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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 381 331
Rank change year-on-year -206 -50 -101
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 204 355 666
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.71% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 2.54% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 174 282 493
10th Percentile £42,150 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £81,400 £82,500 £77,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500

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 18,483 13,972 25,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.40% 27.98% 30.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,089 9,170 17,796
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 15 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 13 August 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 -197 195 £57,500 - 81
UK excluding London -175 140 £52,500 - 46
Work from Home -61 88 £60,000 +14.29% 50
London -100 54 £70,000 - 44
South East -17 46 £52,500 +16.67% 14
North of England -86 35 £47,500 -20.83% 16
Midlands -78 20 £48,750 +0.52% 8
North West -3 19 £47,500 -17.39% 10
East of England -33 17 £62,500 +51.52% 3
South West -60 17 £51,250 +2.50% 3
West Midlands -39 15 £47,500 -17.39% 6
Yorkshire -58 14 £51,250 -14.58% 4
Scotland +11 5 £85,000 +78.95% 2
East Midlands -56 5 £59,732 +25.75% 2
North East -61 2 £45,500 -13.33% 3

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 14 (6.86%) IIS
2 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.43%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.94%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.45%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (1.96%) Elite 3E
4 4 (1.96%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.96%) JDE World
5 2 (0.98%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.98%) Magento
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.98%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.98%) Shopify
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.49%) FastStats
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 112 (54.90%) Azure
2 67 (32.84%) Power Platform
3 38 (18.63%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.31%) AWS
5 17 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (8.33%) Power Automate
6 16 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 13 (6.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.37%) PowerApps
7 13 (6.37%) SaaS
8 10 (4.90%) GitHub
8 10 (4.90%) Serverless
9 9 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.92%) Snowflake
11 7 (3.43%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.94%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.96%) GCP
13 4 (1.96%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.96%) Firewall
2 3 (1.47%) DNS
2 3 (1.47%) VLAN
3 2 (0.98%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (66.18%) SQL Server
2 55 (26.96%) Power BI
3 53 (25.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 39 (19.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (7.84%) Power Query
7 11 (5.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 10 (4.90%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.43%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.94%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.96%) Db2
11 4 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.96%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.47%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.47%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.98%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (12.75%) Git
2 15 (7.35%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (4.41%) JIRA
5 2 (0.98%) Postman
5 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) Yeoman
General
1 61 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.18%) Finance
4 21 (10.29%) Law
5 14 (6.86%) Legal
6 7 (3.43%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.45%) Retail
9 4 (1.96%) Back Office
10 3 (1.47%) Billing
10 3 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.98%) Automotive
11 2 (0.98%) Banking
11 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.98%) Local Government
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (44.12%) Developer
2 35 (17.16%) Senior
3 29 (14.22%) Analyst
4 22 (10.78%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.29%) SQL Developer
6 18 (8.82%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.82%) DBA
6 18 (8.82%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.33%) SQL DBA
8 16 (7.84%) Applications Support
8 16 (7.84%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.35%) SQL Server DBA
10 11 (5.39%) Lead
11 10 (4.90%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (4.90%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.90%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.92%) Software Support Engineer
12 8 (3.92%) Support Analyst
13 7 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 7 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (31.86%) .NET
2 17 (8.33%) REST
3 14 (6.86%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.86%) ASP.NET
3 14 (6.86%) HTML
4 13 (6.37%) CSS
5 12 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 11 (5.39%) SOAP
7 10 (4.90%) JSON
8 9 (4.41%) Entity Framework
8 9 (4.41%) Kafka
8 9 (4.41%) WinForms
9 8 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (3.92%) Blazor
9 8 (3.92%) XML
10 7 (3.43%) jQuery
10 7 (3.43%) PySpark
10 7 (3.43%) React
10 7 (3.43%) WPF
11 6 (2.94%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.78%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.86%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.39%) Replication
4 9 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.43%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.94%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.45%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.96%) NHS
8 4 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.47%) LIMS
9 3 (1.47%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.98%) Clustering
10 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.31%) Windows
2 10 (4.90%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.98%) Linux
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (34.80%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (28.92%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (25.98%) Performance Tuning
4 49 (24.02%) DevOps
5 41 (20.10%) CI/CD
6 40 (19.61%) ETL
7 38 (18.63%) Data Modelling
8 36 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (17.16%) Agile
10 29 (14.22%) Analytics
11 19 (9.31%) AI
11 19 (9.31%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (8.82%) SDLC
12 18 (8.82%) Secure Coding
12 18 (8.82%) Software Engineering
13 17 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (8.33%) Decision-Making
13 17 (8.33%) Roadmaps
13 17 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (7.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 203 (99.51%) SQL
2 67 (32.84%) C#
3 36 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.18%) Python
5 24 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.84%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.37%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.41%) VBScript
9 8 (3.92%) VBA
10 5 (2.45%) Delphi
10 5 (2.45%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.96%) R
11 4 (1.96%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.47%) Bash
13 2 (0.98%) Bicep
13 2 (0.98%) Java
13 2 (0.98%) VB
13 2 (0.98%) XPath
14 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 16 (7.84%) Degree
2 5 (2.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (1.96%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.47%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.47%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.84%) QA
3 10 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.43%) SLA
5 4 (1.96%) NIST
6 3 (1.47%) GDPR
7 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) HL7
8 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.45%) Docker
3 3 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.45%) Terraform
1 5 (2.45%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.49%) SCCM
3 1 (0.49%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 81 (39.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.86%) Oracle
3 9 (4.41%) iManage
3 9 (4.41%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.43%) SAP
5 6 (2.94%) IFS
5 6 (2.94%) Infor
5 6 (2.94%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.45%) Databricks
6 5 (2.45%) RedGate
6 5 (2.45%) Remedy
7 4 (1.96%) Epicor
7 4 (1.96%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.47%) Google
8 3 (1.47%) Intapp
8 3 (1.47%) Veeam
8 3 (1.47%) VMware
9 2 (0.98%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (0.98%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.98%) WooCommerce