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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 392 310
Rank change year-on-year -223 -82 -99
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 198 314 609
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.63% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 2.45% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 168 247 362
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,813 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £82,900 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18,536 12,797 22,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 25.77% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 13,096 8,193 13,930
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -199 186 £60,000 +9.09% 186
UK excluding London -214 128 £55,000 +10.00% 114
Work from Home -70 86 £62,500 +21.95% 84
London -91 61 £70,000 -12.50% 77
South East -55 51 £55,000 +22.22% 38
North of England -84 32 £60,000 +4.35% 27
North West -32 17 £60,000 +4.35% 15
Yorkshire -68 14 £61,500 +2.50% 9
East of England -39 13 £55,000 +33.33% 15
Midlands -83 13 £50,000 +3.09% 21
South West -86 12 £52,500 +5.00% 6
West Midlands -50 10 £50,000 -13.04% 17
Scotland -1 7 £85,000 +78.95% 6
East Midlands -58 3 £59,732 +23.16% 4
North East -68 1 £47,500 -9.52% 3

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 (7.07%) IIS
2 12 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.53%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.02%) Elite 3E
3 4 (2.02%) Infor M3
3 4 (2.02%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.02%) JDE World
4 3 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.01%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (1.01%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.01%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.51%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 113 (57.07%) Azure
2 60 (30.30%) Power Platform
3 43 (21.72%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (10.10%) Power Automate
5 18 (9.09%) SaaS
6 16 (8.08%) AWS
7 15 (7.58%) PowerApps
8 14 (7.07%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (5.56%) Snowflake
12 10 (5.05%) Serverless
13 9 (4.55%) GitHub
14 8 (4.04%) Entra ID
15 7 (3.54%) Azure Functions
15 7 (3.54%) dbt
16 5 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 4 (2.02%) Copilot Studio
17 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) DNS
1 3 (1.52%) Firewall
1 3 (1.52%) VLAN
2 2 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (65.66%) SQL Server
2 47 (23.74%) Power BI
2 47 (23.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 36 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 30 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (6.06%) Power Query
6 11 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 9 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (3.03%) Star Schema
9 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.02%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.02%) Db2
10 4 (2.02%) Metadata
10 4 (2.02%) OLTP
10 4 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.02%) WhereScape RED
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.52%) Big Data
11 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (14.14%) Git
2 15 (7.58%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.55%) JIRA
4 8 (4.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.01%) Postman
6 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 51 (25.76%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.14%) Finance
4 20 (10.10%) Law
5 18 (9.09%) Legal
6 6 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.02%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.02%) Retail
9 3 (1.52%) Back Office
9 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.01%) Automotive
10 2 (1.01%) Banking
10 2 (1.01%) Billing
10 2 (1.01%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (51.01%) Developer
2 49 (24.75%) Senior
3 25 (12.63%) .NET Developer
3 25 (12.63%) Senior Developer
4 21 (10.61%) Software Developer
5 20 (10.10%) Analyst
6 19 (9.60%) SQL Developer
7 18 (9.09%) Data Engineer
8 14 (7.07%) DBA
8 14 (7.07%) SQL DBA
9 13 (6.57%) Applications Support
10 12 (6.06%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (5.05%) Lead
11 10 (5.05%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Applications Developer
12 9 (4.55%) Database Engineer
13 8 (4.04%) Business Developer
13 8 (4.04%) Senior Database Engineer
13 8 (4.04%) Software Support Engineer
14 7 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (34.34%) .NET
2 19 (9.60%) REST
3 14 (7.07%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.57%) HTML
5 12 (6.06%) ASP.NET
5 12 (6.06%) CSS
6 11 (5.56%) JSON
7 10 (5.05%) React
7 10 (5.05%) SOAP
8 9 (4.55%) .NET Framework
9 8 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.04%) Blazor
9 8 (4.04%) WinForms
10 7 (3.54%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.54%) XML
11 6 (3.03%) Entity Framework
11 6 (3.03%) jQuery
11 6 (3.03%) Kafka
11 6 (3.03%) OAuth
11 6 (3.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.62%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.04%) Replication
4 8 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.02%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.02%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.02%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.52%) NHS
8 2 (1.01%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.01%) LIMS
8 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.01%) SystemC
9 1 (0.51%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.60%) Windows
2 11 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (27.78%) DevOps
3 50 (25.25%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
5 44 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 38 (19.19%) ETL
7 35 (17.68%) Agile
8 32 (16.16%) Data Modelling
9 29 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (13.13%) Analytics
11 23 (11.62%) Software Engineering
12 20 (10.10%) Root Cause Analysis
12 20 (10.10%) SDLC
13 19 (9.60%) Data Integration
14 18 (9.09%) AI
14 18 (9.09%) Mentoring
14 18 (9.09%) Secure Coding
15 16 (8.08%) Clean Code
15 16 (8.08%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (8.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 198 (100.00%) SQL
2 72 (36.36%) C#
3 37 (18.69%) PowerShell
4 31 (15.66%) Python
5 18 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (6.57%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.55%) VBScript
9 8 (4.04%) VBA
10 7 (3.54%) Delphi
10 7 (3.54%) VB.NET
11 4 (2.02%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.52%) Bash
12 3 (1.52%) XPath
13 2 (1.01%) Bicep
13 2 (1.01%) VB
14 1 (0.51%) Java
14 1 (0.51%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 12 (6.06%) Degree
2 5 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.53%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.02%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.66%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.57%) QA
3 12 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.03%) NIST
4 6 (3.03%) SLA
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (8.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.02%) Docker
3 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.53%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.02%) SQL Sentry
3 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 82 (41.41%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.58%) Oracle
3 9 (4.55%) iManage
4 8 (4.04%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.54%) RedGate
6 6 (3.03%) Databricks
6 6 (3.03%) Intapp
6 6 (3.03%) JD Edwards
6 6 (3.03%) SAP
7 5 (2.53%) IFS
7 5 (2.53%) Remedy
7 5 (2.53%) Teradata
8 4 (2.02%) Epicor
8 4 (2.02%) Infor
9 3 (1.52%) Google
9 3 (1.52%) Veeam
9 3 (1.52%) VMware
10 2 (1.01%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.01%) SolarWinds