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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 376 329
Rank change year-on-year -210 -47 -94
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 208 357 682
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.72% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 2.52% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 176 282 511
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,918 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,063 £65,000 £66,375
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -

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 18,401 14,152 25,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 28.54% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,097 9,306 18,067
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 6 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 6 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 -193 198 £55,000 -4.35% 82
UK excluding London -163 146 £52,500 +1.94% 55
Work from Home -82 91 £60,000 +14.29% 57
London -99 53 £70,000 - 35
South East -37 45 £52,500 +16.67% 17
North of England -78 35 £47,500 -20.83% 17
Midlands -74 23 £47,500 -2.06% 12
North West -4 20 £53,750 -6.52% 9
East of England -34 18 £62,500 +51.52% 2
South West -62 18 £50,000 - 4
West Midlands -37 17 £44,000 -23.48% 11
Yorkshire -60 13 £45,000 -25.00% 5
Scotland +23 7 - - 2
East Midlands -44 6 £59,366 +26.99% 1
North East -57 2 £45,500 -13.33% 4

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 (6.73%) IIS
1 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.88%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (2.40%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.92%) Elite 3E
4 4 (1.92%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.92%) JDE World
5 3 (1.44%) Magento
5 3 (1.44%) Shopify
6 2 (0.96%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.96%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.96%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.48%) FastStats
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 115 (55.29%) Azure
2 69 (33.17%) Power Platform
3 36 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.62%) AWS
5 18 (8.65%) Dynamics 365
5 18 (8.65%) Power Automate
6 16 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (7.21%) SaaS
8 14 (6.73%) PowerApps
9 12 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (5.77%) Entra ID
10 11 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.81%) GitHub
11 10 (4.81%) Serverless
12 8 (3.85%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.37%) Google Workspace
14 6 (2.88%) Azure Functions
15 4 (1.92%) GCP
15 4 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.92%) Broadband
1 4 (1.92%) Firewall
2 3 (1.44%) DNS
2 3 (1.44%) VLAN
3 2 (0.96%) 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
1 135 (64.90%) SQL Server
2 57 (27.40%) Power BI
3 51 (24.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 41 (19.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (8.17%) Power Query
7 16 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (4.81%) Relational Database
8 10 (4.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (3.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.88%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.88%) Star Schema
11 4 (1.92%) Db2
11 4 (1.92%) MySQL
11 4 (1.92%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.44%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.96%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 26 (12.50%) Git
2 15 (7.21%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.81%) JIRA
3 10 (4.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.96%) Postman
4 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.48%) Yeoman
General
1 65 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.04%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (15.87%) Finance
4 21 (10.10%) Law
5 13 (6.25%) Legal
6 11 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.37%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.40%) Retail
10 4 (1.92%) Back Office
11 3 (1.44%) Billing
11 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Games
11 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.96%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.96%) Automotive
12 2 (0.96%) Local Government
12 2 (0.96%) Marketing
13 1 (0.48%) Advertising
13 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (43.27%) Developer
2 36 (17.31%) Senior
3 33 (15.87%) Analyst
4 22 (10.58%) .NET Developer
5 20 (9.62%) SQL Developer
6 18 (8.65%) Applications Support
6 18 (8.65%) DBA
6 18 (8.65%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.17%) SQL DBA
8 16 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.21%) Data Engineer
10 14 (6.73%) SQL Server DBA
11 12 (5.77%) Applications Support Analyst
12 11 (5.29%) Data Analyst
12 11 (5.29%) Lead
13 10 (4.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 10 (4.81%) Support Analyst
13 10 (4.81%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (3.85%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (31.73%) .NET
2 21 (10.10%) REST
3 15 (7.21%) HTML
3 15 (7.21%) SOAP
4 14 (6.73%) .NET Core
4 14 (6.73%) ASP.NET
4 14 (6.73%) CSS
5 12 (5.77%) .NET Framework
5 12 (5.77%) JSON
6 10 (4.81%) XML
7 9 (4.33%) Entity Framework
7 9 (4.33%) Kafka
7 9 (4.33%) WinForms
8 8 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.85%) Blazor
9 7 (3.37%) GraphQL
9 7 (3.37%) OAuth
9 7 (3.37%) OpenID
9 7 (3.37%) React
9 7 (3.37%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.58%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.73%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.29%) Replication
4 10 (4.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (4.33%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.33%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.88%) Legacy Code
6 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.92%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.92%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.92%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.44%) LIMS
9 3 (1.44%) NHS
9 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.13%) Windows
2 10 (4.81%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.48%) Linux
4 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (29.33%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 46 (22.12%) DevOps
5 40 (19.23%) Data Modelling
6 38 (18.27%) CI/CD
6 38 (18.27%) ETL
7 37 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (16.35%) Agile
9 29 (13.94%) Analytics
10 21 (10.10%) Roadmaps
11 20 (9.62%) Mentoring
12 19 (9.13%) AI
12 19 (9.13%) Root Cause Analysis
12 19 (9.13%) Validation
13 18 (8.65%) Decision-Making
13 18 (8.65%) Secure Coding
13 18 (8.65%) Software Engineering
13 18 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (8.17%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 205 (98.56%) SQL
2 67 (32.21%) C#
3 41 (19.71%) PowerShell
4 34 (16.35%) Python
5 24 (11.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.77%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.33%) VBScript
9 7 (3.37%) Bash
9 7 (3.37%) VBA
10 5 (2.40%) Delphi
10 5 (2.40%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.92%) R
11 4 (1.92%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.44%) Java
13 2 (0.96%) VB
13 2 (0.96%) XPath
14 1 (0.48%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (8.17%) Degree
2 5 (2.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (1.92%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.44%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.17%) QA
3 13 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.37%) NIST
4 7 (3.37%) SLA
5 4 (1.92%) NCSC
6 3 (1.44%) GDPR
7 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.48%) HL7
8 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.40%) Docker
3 3 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.40%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.92%) Terraform
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 81 (38.94%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.25%) Oracle
3 10 (4.81%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.33%) iManage
5 7 (3.37%) SAP
6 6 (2.88%) Databricks
6 6 (2.88%) IFS
6 6 (2.88%) Infor
6 6 (2.88%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.40%) RedGate
7 5 (2.40%) Remedy
8 4 (1.92%) Epicor
8 4 (1.92%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.44%) Google
9 3 (1.44%) Intapp
9 3 (1.44%) Veeam
9 3 (1.44%) VMware
9 3 (1.44%) WooCommerce
10 2 (0.96%) ConnectWise
10 2 (0.96%) Rollbar