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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 381 321
Rank change year-on-year -228 -60 -109
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 202 305 601
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.61% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 2.38% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 172 240 358
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,532 £38,375
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +2.38% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,250 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18,347 12,793 22,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 25.76% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 13,020 8,190 13,763
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £84,125 £83,750 £84,982
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 15 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 8 October 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 -198 190 £60,000 +9.09% 175
UK excluding London -187 130 £55,000 +10.00% 96
Work from Home -69 85 £62,500 +25.00% 76
London -81 63 £70,000 -12.50% 79
South East -54 53 £55,000 +22.22% 29
North of England -94 31 £60,000 +4.35% 28
North West -20 17 £60,000 -5.88% 15
Midlands -69 14 £54,866 +13.13% 16
East of England -36 13 £55,000 +33.33% 13
Yorkshire -59 13 £61,500 +2.50% 11
South West -82 12 £52,500 +5.00% 4
West Midlands -52 10 £50,000 -13.04% 13
Scotland -3 7 £85,000 +78.95% 6
East Midlands -47 4 £62,366 +28.59% 3
North East -65 1 £47,500 -9.52% 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 13 (6.44%) IIS
2 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (4.95%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.98%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.98%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.49%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.49%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.49%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (1.49%) JDE World
4 3 (1.49%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.99%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (57.43%) Azure
2 62 (30.69%) Power Platform
3 45 (22.28%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.40%) Power Automate
5 19 (9.41%) SaaS
6 17 (8.42%) AWS
7 16 (7.92%) PowerApps
8 14 (6.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (6.93%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (5.94%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.45%) Serverless
11 10 (4.95%) GitHub
11 10 (4.95%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.96%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.96%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.47%) dbt
14 6 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.48%) Copilot Studio
15 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) DNS
1 3 (1.49%) Firewall
1 3 (1.49%) VLAN
2 2 (0.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (64.85%) SQL Server
2 49 (24.26%) Power BI
3 46 (22.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (16.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 31 (15.35%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.44%) Power Query
7 11 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (3.47%) Star Schema
11 6 (2.97%) Metadata
12 5 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.48%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.98%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.98%) Db2
13 4 (1.98%) OLTP
13 4 (1.98%) WhereScape RED
14 3 (1.49%) Big Data
14 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.49%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 30 (14.85%) Git
2 15 (7.43%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.46%) JIRA
4 8 (3.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.99%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.99%) Postman
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.74%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.36%) Finance
4 21 (10.40%) Law
5 19 (9.41%) Legal
6 6 (2.97%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.48%) Retail
8 3 (1.49%) Back Office
8 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.99%) Automotive
9 2 (0.99%) Banking
9 2 (0.99%) Billing
9 2 (0.99%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (51.98%) Developer
2 49 (24.26%) Senior
3 26 (12.87%) Senior Developer
4 25 (12.38%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.40%) Software Developer
5 21 (10.40%) SQL Developer
6 20 (9.90%) Analyst
7 19 (9.41%) Data Engineer
8 14 (6.93%) DBA
8 14 (6.93%) SQL DBA
9 12 (5.94%) Applications Support
9 12 (5.94%) SQL Server DBA
10 11 (5.45%) Lead
11 10 (4.95%) Applications Developer
11 10 (4.95%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Business Developer
13 8 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.96%) Database Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Software Support Engineer
14 7 (3.47%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (35.15%) .NET
2 19 (9.41%) REST
3 14 (6.93%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.44%) HTML
5 12 (5.94%) ASP.NET
5 12 (5.94%) CSS
6 11 (5.45%) JSON
7 10 (4.95%) .NET Framework
7 10 (4.95%) React
7 10 (4.95%) SOAP
8 8 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.96%) Blazor
8 8 (3.96%) WinForms
9 7 (3.47%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.47%) XML
10 6 (2.97%) Entity Framework
10 6 (2.97%) jQuery
10 6 (2.97%) LDAP
10 6 (2.97%) OpenID
10 6 (2.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.39%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.93%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.47%) Replication
6 6 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.98%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.98%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.49%) NHS
9 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.99%) LIMS
9 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.99%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.99%) SystemC
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.91%) Windows
2 10 (4.95%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.61%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (29.21%) DevOps
3 52 (25.74%) Business Intelligence
4 47 (23.27%) CI/CD
5 44 (21.78%) Performance Tuning
6 40 (19.80%) ETL
7 36 (17.82%) Agile
8 34 (16.83%) Data Modelling
9 29 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (13.37%) Analytics
11 24 (11.88%) Software Engineering
12 21 (10.40%) SDLC
13 20 (9.90%) AI
13 20 (9.90%) Data Integration
13 20 (9.90%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (9.41%) Mentoring
15 17 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (8.42%) Secure Coding
15 17 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (7.92%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 202 (100.00%) SQL
2 75 (37.13%) C#
3 36 (17.82%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.34%) Python
5 19 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (5.94%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.96%) VBA
8 8 (3.96%) VBScript
9 7 (3.47%) Delphi
9 7 (3.47%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.49%) Bash
11 3 (1.49%) XPath
12 2 (0.99%) Bicep
13 1 (0.50%) Java
13 1 (0.50%) Tcl
13 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (6.93%) Degree
2 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (1.98%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.98%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.34%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.44%) QA
3 11 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.47%) SLA
5 6 (2.97%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.98%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.48%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.98%) SQL Sentry
3 3 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 85 (42.08%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.93%) Oracle
3 8 (3.96%) iManage
3 8 (3.96%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.47%) Intapp
4 7 (3.47%) RedGate
5 6 (2.97%) Databricks
5 6 (2.97%) SAP
6 5 (2.48%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.48%) Remedy
6 5 (2.48%) Teradata
7 4 (1.98%) IFS
8 3 (1.49%) Epicor
8 3 (1.49%) Google
8 3 (1.49%) Infor
8 3 (1.49%) Veeam
8 3 (1.49%) VMware
9 2 (0.99%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.99%) SolarWinds