T-SQL Job Trends

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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 317 213
Rank change year-on-year -109 -104 +52
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 256 446 1,109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.92% 1.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.00% 2.67% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 171 263 968
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% - -0.36%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,500 £77,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +5.00%

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 12,770 16,673 27,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.52% 34.43% 37.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,107 10,127 22,904
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,336 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 February 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 22 February 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 -122 203 £48,500 -11.82% 102
UK excluding London -45 197 £42,500 -10.53% 101
Work from Home -39 139 £42,500 -22.73% 43
London -70 57 £72,500 +16.00% 13
Midlands -10 46 £48,500 +4.86% 18
Scotland +32 45 £37,500 -18.48%
South East -23 40 £40,000 -21.18% 44
North of England -20 37 £47,500 -5.00% 24
West Midlands +14 29 £42,500 -22.73% 11
Yorkshire -22 25 £25,000 -47.92% 3
South West -21 18 £42,500 +2.41% 9
East Midlands -32 17 £50,000 +11.11% 7
North West -13 9 £57,500 +9.52% 20
East of England -28 5 £42,175 -11.21% 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 1
North East -12 3 £51,000 -32.00% 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 (5.86%) IIS
2 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.56%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.56%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.17%) CMS
4 3 (1.17%) Confluence
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.78%) WordPress
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (3.52%) Magento
2 9 (3.52%) Shopify
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 149 (58.20%) Azure
2 69 (26.95%) Entra ID
3 58 (22.66%) Google Workspace
4 48 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 33 (12.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (11.33%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (8.20%) SaaS
8 17 (6.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (6.64%) GitHub
8 17 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (5.47%) PowerApps
10 12 (4.69%) AWS
11 11 (4.30%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.13%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.73%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.34%) GCP
15 5 (1.95%) dbt
16 4 (1.56%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 58 (22.66%) Broadband
2 3 (1.17%) DNS
3 2 (0.78%) DHCP
3 2 (0.78%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.78%) Firewall
3 2 (0.78%) SSL
3 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.78%) VLAN
3 2 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (46.88%) SQL Server
2 51 (19.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 47 (18.36%) Power BI
4 40 (15.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (8.98%) Data Lake
6 22 (8.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (6.25%) MySQL
8 16 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 13 (5.08%) Metadata
10 12 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.34%) Power Query
12 4 (1.56%) OLAP
12 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.17%) GIS
13 3 (1.17%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.17%) Tableau
14 2 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.78%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (7.42%) JIRA
2 10 (3.91%) Git
3 5 (1.95%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (44.14%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.66%) Organisational Skills
3 50 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (17.19%) Finance
5 39 (15.23%) Games
6 13 (5.08%) Back Office
7 8 (3.13%) Law
8 7 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.95%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.56%) Billing
11 3 (1.17%) Banking
11 3 (1.17%) Legal
11 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.17%) Marketing
12 2 (0.78%) Front Office
12 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Retail
13 1 (0.39%) Advertising
13 1 (0.39%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 68 (26.56%) Senior
2 58 (22.66%) Developer
3 50 (19.53%) Analyst
4 37 (14.45%) Support Analyst
5 34 (13.28%) Applications Support
6 32 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
6 32 (12.50%) Data Engineer
7 23 (8.98%) IAM Developer
7 23 (8.98%) Senior Developer
8 20 (7.81%) DBA
9 19 (7.42%) Software Engineer
10 18 (7.03%) SQL DBA
11 16 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (5.86%) Senior Data Engineer
13 14 (5.47%) IT Support
14 13 (5.08%) IT Engineer
14 13 (5.08%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (5.08%) SQL Developer
14 13 (5.08%) Support Engineer
15 12 (4.69%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (29.69%) REST
2 69 (26.95%) SOAP
3 59 (23.05%) OAuth
3 59 (23.05%) OpenID
4 58 (22.66%) GraphQL
4 58 (22.66%) LDAP
4 58 (22.66%) SAML
5 37 (14.45%) .NET
6 15 (5.86%) .NET Framework
6 15 (5.86%) JSON
6 15 (5.86%) XML
7 13 (5.08%) Entity Framework
8 12 (4.69%) ASP.NET
8 12 (4.69%) WinForms
9 10 (3.91%) CSS
9 10 (3.91%) HTML
10 9 (3.52%) Middleware
11 8 (3.13%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.34%) DirectX
12 6 (2.34%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 58 (22.66%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (22.66%) Cyberattack
2 17 (6.64%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.13%) Clustering
6 6 (2.34%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.34%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.17%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.17%) Replication
8 3 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.78%) Derivative
9 2 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.78%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.59%) Windows
2 9 (3.52%) Linux
3 6 (2.34%) VMS
3 6 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.78%) Android
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.73%) Mentoring
2 65 (25.39%) Roadmaps
3 58 (22.66%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (22.66%) Identity Access Management
3 58 (22.66%) Programme Delivery
3 58 (22.66%) Regulatory Compliance
4 53 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (17.97%) Analytics
7 45 (17.58%) ETL
8 44 (17.19%) Data Modelling
8 44 (17.19%) DevOps
9 38 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (13.67%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (12.89%) Agile
13 30 (11.72%) Software Engineering
14 29 (11.33%) Data Engineering
15 28 (10.94%) Change Control
16 26 (10.16%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 222 (86.72%) SQL
2 86 (33.59%) PowerShell
3 58 (22.66%) Bash
4 50 (19.53%) Python
5 42 (16.41%) C#
6 12 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.91%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.56%) Java
10 2 (0.78%) Bicep
10 2 (0.78%) PHP
10 2 (0.78%) Scala
10 2 (0.78%) VBA
11 1 (0.39%) R
11 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (12.50%) Degree
2 15 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.52%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.56%) ACCA
4 4 (1.56%) CIMA
4 4 (1.56%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.78%) MCSE
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) MCITP
7 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (22.66%) NCSC
1 58 (22.66%) NIST
2 37 (14.45%) Data Quality
3 35 (13.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.91%) QA
5 8 (3.13%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 70 (27.34%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.56%) Docker
3 2 (0.78%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 84 (32.81%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.16%) Databricks
3 12 (4.69%) Oracle
3 12 (4.69%) Sage
3 12 (4.69%) Xamarin
4 9 (3.52%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.52%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.52%) WooCommerce
5 5 (1.95%) Google
5 5 (1.95%) Zoho
6 4 (1.56%) Dataiku
6 4 (1.56%) RedGate
6 4 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.17%) Informatica
7 3 (1.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.17%) Talend
8 2 (0.78%) Citrix
8 2 (0.78%) VMware
9 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.39%) Foundry