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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 299 216
Rank change year-on-year -118 -83 +36
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 253 498 1,020
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.96% 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 2.82% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 180 289 889
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £66,250 £65,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £83,650 £83,249 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.47% +0.50%

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 12,098 17,652 26,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.97% 33.97% 38.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,698 10,254 21,889
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 31 January 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 31 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 -138 206 £50,000 -9.09% 157
UK excluding London -35 190 £48,000 +1.05% 167
Work from Home -55 127 £48,500 -7.62% 162
London -88 59 £80,000 +28.00% 65
Midlands -4 45 £50,000 +5.26% 19
South East +5 42 £40,000 -20.00% 51
Scotland +14 38 £37,500 -18.48% 25
North of England -23 34 £40,000 -15.79% 29
West Midlands +19 29 £43,750 -12.50% 8
Yorkshire -4 26 £25,000 -46.20% 7
South West -4 21 £50,000 +5.26% 21
East Midlands -18 16 £50,000 +11.11% 11
North West -9 5 £57,500 +21.05% 21
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
East of England -21 4 £42,175 -11.21% 17
North East +1 3 £51,000 -32.00% 1
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 16 (6.32%) IIS
2 9 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.19%) CMS
4 3 (1.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.19%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.19%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) WordPress
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.40%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.77%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (2.77%) Magento
2 7 (2.77%) Shopify
3 2 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 142 (56.13%) Azure
2 53 (20.95%) Entra ID
3 46 (18.18%) Google Workspace
4 44 (17.39%) Power Platform
5 39 (15.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (7.11%) GitHub
8 17 (6.72%) SaaS
9 14 (5.53%) PowerApps
10 13 (5.14%) AWS
10 13 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (5.14%) Snowflake
11 10 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.16%) GCP
12 8 (3.16%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.77%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (1.98%) Azure Functions
14 5 (1.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (18.18%) Broadband
2 3 (1.19%) DNS
3 2 (0.79%) DHCP
3 2 (0.79%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.79%) Firewall
3 2 (0.79%) SSL
3 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.79%) VLAN
3 2 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (49.80%) SQL Server
2 51 (20.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 49 (19.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 43 (17.00%) Power BI
5 25 (9.88%) Data Lake
6 23 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (7.91%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (6.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (5.53%) Metadata
10 12 (4.74%) MySQL
11 10 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (2.37%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.58%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.58%) OLAP
14 3 (1.19%) GIS
14 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.19%) Power Query
14 3 (1.19%) Tableau
15 2 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
15 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (6.32%) JIRA
2 15 (5.93%) Git
3 8 (3.16%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (1.98%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.58%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 107 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.37%) Finance
3 48 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
5 33 (13.04%) Games
6 11 (4.35%) Back Office
7 9 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.77%) Law
8 7 (2.77%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.58%) Billing
10 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.58%) Legal
11 3 (1.19%) Banking
12 2 (0.79%) Front Office
12 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.79%) Marketing
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 69 (27.27%) Senior
2 64 (25.30%) Developer
3 43 (17.00%) Analyst
4 37 (14.62%) Data Engineer
5 34 (13.44%) Support Analyst
6 32 (12.65%) Applications Support
7 29 (11.46%) Applications Support Analyst
8 22 (8.70%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.30%) DBA
10 20 (7.91%) Senior Data Engineer
10 20 (7.91%) Software Engineer
11 19 (7.51%) IAM Developer
12 18 (7.11%) SQL DBA
13 15 (5.93%) SQL Developer
14 14 (5.53%) IT Support
15 13 (5.14%) IT Engineer
15 13 (5.14%) IT Support Engineer
15 13 (5.14%) Support Engineer
16 12 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (4.74%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (26.09%) REST
2 59 (23.32%) SOAP
3 47 (18.58%) OAuth
3 47 (18.58%) OpenID
4 46 (18.18%) GraphQL
4 46 (18.18%) LDAP
4 46 (18.18%) SAML
5 39 (15.42%) .NET
6 16 (6.32%) .NET Framework
7 15 (5.93%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.53%) Entity Framework
9 13 (5.14%) CSS
9 13 (5.14%) HTML
9 13 (5.14%) JSON
9 13 (5.14%) XML
10 12 (4.74%) WinForms
11 10 (3.95%) .NET Core
12 9 (3.56%) Middleware
13 6 (2.37%) DirectX
13 6 (2.37%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
1 46 (18.18%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.14%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.16%) Clustering
4 8 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.37%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.37%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.58%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.19%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.79%) Derivative
9 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.70%) Windows
2 10 (3.95%) Linux
3 6 (2.37%) VMS
3 6 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.51%) Mentoring
2 57 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (22.13%) ETL
4 54 (21.34%) Roadmaps
5 50 (19.76%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 46 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
6 46 (18.18%) Programme Delivery
6 46 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
7 45 (17.79%) DevOps
8 43 (17.00%) Analytics
9 41 (16.21%) Data Modelling
10 40 (15.81%) Data Pipeline
11 39 (15.42%) Agile
12 36 (14.23%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (13.83%) Software Engineering
14 34 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (12.65%) CI/CD
16 31 (12.25%) Data Engineering
17 25 (9.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 225 (88.93%) SQL
2 72 (28.46%) PowerShell
3 52 (20.55%) Python
4 46 (18.18%) Bash
5 45 (17.79%) C#
6 17 (6.72%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.53%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.37%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.19%) Bicep
10 3 (1.19%) Java
10 3 (1.19%) PHP
11 2 (0.79%) Scala
11 2 (0.79%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) R
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (13.44%) Degree
2 15 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.14%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.58%) ACCA
4 4 (1.58%) CIMA
4 4 (1.58%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.79%) MCSE
6 2 (0.79%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (18.18%) NCSC
1 46 (18.18%) NIST
2 34 (13.44%) Data Quality
3 25 (9.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.35%) QA
5 8 (3.16%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 54 (21.34%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.37%) Docker
3 2 (0.79%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (33.99%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.86%) Databricks
3 19 (7.51%) Oracle
4 13 (5.14%) Sage
5 12 (4.74%) Xamarin
6 7 (2.77%) ConnectWise
6 7 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.77%) WooCommerce
7 5 (1.98%) Google
7 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.98%) Zoho
8 4 (1.58%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.58%) RedGate
9 3 (1.19%) Informatica
9 3 (1.19%) Talend
10 2 (0.79%) Citrix
10 2 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) VMware
11 1 (0.40%) Concur
11 1 (0.40%) Workday