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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 300 215
Rank change year-on-year -124 -85 +18
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 257 585 907
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.86% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.12% 2.72% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 199 365 822
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -7.77% -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 12,139 21,527 22,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.59% 31.61% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,109 12,852 18,510
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,135
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 27 October 2025.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 18 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 27 October 2025. 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 -123 236 £52,500 +1.94% 117
UK excluding London -70 176 £48,000 +1.05% 141
Work from Home -83 94 £50,000 -4.76% 99
London -72 70 £80,000 +26.98% 32
South East +19 61 £42,500 -15.00% 40
Midlands -6 39 £45,000 -5.26% 17
North of England -29 31 £50,000 +5.26% 28
West Midlands +14 23 £44,000 -14.15% 11
South West +39 21 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Yorkshire -3 20 £40,000 -14.83% 8
East Midlands +12 16 £46,250 +2.78% 6
East of England -23 11 £50,000 +2.56% 7
Scotland -25 9 £37,500 -18.48% 31
North West -28 6 £57,500 +21.05% 13
North East +16 5 £52,500 +25.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Wales +9 1 £35,000 -18.13% 12
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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 (5.45%) IIS
2 10 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 27 (10.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.56%) Sage 1000
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (52.92%) Azure
2 82 (31.91%) Power Platform
3 49 (19.07%) Azure Data Factory
4 46 (17.90%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (7.39%) GCP
6 19 (7.39%) Snowflake
7 18 (7.00%) AWS
8 15 (5.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (5.84%) PowerApps
9 13 (5.06%) SaaS
10 12 (4.67%) GitHub
11 11 (4.28%) Power Automate
12 10 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (3.11%) Entra ID
15 6 (2.33%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.33%) Serverless
16 5 (1.95%) dbt
16 5 (1.95%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (46.30%) SQL Server
2 85 (33.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 79 (30.74%) Power BI
4 64 (24.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 56 (21.79%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (12.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 31 (12.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 28 (10.89%) Data Lake
9 16 (6.23%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.67%) Metadata
10 12 (4.67%) NoSQL
11 10 (3.89%) MySQL
12 8 (3.11%) BigQuery
12 8 (3.11%) OLAP
12 8 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.72%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.33%) Data Mining
14 6 (2.33%) Tableau
15 5 (1.95%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.95%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 19 (7.39%) Git
2 8 (3.11%) Oracle APEX
3 7 (2.72%) JIRA
4 6 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.33%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.95%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.39%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 105 (40.86%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.12%) Finance
3 41 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (5.06%) Manufacturing
5 11 (4.28%) Law
5 11 (4.28%) Legal
5 11 (4.28%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.89%) Retail
7 9 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.72%) Back Office
9 6 (2.33%) Automotive
10 4 (1.56%) Advertising
10 4 (1.56%) Billing
10 4 (1.56%) Marketing
10 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.56%) Social Housing
10 4 (1.56%) Swedish Language
11 2 (0.78%) Front Office
11 2 (0.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 88 (34.24%) Developer
2 49 (19.07%) Senior
3 46 (17.90%) Data Engineer
4 39 (15.18%) Analyst
5 35 (13.62%) SQL Developer
6 24 (9.34%) DBA
7 22 (8.56%) Senior Data Engineer
8 21 (8.17%) Software Engineer
8 21 (8.17%) SQL DBA
9 20 (7.78%) Support Analyst
10 19 (7.39%) Applications Support
11 16 (6.23%) Applications Support Analyst
11 16 (6.23%) IT Support
12 15 (5.84%) Senior Developer
13 13 (5.06%) Administrator
13 13 (5.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 13 (5.06%) Support Engineer
14 12 (4.67%) IT Engineer
14 12 (4.67%) IT Support Engineer
15 11 (4.28%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (17.12%) .NET
2 27 (10.51%) CSS
3 26 (10.12%) HTML
4 23 (8.95%) .NET Framework
4 23 (8.95%) ASP.NET
5 18 (7.00%) Entity Framework
6 16 (6.23%) PySpark
6 16 (6.23%) REST
7 14 (5.45%) XML
8 13 (5.06%) JSON
9 11 (4.28%) WinForms
10 10 (3.89%) AngularJS
10 10 (3.89%) React
11 9 (3.50%) Web Services
12 8 (3.11%) .NET Core
13 7 (2.72%) SOAP
14 5 (1.95%) ASP.NET Core
14 5 (1.95%) ASP.NET MVC
14 5 (1.95%) HTML5
14 5 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.84%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.28%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.28%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.50%) Clustering
4 8 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.95%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.95%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.56%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.17%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.78%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.78%) Replication
9 1 (0.39%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.39%) Windows
2 6 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.78%) Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (45.14%) Business Intelligence
2 76 (29.57%) ETL
3 69 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (26.07%) DevOps
5 53 (20.62%) Data Engineering
6 47 (18.29%) Analytics
7 45 (17.51%) Agile
8 43 (16.73%) Data Pipeline
9 38 (14.79%) Data Modelling
10 33 (12.84%) CI/CD
11 30 (11.67%) Software Engineering
12 28 (10.89%) Decision-Making
13 22 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (8.17%) Dimensional Modelling
15 20 (7.78%) Computer Science
15 20 (7.78%) Migration
15 20 (7.78%) SDLC
16 19 (7.39%) Actionable Insight
16 19 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (7.39%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 251 (97.67%) SQL
2 74 (28.79%) Python
3 49 (19.07%) C#
4 28 (10.89%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.23%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (5.45%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.33%) VB.NET
8 5 (1.95%) Java
9 4 (1.56%) VBA
10 2 (0.78%) Bash
10 2 (0.78%) Bicep
10 2 (0.78%) C++
10 2 (0.78%) PHP
10 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.78%) X++
11 1 (0.39%) Dart
11 1 (0.39%) R
11 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (13.62%) Degree
2 18 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.50%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.33%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.56%) ACCA
6 4 (1.56%) CIMA
7 2 (0.78%) MCSE
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.34%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.28%) GDPR
3 9 (3.50%) QA
4 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.78%) NCSC
5 2 (0.78%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.72%) Docker
3 5 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.95%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (1.56%) Terraform
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 93 (36.19%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.95%) Databricks
3 19 (7.39%) Oracle
4 16 (6.23%) Sage
5 11 (4.28%) Xamarin
6 9 (3.50%) Google
6 9 (3.50%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.11%) RedGate
8 5 (1.95%) Informatica
8 5 (1.95%) Talend
8 5 (1.95%) VMware
8 5 (1.95%) Zoho
9 4 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.56%) Dataiku
9 4 (1.56%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.78%) Aderant
10 2 (0.78%) iManage
10 2 (0.78%) Intapp
10 2 (0.78%) Lotus