T-SQL Job Trends

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 3 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 307 217
Rank change year-on-year -76 -90 +68
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 121 122 828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.68% 1.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 2.02% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 58 98 705
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £39,438 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £60,938 £72,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,125 £87,875 £76,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +10.00%

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 7,014 6,029 20,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.13% 33.62% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,887 4,706 16,771
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,125 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,792 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% -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 3 months to 15 March 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 3 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -24 93 £42,500 -10.53% 101
England -75 90 £42,500 -26.09% 102
Work from Home +12 84 £42,500 -34.62% 45
Scotland - 28 - - 15
London -62 27 £47,500 -28.57% 33
Midlands -25 17 £42,500 -1.16% 15
South East -23 15 £42,500 -2.86% 23
North of England -37 15 £57,500 -2.13% 16
West Midlands -8 12 £36,000 -36.00% 9
South West -23 10 £42,500 +22.30% 22
North West -23 8 £53,750 +34.38% 9
Yorkshire -35 6 £69,750 +16.25% 5
East of England -13 5 £49,000 -2.00% 9
East Midlands -44 5 £45,000 +4.65% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East - 1 £43,500 - 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 15 (6.07%) IIS
2 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.83%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.62%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.62%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.21%) CMS
5 3 (1.21%) Confluence
6 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.81%) WordPress
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.05%) Magento
1 10 (4.05%) Shopify
2 9 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.64%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 147 (59.51%) Azure
2 67 (27.13%) Entra ID
3 57 (23.08%) Google Workspace
4 48 (19.43%) Power Platform
5 31 (12.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.69%) SaaS
8 17 (6.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (6.88%) GitHub
9 16 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (5.67%) AWS
11 12 (4.86%) PowerApps
12 10 (4.05%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.64%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.43%) GCP
16 5 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
17 4 (1.62%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 57 (23.08%) Broadband
2 3 (1.21%) DNS
3 2 (0.81%) DHCP
3 2 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.81%) Firewall
3 2 (0.81%) SSL
3 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.81%) VLAN
3 2 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (47.37%) SQL Server
2 47 (19.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 46 (18.62%) Power BI
4 39 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (10.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (8.10%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (5.26%) Metadata
8 13 (5.26%) MySQL
9 12 (4.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.83%) Power Query
12 5 (2.02%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.21%) GIS
13 3 (1.21%) Tableau
14 2 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.81%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.69%) JIRA
2 12 (4.86%) Git
3 4 (1.62%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.81%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 100 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (15.79%) Games
5 35 (14.17%) Finance
6 13 (5.26%) Back Office
7 12 (4.86%) Law
8 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.43%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.02%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Banking
11 3 (1.21%) Legal
11 3 (1.21%) Marketing
12 2 (0.81%) Front Office
12 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.81%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
13 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 61 (24.70%) Senior
2 57 (23.08%) Developer
3 52 (21.05%) Analyst
4 35 (14.17%) Support Analyst
5 32 (12.96%) Applications Support
6 31 (12.55%) Applications Support Analyst
7 28 (11.34%) Data Engineer
8 22 (8.91%) DBA
8 22 (8.91%) IAM Developer
8 22 (8.91%) Senior Developer
9 19 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 19 (7.69%) SQL DBA
10 16 (6.48%) SQL Developer
10 16 (6.48%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (5.26%) C# Developer
11 13 (5.26%) IT Support
12 12 (4.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 12 (4.86%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (4.86%) Software Support Engineer
12 12 (4.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (31.17%) REST
2 70 (28.34%) SOAP
3 58 (23.48%) OAuth
3 58 (23.48%) OpenID
4 57 (23.08%) GraphQL
4 57 (23.08%) LDAP
4 57 (23.08%) SAML
5 40 (16.19%) .NET
6 16 (6.48%) .NET Framework
7 15 (6.07%) ASP.NET
7 15 (6.07%) JSON
7 15 (6.07%) XML
8 14 (5.67%) Entity Framework
9 12 (4.86%) WinForms
10 9 (3.64%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.64%) Middleware
11 8 (3.24%) CSS
11 8 (3.24%) HTML
12 7 (2.83%) PySpark
13 6 (2.43%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
1 57 (23.08%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.29%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.64%) Clustering
5 8 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.43%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.43%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.43%) Replication
7 4 (1.62%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.21%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.81%) Derivative
9 2 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.81%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.91%) Windows
2 9 (3.64%) Linux
3 6 (2.43%) VMS
3 6 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.81%) Android
4 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.13%) Mentoring
2 65 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 57 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
3 57 (23.08%) Programme Delivery
3 57 (23.08%) Regulatory Compliance
4 52 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (20.24%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (17.81%) Analytics
7 43 (17.41%) DevOps
8 42 (17.00%) Data Modelling
9 38 (15.38%) ETL
10 36 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (13.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (11.74%) Agile
13 29 (11.74%) CI/CD
13 29 (11.74%) Decision-Making
13 29 (11.74%) Software Engineering
14 28 (11.34%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 214 (86.64%) SQL
2 86 (34.82%) PowerShell
3 57 (23.08%) Bash
4 50 (20.24%) Python
5 44 (17.81%) C#
6 15 (6.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (3.24%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.83%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.02%) Java
9 5 (2.02%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.62%) R
11 2 (0.81%) Bicep
11 2 (0.81%) Scala
11 2 (0.81%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (13.77%) Degree
2 14 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.24%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.21%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.81%) MCSE
6 1 (0.40%) ACCA
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.40%) CIMA
6 1 (0.40%) MCITP
6 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (23.08%) NCSC
1 57 (23.08%) NIST
2 40 (16.19%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.05%) QA
5 8 (3.24%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (27.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.21%) Docker
3 2 (0.81%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.24%) Terraform
2 6 (2.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 79 (31.98%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.72%) Databricks
3 12 (4.86%) Sage
3 12 (4.86%) Xamarin
4 10 (4.05%) WooCommerce
5 9 (3.64%) ConnectWise
5 9 (3.64%) Oracle
5 9 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.02%) Google
6 5 (2.02%) Zoho
7 4 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.21%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.21%) RedGate
8 3 (1.21%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) Citrix
9 2 (0.81%) Informatica
9 2 (0.81%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.81%) Talend
9 2 (0.81%) VMware
10 1 (0.40%) Siemens