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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 376 263
Rank change year-on-year -156 -113 -17
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 229 350 1,061
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.73% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.31% 2.44% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 168 280 844
10th Percentile £40,875 £39,658 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,875 £44,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.44% -0.43%
75th Percentile £69,063 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,625 £51,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.35% -6.59% +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 17,468 14,328 33,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 29.86% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12,425 9,537 24,909
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,440 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 6 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 6 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 -165 203 £52,500 -8.70% 74
UK excluding London -112 163 £48,625 -5.35% 64
Work from Home -33 124 £52,500 -4.55% 44
London -73 58 £70,000 - 24
South East -19 46 £49,125 +9.17% 24
North of England -75 35 £47,500 -20.83% 23
Midlands -56 25 £45,000 -7.22% 4
Scotland +28 22 - - 3
North West -15 22 £53,750 - 16
South West -61 21 £48,750 - 5
West Midlands -30 17 £44,000 -23.48% 2
East of England -26 13 £62,500 +48.81% 5
Yorkshire -58 11 £45,000 -25.00% 6
East Midlands -48 8 £59,000 +24.21% 2
North East -50 2 £45,500 -17.27% 1
Northern Ireland -48 1 - - 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 20 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.11%) IIS
3 7 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) JBoss
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.06%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.62%) Infor M3
4 5 (2.18%) Magento
4 5 (2.18%) Shopify
5 4 (1.75%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.75%) JDE World
5 4 (1.75%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.87%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.87%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.44%) FastStats
7 1 (0.44%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 146 (63.76%) Azure
2 68 (29.69%) Power Platform
3 50 (21.83%) Entra ID
4 39 (17.03%) Google Workspace
5 26 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.61%) SaaS
7 21 (9.17%) AWS
8 20 (8.73%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (7.42%) Power Automate
10 14 (6.11%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (5.68%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.93%) GitHub
13 8 (3.49%) Serverless
14 7 (3.06%) Snowflake
15 5 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
16 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.72%) Broadband
2 4 (1.75%) Firewall
3 3 (1.31%) DNS
3 3 (1.31%) VLAN
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (52.84%) SQL Server
2 56 (24.45%) Power BI
3 49 (21.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 48 (20.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (6.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.55%) Power Query
7 14 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (4.80%) MySQL
9 11 (4.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.49%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.18%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.18%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.87%) Metadata
13 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.87%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 22 (9.61%) Git
2 14 (6.11%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.24%) JIRA
4 10 (4.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.87%) Postman
5 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 76 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.27%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (18.78%) Organisational Skills
4 30 (13.10%) Finance
5 20 (8.73%) Law
6 19 (8.30%) Games
7 10 (4.37%) Legal
8 7 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.62%) Back Office
9 6 (2.62%) Retail
10 5 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Marketing
11 4 (1.75%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.31%) Billing
12 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.87%) Automotive
13 2 (0.87%) Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Advertising
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (36.68%) Developer
2 47 (20.52%) Senior
3 43 (18.78%) Analyst
4 20 (8.73%) Applications Support
5 17 (7.42%) Data Analyst
5 17 (7.42%) Senior Developer
5 17 (7.42%) Software Developer
5 17 (7.42%) SQL Developer
6 16 (6.99%) Applications Support Analyst
6 16 (6.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 15 (6.55%) IAM Developer
7 15 (6.55%) Support Analyst
7 15 (6.55%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (6.11%) .NET Developer
8 14 (6.11%) Data Engineer
8 14 (6.11%) DBA
9 12 (5.24%) SQL Analyst
9 12 (5.24%) SQL DBA
10 10 (4.37%) Database Engineer
10 10 (4.37%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (24.89%) .NET
2 51 (22.27%) REST
3 45 (19.65%) SOAP
4 39 (17.03%) GraphQL
4 39 (17.03%) LDAP
4 39 (17.03%) OAuth
4 39 (17.03%) OpenID
4 39 (17.03%) SAML
5 17 (7.42%) HTML
5 17 (7.42%) JSON
6 16 (6.99%) ASP.NET
6 16 (6.99%) CSS
7 14 (6.11%) XML
8 13 (5.68%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.93%) Blazor
9 9 (3.93%) Kafka
9 9 (3.93%) React
10 8 (3.49%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (3.06%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (3.06%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.72%) Cyber Threat
1 36 (15.72%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.86%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.11%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (4.80%) Replication
6 9 (3.93%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.18%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.18%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.75%) Clustering
8 4 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.31%) LIMS
9 3 (1.31%) NHS
9 3 (1.31%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.55%) Windows
2 9 (3.93%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (27.07%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (21.83%) Mentoring
3 50 (21.83%) Roadmaps
4 49 (21.40%) Performance Tuning
5 42 (18.34%) Data Modelling
6 39 (17.03%) Cybersecurity
6 39 (17.03%) Identity Access Management
7 37 (16.16%) DevOps
7 37 (16.16%) ETL
8 36 (15.72%) Programme Delivery
8 36 (15.72%) Regulatory Compliance
9 35 (15.28%) Agile
9 35 (15.28%) CI/CD
10 31 (13.54%) Analytics
11 30 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (10.48%) Validation
14 21 (9.17%) Change Control
15 18 (7.86%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 210 (91.70%) SQL
2 72 (31.44%) PowerShell
3 59 (25.76%) C#
4 39 (17.03%) Bash
4 39 (17.03%) Python
5 22 (9.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 17 (7.42%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.80%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.93%) VBScript
9 7 (3.06%) VBA
10 6 (2.62%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.75%) Java
11 4 (1.75%) R
12 3 (1.31%) Delphi
12 3 (1.31%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.87%) VB
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (8.30%) Degree
2 3 (1.31%) DBS Check
2 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (1.31%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (0.87%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (17.03%) NIST
2 36 (15.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (15.72%) NCSC
3 34 (14.85%) Data Quality
4 17 (7.42%) QA
5 4 (1.75%) GDPR
5 4 (1.75%) SLA
6 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (25.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Docker
3 3 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.75%) Terraform
2 2 (0.87%) ZABBIX
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.44%) SCCM
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 79 (34.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.49%) iManage
2 8 (3.49%) Oracle
3 7 (3.06%) SAP
3 7 (3.06%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.62%) Databricks
4 6 (2.62%) IFS
4 6 (2.62%) Infor
5 5 (2.18%) JD Edwards
5 5 (2.18%) WooCommerce
6 4 (1.75%) ConnectWise
6 4 (1.75%) Epicor
6 4 (1.75%) RedGate
6 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.31%) Google
7 3 (1.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.31%) Veeam
7 3 (1.31%) VMware
8 2 (0.87%) Remedy