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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 363 258
Rank change year-on-year -142 -105 +1
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 229 354 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.80% 1.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.39% 2.53% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 149 272 913
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £84,875 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +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 16,420 13,971 33,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.90% 31.60% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11,482 9,186 25,567
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,625 £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 £98,750
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 10 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 10 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 -180 191 £50,000 -13.04% 65
UK excluding London -89 167 £47,500 -7.77% 49
Work from Home +6 131 £47,500 -13.64% 40
London -71 55 £67,500 -3.57% 25
South East -20 37 £46,250 +2.78% 20
North of England -71 36 £47,500 -20.83% 11
Scotland +39 32 - - 3
Midlands -45 27 £45,000 -7.22% 2
North West +1 21 £60,000 +23.08% 7
West Midlands -24 18 £44,000 -23.48% 1
South West -51 18 £45,000 -7.69% 7
East of England -26 14 £55,750 +32.74% 6
Yorkshire -75 13 £45,000 -25.00% 1
East Midlands -47 9 £59,000 +24.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
North East -44 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 (7.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.80%) IIS
3 9 (3.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.31%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.31%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.87%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.93%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (3.06%) Magento
3 7 (3.06%) Shopify
4 6 (2.62%) Infor M3
5 4 (1.75%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.75%) JDE World
5 4 (1.75%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.87%) 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
1 142 (62.01%) Azure
2 63 (27.51%) Entra ID
2 63 (27.51%) Power Platform
3 53 (23.14%) Google Workspace
4 23 (10.04%) AWS
5 21 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (8.73%) SaaS
7 19 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (7.86%) Power Automate
9 16 (6.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (6.99%) PowerApps
10 11 (4.80%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.80%) GitHub
11 9 (3.93%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.06%) Serverless
13 5 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 50 (21.83%) Broadband
2 3 (1.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.87%) DNS
3 2 (0.87%) 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
1 115 (50.22%) SQL Server
2 57 (24.89%) Power BI
3 47 (20.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (17.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (8.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.55%) Power Query
7 12 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.80%) MySQL
9 10 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (4.37%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.49%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.18%) Metadata
12 4 (1.75%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 16 (6.99%) JIRA
2 14 (6.11%) Git
3 9 (3.93%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 86 (37.55%) Social Skills
2 57 (24.89%) Organisational Skills
3 44 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.85%) Finance
5 27 (11.79%) Games
6 17 (7.42%) Law
7 11 (4.80%) Legal
8 7 (3.06%) Back Office
9 6 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.62%) Retail
10 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.31%) Billing
11 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.31%) Marketing
11 3 (1.31%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.87%) Automotive
12 2 (0.87%) Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Advertising
13 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.44%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 75 (32.75%) Developer
2 53 (23.14%) Senior
3 47 (20.52%) Analyst
4 21 (9.17%) Applications Support
5 20 (8.73%) IAM Developer
5 20 (8.73%) Support Analyst
6 19 (8.30%) Applications Support Analyst
6 19 (8.30%) Senior Developer
7 16 (6.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (6.99%) Data Analyst
7 16 (6.99%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (6.11%) DBA
8 14 (6.11%) SQL Developer
9 13 (5.68%) Database Engineer
9 13 (5.68%) Software Developer
10 12 (5.24%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.24%) SQL Analyst
10 12 (5.24%) SQL DBA
11 9 (3.93%) .NET Developer
11 9 (3.93%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (28.82%) REST
2 61 (26.64%) SOAP
3 53 (23.14%) GraphQL
3 53 (23.14%) LDAP
3 53 (23.14%) OAuth
3 53 (23.14%) OpenID
3 53 (23.14%) SAML
4 45 (19.65%) .NET
5 14 (6.11%) HTML
6 13 (5.68%) ASP.NET
6 13 (5.68%) CSS
7 12 (5.24%) JSON
7 12 (5.24%) XML
8 10 (4.37%) React
9 9 (3.93%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.93%) Kafka
10 7 (3.06%) Blazor
11 6 (2.62%) Middleware
11 6 (2.62%) PySpark
12 5 (2.18%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.83%) Cyber Threat
1 50 (21.83%) Cyberattack
2 12 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (5.24%) Replication
3 11 (4.80%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.80%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.93%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.49%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.62%) Clustering
6 6 (2.62%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.75%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.31%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.31%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.87%) LIMS
9 2 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.11%) Windows
2 8 (3.49%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.75%) Linux
5 3 (1.31%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.82%) Mentoring
2 63 (27.51%) Business Intelligence
3 60 (26.20%) Roadmaps
4 53 (23.14%) Cybersecurity
4 53 (23.14%) Identity Access Management
5 52 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (21.83%) Programme Delivery
6 50 (21.83%) Regulatory Compliance
7 45 (19.65%) Performance Tuning
8 40 (17.47%) Data Modelling
9 33 (14.41%) Agile
9 33 (14.41%) Analytics
10 32 (13.97%) CI/CD
10 32 (13.97%) ETL
10 32 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (13.10%) DevOps
12 29 (12.66%) Change Control
12 29 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (8.73%) Decision-Making
14 19 (8.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 202 (88.21%) SQL
2 81 (35.37%) PowerShell
3 53 (23.14%) Bash
4 46 (20.09%) C#
5 44 (19.21%) Python
6 22 (9.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (4.80%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.37%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.49%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.49%) VBScript
10 7 (3.06%) VBA
11 4 (1.75%) Java
11 4 (1.75%) R
12 2 (0.87%) Bicep
12 2 (0.87%) Delphi
12 2 (0.87%) VB
13 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (9.61%) Degree
2 6 (2.62%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.75%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.87%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (23.14%) NIST
2 50 (21.83%) NCSC
3 42 (18.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (15.72%) Data Quality
5 10 (4.37%) QA
6 4 (1.75%) GDPR
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.87%) SLA
8 1 (0.44%) HL7
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (31.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.06%) Terraform
2 4 (1.75%) 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 77 (33.62%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.80%) Oracle
3 9 (3.93%) Databricks
4 8 (3.49%) iManage
5 7 (3.06%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.06%) WooCommerce
6 6 (2.62%) ConnectWise
6 6 (2.62%) IFS
6 6 (2.62%) Infor
6 6 (2.62%) SAP
7 4 (1.75%) Epicor
7 4 (1.75%) JD Edwards
7 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.31%) Google
8 3 (1.31%) RedGate
8 3 (1.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.87%) Veeam
9 2 (0.87%) VMware