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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 340 242
Rank change year-on-year -169 -98 +34
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 219 361 1,152
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.83% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 2.58% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 137 284 946
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £74,375
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 15,896 13,992 32,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.54% 32.15% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10,864 10,014 24,981
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 £111,250 £100,000
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 9 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 9 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 -153 179 £48,500 -15.65% 83
UK excluding London -92 167 £47,500 -5.00% 68
Work from Home -11 132 £45,000 -19.64% 48
London -98 49 £70,000 +3.70% 22
Midlands -51 36 £50,000 - 5
Scotland +18 35 - - 3
North of England -98 34 £47,500 -20.83% 23
South East -27 28 £44,000 -9.74% 26
West Midlands -32 20 £44,000 -23.48% 3
South West -45 18 £42,500 +6.25% 3
Yorkshire -78 18 £44,000 -26.67% 10
East Midlands -40 16 £59,732 +23.16% 2
North West -26 15 £53,750 +7.50% 11
East of England -27 12 £62,500 +48.81% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -49 1 £43,500 -24.35% 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 14 (6.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.57%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.20%) IIS
4 3 (1.37%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.91%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) JBoss
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.57%) Magento
1 10 (4.57%) Shopify
2 9 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.74%) Infor M3
4 4 (1.83%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.83%) JDE World
4 4 (1.83%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.91%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 124 (56.62%) Azure
2 63 (28.77%) Entra ID
3 55 (25.11%) Power Platform
4 53 (24.20%) Google Workspace
5 21 (9.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (8.22%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (7.31%) AWS
8 14 (6.39%) Power Automate
9 13 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.94%) PowerApps
10 11 (5.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (5.02%) SaaS
11 9 (4.11%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.20%) GitHub
14 5 (2.28%) Serverless
15 4 (1.83%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.83%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 53 (24.20%) Broadband
2 3 (1.37%) DNS
2 3 (1.37%) Firewall
3 2 (0.91%) VLAN
4 1 (0.46%) DHCP
4 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.46%) LAN
4 1 (0.46%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.46%) SSL
4 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.46%) WAN
4 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (48.86%) SQL Server
2 53 (24.20%) Power BI
3 39 (17.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 36 (16.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (10.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.39%) Power Query
7 13 (5.94%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.57%) MySQL
9 9 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.11%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.65%) Metadata
10 8 (3.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.83%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.46%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 18 (8.22%) JIRA
2 8 (3.65%) Git
3 6 (2.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 91 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 57 (26.03%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.98%) Games
5 34 (15.53%) Finance
6 16 (7.31%) Law
7 11 (5.02%) Back Office
8 9 (4.11%) Legal
9 6 (2.74%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.28%) Retail
11 4 (1.83%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.37%) Marketing
13 2 (0.91%) Automotive
13 2 (0.91%) Billing
14 1 (0.46%) Advertising
14 1 (0.46%) Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 62 (28.31%) Developer
2 53 (24.20%) Analyst
2 53 (24.20%) Senior
3 25 (11.42%) Support Analyst
4 23 (10.50%) Applications Support
5 22 (10.05%) Applications Support Analyst
5 22 (10.05%) Senior Developer
6 19 (8.68%) IAM Developer
7 16 (7.31%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (7.31%) Data Analyst
7 16 (7.31%) DBA
7 16 (7.31%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (6.39%) SQL DBA
9 13 (5.94%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.48%) SQL Analyst
11 11 (5.02%) C# Developer
12 10 (4.57%) Database Engineer
13 9 (4.11%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
13 9 (4.11%) Senior Architect
13 9 (4.11%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (30.59%) REST
2 64 (29.22%) SOAP
3 54 (24.66%) OAuth
3 54 (24.66%) OpenID
4 53 (24.20%) GraphQL
4 53 (24.20%) LDAP
4 53 (24.20%) SAML
5 38 (17.35%) .NET
6 12 (5.48%) .NET Core
6 12 (5.48%) ASP.NET
6 12 (5.48%) CSS
6 12 (5.48%) HTML
7 10 (4.57%) JSON
7 10 (4.57%) XML
8 9 (4.11%) Middleware
9 8 (3.65%) PySpark
9 8 (3.65%) React
10 7 (3.20%) Kafka
11 6 (2.74%) DirectX
11 6 (2.74%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 53 (24.20%) Cyber Threat
1 53 (24.20%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.94%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.57%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.11%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.11%) Replication
5 8 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.20%) Clustering
7 6 (2.74%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.74%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.83%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.83%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.37%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.94%) Windows
2 8 (3.65%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.74%) Linux
4 5 (2.28%) VMS
5 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.46%) Android
6 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (30.14%) Mentoring
2 60 (27.40%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (27.40%) Roadmaps
3 53 (24.20%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (24.20%) Identity Access Management
3 53 (24.20%) Programme Delivery
3 53 (24.20%) Regulatory Compliance
4 44 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (19.63%) Data Modelling
6 39 (17.81%) Analytics
7 34 (15.53%) Performance Tuning
8 31 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (14.16%) ETL
8 31 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (12.79%) Change Control
10 26 (11.87%) DevOps
11 25 (11.42%) Agile
11 25 (11.42%) CI/CD
11 25 (11.42%) Decision-Making
12 20 (9.13%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 189 (86.30%) SQL
2 78 (35.62%) PowerShell
3 53 (24.20%) Bash
4 44 (20.09%) Python
5 39 (17.81%) C#
6 22 (10.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (3.65%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.20%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.20%) VBA
9 6 (2.74%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.28%) VBScript
11 4 (1.83%) Java
11 4 (1.83%) R
12 2 (0.91%) Bicep
12 2 (0.91%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) Delphi
13 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (9.13%) Degree
2 6 (2.74%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.37%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.91%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.46%) MCITP
5 1 (0.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (24.20%) NCSC
1 53 (24.20%) NIST
2 39 (17.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (16.44%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.11%) QA
5 6 (2.74%) GDPR
6 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.91%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) HL7
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (31.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.83%) Docker
3 2 (0.91%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.20%) Terraform
2 5 (2.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.46%) SCCM
3 1 (0.46%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 65 (29.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.39%) Databricks
3 10 (4.57%) Oracle
3 10 (4.57%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.11%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.11%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.74%) IFS
5 6 (2.74%) iManage
5 6 (2.74%) Infor
6 5 (2.28%) SAP
7 4 (1.83%) Epicor
7 4 (1.83%) JD Edwards
7 4 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.83%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.37%) RedGate
8 3 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.91%) Citrix
9 2 (0.91%) Intapp
9 2 (0.91%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.91%) VMware