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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 370 336
Rank change year-on-year -240 -34 -114
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 197 331 610
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.67% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 2.56% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 167 261 385
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,825 £36,922
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,499 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.88% +3.00% -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 18,532 12,937 23,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.27% 26.33% 30.82%
Number of salaries quoted 13,180 8,304 15,114
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £106,250
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 15 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 15 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 -210 187 £60,000 +9.09% 217
UK excluding London -192 133 £53,499 +3.88% 137
Work from Home -74 84 £62,500 +19.05% 88
London -75 55 £70,000 -12.50% 97
South East -41 50 £55,000 +10.00% 30
North of England -96 30 £53,750 -10.42% 38
East of England -35 18 £62,500 +54.32% 18
North West -20 17 £60,000 +4.35% 27
South West -88 16 £52,500 +5.00% 13
Midlands -89 13 £59,000 +9.89% 27
Yorkshire -77 12 £52,750 -12.08% 10
West Midlands -58 9 £50,000 -13.04% 22
Scotland -1 6 £85,000 +78.95% 9
East Midlands -49 4 £59,732 +23.16% 5
North East -68 1 £47,500 -9.52% 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 14 (7.11%) IIS
2 12 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.55%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (3.05%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.54%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.54%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.03%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.03%) JDE World
4 3 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.02%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.02%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.51%) FastStats
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 113 (57.36%) Azure
2 61 (30.96%) Power Platform
3 39 (19.80%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.63%) Azure Logic Apps
4 17 (8.63%) Power Automate
5 16 (8.12%) AWS
6 13 (6.60%) SaaS
7 12 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (5.58%) PowerApps
9 9 (4.57%) GitHub
9 9 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.57%) Serverless
10 8 (4.06%) Entra ID
10 8 (4.06%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.54%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.03%) GCP
12 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.52%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) Firewall
2 3 (1.52%) DNS
2 3 (1.52%) VLAN
3 2 (1.02%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (65.99%) SQL Server
2 50 (25.38%) Power BI
3 48 (24.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 38 (19.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (11.68%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.61%) Power Query
7 13 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (5.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (4.06%) Relational Database
9 8 (4.06%) Star Schema
10 7 (3.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (3.05%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.03%) Db2
12 4 (2.03%) Metadata
12 4 (2.03%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.52%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 24 (12.18%) Git
2 14 (7.11%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (3.05%) JIRA
5 2 (1.02%) Postman
6 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.51%) Yeoman
General
1 64 (32.49%) Social Skills
2 48 (24.37%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.75%) Finance
4 17 (8.63%) Law
5 15 (7.61%) Legal
6 8 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.54%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.03%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.03%) Retail
9 3 (1.52%) Back Office
9 3 (1.52%) Billing
9 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.02%) Automotive
10 2 (1.02%) Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Police
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (47.72%) Developer
2 38 (19.29%) Senior
3 23 (11.68%) .NET Developer
3 23 (11.68%) Analyst
4 19 (9.64%) Software Developer
5 18 (9.14%) SQL Developer
6 17 (8.63%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.12%) Data Engineer
8 15 (7.61%) DBA
8 15 (7.61%) SQL DBA
9 14 (7.11%) SQL Server DBA
10 13 (6.60%) Applications Support
11 12 (6.09%) Lead
12 10 (5.08%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.57%) Applications Developer
13 9 (4.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (4.06%) Data Analyst
14 8 (4.06%) Software Support Engineer
15 7 (3.55%) Applications Support Analyst
15 7 (3.55%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (33.50%) .NET
2 14 (7.11%) HTML
2 14 (7.11%) REST
3 13 (6.60%) .NET Core
3 13 (6.60%) CSS
4 11 (5.58%) ASP.NET
4 11 (5.58%) JSON
5 10 (5.08%) .NET Framework
6 9 (4.57%) SOAP
6 9 (4.57%) WinForms
6 9 (4.57%) XML
7 8 (4.06%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (4.06%) Blazor
7 8 (4.06%) React
8 7 (3.55%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.55%) Entity Framework
8 7 (3.55%) jQuery
8 7 (3.55%) Kafka
8 7 (3.55%) PySpark
9 6 (3.05%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.69%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (8.12%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.06%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.06%) Replication
6 6 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.54%) Legacy Code
8 4 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.03%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.03%) NHS
9 3 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.52%) LIMS
9 3 (1.52%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.02%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.64%) Windows
2 10 (5.08%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.02%) Linux
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.59%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (26.90%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (25.89%) DevOps
4 46 (23.35%) Performance Tuning
5 40 (20.30%) ETL
6 38 (19.29%) CI/CD
7 35 (17.77%) Data Modelling
8 33 (16.75%) Agile
9 32 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (13.20%) Analytics
11 21 (10.66%) SDLC
12 19 (9.64%) AI
12 19 (9.64%) Secure Coding
13 18 (9.14%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (9.14%) Software Engineering
14 17 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (8.12%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (8.12%) Mentoring
15 16 (8.12%) Roadmaps
15 16 (8.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 196 (99.49%) SQL
2 67 (34.01%) C#
3 36 (18.27%) PowerShell
4 30 (15.23%) Python
5 19 (9.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 17 (8.63%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.60%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.57%) VBScript
9 8 (4.06%) Delphi
9 8 (4.06%) VBA
10 6 (3.05%) VB.NET
11 4 (2.03%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.52%) Bash
12 3 (1.52%) XPath
13 2 (1.02%) Bicep
13 2 (1.02%) VB
14 1 (0.51%) Java
14 1 (0.51%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (6.60%) Degree
2 5 (2.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.03%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.23%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.12%) QA
3 11 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.05%) SLA
5 5 (2.54%) NIST
6 2 (1.02%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) HL7
7 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (8.12%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.54%) Docker
3 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.54%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 81 (41.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.11%) Oracle
3 9 (4.57%) iManage
4 8 (4.06%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.55%) SAP
6 6 (3.05%) Infor
6 6 (3.05%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.54%) IFS
7 5 (2.54%) RedGate
7 5 (2.54%) Remedy
8 4 (2.03%) Epicor
8 4 (2.03%) Intapp
9 3 (1.52%) Databricks
9 3 (1.52%) Google
9 3 (1.52%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.52%) Teradata
9 3 (1.52%) Veeam
9 3 (1.52%) VMware
10 2 (1.02%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (1.02%) OpenAI