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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 390 325
Rank change year-on-year -222 -65 -121
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 204 325 601
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 2.54% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 173 256 354
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18,815 12,772 23,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 25.90% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13,284 8,206 14,000
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,126 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -201 192 £60,000 +9.09% 142
UK excluding London -220 132 £55,000 +10.00% 98
Work from Home -74 88 £62,500 +20.48% 76
London -86 63 £70,000 -12.50% 49
South East -58 51 £55,000 +22.22% 24
North of England -105 31 £60,000 - 26
North West -29 17 £60,000 +4.35% 16
South West -86 15 £52,500 +5.00% 5
East of England -41 14 £58,750 +45.06% 13
Midlands -90 14 £59,366 +20.54% 21
Yorkshire -69 13 £60,500 +0.83% 8
West Midlands -60 10 £50,000 -13.04% 17
Scotland +14 7 £85,000 +78.95% 8
East Midlands -57 4 £59,732 +23.16% 4
North East -72 1 £47,500 -9.52% 2

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 (6.86%) IIS
2 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.41%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.45%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.45%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.45%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.96%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.96%) JDE World
4 3 (1.47%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.98%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.98%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.98%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.49%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 117 (57.35%) Azure
2 66 (32.35%) Power Platform
3 44 (21.57%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.78%) Power Automate
5 17 (8.33%) SaaS
6 16 (7.84%) AWS
6 16 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (7.35%) PowerApps
8 12 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (5.39%) Serverless
10 10 (4.90%) Snowflake
11 9 (4.41%) GitHub
12 8 (3.92%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.43%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (2.94%) dbt
14 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.96%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.47%) DNS
1 3 (1.47%) Firewall
1 3 (1.47%) VLAN
2 2 (0.98%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (64.22%) SQL Server
2 53 (25.98%) Power BI
3 49 (24.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 38 (18.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 28 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.35%) Power Query
7 12 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (4.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (3.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.92%) Star Schema
10 7 (3.43%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.94%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.96%) Db2
12 4 (1.96%) Metadata
12 4 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (1.96%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.47%) Big Data
13 3 (1.47%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.47%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 27 (13.24%) Git
2 15 (7.35%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.92%) JIRA
5 2 (0.98%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 53 (25.98%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.22%) Finance
4 21 (10.29%) Law
5 19 (9.31%) Legal
6 7 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.45%) Retail
9 4 (1.96%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.47%) Back Office
10 3 (1.47%) Billing
10 3 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.98%) Automotive
11 2 (0.98%) Banking
11 2 (0.98%) Local Government
12 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Marketing
12 1 (0.49%) Publishing
12 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 102 (50.00%) Developer
2 47 (23.04%) Senior
3 24 (11.76%) .NET Developer
3 24 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 23 (11.27%) Analyst
5 21 (10.29%) Software Developer
6 20 (9.80%) Data Engineer
7 19 (9.31%) SQL Developer
8 14 (6.86%) DBA
8 14 (6.86%) SQL DBA
9 13 (6.37%) Applications Support
10 12 (5.88%) SQL Server DBA
11 11 (5.39%) Lead
12 10 (4.90%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.41%) Applications Developer
14 8 (3.92%) Business Developer
14 8 (3.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (3.92%) Database Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) Software Support Engineer
15 7 (3.43%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (33.33%) .NET
2 19 (9.31%) REST
3 14 (6.86%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.37%) HTML
5 12 (5.88%) CSS
6 11 (5.39%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.39%) JSON
7 10 (4.90%) React
7 10 (4.90%) SOAP
8 9 (4.41%) .NET Framework
9 8 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (3.92%) Blazor
9 8 (3.92%) WinForms
10 7 (3.43%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.43%) Kafka
10 7 (3.43%) XML
11 6 (2.94%) jQuery
11 6 (2.94%) LDAP
11 6 (2.94%) PySpark
11 6 (2.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.27%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.86%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.92%) Replication
6 6 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.45%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.96%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.47%) NHS
9 3 (1.47%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.98%) LIMS
10 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.98%) SystemC
11 1 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.31%) Windows
2 11 (5.39%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (40.20%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (27.94%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (27.94%) DevOps
3 46 (22.55%) CI/CD
4 44 (21.57%) Performance Tuning
5 42 (20.59%) ETL
6 38 (18.63%) Agile
7 35 (17.16%) Data Modelling
8 31 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (14.22%) Analytics
10 23 (11.27%) Software Engineering
11 21 (10.29%) SDLC
12 20 (9.80%) AI
12 20 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
13 19 (9.31%) Mentoring
14 18 (8.82%) Data Integration
14 18 (8.82%) Secure Coding
15 17 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (7.84%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 203 (99.51%) SQL
2 71 (34.80%) C#
3 38 (18.63%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.18%) Python
5 18 (8.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (8.82%) JavaScript
6 13 (6.37%) PL/SQL
7 9 (4.41%) VBScript
8 8 (3.92%) VBA
9 7 (3.43%) Delphi
10 6 (2.94%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.96%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.47%) Bash
12 3 (1.47%) XPath
13 2 (0.98%) Bicep
13 2 (0.98%) VB
14 1 (0.49%) Java
14 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (7.35%) Degree
2 5 (2.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.45%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.47%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.16%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.35%) QA
3 12 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.94%) NIST
4 6 (2.94%) SLA
5 2 (0.98%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.45%) Docker
3 3 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.45%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.47%) SQL Sentry
4 1 (0.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 85 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.35%) Oracle
3 9 (4.41%) iManage
4 8 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.43%) Intapp
6 6 (2.94%) Databricks
6 6 (2.94%) JD Edwards
6 6 (2.94%) RedGate
6 6 (2.94%) SAP
7 5 (2.45%) IFS
7 5 (2.45%) Infor
7 5 (2.45%) Remedy
8 4 (1.96%) Epicor
8 4 (1.96%) Teradata
9 3 (1.47%) Google
9 3 (1.47%) Veeam
9 3 (1.47%) VMware
10 2 (0.98%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.98%) SolarWinds