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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 305 212
Rank change year-on-year -108 -93 +42
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 252 494 1,074
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.95% 1.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 2.81% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 179 286 941
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,642 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% -2.47% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,800 £82,812 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%

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 12,056 17,575 27,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.89% 33.89% 38.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,670 10,179 22,376
10th Percentile £33,125 £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 1 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 1 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 -123 205 £50,000 -9.09% 163
UK excluding London -53 189 £48,500 +2.11% 171
Work from Home -54 126 £48,500 -7.62% 168
London -77 59 £80,000 +28.00% 66
Midlands -5 44 £50,000 +5.26% 19
South East +9 42 £40,000 -20.00% 50
Scotland +17 38 £37,500 -18.48% 25
North of England -22 34 £40,000 -16.23% 32
West Midlands +25 28 £42,500 -15.00% 8
Yorkshire -7 26 £25,000 -47.37% 7
South West -6 21 £50,000 +6.95% 22
East Midlands -20 16 £50,000 +11.11% 11
North West -1 5 £57,500 +17.95% 24
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
East of England -25 4 £42,175 -11.21% 18
North East 0 3 £51,000 -32.00% 1
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 16 (6.35%) IIS
2 9 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.19%) CMS
4 3 (1.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.19%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.19%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) WordPress
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.40%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.78%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (2.78%) Magento
2 7 (2.78%) Shopify
3 2 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 142 (56.35%) Azure
2 53 (21.03%) Entra ID
3 46 (18.25%) Google Workspace
4 43 (17.06%) Power Platform
5 39 (15.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (7.14%) GitHub
8 17 (6.75%) SaaS
9 14 (5.56%) PowerApps
10 13 (5.16%) AWS
10 13 (5.16%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (4.76%) Snowflake
12 10 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.17%) GCP
13 8 (3.17%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (1.98%) Azure Functions
15 5 (1.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (18.25%) 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
1 126 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 51 (20.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 49 (19.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 42 (16.67%) Power BI
5 25 (9.92%) Data Lake
6 23 (9.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (6.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (5.56%) Metadata
10 12 (4.76%) MySQL
11 10 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (2.38%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.59%) OLAP
14 3 (1.19%) Data Mining
14 3 (1.19%) GIS
14 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.19%) Power Query
14 3 (1.19%) Tableau
15 2 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
15 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (6.35%) JIRA
2 15 (5.95%) Git
3 8 (3.17%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (1.98%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.59%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 107 (42.46%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.44%) Finance
3 47 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (18.25%) Organisational Skills
5 33 (13.10%) Games
6 11 (4.37%) Back Office
7 9 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.78%) Law
9 6 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.59%) Billing
11 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.59%) Legal
12 3 (1.19%) Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Front Office
13 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Marketing
14 1 (0.40%) Advertising
14 1 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 69 (27.38%) Senior
2 64 (25.40%) Developer
3 42 (16.67%) Analyst
4 37 (14.68%) Data Engineer
5 34 (13.49%) Support Analyst
6 32 (12.70%) Applications Support
7 29 (11.51%) Applications Support Analyst
8 22 (8.73%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.33%) DBA
10 20 (7.94%) Senior Data Engineer
10 20 (7.94%) Software Engineer
11 19 (7.54%) IAM Developer
12 18 (7.14%) SQL DBA
13 15 (5.95%) SQL Developer
14 14 (5.56%) IT Support
15 13 (5.16%) IT Engineer
15 13 (5.16%) IT Support Engineer
15 13 (5.16%) Support Engineer
16 12 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (26.19%) REST
2 59 (23.41%) SOAP
3 47 (18.65%) OAuth
3 47 (18.65%) OpenID
4 46 (18.25%) GraphQL
4 46 (18.25%) LDAP
4 46 (18.25%) SAML
5 39 (15.48%) .NET
6 16 (6.35%) .NET Framework
7 15 (5.95%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.56%) Entity Framework
9 13 (5.16%) CSS
9 13 (5.16%) HTML
9 13 (5.16%) JSON
9 13 (5.16%) XML
10 12 (4.76%) WinForms
11 10 (3.97%) .NET Core
12 9 (3.57%) Middleware
13 6 (2.38%) DirectX
13 6 (2.38%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.25%) Cyber Threat
1 46 (18.25%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.16%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.37%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.17%) Clustering
4 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.38%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.38%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.19%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.79%) Derivative
9 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.73%) Windows
2 10 (3.97%) 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 62 (24.60%) Mentoring
2 57 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (21.83%) ETL
4 54 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 49 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (18.25%) Cybersecurity
6 46 (18.25%) Identity Access Management
6 46 (18.25%) Programme Delivery
6 46 (18.25%) Regulatory Compliance
7 45 (17.86%) DevOps
8 42 (16.67%) Analytics
9 40 (15.87%) Data Modelling
9 40 (15.87%) Data Pipeline
10 39 (15.48%) Agile
11 36 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (13.89%) Software Engineering
13 34 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (12.70%) CI/CD
15 31 (12.30%) Data Engineering
16 24 (9.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 224 (88.89%) SQL
2 72 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 51 (20.24%) Python
4 46 (18.25%) Bash
5 45 (17.86%) C#
6 17 (6.75%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.56%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.38%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.19%) Bicep
10 3 (1.19%) Java
10 3 (1.19%) PHP
11 2 (0.79%) Scala
11 2 (0.79%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (13.49%) Degree
2 15 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.16%) 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
6 2 (0.79%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (18.25%) NCSC
1 46 (18.25%) NIST
2 34 (13.49%) Data Quality
3 25 (9.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.37%) QA
5 8 (3.17%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 54 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.38%) Docker
3 2 (0.79%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 85 (33.73%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.51%) Databricks
3 19 (7.54%) Oracle
4 13 (5.16%) Sage
5 12 (4.76%) Xamarin
6 7 (2.78%) ConnectWise
6 7 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.78%) WooCommerce
7 5 (1.98%) Google
7 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.98%) Zoho
8 4 (1.59%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.59%) RedGate
9 3 (1.19%) Informatica
9 3 (1.19%) Talend
10 2 (0.79%) Citrix
10 2 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) VMware
11 1 (0.40%) Concur
11 1 (0.40%) Workday