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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 377 287
Rank change year-on-year -185 -90 -47
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 210 356 878
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.73% 0.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 2.48% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 168 283 693
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,010 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,469 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,063 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,125 £83,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,875 £51,500 £54,784
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.99% +4.35%

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 17,839 14,378 28,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.78% 29.28% 31.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,764 9,539 21,135
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,200 £35,534
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 23 July 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 16 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 23 July 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 -184 195 £52,500 -8.70% 66
UK excluding London -146 148 £49,875 -3.16% 50
Work from Home -47 106 £53,499 -2.73% 40
London -86 53 £70,000 - 21
South East -20 45 £52,500 +16.67% 14
North of England -71 35 £47,500 -20.83% 12
Midlands -68 22 £44,500 -8.25% 7
North West -3 21 £47,500 -17.39% 5
South West -59 18 £49,375 +1.28% 9
East of England -19 16 £62,500 +48.81% 5
West Midlands -41 15 £44,000 -23.48% 6
Yorkshire -64 12 £45,000 -25.00% 6
Scotland +22 11 - - 2
East Midlands -54 7 £59,366 +26.99% 1
North East -58 2 £45,500 -13.33% 2
Northern Ireland -68 1 - -

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 19 (9.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.67%) IIS
3 7 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.86%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (2.86%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.38%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.90%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.90%) JDE World
4 4 (1.90%) Magento
4 4 (1.90%) Shopify
5 3 (1.43%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.95%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.48%) FastStats
7 1 (0.48%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 124 (59.05%) Azure
2 67 (31.90%) Power Platform
3 31 (14.76%) Entra ID
4 27 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (10.00%) Google Workspace
5 21 (10.00%) SaaS
6 19 (9.05%) AWS
6 19 (9.05%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (8.10%) Power Automate
8 16 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (5.71%) PowerApps
11 8 (3.81%) GitHub
11 8 (3.81%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.33%) Serverless
13 4 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.90%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.57%) Broadband
2 4 (1.90%) Firewall
3 3 (1.43%) DNS
3 3 (1.43%) VLAN
4 1 (0.48%) HTTP
4 1 (0.48%) LAN
4 1 (0.48%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.48%) WAN
4 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (59.05%) SQL Server
2 56 (26.67%) Power BI
3 46 (21.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (21.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (7.62%) Power Query
6 15 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (4.76%) MySQL
10 8 (3.81%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (2.86%) Star Schema
12 5 (2.38%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.43%) Db2
14 3 (1.43%) WhereScape RED
15 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.95%) Metadata
15 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (10.48%) Git
2 14 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 11 (5.24%) JIRA
4 10 (4.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.95%) Postman
5 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.48%) Yeoman
General
1 67 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (13.81%) Finance
4 25 (11.90%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (9.52%) Law
6 11 (5.24%) Legal
7 9 (4.29%) Games
8 7 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.86%) Retail
10 5 (2.38%) Back Office
11 4 (1.90%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.43%) Billing
12 3 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.43%) Marketing
13 2 (0.95%) Automotive
14 1 (0.48%) Advertising
14 1 (0.48%) Banking
14 1 (0.48%) Local Government
14 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (39.52%) Developer
2 40 (19.05%) Analyst
3 39 (18.57%) Senior
4 19 (9.05%) Applications Support
5 18 (8.57%) SQL Developer
6 17 (8.10%) Software Developer
7 16 (7.62%) .NET Developer
7 16 (7.62%) Data Analyst
8 15 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 15 (7.14%) DBA
8 15 (7.14%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.67%) Applications Support Analyst
9 14 (6.67%) Data Engineer
10 13 (6.19%) SQL DBA
11 12 (5.71%) Support Analyst
12 11 (5.24%) SQL Analyst
13 10 (4.76%) SQL Server DBA
13 10 (4.76%) Support Engineer
14 9 (4.29%) IAM Developer
15 8 (3.81%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.62%) .NET
2 32 (15.24%) REST
3 26 (12.38%) SOAP
4 21 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 21 (10.00%) LDAP
4 21 (10.00%) OAuth
4 21 (10.00%) OpenID
4 21 (10.00%) SAML
5 16 (7.62%) HTML
5 16 (7.62%) JSON
6 15 (7.14%) CSS
7 14 (6.67%) ASP.NET
7 14 (6.67%) XML
8 13 (6.19%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.29%) Kafka
10 8 (3.81%) .NET Framework
10 8 (3.81%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (3.81%) Blazor
10 8 (3.81%) React
10 8 (3.81%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.05%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (8.57%) Cyber Threat
2 18 (8.57%) Cyberattack
3 13 (6.19%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.24%) Replication
6 10 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (4.29%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.38%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.38%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.90%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.43%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.43%) LIMS
11 3 (1.43%) NHS
11 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.62%) Windows
2 9 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (30.48%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 48 (22.86%) Performance Tuning
4 40 (19.05%) Data Modelling
5 38 (18.10%) DevOps
6 36 (17.14%) ETL
7 35 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 34 (16.19%) Agile
8 34 (16.19%) CI/CD
9 31 (14.76%) Mentoring
10 30 (14.29%) Analytics
10 30 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (10.95%) Validation
13 21 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
13 21 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
14 18 (8.57%) Programme Delivery
14 18 (8.57%) Regulatory Compliance
15 17 (8.10%) Decision-Making
15 17 (8.10%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 201 (95.71%) SQL
2 58 (27.62%) C#
3 54 (25.71%) PowerShell
4 37 (17.62%) Python
5 23 (10.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (10.00%) Bash
7 16 (7.62%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.76%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.29%) VBScript
10 7 (3.33%) VBA
11 5 (2.38%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.90%) Delphi
12 4 (1.90%) R
12 4 (1.90%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.43%) Java
14 2 (0.95%) VB
15 1 (0.48%) Bicep
15 1 (0.48%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (8.10%) Degree
2 5 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.43%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.95%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.71%) Data Quality
2 26 (12.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (10.00%) NIST
4 18 (8.57%) NCSC
5 16 (7.62%) QA
6 7 (3.33%) SLA
7 3 (1.43%) GDPR
8 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.48%) HL7
9 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (18.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.90%) Docker
3 3 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.38%) Terraform
1 5 (2.38%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.48%) SCCM
3 1 (0.48%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.29%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.81%) iManage
3 8 (3.81%) Oracle
4 7 (3.33%) SAP
5 6 (2.86%) IFS
5 6 (2.86%) Infor
6 5 (2.38%) Databricks
6 5 (2.38%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.38%) Remedy
7 4 (1.90%) Epicor
7 4 (1.90%) RedGate
7 4 (1.90%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.90%) WooCommerce
8 3 (1.43%) ConnectWise
8 3 (1.43%) Google
8 3 (1.43%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.43%) Veeam
8 3 (1.43%) VMware
9 2 (0.95%) OpenAI