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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 363 251
Rank change year-on-year -155 -112 +6
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 227 350 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.79% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 2.50% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 150 268 913
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,606 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,375 £84,125 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +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 16,402 14,006 33,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.66% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,467 9,215 25,436
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £98,612
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 9 June 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 6 months to 9 June 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 -170 190 £50,000 -13.04% 67
UK excluding London -122 167 £47,500 -8.65% 52
Work from Home -2 132 £47,500 -14.41% 43
London -103 53 £67,500 -3.57% 24
South East -21 37 £46,250 +2.78% 21
North of England -77 36 £47,500 -20.83% 11
Scotland +31 31 - - 2
Midlands -49 28 £45,000 -7.22% 3
North West +3 21 £60,000 +23.08% 7
West Midlands -25 18 £44,000 -23.48% 1
South West -43 18 £45,000 -7.69% 9
East of England -21 14 £55,750 +32.74% 6
Yorkshire -73 13 £45,000 -25.00% 1
East Midlands -47 10 £53,750 +13.16% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
North East -47 2 £45,500 -17.27% 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 18 (7.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.85%) IIS
3 9 (3.96%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.32%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.32%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.88%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.96%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (3.08%) Magento
3 7 (3.08%) Shopify
4 6 (2.64%) Infor M3
5 4 (1.76%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.76%) JDE World
5 4 (1.76%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.88%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.44%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 140 (61.67%) Azure
2 63 (27.75%) Power Platform
3 60 (26.43%) Entra ID
4 50 (22.03%) Google Workspace
5 23 (10.13%) AWS
6 21 (9.25%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (8.81%) SaaS
8 19 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (7.93%) Power Automate
10 16 (7.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (7.05%) PowerApps
11 11 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (4.85%) GitHub
12 9 (3.96%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.08%) Serverless
14 5 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 50 (22.03%) Broadband
2 3 (1.32%) Firewall
3 2 (0.88%) DNS
3 2 (0.88%) VLAN
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (51.10%) SQL Server
2 57 (25.11%) Power BI
3 48 (21.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 42 (18.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (8.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.61%) Power Query
7 12 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.85%) MySQL
9 10 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (4.41%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (3.96%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.20%) Metadata
12 4 (1.76%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.88%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 16 (7.05%) JIRA
2 14 (6.17%) Git
3 9 (3.96%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 87 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.79%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.98%) Finance
5 27 (11.89%) Games
6 18 (7.93%) Law
7 11 (4.85%) Legal
8 7 (3.08%) Back Office
9 6 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.64%) Retail
10 4 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.32%) Billing
11 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.32%) Marketing
11 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.88%) Automotive
12 2 (0.88%) Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Advertising
13 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (31.72%) Developer
2 50 (22.03%) Senior
3 47 (20.70%) Analyst
4 21 (9.25%) Applications Support
5 20 (8.81%) Support Analyst
6 19 (8.37%) Applications Support Analyst
7 17 (7.49%) IAM Developer
8 16 (7.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (7.05%) Data Analyst
8 16 (7.05%) Senior Developer
8 16 (7.05%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (6.61%) DBA
10 14 (6.17%) SQL Developer
11 13 (5.73%) Database Engineer
11 13 (5.73%) Software Developer
11 13 (5.73%) SQL DBA
12 12 (5.29%) Data Engineer
12 12 (5.29%) SQL Analyst
13 9 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
13 9 (3.96%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (27.75%) REST
2 58 (25.55%) SOAP
3 50 (22.03%) GraphQL
3 50 (22.03%) LDAP
3 50 (22.03%) OAuth
3 50 (22.03%) OpenID
3 50 (22.03%) SAML
4 45 (19.82%) .NET
5 14 (6.17%) HTML
6 13 (5.73%) ASP.NET
6 13 (5.73%) CSS
7 12 (5.29%) JSON
7 12 (5.29%) XML
8 10 (4.41%) React
9 9 (3.96%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.96%) Kafka
10 7 (3.08%) Blazor
11 6 (2.64%) Middleware
11 6 (2.64%) PySpark
12 5 (2.20%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.03%) Cyber Threat
1 50 (22.03%) Cyberattack
2 12 (5.29%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (5.29%) Replication
3 11 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.52%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.64%) Clustering
7 6 (2.64%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.76%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.76%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.32%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.88%) LIMS
10 2 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.17%) Windows
2 8 (3.52%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.76%) Linux
5 3 (1.32%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.07%) Mentoring
2 63 (27.75%) Business Intelligence
3 60 (26.43%) Roadmaps
4 53 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (22.03%) Cybersecurity
5 50 (22.03%) Identity Access Management
5 50 (22.03%) Programme Delivery
5 50 (22.03%) Regulatory Compliance
6 46 (20.26%) Performance Tuning
7 40 (17.62%) Data Modelling
8 34 (14.98%) Analytics
9 33 (14.54%) Agile
9 33 (14.54%) ETL
10 32 (14.10%) CI/CD
11 30 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (13.22%) DevOps
12 29 (12.78%) Change Control
12 29 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (9.25%) Decision-Making
14 19 (8.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 200 (88.11%) SQL
2 78 (34.36%) PowerShell
3 50 (22.03%) Bash
4 46 (20.26%) C#
5 44 (19.38%) Python
6 22 (9.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (4.85%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.41%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.52%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.52%) VBScript
10 7 (3.08%) VBA
11 4 (1.76%) Java
11 4 (1.76%) R
12 2 (0.88%) Bicep
12 2 (0.88%) Delphi
12 2 (0.88%) VB
13 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (9.69%) Degree
2 6 (2.64%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.76%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (22.03%) NCSC
1 50 (22.03%) NIST
2 39 (17.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (16.30%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.41%) QA
5 4 (1.76%) GDPR
6 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.88%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (29.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.76%) Docker
3 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.08%) Terraform
2 4 (1.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.44%) SCCM
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 78 (34.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.85%) Oracle
3 9 (3.96%) Databricks
4 8 (3.52%) iManage
5 7 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.08%) WooCommerce
6 6 (2.64%) ConnectWise
6 6 (2.64%) IFS
6 6 (2.64%) Infor
6 6 (2.64%) SAP
7 4 (1.76%) Epicor
7 4 (1.76%) JD Edwards
7 4 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.76%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.32%) RedGate
8 3 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) Intapp
9 2 (0.88%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.88%) Veeam
9 2 (0.88%) VMware