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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 314 206
Rank change year-on-year -121 -108 +60
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 252 434 1,106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.92% 1.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 2.65% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 168 262 964
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £36,125 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -0.90%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -10.38% +6.00%

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 12,941 16,357 27,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.62% 34.50% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 10,038 22,756
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,250 £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 £83,750 £85,378 £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 25 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 25 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 -128 199 £47,500 -15.18% 89
UK excluding London -39 195 £42,500 -10.53% 87
Work from Home -39 138 £42,500 -22.73% 40
London -87 55 £72,500 +16.00% 14
Midlands -19 46 £48,500 +4.86% 17
Scotland +11 45 £37,500 -18.48%
South East -29 39 £40,000 -22.33% 34
North of England -28 37 £47,500 -5.00% 21
West Midlands +10 29 £42,500 -22.73% 11
Yorkshire -21 25 £25,000 -47.92% 4
South West -21 17 £42,500 +2.41% 10
East Midlands -41 17 £50,000 +11.11% 6
North West -12 9 £57,500 +15.00% 15
East of England -35 5 £42,175 -11.21% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 1
North East -9 3 £51,000 -32.00% 3
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 (5.95%) IIS
2 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.59%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.59%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.19%) CMS
5 3 (1.19%) Confluence
6 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.79%) WordPress
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (8.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.57%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (3.57%) Magento
2 9 (3.57%) Shopify
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 147 (58.33%) Azure
2 69 (27.38%) Entra ID
3 58 (23.02%) Google Workspace
4 47 (18.65%) Power Platform
5 32 (12.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (8.33%) SaaS
8 17 (6.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (6.75%) GitHub
8 17 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (5.16%) PowerApps
11 11 (4.37%) AWS
11 11 (4.37%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.17%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.38%) GCP
15 5 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (1.59%) Collibra
16 4 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 58 (23.02%) Broadband
2 3 (1.19%) DNS
3 2 (0.79%) DHCP
3 2 (0.79%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.79%) Firewall
3 2 (0.79%) SSL
3 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.79%) VLAN
3 2 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (46.43%) SQL Server
2 50 (19.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 46 (18.25%) Power BI
4 37 (14.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (9.13%) Data Lake
6 22 (8.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (6.35%) MySQL
7 16 (6.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 13 (5.16%) Metadata
9 11 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.38%) Power Query
11 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.19%) GIS
12 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.19%) OLAP
12 3 (1.19%) Tableau
13 2 (0.79%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.54%) JIRA
2 10 (3.97%) Git
3 5 (1.98%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (44.05%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.02%) Organisational Skills
3 50 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (16.67%) Finance
5 39 (15.48%) Games
6 13 (5.16%) Back Office
7 9 (3.57%) Law
8 7 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.98%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.59%) Billing
10 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.19%) Banking
11 3 (1.19%) Legal
11 3 (1.19%) Marketing
12 2 (0.79%) Front Office
12 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.79%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 67 (26.59%) Senior
2 57 (22.62%) Developer
3 50 (19.84%) Analyst
4 37 (14.68%) Support Analyst
5 34 (13.49%) Applications Support
6 32 (12.70%) Applications Support Analyst
7 30 (11.90%) Data Engineer
8 23 (9.13%) IAM Developer
8 23 (9.13%) Senior Developer
9 20 (7.94%) DBA
10 19 (7.54%) Software Engineer
11 18 (7.14%) SQL DBA
12 16 (6.35%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (5.56%) IT Support
13 14 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (5.16%) IT Engineer
14 13 (5.16%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (5.16%) Support Engineer
15 12 (4.76%) Software Support Engineer
15 12 (4.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (30.16%) REST
2 69 (27.38%) SOAP
3 59 (23.41%) OAuth
3 59 (23.41%) OpenID
4 58 (23.02%) GraphQL
4 58 (23.02%) LDAP
4 58 (23.02%) SAML
5 37 (14.68%) .NET
6 15 (5.95%) .NET Framework
6 15 (5.95%) JSON
6 15 (5.95%) XML
7 13 (5.16%) Entity Framework
8 12 (4.76%) ASP.NET
8 12 (4.76%) WinForms
9 10 (3.97%) CSS
9 10 (3.97%) HTML
10 9 (3.57%) Middleware
11 8 (3.17%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.38%) DirectX
12 6 (2.38%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.02%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (23.02%) Cyberattack
2 17 (6.75%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.37%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.17%) Clustering
6 6 (2.38%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.38%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.19%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.19%) Replication
9 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.79%) Derivative
10 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.73%) Windows
2 9 (3.57%) Linux
3 6 (2.38%) VMS
3 6 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.78%) Mentoring
2 65 (25.79%) Roadmaps
3 58 (23.02%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (23.02%) Identity Access Management
3 58 (23.02%) Programme Delivery
3 58 (23.02%) Regulatory Compliance
4 52 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (19.84%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (17.46%) DevOps
7 43 (17.06%) Analytics
8 42 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 41 (16.27%) ETL
10 37 (14.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 36 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (13.10%) Agile
14 30 (11.90%) Software Engineering
15 28 (11.11%) Change Control
16 27 (10.71%) Data Engineering
16 27 (10.71%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 218 (86.51%) SQL
2 86 (34.13%) PowerShell
3 58 (23.02%) Bash
4 50 (19.84%) Python
5 42 (16.67%) C#
6 13 (5.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.57%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.98%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.59%) Java
11 2 (0.79%) Bicep
11 2 (0.79%) PHP
11 2 (0.79%) R
11 2 (0.79%) Scala
11 2 (0.79%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (12.70%) Degree
2 14 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.59%) ACCA
4 4 (1.59%) CIMA
4 4 (1.59%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.79%) MCSE
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) MCITP
7 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (23.02%) NCSC
1 58 (23.02%) NIST
2 37 (14.68%) Data Quality
3 35 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.97%) QA
5 8 (3.17%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 70 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.59%) Docker
3 2 (0.79%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 82 (32.54%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.92%) Databricks
3 12 (4.76%) Sage
3 12 (4.76%) Xamarin
4 11 (4.37%) Oracle
5 9 (3.57%) ConnectWise
5 9 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.57%) WooCommerce
6 5 (1.98%) Google
6 5 (1.98%) Zoho
7 4 (1.59%) Dataiku
7 4 (1.59%) RedGate
7 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.19%) Informatica
8 3 (1.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Talend
9 2 (0.79%) Citrix
9 2 (0.79%) VMware
10 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.40%) Foundry