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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 370 264
Rank change year-on-year -136 -106 -10
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 240 348 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.77% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 2.49% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 165 273 886
10th Percentile £37,225 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £84,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +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 16,983 14,001 34,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.93% 31.00% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,023 9,255 25,887
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £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 £111,250 £98,474
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 23 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 23 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 -145 206 £52,500 -8.70% 59
UK excluding London -110 170 £47,500 -7.77% 50
Work from Home +3 136 £50,000 -9.09% 39
London -81 62 £70,000 - 20
South East -23 42 £48,500 +7.78% 15
North of England -67 35 £47,500 -20.83% 24
Scotland +33 28 - - 2
Midlands -67 26 £45,000 -7.22% 1
North West +8 22 £53,750 - 14
South West -52 22 £48,125 -3.75% 4
West Midlands -28 17 £44,000 -23.48%
East of England -31 14 £62,500 +48.81% 3
Yorkshire -64 11 £45,000 -25.00% 8
East Midlands -47 9 £59,000 +24.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
North East -55 2 £45,500 -17.27% 2

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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.83%) IIS
3 7 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.83%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.83%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.50%) Infor M3
3 6 (2.50%) Magento
3 6 (2.50%) Shopify
4 4 (1.67%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.67%) JDE World
4 4 (1.67%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.83%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.83%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.42%) FastStats
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 154 (64.17%) Azure
2 68 (28.33%) Power Platform
3 62 (25.83%) Entra ID
4 51 (21.25%) Google Workspace
5 23 (9.58%) AWS
5 23 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (9.58%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (9.17%) SaaS
7 19 (7.92%) Power Automate
8 17 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (5.83%) PowerApps
10 13 (5.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (3.75%) GitHub
12 8 (3.33%) Serverless
13 7 (2.92%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 48 (20.00%) Broadband
2 4 (1.67%) Firewall
3 3 (1.25%) DNS
3 3 (1.25%) VLAN
4 1 (0.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) Network Security
4 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (49.58%) SQL Server
2 57 (23.75%) Power BI
3 48 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 46 (19.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.25%) Power Query
7 13 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (4.58%) MySQL
10 10 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (3.33%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.08%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.08%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.83%) Metadata
14 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
15 1 (0.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (9.17%) Git
2 14 (5.83%) Visual Studio
3 13 (5.42%) JIRA
4 10 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.83%) Postman
5 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 84 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.92%) Organisational Skills
3 48 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.50%) Finance
5 25 (10.42%) Games
6 19 (7.92%) Law
7 10 (4.17%) Legal
8 7 (2.92%) Back Office
9 6 (2.50%) Retail
10 5 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.67%) Marketing
11 4 (1.67%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.25%) Billing
12 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.83%) Automotive
13 2 (0.83%) Banking
14 1 (0.42%) Advertising
14 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 86 (35.83%) Developer
2 52 (21.67%) Senior
3 45 (18.75%) Analyst
4 21 (8.75%) Applications Support
5 19 (7.92%) IAM Developer
5 19 (7.92%) Senior Developer
6 17 (7.08%) Applications Support Analyst
6 17 (7.08%) Data Analyst
6 17 (7.08%) Software Developer
6 17 (7.08%) Support Analyst
6 17 (7.08%) Systems Engineer
7 16 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (6.67%) SQL Developer
8 14 (5.83%) .NET Developer
9 13 (5.42%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.00%) Database Engineer
10 12 (5.00%) DBA
10 12 (5.00%) SQL Analyst
11 10 (4.17%) SQL DBA
11 10 (4.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (26.67%) REST
2 58 (24.17%) SOAP
3 55 (22.92%) .NET
4 51 (21.25%) GraphQL
4 51 (21.25%) LDAP
4 51 (21.25%) OAuth
4 51 (21.25%) OpenID
4 51 (21.25%) SAML
5 17 (7.08%) HTML
5 17 (7.08%) JSON
6 16 (6.67%) ASP.NET
6 16 (6.67%) CSS
7 14 (5.83%) XML
8 13 (5.42%) .NET Core
9 11 (4.58%) React
10 9 (3.75%) Blazor
10 9 (3.75%) Kafka
11 8 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (2.92%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (2.92%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 48 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (5.42%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (4.58%) Replication
6 9 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.08%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.67%) Clustering
8 4 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.67%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.25%) LIMS
9 3 (1.25%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.25%) NHS
9 3 (1.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.67%) Windows
2 9 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.42%) Linux
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (26.67%) Mentoring
2 63 (26.25%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (25.42%) Roadmaps
4 60 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (21.25%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (21.25%) Identity Access Management
6 48 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
6 48 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 47 (19.58%) Performance Tuning
8 39 (16.25%) Data Modelling
9 37 (15.42%) Agile
10 36 (15.00%) DevOps
11 35 (14.58%) CI/CD
11 35 (14.58%) ETL
12 34 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (12.92%) Analytics
13 31 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (11.25%) Change Control
15 23 (9.58%) Validation
16 18 (7.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 215 (89.58%) SQL
2 84 (35.00%) PowerShell
3 57 (23.75%) C#
4 51 (21.25%) Bash
5 42 (17.50%) Python
6 22 (9.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (7.08%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.58%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.75%) VBScript
10 8 (3.33%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.92%) VBA
12 4 (1.67%) Java
12 4 (1.67%) R
13 3 (1.25%) Delphi
14 2 (0.83%) VB
15 1 (0.42%) Bicep
15 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (8.33%) Degree
2 5 (2.08%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.67%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.83%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (21.25%) NIST
2 48 (20.00%) NCSC
3 42 (17.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (14.58%) Data Quality
5 17 (7.08%) QA
6 4 (1.67%) GDPR
7 3 (1.25%) SLA
8 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.42%) HL7
9 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.67%) Docker
3 3 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.50%) Terraform
2 4 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (33.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.33%) iManage
2 8 (3.33%) Oracle
3 7 (2.92%) SAP
3 7 (2.92%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.50%) Databricks
4 6 (2.50%) IFS
4 6 (2.50%) Infor
4 6 (2.50%) WooCommerce
5 5 (2.08%) ConnectWise
6 4 (1.67%) Epicor
6 4 (1.67%) JD Edwards
6 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.67%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.25%) Google
7 3 (1.25%) RedGate
7 3 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.25%) Veeam
7 3 (1.25%) VMware
8 2 (0.83%) Rollbar