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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 319 209
Rank change year-on-year -108 -110 +62
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 260 461 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.94% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.06% 2.73% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 175 264 969
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,375 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -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 12,606 16,872 27,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.69% 34.43% 37.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,023 9,993 22,876
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,869 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

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 17 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 17 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 -119 207 £50,000 -9.09% 78
UK excluding London -35 196 £42,500 -10.53% 77
Work from Home -32 143 £43,750 -20.45% 45
London -88 62 £80,000 +28.00% 15
Scotland +18 45 £37,500 -18.48%
Midlands -8 45 £48,500 +4.86% 21
South East -7 41 £40,000 -20.00% 26
North of England -20 36 £48,750 +1.56% 16
West Midlands +10 27 £42,500 -17.07% 12
Yorkshire -31 25 £25,000 -47.37% 3
South West -14 18 £42,500 -7.61% 6
East Midlands -18 18 £50,000 +11.11% 9
North West -6 8 £58,750 +17.50% 11
East of England -26 5 £42,175 -11.21% 8
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 1
North East -6 3 £51,000 -32.00% 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 15 (5.77%) IIS
2 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.54%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.54%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.15%) CMS
4 3 (1.15%) Confluence
5 2 (0.77%) WordPress
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (3.46%) Magento
2 9 (3.46%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 151 (58.08%) Azure
2 69 (26.54%) Entra ID
3 58 (22.31%) Google Workspace
4 46 (17.69%) Power Platform
5 34 (13.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (8.08%) SaaS
8 17 (6.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (6.54%) GitHub
8 17 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (5.38%) PowerApps
10 12 (4.62%) AWS
11 11 (4.23%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.08%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.31%) GCP
15 5 (1.92%) dbt
16 4 (1.54%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 58 (22.31%) Broadband
2 3 (1.15%) DNS
3 2 (0.77%) DHCP
3 2 (0.77%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.77%) Firewall
3 2 (0.77%) SSL
3 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.77%) VLAN
3 2 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (47.69%) SQL Server
2 50 (19.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 45 (17.31%) Power BI
4 42 (16.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (9.23%) Data Lake
6 22 (8.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (6.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 15 (5.77%) MySQL
10 13 (5.00%) Metadata
11 12 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (1.92%) Power Query
13 4 (1.54%) OLAP
13 4 (1.54%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.15%) GIS
14 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.15%) Tableau
15 2 (0.77%) Amazon QuickSight
15 2 (0.77%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (7.31%) JIRA
2 12 (4.62%) Git
3 5 (1.92%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 114 (43.85%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.31%) Organisational Skills
3 50 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (18.08%) Finance
5 39 (15.00%) Games
6 13 (5.00%) Back Office
7 8 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.69%) Law
9 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.92%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.54%) Billing
11 3 (1.15%) Banking
11 3 (1.15%) Legal
11 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing
12 2 (0.77%) Front Office
12 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Advertising
13 1 (0.38%) Automotive
13 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (26.92%) Senior
2 59 (22.69%) Developer
3 50 (19.23%) Analyst
4 37 (14.23%) Support Analyst
5 35 (13.46%) Applications Support
6 33 (12.69%) Data Engineer
7 32 (12.31%) Applications Support Analyst
8 23 (8.85%) IAM Developer
8 23 (8.85%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.08%) DBA
10 20 (7.69%) Software Engineer
11 18 (6.92%) SQL DBA
12 16 (6.15%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (6.15%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (5.38%) IT Support
14 13 (5.00%) IT Engineer
14 13 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (5.00%) SQL Developer
14 13 (5.00%) Support Engineer
15 12 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (30.00%) REST
2 71 (27.31%) SOAP
3 59 (22.69%) OAuth
3 59 (22.69%) OpenID
4 58 (22.31%) GraphQL
4 58 (22.31%) LDAP
4 58 (22.31%) SAML
5 37 (14.23%) .NET
6 15 (5.77%) .NET Framework
6 15 (5.77%) JSON
6 15 (5.77%) XML
7 13 (5.00%) Entity Framework
8 12 (4.62%) ASP.NET
8 12 (4.62%) WinForms
9 10 (3.85%) CSS
9 10 (3.85%) HTML
9 10 (3.85%) Middleware
10 8 (3.08%) .NET Core
11 6 (2.31%) DirectX
11 6 (2.31%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 58 (22.31%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (22.31%) Cyberattack
2 17 (6.54%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.46%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.08%) Clustering
6 6 (2.31%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.31%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.15%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.77%) Derivative
9 2 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.77%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.46%) Windows
2 10 (3.85%) Linux
3 6 (2.31%) VMS
3 6 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.77%) Android
4 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.77%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.31%) Mentoring
2 66 (25.38%) Roadmaps
3 58 (22.31%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (22.31%) Identity Access Management
3 58 (22.31%) Programme Delivery
3 58 (22.31%) Regulatory Compliance
4 53 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (18.85%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (18.08%) ETL
7 44 (16.92%) Analytics
7 44 (16.92%) Data Modelling
7 44 (16.92%) DevOps
8 39 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (14.23%) Data Pipeline
10 35 (13.46%) Agile
11 31 (11.92%) Software Engineering
12 28 (10.77%) Change Control
12 28 (10.77%) Data Engineering
13 26 (10.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 226 (86.92%) SQL
2 86 (33.08%) PowerShell
3 58 (22.31%) Bash
4 50 (19.23%) Python
5 42 (16.15%) C#
6 12 (4.62%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.23%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.92%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.54%) Java
11 3 (1.15%) PHP
12 2 (0.77%) Bicep
12 2 (0.77%) Scala
12 2 (0.77%) VBA
13 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (12.31%) Degree
2 15 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.46%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.54%) ACCA
4 4 (1.54%) CIMA
4 4 (1.54%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.77%) MCSE
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) MCITP
7 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (22.31%) NCSC
1 58 (22.31%) NIST
2 36 (13.85%) Data Quality
3 35 (13.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.23%) QA
5 8 (3.08%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 70 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.54%) Docker
3 2 (0.77%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 85 (32.69%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.38%) Databricks
3 14 (5.38%) Oracle
4 13 (5.00%) Sage
5 12 (4.62%) Xamarin
6 9 (3.46%) ConnectWise
6 9 (3.46%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.46%) WooCommerce
7 5 (1.92%) Google
7 5 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.92%) Zoho
8 4 (1.54%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.54%) RedGate
9 3 (1.15%) Informatica
9 3 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.15%) Talend
10 2 (0.77%) Citrix
10 2 (0.77%) VMware
11 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.38%) Foundry