) AWS
7 17 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.20%) SaaS
8 16 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (6.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (5.93%) GitHub
10 14 (5.93%) Power Automate
11 13 (5.51%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.39%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.69%) Serverless
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
1 112 (47.46%) SQL Server
2 50 (21.19%) Power BI
3 39 (16.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 38 (16.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (11.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (7.20%) Data Lake
7 15 (6.36%) Power Query
8 13 (5.51%) MySQL
9 12 (5.08%) Metadata
10 11 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (4.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (3.81%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.69%) Star Schema
14 3 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.85%) Tableau
16 1 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 20 (8.47%) JIRA
2 12 (5.08%) Git
3 5 (2.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 90 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.42%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (16.53%) Finance
5 38 (16.10%) Games
6 16 (6.78%) Law
7 11 (4.66%) Back Office
8 7 (2.97%) Legal
9 6 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.12%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.69%) Retail
12 3 (1.27%) Banking
12 3 (1.27%) Marketing
13 2 (0.85%) Billing
13 2 (0.85%) Front Office
13 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.42%) Advertising
14 1 (0.42%) Automotive
14 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 61 (25.85%) Developer
2 55 (23.31%) Analyst
2 55 (23.31%) Senior
3 30 (12.71%) Support Analyst
4 28 (11.86%) Applications Support
5 27 (11.44%) Applications Support Analyst
6 23 (9.75%) Senior Developer
7 21 (8.90%) DBA
7 21 (8.90%) IAM Developer
8 19 (8.05%) SQL DBA
9 16 (6.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (6.78%) Data Engineer
9 16 (6.78%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (5.51%) C# Developer
10 13 (5.51%) Data Analyst
11 12 (5.08%) SQL Analyst
12 11 (4.66%) SQL Developer
13 10 (4.24%) Architect
14 9 (3.81%) Administrator
14 9 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (30.93%) REST
2 68 (28.81%) 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 40 (16.95%) .NET
6 13 (5.51%) ASP.NET
7 11 (4.66%) JSON
7 11 (4.66%) XML
8 10 (4.24%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.81%) CSS
9 9 (3.81%) HTML
9 9 (3.81%) Middleware
10 8 (3.39%) PySpark
11 7 (2.97%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.54%) DirectX
12 6 (2.54%) OpenGL
13 5 (2.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.73%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.73%) Cyberattack
2 16 (6.78%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.81%) Clustering
6 8 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.39%) Replication
7 6 (2.54%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.54%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
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%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.85%) Derivative
11 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.93%) Windows
2 9 (3.81%) Linux
3 7 (2.97%) VMS
3 7 (2.97%) 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 2016
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (28.81%) Mentoring
2 67 (28.39%) Roadmaps
3 57 (24.15%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (23.73%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (23.73%) Identity Access Management
4 56 (23.73%) Programme Delivery
4 56 (23.73%) Regulatory Compliance
5 48 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (18.22%) Data Modelling
7 42 (17.80%) Analytics
8 36 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (14.83%) ETL
9 35 (14.83%) Performance Tuning
10 32 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (13.14%) DevOps
12 28 (11.86%) Agile
12 28 (11.86%) Change Control
12 28 (11.86%) Decision-Making
13 26 (11.02%) CI/CD
14 23 (9.75%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 203 (86.02%) SQL
2 83 (35.17%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.73%) Bash
4 43 (18.22%) Python
5 40 (16.95%) C#
6 22 (9.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.97%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.54%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.12%) Java
9 5 (2.12%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.69%) R
10 4 (1.69%) VBA
11 2 (0.85%) Bicep
11 2 (0.85%) Scala
11 2 (0.85%) VBScript
12 1 (0.42%) Delphi
12 1 (0.42%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) VB
12 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (9.75%) Degree
2 5 (2.12%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.85%) MCSE
5 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.42%) MCITP
5 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.73%) NCSC
1 56 (23.73%) NIST
2 42 (17.80%) Data Quality
3 37 (15.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.08%) QA
5 6 (2.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.85%) SLA
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) HL7
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (29.66%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.12%) 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 5 (2.12%) 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 71 (30.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.05%) Databricks
3 10 (4.24%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.81%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.39%) Oracle
6 6 (2.54%) RedGate
7 4 (1.69%) IFS
7 4 (1.69%) iManage
7 4 (1.69%) Infor
7 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.69%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.27%) SAP
9 2 (0.85%) Citrix
9 2 (0.85%) Epicor
9 2 (0.85%) Informatica
9 2 (0.85%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.85%) Sage
9 2 (0.85%) VMware