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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 369 278
Rank change year-on-year -176 -91 -34
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 217 352 947
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.71% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.22% 2.44% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 171 281 755
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,188 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,750 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% -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 17,726 14,432 30,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.75% 29.26% 31.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12,703 9,594 22,361
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,280 £35,475
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -168 198 £52,500 -8.70% 56
UK excluding London -146 155 £49,750 -3.40% 46
Work from Home -38 112 £52,500 -4.55% 30
London -75 53 £70,000 - 17
South East -20 46 £52,500 +16.67% 16
North of England -63 35 £47,500 -20.83% 11
Midlands -63 23 £44,000 -9.28% 7
North West -7 22 £53,750 -6.52% 7
South West -60 19 £48,750 - 5
West Midlands -27 16 £44,000 -23.48% 7
East of England -29 16 £62,500 +48.81% 5
Scotland +20 15 - - 1
Yorkshire -58 11 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -46 7 £59,366 +24.98%
North East -50 2 £45,500 -13.33%
Northern Ireland -60 1 - -

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 (9.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.45%) IIS
3 7 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.46%) JBoss
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.23%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.76%) Infor M3
4 5 (2.30%) Magento
4 5 (2.30%) NetSuite
4 5 (2.30%) Shopify
5 4 (1.84%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.84%) JDE World
5 4 (1.84%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.92%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.92%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.46%) FastStats
7 1 (0.46%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 130 (59.91%) Azure
2 67 (30.88%) Power Platform
3 37 (17.05%) Entra ID
4 26 (11.98%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (11.98%) Google Workspace
5 22 (10.14%) SaaS
6 20 (9.22%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (8.76%) AWS
8 17 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (7.37%) Power Automate
10 14 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (5.07%) PowerApps
13 8 (3.69%) GitHub
13 8 (3.69%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.23%) Serverless
15 4 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.84%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.60%) Broadband
2 4 (1.84%) Firewall
3 3 (1.38%) DNS
3 3 (1.38%) 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
1 125 (57.60%) SQL Server
2 56 (25.81%) Power BI
3 47 (21.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (21.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (7.37%) Power Query
6 15 (6.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (5.07%) MySQL
10 9 (4.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (3.69%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.76%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.30%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (1.38%) Db2
15 3 (1.38%) WhereScape RED
16 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
16 2 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
16 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (10.14%) Git
2 14 (6.45%) Visual Studio
3 11 (5.07%) JIRA
4 10 (4.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.92%) Postman
5 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 71 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.96%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (13.82%) Organisational Skills
4 29 (13.36%) Finance
5 19 (8.76%) Law
6 13 (5.99%) Games
7 10 (4.61%) Legal
8 7 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.76%) Back Office
9 6 (2.76%) Retail
10 4 (1.84%) Marketing
10 4 (1.84%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.38%) Billing
11 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.92%) Automotive
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (37.79%) Developer
2 42 (19.35%) Analyst
3 39 (17.97%) Senior
4 19 (8.76%) Applications Support
5 17 (7.83%) Data Analyst
5 17 (7.83%) Software Developer
5 17 (7.83%) SQL Developer
6 16 (7.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 16 (7.37%) DBA
7 15 (6.91%) .NET Developer
7 15 (6.91%) Applications Support Analyst
8 14 (6.45%) Data Engineer
8 14 (6.45%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.45%) SQL DBA
8 14 (6.45%) Support Analyst
9 12 (5.53%) SQL Analyst
10 11 (5.07%) SQL Server DBA
10 11 (5.07%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (4.61%) IAM Developer
11 10 (4.61%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (26.27%) .NET
2 38 (17.51%) REST
3 32 (14.75%) SOAP
4 26 (11.98%) GraphQL
4 26 (11.98%) LDAP
4 26 (11.98%) OAuth
4 26 (11.98%) OpenID
4 26 (11.98%) SAML
5 17 (7.83%) HTML
5 17 (7.83%) JSON
6 16 (7.37%) CSS
7 14 (6.45%) ASP.NET
7 14 (6.45%) XML
8 13 (5.99%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.15%) Kafka
10 8 (3.69%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (3.69%) Blazor
10 8 (3.69%) React
10 8 (3.69%) WinForms
11 7 (3.23%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.60%) Cyber Threat
1 23 (10.60%) Cyberattack
2 19 (8.76%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.53%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (5.53%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (5.07%) Replication
6 9 (4.15%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.30%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.30%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.84%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.84%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.38%) Clustering
10 3 (1.38%) LIMS
10 3 (1.38%) NHS
10 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.37%) Windows
2 9 (4.15%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (27.65%) Business Intelligence
3 49 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
4 41 (18.89%) Data Modelling
5 39 (17.97%) Roadmaps
6 37 (17.05%) DevOps
7 36 (16.59%) ETL
7 36 (16.59%) Mentoring
8 34 (15.67%) Agile
8 34 (15.67%) CI/CD
9 30 (13.82%) Analytics
9 30 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (11.98%) Identity Access Management
11 24 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (11.06%) Validation
12 23 (10.60%) Programme Delivery
12 23 (10.60%) Regulatory Compliance
13 17 (7.83%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (7.37%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 204 (94.01%) SQL
2 60 (27.65%) PowerShell
3 59 (27.19%) C#
4 39 (17.97%) Python
5 26 (11.98%) Bash
6 23 (10.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (7.37%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.61%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.15%) VBScript
10 7 (3.23%) VBA
11 5 (2.30%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.84%) Delphi
12 4 (1.84%) R
13 3 (1.38%) Java
13 3 (1.38%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.92%) VB
15 1 (0.46%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (7.83%) Degree
2 4 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.92%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.67%) Data Quality
2 28 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (11.98%) NIST
4 23 (10.60%) NCSC
5 16 (7.37%) QA
6 6 (2.76%) SLA
7 3 (1.38%) GDPR
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.46%) HL7
9 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (20.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.84%) Docker
3 3 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.30%) Terraform
2 4 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.84%) ZABBIX
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 77 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.15%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.69%) iManage
3 8 (3.69%) Oracle
4 7 (3.23%) SAP
5 6 (2.76%) IFS
5 6 (2.76%) Infor
6 5 (2.30%) Databricks
6 5 (2.30%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.30%) WooCommerce
7 4 (1.84%) ConnectWise
7 4 (1.84%) Epicor
7 4 (1.84%) RedGate
7 4 (1.84%) Remedy
7 4 (1.84%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.84%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.38%) Google
8 3 (1.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.38%) Veeam
8 3 (1.38%) VMware