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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 371 266
Rank change year-on-year -142 -105 -11
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 236 348 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.77% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.39% 2.49% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 160 273 890
10th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +0.44% -0.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £84,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.80% -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 16,935 13,997 34,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 31.01% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11,995 9,251 26,001
10th Percentile £37,000 £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 22 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 22 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 -144 202 £50,000 -13.04% 49
UK excluding London -115 170 £48,000 -6.80% 43
Work from Home -6 133 £49,750 -9.55% 37
London -78 59 £70,000 - 19
South East -23 42 £48,500 +7.78% 12
North of England -68 36 £47,500 -20.83% 16
Scotland +31 28 - - 2
Midlands -59 26 £45,000 -7.22% 2
North West +3 22 £53,750 - 10
South West -59 21 £48,750 -2.50% 4
West Midlands -24 17 £44,000 -23.48% 1
East of England -29 14 £62,500 +48.81% 3
Yorkshire -61 12 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -46 9 £59,000 +24.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4
North East -54 2 £45,500 -17.27% 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 20 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.93%) IIS
3 8 (3.39%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.54%) Infor M3
3 6 (2.54%) Magento
3 6 (2.54%) Shopify
4 4 (1.69%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.69%) JDE World
4 4 (1.69%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.85%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.42%) FastStats
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.42%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 152 (64.41%) Azure
2 68 (28.81%) Power Platform
3 62 (26.27%) Entra ID
4 51 (21.61%) Google Workspace
5 23 (9.75%) AWS
5 23 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (9.75%) SaaS
6 22 (9.32%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (8.05%) Power Automate
8 18 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (6.36%) PowerApps
10 13 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (5.51%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.81%) GitHub
12 8 (3.39%) Serverless
13 7 (2.97%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.69%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 48 (20.34%) Broadband
2 4 (1.69%) Firewall
3 3 (1.27%) DNS
3 3 (1.27%) VLAN
4 1 (0.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) Network Security
4 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (49.58%) SQL Server
2 58 (24.58%) Power BI
3 48 (20.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 44 (18.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.36%) Power Query
7 12 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.66%) MySQL
9 10 (4.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.39%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.12%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.12%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.85%) Metadata
13 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
14 1 (0.42%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (8.90%) Git
2 13 (5.51%) JIRA
2 13 (5.51%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.85%) Postman
4 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 83 (35.17%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.31%) Organisational Skills
3 49 (20.76%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.14%) Finance
5 25 (10.59%) Games
6 19 (8.05%) Law
7 10 (4.24%) Legal
8 6 (2.54%) Back Office
8 6 (2.54%) Retail
9 5 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.12%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.69%) Marketing
10 4 (1.69%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.27%) Billing
11 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.85%) Automotive
12 2 (0.85%) Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Advertising
13 1 (0.42%) Publishing
13 1 (0.42%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 85 (36.02%) Developer
2 52 (22.03%) Senior
3 44 (18.64%) Analyst
4 20 (8.47%) Applications Support
5 19 (8.05%) IAM Developer
5 19 (8.05%) Senior Developer
6 17 (7.20%) Data Analyst
6 17 (7.20%) Software Developer
6 17 (7.20%) Systems Engineer
7 16 (6.78%) Applications Support Analyst
7 16 (6.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (6.78%) SQL Developer
7 16 (6.78%) Support Analyst
8 14 (5.93%) .NET Developer
9 12 (5.08%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.08%) Database Engineer
9 12 (5.08%) DBA
9 12 (5.08%) SQL Analyst
10 10 (4.24%) SQL DBA
10 10 (4.24%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (26.69%) REST
2 58 (24.58%) SOAP
3 55 (23.31%) .NET
4 51 (21.61%) GraphQL
4 51 (21.61%) LDAP
4 51 (21.61%) OAuth
4 51 (21.61%) OpenID
4 51 (21.61%) SAML
5 17 (7.20%) HTML
6 16 (6.78%) ASP.NET
6 16 (6.78%) CSS
6 16 (6.78%) JSON
7 13 (5.51%) .NET Core
7 13 (5.51%) XML
8 11 (4.66%) React
9 9 (3.81%) Blazor
9 9 (3.81%) Kafka
10 8 (3.39%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (2.97%) .NET Framework
11 7 (2.97%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.34%) Cyber Threat
1 48 (20.34%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.63%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.08%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.66%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (4.66%) Replication
5 10 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.12%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.12%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.69%) Clustering
8 4 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.69%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.69%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.27%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.78%) Windows
2 9 (3.81%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.42%) Linux
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.12%) Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.12%) Mentoring
2 60 (25.42%) Roadmaps
3 57 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (21.61%) Cybersecurity
4 51 (21.61%) Identity Access Management
5 48 (20.34%) Programme Delivery
5 48 (20.34%) Regulatory Compliance
6 46 (19.49%) Performance Tuning
7 40 (16.95%) Data Modelling
8 36 (15.25%) Agile
8 36 (15.25%) DevOps
9 34 (14.41%) CI/CD
9 34 (14.41%) ETL
10 33 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (13.14%) Analytics
12 30 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (11.44%) Change Control
14 21 (8.90%) Validation
15 18 (7.63%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 211 (89.41%) SQL
2 82 (34.75%) PowerShell
3 57 (24.15%) C#
4 51 (21.61%) Bash
5 41 (17.37%) Python
6 22 (9.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (7.20%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.66%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.39%) VBScript
10 7 (2.97%) VBA
11 4 (1.69%) Java
11 4 (1.69%) R
12 3 (1.27%) Delphi
13 2 (0.85%) VB
14 1 (0.42%) Bicep
14 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (8.47%) Degree
2 5 (2.12%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.69%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (21.61%) NIST
2 48 (20.34%) NCSC
3 42 (17.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (14.41%) Data Quality
5 16 (6.78%) QA
6 4 (1.69%) GDPR
7 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.85%) SLA
8 1 (0.42%) HL7
8 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (29.66%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.69%) Docker
3 3 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.54%) Terraform
2 4 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 81 (34.32%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.39%) iManage
2 8 (3.39%) Oracle
3 6 (2.54%) Databricks
3 6 (2.54%) IFS
3 6 (2.54%) Infor
3 6 (2.54%) SAP
3 6 (2.54%) ServiceNow
3 6 (2.54%) WooCommerce
4 5 (2.12%) ConnectWise
5 4 (1.69%) Epicor
5 4 (1.69%) JD Edwards
5 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.69%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.27%) Google
6 3 (1.27%) RedGate
6 3 (1.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (1.27%) Veeam
6 3 (1.27%) VMware
7 2 (0.85%) Rollbar