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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 349 246
Rank change year-on-year -154 -103 +26
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 217 350 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.80% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 2.50% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 136 276 938
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,106 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,063 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,375 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.32% -6.82% +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 16,089 14,013 32,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.62% 32.02% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,034 9,712 24,888
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 17 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 16 May 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 -177 175 £48,625 -15.43% 76
UK excluding London -94 164 £47,500 -7.32% 55
Work from Home +2 132 £46,250 -17.41% 36
London -92 47 £70,000 +3.70% 18
Scotland +25 35 - - 2
North of England -65 34 £47,500 -20.83% 22
Midlands -42 32 £50,000 - 8
South East -26 29 £44,000 -2.22% 14
North West -1 18 £53,750 +7.50% 8
West Midlands -38 18 £44,000 -23.48% 4
South West -46 18 £42,500 +6.25% 5
Yorkshire -83 15 £44,000 -26.67% 12
East Midlands -46 14 £59,732 +23.16% 4
East of England -30 12 £62,500 +48.81% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -42 1 £43,500 -24.35% 2
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 15 (6.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.61%) IIS
3 8 (3.69%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.38%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.92%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) JBoss
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.61%) Dynamics NAV
1 10 (4.61%) Magento
1 10 (4.61%) Shopify
2 9 (4.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.76%) Infor M3
4 4 (1.84%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.84%) JDE World
4 4 (1.84%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.92%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 126 (58.06%) Azure
2 62 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 56 (25.81%) Power Platform
4 52 (23.96%) Google Workspace
5 20 (9.22%) AWS
5 20 (9.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (8.76%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (6.45%) Power Automate
9 13 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.99%) PowerApps
9 13 (5.99%) SaaS
10 11 (5.07%) GitHub
11 10 (4.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (4.61%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.30%) Serverless
15 4 (1.84%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 52 (23.96%) Broadband
2 3 (1.38%) DNS
2 3 (1.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.92%) VLAN
4 1 (0.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.46%) LAN
4 1 (0.46%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.46%) WAN
4 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (49.77%) SQL Server
2 54 (24.88%) Power BI
3 39 (17.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 35 (16.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (10.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.45%) Power Query
7 11 (5.07%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.61%) MySQL
8 10 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (4.61%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.76%) Metadata
12 4 (1.84%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
15 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 18 (8.29%) JIRA
2 11 (5.07%) Git
3 6 (2.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (2.76%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 87 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 56 (25.81%) Organisational Skills
3 42 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (15.67%) Finance
4 34 (15.67%) Games
5 15 (6.91%) Law
6 10 (4.61%) Back Office
7 9 (4.15%) Legal
8 5 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.30%) Retail
9 3 (1.38%) Billing
9 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.38%) Marketing
9 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.92%) Automotive
11 1 (0.46%) Advertising
11 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.46%) Police
11 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 64 (29.49%) Developer
2 53 (24.42%) Senior
3 51 (23.50%) Analyst
4 23 (10.60%) Support Analyst
5 21 (9.68%) Applications Support
5 21 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 20 (9.22%) Applications Support Analyst
7 18 (8.29%) IAM Developer
8 16 (7.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (7.37%) Data Analyst
8 16 (7.37%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (6.91%) DBA
10 13 (5.99%) SQL DBA
11 12 (5.53%) Database Engineer
11 12 (5.53%) SQL Analyst
12 11 (5.07%) Data Engineer
12 11 (5.07%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.61%) C# Developer
14 9 (4.15%) Senior Architect
14 9 (4.15%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (30.88%) REST
2 63 (29.03%) SOAP
3 53 (24.42%) OAuth
3 53 (24.42%) OpenID
4 52 (23.96%) GraphQL
4 52 (23.96%) LDAP
4 52 (23.96%) SAML
5 39 (17.97%) .NET
6 12 (5.53%) ASP.NET
6 12 (5.53%) CSS
6 12 (5.53%) HTML
7 11 (5.07%) .NET Core
7 11 (5.07%) JSON
8 10 (4.61%) XML
9 9 (4.15%) Middleware
10 8 (3.69%) Kafka
10 8 (3.69%) React
11 7 (3.23%) PySpark
12 5 (2.30%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.96%) Cyber Threat
1 52 (23.96%) Cyberattack
2 12 (5.53%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.07%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.61%) Replication
5 8 (3.69%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.23%) Clustering
6 7 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.76%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.30%) 3D Graphics
8 5 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.84%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.84%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.07%) Windows
2 6 (2.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.30%) Linux
3 5 (2.30%) VMS
4 4 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (29.95%) Mentoring
2 61 (28.11%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (28.11%) Roadmaps
3 52 (23.96%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (23.96%) Identity Access Management
3 52 (23.96%) Programme Delivery
3 52 (23.96%) Regulatory Compliance
4 44 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (19.82%) Data Modelling
6 36 (16.59%) Analytics
7 35 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
8 31 (14.29%) ETL
9 29 (13.36%) Change Control
9 29 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (12.44%) CI/CD
12 26 (11.98%) DevOps
13 25 (11.52%) Agile
14 23 (10.60%) Decision-Making
15 20 (9.22%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 187 (86.18%) SQL
2 75 (34.56%) PowerShell
3 52 (23.96%) Bash
4 44 (20.28%) Python
5 40 (18.43%) C#
6 22 (10.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (4.61%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.69%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.23%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.76%) VBA
11 5 (2.30%) VBScript
12 4 (1.84%) Java
12 4 (1.84%) R
13 1 (0.46%) Bicep
13 1 (0.46%) Delphi
13 1 (0.46%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (9.68%) Degree
2 6 (2.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.46%) MCITP
5 1 (0.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (23.96%) NCSC
1 52 (23.96%) NIST
2 38 (17.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (16.59%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.15%) QA
5 5 (2.30%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) HL7
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (31.34%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.84%) Docker
3 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (2.76%) Terraform
2 4 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.46%) SCCM
3 1 (0.46%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 66 (30.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.53%) Databricks
3 10 (4.61%) Oracle
3 10 (4.61%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.15%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.76%) IFS
5 6 (2.76%) iManage
5 6 (2.76%) Infor
6 5 (2.30%) SAP
7 4 (1.84%) Epicor
7 4 (1.84%) JD Edwards
7 4 (1.84%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.84%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.38%) RedGate
8 3 (1.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Intapp
9 2 (0.92%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.92%) Veeam
9 2 (0.92%) VMware