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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 350 248
Rank change year-on-year -161 -102 +15
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 229 348 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.80% 1.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 2.54% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 148 272 926
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,606 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,875 £77,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +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 16,354 13,721 33,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.57% 31.37% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 11,401 9,197 25,250
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -159 189 £50,000 -13.04% 81
UK excluding London -103 170 £47,500 -9.52% 61
Work from Home +14 135 £47,500 -15.18% 46
London -96 52 £65,000 -5.80% 25
North of England -66 37 £47,500 -20.83% 17
Scotland +35 34 - - 1
South East -19 34 £44,750 -0.56% 19
Midlands -49 29 £46,750 -3.61% 6
North West -11 21 £60,000 +23.08% 8
West Midlands -29 19 £44,000 -23.48% 4
South West -60 18 £42,500 -12.82% 9
East of England -21 15 £62,500 +48.81% 8
Yorkshire -72 14 £45,000 -25.00% 6
East Midlands -51 10 £53,750 +11.98% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
North East -44 2 £45,500 -17.27% 3

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 17 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.80%) IIS
3 9 (3.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.31%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.31%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.87%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.49%) Magento
2 8 (3.49%) Shopify
3 6 (2.62%) Infor M3
4 4 (1.75%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.75%) JDE World
4 4 (1.75%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.87%) 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
1 140 (61.14%) Azure
2 61 (26.64%) Entra ID
2 61 (26.64%) Power Platform
3 52 (22.71%) Google Workspace
4 23 (10.04%) AWS
5 21 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
6 19 (8.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (7.42%) Power Automate
7 17 (7.42%) SaaS
8 16 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.99%) PowerApps
9 12 (5.24%) GitHub
10 10 (4.37%) Snowflake
11 9 (3.93%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.06%) Serverless
13 5 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 52 (22.71%) Broadband
2 3 (1.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.87%) DNS
3 2 (0.87%) VLAN
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (50.66%) SQL Server
2 57 (24.89%) Power BI
3 48 (20.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (17.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (9.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.11%) Power Query
7 12 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.80%) MySQL
9 10 (4.37%) Data Lake
9 10 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (4.37%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (2.62%) Metadata
11 4 (1.75%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 17 (7.42%) JIRA
2 13 (5.68%) Git
3 8 (3.49%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 90 (39.30%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.45%) Organisational Skills
3 44 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.28%) Finance
5 29 (12.66%) Games
6 17 (7.42%) Law
7 11 (4.80%) Legal
8 8 (3.49%) Back Office
9 6 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.62%) Retail
10 5 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.31%) Billing
11 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.31%) Marketing
11 3 (1.31%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.87%) Automotive
12 2 (0.87%) Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Advertising
13 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (31.44%) Developer
2 52 (22.71%) Senior
3 48 (20.96%) Analyst
4 21 (9.17%) Applications Support
4 21 (9.17%) Support Analyst
5 19 (8.30%) Applications Support Analyst
6 18 (7.86%) IAM Developer
7 17 (7.42%) DBA
7 17 (7.42%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (6.99%) Data Analyst
8 16 (6.99%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (6.55%) SQL DBA
10 13 (5.68%) Database Engineer
10 13 (5.68%) Software Developer
10 13 (5.68%) SQL Developer
11 12 (5.24%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.24%) SQL Analyst
12 9 (3.93%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
12 9 (3.93%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (28.38%) REST
2 61 (26.64%) SOAP
3 52 (22.71%) GraphQL
3 52 (22.71%) LDAP
3 52 (22.71%) OAuth
3 52 (22.71%) OpenID
3 52 (22.71%) SAML
4 43 (18.78%) .NET
5 14 (6.11%) HTML
6 13 (5.68%) ASP.NET
6 13 (5.68%) CSS
7 11 (4.80%) JSON
7 11 (4.80%) XML
8 10 (4.37%) React
9 9 (3.93%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.93%) Kafka
10 7 (3.06%) Blazor
10 7 (3.06%) Middleware
11 6 (2.62%) PySpark
12 5 (2.18%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.71%) Cyber Threat
1 52 (22.71%) Cyberattack
2 12 (5.24%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.24%) Replication
3 10 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.93%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.93%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.06%) Clustering
6 7 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.62%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.75%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.31%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.31%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.11%) Windows
2 8 (3.49%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.75%) Linux
4 4 (1.75%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.69%) Mentoring
2 64 (27.95%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (27.07%) Roadmaps
4 52 (22.71%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (22.71%) Identity Access Management
4 52 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (22.71%) Programme Delivery
4 52 (22.71%) Regulatory Compliance
5 45 (19.65%) Performance Tuning
6 41 (17.90%) Data Modelling
7 36 (15.72%) Analytics
8 33 (14.41%) Agile
8 33 (14.41%) CI/CD
8 33 (14.41%) ETL
9 31 (13.54%) DevOps
10 30 (13.10%) Change Control
10 30 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (9.61%) Decision-Making
13 19 (8.30%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 200 (87.34%) SQL
2 79 (34.50%) PowerShell
3 52 (22.71%) Bash
4 44 (19.21%) C#
4 44 (19.21%) Python
5 21 (9.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (4.80%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.37%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.49%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.49%) VBA
9 7 (3.06%) VBScript
10 4 (1.75%) Java
10 4 (1.75%) R
11 2 (0.87%) Bicep
11 2 (0.87%) Delphi
11 2 (0.87%) VB
12 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (9.61%) Degree
2 6 (2.62%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.75%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.87%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (22.71%) NCSC
1 52 (22.71%) NIST
2 40 (17.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (16.16%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.93%) QA
5 5 (2.18%) GDPR
6 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.87%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (30.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (3.06%) Terraform
2 4 (1.75%) 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 77 (33.62%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.80%) Databricks
2 11 (4.80%) Oracle
3 8 (3.49%) iManage
3 8 (3.49%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.49%) WooCommerce
4 7 (3.06%) ConnectWise
5 6 (2.62%) IFS
5 6 (2.62%) Infor
6 5 (2.18%) SAP
7 4 (1.75%) Epicor
7 4 (1.75%) JD Edwards
7 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.31%) RedGate
8 3 (1.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Intapp
9 2 (0.87%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.87%) Veeam
9 2 (0.87%) VMware