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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 339 235
Rank change year-on-year -154 -104 +45
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 221 355 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.84% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 2.59% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 138 288 958
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,750 £36,384
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,875 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +5.77%

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 15,613 13,722 32,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.34% 32.46% 33.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,624 10,083 25,022
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £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 £85,336 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 2 May 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 17 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 2 May 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 -181 177 £48,500 -15.65% 79
UK excluding London -104 168 £47,500 -5.00% 64
Work from Home -35 131 £47,500 -15.18% 49
London -92 49 £70,000 +3.70% 26
Midlands -46 38 £49,250 - 6
Scotland +3 37 - - 6
North of England -102 32 £47,500 -20.83% 19
South East -24 26 £43,250 -11.28% 22
West Midlands -18 22 £44,000 -23.48% 3
Yorkshire -88 19 £44,000 -26.67% 8
South West -50 18 £42,500 +6.25% 3
East Midlands -59 16 £59,732 +23.16% 3
North West -33 12 £61,250 +16.67% 11
East of England -36 12 £62,500 +39.66% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 -
North East -42 1 £43,500 -24.35%
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 13 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.71%) IIS
4 3 (1.36%) Confluence
4 3 (1.36%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.36%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.52%) Magento
1 10 (4.52%) Shopify
2 9 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.07%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (2.26%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.36%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (1.36%) JDE World
4 3 (1.36%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.90%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 126 (57.01%) Azure
2 64 (28.96%) Entra ID
3 54 (24.43%) Google Workspace
3 54 (24.43%) Power Platform
4 22 (9.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (8.14%) Dynamics 365
5 18 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (6.79%) AWS
7 14 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.33%) Power Automate
8 13 (5.88%) PowerApps
8 13 (5.88%) SaaS
9 12 (5.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (3.62%) GitHub
10 8 (3.62%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.26%) Serverless
12 4 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.81%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 54 (24.43%) Broadband
2 2 (0.90%) DNS
2 2 (0.90%) Firewall
3 1 (0.45%) DHCP
3 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.45%) LAN
3 1 (0.45%) Network Security
3 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.45%) SSL
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.45%) VLAN
3 1 (0.45%) WAN
3 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (49.32%) SQL Server
2 52 (23.53%) Power BI
3 38 (17.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 36 (16.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (10.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.33%) Power Query
7 13 (5.88%) Data Lake
8 11 (4.98%) MySQL
9 9 (4.07%) Metadata
9 9 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.07%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.81%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
13 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (8.60%) JIRA
2 9 (4.07%) Git
3 5 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.81%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 89 (40.27%) Social Skills
2 58 (26.24%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (20.81%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (16.29%) Games
5 35 (15.84%) Finance
6 16 (7.24%) Law
7 11 (4.98%) Back Office
8 9 (4.07%) Legal
9 6 (2.71%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.26%) Retail
11 4 (1.81%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.36%) Marketing
13 2 (0.90%) Automotive
13 2 (0.90%) Billing
13 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.45%) Advertising
14 1 (0.45%) Banking
14 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.45%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 64 (28.96%) Developer
2 53 (23.98%) Analyst
2 53 (23.98%) Senior
3 26 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 24 (10.86%) Applications Support
5 23 (10.41%) Applications Support Analyst
5 23 (10.41%) Senior Developer
6 20 (9.05%) IAM Developer
7 17 (7.69%) DBA
8 16 (7.24%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (7.24%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (6.79%) Data Analyst
9 15 (6.79%) SQL DBA
10 13 (5.88%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.43%) SQL Analyst
12 11 (4.98%) C# Developer
13 10 (4.52%) SQL Developer
14 9 (4.07%) Architect
14 9 (4.07%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
14 9 (4.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (30.77%) REST
2 65 (29.41%) SOAP
3 55 (24.89%) OAuth
3 55 (24.89%) OpenID
4 54 (24.43%) GraphQL
4 54 (24.43%) LDAP
4 54 (24.43%) SAML
5 39 (17.65%) .NET
6 12 (5.43%) .NET Core
6 12 (5.43%) ASP.NET
6 12 (5.43%) CSS
6 12 (5.43%) HTML
7 10 (4.52%) JSON
7 10 (4.52%) XML
8 9 (4.07%) Middleware
9 8 (3.62%) PySpark
9 8 (3.62%) React
10 6 (2.71%) DirectX
10 6 (2.71%) Kafka
10 6 (2.71%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 54 (24.43%) Cyber Threat
1 54 (24.43%) Cyberattack
2 14 (6.33%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.52%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.52%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.52%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.62%) Replication
5 7 (3.17%) Clustering
5 7 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.71%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.71%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.81%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.81%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.36%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.36%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.88%) Windows
2 8 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.71%) Linux
4 5 (2.26%) VMS
5 4 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.45%) Android
6 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (30.32%) Mentoring
2 61 (27.60%) Roadmaps
3 59 (26.70%) Business Intelligence
4 54 (24.43%) Cybersecurity
4 54 (24.43%) Identity Access Management
4 54 (24.43%) Programme Delivery
4 54 (24.43%) Regulatory Compliance
5 43 (19.46%) Data Modelling
5 43 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (17.65%) Analytics
7 34 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
8 33 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (14.03%) ETL
9 31 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (12.67%) Change Control
11 27 (12.22%) Agile
11 27 (12.22%) DevOps
12 26 (11.76%) CI/CD
13 25 (11.31%) Decision-Making
14 19 (8.60%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 190 (85.97%) SQL
2 79 (35.75%) PowerShell
3 54 (24.43%) Bash
4 43 (19.46%) Python
5 40 (18.10%) C#
6 21 (9.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (3.17%) PL/SQL
7 7 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.17%) VBA
8 6 (2.71%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.26%) VBScript
10 4 (1.81%) Java
10 4 (1.81%) R
11 2 (0.90%) Bicep
11 2 (0.90%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) Delphi
12 1 (0.45%) PHP
12 1 (0.45%) VB
12 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (9.05%) Degree
2 6 (2.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.36%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) MCITP
5 1 (0.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (24.43%) NCSC
1 54 (24.43%) NIST
2 39 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (16.74%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.07%) QA
5 6 (2.71%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) HL7
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (31.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.81%) Docker
3 2 (0.90%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.17%) Terraform
2 5 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.45%) SCCM
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 65 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.24%) Databricks
3 10 (4.52%) WooCommerce
4 9 (4.07%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.07%) Oracle
4 9 (4.07%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.71%) iManage
6 5 (2.26%) IFS
6 5 (2.26%) Infor
7 4 (1.81%) RedGate
7 4 (1.81%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.81%) SAP
7 4 (1.81%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.36%) Epicor
8 3 (1.36%) JD Edwards
8 3 (1.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Citrix
9 2 (0.90%) Intapp
9 2 (0.90%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.45%) Siemens