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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 362 261
Rank change year-on-year -143 -101 -4
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 229 353 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.79% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 2.53% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 152 273 910
10th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,375 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,813 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £84,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +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 16,716 13,966 34,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.85% 31.23% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,809 9,201 25,948
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 18 June 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 16 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 18 June 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 -170 194 £50,000 -13.04% 61
UK excluding London -113 163 £47,500 -7.77% 54
Work from Home -14 130 £50,000 -9.09% 44
London -79 59 £70,000 - 24
South East -20 37 £46,250 +2.78% 18
North of England -74 35 £47,500 -20.83% 17
Scotland +33 29 - - 4
Midlands -56 26 £45,000 -7.22% 2
North West +7 21 £60,000 +20.00% 10
South West -58 20 £48,125 -3.75% 5
West Midlands -24 17 £44,000 -23.48% 1
East of England -31 13 £62,500 +48.81% 4
Yorkshire -67 12 £45,000 -25.00% 3
East Midlands -48 9 £59,000 +24.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 7
North East -51 2 £45,500 -17.27% 4

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 18 (7.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.80%) IIS
3 7 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) JBoss
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.49%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.62%) Infor M3
3 6 (2.62%) Magento
3 6 (2.62%) Shopify
4 4 (1.75%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.75%) JDE World
4 4 (1.75%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.87%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.44%) FastStats
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 145 (63.32%) Azure
2 66 (28.82%) Power Platform
3 61 (26.64%) Entra ID
4 51 (22.27%) Google Workspace
5 23 (10.04%) AWS
6 22 (9.61%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (9.17%) SaaS
8 19 (8.30%) Power Automate
9 17 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (6.55%) PowerApps
11 14 (6.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.37%) GitHub
14 8 (3.49%) Serverless
14 8 (3.49%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Copilot
17 4 (1.75%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 48 (20.96%) Broadband
2 3 (1.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.87%) DNS
3 2 (0.87%) VLAN
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (48.91%) SQL Server
2 57 (24.89%) Power BI
3 46 (20.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 44 (19.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (7.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.55%) Power Query
7 12 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.80%) MySQL
9 10 (4.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.49%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.62%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.18%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.31%) Metadata
14 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.44%) Spark SQL
15 1 (0.44%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 17 (7.42%) Git
2 13 (5.68%) JIRA
3 11 (4.80%) Visual Studio
4 9 (3.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 82 (35.81%) Social Skills
2 55 (24.02%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (20.52%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.97%) Finance
5 25 (10.92%) Games
6 18 (7.86%) Law
7 10 (4.37%) Legal
8 6 (2.62%) Back Office
8 6 (2.62%) Retail
9 5 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.75%) Marketing
10 4 (1.75%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.31%) Billing
11 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.87%) Automotive
12 2 (0.87%) Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.44%) Police
13 1 (0.44%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 79 (34.50%) Developer
2 51 (22.27%) Senior
3 45 (19.65%) Analyst
4 20 (8.73%) Applications Support
5 19 (8.30%) IAM Developer
5 19 (8.30%) Senior Developer
6 17 (7.42%) Applications Support Analyst
6 17 (7.42%) Data Analyst
6 17 (7.42%) Support Analyst
7 16 (6.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (6.99%) Software Developer
7 16 (6.99%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (6.55%) SQL Developer
9 13 (5.68%) DBA
10 12 (5.24%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.24%) Database Engineer
10 12 (5.24%) SQL Analyst
11 11 (4.80%) SQL DBA
12 10 (4.37%) .NET Developer
13 9 (3.93%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (27.51%) REST
2 58 (25.33%) SOAP
3 51 (22.27%) GraphQL
3 51 (22.27%) LDAP
3 51 (22.27%) OAuth
3 51 (22.27%) OpenID
3 51 (22.27%) SAML
4 48 (20.96%) .NET
5 14 (6.11%) ASP.NET
5 14 (6.11%) HTML
5 14 (6.11%) JSON
6 13 (5.68%) CSS
7 12 (5.24%) XML
8 11 (4.80%) React
9 10 (4.37%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.93%) Blazor
10 9 (3.93%) Kafka
11 6 (2.62%) Middleware
11 6 (2.62%) PySpark
12 5 (2.18%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.96%) Cyber Threat
1 48 (20.96%) Cyberattack
2 15 (6.55%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.24%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.80%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.80%) Replication
5 10 (4.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.93%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.62%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.18%) Clustering
10 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.75%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.75%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.31%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.87%) LIMS
12 2 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.68%) Windows
2 8 (3.49%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.87%) Linux
4 2 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.95%) Mentoring
2 63 (27.51%) Business Intelligence
3 59 (25.76%) Roadmaps
4 53 (23.14%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (22.27%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (22.27%) Identity Access Management
6 48 (20.96%) Programme Delivery
6 48 (20.96%) Regulatory Compliance
7 46 (20.09%) Performance Tuning
8 40 (17.47%) Data Modelling
9 36 (15.72%) Agile
10 34 (14.85%) CI/CD
11 33 (14.41%) ETL
11 33 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (13.97%) Analytics
13 31 (13.54%) DevOps
14 30 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (12.23%) Change Control
16 21 (9.17%) Validation
17 19 (8.30%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 204 (89.08%) SQL
2 79 (34.50%) PowerShell
3 51 (22.27%) Bash
4 50 (21.83%) C#
5 42 (18.34%) Python
6 22 (9.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (6.11%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.80%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.49%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.49%) VBScript
10 7 (3.06%) VBA
11 4 (1.75%) Java
11 4 (1.75%) R
12 2 (0.87%) Delphi
12 2 (0.87%) VB
13 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (9.17%) Degree
2 5 (2.18%) DBS Check
2 5 (2.18%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.87%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (22.27%) NIST
2 48 (20.96%) NCSC
3 42 (18.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (15.28%) Data Quality
5 13 (5.68%) QA
6 4 (1.75%) GDPR
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.87%) SLA
8 1 (0.44%) HL7
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (30.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.62%) Terraform
2 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.44%) SCCM
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 76 (33.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.93%) Oracle
3 8 (3.49%) iManage
4 7 (3.06%) Databricks
5 6 (2.62%) IFS
5 6 (2.62%) Infor
5 6 (2.62%) SAP
5 6 (2.62%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.62%) WooCommerce
6 5 (2.18%) ConnectWise
7 4 (1.75%) Epicor
7 4 (1.75%) JD Edwards
7 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.31%) Google
8 3 (1.31%) RedGate
8 3 (1.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Intapp
9 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.87%) Rollbar