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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 326 232
Rank change year-on-year -154 -94 +45
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 234 343 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.82% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.53% 2.48% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 147 280 992
10th Percentile £28,000 £38,825 £37,199
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +6.80%

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 15,272 13,838 32,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 33.28% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10,390 10,229 25,158
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,234
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -179 185 £48,500 -15.65% 85
UK excluding London -82 182 £47,500 -5.00% 67
Work from Home -38 132 £47,500 -15.18% 56
London -93 48 £63,750 -2.86% 28
Midlands -56 46 £46,750 -3.61% 12
Scotland +15 42 - - 6
North of England -83 33 £51,000 -15.00% 21
West Midlands -13 28 £42,500 -26.09% 2
South East -31 27 £42,500 -15.00% 18
Yorkshire -78 19 £44,000 -26.67% 5
East Midlands -62 18 £59,366 +23.68% 10
South West -45 17 £42,500 +6.25% 4
East of England -43 12 £62,500 +31.58% 6
North West -25 11 £60,000 +26.32% 16
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 -
North East -39 3 £51,000 -11.30%
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 10 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.56%) IIS
3 4 (1.71%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.71%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.28%) Confluence
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.85%) CMS
5 2 (0.85%) WordPress
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.27%) Magento
1 10 (4.27%) Shopify
2 9 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.85%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (1.71%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.85%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.85%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (0.85%) JDE World
4 2 (0.85%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 138 (58.97%) Azure
2 67 (28.63%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.93%) Google Workspace
4 51 (21.79%) Power Platform
5 27 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (7.26%) AWS
6 17 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (7.26%) SaaS
7 16 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (6.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (5.98%) GitHub
10 13 (5.56%) Power Automate
11 12 (5.13%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.42%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.71%) Serverless
15 4 (1.71%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.93%) Broadband
2 3 (1.28%) DNS
2 3 (1.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.85%) DHCP
3 2 (0.85%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.85%) SSL
3 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.85%) VLAN
3 2 (0.85%) Wireless
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) Network Security
4 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (47.44%) SQL Server
2 49 (20.94%) Power BI
3 38 (16.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 38 (16.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 27 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (7.26%) Data Lake
6 14 (5.98%) Power Query
7 13 (5.56%) MySQL
8 12 (5.13%) Metadata
9 11 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (4.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 9 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.85%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.71%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.85%) Tableau
15 1 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 19 (8.12%) JIRA
2 12 (5.13%) Git
3 5 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 90 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.64%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (16.67%) Finance
5 38 (16.24%) Games
6 15 (6.41%) Law
7 11 (4.70%) Back Office
8 7 (2.99%) Legal
9 6 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.71%) Retail
12 3 (1.28%) Banking
12 3 (1.28%) Marketing
13 2 (0.85%) Billing
13 2 (0.85%) Front Office
13 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Advertising
14 1 (0.43%) Automotive
14 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 59 (25.21%) Developer
2 55 (23.50%) Analyst
2 55 (23.50%) Senior
3 30 (12.82%) Support Analyst
4 28 (11.97%) Applications Support
5 27 (11.54%) Applications Support Analyst
6 23 (9.83%) Senior Developer
7 21 (8.97%) DBA
7 21 (8.97%) IAM Developer
8 19 (8.12%) SQL DBA
9 16 (6.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (6.84%) Data Engineer
9 16 (6.84%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (5.56%) C# Developer
10 13 (5.56%) Data Analyst
11 12 (5.13%) SQL Analyst
12 10 (4.27%) Architect
12 10 (4.27%) SQL Developer
13 9 (3.85%) Administrator
13 9 (3.85%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (31.20%) REST
2 68 (29.06%) SOAP
3 57 (24.36%) OAuth
3 57 (24.36%) OpenID
4 56 (23.93%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.93%) LDAP
4 56 (23.93%) SAML
5 38 (16.24%) .NET
6 13 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 11 (4.70%) XML
8 10 (4.27%) .NET Core
8 10 (4.27%) JSON
9 9 (3.85%) Middleware
10 8 (3.42%) CSS
10 8 (3.42%) HTML
10 8 (3.42%) PySpark
11 7 (2.99%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.56%) DirectX
12 6 (2.56%) OpenGL
13 5 (2.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.93%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.93%) Cyberattack
2 16 (6.84%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.85%) Clustering
6 8 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.42%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.42%) Replication
7 6 (2.56%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.56%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.71%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.85%) Derivative
11 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.98%) Windows
2 9 (3.85%) Linux
3 7 (2.99%) VMS
3 7 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.85%) Android
4 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.06%) Mentoring
2 67 (28.63%) Roadmaps
3 56 (23.93%) Business Intelligence
3 56 (23.93%) Cybersecurity
3 56 (23.93%) Identity Access Management
3 56 (23.93%) Programme Delivery
3 56 (23.93%) Regulatory Compliance
4 48 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (18.38%) Data Modelling
6 42 (17.95%) Analytics
7 36 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (14.96%) ETL
9 34 (14.53%) Performance Tuning
10 32 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (12.82%) DevOps
12 28 (11.97%) Change Control
12 28 (11.97%) Decision-Making
13 27 (11.54%) Agile
14 26 (11.11%) CI/CD
15 23 (9.83%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 201 (85.90%) SQL
2 83 (35.47%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.93%) Bash
4 43 (18.38%) Python
5 39 (16.67%) C#
6 21 (8.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.56%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.14%) Java
8 5 (2.14%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.71%) R
9 4 (1.71%) VBA
10 2 (0.85%) Bicep
10 2 (0.85%) Scala
10 2 (0.85%) VBScript
11 1 (0.43%) Delphi
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) VB
11 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (9.83%) Degree
2 5 (2.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.28%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.85%) MCSE
5 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.43%) MCITP
5 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.93%) NCSC
1 56 (23.93%) NIST
2 42 (17.95%) Data Quality
3 37 (15.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.13%) QA
5 6 (2.56%) GDPR
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.85%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (29.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.14%) Docker
3 2 (0.85%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.99%) Terraform
2 5 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 70 (29.91%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.12%) Databricks
3 10 (4.27%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.85%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.42%) Oracle
6 6 (2.56%) RedGate
7 4 (1.71%) IFS
7 4 (1.71%) Infor
7 4 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.71%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.28%) iManage
8 3 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.28%) SAP
9 2 (0.85%) Citrix
9 2 (0.85%) Epicor
9 2 (0.85%) Informatica
9 2 (0.85%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.85%) Sage
9 2 (0.85%) VMware