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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 371 328
Rank change year-on-year -233 -43 -111
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 201 334 633
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.67% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 2.55% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 171 264 406
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,825 £37,199
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,784
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.39% -4.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,375 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% +2.75% -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 18,548 13,113 24,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.36% 26.43% 30.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13,189 8,454 15,373
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -208 191 £60,000 +9.09% 115
UK excluding London -211 137 £52,500 +2.19% 72
Work from Home -67 86 £62,500 +19.05% 105
London -71 55 £70,000 -12.50% 54
South East -34 50 £55,000 +10.00% 19
North of England -93 31 £60,000 - 15
East of England -34 18 £62,500 +54.32% 8
North West -19 17 £60,000 +4.35% 11
Midlands -78 16 £50,000 -2.44% 16
South West -88 16 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire -80 13 £60,500 +0.83% 4
West Midlands -57 11 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Scotland +4 6 £85,000 +78.95% 5
East Midlands -58 5 £59,732 +23.16% 2
North East -69 1 £47,500 -9.52%

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 (6.97%) IIS
2 12 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.99%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.49%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.49%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.99%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.99%) JDE World
4 3 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.00%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 115 (57.21%) Azure
2 63 (31.34%) Power Platform
3 39 (19.40%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.46%) Azure Logic Apps
4 17 (8.46%) Power Automate
5 16 (7.96%) AWS
6 14 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (6.47%) SaaS
8 12 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (5.97%) PowerApps
9 9 (4.48%) GitHub
9 9 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.48%) Serverless
10 8 (3.98%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.98%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.49%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.99%) GCP
12 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Firewall
2 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 3 (1.49%) VLAN
3 2 (1.00%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (65.17%) SQL Server
2 51 (25.37%) Power BI
3 50 (24.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 38 (18.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (11.44%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.46%) Power Query
7 14 (6.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (5.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (3.98%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.98%) Star Schema
10 7 (3.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.99%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.99%) Db2
12 4 (1.99%) Metadata
12 4 (1.99%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (11.94%) Git
2 15 (7.46%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.99%) JIRA
5 2 (1.00%) Postman
6 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 64 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.42%) Finance
4 20 (9.95%) Law
5 15 (7.46%) Legal
6 8 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.99%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.49%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.99%) Retail
10 3 (1.49%) Back Office
10 3 (1.49%) Billing
10 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.00%) Automotive
11 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.50%) Police
12 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 96 (47.76%) Developer
2 38 (18.91%) Senior
3 25 (12.44%) Analyst
4 23 (11.44%) .NET Developer
5 20 (9.95%) Software Developer
6 19 (9.45%) SQL Developer
7 17 (8.46%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.46%) Senior Developer
8 16 (7.96%) DBA
8 16 (7.96%) SQL DBA
9 14 (6.97%) SQL Server DBA
10 13 (6.47%) Applications Support
11 12 (5.97%) Lead
12 10 (4.98%) Data Analyst
12 10 (4.98%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Applications Developer
13 9 (4.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (3.98%) Software Support Engineer
15 7 (3.48%) 3rd Line Support
15 7 (3.48%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (33.33%) .NET
2 15 (7.46%) REST
3 14 (6.97%) HTML
4 13 (6.47%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.47%) CSS
5 12 (5.97%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.47%) JSON
7 10 (4.98%) .NET Framework
8 9 (4.48%) SOAP
8 9 (4.48%) WinForms
8 9 (4.48%) XML
9 8 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (3.98%) Blazor
9 8 (3.98%) PySpark
9 8 (3.98%) React
10 7 (3.48%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.48%) Entity Framework
10 7 (3.48%) jQuery
10 7 (3.48%) Kafka
10 7 (3.48%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.44%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (8.46%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.48%) Replication
6 8 (3.98%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.99%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.49%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.99%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.99%) NHS
10 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.49%) LIMS
10 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.00%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.45%) Windows
2 10 (4.98%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.00%) Linux
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.31%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (25.37%) DevOps
4 47 (23.38%) Performance Tuning
5 41 (20.40%) ETL
6 39 (19.40%) CI/CD
7 35 (17.41%) Data Modelling
8 33 (16.42%) Agile
8 33 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (12.44%) Analytics
10 22 (10.95%) SDLC
11 20 (9.95%) AI
12 19 (9.45%) Secure Coding
13 18 (8.96%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (8.96%) Software Engineering
14 17 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (8.46%) Mentoring
14 17 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (7.96%) Data Engineering
15 16 (7.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 200 (99.50%) SQL
2 68 (33.83%) C#
3 36 (17.91%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.42%) Python
5 21 (10.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 17 (8.46%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.47%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.48%) VBScript
9 8 (3.98%) Delphi
9 8 (3.98%) VBA
10 6 (2.99%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.49%) Bash
12 3 (1.49%) XPath
13 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 2 (1.00%) R
13 2 (1.00%) VB
14 1 (0.50%) Java
14 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (7.46%) Degree
2 5 (2.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.99%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.43%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.96%) QA
3 11 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.99%) SLA
5 5 (2.49%) NIST
6 2 (1.00%) GDPR
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.96%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.49%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (41.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.97%) Oracle
3 9 (4.48%) iManage
4 8 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.48%) SAP
6 6 (2.99%) Infor
6 6 (2.99%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.49%) IFS
7 5 (2.49%) RedGate
7 5 (2.49%) Remedy
8 4 (1.99%) Databricks
8 4 (1.99%) Epicor
8 4 (1.99%) Intapp
9 3 (1.49%) Google
9 3 (1.49%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.49%) Teradata
9 3 (1.49%) Veeam
9 3 (1.49%) VMware
10 2 (1.00%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (1.00%) OpenAI