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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 323 216
Rank change year-on-year -125 -107 +51
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 249 414 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.89% 1.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 2.57% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 163 271 1,015
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +1.82% -0.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +10.00%

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 13,268 16,124 29,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.34% 34.82% 36.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,379 10,430 23,830
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £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 £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -1.82%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -130 197 £47,500 -15.18% 104
UK excluding London -35 194 £42,500 -10.53% 94
Work from Home -43 134 £42,500 -24.11% 44
London -77 52 £70,000 +7.69% 25
Midlands -11 46 £48,000 +7.87% 20
Scotland +19 44 - - 3
North of England -25 38 £48,750 -7.14% 17
South East -11 37 £35,000 -29.63% 22
West Midlands +12 29 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Yorkshire -32 26 £37,500 -25.00% 5
South West -9 18 £42,500 +2.41% 22
East Midlands -36 17 £50,000 +13.64% 9
North West -18 9 £57,500 +9.52% 10
East of England -25 5 £42,175 -11.21% 9
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -13 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 (6.02%) IIS
2 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.61%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.61%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.20%) CMS
5 3 (1.20%) Confluence
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.80%) WordPress
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.02%) Magento
1 10 (4.02%) Shopify
2 9 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 147 (59.04%) Azure
2 68 (27.31%) Entra ID
3 58 (23.29%) Google Workspace
4 46 (18.47%) Power Platform
5 31 (12.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 31 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (8.03%) SaaS
7 18 (7.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (6.83%) GitHub
8 17 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (5.62%) AWS
9 14 (5.62%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (4.82%) PowerApps
11 11 (4.42%) Snowflake
12 9 (3.61%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.81%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.41%) GCP
15 5 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.61%) Collibra
16 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 58 (23.29%) 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
1 115 (46.18%) SQL Server
2 48 (19.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 45 (18.07%) Power BI
4 37 (14.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (10.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (8.43%) Data Lake
7 16 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (6.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 14 (5.62%) MySQL
9 13 (5.22%) Metadata
10 10 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.81%) Power Query
12 5 (2.01%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.20%) GIS
13 3 (1.20%) OLAP
13 3 (1.20%) Tableau
14 2 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.80%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (8.03%) JIRA
2 12 (4.82%) Git
3 5 (2.01%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (42.17%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.29%) Organisational Skills
3 48 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (15.66%) Games
5 38 (15.26%) Finance
6 13 (5.22%) Back Office
7 9 (3.61%) Law
8 5 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.61%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.20%) Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Legal
10 3 (1.20%) Marketing
11 2 (0.80%) Billing
11 2 (0.80%) Front Office
11 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 63 (25.30%) Senior
2 58 (23.29%) Developer
3 51 (20.48%) Analyst
4 36 (14.46%) Support Analyst
5 33 (13.25%) Applications Support
6 32 (12.85%) Applications Support Analyst
7 29 (11.65%) Data Engineer
8 23 (9.24%) IAM Developer
8 23 (9.24%) Senior Developer
9 20 (8.03%) DBA
10 19 (7.63%) Software Engineer
11 18 (7.23%) SQL DBA
12 16 (6.43%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (6.02%) SQL Developer
14 13 (5.22%) IT Support
15 12 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 12 (4.82%) IT Engineer
15 12 (4.82%) IT Support Engineer
15 12 (4.82%) Senior Data Engineer
15 12 (4.82%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (30.92%) REST
2 71 (28.51%) SOAP
3 59 (23.69%) OAuth
3 59 (23.69%) OpenID
4 58 (23.29%) GraphQL
4 58 (23.29%) LDAP
4 58 (23.29%) SAML
5 38 (15.26%) .NET
6 15 (6.02%) .NET Framework
6 15 (6.02%) JSON
6 15 (6.02%) XML
7 13 (5.22%) ASP.NET
7 13 (5.22%) Entity Framework
8 12 (4.82%) WinForms
9 9 (3.61%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.61%) CSS
9 9 (3.61%) HTML
9 9 (3.61%) Middleware
10 6 (2.41%) OpenGL
10 6 (2.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.29%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (23.29%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.23%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.02%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.21%) Clustering
6 6 (2.41%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.41%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.61%) Replication
9 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.80%) Derivative
10 2 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.80%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.84%) Windows
2 9 (3.61%) Linux
3 6 (2.41%) VMS
3 6 (2.41%) 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 68 (27.31%) Mentoring
2 66 (26.51%) Roadmaps
3 58 (23.29%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (23.29%) Identity Access Management
3 58 (23.29%) Programme Delivery
3 58 (23.29%) Regulatory Compliance
4 52 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (20.08%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (18.47%) DevOps
7 43 (17.27%) Analytics
7 43 (17.27%) Data Modelling
8 40 (16.06%) ETL
9 36 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (12.85%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (12.45%) Agile
13 30 (12.05%) Software Engineering
14 28 (11.24%) Change Control
14 28 (11.24%) CI/CD
14 28 (11.24%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 215 (86.35%) SQL
2 86 (34.54%) PowerShell
3 58 (23.29%) Bash
4 48 (19.28%) Python
5 43 (17.27%) C#
6 14 (5.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (4.02%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.21%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.01%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.61%) Java
11 2 (0.80%) Bicep
11 2 (0.80%) PHP
11 2 (0.80%) R
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
11 2 (0.80%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (13.25%) Degree
2 14 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.80%) ACCA
5 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.80%) CIMA
5 2 (0.80%) MCSE
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.40%) MCITP
6 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (23.29%) NCSC
1 58 (23.29%) NIST
2 39 (15.66%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.42%) QA
5 8 (3.21%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (27.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.61%) Docker
3 2 (0.80%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.21%) Terraform
2 6 (2.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 80 (32.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.24%) Databricks
3 12 (4.82%) Sage
3 12 (4.82%) Xamarin
4 10 (4.02%) Oracle
4 10 (4.02%) WooCommerce
5 9 (3.61%) ConnectWise
5 9 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.01%) Google
6 5 (2.01%) Zoho
7 4 (1.61%) Dataiku
7 4 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.20%) RedGate
8 3 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) Citrix
9 2 (0.80%) Informatica
9 2 (0.80%) Talend
9 2 (0.80%) VMware
10 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.40%) Siemens