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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 344 235
Rank change year-on-year -167 -109 +40
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 220 359 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.84% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 2.60% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 137 288 955
10th Percentile £32,200 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £44,500
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 £74,500
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 15,709 13,824 32,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.27% 32.18% 33.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10,701 10,076 24,946
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 £86,250 £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 5 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 5 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 -162 179 £48,500 -15.65% 86
UK excluding London -102 168 £47,500 -5.00% 71
Work from Home -34 131 £45,000 -19.64% 53
London -90 49 £70,000 +3.70% 27
Midlands -50 37 £50,000 +1.52% 7
Scotland +14 36 - - 7
North of England -103 33 £47,500 -20.83% 20
South East -35 28 £44,000 -9.74% 24
West Midlands -22 21 £44,000 -23.48% 4
Yorkshire -85 19 £44,000 -26.67% 7
South West -46 18 £42,500 +6.25% 3
East Midlands -59 16 £59,732 +23.16% 3
North West -32 13 £61,250 +16.67% 13
East of England -33 12 £62,500 +39.66% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -35 1 £43,500 -24.35%
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 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.73%) IIS
4 3 (1.36%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.36%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.91%) Confluence
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Magento
1 10 (4.55%) Shopify
2 9 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.09%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.73%) Infor M3
4 4 (1.82%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.82%) JDE World
4 4 (1.82%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.91%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 124 (56.36%) Azure
2 63 (28.64%) Entra ID
3 54 (24.55%) Power Platform
4 53 (24.09%) Google Workspace
5 21 (9.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (8.18%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (7.27%) AWS
8 14 (6.36%) Power Automate
9 13 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.91%) PowerApps
10 12 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (5.45%) SaaS
11 10 (4.55%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.64%) GitHub
13 5 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.27%) Serverless
14 4 (1.82%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 53 (24.09%) Broadband
2 2 (0.91%) DNS
2 2 (0.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.45%) DHCP
3 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.45%) LAN
3 1 (0.45%) Network Security
3 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.45%) SSL
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.45%) VLAN
3 1 (0.45%) WAN
3 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (48.64%) SQL Server
2 52 (23.64%) Power BI
3 38 (17.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 36 (16.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.36%) Power Query
7 13 (5.91%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.55%) MySQL
9 9 (4.09%) Metadata
9 9 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.09%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.82%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (8.18%) JIRA
2 8 (3.64%) Git
3 5 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 91 (41.36%) Social Skills
2 57 (25.91%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.91%) Finance
4 35 (15.91%) Games
5 16 (7.27%) Law
6 11 (5.00%) Back Office
7 9 (4.09%) Legal
8 6 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.27%) Retail
10 4 (1.82%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.36%) Marketing
12 2 (0.91%) Automotive
12 2 (0.91%) Billing
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (27.73%) Developer
2 55 (25.00%) Analyst
3 54 (24.55%) Senior
4 27 (12.27%) Support Analyst
5 25 (11.36%) Applications Support
6 24 (10.91%) Applications Support Analyst
7 22 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 19 (8.64%) IAM Developer
9 16 (7.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (7.27%) Data Analyst
9 16 (7.27%) DBA
9 16 (7.27%) Systems Engineer
10 14 (6.36%) SQL DBA
11 13 (5.91%) Data Engineer
12 12 (5.45%) SQL Analyst
13 11 (5.00%) C# Developer
14 10 (4.55%) Database Engineer
15 9 (4.09%) Architect
15 9 (4.09%) Software Developer
15 9 (4.09%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (30.45%) REST
2 64 (29.09%) SOAP
3 54 (24.55%) OAuth
3 54 (24.55%) OpenID
4 53 (24.09%) GraphQL
4 53 (24.09%) LDAP
4 53 (24.09%) SAML
5 38 (17.27%) .NET
6 12 (5.45%) .NET Core
6 12 (5.45%) ASP.NET
6 12 (5.45%) CSS
6 12 (5.45%) HTML
7 10 (4.55%) JSON
7 10 (4.55%) XML
8 9 (4.09%) Middleware
9 8 (3.64%) PySpark
9 8 (3.64%) React
10 7 (3.18%) Kafka
11 6 (2.73%) DirectX
11 6 (2.73%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 53 (24.09%) Cyber Threat
1 53 (24.09%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.91%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.09%) Replication
5 8 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.18%) Clustering
7 6 (2.73%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.73%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.82%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.82%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.36%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.91%) Windows
2 8 (3.64%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.73%) Linux
4 5 (2.27%) VMS
5 4 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.45%) Android
6 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 60 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 59 (26.82%) Business Intelligence
4 53 (24.09%) Cybersecurity
4 53 (24.09%) Identity Access Management
4 53 (24.09%) Programme Delivery
4 53 (24.09%) Regulatory Compliance
5 44 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 43 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (17.73%) Analytics
8 34 (15.45%) Performance Tuning
9 32 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (13.64%) ETL
12 28 (12.73%) Change Control
13 26 (11.82%) Agile
13 26 (11.82%) CI/CD
13 26 (11.82%) DevOps
14 25 (11.36%) Decision-Making
15 20 (9.09%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 190 (86.36%) SQL
2 78 (35.45%) PowerShell
3 53 (24.09%) Bash
4 44 (20.00%) Python
5 39 (17.73%) C#
6 21 (9.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (3.64%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.18%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.18%) VBA
9 6 (2.73%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.27%) VBScript
11 4 (1.82%) Java
11 4 (1.82%) R
12 2 (0.91%) Bicep
12 2 (0.91%) Scala
13 1 (0.45%) Delphi
13 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (8.64%) Degree
2 6 (2.73%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.36%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.91%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) MCITP
5 1 (0.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (24.09%) NCSC
1 53 (24.09%) NIST
2 39 (17.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (16.82%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.09%) QA
5 6 (2.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.91%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) HL7
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (30.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.82%) Docker
3 2 (0.91%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.18%) Terraform
2 5 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.45%) SCCM
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 63 (28.64%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.82%) Databricks
3 10 (4.55%) Oracle
3 10 (4.55%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.09%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.09%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.73%) IFS
5 6 (2.73%) iManage
5 6 (2.73%) Infor
6 5 (2.27%) SAP
7 4 (1.82%) Epicor
7 4 (1.82%) JD Edwards
7 4 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.82%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.36%) RedGate
8 3 (1.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.91%) Citrix
9 2 (0.91%) Intapp
9 2 (0.91%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.45%) Siemens