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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 309 206
Rank change year-on-year -117 -103 +48
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 252 489 1,106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.95% 1.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.08% 2.81% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 179 282 970
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,892 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% -0.20% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,800 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%

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 12,109 17,432 27,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.86% 33.91% 37.70%
Number of salaries quoted 8,709 10,064 22,849
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -136 205 £50,000 -9.09% 160
UK excluding London -40 188 £47,500 - 174
Work from Home -52 127 £48,500 -7.62% 172
London -82 60 £80,000 +28.00% 64
Midlands -5 44 £50,000 +5.26% 15
South East +1 42 £40,000 -20.00% 50
Scotland +11 38 £37,500 -23.86% 31
North of England -27 33 £40,000 -16.23% 31
West Midlands +19 28 £42,500 -15.00% 7
Yorkshire -14 25 £25,000 -47.37% 7
South West -5 21 £50,000 +6.95% 22
East Midlands -12 16 £50,000 +11.11% 8
North West -6 5 £57,500 +17.95% 23
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
East of England -27 4 £42,175 -11.21% 18
North East -2 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 15 (5.95%) IIS
2 8 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.19%) CMS
4 3 (1.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.19%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.19%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) WordPress
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.78%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (2.78%) Magento
2 7 (2.78%) Shopify
3 2 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 143 (56.75%) Azure
2 55 (21.83%) Entra ID
3 47 (18.65%) Google Workspace
4 44 (17.46%) Power Platform
5 38 (15.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (7.14%) GitHub
7 18 (7.14%) SaaS
8 14 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (5.56%) PowerApps
9 13 (5.16%) AWS
9 13 (5.16%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (4.76%) Snowflake
11 9 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.17%) GCP
12 8 (3.17%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (1.98%) dbt
14 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (18.65%) Broadband
2 3 (1.19%) DNS
3 2 (0.79%) DHCP
3 2 (0.79%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.79%) Firewall
3 2 (0.79%) SSL
3 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.79%) VLAN
3 2 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (49.60%) SQL Server
2 51 (20.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 47 (18.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 43 (17.06%) Power BI
5 25 (9.92%) Data Lake
6 23 (9.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (6.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (5.56%) Metadata
10 13 (5.16%) MySQL
11 11 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (2.38%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.59%) OLAP
14 3 (1.19%) Data Mining
14 3 (1.19%) GIS
14 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.19%) Power Query
14 3 (1.19%) Tableau
15 2 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
15 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (6.35%) JIRA
2 15 (5.95%) Git
3 8 (3.17%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (1.98%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.59%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 107 (42.46%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.44%) Finance
3 47 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (18.65%) Organisational Skills
4 33 (13.10%) Games
5 11 (4.37%) Back Office
6 9 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.78%) Law
8 6 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.59%) Billing
9 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.19%) Banking
10 3 (1.19%) Legal
11 2 (0.79%) Front Office
11 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Marketing
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 69 (27.38%) Senior
2 64 (25.40%) Developer
3 43 (17.06%) Analyst
4 37 (14.68%) Data Engineer
5 34 (13.49%) Support Analyst
6 32 (12.70%) Applications Support
7 29 (11.51%) Applications Support Analyst
8 22 (8.73%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.33%) DBA
10 20 (7.94%) IAM Developer
10 20 (7.94%) Senior Data Engineer
10 20 (7.94%) Software Engineer
11 18 (7.14%) SQL DBA
12 15 (5.95%) SQL Developer
13 14 (5.56%) IT Support
14 13 (5.16%) IT Engineer
14 13 (5.16%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (5.16%) Support Engineer
15 12 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (26.59%) REST
2 60 (23.81%) SOAP
3 48 (19.05%) OAuth
3 48 (19.05%) OpenID
4 47 (18.65%) GraphQL
4 47 (18.65%) LDAP
4 47 (18.65%) SAML
5 38 (15.08%) .NET
6 16 (6.35%) .NET Framework
7 14 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 14 (5.56%) Entity Framework
8 13 (5.16%) CSS
8 13 (5.16%) HTML
8 13 (5.16%) JSON
8 13 (5.16%) XML
9 12 (4.76%) WinForms
10 10 (3.97%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.57%) Middleware
12 6 (2.38%) DirectX
12 6 (2.38%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.65%) Cyber Threat
1 47 (18.65%) Cyberattack
2 14 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.37%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.17%) Clustering
4 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.38%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 6 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.19%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.79%) Derivative
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.40%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.73%) Windows
2 10 (3.97%) Linux
3 6 (2.38%) VMS
3 6 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 55 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (21.83%) Roadmaps
3 54 (21.43%) ETL
4 49 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
5 47 (18.65%) Cybersecurity
5 47 (18.65%) Identity Access Management
5 47 (18.65%) Programme Delivery
5 47 (18.65%) Regulatory Compliance
6 45 (17.86%) DevOps
7 42 (16.67%) Analytics
8 41 (16.27%) Data Modelling
9 40 (15.87%) Data Pipeline
10 39 (15.48%) Agile
11 37 (14.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (13.89%) Software Engineering
13 34 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (12.70%) CI/CD
15 31 (12.30%) Data Engineering
16 24 (9.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 224 (88.89%) SQL
2 74 (29.37%) PowerShell
3 52 (20.63%) Python
4 47 (18.65%) Bash
5 44 (17.46%) C#
6 17 (6.75%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.56%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.38%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.19%) Bicep
10 3 (1.19%) Java
10 3 (1.19%) PHP
11 2 (0.79%) Scala
11 2 (0.79%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (13.49%) Degree
2 15 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.16%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.59%) ACCA
4 4 (1.59%) CIMA
4 4 (1.59%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.79%) MCSE
6 2 (0.79%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (18.65%) NCSC
1 47 (18.65%) NIST
2 34 (13.49%) Data Quality
3 27 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.97%) QA
5 8 (3.17%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 56 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.38%) Docker
3 2 (0.79%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 84 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.51%) Databricks
3 18 (7.14%) Oracle
4 13 (5.16%) Sage
5 12 (4.76%) Xamarin
6 7 (2.78%) ConnectWise
6 7 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.78%) WooCommerce
7 5 (1.98%) Google
7 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.98%) Zoho
8 4 (1.59%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.59%) RedGate
9 3 (1.19%) Informatica
9 3 (1.19%) Talend
10 2 (0.79%) Citrix
10 2 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) VMware
11 1 (0.40%) Concur
11 1 (0.40%) Workday