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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 291 229
Rank change year-on-year -122 -62 +9
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 240 518 798
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.96% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 2.86% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 182 308 700
10th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,813 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,438 £66,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -

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 11,472 18,099 21,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.34% 33.70% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8,401 10,572 17,634
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,576
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 18 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 11 January 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 -123 202 £50,000 -4.76% 182
UK excluding London -43 175 £48,500 +2.11% 196
Work from Home -40 111 £48,500 -3.00% 169
London -86 59 £80,000 +28.00% 57
Midlands 0 44 £50,000 +11.11% 23
South East +3 38 £40,000 -20.00% 57
North of England -7 36 £40,000 -15.79% 31
Yorkshire -6 30 £37,500 -19.30% 9
Scotland +13 29 £37,500 -17.58% 26
West Midlands +27 28 £45,000 +4.65% 8
South West -7 18 £50,000 -6.98% 26
East Midlands -21 16 £50,000 +8.11% 15
East of England -31 4 £42,175 -11.21% 24
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 - 3
North East +6 3 £51,000 -32.00% 3
North West -11 3 £57,500 +21.05% 19
Wales -2 1 £35,000 -18.13% 14
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 17 (7.08%) IIS
2 11 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.25%) CMS
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.83%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.83%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.83%) WordPress
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.08%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (2.08%) Magento
2 5 (2.08%) Shopify
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 126 (52.50%) Azure
2 48 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 40 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 35 (14.58%) Entra ID
5 33 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (12.92%) Google Workspace
7 18 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (7.08%) GitHub
9 16 (6.67%) Snowflake
10 14 (5.83%) AWS
10 14 (5.83%) PowerApps
11 13 (5.42%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (5.00%) SaaS
13 9 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.75%) Power Automate
14 8 (3.33%) GCP
15 7 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
16 5 (2.08%) dbt
17 4 (1.67%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 31 (12.92%) Broadband
2 3 (1.25%) DNS
3 2 (0.83%) DHCP
3 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.83%) Firewall
3 2 (0.83%) SSL
3 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.83%) VLAN
3 2 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (52.08%) SQL Server
2 51 (21.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 48 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 47 (19.58%) Power BI
5 26 (10.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 26 (10.83%) Data Lake
6 21 (8.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 20 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (5.83%) Metadata
9 8 (3.33%) MySQL
9 8 (3.33%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.50%) OLAP
10 6 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.08%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.67%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.25%) GIS
13 3 (1.25%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.25%) Power Query
13 3 (1.25%) Tableau
14 2 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 16 (6.67%) Git
2 14 (5.83%) JIRA
3 8 (3.33%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (2.50%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.42%) Mercurial
General
1 97 (40.42%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.83%) Finance
3 45 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.92%) Organisational Skills
5 25 (10.42%) Games
6 9 (3.75%) Back Office
6 9 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.75%) Law
6 9 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.33%) Legal
8 6 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.67%) Billing
10 2 (0.83%) Banking
10 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Front Office
10 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Advertising
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (27.50%) Developer
2 62 (25.83%) Senior
3 40 (16.67%) Analyst
4 36 (15.00%) Data Engineer
5 29 (12.08%) Support Analyst
6 28 (11.67%) Applications Support
7 25 (10.42%) Applications Support Analyst
7 25 (10.42%) DBA
8 22 (9.17%) SQL DBA
9 21 (8.75%) Senior Developer
10 19 (7.92%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (7.92%) Software Engineer
11 18 (7.50%) SQL Developer
12 14 (5.83%) Administrator
12 14 (5.83%) IAM Developer
13 13 (5.42%) IT Engineer
13 13 (5.42%) IT Support
13 13 (5.42%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (5.42%) Support Engineer
14 12 (5.00%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (20.42%) REST
2 42 (17.50%) SOAP
3 40 (16.67%) .NET
4 32 (13.33%) OAuth
4 32 (13.33%) OpenID
5 31 (12.92%) GraphQL
5 31 (12.92%) LDAP
5 31 (12.92%) SAML
6 18 (7.50%) .NET Framework
7 15 (6.25%) ASP.NET
7 15 (6.25%) Entity Framework
8 13 (5.42%) CSS
8 13 (5.42%) HTML
9 12 (5.00%) WinForms
10 11 (4.58%) JSON
11 10 (4.17%) .NET Core
11 10 (4.17%) XML
12 7 (2.92%) Middleware
12 7 (2.92%) PySpark
12 7 (2.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.92%) Cyber Threat
1 31 (12.92%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.42%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.33%) Clustering
6 6 (2.50%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.50%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.67%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.83%) Derivative
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.83%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.42%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.00%) Windows
2 10 (4.17%) Linux
3 6 (2.50%) VMS
3 6 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Android
4 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (24.17%) ETL
3 56 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
4 50 (20.83%) DevOps
5 49 (20.42%) Mentoring
6 45 (18.75%) Analytics
7 40 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
8 39 (16.25%) Agile
8 39 (16.25%) Roadmaps
9 38 (15.83%) Data Modelling
10 35 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (14.17%) Software Engineering
12 33 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (12.92%) Data Engineering
13 31 (12.92%) Identity Access Management
13 31 (12.92%) Programme Delivery
13 31 (12.92%) Regulatory Compliance
14 29 (12.08%) CI/CD
14 29 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (10.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 219 (91.25%) SQL
2 52 (21.67%) PowerShell
3 50 (20.83%) Python
4 45 (18.75%) C#
5 31 (12.92%) Bash
6 18 (7.50%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.42%) PL/SQL
8 11 (4.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.25%) Bicep
10 3 (1.25%) PHP
11 2 (0.83%) C++
11 2 (0.83%) Java
11 2 (0.83%) Scala
11 2 (0.83%) VBA
12 1 (0.42%) Dart
12 1 (0.42%) R
12 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (14.58%) Degree
2 15 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.42%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.67%) ACCA
4 4 (1.67%) CIMA
4 4 (1.67%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.83%) MCSE
6 2 (0.83%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) MCITP
7 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.75%) Data Quality
2 31 (12.92%) NCSC
2 31 (12.92%) NIST
3 13 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.58%) QA
5 8 (3.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (15.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.08%) Docker
3 2 (0.83%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.92%) Terraform
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 87 (36.25%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.75%) Databricks
3 20 (8.33%) Oracle
4 13 (5.42%) Sage
5 12 (5.00%) Xamarin
6 7 (2.92%) RedGate
7 5 (2.08%) ConnectWise
7 5 (2.08%) Google
7 5 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.08%) WooCommerce
7 5 (2.08%) Zoho
8 4 (1.67%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.25%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.25%) Informatica
9 3 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.25%) Talend
10 2 (0.83%) Citrix
10 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.83%) VMware