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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 363 320
Rank change year-on-year -223 -43 -99
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 205 352 679
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.71% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 2.56% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 174 282 494
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,918 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £66,938
90th Percentile £82,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -

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 18,516 13,765 25,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 27.60% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,147 9,018 17,418
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -191 195 £57,500 - 62
UK excluding London -195 140 £52,500 +1.94% 48
Work from Home -73 89 £62,500 +19.05% 33
London -97 55 £70,000 -3.45% 27
South East -33 49 £53,750 +19.44% 19
North of England -83 33 £47,500 -20.83% 11
Midlands -81 18 £50,000 +3.09% 6
North West -25 17 £47,500 -17.39% 8
East of England -26 17 £62,500 +51.52% 7
South West -74 17 £52,500 +5.00% 4
Yorkshire -72 14 £51,250 -14.58% 2
West Midlands -47 13 £47,500 -17.39% 4
Scotland +10 6 £85,000 +78.95% 1
East Midlands -49 5 £59,732 +24.44% 2
North East -59 2 £45,500 -13.33% 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 14 (6.83%) IIS
2 12 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.93%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.44%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.95%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.95%) JDE World
4 3 (1.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.98%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.98%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.49%) FastStats
6 1 (0.49%) Magento
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 118 (57.56%) Azure
2 66 (32.20%) Power Platform
3 40 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.27%) AWS
5 17 (8.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 17 (8.29%) Power Automate
6 15 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (6.34%) PowerApps
7 13 (6.34%) SaaS
8 10 (4.88%) GitHub
8 10 (4.88%) Serverless
9 9 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.90%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.90%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.93%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.95%) GCP
12 4 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.95%) Firewall
2 3 (1.46%) DNS
2 3 (1.46%) VLAN
3 2 (0.98%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (65.37%) SQL Server
2 54 (26.34%) Power BI
3 52 (25.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 39 (19.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (10.73%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (8.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (7.80%) Power Query
8 11 (5.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (4.88%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.39%) Star Schema
11 7 (3.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.93%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.95%) Db2
13 4 (1.95%) Metadata
13 4 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (1.95%) WhereScape RED
14 3 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.46%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 27 (13.17%) Git
2 15 (7.32%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.90%) JIRA
5 2 (0.98%) Postman
5 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) Yeoman
General
1 60 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (17.07%) Finance
4 21 (10.24%) Law
5 15 (7.32%) Legal
6 7 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.93%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.93%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.95%) Retail
9 3 (1.46%) Back Office
9 3 (1.46%) Billing
9 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.98%) Automotive
10 2 (0.98%) Banking
10 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Police
11 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 96 (46.83%) Developer
2 37 (18.05%) Senior
3 28 (13.66%) Analyst
4 23 (11.22%) .NET Developer
4 23 (11.22%) SQL Developer
5 19 (9.27%) Software Developer
6 18 (8.78%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.78%) DBA
6 18 (8.78%) Senior Developer
7 17 (8.29%) SQL DBA
8 15 (7.32%) Applications Support
8 15 (7.32%) SQL Server DBA
9 11 (5.37%) Lead
10 10 (4.88%) Data Analyst
10 10 (4.88%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Applications Support Analyst
11 9 (4.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (3.90%) Software Support Engineer
13 7 (3.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 7 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (32.68%) .NET
2 17 (8.29%) REST
3 14 (6.83%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.83%) ASP.NET
3 14 (6.83%) HTML
4 13 (6.34%) .NET Framework
4 13 (6.34%) CSS
5 11 (5.37%) JSON
5 11 (5.37%) SOAP
6 9 (4.39%) Entity Framework
6 9 (4.39%) Kafka
6 9 (4.39%) PySpark
6 9 (4.39%) WinForms
6 9 (4.39%) XML
7 8 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (3.90%) Blazor
8 7 (3.41%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.41%) jQuery
8 7 (3.41%) React
8 7 (3.41%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.73%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.83%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (4.88%) Replication
4 10 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.39%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.41%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.93%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.44%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.95%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.95%) NHS
9 4 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.46%) LIMS
10 3 (1.46%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.98%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.27%) Windows
2 10 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.98%) Linux
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.61%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (28.29%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (25.85%) Performance Tuning
4 52 (25.37%) DevOps
5 42 (20.49%) CI/CD
6 41 (20.00%) ETL
7 38 (18.54%) Data Modelling
8 35 (17.07%) Agile
8 35 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (13.17%) Analytics
10 19 (9.27%) AI
10 19 (9.27%) Root Cause Analysis
10 19 (9.27%) SDLC
10 19 (9.27%) Secure Coding
11 18 (8.78%) Software Engineering
12 17 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (8.29%) Roadmaps
13 16 (7.80%) Clean Code
13 16 (7.80%) Data Engineering
13 16 (7.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 204 (99.51%) SQL
2 68 (33.17%) C#
3 37 (18.05%) PowerShell
4 34 (16.59%) Python
5 23 (11.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.80%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.34%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.39%) VBScript
9 8 (3.90%) VBA
10 6 (2.93%) VB.NET
11 5 (2.44%) Delphi
12 4 (1.95%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.46%) Bash
13 3 (1.46%) R
13 3 (1.46%) XPath
14 2 (0.98%) Bicep
14 2 (0.98%) Java
14 2 (0.98%) VB
15 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 16 (7.80%) Degree
2 5 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.95%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.46%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.46%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.12%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.29%) QA
3 11 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.41%) SLA
5 5 (2.44%) NIST
6 3 (1.46%) GDPR
7 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) HL7
8 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.44%) Docker
3 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.44%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.49%) SCCM
3 1 (0.49%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 80 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.83%) Oracle
3 9 (4.39%) iManage
4 8 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.41%) SAP
6 6 (2.93%) IFS
6 6 (2.93%) Infor
6 6 (2.93%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.44%) Databricks
7 5 (2.44%) RedGate
7 5 (2.44%) Remedy
8 4 (1.95%) Epicor
8 4 (1.95%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.46%) Google
9 3 (1.46%) Intapp
9 3 (1.46%) Veeam
9 3 (1.46%) VMware
10 2 (0.98%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.98%) Rollbar