Transact-SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring T-SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited T-SQL over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 244 285
Rank change year-on-year -130 +41 -76
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 353 1,181 1,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 1.20% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.25% 3.55% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 286 960 1,106
10th Percentile £39,750 £36,423 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,188 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +4.00%

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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing T-SQL.

Salary trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 -115 335 £57,500 +4.55% 161
UK excluding London -90 207 £50,000 -9.09% 100
Work from Home -69 175 £56,000 -2.61% 92
London -53 131 £67,000 +11.67% 64
North of England -73 75 £60,000 +17.65% 26
Midlands -26 52 £49,250 -14.35% 20
Yorkshire +45 45 £60,000 +11.63% 9
East Midlands +43 34 £48,500 -7.62% 12
East of England +28 30 £44,750 +7.83% 7
South East +3 25 £50,000 -16.67% 28
North West -94 25 £52,500 +5.00% 11
West Midlands -36 18 £57,500 -4.17% 8
South West +56 17 £40,000 -29.82% 10
Scotland +39 6 £47,500 -10.38% 4
North East +29 5 £57,500 - 6
Isle of Man - 2 £38,000 -

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.25%) Confluence
3 11 (3.12%) IIS
4 9 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.85%) Apache
6 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.57%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Tornado
8 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 35 (9.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 217 (61.47%) Azure
2 140 (39.66%) Power Platform
3 39 (11.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (10.20%) AWS
6 31 (8.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 29 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (7.08%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (6.23%) SaaS
10 20 (5.67%) GitHub
10 20 (5.67%) Power Automate
11 9 (2.55%) PowerApps
11 9 (2.55%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.70%) GCP
15 5 (1.42%) Amazon S3
15 5 (1.42%) Azure Stack
15 5 (1.42%) Serverless
16 4 (1.13%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.98%) FTP
2 2 (0.57%) Internet
2 2 (0.57%) RTP
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
3 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (67.71%) SQL Server
2 110 (31.16%) Power BI
3 97 (27.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 88 (24.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 61 (17.28%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (9.92%) Relational Database
7 30 (8.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (7.93%) Data Lake
9 26 (7.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 17 (4.82%) Tableau
11 12 (3.40%) MySQL
11 12 (3.40%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (3.12%) Metadata
13 10 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (2.83%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.55%) DB2
15 8 (2.27%) Data Hub
15 8 (2.27%) SQL CLR
16 7 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (1.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (11.61%) Git
2 32 (9.07%) Visual Studio
3 29 (8.22%) JIRA
4 12 (3.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (1.70%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.13%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.85%) MSTest
7 3 (0.85%) NUnit
8 2 (0.57%) Maven
8 2 (0.57%) Selenium
8 2 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.28%) Grunt
9 1 (0.28%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.28%) Moq
9 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 101 (28.61%) Social Skills
2 98 (27.76%) Finance
3 67 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.52%) Law
5 19 (5.38%) Banking
6 16 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.12%) Billing
9 10 (2.83%) Back Office
10 8 (2.27%) Legal
10 8 (2.27%) Local Government
10 8 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.70%) Automotive
11 6 (1.70%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.85%) Games
15 2 (0.57%) Marketing
15 2 (0.57%) Police
15 2 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 150 (42.49%) Developer
2 77 (21.81%) SQL Developer
3 74 (20.96%) Analyst
4 73 (20.68%) Senior
5 40 (11.33%) Data Engineer
6 33 (9.35%) Database Developer
7 32 (9.07%) SQL Database Developer
7 32 (9.07%) Support Analyst
8 30 (8.50%) Senior Developer
9 27 (7.65%) Applications Support
9 27 (7.65%) DBA
10 22 (6.23%) SQL DBA
11 20 (5.67%) SQL Analyst
12 19 (5.38%) Senior Analyst
13 16 (4.53%) Software Engineer
14 15 (4.25%) Applications Support Analyst
15 14 (3.97%) Administrator
15 14 (3.97%) Senior Applications Support
16 13 (3.68%) Microsoft Developer
16 13 (3.68%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (23.23%) .NET
2 44 (12.46%) .NET Framework
3 35 (9.92%) ASP.NET
4 33 (9.35%) HTML
5 28 (7.93%) CSS
6 27 (7.65%) REST
7 26 (7.37%) Web Services
8 22 (6.23%) SOAP
9 17 (4.82%) .NET Core
9 17 (4.82%) Entity Framework
10 16 (4.53%) XML
11 15 (4.25%) RESTful
12 13 (3.68%) HTML5
13 12 (3.40%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (3.40%) CSS3
13 12 (3.40%) React
14 10 (2.83%) AngularJS
14 10 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (2.27%) jQuery
16 7 (1.98%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.08%) Management Information System
2 16 (4.53%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.27%) Private Cloud
5 6 (1.70%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.70%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.70%) NHS
6 5 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.13%) Replication
7 4 (1.13%) Social Media
7 4 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.57%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.57%) Life Science
9 1 (0.28%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.28%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.76%) Windows
2 28 (7.93%) Linux
3 21 (5.95%) Unix
4 8 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.70%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (35.13%) Business Intelligence
2 106 (30.03%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (22.95%) ETL
4 72 (20.40%) Analytics
5 51 (14.45%) Data Modelling
6 50 (14.16%) DevOps
7 47 (13.31%) Agile
8 40 (11.33%) Computer Science
9 35 (9.92%) CI/CD
9 35 (9.92%) Visualisation
10 34 (9.63%) Data Analysis
10 34 (9.63%) Data Engineering
11 33 (9.35%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 32 (9.07%) Change Management
12 32 (9.07%) Performance Tuning
13 27 (7.65%) Database Optimisation
14 25 (7.08%) Data Visualisation
15 24 (6.80%) Release Management
16 23 (6.52%) ITIL
16 23 (6.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 343 (97.17%) SQL
2 100 (28.33%) C#
3 45 (12.75%) JavaScript
4 41 (11.61%) PowerShell
5 38 (10.76%) Python
6 24 (6.80%) PL/SQL
7 17 (4.82%) Java
7 17 (4.82%) TypeScript
7 17 (4.82%) VB.NET
8 14 (3.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (2.27%) PHP
10 6 (1.70%) C
10 6 (1.70%) C++
11 5 (1.42%) Objective-C
11 5 (1.42%) VB
12 2 (0.57%) Scala
13 1 (0.28%) Bicep
13 1 (0.28%) R
13 1 (0.28%) VB6
13 1 (0.28%) XAML
Qualifications
1 49 (13.88%) Degree
2 45 (12.75%) DBS Check
3 16 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.42%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.85%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.57%) MCP
7 2 (0.57%) MCSE
8 1 (0.28%) ACCA
8 1 (0.28%) MCSD
8 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.35%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.12%) GDPR
3 8 (2.27%) QA
4 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) HL7
6 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (3.12%) Docker
2 8 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.13%) Terraform
4 2 (0.57%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 179 (50.71%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.35%) Oracle
3 20 (5.67%) Databricks
4 12 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.83%) Aderant
6 9 (2.55%) VMware
7 7 (1.98%) SolarWinds
8 6 (1.70%) SAP
8 6 (1.70%) Xamarin
9 4 (1.13%) Cognos
9 4 (1.13%) Epicor
9 4 (1.13%) Google
9 4 (1.13%) RedGate
9 4 (1.13%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.13%) Xero
10 3 (0.85%) JD Edwards
10 3 (0.85%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.57%) Logi
11 2 (0.57%) Logi Analytics
11 2 (0.57%) QAD