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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 374 334
Rank change year-on-year -217 -40 -110
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 203 335 615
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.68% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 2.56% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 172 265 381
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,825 £36,738
25th Percentile £46,625 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £82,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -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 18,717 13,072 24,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.29% 26.48% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 13,273 8,425 15,033
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,000
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 17 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 17 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 -206 193 £60,000 +9.09% 206
UK excluding London -209 137 £55,000 +6.80% 133
Work from Home -62 86 £62,500 +19.05% 85
London -83 57 £70,000 -12.50% 98
South East -50 52 £55,000 +10.00% 31
North of England -94 31 £60,000 - 36
East of England -38 18 £62,500 +54.32% 16
North West -24 17 £60,000 +4.35% 26
South West -82 16 £52,500 +5.00% 12
Midlands -82 14 £59,366 +10.58% 23
Yorkshire -74 13 £60,500 +0.83% 10
West Midlands -54 10 £50,000 -13.04% 20
Scotland -3 6 £85,000 +78.95% 11
East Midlands -62 4 £59,732 +23.16% 3
North East -71 1 £47,500 -9.52%

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 (6.90%) IIS
2 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.96%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.46%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.46%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.97%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.97%) JDE World
4 3 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.99%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.99%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.49%) FastStats
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 117 (57.64%) Azure
2 63 (31.03%) Power Platform
3 41 (20.20%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.87%) Power Automate
5 17 (8.37%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (7.39%) AWS
7 14 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (6.90%) SaaS
8 12 (5.91%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (5.42%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.43%) GitHub
10 9 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.43%) Serverless
11 8 (3.94%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.94%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (2.46%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (1.48%) Amazon MSK
15 3 (1.48%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.97%) Firewall
2 3 (1.48%) DNS
2 3 (1.48%) VLAN
3 2 (0.99%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (65.02%) SQL Server
2 52 (25.62%) Power BI
3 49 (24.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 37 (18.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 26 (12.81%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (7.88%) Power Query
7 15 (7.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (5.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (4.43%) Star Schema
10 8 (3.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.94%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.96%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.46%) Metadata
13 4 (1.97%) Db2
13 4 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (1.97%) WhereScape RED
14 3 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.48%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.48%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (11.82%) Git
2 15 (7.39%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.96%) JIRA
5 2 (0.99%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.49%) Yeoman
General
1 64 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.63%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.26%) Finance
4 17 (8.37%) Law
5 15 (7.39%) Legal
6 8 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.46%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.46%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.97%) Retail
9 3 (1.48%) Back Office
9 3 (1.48%) Billing
9 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.99%) Automotive
10 2 (0.99%) Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Police
11 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 97 (47.78%) Developer
2 42 (20.69%) Senior
3 25 (12.32%) Analyst
4 24 (11.82%) .NET Developer
5 20 (9.85%) Software Developer
6 19 (9.36%) Senior Developer
6 19 (9.36%) SQL Developer
7 17 (8.37%) Data Engineer
8 16 (7.88%) DBA
8 16 (7.88%) SQL DBA
9 14 (6.90%) SQL Server DBA
10 13 (6.40%) Applications Support
11 12 (5.91%) Lead
12 10 (4.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 10 (4.93%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Applications Developer
14 8 (3.94%) Business Developer
14 8 (3.94%) Data Analyst
14 8 (3.94%) Database Engineer
14 8 (3.94%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (33.00%) .NET
2 15 (7.39%) REST
3 14 (6.90%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.90%) HTML
4 13 (6.40%) CSS
5 11 (5.42%) ASP.NET
5 11 (5.42%) JSON
6 10 (4.93%) .NET Framework
7 9 (4.43%) React
7 9 (4.43%) SOAP
7 9 (4.43%) WinForms
8 8 (3.94%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.94%) Blazor
8 8 (3.94%) PySpark
8 8 (3.94%) XML
9 7 (3.45%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.45%) Entity Framework
9 7 (3.45%) jQuery
9 7 (3.45%) Kafka
10 6 (2.96%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.32%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (7.39%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.43%) Replication
4 9 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.94%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.96%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.46%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.46%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.97%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.97%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.97%) NHS
9 3 (1.48%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.48%) LIMS
9 3 (1.48%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.99%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.85%) Windows
2 11 (5.42%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Linux
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (40.39%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (27.09%) Business Intelligence
3 54 (26.60%) DevOps
4 47 (23.15%) Performance Tuning
5 43 (21.18%) ETL
6 42 (20.69%) CI/CD
7 36 (17.73%) Data Modelling
8 34 (16.75%) Agile
9 32 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (13.30%) Analytics
11 21 (10.34%) SDLC
12 20 (9.85%) AI
12 20 (9.85%) Software Engineering
13 19 (9.36%) Root Cause Analysis
13 19 (9.36%) Secure Coding
14 18 (8.87%) Mentoring
15 16 (7.88%) Data Engineering
15 16 (7.88%) Data Integration
15 16 (7.88%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (7.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 202 (99.51%) SQL
2 68 (33.50%) C#
3 37 (18.23%) PowerShell
4 31 (15.27%) Python
5 20 (9.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (8.87%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.40%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.43%) VBScript
9 8 (3.94%) Delphi
9 8 (3.94%) VBA
10 6 (2.96%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.97%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.48%) Bash
12 3 (1.48%) XPath
13 2 (0.99%) Bicep
13 2 (0.99%) VB
14 1 (0.49%) Java
14 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (7.39%) Degree
2 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 5 (2.46%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.97%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.48%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.27%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.88%) QA
3 11 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.96%) SLA
5 5 (2.46%) NIST
6 2 (0.99%) GDPR
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.49%) HL7
7 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.46%) Docker
3 3 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.46%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.49%) SCCM
3 1 (0.49%) SCOM
3 1 (0.49%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 85 (41.87%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.39%) Oracle
3 9 (4.43%) iManage
4 8 (3.94%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.45%) SAP
6 6 (2.96%) Infor
6 6 (2.96%) JD Edwards
6 6 (2.96%) RedGate
7 5 (2.46%) IFS
7 5 (2.46%) Intapp
7 5 (2.46%) Remedy
8 4 (1.97%) Epicor
8 4 (1.97%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.97%) Teradata
9 3 (1.48%) Databricks
9 3 (1.48%) Google
9 3 (1.48%) Veeam
9 3 (1.48%) VMware
10 2 (0.99%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.99%) OpenAI