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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 370 328
Rank change year-on-year -224 -42 -117
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 205 333 617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.68% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 2.57% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 174 264 376
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £36,968
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,375 £82,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,625 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.64% +1.25% -4.76%

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 18,747 12,982 23,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.14% 26.43% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 13,231 8,387 14,929
10th Percentile £38,920 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 21 September 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 15 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 21 September 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 -207 195 £60,000 +9.09% 202
UK excluding London -199 137 £55,000 +8.64% 123
Work from Home -78 86 £62,500 +19.05% 83
London -91 60 £70,000 -12.50% 100
South East -57 52 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North of England -108 31 £60,000 - 35
East of England -43 18 £62,500 +54.32% 18
North West -32 17 £60,000 +4.35% 27
South West -79 16 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Midlands -91 14 £59,366 +10.58% 21
Yorkshire -71 13 £60,500 +0.83% 8
West Midlands -66 10 £50,000 -13.04% 20
Scotland +9 6 £85,000 +78.95% 9
East Midlands -52 4 £59,732 +23.16% 1
North East -66 1 £47,500 -9.52%

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 14 (6.83%) IIS
2 12 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 12 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.93%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.44%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.95%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.95%) JDE World
4 3 (1.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.98%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.98%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.49%) FastStats
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 117 (57.07%) Azure
2 64 (31.22%) Power Platform
3 41 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.78%) Power Automate
5 17 (8.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (7.32%) AWS
7 14 (6.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (6.83%) SaaS
8 12 (5.85%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (5.37%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.39%) GitHub
10 9 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.39%) Serverless
11 8 (3.90%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.90%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (2.44%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.95%) dbt
14 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.95%) Firewall
2 3 (1.46%) DNS
2 3 (1.46%) VLAN
3 2 (0.98%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (64.39%) SQL Server
2 53 (25.85%) Power BI
3 48 (23.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 36 (17.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 26 (12.68%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (7.80%) Power Query
7 15 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (5.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (4.39%) Star Schema
10 8 (3.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.90%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.41%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.44%) Metadata
13 4 (1.95%) Db2
13 4 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (1.95%) WhereScape RED
14 3 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.46%) Big Data
14 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (11.71%) Git
2 15 (7.32%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.93%) JIRA
5 2 (0.98%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.49%) Yeoman
General
1 64 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.10%) Finance
4 17 (8.29%) Law
5 15 (7.32%) Legal
6 8 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.95%) Retail
9 3 (1.46%) Back Office
9 3 (1.46%) Billing
9 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.98%) Automotive
10 2 (0.98%) Banking
10 2 (0.98%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Police
11 1 (0.49%) Publishing
11 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 98 (47.80%) Developer
2 43 (20.98%) Senior
3 25 (12.20%) .NET Developer
4 24 (11.71%) Analyst
5 20 (9.76%) Senior Developer
5 20 (9.76%) Software Developer
5 20 (9.76%) SQL Developer
6 18 (8.78%) Data Engineer
7 16 (7.80%) DBA
7 16 (7.80%) SQL DBA
8 14 (6.83%) SQL Server DBA
9 13 (6.34%) Applications Support
10 12 (5.85%) Lead
11 10 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (4.88%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.39%) Applications Developer
13 8 (3.90%) Business Developer
13 8 (3.90%) Database Engineer
13 8 (3.90%) Software Support Engineer
14 7 (3.41%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (33.17%) .NET
2 15 (7.32%) .NET Core
2 15 (7.32%) REST
3 14 (6.83%) HTML
4 13 (6.34%) CSS
5 12 (5.85%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.37%) JSON
7 10 (4.88%) .NET Framework
8 9 (4.39%) React
8 9 (4.39%) SOAP
8 9 (4.39%) WinForms
9 8 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (3.90%) Blazor
9 8 (3.90%) PySpark
9 8 (3.90%) XML
10 7 (3.41%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.41%) Entity Framework
10 7 (3.41%) jQuery
10 7 (3.41%) Kafka
11 6 (2.93%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.39%) Replication
4 9 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.93%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.44%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.95%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.46%) NHS
9 3 (1.46%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.98%) LIMS
10 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.98%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.76%) Windows
2 11 (5.37%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.98%) Linux
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (40.49%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (27.32%) Business Intelligence
3 54 (26.34%) DevOps
4 47 (22.93%) Performance Tuning
5 43 (20.98%) CI/CD
5 43 (20.98%) ETL
6 36 (17.56%) Data Modelling
7 35 (17.07%) Agile
8 32 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (13.66%) Analytics
10 21 (10.24%) SDLC
10 21 (10.24%) Software Engineering
11 20 (9.76%) AI
12 19 (9.27%) Mentoring
12 19 (9.27%) Root Cause Analysis
12 19 (9.27%) Secure Coding
13 17 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (7.80%) Data Engineering
14 16 (7.80%) Data Integration
14 16 (7.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 204 (99.51%) SQL
2 69 (33.66%) C#
3 37 (18.05%) PowerShell
4 32 (15.61%) Python
5 20 (9.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (8.78%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.34%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.39%) VBScript
9 8 (3.90%) Delphi
9 8 (3.90%) VBA
10 6 (2.93%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.95%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.46%) Bash
12 3 (1.46%) XPath
13 2 (0.98%) Bicep
13 2 (0.98%) VB
14 1 (0.49%) Java
14 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (7.32%) Degree
2 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 5 (2.44%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.95%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.46%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.61%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.80%) QA
3 11 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.93%) SLA
5 5 (2.44%) NIST
6 2 (0.98%) GDPR
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.49%) HL7
7 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.44%) Docker
3 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.44%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.49%) SCCM
3 1 (0.49%) SCOM
3 1 (0.49%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 85 (41.46%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.32%) Oracle
3 9 (4.39%) iManage
4 8 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.41%) SAP
6 6 (2.93%) Infor
6 6 (2.93%) JD Edwards
6 6 (2.93%) RedGate
7 5 (2.44%) IFS
7 5 (2.44%) Intapp
7 5 (2.44%) Remedy
8 4 (1.95%) Databricks
8 4 (1.95%) Epicor
8 4 (1.95%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.95%) Teradata
9 3 (1.46%) Google
9 3 (1.46%) Veeam
9 3 (1.46%) VMware
10 2 (0.98%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.98%) OpenAI