T-SQL Job Trends

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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 350 217
Rank change year-on-year -116 -133 +59
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 238 312 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.76% 1.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 2.25% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 154 250 1,022
10th Percentile £30,500 £38,750 £39,075
25th Percentile £39,438 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,688 £71,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -13.64% +10.00%

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 13,936 13,868 30,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.02% 33.85% 35.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,699 10,180 24,487
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,529
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +3.70% -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 26 March 2026.

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 26 March 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 -129 188 £47,500 -17.39% 98
UK excluding London -24 186 £43,750 -7.89% 91
Work from Home -44 130 £42,500 -24.11% 47
Midlands -29 48 £45,000 +2.27% 19
London -95 48 £70,000 +7.69% 23
Scotland +14 42 - - 8
North of England -53 33 £51,000 -2.86% 16
South East -27 32 £40,000 -19.58% 23
West Midlands +16 31 £42,500 -5.56% 8
Yorkshire -42 19 £50,000 -16.67% 6
South West -25 17 £42,500 +14.86% 14
East Midlands -54 17 £50,000 +13.64% 11
North West -29 11 £60,000 +26.32% 9
East of England -39 8 £55,750 +17.37% 10
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -24 3 £51,000 -32.00% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 11 (4.62%) IIS
2 9 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.68%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.68%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.26%) CMS
5 3 (1.26%) Confluence
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.84%) WordPress
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.20%) Magento
1 10 (4.20%) Shopify
2 9 (3.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.78%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.42%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 143 (60.08%) Azure
2 67 (28.15%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.53%) Google Workspace
4 45 (18.91%) Power Platform
5 29 (12.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.98%) SaaS
8 17 (7.14%) GitHub
9 16 (6.72%) AWS
9 16 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (6.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (4.62%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.78%) Power Automate
13 8 (3.36%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.52%) GCP
16 5 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
17 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.53%) Broadband
2 3 (1.26%) DNS
2 3 (1.26%) Firewall
3 2 (0.84%) DHCP
3 2 (0.84%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.84%) SSL
3 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.84%) VLAN
3 2 (0.84%) Wireless
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) Network Security
4 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (47.90%) SQL Server
2 43 (18.07%) Power BI
3 42 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 37 (15.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 28 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (7.98%) Data Lake
7 13 (5.46%) Metadata
7 13 (5.46%) MySQL
8 11 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (4.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (2.94%) Power Query
11 6 (2.52%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.26%) GIS
12 3 (1.26%) Tableau
13 2 (0.84%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.84%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.98%) JIRA
2 12 (5.04%) Git
3 3 (1.26%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.26%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 92 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 56 (23.53%) Organisational Skills
3 44 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.97%) Games
5 35 (14.71%) Finance
6 13 (5.46%) Back Office
7 11 (4.62%) Law
8 6 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.10%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.26%) Banking
10 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Legal
10 3 (1.26%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 58 (24.37%) Senior
2 57 (23.95%) Developer
3 51 (21.43%) Analyst
4 32 (13.45%) Support Analyst
5 29 (12.18%) Applications Support
6 28 (11.76%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.66%) Data Engineer
7 23 (9.66%) DBA
8 22 (9.24%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.82%) IAM Developer
10 20 (8.40%) SQL DBA
11 16 (6.72%) SQL Developer
11 16 (6.72%) Systems Engineer
12 14 (5.88%) Software Engineer
13 13 (5.46%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 13 (5.46%) C# Developer
13 13 (5.46%) Data Analyst
14 11 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (4.62%) Senior Support Analyst
15 10 (4.20%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (31.93%) REST
2 69 (28.99%) SOAP
3 57 (23.95%) OAuth
3 57 (23.95%) OpenID
4 56 (23.53%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.53%) LDAP
4 56 (23.53%) SAML
5 38 (15.97%) .NET
6 17 (7.14%) XML
7 15 (6.30%) ASP.NET
7 15 (6.30%) JSON
8 12 (5.04%) .NET Framework
9 10 (4.20%) Entity Framework
10 9 (3.78%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.78%) Middleware
11 8 (3.36%) WinForms
12 7 (2.94%) CSS
12 7 (2.94%) HTML
12 7 (2.94%) PySpark
13 6 (2.52%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.53%) Cyberattack
2 17 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.20%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.20%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.78%) Clustering
5 8 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.94%) Replication
7 6 (2.52%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.52%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.26%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.84%) Derivative
11 2 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.84%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.56%) Windows
2 9 (3.78%) Linux
3 6 (2.52%) VMS
3 6 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.84%) Android
4 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.73%) Roadmaps
2 65 (27.31%) Mentoring
3 56 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 56 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
3 56 (23.53%) Programme Delivery
3 56 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
4 52 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (20.17%) Business Intelligence
6 42 (17.65%) Analytics
6 42 (17.65%) Data Modelling
7 38 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (15.55%) DevOps
9 35 (14.71%) ETL
10 34 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (11.76%) Change Control
11 28 (11.76%) CI/CD
11 28 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (11.76%) Decision-Making
12 27 (11.34%) Performance Tuning
13 24 (10.08%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 206 (86.55%) SQL
2 84 (35.29%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.53%) Bash
4 49 (20.59%) Python
5 40 (16.81%) C#
6 15 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.10%) Java
8 5 (2.10%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.68%) R
10 2 (0.84%) Bicep
10 2 (0.84%) Scala
10 2 (0.84%) VBA
11 1 (0.42%) PHP
11 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (12.61%) Degree
2 11 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.84%) MCSE
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.42%) MCITP
6 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.53%) NCSC
1 56 (23.53%) NIST
2 40 (16.81%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.62%) QA
5 6 (2.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.26%) Docker
3 2 (0.84%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.94%) Terraform
2 4 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (31.51%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.24%) Databricks
3 10 (4.20%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.78%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.78%) Oracle
4 9 (3.78%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.36%) Sage
5 8 (3.36%) Xamarin
6 5 (2.10%) RedGate
7 4 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.26%) Google
8 3 (1.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.26%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.26%) Zoho
9 2 (0.84%) Citrix
9 2 (0.84%) Informatica
9 2 (0.84%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.84%) Talend
9 2 (0.84%) VMware
10 1 (0.42%) Siemens