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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 329 236
Rank change year-on-year -143 -93 +36
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 236 358 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.86% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.52% 2.56% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 148 292 974
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,750 £37,199
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,875 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,563 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +5.77%

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 15,496 13,986 32,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.67% 33.43% 34.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,519 10,263 24,963
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,171 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%

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 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 21 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 -167 188 £48,500 -15.65% 88
UK excluding London -87 180 £47,500 -5.00% 70
Work from Home -40 134 £47,500 -15.18% 56
London -93 52 £70,000 +5.46% 28
Midlands -41 45 £48,500 - 12
Scotland +16 41 - - 5
North of England -99 34 £50,000 -16.67% 24
West Midlands -19 27 £42,500 -26.09% 3
South East -40 26 £42,500 -15.00% 20
Yorkshire -82 20 £44,000 -26.67% 6
East Midlands -72 18 £59,366 +23.68% 9
South West -56 17 £42,500 +6.25% 3
East of England -54 12 £62,500 +31.58% 5
North West -43 11 £61,250 +16.67% 18
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 - 2
North East -40 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 11 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.97%) IIS
3 3 (1.27%) Confluence
3 3 (1.27%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.27%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) CMS
4 2 (0.85%) WordPress
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.24%) Magento
1 10 (4.24%) Shopify
2 9 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.81%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (1.69%) 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 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 140 (59.32%) Azure
2 67 (28.39%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.73%) Google Workspace
4 53 (22.46%) Power Platform
5 28 (11.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (7.63%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (6.78%) AWS
8 16 (6.78%) SaaS
9 15 (6.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (5.93%) GitHub
10 14 (5.93%) Power Automate
11 13 (5.51%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.81%) Snowflake
13 8 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.12%) Serverless
16 4 (1.69%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.73%) Broadband
2 3 (1.27%) DNS
2 3 (1.27%) 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 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) Network Security
4 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (47.46%) SQL Server
2 51 (21.61%) Power BI
3 40 (16.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 38 (16.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (11.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (7.20%) Data Lake
7 15 (6.36%) Power Query
8 13 (5.51%) MySQL
9 12 (5.08%) Metadata
10 11 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.81%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (1.69%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.85%) Tableau
15 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 19 (8.05%) JIRA
2 11 (4.66%) Git
3 5 (2.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 92 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.42%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (16.53%) Finance
5 38 (16.10%) Games
6 17 (7.20%) Law
7 11 (4.66%) Back Office
8 8 (3.39%) Legal
9 6 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.12%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.12%) Retail
11 3 (1.27%) Banking
11 3 (1.27%) Marketing
12 2 (0.85%) Billing
12 2 (0.85%) Front Office
12 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.42%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.42%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 62 (26.27%) Developer
2 55 (23.31%) Senior
3 54 (22.88%) Analyst
4 28 (11.86%) Support Analyst
5 26 (11.02%) Applications Support
6 25 (10.59%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.75%) Senior Developer
8 21 (8.90%) DBA
8 21 (8.90%) IAM Developer
9 19 (8.05%) SQL DBA
10 16 (6.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 16 (6.78%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (5.93%) Data Analyst
11 14 (5.93%) Data Engineer
12 13 (5.51%) C# Developer
13 12 (5.08%) SQL Analyst
14 10 (4.24%) Architect
14 10 (4.24%) Lead
14 10 (4.24%) SQL Developer
15 9 (3.81%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (30.51%) REST
2 68 (28.81%) SOAP
3 57 (24.15%) OAuth
3 57 (24.15%) OpenID
4 56 (23.73%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.73%) LDAP
4 56 (23.73%) SAML
5 40 (16.95%) .NET
6 13 (5.51%) ASP.NET
7 10 (4.24%) .NET Core
7 10 (4.24%) CSS
7 10 (4.24%) HTML
7 10 (4.24%) JSON
7 10 (4.24%) XML
8 9 (3.81%) Middleware
8 9 (3.81%) PySpark
9 7 (2.97%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.54%) DirectX
10 6 (2.54%) Kafka
10 6 (2.54%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.73%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.73%) Cyberattack
2 16 (6.78%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.81%) Clustering
5 9 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.39%) Replication
7 6 (2.54%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.54%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.69%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.27%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.36%) Windows
2 9 (3.81%) Linux
3 8 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.97%) VMS
5 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.85%) Android
6 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Unix
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.66%) Mentoring
2 66 (27.97%) Roadmaps
3 58 (24.58%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (23.73%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (23.73%) Identity Access Management
4 56 (23.73%) Programme Delivery
4 56 (23.73%) Regulatory Compliance
5 48 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (19.07%) Data Modelling
7 44 (18.64%) Analytics
8 36 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (15.25%) Performance Tuning
9 34 (14.41%) ETL
10 32 (13.56%) DevOps
10 32 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (11.86%) Agile
11 28 (11.86%) Change Control
11 28 (11.86%) Decision-Making
12 27 (11.44%) CI/CD
13 22 (9.32%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 203 (86.02%) SQL
2 84 (35.59%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.73%) Bash
4 45 (19.07%) Python
5 41 (17.37%) C#
6 22 (9.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.97%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.54%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.12%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.12%) VBA
10 4 (1.69%) Java
10 4 (1.69%) R
11 3 (1.27%) VBScript
12 2 (0.85%) Bicep
12 2 (0.85%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) Delphi
13 1 (0.42%) PHP
13 1 (0.42%) VB
13 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (9.32%) Degree
2 6 (2.54%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.85%) MCSE
4 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.42%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.73%) NCSC
1 56 (23.73%) NIST
2 42 (17.80%) Data Quality
3 38 (16.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.66%) QA
5 6 (2.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.85%) SLA
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) HL7
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (30.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.54%) Docker
3 2 (0.85%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.97%) Terraform
2 6 (2.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 71 (30.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.05%) Databricks
3 10 (4.24%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.81%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.39%) Oracle
6 6 (2.54%) RedGate
7 5 (2.12%) iManage
8 4 (1.69%) IFS
8 4 (1.69%) Infor
8 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.69%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.27%) SAP
10 2 (0.85%) Citrix
10 2 (0.85%) Informatica
10 2 (0.85%) Intapp
10 2 (0.85%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.85%) Talend
10 2 (0.85%) Xamarin