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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 295 215
Rank change year-on-year -126 -80 +37
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 251 501 1,011
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.96% 1.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 2.83% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 178 292 880
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £65,500
90th Percentile £83,950 £83,687 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.47% +0.50%

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 12,016 17,677 26,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 33.86% 38.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 10,275 21,755
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £36,365
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,500 £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 £101,250
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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -128 204 £50,000 -9.09% 157
UK excluding London -38 188 £48,500 +2.11% 169
Work from Home -39 125 £48,500 -7.62% 165
London -88 59 £80,000 +28.00% 62
Midlands +1 45 £50,000 +5.26% 20
South East +1 41 £40,000 -20.00% 51
Scotland +9 38 £37,500 -18.48% 26
North of England -17 34 £40,000 -15.79% 29
West Midlands +14 29 £43,750 -12.50% 8
Yorkshire -14 26 £25,000 -46.20% 7
South West +1 20 £50,000 +5.26% 22
East Midlands -21 16 £50,000 +11.11% 12
North West -6 5 £57,500 +17.95% 21
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
East of England -21 4 £42,175 -11.21% 17
North East +1 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 (6.37%) IIS
2 9 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.20%) CMS
3 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.20%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.80%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.40%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (8.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (2.39%) Magento
2 6 (2.39%) Shopify
3 2 (0.80%) 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
1 141 (56.18%) Azure
2 52 (20.72%) Entra ID
3 46 (18.33%) Google Workspace
4 43 (17.13%) Power Platform
5 39 (15.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (7.17%) GitHub
8 16 (6.37%) SaaS
9 14 (5.58%) PowerApps
10 13 (5.18%) AWS
10 13 (5.18%) Snowflake
11 12 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.19%) GCP
13 8 (3.19%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (1.99%) Azure Functions
15 5 (1.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (18.33%) Broadband
2 3 (1.20%) DNS
3 2 (0.80%) DHCP
3 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.80%) Firewall
3 2 (0.80%) SSL
3 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.80%) VLAN
3 2 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (49.40%) SQL Server
2 50 (19.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 49 (19.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 42 (16.73%) Power BI
5 25 (9.96%) Data Lake
6 23 (9.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (6.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (5.58%) Metadata
10 11 (4.38%) MySQL
11 9 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (2.39%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.59%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.59%) OLAP
14 3 (1.20%) GIS
14 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.20%) Power Query
14 3 (1.20%) Tableau
15 2 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
15 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (5.98%) Git
1 15 (5.98%) JIRA
2 8 (3.19%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (1.99%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.59%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 106 (42.23%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.52%) Finance
3 47 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (18.33%) Organisational Skills
5 33 (13.15%) Games
6 10 (3.98%) Back Office
7 9 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.79%) Law
8 7 (2.79%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.59%) Billing
10 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Legal
11 3 (1.20%) Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Front Office
12 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Marketing
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 69 (27.49%) Senior
2 64 (25.50%) Developer
3 41 (16.33%) Analyst
4 37 (14.74%) Data Engineer
5 33 (13.15%) Support Analyst
6 31 (12.35%) Applications Support
7 28 (11.16%) Applications Support Analyst
8 22 (8.76%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.37%) DBA
10 20 (7.97%) Senior Data Engineer
10 20 (7.97%) Software Engineer
11 19 (7.57%) IAM Developer
12 18 (7.17%) SQL DBA
13 15 (5.98%) SQL Developer
14 14 (5.58%) IT Support
15 13 (5.18%) IT Engineer
15 13 (5.18%) IT Support Engineer
15 13 (5.18%) Support Engineer
16 12 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (4.78%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (25.90%) REST
2 58 (23.11%) SOAP
3 47 (18.73%) OAuth
3 47 (18.73%) OpenID
4 46 (18.33%) GraphQL
4 46 (18.33%) LDAP
4 46 (18.33%) SAML
5 39 (15.54%) .NET
6 16 (6.37%) .NET Framework
7 15 (5.98%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.58%) Entity Framework
9 13 (5.18%) CSS
9 13 (5.18%) HTML
10 12 (4.78%) JSON
10 12 (4.78%) WinForms
10 12 (4.78%) XML
11 10 (3.98%) .NET Core
12 8 (3.19%) Middleware
13 6 (2.39%) DirectX
13 6 (2.39%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.33%) Cyber Threat
1 46 (18.33%) Cyberattack
2 12 (4.78%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.38%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.38%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.19%) Clustering
4 8 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.39%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.39%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.20%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.80%) Derivative
8 2 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.80%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.76%) Windows
2 10 (3.98%) Linux
3 6 (2.39%) VMS
3 6 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.80%) Android
4 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.70%) Mentoring
2 57 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (22.31%) ETL
4 54 (21.51%) Roadmaps
5 49 (19.52%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (18.33%) Cybersecurity
6 46 (18.33%) Identity Access Management
6 46 (18.33%) Programme Delivery
6 46 (18.33%) Regulatory Compliance
7 45 (17.93%) DevOps
8 43 (17.13%) Analytics
9 40 (15.94%) Data Modelling
9 40 (15.94%) Data Pipeline
10 39 (15.54%) Agile
11 36 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (13.94%) Software Engineering
13 33 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (12.75%) CI/CD
15 31 (12.35%) Data Engineering
16 25 (9.96%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 223 (88.84%) SQL
2 71 (28.29%) PowerShell
3 51 (20.32%) Python
4 46 (18.33%) Bash
5 45 (17.93%) C#
6 17 (6.77%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.58%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.39%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.20%) Bicep
10 3 (1.20%) Java
10 3 (1.20%) PHP
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
11 2 (0.80%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) R
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (13.55%) Degree
2 15 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.18%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.59%) ACCA
4 4 (1.59%) CIMA
4 4 (1.59%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.80%) MCSE
6 2 (0.80%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (18.33%) NCSC
1 46 (18.33%) NIST
2 33 (13.15%) Data Quality
3 24 (9.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.38%) QA
5 8 (3.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (21.12%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.39%) Docker
3 2 (0.80%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 85 (33.86%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.95%) Databricks
3 19 (7.57%) Oracle
4 13 (5.18%) Sage
5 12 (4.78%) Xamarin
6 6 (2.39%) ConnectWise
6 6 (2.39%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.39%) WooCommerce
7 5 (1.99%) Google
7 5 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.99%) Zoho
8 4 (1.59%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.59%) RedGate
9 3 (1.20%) Informatica
9 3 (1.20%) Talend
10 2 (0.80%) Citrix
10 2 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) VMware
11 1 (0.40%) Concur
11 1 (0.40%) Workday