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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 348 220
Rank change year-on-year -119 -128 +56
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 240 341 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.80% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.74% 2.36% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 155 257 1,023
10th Percentile £29,000 £38,795 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £76,850
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 13,778 14,448 30,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.02% 34.07% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,646 10,243 24,384
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,640
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 £86,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +3.70% -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 22 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 22 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 -126 189 £47,500 -17.39% 107
UK excluding London -27 188 £42,500 -10.53% 99
Work from Home -35 131 £42,500 -24.11% 50
London -108 48 £70,000 +7.69% 31
Midlands -28 47 £45,000 +2.27% 15
Scotland +18 43 - - 10
North of England -53 35 £50,000 -9.09% 17
South East -29 34 £37,500 -24.61% 28
West Midlands +15 30 £42,500 -10.53% 9
Yorkshire -36 21 £40,000 -33.33% 5
East Midlands -51 17 £50,000 +14.94% 6
South West -25 16 £42,500 +14.86% 17
North West -26 11 £57,500 +17.95% 11
East of England -38 7 £49,000 +3.16% 12
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -27 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 13 (5.42%) IIS
2 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.67%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.67%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.25%) CMS
4 3 (1.25%) Confluence
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.83%) WordPress
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.17%) Magento
1 10 (4.17%) Shopify
2 9 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.75%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 143 (59.58%) Azure
2 67 (27.92%) Entra ID
3 57 (23.75%) Google Workspace
4 46 (19.17%) Power Platform
5 29 (12.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.92%) SaaS
8 17 (7.08%) GitHub
9 16 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (6.25%) AWS
10 15 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (4.58%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.75%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.75%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.50%) GCP
15 5 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
16 4 (1.67%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 57 (23.75%) Broadband
2 3 (1.25%) DNS
3 2 (0.83%) DHCP
3 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.83%) Firewall
3 2 (0.83%) SSL
3 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.83%) VLAN
3 2 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (47.08%) SQL Server
2 45 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 44 (18.33%) Power BI
4 38 (15.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (10.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (7.50%) Data Lake
7 13 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (5.42%) MySQL
8 12 (5.00%) Metadata
9 11 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (4.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (2.92%) Power Query
11 5 (2.08%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.25%) GIS
12 3 (1.25%) Tableau
13 2 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.83%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.92%) JIRA
2 12 (5.00%) Git
3 3 (1.25%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.25%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.75%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (16.25%) Games
5 33 (13.75%) Finance
6 13 (5.42%) Back Office
7 11 (4.58%) Law
8 6 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.67%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.25%) Banking
10 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.25%) Legal
10 3 (1.25%) Marketing
11 2 (0.83%) Front Office
11 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.83%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 59 (24.58%) Senior
2 57 (23.75%) Developer
3 52 (21.67%) Analyst
4 34 (14.17%) Support Analyst
5 31 (12.92%) Applications Support
6 30 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
7 25 (10.42%) Data Engineer
8 22 (9.17%) IAM Developer
8 22 (9.17%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.75%) DBA
10 18 (7.50%) SQL DBA
11 16 (6.67%) Software Engineer
11 16 (6.67%) SQL Developer
11 16 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (5.42%) C# Developer
13 12 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 12 (5.00%) Data Analyst
14 11 (4.58%) IT Support
14 11 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (4.58%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (32.08%) REST
2 70 (29.17%) SOAP
3 58 (24.17%) OAuth
3 58 (24.17%) OpenID
4 57 (23.75%) GraphQL
4 57 (23.75%) LDAP
4 57 (23.75%) SAML
5 39 (16.25%) .NET
6 16 (6.67%) XML
7 15 (6.25%) ASP.NET
7 15 (6.25%) JSON
8 14 (5.83%) .NET Framework
9 12 (5.00%) Entity Framework
10 10 (4.17%) WinForms
11 9 (3.75%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.75%) Middleware
12 7 (2.92%) CSS
12 7 (2.92%) HTML
13 6 (2.50%) DirectX
13 6 (2.50%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.75%) Cyber Threat
1 57 (23.75%) Cyberattack
2 17 (7.08%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.75%) Clustering
5 7 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.50%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.50%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.50%) Replication
7 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.25%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.83%) Derivative
9 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.33%) Windows
2 9 (3.75%) Linux
3 6 (2.50%) VMS
3 6 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Android
4 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.50%) Mentoring
1 66 (27.50%) Roadmaps
2 57 (23.75%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (23.75%) Identity Access Management
2 57 (23.75%) Programme Delivery
2 57 (23.75%) Regulatory Compliance
3 51 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 41 (17.08%) Analytics
5 41 (17.08%) Data Modelling
6 40 (16.67%) DevOps
7 36 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (15.00%) ETL
8 33 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (12.08%) CI/CD
10 28 (11.67%) Change Control
10 28 (11.67%) Data Pipeline
10 28 (11.67%) Decision-Making
11 27 (11.25%) Agile
12 26 (10.83%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 207 (86.25%) SQL
2 86 (35.83%) PowerShell
3 57 (23.75%) Bash
4 48 (20.00%) Python
5 42 (17.50%) C#
6 15 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.92%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.50%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.08%) Java
9 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.67%) R
11 2 (0.83%) Bicep
11 2 (0.83%) Scala
11 2 (0.83%) VBA
12 1 (0.42%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (12.92%) Degree
2 12 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.92%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.25%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.25%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.83%) MCSE
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.42%) MCITP
6 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (23.75%) NCSC
1 57 (23.75%) NIST
2 40 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.17%) QA
5 7 (2.92%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (28.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.25%) Docker
3 2 (0.83%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.33%) Terraform
2 5 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.17%) Databricks
3 10 (4.17%) Sage
3 10 (4.17%) WooCommerce
3 10 (4.17%) Xamarin
4 9 (3.75%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.33%) Oracle
6 4 (1.67%) Google
6 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.67%) Zoho
7 3 (1.25%) RedGate
7 3 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Citrix
8 2 (0.83%) Dataiku
8 2 (0.83%) Informatica
8 2 (0.83%) Rollbar
8 2 (0.83%) Talend
8 2 (0.83%) VMware
9 1 (0.42%) OpenAI