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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 310 216
Rank change year-on-year -117 -94 +12
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 228 566 808
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.87% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 2.67% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 191 351 723
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -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 11,532 21,200 20,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.30% 32.69% 40.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,359 12,708 17,139
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,788
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% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £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 1 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 1 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 -107 204 £50,000 - 73
UK excluding London -48 158 £48,000 +1.05% 70
Work from Home -61 82 £50,000 - 54
London -78 61 £80,000 +30.08% 22
Midlands +22 46 £46,250 +1.81% 6
South East +18 41 £42,500 -14.10% 18
North of England -13 35 £40,000 -15.79% 17
Yorkshire +5 28 £40,000 -16.23% 6
West Midlands +34 27 £42,500 -5.56% 5
East Midlands +15 19 £48,500 +2.11% 1
South West +8 16 £50,000 -6.98% 11
Scotland +1 13 £37,500 -17.58% 9
North East +14 4 £51,750 -11.54% 1
North West +4 3 £57,500 +21.05% 11
Northern Ireland - 3 £50,000 - 1
East of England -24 2 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Wales +11 1 £35,000 -18.13% 3
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 (7.46%) IIS
2 9 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.32%) CMS
4 2 (0.88%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.88%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 25 (10.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.88%) Sage 1000
1 2 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 120 (52.63%) Azure
2 57 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 45 (19.74%) Azure Data Factory
3 45 (19.74%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 15 (6.58%) AWS
6 15 (6.58%) GitHub
7 13 (5.70%) GCP
8 12 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (4.82%) Entra ID
9 11 (4.82%) SaaS
10 10 (4.39%) PowerApps
11 8 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.63%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.63%) Google Workspace
12 6 (2.63%) Serverless
13 5 (2.19%) dbt
13 5 (2.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.63%) Broadband
2 3 (1.32%) DNS
3 2 (0.88%) DHCP
3 2 (0.88%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.88%) Firewall
3 2 (0.88%) SSL
3 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.88%) VLAN
3 2 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (53.95%) SQL Server
2 59 (25.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 56 (24.56%) Power BI
4 55 (24.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 31 (13.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 29 (12.72%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (12.28%) Data Lake
8 24 (10.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 12 (5.26%) Metadata
10 9 (3.95%) MySQL
11 8 (3.51%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.51%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.07%) OLAP
12 7 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (2.63%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.63%) Data Mining
14 4 (1.75%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.75%) RDBMS
15 3 (1.32%) GIS
15 3 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (8.33%) Git
2 8 (3.51%) JIRA
2 8 (3.51%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (2.63%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.19%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.44%) Mercurial
General
1 85 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 57 (25.00%) Finance
3 45 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.82%) Games
6 10 (4.39%) Law
7 9 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.51%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.51%) Retail
9 7 (3.07%) Legal
10 6 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.19%) Back Office
12 4 (1.75%) Billing
13 3 (1.32%) Front Office
14 2 (0.88%) Advertising
14 2 (0.88%) Automotive
14 2 (0.88%) Banking
14 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 70 (30.70%) Developer
2 50 (21.93%) Senior
3 44 (19.30%) Data Engineer
4 42 (18.42%) Analyst
5 28 (12.28%) SQL Developer
6 27 (11.84%) Applications Support
7 25 (10.96%) Support Analyst
8 24 (10.53%) DBA
9 23 (10.09%) Applications Support Analyst
10 21 (9.21%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (9.21%) SQL DBA
11 20 (8.77%) Software Engineer
12 17 (7.46%) Senior Developer
13 15 (6.58%) IT Support
14 14 (6.14%) Support Engineer
15 13 (5.70%) Administrator
15 13 (5.70%) IT Engineer
15 13 (5.70%) IT Support Engineer
16 12 (5.26%) Software Support Engineer
17 10 (4.39%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (20.18%) .NET
2 20 (8.77%) .NET Framework
2 20 (8.77%) REST
3 18 (7.89%) ASP.NET
3 18 (7.89%) CSS
4 17 (7.46%) Entity Framework
4 17 (7.46%) HTML
5 14 (6.14%) PySpark
6 12 (5.26%) SOAP
6 12 (5.26%) WinForms
7 11 (4.82%) .NET Core
7 11 (4.82%) JSON
8 10 (4.39%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.39%) XML
9 9 (3.95%) Web Services
10 7 (3.07%) OAuth
10 7 (3.07%) OpenID
11 6 (2.63%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.63%) LDAP
11 6 (2.63%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.58%) Data Structures
1 15 (6.58%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.39%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.07%) Clustering
4 6 (2.63%) 3D Graphics
4 6 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (2.63%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.88%) Derivative
8 2 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.21%) Windows
2 7 (3.07%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.19%) Linux
4 3 (1.32%) VMS
5 2 (0.88%) Android
5 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (31.14%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (30.70%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (28.07%) DevOps
4 63 (27.63%) ETL
5 46 (20.18%) Data Pipeline
6 43 (18.86%) Analytics
7 39 (17.11%) Agile
8 36 (15.79%) Software Engineering
9 33 (14.47%) CI/CD
9 33 (14.47%) Data Modelling
10 31 (13.60%) Data Engineering
11 28 (12.28%) Decision-Making
12 23 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (9.65%) Mentoring
14 19 (8.33%) Dimensional Modelling
15 18 (7.89%) AI
15 18 (7.89%) Data Integration
15 18 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (7.46%) Computer Science
17 16 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 220 (96.49%) SQL
2 51 (22.37%) Python
3 50 (21.93%) C#
4 24 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.65%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.14%) PL/SQL
7 10 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.63%) Bash
9 4 (1.75%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.32%) Bicep
10 3 (1.32%) Java
10 3 (1.32%) PHP
10 3 (1.32%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.32%) VBA
11 2 (0.88%) C++
11 2 (0.88%) Scala
12 1 (0.44%) Dart
12 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (14.47%) Degree
2 15 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.19%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.75%) ACCA
5 4 (1.75%) CIMA
5 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.88%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) MCITP
7 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.84%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.39%) QA
3 9 (3.95%) GDPR
4 6 (2.63%) NCSC
4 6 (2.63%) NIST
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.63%) Docker
3 3 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.19%) Terraform
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 85 (37.28%) Microsoft
2 43 (18.86%) Databricks
3 18 (7.89%) Oracle
4 15 (6.58%) Sage
5 12 (5.26%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.51%) RedGate
7 5 (2.19%) Google
7 5 (2.19%) Zoho
8 4 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.75%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.75%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.75%) Informatica
8 4 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.75%) Talend
9 3 (1.32%) VMware
10 2 (0.88%) Aderant
10 2 (0.88%) iManage
10 2 (0.88%) Intapp
10 2 (0.88%) Lotus