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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 378 334
Rank change year-on-year -204 -44 -105
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 202 355 665
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.71% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 2.51% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 172 281 495
10th Percentile £41,775 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £77,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -

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 18,557 14,128 25,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.53% 28.30% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,141 9,283 17,846
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,565 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% - -

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 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 15 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 10 August 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 -194 193 £57,500 - 72
UK excluding London -176 141 £52,500 +1.94% 47
Work from Home -68 87 £60,000 +14.29% 47
London -108 52 £70,000 - 35
South East -28 45 £52,500 +16.67% 16
North of England -86 34 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Midlands -71 21 £47,500 -2.06% 7
North West -12 19 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East of England -38 18 £62,500 +51.52% 4
South West -68 17 £51,250 +2.50% 3
West Midlands -38 15 £47,500 -17.39% 6
Yorkshire -75 13 £45,000 -25.00% 4
Scotland +6 6 - - 2
East Midlands -49 6 £59,366 +24.98% 1
North East -62 2 £45,500 -13.33% 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 14 (6.93%) IIS
2 13 (6.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.97%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.48%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.98%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (1.98%) Elite 3E
4 4 (1.98%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.98%) JDE World
5 2 (0.99%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.99%) Magento
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.99%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.99%) Shopify
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 113 (55.94%) Azure
2 67 (33.17%) Power Platform
3 36 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.90%) AWS
5 17 (8.42%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (8.42%) Power Automate
6 16 (7.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (6.93%) SaaS
8 13 (6.44%) PowerApps
9 12 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (4.95%) GitHub
10 10 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.95%) Serverless
11 9 (4.46%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.96%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.97%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.48%) Google Workspace
15 4 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (1.98%) GCP
15 4 (1.98%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) Firewall
2 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 3 (1.49%) VLAN
3 2 (0.99%) Broadband
3 2 (0.99%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (65.84%) SQL Server
2 55 (27.23%) Power BI
3 51 (25.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 40 (19.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (8.91%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (8.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (7.92%) Power Query
8 10 (4.95%) Relational Database
8 10 (4.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (3.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.97%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.97%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (1.98%) Db2
12 4 (1.98%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.49%) MySQL
13 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 26 (12.87%) Git
2 15 (7.43%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (4.46%) JIRA
5 2 (0.99%) Postman
5 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 62 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.27%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.34%) Finance
4 21 (10.40%) Law
5 13 (6.44%) Legal
6 9 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.97%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.48%) Retail
10 3 (1.49%) Back Office
10 3 (1.49%) Billing
10 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.99%) Games
11 2 (0.99%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 90 (44.55%) Developer
2 34 (16.83%) Senior
3 30 (14.85%) Analyst
4 22 (10.89%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.40%) SQL Developer
6 18 (8.91%) DBA
6 18 (8.91%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.42%) Applications Support
7 17 (8.42%) SQL DBA
8 15 (7.43%) Data Engineer
8 15 (7.43%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.93%) SQL Server DBA
10 11 (5.45%) Applications Support Analyst
10 11 (5.45%) Lead
11 10 (4.95%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.95%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Support Analyst
13 8 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 8 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.96%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (32.67%) .NET
2 18 (8.91%) REST
3 14 (6.93%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.93%) ASP.NET
3 14 (6.93%) HTML
4 13 (6.44%) CSS
5 12 (5.94%) .NET Framework
5 12 (5.94%) SOAP
6 11 (5.45%) JSON
7 9 (4.46%) Entity Framework
7 9 (4.46%) Kafka
7 9 (4.46%) WinForms
7 9 (4.46%) XML
8 8 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.96%) Blazor
9 7 (3.47%) jQuery
9 7 (3.47%) React
9 7 (3.47%) WPF
10 6 (2.97%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.97%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.89%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.93%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.45%) Replication
4 9 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.96%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.97%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.48%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.98%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.49%) LIMS
9 3 (1.49%) NHS
9 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.99%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.41%) Windows
2 10 (4.95%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.64%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (29.21%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (26.24%) Performance Tuning
4 47 (23.27%) DevOps
5 39 (19.31%) CI/CD
6 38 (18.81%) Data Modelling
6 38 (18.81%) ETL
7 35 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (16.83%) Agile
9 28 (13.86%) Analytics
10 19 (9.41%) AI
10 19 (9.41%) Roadmaps
10 19 (9.41%) Root Cause Analysis
11 18 (8.91%) Mentoring
11 18 (8.91%) Secure Coding
11 18 (8.91%) Software Engineering
12 17 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (8.42%) Decision-Making
12 17 (8.42%) SDLC
12 17 (8.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 200 (99.01%) SQL
2 67 (33.17%) C#
3 38 (18.81%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.34%) Python
5 23 (11.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.92%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.94%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.46%) VBScript
9 7 (3.47%) VBA
10 5 (2.48%) Bash
10 5 (2.48%) Delphi
10 5 (2.48%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.98%) R
11 4 (1.98%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.49%) Java
13 2 (0.99%) VB
13 2 (0.99%) XPath
14 1 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (8.42%) Degree
2 5 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (1.98%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.85%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.42%) QA
3 11 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.47%) SLA
5 5 (2.48%) NIST
6 3 (1.49%) GDPR
7 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.99%) NCSC
8 1 (0.50%) HL7
8 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (8.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.48%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.48%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.98%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 78 (38.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.44%) Oracle
3 9 (4.46%) iManage
3 9 (4.46%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.47%) SAP
5 6 (2.97%) Databricks
5 6 (2.97%) IFS
5 6 (2.97%) Infor
5 6 (2.97%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.48%) RedGate
6 5 (2.48%) Remedy
7 4 (1.98%) Epicor
7 4 (1.98%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.49%) Google
8 3 (1.49%) Intapp
8 3 (1.49%) Veeam
8 3 (1.49%) VMware
9 2 (0.99%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (0.99%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.99%) WooCommerce