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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 369 338
Rank change year-on-year -208 -31 -110
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 201 353 668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.71% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 2.52% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 174 279 495
10th Percentile £41,825 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £81,400 £82,500 £77,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -

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 18,574 14,028 25,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.50% 28.18% 30.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,152 9,204 17,821
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -

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 11 August 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 15 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 11 August 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 -192 193 £57,500 - 70
UK excluding London -171 140 £52,500 +1.94% 46
Work from Home -75 87 £60,000 +14.29% 46
London -81 52 £70,000 - 33
South East -35 46 £52,500 +16.67% 15
North of England -86 34 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Midlands -87 21 £47,500 -2.06% 8
North West -17 19 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East of England -39 17 £62,500 +51.52% 4
South West -73 17 £51,250 +2.50% 2
West Midlands -48 15 £47,500 -17.39% 6
Yorkshire -67 13 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -51 6 £59,366 +24.98% 2
Scotland +6 5 £85,000 +78.95% 2
North East -62 2 £45,500 -13.33% 3

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 14 (6.97%) IIS
2 13 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.99%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.49%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.99%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (1.99%) Elite 3E
4 4 (1.99%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.99%) JDE World
5 2 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.00%) Magento
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.00%) SAP Business One
5 2 (1.00%) Shopify
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 110 (54.73%) Azure
2 66 (32.84%) Power Platform
3 36 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.45%) AWS
5 17 (8.46%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (8.46%) Power Automate
6 16 (7.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (6.97%) SaaS
8 13 (6.47%) PowerApps
9 11 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (4.98%) GitHub
10 10 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.98%) Serverless
11 8 (3.98%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.98%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.99%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.99%) GCP
13 4 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.99%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Firewall
2 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 3 (1.49%) VLAN
3 2 (1.00%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (66.17%) SQL Server
2 54 (26.87%) Power BI
3 52 (25.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 40 (19.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (8.96%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (7.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (7.96%) Power Query
7 10 (4.98%) Relational Database
7 10 (4.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (3.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.99%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.99%) Db2
11 4 (1.99%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.49%) MySQL
12 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (12.44%) Git
2 15 (7.46%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.98%) JIRA
5 2 (1.00%) Postman
5 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 61 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (15.92%) Finance
4 21 (10.45%) Law
5 13 (6.47%) Legal
6 7 (3.48%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.49%) Retail
9 3 (1.49%) Back Office
9 3 (1.49%) Billing
9 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.00%) Automotive
10 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Advertising
11 1 (0.50%) Games
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (45.27%) Developer
2 33 (16.42%) Senior
3 29 (14.43%) Analyst
4 22 (10.95%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.45%) SQL Developer
6 18 (8.96%) DBA
6 18 (8.96%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.46%) SQL DBA
8 16 (7.96%) Applications Support
8 16 (7.96%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.46%) Data Engineer
9 15 (7.46%) SQL Server DBA
10 11 (5.47%) Lead
11 10 (4.98%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (4.98%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.98%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (3.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (3.98%) Software Support Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (32.34%) .NET
2 17 (8.46%) REST
3 14 (6.97%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.97%) ASP.NET
3 14 (6.97%) HTML
4 13 (6.47%) CSS
5 12 (5.97%) .NET Framework
6 11 (5.47%) JSON
6 11 (5.47%) SOAP
7 9 (4.48%) Entity Framework
7 9 (4.48%) Kafka
7 9 (4.48%) WinForms
7 9 (4.48%) XML
8 8 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.98%) Blazor
9 7 (3.48%) jQuery
9 7 (3.48%) React
9 7 (3.48%) WPF
10 6 (2.99%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.99%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.95%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.97%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.47%) Replication
4 9 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.98%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.99%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.49%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.99%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.49%) LIMS
9 3 (1.49%) NHS
9 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.00%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.45%) Windows
2 10 (4.98%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.83%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (28.86%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (25.87%) Performance Tuning
4 47 (23.38%) DevOps
5 39 (19.40%) CI/CD
6 38 (18.91%) Data Modelling
6 38 (18.91%) ETL
7 35 (17.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (16.92%) Agile
9 27 (13.43%) Analytics
10 19 (9.45%) AI
11 18 (8.96%) Root Cause Analysis
11 18 (8.96%) SDLC
11 18 (8.96%) Secure Coding
11 18 (8.96%) Software Engineering
12 17 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (8.46%) Decision-Making
12 17 (8.46%) Roadmaps
12 17 (8.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (8.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 200 (99.50%) SQL
2 67 (33.33%) C#
3 37 (18.41%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.42%) Python
5 23 (11.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.96%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.47%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.48%) VBScript
9 7 (3.48%) VBA
10 5 (2.49%) Delphi
10 5 (2.49%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.99%) R
11 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.49%) Bash
13 2 (1.00%) Java
13 2 (1.00%) VB
13 2 (1.00%) XPath
14 1 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (7.96%) Degree
2 5 (2.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (1.99%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.93%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.96%) QA
3 11 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.48%) SLA
5 4 (1.99%) NIST
6 3 (1.49%) GDPR
7 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) HL7
8 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.96%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.49%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.99%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 78 (38.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.97%) Oracle
3 9 (4.48%) iManage
3 9 (4.48%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.48%) SAP
5 6 (2.99%) Databricks
5 6 (2.99%) IFS
5 6 (2.99%) Infor
5 6 (2.99%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.49%) RedGate
6 5 (2.49%) Remedy
7 4 (1.99%) Epicor
7 4 (1.99%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.49%) Google
8 3 (1.49%) Intapp
8 3 (1.49%) Veeam
8 3 (1.49%) VMware
9 2 (1.00%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.00%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.00%) WooCommerce