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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 373 321
Rank change year-on-year -213 -52 -93
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 202 352 666
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.70% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 2.55% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 171 281 493
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £82,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500

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 18,593 13,805 25,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.31% 27.63% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,204 9,058 17,573
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,747 £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 £80,000
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 18 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 18 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 -187 193 £57,500 - 123
UK excluding London -180 138 £52,500 - 67
Work from Home -62 87 £60,000 +14.29% 52
London -77 54 £70,000 - 68
South East -25 47 £52,500 +16.67% 19
North of England -81 33 £47,500 -20.83% 18
Midlands -74 19 £50,000 +3.09% 10
North West -5 17 £47,500 -17.39% 11
East of England -38 17 £62,500 +51.52% 13
South West -72 17 £52,500 +5.00% 6
West Midlands -37 14 £47,500 -17.39% 8
Yorkshire -64 14 £51,250 -14.58% 5
Scotland -5 5 £85,000 +78.95% 1
East Midlands -51 5 £59,732 +25.75% 2
North East -65 2 £45,500 -13.33% 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 14 (6.93%) IIS
2 12 (5.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.97%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.48%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.98%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.98%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.98%) JDE World
4 3 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.99%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.99%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) Magento
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 114 (56.44%) Azure
2 64 (31.68%) Power Platform
3 39 (19.31%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.41%) AWS
5 16 (7.92%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (7.92%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (7.92%) Power Automate
6 13 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.44%) SaaS
7 12 (5.94%) PowerApps
8 10 (4.95%) GitHub
8 10 (4.95%) Serverless
9 9 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.96%) Snowflake
11 7 (3.47%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.97%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.98%) GCP
13 4 (1.98%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) Firewall
2 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 3 (1.49%) VLAN
3 2 (0.99%) 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
1 133 (65.84%) SQL Server
2 52 (25.74%) Power BI
2 52 (25.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 38 (18.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 20 (9.90%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (8.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.93%) Power Query
7 11 (5.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 10 (4.95%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.47%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.97%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.98%) Db2
11 4 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.98%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.99%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 27 (13.37%) Git
2 15 (7.43%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.96%) JIRA
5 2 (0.99%) Postman
5 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 59 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.27%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (15.84%) Finance
4 21 (10.40%) Law
5 14 (6.93%) Legal
6 7 (3.47%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.97%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.98%) Retail
9 3 (1.49%) Back Office
9 3 (1.49%) Billing
9 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.99%) Automotive
10 2 (0.99%) Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 92 (45.54%) Developer
2 35 (17.33%) Senior
3 26 (12.87%) Analyst
4 23 (11.39%) .NET Developer
4 23 (11.39%) SQL Developer
5 19 (9.41%) Software Developer
6 18 (8.91%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.91%) DBA
7 17 (8.42%) SQL DBA
8 16 (7.92%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.43%) Applications Support
9 15 (7.43%) SQL Server DBA
10 11 (5.45%) Lead
11 10 (4.95%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.95%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Applications Support Analyst
13 8 (3.96%) Software Support Engineer
14 7 (3.47%) 3rd Line Support
14 7 (3.47%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 7 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (32.67%) .NET
2 16 (7.92%) REST
3 14 (6.93%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.93%) ASP.NET
3 14 (6.93%) HTML
4 13 (6.44%) CSS
5 12 (5.94%) .NET Framework
6 11 (5.45%) JSON
7 10 (4.95%) SOAP
8 9 (4.46%) Entity Framework
8 9 (4.46%) Kafka
8 9 (4.46%) WinForms
9 8 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (3.96%) Blazor
9 8 (3.96%) XML
10 7 (3.47%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.47%) jQuery
10 7 (3.47%) PySpark
10 7 (3.47%) React
10 7 (3.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.89%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.93%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.95%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.95%) Replication
3 10 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.46%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.97%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.48%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.98%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.98%) NHS
8 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.49%) LIMS
9 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.99%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.41%) Windows
2 10 (4.95%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Linux
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (35.15%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (27.72%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (26.24%) Performance Tuning
4 51 (25.25%) DevOps
5 42 (20.79%) CI/CD
6 39 (19.31%) ETL
7 36 (17.82%) Data Modelling
8 35 (17.33%) Agile
9 34 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (13.37%) Analytics
11 19 (9.41%) AI
11 19 (9.41%) Root Cause Analysis
11 19 (9.41%) Secure Coding
12 18 (8.91%) SDLC
12 18 (8.91%) Software Engineering
13 17 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (8.42%) Roadmaps
14 16 (7.92%) Mentoring
14 16 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 201 (99.50%) SQL
2 68 (33.66%) C#
3 36 (17.82%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.34%) Python
5 22 (10.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.92%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.44%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.46%) VBScript
9 8 (3.96%) VBA
10 5 (2.48%) Delphi
10 5 (2.48%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.98%) R
11 4 (1.98%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.49%) Bash
13 2 (0.99%) Bicep
13 2 (0.99%) Java
13 2 (0.99%) VB
13 2 (0.99%) XPath
14 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 16 (7.92%) Degree
2 5 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (1.98%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.36%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.42%) QA
3 10 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.47%) SLA
5 4 (1.98%) NIST
6 3 (1.49%) GDPR
7 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) HL7
8 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.48%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.48%) Terraform
1 5 (2.48%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 78 (38.61%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.93%) Oracle
3 9 (4.46%) iManage
4 8 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.47%) SAP
6 6 (2.97%) IFS
6 6 (2.97%) Infor
6 6 (2.97%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.48%) Databricks
7 5 (2.48%) RedGate
7 5 (2.48%) Remedy
8 4 (1.98%) Epicor
8 4 (1.98%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.49%) Google
9 3 (1.49%) Intapp
9 3 (1.49%) Veeam
9 3 (1.49%) VMware
10 2 (0.99%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.99%) Rollbar