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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 368 329
Rank change year-on-year -211 -39 -91
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 211 358 681
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.72% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 2.52% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 176 283 510
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,010 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,749 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £65,250
90th Percentile £76,875 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -

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 18,318 14,191 25,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.68% 28.61% 30.45%
Number of salaries quoted 12,989 9,351 18,093
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,486 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -172 201 £55,000 -4.35% 73
UK excluding London -157 148 £52,500 +1.94% 52
Work from Home -67 95 £60,000 +14.29% 48
London -91 54 £70,000 - 28
South East -27 46 £52,500 +16.67% 12
North of England -78 35 £47,500 -20.83% 17
Midlands -75 24 £47,500 -2.06% 12
North West -7 20 £53,750 -6.52% 9
East of England -34 18 £62,500 +51.52% 2
South West -59 18 £50,000 - 4
West Midlands -41 17 £44,000 -23.48% 11
Yorkshire -69 13 £45,000 -25.00% 5
Scotland +5 7 - - 3
East Midlands -46 7 £59,366 +26.99% 1
North East -57 2 £45,500 -13.33% 4

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 (7.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.64%) IIS
3 7 (3.32%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.84%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (2.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.90%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.90%) JDE World
5 3 (1.42%) Elite 3E
5 3 (1.42%) Magento
5 3 (1.42%) Shopify
6 2 (0.95%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.95%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.47%) FastStats
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 118 (55.92%) Azure
2 69 (32.70%) Power Platform
3 35 (16.59%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.48%) AWS
5 18 (8.53%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (8.06%) Power Automate
7 16 (7.58%) Entra ID
7 16 (7.58%) SaaS
8 15 (7.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (6.16%) PowerApps
10 12 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.74%) GitHub
11 10 (4.74%) Google Workspace
11 10 (4.74%) Serverless
12 8 (3.79%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.84%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.90%) GCP
14 4 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.90%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.32%) Broadband
2 4 (1.90%) Firewall
3 3 (1.42%) DNS
3 3 (1.42%) VLAN
4 2 (0.95%) HTTP
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (63.98%) SQL Server
2 57 (27.01%) Power BI
3 51 (24.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 41 (19.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (8.06%) Power Query
7 16 (7.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (4.74%) Relational Database
8 10 (4.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (3.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.84%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.84%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.37%) MySQL
12 4 (1.90%) Db2
12 4 (1.90%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.42%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 26 (12.32%) Git
2 15 (7.11%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.74%) JIRA
3 10 (4.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.95%) Postman
4 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.47%) Yeoman
General
1 66 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.70%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (15.17%) Finance
4 20 (9.48%) Law
5 14 (6.64%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.69%) Legal
7 7 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.84%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.37%) Retail
10 4 (1.90%) Back Office
11 3 (1.42%) Billing
11 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Games
11 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.95%) Automotive
12 2 (0.95%) Local Government
12 2 (0.95%) Marketing
13 1 (0.47%) Advertising
13 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 90 (42.65%) Developer
2 35 (16.59%) Senior
3 34 (16.11%) Analyst
4 21 (9.95%) .NET Developer
5 19 (9.00%) SQL Developer
6 18 (8.53%) Applications Support
6 18 (8.53%) DBA
6 18 (8.53%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.06%) SQL DBA
8 15 (7.11%) Data Engineer
8 15 (7.11%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.64%) SQL Server DBA
10 12 (5.69%) Applications Support Analyst
10 12 (5.69%) Data Analyst
11 11 (5.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 11 (5.21%) Lead
12 10 (4.74%) Support Analyst
12 10 (4.74%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.79%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (30.81%) .NET
2 24 (11.37%) REST
3 18 (8.53%) SOAP
4 15 (7.11%) HTML
5 14 (6.64%) .NET Core
5 14 (6.64%) ASP.NET
5 14 (6.64%) CSS
6 13 (6.16%) JSON
7 11 (5.21%) .NET Framework
8 10 (4.74%) GraphQL
8 10 (4.74%) LDAP
8 10 (4.74%) OAuth
8 10 (4.74%) OpenID
8 10 (4.74%) SAML
8 10 (4.74%) XML
9 9 (4.27%) Entity Framework
9 9 (4.27%) Kafka
9 9 (4.27%) WinForms
10 8 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (3.79%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.43%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.64%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.21%) Replication
4 10 (4.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (4.74%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.27%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.32%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.32%) Cyberattack
6 7 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.84%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.37%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.90%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.42%) LIMS
10 3 (1.42%) NHS
10 3 (1.42%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.00%) Windows
2 10 (4.74%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.47%) Linux
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (34.12%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (28.91%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (24.64%) Performance Tuning
4 45 (21.33%) DevOps
5 41 (19.43%) Data Modelling
6 38 (18.01%) CI/CD
6 38 (18.01%) ETL
7 36 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (16.11%) Agile
9 29 (13.74%) Analytics
10 24 (11.37%) Roadmaps
11 23 (10.90%) Mentoring
12 21 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (9.48%) Validation
14 19 (9.00%) AI
14 19 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (8.53%) Decision-Making
15 18 (8.53%) Secure Coding
15 18 (8.53%) Software Engineering
16 17 (8.06%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 208 (98.58%) SQL
2 67 (31.75%) C#
3 45 (21.33%) PowerShell
4 35 (16.59%) Python
5 24 (11.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.69%) PL/SQL
8 10 (4.74%) Bash
9 9 (4.27%) VBScript
10 7 (3.32%) VBA
11 5 (2.37%) Delphi
12 4 (1.90%) R
12 4 (1.90%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.90%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.42%) Java
14 2 (0.95%) VB
15 1 (0.47%) Bicep
15 1 (0.47%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (8.06%) Degree
2 5 (2.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (1.90%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.42%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.42%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.64%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (8.06%) QA
3 10 (4.74%) NIST
4 7 (3.32%) NCSC
4 7 (3.32%) SLA
5 3 (1.42%) GDPR
6 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) HL7
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (11.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.37%) Docker
3 3 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.37%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.90%) Terraform
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.47%) SCCM
3 1 (0.47%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 80 (37.91%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.16%) Oracle
3 10 (4.74%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.27%) iManage
5 7 (3.32%) SAP
6 6 (2.84%) Databricks
6 6 (2.84%) IFS
6 6 (2.84%) Infor
6 6 (2.84%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.37%) RedGate
7 5 (2.37%) Remedy
8 4 (1.90%) Epicor
8 4 (1.90%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.42%) Google
9 3 (1.42%) Intapp
9 3 (1.42%) Veeam
9 3 (1.42%) VMware
9 3 (1.42%) WooCommerce
10 2 (0.95%) ConnectWise
10 2 (0.95%) Rollbar