Transact-SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring T-SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited T-SQL over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 275 260
Rank change year-on-year -139 -15 -23
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 350 1,061 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 1.00% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.07% 3.15% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 280 844 1,078
10th Percentile £39,658 £36,250 £38,925
25th Percentile £44,625 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -0.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,375 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.59% +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 16,887 33,660 36,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.30% 31.62% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10,812 24,916 25,870
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing T-SQL.

Salary trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 -130 330 £57,500 - 176
UK excluding London -101 231 £51,375 -6.59% 117
Work from Home -118 141 £55,000 -4.35% 67
London -57 107 £70,000 +12.00% 61
North of England -87 72 £60,000 +20.00% 38
Midlands -2 58 £48,500 -15.65% 22
Yorkshire +25 44 £60,000 +20.00% 8
South East -7 43 £45,000 -25.00% 34
East Midlands +53 33 £47,500 -17.39% 10
East of England +10 28 £42,000 -9.68% 5
West Midlands -12 25 £57,500 - 11
North West -105 22 £53,750 +7.50% 22
South West +53 19 £48,750 -15.22% 14
Scotland +28 9 £47,500 -12.04% 3
North East +27 6 £55,000 -4.35% 8
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (6.86%) IBM Domino
2 22 (6.29%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.29%) Confluence
4 8 (2.29%) IIS
5 4 (1.14%) Apache
5 4 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 27 (7.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.14%) Sage 1000
2 4 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.29%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 211 (60.29%) Azure
2 142 (40.57%) Power Platform
3 55 (15.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (7.71%) AWS
7 26 (7.43%) Power Automate
8 25 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (6.29%) SaaS
10 17 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (4.00%) GitHub
13 13 (3.71%) Snowflake
14 12 (3.43%) GCP
14 12 (3.43%) PowerApps
15 9 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (1.43%) Azure Functions
16 5 (1.43%) Azure Stack
16 5 (1.43%) Fivetran
16 5 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.00%) FTP
2 2 (0.57%) RTP
3 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (61.14%) SQL Server
2 125 (35.71%) Power BI
3 114 (32.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 92 (26.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 75 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (10.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (10.57%) Data Lake
7 35 (10.00%) Relational Database
8 31 (8.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 15 (4.29%) Metadata
10 13 (3.71%) Data Hub
10 13 (3.71%) MySQL
10 13 (3.71%) SQL CLR
11 12 (3.43%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (2.57%) DB2
12 9 (2.57%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (2.29%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 34 (9.71%) Git
2 25 (7.14%) Visual Studio
3 17 (4.86%) JIRA
4 9 (2.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.57%) Maven
6 2 (0.57%) MSTest
6 2 (0.57%) NUnit
6 2 (0.57%) Selenium
6 2 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.29%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.29%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.29%) Grunt
7 1 (0.29%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.29%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.29%) Subversion
7 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 110 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 83 (23.71%) Finance
3 48 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.71%) Law
6 14 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.71%) Back Office
7 13 (3.71%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.43%) Banking
9 11 (3.14%) Legal
10 9 (2.57%) Retail
11 8 (2.29%) Billing
11 8 (2.29%) Local Government
12 6 (1.71%) Automotive
13 5 (1.43%) Social Housing
14 4 (1.14%) Advertising
14 4 (1.14%) Marketing
14 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.14%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.14%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 163 (46.57%) Developer
2 92 (26.29%) SQL Developer
3 69 (19.71%) Senior
4 63 (18.00%) Analyst
5 38 (10.86%) Database Developer
6 37 (10.57%) Data Engineer
6 37 (10.57%) SQL Database Developer
7 29 (8.29%) Senior Developer
8 28 (8.00%) Support Analyst
9 27 (7.71%) DBA
10 26 (7.43%) Applications Support
11 24 (6.86%) SQL DBA
12 17 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
12 17 (4.86%) Senior SQL Developer
12 17 (4.86%) SQL Analyst
13 15 (4.29%) Applications Support Analyst
13 15 (4.29%) Microsoft Developer
13 15 (4.29%) Senior Applications Support
14 14 (4.00%) Analyst Developer
14 14 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.71%) .NET
2 34 (9.71%) ASP.NET
3 33 (9.43%) .NET Framework
4 30 (8.57%) HTML
5 27 (7.71%) CSS
6 18 (5.14%) XML
7 16 (4.57%) Web Services
8 15 (4.29%) PySpark
8 15 (4.29%) REST
9 13 (3.71%) React
10 11 (3.14%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.86%) SOAP
12 9 (2.57%) .NET Core
12 9 (2.57%) Entity Framework
13 8 (2.29%) JSON
14 6 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (1.71%) HTML5
15 5 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
16 4 (1.14%) CSS3
16 4 (1.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.57%) Data Structures
2 14 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.71%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.71%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.71%) Clustering
7 5 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.43%) Replication
8 4 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.14%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.14%) Social Media
9 3 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.57%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.29%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.29%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.71%) Windows
2 13 (3.71%) Linux
3 11 (3.14%) Unix
4 8 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (46.29%) Business Intelligence
2 88 (25.14%) ETL
3 79 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (19.14%) Analytics
5 53 (15.14%) DevOps
6 45 (12.86%) Performance Tuning
7 44 (12.57%) Agile
8 43 (12.29%) Data Engineering
9 40 (11.43%) CI/CD
10 36 (10.29%) Data Modelling
11 34 (9.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 34 (9.71%) Visualisation
12 29 (8.29%) Data Analysis
12 29 (8.29%) Data Visualisation
12 29 (8.29%) Migration
13 28 (8.00%) Change Management
13 28 (8.00%) Computer Science
13 28 (8.00%) Decision-Making
13 28 (8.00%) High Availability
14 27 (7.71%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 343 (98.00%) SQL
2 67 (19.14%) C#
3 57 (16.29%) Python
4 35 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 29 (8.29%) JavaScript
6 22 (6.29%) PL/SQL
7 18 (5.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (5.14%) VB.NET
8 11 (3.14%) Java
9 5 (1.43%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.14%) VBA
11 3 (0.86%) PHP
12 2 (0.57%) Bicep
12 2 (0.57%) VB
12 2 (0.57%) X++
13 1 (0.29%) C
13 1 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) VB6
13 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (13.71%) DBS Check
2 43 (12.29%) Degree
3 13 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.86%) MCSE
7 2 (0.57%) MCP
8 1 (0.29%) ACCA
8 1 (0.29%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.71%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.14%) GDPR
3 7 (2.00%) QA
4 4 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) HL7
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.29%) Docker
3 3 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (3.71%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.71%) Terraform
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 159 (45.43%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.00%) Databricks
3 26 (7.43%) Oracle
4 14 (4.00%) VMware
5 12 (3.43%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.14%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.29%) Google
8 7 (2.00%) Aderant
8 7 (2.00%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.43%) RedGate
9 5 (1.43%) Sage
9 5 (1.43%) Xero
10 4 (1.14%) Cognos
11 3 (0.86%) Informatica
11 3 (0.86%) SAP
11 3 (0.86%) Talend
12 2 (0.57%) JD Edwards
12 2 (0.57%) QAD
13 1 (0.29%) InterSystems
13 1 (0.29%) PeopleSoft