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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 372 291
Rank change year-on-year -186 -81 -50
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 215 358 821
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.73% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 2.49% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 174 284 645
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £68,438 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,375 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £54,784
% change year-on-year -2.91% -5.99% +4.35%

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 18,035 14,381 27,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 29.17% 30.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,831 9,549 20,016
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -189 199 £52,500 -8.70% 60
UK excluding London -150 154 £50,000 -2.91% 47
Work from Home -54 105 £53,499 -2.73% 31
London -80 52 £70,000 - 16
South East -29 46 £52,500 +16.67% 10
North of England -75 37 £47,500 -20.83% 14
North West +1 23 £47,500 -17.39% 6
Midlands -71 23 £45,000 -7.22% 8
South West -66 18 £50,000 +2.56% 9
East of England -27 17 £62,500 +51.52% 4
West Midlands -29 16 £44,000 -23.48% 8
Scotland +23 12 - - 1
Yorkshire -73 12 £45,000 -25.00% 5
East Midlands -59 7 £59,366 +26.99%
North East -54 2 £45,500 -13.33% 4
Northern Ireland -66 1 - -

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 18 (8.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.51%) IIS
3 7 (3.26%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (2.79%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.33%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.86%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.86%) JDE World
4 4 (1.86%) Magento
4 4 (1.86%) Shopify
5 3 (1.40%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.93%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.93%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.47%) FastStats
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 125 (58.14%) Azure
2 68 (31.63%) Power Platform
3 32 (14.88%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (12.56%) Entra ID
5 20 (9.30%) SaaS
6 19 (8.84%) AWS
6 19 (8.84%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (8.37%) Google Workspace
8 17 (7.91%) Power Automate
9 15 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (6.05%) PowerApps
11 12 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (4.19%) GitHub
13 8 (3.72%) Serverless
13 8 (3.72%) Snowflake
14 4 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (1.86%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.98%) Broadband
2 4 (1.86%) Firewall
3 3 (1.40%) DNS
3 3 (1.40%) VLAN
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (60.47%) SQL Server
2 56 (26.05%) Power BI
3 47 (21.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 44 (20.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (7.44%) Power Query
6 15 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (4.19%) MySQL
8 9 (4.19%) Relational Database
8 9 (4.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (2.79%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.33%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.40%) Db2
11 3 (1.40%) WhereScape RED
12 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.93%) MS Access
12 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (11.16%) Git
2 15 (6.98%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.58%) JIRA
4 10 (4.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.93%) Postman
5 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.47%) Yeoman
General
1 69 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 52 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.42%) Finance
4 22 (10.23%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (9.30%) Law
6 11 (5.12%) Legal
7 9 (4.19%) Games
8 7 (3.26%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.79%) Retail
10 5 (2.33%) Back Office
10 5 (2.33%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.40%) Billing
11 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.40%) Marketing
12 2 (0.93%) Automotive
12 2 (0.93%) Local Government
13 1 (0.47%) Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.47%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 86 (40.00%) Developer
2 39 (18.14%) Analyst
2 39 (18.14%) Senior
3 20 (9.30%) Applications Support
4 19 (8.84%) .NET Developer
4 19 (8.84%) SQL Developer
5 18 (8.37%) Software Developer
6 17 (7.91%) DBA
7 16 (7.44%) Senior Developer
8 15 (6.98%) Data Analyst
8 15 (6.98%) SQL DBA
9 14 (6.51%) Applications Support Analyst
9 14 (6.51%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 14 (6.51%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) SQL Server DBA
10 12 (5.58%) Support Analyst
11 10 (4.65%) Lead
11 10 (4.65%) SQL Analyst
11 10 (4.65%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.72%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (28.37%) .NET
2 31 (14.42%) REST
3 25 (11.63%) SOAP
4 18 (8.37%) GraphQL
4 18 (8.37%) LDAP
4 18 (8.37%) OAuth
4 18 (8.37%) OpenID
4 18 (8.37%) SAML
5 16 (7.44%) HTML
5 16 (7.44%) JSON
6 15 (6.98%) CSS
7 14 (6.51%) .NET Core
7 14 (6.51%) ASP.NET
8 13 (6.05%) XML
9 9 (4.19%) .NET Framework
9 9 (4.19%) Kafka
9 9 (4.19%) WinForms
10 8 (3.72%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (3.72%) Blazor
10 8 (3.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.84%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (6.98%) Cyber Threat
2 15 (6.98%) Cyberattack
3 13 (6.05%) Data Structures
3 13 (6.05%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (5.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (5.12%) Replication
5 10 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.79%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.33%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.86%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.86%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.40%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.40%) LIMS
10 3 (1.40%) NHS
10 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.37%) Windows
2 9 (4.19%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.16%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (27.91%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (23.26%) Performance Tuning
4 43 (20.00%) DevOps
5 40 (18.60%) Data Modelling
6 36 (16.74%) CI/CD
6 36 (16.74%) ETL
7 35 (16.28%) Agile
8 33 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (14.88%) Roadmaps
10 30 (13.95%) Analytics
10 30 (13.95%) Mentoring
11 22 (10.23%) Validation
12 21 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (8.37%) Decision-Making
13 18 (8.37%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (8.37%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (8.37%) Secure Coding
14 17 (7.91%) AI
Programming Languages
1 206 (95.81%) SQL
2 62 (28.84%) C#
3 52 (24.19%) PowerShell
4 36 (16.74%) Python
5 23 (10.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (8.37%) Bash
7 16 (7.44%) JavaScript
8 11 (5.12%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.19%) VBScript
10 7 (3.26%) VBA
11 5 (2.33%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.86%) Delphi
12 4 (1.86%) R
12 4 (1.86%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.40%) Java
14 2 (0.93%) VB
15 1 (0.47%) Bicep
15 1 (0.47%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (7.91%) Degree
2 5 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (1.40%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.88%) Data Quality
2 22 (10.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (8.37%) NIST
4 17 (7.91%) QA
5 15 (6.98%) NCSC
6 7 (3.26%) SLA
7 3 (1.40%) GDPR
8 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.47%) HL7
9 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.86%) Docker
3 3 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.33%) Terraform
1 5 (2.33%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.47%) SCCM
3 1 (0.47%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 76 (35.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.12%) Oracle
3 10 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.72%) iManage
5 7 (3.26%) SAP
6 6 (2.79%) IFS
6 6 (2.79%) Infor
6 6 (2.79%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.33%) Databricks
7 5 (2.33%) RedGate
7 5 (2.33%) Remedy
8 4 (1.86%) Epicor
8 4 (1.86%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.86%) WooCommerce
9 3 (1.40%) ConnectWise
9 3 (1.40%) Google
9 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.40%) Veeam
9 3 (1.40%) VMware
10 2 (0.93%) Rollbar