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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 343 227
Rank change year-on-year -120 -116 +51
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 242 334 1,209
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.82% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.63% 2.45% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 156 273 1,009
10th Percentile £29,250 £39,010 £37,250
25th Percentile £40,938 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,625 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,999 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% -11.82% +6.80%

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 14,811 13,624 31,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.87% 33.33% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,236 10,241 24,982
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,691 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +3.07% +1.85% -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 9 April 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 9 April 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
UK excluding London -59 191 £47,500 -2.06% 91
England -151 191 £48,500 -15.65% 98
Work from Home -31 135 £47,500 -15.18% 47
Midlands -39 49 £48,500 - 19
London -105 46 £57,500 -11.54% 23
Scotland +28 42 - - 8
North of England -92 33 £51,000 -15.00% 16
South East -23 31 £42,500 -14.55% 23
West Midlands -7 30 £42,500 -22.73% 8
East Midlands -66 19 £59,000 +24.21% 11
Yorkshire -72 19 £47,000 -21.67% 6
South West -30 18 £42,500 +6.25% 14
East of England -45 12 £62,500 +31.58% 10
North West -37 11 £60,000 +26.32% 9
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -33 3 £51,000 -11.30% 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 10 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.72%) IIS
2 9 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.65%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.65%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.24%) Confluence
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.83%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) WordPress
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.13%) Magento
1 10 (4.13%) Shopify
2 9 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.72%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (1.24%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.41%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.41%) JDE OneWorld
4 1 (0.41%) JDE World
4 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 145 (59.92%) Azure
2 67 (27.69%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.14%) Google Workspace
4 54 (22.31%) Power Platform
5 30 (12.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.44%) AWS
7 18 (7.44%) SaaS
8 17 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (6.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (6.20%) GitHub
9 15 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (5.37%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.96%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.31%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.07%) GCP
15 5 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.65%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.14%) Broadband
2 3 (1.24%) DNS
2 3 (1.24%) Firewall
3 2 (0.83%) DHCP
3 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.83%) SSL
3 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.83%) VLAN
3 2 (0.83%) Wireless
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) Network Security
4 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (48.35%) SQL Server
2 52 (21.49%) Power BI
3 42 (17.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (16.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 29 (11.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (7.44%) Data Lake
7 13 (5.37%) Metadata
7 13 (5.37%) MySQL
7 13 (5.37%) Power Query
8 12 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (4.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (3.31%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.65%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.65%) Tableau
13 3 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.83%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (7.85%) JIRA
2 12 (4.96%) Git
3 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.24%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.41%) Yeoman
General
1 93 (38.43%) Social Skills
2 59 (24.38%) Organisational Skills
3 48 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.70%) Finance
4 38 (15.70%) Games
5 12 (4.96%) Back Office
5 12 (4.96%) Law
6 6 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.48%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.48%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.07%) Legal
8 3 (1.24%) Banking
8 3 (1.24%) Marketing
8 3 (1.24%) Retail
9 2 (0.83%) Front Office
9 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Automotive
10 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.41%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 61 (25.21%) Developer
2 57 (23.55%) Senior
3 54 (22.31%) Analyst
4 31 (12.81%) Support Analyst
5 28 (11.57%) Applications Support
6 27 (11.16%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.50%) Senior Developer
8 22 (9.09%) DBA
9 21 (8.68%) IAM Developer
10 20 (8.26%) Data Engineer
10 20 (8.26%) SQL DBA
11 16 (6.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 16 (6.61%) Systems Engineer
12 14 (5.79%) SQL Developer
13 13 (5.37%) C# Developer
13 13 (5.37%) Data Analyst
14 12 (4.96%) SQL Analyst
15 11 (4.55%) Architect
16 10 (4.13%) Senior Analyst
16 10 (4.13%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.99%) REST
2 69 (28.51%) SOAP
3 57 (23.55%) OAuth
3 57 (23.55%) OpenID
4 56 (23.14%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.14%) LDAP
4 56 (23.14%) SAML
5 40 (16.53%) .NET
6 15 (6.20%) ASP.NET
6 15 (6.20%) XML
7 14 (5.79%) JSON
8 11 (4.55%) .NET Framework
9 10 (4.13%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.72%) Entity Framework
10 9 (3.72%) Middleware
10 9 (3.72%) PySpark
11 8 (3.31%) CSS
11 8 (3.31%) HTML
12 7 (2.89%) WinForms
13 6 (2.48%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.14%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.14%) Cyberattack
2 17 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.13%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.72%) Clustering
6 8 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.31%) Replication
7 6 (2.48%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.48%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.48%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.65%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.83%) Derivative
11 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.02%) Windows
2 9 (3.72%) Linux
3 7 (2.89%) VMS
4 6 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.83%) Android
5 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (28.10%) Mentoring
2 67 (27.69%) Roadmaps
3 58 (23.97%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (23.14%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (23.14%) Identity Access Management
4 56 (23.14%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (23.14%) Programme Delivery
4 56 (23.14%) Regulatory Compliance
5 48 (19.83%) Analytics
6 47 (19.42%) Data Modelling
7 39 (16.12%) ETL
8 38 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (13.64%) DevOps
9 33 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (11.98%) Decision-Making
11 28 (11.57%) Agile
11 28 (11.57%) Change Control
11 28 (11.57%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (11.16%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 209 (86.36%) SQL
2 83 (34.30%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.14%) Bash
4 47 (19.42%) Python
5 42 (17.36%) C#
6 21 (8.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.89%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.48%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.07%) Java
9 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.65%) R
11 3 (1.24%) VBA
12 2 (0.83%) Bicep
12 2 (0.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.41%) Delphi
13 1 (0.41%) PHP
13 1 (0.41%) VB
13 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (11.98%) Degree
2 9 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.48%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.83%) MCSE
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.41%) MCITP
7 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.14%) NCSC
1 56 (23.14%) NIST
2 42 (17.36%) Data Quality
3 36 (14.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.96%) QA
5 6 (2.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) HL7
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (28.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.65%) Docker
3 2 (0.83%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.89%) Terraform
2 5 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.41%) SCCM
3 1 (0.41%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (30.99%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.68%) Databricks
3 10 (4.13%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.72%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.31%) Oracle
6 6 (2.48%) Sage
6 6 (2.48%) Xamarin
7 5 (2.07%) RedGate
8 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.24%) Infor
9 3 (1.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.24%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.24%) Zoho
10 2 (0.83%) Google
10 2 (0.83%) IFS
10 2 (0.83%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.83%) SAP
10 2 (0.83%) Talend
10 2 (0.83%) VMware