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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 380 320
Rank change year-on-year -240 -60 -114
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 199 311 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.63% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 2.44% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 169 245 358
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,719 £38,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,100 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%

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 18,549 12,744 22,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.68% 25.72% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13,095 8,148 13,719
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -207 187 £60,000 +9.09% 185
UK excluding London -224 129 £55,000 +10.00% 114
Work from Home -63 86 £62,500 +23.46% 82
London -88 61 £70,000 -12.50% 76
South East -46 53 £55,000 +22.22% 39
North of England -96 31 £60,000 +4.35% 28
North West -29 17 £60,000 +4.35% 15
East of England -34 13 £55,000 +33.33% 15
Yorkshire -59 13 £61,500 +2.50% 10
Midlands -87 13 £50,000 +3.09% 20
South West -88 12 £52,500 +5.00% 6
West Midlands -48 10 £50,000 -13.04% 17
Scotland -4 7 £85,000 +78.95% 5
East Midlands -48 3 £59,732 +23.16% 3
North East -71 1 £47,500 -9.52% 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 (7.04%) IIS
2 12 (6.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.52%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.51%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.51%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.01%) Elite 3E
3 4 (2.01%) Infor M3
3 4 (2.01%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.01%) JDE World
4 3 (1.51%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.01%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (1.01%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.01%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 114 (57.29%) Azure
2 61 (30.65%) Power Platform
3 43 (21.61%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (10.05%) Power Automate
5 18 (9.05%) SaaS
6 16 (8.04%) AWS
7 15 (7.54%) PowerApps
8 14 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (6.03%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.53%) Snowflake
11 10 (5.03%) Serverless
12 9 (4.52%) GitHub
13 8 (4.02%) Entra ID
14 7 (3.52%) Azure Functions
14 7 (3.52%) dbt
15 6 (3.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (2.01%) Copilot Studio
16 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.51%) DNS
1 3 (1.51%) Firewall
1 3 (1.51%) VLAN
2 2 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (65.33%) SQL Server
2 48 (24.12%) Power BI
3 47 (23.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 36 (18.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 31 (15.58%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.53%) Power Query
7 11 (5.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (4.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (3.52%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.51%) Metadata
10 5 (2.51%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.01%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.01%) Db2
11 4 (2.01%) OLTP
11 4 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.01%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.51%) Big Data
12 3 (1.51%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.51%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 28 (14.07%) Git
2 15 (7.54%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.52%) JIRA
4 8 (4.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.01%) Postman
6 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 52 (26.13%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.57%) Finance
4 20 (10.05%) Law
5 18 (9.05%) Legal
6 6 (3.02%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.01%) Retail
9 3 (1.51%) Back Office
9 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.51%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.01%) Automotive
10 2 (1.01%) Banking
10 2 (1.01%) Billing
10 2 (1.01%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (51.76%) Developer
2 48 (24.12%) Senior
3 25 (12.56%) .NET Developer
3 25 (12.56%) Senior Developer
4 21 (10.55%) Analyst
4 21 (10.55%) Software Developer
5 20 (10.05%) SQL Developer
6 18 (9.05%) Data Engineer
7 14 (7.04%) DBA
7 14 (7.04%) SQL DBA
8 13 (6.53%) Applications Support
9 12 (6.03%) SQL Server DBA
10 10 (5.03%) Lead
10 10 (5.03%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.52%) Applications Developer
11 9 (4.52%) Business Developer
11 9 (4.52%) Database Engineer
12 8 (4.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (4.02%) Senior Database Engineer
12 8 (4.02%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (34.17%) .NET
2 18 (9.05%) REST
3 14 (7.04%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.53%) HTML
5 12 (6.03%) ASP.NET
5 12 (6.03%) CSS
6 11 (5.53%) JSON
7 10 (5.03%) React
7 10 (5.03%) SOAP
8 9 (4.52%) .NET Framework
9 8 (4.02%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.02%) Blazor
9 8 (4.02%) WinForms
10 7 (3.52%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.52%) XML
11 6 (3.02%) Entity Framework
11 6 (3.02%) jQuery
11 6 (3.02%) Kafka
11 6 (3.02%) OAuth
11 6 (3.02%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.56%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.04%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.02%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.02%) Replication
4 8 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.51%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.01%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.01%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.01%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.51%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.51%) NHS
8 2 (1.01%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.01%) LIMS
8 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.01%) SystemC
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.55%) Windows
2 11 (5.53%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.20%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (28.14%) DevOps
3 51 (25.63%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (22.61%) CI/CD
4 45 (22.61%) Performance Tuning
5 39 (19.60%) ETL
6 35 (17.59%) Agile
7 32 (16.08%) Data Modelling
8 29 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (13.07%) Analytics
10 23 (11.56%) Software Engineering
11 20 (10.05%) Data Integration
11 20 (10.05%) Root Cause Analysis
11 20 (10.05%) SDLC
12 18 (9.05%) AI
12 18 (9.05%) Mentoring
12 18 (9.05%) Secure Coding
13 16 (8.04%) Clean Code
13 16 (8.04%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 199 (100.00%) SQL
2 72 (36.18%) C#
3 37 (18.59%) PowerShell
4 32 (16.08%) Python
5 18 (9.05%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (6.53%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.52%) VBScript
9 8 (4.02%) VBA
10 7 (3.52%) Delphi
10 7 (3.52%) VB.NET
11 4 (2.01%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.51%) Bash
12 3 (1.51%) XPath
13 2 (1.01%) Bicep
13 2 (1.01%) VB
14 1 (0.50%) Java
14 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 12 (6.03%) Degree
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.01%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.01%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.51%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.08%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.53%) QA
3 12 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.02%) NIST
4 6 (3.02%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.01%) Docker
3 3 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.51%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.01%) SQL Sentry
3 3 (1.51%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 83 (41.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.54%) Oracle
3 9 (4.52%) iManage
4 8 (4.02%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.52%) RedGate
6 6 (3.02%) Databricks
6 6 (3.02%) Intapp
6 6 (3.02%) JD Edwards
6 6 (3.02%) SAP
7 5 (2.51%) IFS
7 5 (2.51%) Remedy
7 5 (2.51%) Teradata
8 4 (2.01%) Epicor
8 4 (2.01%) Infor
9 3 (1.51%) Google
9 3 (1.51%) Veeam
9 3 (1.51%) VMware
10 2 (1.01%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.01%) SolarWinds