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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 361 259
Rank change year-on-year -152 -102 -8
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 229 353 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.79% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 2.53% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 151 272 908
10th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,875 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +4.76%

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 16,604 13,965 34,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.82% 31.36% 31.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,704 9,193 25,743
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 16 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 15 June 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 -170 194 £50,000 -13.04% 76
UK excluding London -103 165 £47,500 -7.77% 60
Work from Home -15 130 £47,500 -13.64% 51
London -82 57 £65,000 -7.14% 29
South East -21 37 £46,250 +2.78% 22
North of England -71 36 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Scotland +32 29 - - 4
Midlands -52 26 £45,000 -7.22% 4
North West -7 21 £60,000 +23.08% 8
South West -57 21 £47,500 -2.56% 6
West Midlands -24 17 £44,000 -23.48% 3
East of England -35 13 £62,500 +48.81% 6
Yorkshire -61 13 £45,000 -25.00% 3
East Midlands -41 9 £59,000 +22.92% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4
North East -51 2 £45,500 -17.27% 4

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 18 (7.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.80%) IIS
3 8 (3.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) JBoss
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (3.93%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (3.06%) Magento
2 7 (3.06%) Shopify
3 6 (2.62%) Infor M3
4 4 (1.75%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.75%) JDE World
4 4 (1.75%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.87%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.44%) FastStats
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 144 (62.88%) Azure
2 66 (28.82%) Power Platform
3 62 (27.07%) Entra ID
4 52 (22.71%) Google Workspace
5 23 (10.04%) AWS
6 22 (9.61%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (9.17%) SaaS
8 19 (8.30%) Power Automate
9 18 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (7.42%) PowerApps
11 14 (6.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (5.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.37%) GitHub
14 8 (3.49%) Serverless
14 8 (3.49%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 49 (21.40%) Broadband
2 3 (1.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.87%) DNS
3 2 (0.87%) VLAN
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (49.78%) SQL Server
2 59 (25.76%) Power BI
3 47 (20.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (17.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (7.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (6.99%) Power Query
7 12 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.80%) MySQL
9 10 (4.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.49%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.62%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.18%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.31%) Metadata
14 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
15 1 (0.44%) Delta Lake
15 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (6.55%) Git
2 14 (6.11%) JIRA
3 9 (3.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 9 (3.93%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 83 (36.24%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.45%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (20.52%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.97%) Finance
5 26 (11.35%) Games
6 18 (7.86%) Law
7 10 (4.37%) Legal
8 7 (3.06%) Back Office
9 6 (2.62%) Retail
10 5 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.75%) Marketing
12 3 (1.31%) Billing
12 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.31%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.87%) Automotive
13 2 (0.87%) Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Advertising
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (34.93%) Developer
2 53 (23.14%) Senior
3 46 (20.09%) Analyst
4 20 (8.73%) IAM Developer
4 20 (8.73%) Senior Developer
5 19 (8.30%) Applications Support
6 18 (7.86%) Support Analyst
7 17 (7.42%) Applications Support Analyst
7 17 (7.42%) Data Analyst
8 16 (6.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (6.99%) Software Developer
8 16 (6.99%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (6.55%) SQL Developer
10 13 (5.68%) Database Engineer
10 13 (5.68%) DBA
11 12 (5.24%) SQL Analyst
12 11 (4.80%) Data Engineer
12 11 (4.80%) SQL DBA
13 10 (4.37%) .NET Developer
14 9 (3.93%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (28.38%) REST
2 60 (26.20%) SOAP
3 52 (22.71%) GraphQL
3 52 (22.71%) LDAP
3 52 (22.71%) OAuth
3 52 (22.71%) OpenID
3 52 (22.71%) SAML
4 47 (20.52%) .NET
5 14 (6.11%) ASP.NET
5 14 (6.11%) HTML
5 14 (6.11%) JSON
6 13 (5.68%) CSS
7 12 (5.24%) XML
8 11 (4.80%) React
9 10 (4.37%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.93%) Blazor
10 9 (3.93%) Kafka
11 6 (2.62%) Middleware
11 6 (2.62%) PySpark
12 5 (2.18%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.40%) Cyber Threat
1 49 (21.40%) Cyberattack
2 14 (6.11%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.24%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.80%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.80%) Replication
5 10 (4.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.93%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.62%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.62%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.18%) Clustering
10 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.75%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.31%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.68%) Windows
2 8 (3.49%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.87%) Linux
4 2 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (28.38%) Business Intelligence
1 65 (28.38%) Mentoring
2 59 (25.76%) Roadmaps
3 52 (22.71%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (22.71%) Identity Access Management
3 52 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (21.40%) Programme Delivery
4 49 (21.40%) Regulatory Compliance
5 45 (19.65%) Performance Tuning
6 40 (17.47%) Data Modelling
7 34 (14.85%) Agile
8 33 (14.41%) Analytics
8 33 (14.41%) ETL
9 32 (13.97%) CI/CD
9 32 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (13.54%) DevOps
11 29 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (12.23%) Change Control
13 20 (8.73%) Decision-Making
13 20 (8.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 203 (88.65%) SQL
2 80 (34.93%) PowerShell
3 52 (22.71%) Bash
4 49 (21.40%) C#
5 42 (18.34%) Python
6 23 (10.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (5.68%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.80%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.49%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.49%) VBScript
10 7 (3.06%) VBA
11 4 (1.75%) R
12 3 (1.31%) Java
13 2 (0.87%) Delphi
13 2 (0.87%) VB
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (9.17%) Degree
2 6 (2.62%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.18%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.87%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (22.71%) NIST
2 49 (21.40%) NCSC
3 42 (18.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (15.72%) Data Quality
5 11 (4.80%) QA
6 4 (1.75%) GDPR
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.87%) SLA
8 1 (0.44%) HL7
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (30.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.62%) Terraform
2 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.44%) SCCM
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 78 (34.06%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.93%) Oracle
3 8 (3.49%) iManage
4 7 (3.06%) Databricks
4 7 (3.06%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.06%) WooCommerce
5 6 (2.62%) ConnectWise
5 6 (2.62%) IFS
5 6 (2.62%) Infor
5 6 (2.62%) SAP
6 4 (1.75%) Epicor
6 4 (1.75%) JD Edwards
6 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.31%) Google
7 3 (1.31%) RedGate
7 3 (1.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Intapp
8 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.87%) Rollbar