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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 365 259
Rank change year-on-year -145 -106 +1
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 228 352 1,132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.79% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 2.52% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 151 271 908
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +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 16,544 13,968 34,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.45% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,653 9,191 25,656
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -168 193 £50,000 -13.04% 66
UK excluding London -113 165 £47,500 -8.65% 59
Work from Home -12 130 £47,500 -13.64% 49
London -70 56 £65,000 -7.14% 22
South East -16 38 £45,000 - 19
North of England -75 36 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Scotland +36 29 - - 4
Midlands -47 26 £45,000 -7.22% 3
North West +3 21 £60,000 +23.08% 9
South West -53 20 £47,500 -2.56% 6
West Midlands -28 17 £44,000 -23.48% 2
East of England -30 13 £62,500 +48.81% 7
Yorkshire -69 13 £45,000 -25.00% 2
East Midlands -44 9 £59,000 +22.92% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4
North East -43 2 £45,500 -17.27% 4

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 18 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.82%) IIS
3 8 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.88%) 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 15 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.95%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (3.07%) Magento
3 7 (3.07%) Shopify
4 6 (2.63%) Infor M3
5 4 (1.75%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.75%) JDE World
5 4 (1.75%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.88%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.44%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 143 (62.72%) Azure
2 66 (28.95%) Power Platform
3 62 (27.19%) Entra ID
4 52 (22.81%) Google Workspace
5 23 (10.09%) AWS
6 21 (9.21%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (9.21%) SaaS
7 19 (8.33%) Power Automate
8 18 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (7.46%) PowerApps
10 16 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (6.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.39%) GitHub
14 8 (3.51%) Serverless
14 8 (3.51%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 49 (21.49%) Broadband
2 3 (1.32%) Firewall
3 2 (0.88%) DNS
3 2 (0.88%) 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
1 114 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 59 (25.88%) Power BI
3 47 (20.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (17.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (7.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (7.02%) Power Query
7 12 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.82%) MySQL
9 10 (4.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.51%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.63%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.19%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.32%) Metadata
14 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
15 1 (0.44%) Delta Lake
15 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (6.14%) Git
1 14 (6.14%) JIRA
2 9 (3.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 9 (3.95%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 82 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.56%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (14.04%) Finance
5 26 (11.40%) Games
6 18 (7.89%) Law
7 10 (4.39%) Legal
8 7 (3.07%) Back Office
9 6 (2.63%) Retail
10 5 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.32%) Billing
12 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.32%) Marketing
12 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.88%) Automotive
13 2 (0.88%) Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Advertising
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (35.09%) Developer
2 52 (22.81%) Senior
3 45 (19.74%) Analyst
4 20 (8.77%) IAM Developer
4 20 (8.77%) Senior Developer
5 19 (8.33%) Applications Support
6 18 (7.89%) Support Analyst
7 17 (7.46%) Applications Support Analyst
8 16 (7.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (7.02%) Data Analyst
8 16 (7.02%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (6.58%) Software Developer
9 15 (6.58%) SQL Developer
10 13 (5.70%) Database Engineer
10 13 (5.70%) DBA
11 12 (5.26%) SQL Analyst
12 11 (4.82%) Data Engineer
12 11 (4.82%) SQL DBA
13 10 (4.39%) .NET Developer
14 9 (3.95%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (28.51%) REST
2 60 (26.32%) SOAP
3 52 (22.81%) GraphQL
3 52 (22.81%) LDAP
3 52 (22.81%) OAuth
3 52 (22.81%) OpenID
3 52 (22.81%) SAML
4 47 (20.61%) .NET
5 15 (6.58%) ASP.NET
6 14 (6.14%) HTML
7 13 (5.70%) CSS
7 13 (5.70%) JSON
8 12 (5.26%) XML
9 11 (4.82%) React
10 10 (4.39%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.95%) Blazor
11 9 (3.95%) Kafka
12 6 (2.63%) Middleware
12 6 (2.63%) PySpark
13 5 (2.19%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.49%) Cyber Threat
1 49 (21.49%) Cyberattack
2 14 (6.14%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.82%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.82%) Replication
4 9 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.63%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.63%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.19%) Clustering
9 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.75%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.70%) Windows
2 8 (3.51%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.88%) Linux
4 2 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (28.51%) Business Intelligence
1 65 (28.51%) Mentoring
2 59 (25.88%) Roadmaps
3 52 (22.81%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (22.81%) Identity Access Management
3 52 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (21.49%) Programme Delivery
4 49 (21.49%) Regulatory Compliance
5 45 (19.74%) Performance Tuning
6 40 (17.54%) Data Modelling
7 34 (14.91%) Agile
8 33 (14.47%) ETL
9 32 (14.04%) Analytics
9 32 (14.04%) CI/CD
9 32 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (13.16%) DevOps
11 28 (12.28%) Change Control
11 28 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (8.77%) Decision-Making
13 19 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 202 (88.60%) SQL
2 80 (35.09%) PowerShell
3 52 (22.81%) Bash
4 49 (21.49%) C#
5 42 (18.42%) Python
6 23 (10.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (5.70%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.82%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.51%) VBScript
10 7 (3.07%) VBA
11 4 (1.75%) R
12 3 (1.32%) Java
13 2 (0.88%) Delphi
13 2 (0.88%) VB
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (9.21%) Degree
2 6 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.75%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (22.81%) NIST
2 49 (21.49%) NCSC
3 42 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (15.35%) Data Quality
5 10 (4.39%) QA
6 3 (1.32%) GDPR
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.88%) SLA
8 1 (0.44%) HL7
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (30.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.63%) Terraform
2 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
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 78 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.95%) Oracle
3 8 (3.51%) iManage
4 7 (3.07%) Databricks
4 7 (3.07%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.07%) WooCommerce
5 6 (2.63%) ConnectWise
5 6 (2.63%) IFS
5 6 (2.63%) Infor
5 6 (2.63%) SAP
6 4 (1.75%) Epicor
6 4 (1.75%) JD Edwards
6 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.32%) Google
7 3 (1.32%) RedGate
7 3 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.88%) Intapp
8 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.88%) Rollbar