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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 346 239
Rank change year-on-year -156 -107 +39
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 225 353 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.83% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.44% 2.57% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 140 286 960
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,750 £36,423
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,813 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +5.77%

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 15,606 13,723 32,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 32.44% 33.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,612 10,085 25,040
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £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 £85,420 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,635
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.54% -2.48%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -171 180 £48,625 -15.43% 77
UK excluding London -97 170 £47,500 -5.00% 59
Work from Home -34 133 £47,500 -15.18% 46
London -105 51 £70,000 +3.70% 27
Scotland +5 38 - - 5
Midlands -51 38 £49,250 +1.55% 5
North of England -102 33 £47,500 -20.83% 19
South East -25 26 £42,500 -15.00% 21
West Midlands -25 22 £44,000 -23.48% 2
Yorkshire -85 19 £44,000 -26.67% 7
South West -53 18 £42,500 +6.25% 2
East Midlands -62 16 £59,732 +23.16% 3
North West -39 12 £61,250 +16.67% 12
East of England -41 12 £62,500 +39.66% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 -
North East -39 2 £47,250 -17.83%
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 13 (5.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.11%) IIS
4 3 (1.33%) Confluence
4 3 (1.33%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.33%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.44%) Magento
1 10 (4.44%) Shopify
2 9 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.00%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (2.22%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.33%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (1.33%) JDE World
4 3 (1.33%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.89%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 130 (57.78%) Azure
2 65 (28.89%) Entra ID
3 55 (24.44%) Google Workspace
4 54 (24.00%) Power Platform
5 23 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (7.11%) AWS
8 15 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (6.22%) Power Automate
10 13 (5.78%) PowerApps
10 13 (5.78%) SaaS
11 12 (5.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (4.44%) GitHub
13 8 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.56%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (2.22%) Serverless
15 4 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.78%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 55 (24.44%) Broadband
2 2 (0.89%) DNS
2 2 (0.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.44%) DHCP
3 1 (0.44%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.44%) LAN
3 1 (0.44%) Network Security
3 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.44%) SSL
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.44%) VLAN
3 1 (0.44%) WAN
3 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (48.89%) SQL Server
2 52 (23.11%) Power BI
3 39 (17.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 37 (16.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (10.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.22%) Power Query
7 13 (5.78%) Data Lake
8 12 (5.33%) MySQL
9 10 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (4.00%) Metadata
10 9 (4.00%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (3.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (1.78%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 19 (8.44%) JIRA
2 10 (4.44%) Git
3 5 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.78%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.89%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 91 (40.44%) Social Skills
2 59 (26.22%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (20.44%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.44%) Games
5 36 (16.00%) Finance
6 16 (7.11%) Law
7 11 (4.89%) Back Office
8 9 (4.00%) Legal
9 6 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.22%) Retail
11 4 (1.78%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.33%) Marketing
13 2 (0.89%) Banking
13 2 (0.89%) Billing
13 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.44%) Advertising
14 1 (0.44%) Automotive
14 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 64 (28.44%) Developer
2 53 (23.56%) Analyst
2 53 (23.56%) Senior
3 26 (11.56%) Support Analyst
4 24 (10.67%) Applications Support
5 23 (10.22%) Applications Support Analyst
5 23 (10.22%) Senior Developer
6 20 (8.89%) IAM Developer
7 18 (8.00%) DBA
8 16 (7.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (7.11%) SQL DBA
8 16 (7.11%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (6.67%) Data Analyst
10 13 (5.78%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.33%) C# Developer
11 12 (5.33%) SQL Analyst
12 10 (4.44%) Lead
12 10 (4.44%) SQL Developer
13 9 (4.00%) Architect
13 9 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (31.11%) REST
2 67 (29.78%) SOAP
3 56 (24.89%) OAuth
3 56 (24.89%) OpenID
4 55 (24.44%) GraphQL
4 55 (24.44%) LDAP
4 55 (24.44%) SAML
5 40 (17.78%) .NET
6 13 (5.78%) ASP.NET
7 12 (5.33%) CSS
7 12 (5.33%) HTML
8 11 (4.89%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.44%) JSON
9 10 (4.44%) XML
10 9 (4.00%) Middleware
11 8 (3.56%) PySpark
12 7 (3.11%) React
13 6 (2.67%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.67%) Kafka
13 6 (2.67%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.44%) Cyber Threat
1 55 (24.44%) Cyberattack
2 14 (6.22%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.56%) Clustering
4 8 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.56%) Replication
5 7 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.67%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.67%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.78%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.78%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.78%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.33%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.22%) Windows
2 8 (3.56%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.11%) Linux
4 6 (2.67%) VMS
5 4 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.44%) Android
6 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.22%) Mentoring
2 62 (27.56%) Roadmaps
3 59 (26.22%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
4 55 (24.44%) Identity Access Management
4 55 (24.44%) Programme Delivery
4 55 (24.44%) Regulatory Compliance
5 45 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (19.11%) Data Modelling
7 39 (17.33%) Analytics
8 35 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (14.22%) ETL
11 31 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (12.44%) Change Control
12 28 (12.44%) DevOps
13 27 (12.00%) Agile
14 25 (11.11%) CI/CD
14 25 (11.11%) Decision-Making
15 20 (8.89%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 193 (85.78%) SQL
2 82 (36.44%) PowerShell
3 55 (24.44%) Bash
4 43 (19.11%) Python
5 41 (18.22%) C#
6 21 (9.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (3.56%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.11%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.11%) VBA
9 6 (2.67%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.22%) VBScript
11 4 (1.78%) Java
11 4 (1.78%) R
12 2 (0.89%) Bicep
12 2 (0.89%) Scala
13 1 (0.44%) Delphi
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) VB
13 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (9.33%) Degree
2 6 (2.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.33%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.89%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.44%) MCITP
5 1 (0.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (24.44%) NCSC
1 55 (24.44%) NIST
2 39 (17.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (16.44%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.44%) QA
5 6 (2.67%) GDPR
6 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.89%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (31.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.22%) Docker
3 2 (0.89%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.11%) Terraform
2 5 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.44%) SCCM
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 66 (29.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.11%) Databricks
3 10 (4.44%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.00%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.00%) Oracle
4 9 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.67%) iManage
6 5 (2.22%) IFS
6 5 (2.22%) Infor
6 5 (2.22%) RedGate
7 4 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.78%) SAP
7 4 (1.78%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.33%) Epicor
8 3 (1.33%) JD Edwards
8 3 (1.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.89%) Citrix
9 2 (0.89%) Intapp
9 2 (0.89%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.44%) OutSystems