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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 297 229
Rank change year-on-year -124 -68 +4
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 237 532 771
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.95% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.03% 2.82% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 188 324 682
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,438 £43,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -

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 11,655 18,864 20,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.43% 33.85% 39.65%
Number of salaries quoted 8,561 11,180 16,765
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +2.36% -2.31%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £106,250
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 December 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 December 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 -118 204 £50,000 -4.76% 76
UK excluding London -64 172 £48,500 +2.11% 64
Work from Home -47 104 £48,500 -3.00% 55
London -84 58 £80,000 +28.00% 25
Midlands +9 47 £50,000 +11.11% 13
North of England -12 38 £40,000 -15.79% 12
South East -6 36 £40,000 -20.00% 15
Yorkshire +7 31 £40,000 -13.85% 4
West Midlands +21 29 £47,500 +11.11% 9
Scotland +9 23 £37,500 -17.58% 11
South West -12 18 £50,000 -6.98% 11
East Midlands -16 18 £50,000 +8.11% 4
North East +15 4 £51,750 -31.00%
East of England -21 4 £42,175 -11.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 - 2
North West -19 3 £57,500 +17.95% 8
Wales 0 1 £35,000 -18.13%
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 17 (7.17%) IIS
2 11 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.27%) CMS
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.84%) Confluence
4 2 (0.84%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.84%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.84%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.84%) WordPress
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 26 (10.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.11%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (2.11%) Magento
2 5 (2.11%) Shopify
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 124 (52.32%) Azure
2 50 (21.10%) Power Platform
3 45 (18.99%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (10.13%) Entra ID
6 21 (8.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 19 (8.02%) Google Workspace
8 18 (7.59%) GitHub
8 18 (7.59%) Snowflake
9 14 (5.91%) AWS
10 13 (5.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (5.06%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (5.06%) PowerApps
11 12 (5.06%) SaaS
12 10 (4.22%) GCP
12 10 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.95%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.95%) Power Automate
14 5 (2.11%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.02%) Broadband
2 3 (1.27%) DNS
3 2 (0.84%) DHCP
3 2 (0.84%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.84%) Firewall
3 2 (0.84%) SSL
3 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.84%) VLAN
3 2 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (53.59%) SQL Server
2 54 (22.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 50 (21.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 49 (20.68%) Power BI
5 31 (13.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 29 (12.24%) Data Lake
7 22 (9.28%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (9.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 15 (6.33%) Metadata
9 10 (4.22%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.80%) MySQL
11 7 (2.95%) OLAP
11 7 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.11%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.11%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
14 3 (1.27%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.27%) GIS
14 3 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.75%) Git
2 15 (6.33%) JIRA
3 8 (3.38%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (2.53%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.53%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.42%) Mercurial
General
1 92 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 53 (22.36%) Finance
3 45 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.02%) Games
4 19 (8.02%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.80%) Back Office
6 9 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.80%) Law
7 8 (3.38%) Legal
8 7 (2.95%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.69%) Billing
10 3 (1.27%) Front Office
10 3 (1.27%) Retail
11 2 (0.84%) Advertising
11 2 (0.84%) Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 67 (28.27%) Developer
2 57 (24.05%) Senior
3 43 (18.14%) Analyst
4 39 (16.46%) Data Engineer
5 29 (12.24%) Support Analyst
6 28 (11.81%) Applications Support
6 28 (11.81%) DBA
7 25 (10.55%) Applications Support Analyst
7 25 (10.55%) SQL DBA
8 21 (8.86%) SQL Developer
9 20 (8.44%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (8.02%) Senior Developer
11 18 (7.59%) Software Engineer
12 15 (6.33%) Administrator
13 13 (5.49%) IT Engineer
13 13 (5.49%) IT Support
13 13 (5.49%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (5.49%) Support Engineer
14 12 (5.06%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (5.06%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (18.14%) .NET
2 38 (16.03%) REST
3 30 (12.66%) SOAP
4 20 (8.44%) OAuth
4 20 (8.44%) OpenID
5 19 (8.02%) .NET Framework
5 19 (8.02%) GraphQL
5 19 (8.02%) LDAP
5 19 (8.02%) SAML
6 15 (6.33%) ASP.NET
6 15 (6.33%) Entity Framework
7 13 (5.49%) CSS
7 13 (5.49%) HTML
8 12 (5.06%) WinForms
9 11 (4.64%) JSON
10 10 (4.22%) .NET Core
10 10 (4.22%) XML
11 9 (3.80%) PySpark
12 7 (2.95%) Middleware
12 7 (2.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.02%) Cyber Threat
1 19 (8.02%) Cyberattack
2 15 (6.33%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.49%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.06%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.80%) Clustering
6 6 (2.53%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.69%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.84%) Derivative
10 2 (0.84%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.84%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.42%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.13%) Windows
2 10 (4.22%) Linux
3 6 (2.53%) VMS
3 6 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.84%) Android
4 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (26.16%) ETL
3 61 (25.74%) Business Intelligence
4 57 (24.05%) DevOps
5 48 (20.25%) Analytics
6 44 (18.57%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (16.46%) Agile
7 39 (16.46%) Data Modelling
8 35 (14.77%) Mentoring
9 34 (14.35%) Software Engineering
10 33 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (13.08%) CI/CD
11 31 (13.08%) Data Engineering
12 27 (11.39%) Roadmaps
13 26 (10.97%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (10.97%) Decision-Making
14 23 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (8.86%) AI
16 19 (8.02%) Data Integration
16 19 (8.02%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 222 (93.67%) SQL
2 50 (21.10%) Python
3 46 (19.41%) C#
4 38 (16.03%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.02%) Bash
5 19 (8.02%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.91%) PL/SQL
7 11 (4.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.69%) Bicep
8 4 (1.69%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.27%) PHP
9 3 (1.27%) Scala
10 2 (0.84%) C++
10 2 (0.84%) Java
10 2 (0.84%) VBA
11 1 (0.42%) Dart
11 1 (0.42%) R
11 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (14.35%) Degree
2 15 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.64%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.11%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.69%) ACCA
5 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.69%) CIMA
5 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.84%) MCSE
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) MCITP
7 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.77%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.02%) NCSC
2 19 (8.02%) NIST
3 11 (4.64%) GDPR
3 11 (4.64%) QA
4 7 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (11.39%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.11%) Docker
3 2 (0.84%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.95%) Terraform
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 90 (37.97%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.03%) Databricks
3 20 (8.44%) Oracle
4 13 (5.49%) Sage
5 12 (5.06%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.38%) RedGate
7 5 (2.11%) ConnectWise
7 5 (2.11%) Google
7 5 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.11%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.11%) Zoho
8 4 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.69%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.69%) Informatica
8 4 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.69%) Talend
9 2 (0.84%) Aderant
9 2 (0.84%) iManage
9 2 (0.84%) Intapp