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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 307 218
Rank change year-on-year -119 -89 +10
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 225 561 810
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.88% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 2.67% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 188 349 725
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,625 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -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 11,574 21,032 20,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.33% 32.91% 40.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,399 12,594 17,055
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 -110 201 £50,000 - 83
UK excluding London -51 155 £47,500 - 118
Work from Home -71 79 £50,000 - 106
London -67 61 £80,000 +30.08% 22
Midlands +19 46 £46,250 +1.81% 7
South East +4 40 £42,500 -14.10% 20
North of England +3 35 £40,000 -16.23% 22
Yorkshire +3 28 £40,000 -16.23% 6
West Midlands +29 27 £42,500 -5.56% 6
East Midlands +15 19 £48,500 +2.11% 1
South West +8 15 £50,000 -16.67% 13
Scotland +2 13 £37,500 -17.58% 41
North East +13 4 £51,750 -31.00% 2
North West +7 3 £57,500 +21.05% 15
Northern Ireland - 3 £50,000 - 1
Wales +8 1 £35,000 -18.13% 11
East of England -22 1 - - 5
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 (7.56%) IIS
2 8 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.33%) CMS
4 2 (0.89%) Apache
4 2 (0.89%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.89%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 25 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.89%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Sage 1000
Cloud Services
1 118 (52.44%) Azure
2 56 (24.89%) Power Platform
3 45 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 45 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (8.44%) Snowflake
6 15 (6.67%) AWS
6 15 (6.67%) GitHub
7 13 (5.78%) GCP
8 12 (5.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (4.89%) Entra ID
9 11 (4.89%) SaaS
10 9 (4.00%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.67%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.67%) Google Workspace
12 6 (2.67%) Serverless
13 5 (2.22%) dbt
14 4 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) Broadband
2 3 (1.33%) DNS
3 2 (0.89%) DHCP
3 2 (0.89%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.89%) Firewall
3 2 (0.89%) SSL
3 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.89%) VLAN
3 2 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (53.78%) SQL Server
2 57 (25.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 55 (24.44%) Power BI
4 54 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 30 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 29 (12.89%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (12.44%) Data Lake
8 24 (10.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 12 (5.33%) Metadata
10 9 (4.00%) MySQL
11 8 (3.56%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.11%) NoSQL
12 7 (3.11%) OLAP
12 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (2.67%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.67%) Data Mining
14 4 (1.78%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.78%) RDBMS
15 3 (1.33%) GIS
15 3 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (8.00%) Git
2 8 (3.56%) JIRA
2 8 (3.56%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (2.67%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.44%) Mercurial
General
1 83 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 57 (25.33%) Finance
3 45 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.89%) Games
6 10 (4.44%) Law
7 9 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.56%) Retail
9 7 (3.11%) Legal
9 7 (3.11%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.22%) Back Office
12 4 (1.78%) Billing
13 3 (1.33%) Front Office
14 2 (0.89%) Advertising
14 2 (0.89%) Banking
14 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.89%) Marketing
15 1 (0.44%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 67 (29.78%) Developer
2 50 (22.22%) Senior
3 44 (19.56%) Data Engineer
4 41 (18.22%) Analyst
5 27 (12.00%) Applications Support
5 27 (12.00%) SQL Developer
6 24 (10.67%) DBA
6 24 (10.67%) Support Analyst
7 23 (10.22%) Applications Support Analyst
8 21 (9.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 21 (9.33%) SQL DBA
9 20 (8.89%) Software Engineer
10 17 (7.56%) Senior Developer
11 14 (6.22%) IT Support
11 14 (6.22%) Support Engineer
12 13 (5.78%) Administrator
12 13 (5.78%) IT Engineer
12 13 (5.78%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (5.33%) Software Support Engineer
14 10 (4.44%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (19.56%) .NET
2 20 (8.89%) REST
3 19 (8.44%) .NET Framework
4 16 (7.11%) ASP.NET
4 16 (7.11%) CSS
4 16 (7.11%) Entity Framework
5 15 (6.67%) HTML
6 14 (6.22%) PySpark
7 12 (5.33%) SOAP
7 12 (5.33%) WinForms
8 11 (4.89%) JSON
9 10 (4.44%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.44%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.44%) XML
10 8 (3.56%) Web Services
11 7 (3.11%) OAuth
11 7 (3.11%) OpenID
12 6 (2.67%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.67%) LDAP
12 6 (2.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 15 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.11%) Clustering
4 6 (2.67%) 3D Graphics
4 6 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (2.67%) Cyberattack
5 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.78%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.78%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.78%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.89%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.89%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.89%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.89%) Windows
2 6 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.22%) Linux
4 3 (1.33%) VMS
5 2 (0.89%) Android
5 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (30.67%) Business Intelligence
2 68 (30.22%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (28.44%) DevOps
4 62 (27.56%) ETL
5 46 (20.44%) Data Pipeline
6 43 (19.11%) Analytics
7 39 (17.33%) Agile
8 36 (16.00%) Software Engineering
9 33 (14.67%) CI/CD
9 33 (14.67%) Data Modelling
10 31 (13.78%) Data Engineering
11 28 (12.44%) Decision-Making
12 23 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (9.33%) Mentoring
14 19 (8.44%) Dimensional Modelling
15 18 (8.00%) AI
15 18 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (7.56%) Computer Science
16 17 (7.56%) Data Integration
17 15 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 218 (96.89%) SQL
2 51 (22.67%) Python
3 48 (21.33%) C#
4 24 (10.67%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.33%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.22%) PL/SQL
7 10 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.67%) Bash
9 3 (1.33%) Bicep
9 3 (1.33%) Java
9 3 (1.33%) PHP
9 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.33%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.89%) C++
10 2 (0.89%) Scala
10 2 (0.89%) VBA
11 1 (0.44%) Dart
11 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (14.67%) Degree
2 15 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.78%) ACCA
5 4 (1.78%) CIMA
5 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.89%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) MCITP
7 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.44%) QA
3 9 (4.00%) GDPR
4 6 (2.67%) NCSC
4 6 (2.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (6.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.22%) Docker
3 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 10 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.22%) Terraform
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 84 (37.33%) Microsoft
2 43 (19.11%) Databricks
3 18 (8.00%) Oracle
4 14 (6.22%) Sage
5 12 (5.33%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.56%) RedGate
7 5 (2.22%) Google
7 5 (2.22%) Zoho
8 4 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.78%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.78%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.78%) Informatica
8 4 (1.78%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.78%) Talend
9 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.33%) VMware
10 2 (0.89%) Aderant
10 2 (0.89%) iManage
10 2 (0.89%) Intapp
10 2 (0.89%) Lotus