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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 360 265
Rank change year-on-year -163 -95 -11
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 234 348 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.77% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.39% 2.49% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 158 273 890
10th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £84,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +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 16,891 13,994 34,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 31.12% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11,961 9,238 26,001
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
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 21 June 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 16 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 21 June 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 -162 200 £50,000 -13.04% 50
UK excluding London -111 168 £47,500 -7.77% 44
Work from Home 0 132 £49,125 -10.68% 38
London -69 59 £70,000 - 18
South East -24 42 £47,500 +5.56% 11
North of England -65 36 £47,500 -20.83% 18
Scotland +22 28 - - 2
Midlands -49 26 £45,000 -7.22% 2
North West +3 22 £53,750 - 11
South West -56 20 £48,125 -3.75% 4
West Midlands -28 17 £44,000 -23.48% 1
East of England -29 13 £62,500 +48.81% 3
Yorkshire -67 12 £45,000 -25.00% 5
East Midlands -49 9 £59,000 +24.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4
North East -51 2 £45,500 -17.27% 2

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 20 (8.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.56%) IIS
3 8 (3.42%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.56%) Infor M3
3 6 (2.56%) Magento
3 6 (2.56%) Shopify
4 4 (1.71%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.71%) JDE World
4 4 (1.71%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.85%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.43%) FastStats
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 150 (64.10%) Azure
2 68 (29.06%) Power Platform
3 62 (26.50%) Entra ID
4 51 (21.79%) Google Workspace
5 23 (9.83%) AWS
5 23 (9.83%) SaaS
6 22 (9.40%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (8.12%) Power Automate
9 18 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (6.41%) PowerApps
11 13 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (3.85%) GitHub
13 8 (3.42%) Serverless
14 7 (2.99%) Snowflake
15 5 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 48 (20.51%) Broadband
2 4 (1.71%) Firewall
3 3 (1.28%) DNS
3 3 (1.28%) VLAN
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) Network Security
4 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (49.57%) SQL Server
2 58 (24.79%) Power BI
3 47 (20.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 44 (18.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (6.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.41%) Power Query
7 12 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.70%) MySQL
9 10 (4.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.42%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.14%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.14%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.85%) Metadata
14 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.12%) Git
2 13 (5.56%) JIRA
2 13 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.43%) Postman
5 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 82 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.50%) Organisational Skills
3 48 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.25%) Finance
5 25 (10.68%) Games
6 19 (8.12%) Law
7 10 (4.27%) Legal
8 6 (2.56%) Back Office
8 6 (2.56%) Retail
9 5 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.71%) Marketing
10 4 (1.71%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.28%) Billing
11 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.85%) Automotive
12 2 (0.85%) Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (35.47%) Developer
2 52 (22.22%) Senior
3 44 (18.80%) Analyst
4 20 (8.55%) Applications Support
5 19 (8.12%) IAM Developer
5 19 (8.12%) Senior Developer
6 17 (7.26%) Data Analyst
6 17 (7.26%) Systems Engineer
7 16 (6.84%) Applications Support Analyst
7 16 (6.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (6.84%) Software Developer
7 16 (6.84%) SQL Developer
7 16 (6.84%) Support Analyst
8 13 (5.56%) .NET Developer
9 12 (5.13%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.13%) Database Engineer
9 12 (5.13%) DBA
9 12 (5.13%) SQL Analyst
10 10 (4.27%) SQL DBA
10 10 (4.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (26.92%) REST
2 58 (24.79%) SOAP
3 53 (22.65%) .NET
4 51 (21.79%) GraphQL
4 51 (21.79%) LDAP
4 51 (21.79%) OAuth
4 51 (21.79%) OpenID
4 51 (21.79%) SAML
5 16 (6.84%) ASP.NET
5 16 (6.84%) HTML
6 15 (6.41%) CSS
6 15 (6.41%) JSON
7 13 (5.56%) XML
8 12 (5.13%) .NET Core
9 11 (4.70%) React
10 9 (3.85%) Blazor
10 9 (3.85%) Kafka
11 7 (2.99%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (2.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.51%) Cyber Threat
1 48 (20.51%) Cyberattack
2 17 (7.26%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.70%) Replication
5 10 (4.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.14%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.14%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.71%) Clustering
9 4 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.71%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.71%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.28%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.28%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.41%) Windows
2 9 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.43%) Linux
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.35%) Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.35%) Mentoring
2 60 (25.64%) Roadmaps
3 56 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (21.79%) Cybersecurity
4 51 (21.79%) Identity Access Management
5 48 (20.51%) Programme Delivery
5 48 (20.51%) Regulatory Compliance
6 46 (19.66%) Performance Tuning
7 40 (17.09%) Data Modelling
8 36 (15.38%) Agile
9 34 (14.53%) CI/CD
9 34 (14.53%) DevOps
9 34 (14.53%) ETL
10 33 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (13.25%) Analytics
12 30 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (11.54%) Change Control
14 21 (8.97%) Validation
15 18 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 209 (89.32%) SQL
2 81 (34.62%) PowerShell
3 55 (23.50%) C#
4 51 (21.79%) Bash
5 41 (17.52%) Python
6 22 (9.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (6.84%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.70%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.42%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.42%) VBScript
10 7 (2.99%) VBA
11 4 (1.71%) Java
11 4 (1.71%) R
12 2 (0.85%) Delphi
12 2 (0.85%) VB
13 1 (0.43%) Bicep
13 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (8.55%) Degree
2 5 (2.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.71%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (21.79%) NIST
2 48 (20.51%) NCSC
3 42 (17.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (14.53%) Data Quality
5 14 (5.98%) QA
6 4 (1.71%) GDPR
7 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.85%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) HL7
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (29.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.71%) Docker
3 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.56%) Terraform
2 4 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 80 (34.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.42%) iManage
2 8 (3.42%) Oracle
3 6 (2.56%) Databricks
3 6 (2.56%) IFS
3 6 (2.56%) Infor
3 6 (2.56%) SAP
3 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow
3 6 (2.56%) WooCommerce
4 5 (2.14%) ConnectWise
5 4 (1.71%) Epicor
5 4 (1.71%) JD Edwards
5 4 (1.71%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.71%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.28%) Google
6 3 (1.28%) RedGate
6 3 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (1.28%) Veeam
6 3 (1.28%) VMware
7 2 (0.85%) Rollbar