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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 379 320
Rank change year-on-year -217 -59 -111
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 203 327 608
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 2.55% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 172 258 360
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,125 £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 £82,800 £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 18,701 12,833 23,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.86% 25.94% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13,269 8,249 14,060
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £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 £107,625
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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -208 191 £60,000 +9.09% 167
UK excluding London -217 131 £55,000 +10.00% 108
Work from Home -71 88 £62,500 +20.48% 79
London -77 63 £70,000 -12.50% 66
South East -64 51 £55,000 +22.22% 26
North of England -114 31 £60,000 - 25
North West -29 17 £60,000 +4.35% 15
East of England -35 14 £58,750 +45.06% 15
Midlands -78 14 £59,366 +20.54% 25
South West -87 14 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Yorkshire -68 13 £60,500 +0.83% 8
West Midlands -61 10 £50,000 -13.04% 19
Scotland +10 7 £85,000 +78.95% 9
East Midlands -52 4 £59,732 +23.16% 6
North East -73 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 (6.90%) IIS
2 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.43%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.46%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.46%) Infor M3
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%) Dynamics GP
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
Cloud Services
1 116 (57.14%) Azure
2 65 (32.02%) Power Platform
3 44 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.84%) Power Automate
5 17 (8.37%) SaaS
6 16 (7.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (7.39%) AWS
7 15 (7.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (7.39%) PowerApps
8 12 (5.91%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (5.42%) Serverless
10 10 (4.93%) Snowflake
11 9 (4.43%) GitHub
12 8 (3.94%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.45%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (2.96%) dbt
15 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (1.97%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) DNS
1 3 (1.48%) Firewall
1 3 (1.48%) VLAN
2 2 (0.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (64.53%) SQL Server
2 52 (25.62%) Power BI
3 49 (24.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 38 (18.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 28 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.39%) Power Query
7 12 (5.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (4.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (3.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.94%) Star Schema
10 7 (3.45%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.46%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.97%) Db2
12 4 (1.97%) Metadata
12 4 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (1.97%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.48%) Big Data
13 3 (1.48%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.48%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 27 (13.30%) Git
2 15 (7.39%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.94%) JIRA
5 2 (0.99%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 53 (26.11%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.29%) Finance
4 21 (10.34%) Law
5 19 (9.36%) Legal
6 7 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.46%) Retail
9 4 (1.97%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.48%) Back Office
10 3 (1.48%) Billing
10 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.99%) Banking
11 2 (0.99%) 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 (50.25%) Developer
2 47 (23.15%) Senior
3 24 (11.82%) .NET Developer
3 24 (11.82%) Senior Developer
4 23 (11.33%) Analyst
5 21 (10.34%) Software Developer
6 19 (9.36%) Data Engineer
6 19 (9.36%) SQL Developer
7 14 (6.90%) DBA
7 14 (6.90%) SQL DBA
8 13 (6.40%) Applications Support
9 12 (5.91%) SQL Server DBA
10 11 (5.42%) Lead
11 10 (4.93%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.43%) Applications Developer
13 8 (3.94%) Business Developer
13 8 (3.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.94%) Database Engineer
13 8 (3.94%) Software Support Engineer
14 7 (3.45%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (33.50%) .NET
2 19 (9.36%) REST
3 14 (6.90%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.40%) HTML
5 12 (5.91%) CSS
6 11 (5.42%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.42%) JSON
7 10 (4.93%) React
7 10 (4.93%) SOAP
8 9 (4.43%) .NET Framework
9 8 (3.94%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (3.94%) Blazor
9 8 (3.94%) WinForms
10 7 (3.45%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.45%) Kafka
10 7 (3.45%) XML
11 6 (2.96%) Entity Framework
11 6 (2.96%) LDAP
11 6 (2.96%) OpenID
11 6 (2.96%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.33%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.94%) Replication
6 6 (2.96%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.46%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.97%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.97%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.48%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.48%) NHS
9 3 (1.48%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.99%) LIMS
10 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.99%) SystemC
11 1 (0.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.36%) Windows
2 11 (5.42%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (40.39%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (28.08%) DevOps
3 56 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
4 46 (22.66%) CI/CD
5 44 (21.67%) Performance Tuning
6 41 (20.20%) ETL
7 37 (18.23%) Agile
8 35 (17.24%) Data Modelling
9 31 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (14.29%) Analytics
11 23 (11.33%) Software Engineering
12 21 (10.34%) SDLC
13 20 (9.85%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (9.36%) AI
14 19 (9.36%) Mentoring
15 18 (8.87%) Data Integration
15 18 (8.87%) Secure Coding
16 17 (8.37%) Data Pipeline
16 17 (8.37%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (7.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 203 (100.00%) SQL
2 71 (34.98%) C#
3 37 (18.23%) PowerShell
4 32 (15.76%) Python
5 18 (8.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (8.87%) JavaScript
6 13 (6.40%) PL/SQL
7 9 (4.43%) VBScript
8 8 (3.94%) VBA
9 7 (3.45%) Delphi
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 5 (2.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.97%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.48%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.39%) QA
3 12 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.96%) NIST
4 6 (2.96%) SLA
5 2 (0.99%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) HL7
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 3 (1.48%) SQL Sentry
4 1 (0.49%) SCOM
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%) Intapp
6 6 (2.96%) JD Edwards
6 6 (2.96%) RedGate
6 6 (2.96%) SAP
7 5 (2.46%) Databricks
7 5 (2.46%) IFS
7 5 (2.46%) Infor
7 5 (2.46%) Remedy
8 4 (1.97%) Epicor
8 4 (1.97%) Teradata
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
10 2 (0.99%) SolarWinds