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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 341 212
Rank change year-on-year -106 -129 +62
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 243 370 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.85% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.81% 2.45% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 158 259 1,025
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +1.82% -0.36%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £85,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +10.00%

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 13,393 15,089 29,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.21% 34.53% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,441 10,276 24,171
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,103
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -135 192 £47,500 -17.39% 107
UK excluding London -27 190 £42,500 -10.53% 99
Work from Home -55 132 £42,500 -24.11% 51
London -82 50 £70,000 +7.69% 32
Midlands -19 45 £47,500 +9.20% 19
Scotland +23 43 - - 8
South East -27 37 £35,000 -30.00% 23
North of England -40 35 £50,000 -4.76% 19
West Midlands +15 28 £42,500 -10.53% 12
Yorkshire -43 22 £37,500 -37.50% 7
South West -23 17 £42,500 +14.86% 22
East Midlands -47 17 £50,000 +16.28% 7
North West -19 10 £57,500 +17.95% 10
East of England -30 7 £49,000 +3.16% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -17 3 £51,000 -32.00% 2
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 15 (6.17%) IIS
2 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.65%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.65%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.23%) CMS
5 3 (1.23%) Confluence
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.82%) WordPress
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.12%) Magento
1 10 (4.12%) Shopify
2 9 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 145 (59.67%) Azure
2 67 (27.57%) Entra ID
3 57 (23.46%) Google Workspace
4 45 (18.52%) Power Platform
5 31 (12.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.23%) SaaS
8 17 (7.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (7.00%) GitHub
9 16 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (5.76%) AWS
10 14 (5.76%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (4.53%) PowerApps
12 10 (4.12%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.70%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.88%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.47%) GCP
16 5 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
18 3 (1.23%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 57 (23.46%) Broadband
2 3 (1.23%) DNS
3 2 (0.82%) DHCP
3 2 (0.82%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.82%) Firewall
3 2 (0.82%) SSL
3 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.82%) VLAN
3 2 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (47.74%) SQL Server
2 47 (19.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 44 (18.11%) Power BI
4 37 (15.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (10.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (8.23%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (5.76%) MySQL
8 13 (5.35%) Metadata
9 12 (4.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.88%) Power Query
12 5 (2.06%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.23%) GIS
13 3 (1.23%) Tableau
14 2 (0.82%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.82%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.82%) JIRA
2 13 (5.35%) Git
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.23%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (41.56%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.46%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (16.05%) Games
5 35 (14.40%) Finance
6 13 (5.35%) Back Office
7 9 (3.70%) Law
8 5 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.06%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.23%) Banking
10 3 (1.23%) Legal
10 3 (1.23%) Marketing
11 2 (0.82%) Front Office
11 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Automotive
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 62 (25.51%) Senior
2 56 (23.05%) Developer
3 50 (20.58%) Analyst
4 35 (14.40%) Support Analyst
5 32 (13.17%) Applications Support
6 31 (12.76%) Applications Support Analyst
7 27 (11.11%) Data Engineer
8 23 (9.47%) Senior Developer
9 22 (9.05%) IAM Developer
10 21 (8.64%) DBA
11 19 (7.82%) Software Engineer
12 18 (7.41%) SQL DBA
13 16 (6.58%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (6.17%) SQL Developer
15 13 (5.35%) IT Support
16 12 (4.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 12 (4.94%) C# Developer
16 12 (4.94%) IT Support Engineer
16 12 (4.94%) Software Support Engineer
16 12 (4.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (31.28%) REST
2 70 (28.81%) SOAP
3 58 (23.87%) OAuth
3 58 (23.87%) OpenID
4 57 (23.46%) GraphQL
4 57 (23.46%) LDAP
4 57 (23.46%) SAML
5 39 (16.05%) .NET
6 16 (6.58%) .NET Framework
7 15 (6.17%) JSON
7 15 (6.17%) XML
8 14 (5.76%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.76%) Entity Framework
9 12 (4.94%) WinForms
10 9 (3.70%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.70%) Middleware
11 8 (3.29%) CSS
11 8 (3.29%) HTML
12 6 (2.47%) DirectX
12 6 (2.47%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.46%) Cyber Threat
1 57 (23.46%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.70%) Clustering
6 8 (3.29%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.47%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.47%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.06%) Replication
9 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.23%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.82%) Derivative
11 2 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.05%) Windows
2 9 (3.70%) Linux
3 6 (2.47%) VMS
3 6 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.82%) Android
4 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.57%) Mentoring
2 65 (26.75%) Roadmaps
3 57 (23.46%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (23.46%) Identity Access Management
3 57 (23.46%) Programme Delivery
3 57 (23.46%) Regulatory Compliance
4 52 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (19.75%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (18.11%) Analytics
7 43 (17.70%) DevOps
8 42 (17.28%) Data Modelling
9 37 (15.23%) ETL
10 36 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (12.35%) Agile
12 30 (12.35%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (11.93%) CI/CD
13 29 (11.93%) Software Engineering
14 28 (11.52%) Change Control
15 26 (10.70%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 210 (86.42%) SQL
2 86 (35.39%) PowerShell
3 57 (23.46%) Bash
4 47 (19.34%) Python
5 43 (17.70%) C#
6 13 (5.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.88%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.06%) Java
9 5 (2.06%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.82%) Bicep
10 2 (0.82%) PHP
10 2 (0.82%) R
10 2 (0.82%) Scala
10 2 (0.82%) VBA
11 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (13.17%) Degree
2 14 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.29%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.82%) MCSE
6 1 (0.41%) ACCA
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.41%) CIMA
6 1 (0.41%) MCITP
6 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (23.46%) NCSC
1 57 (23.46%) NIST
2 40 (16.46%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.12%) QA
5 8 (3.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (27.98%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.65%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.29%) Terraform
2 6 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 77 (31.69%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.47%) Databricks
3 12 (4.94%) Sage
3 12 (4.94%) Xamarin
4 10 (4.12%) WooCommerce
5 9 (3.70%) ConnectWise
5 9 (3.70%) Oracle
5 9 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.06%) Google
6 5 (2.06%) Zoho
7 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.23%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.23%) RedGate
8 3 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) Citrix
9 2 (0.82%) Informatica
9 2 (0.82%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.82%) Talend
9 2 (0.82%) VMware
10 1 (0.41%) Siemens