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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 361 255
Rank change year-on-year -146 -106 +13
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 228 343 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.78% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 2.49% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 148 267 920
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,212 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +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 16,326 13,790 33,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.62% 31.48% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,405 9,166 25,247
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 5 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 5 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 -151 189 £49,000 -14.78% 83
UK excluding London -94 169 £47,500 -9.52% 63
Work from Home +1 134 £47,500 -15.18% 44
London -79 52 £65,000 -7.14% 27
North of England -85 37 £47,500 -20.83% 17
South East -37 36 £45,000 - 23
Scotland +33 33 - - 3
Midlands -60 28 £45,000 -7.22% 4
North West -9 21 £60,000 +23.08% 12
West Midlands -39 18 £44,000 -23.48% 2
South West -51 18 £42,500 -12.82% 9
East of England -33 14 £55,750 +32.74% 7
Yorkshire -71 14 £45,000 -25.00% 2
East Midlands -49 10 £53,750 +13.16% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
North East -51 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 17 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.82%) IIS
3 9 (3.95%) 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 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.51%) Magento
2 8 (3.51%) Shopify
3 6 (2.63%) Infor M3
4 4 (1.75%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.75%) JDE World
4 4 (1.75%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.88%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 139 (60.96%) Azure
2 61 (26.75%) Entra ID
2 61 (26.75%) Power Platform
3 52 (22.81%) Google Workspace
4 23 (10.09%) AWS
5 21 (9.21%) Dynamics 365
6 19 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (7.89%) SaaS
8 17 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (7.46%) Power Automate
9 16 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (7.02%) PowerApps
10 11 (4.82%) GitHub
11 9 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.95%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.07%) Serverless
14 5 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 52 (22.81%) 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
1 115 (50.44%) SQL Server
2 57 (25.00%) Power BI
3 48 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (17.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (8.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.14%) Power Query
7 12 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.82%) MySQL
9 10 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (4.39%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (3.95%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.19%) Metadata
12 4 (1.75%) 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 17 (7.46%) JIRA
2 13 (5.70%) Git
3 8 (3.51%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 89 (39.04%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.56%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.91%) Finance
5 29 (12.72%) Games
6 18 (7.89%) Law
7 10 (4.39%) Legal
8 8 (3.51%) Back Office
9 6 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.63%) Retail
10 5 (2.19%) 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 73 (32.02%) Developer
2 52 (22.81%) Senior
3 48 (21.05%) Analyst
4 21 (9.21%) Applications Support
4 21 (9.21%) Support Analyst
5 19 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
6 18 (7.89%) IAM Developer
7 17 (7.46%) Senior Developer
8 16 (7.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (7.02%) Data Analyst
8 16 (7.02%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (6.58%) DBA
10 14 (6.14%) SQL Developer
11 13 (5.70%) Database Engineer
11 13 (5.70%) Software Developer
11 13 (5.70%) SQL DBA
12 12 (5.26%) Data Engineer
12 12 (5.26%) SQL Analyst
13 9 (3.95%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
13 9 (3.95%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (28.51%) REST
2 61 (26.75%) SOAP
3 52 (22.81%) GraphQL
3 52 (22.81%) LDAP
3 52 (22.81%) OAuth
3 52 (22.81%) OpenID
3 52 (22.81%) SAML
4 44 (19.30%) .NET
5 14 (6.14%) HTML
6 13 (5.70%) ASP.NET
6 13 (5.70%) CSS
7 11 (4.82%) JSON
7 11 (4.82%) XML
8 10 (4.39%) React
9 9 (3.95%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.95%) Kafka
10 7 (3.07%) Blazor
10 7 (3.07%) Middleware
11 6 (2.63%) PySpark
12 5 (2.19%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.81%) Cyber Threat
1 52 (22.81%) Cyberattack
2 12 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.26%) Replication
3 10 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.39%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.63%) Clustering
7 6 (2.63%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.75%) 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 (6.14%) Windows
2 8 (3.51%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.75%) Linux
5 3 (1.32%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.82%) Mentoring
2 64 (28.07%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (27.19%) Roadmaps
4 52 (22.81%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (22.81%) Identity Access Management
4 52 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (22.81%) Programme Delivery
4 52 (22.81%) Regulatory Compliance
5 44 (19.30%) Performance Tuning
6 41 (17.98%) Data Modelling
7 34 (14.91%) Analytics
8 33 (14.47%) ETL
9 32 (14.04%) Agile
9 32 (14.04%) CI/CD
10 30 (13.16%) DevOps
11 29 (12.72%) Change Control
11 29 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (9.21%) Decision-Making
13 18 (7.89%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 199 (87.28%) SQL
2 79 (34.65%) PowerShell
3 52 (22.81%) Bash
4 45 (19.74%) C#
5 43 (18.86%) Python
6 21 (9.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (4.82%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.39%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.51%) VBA
10 7 (3.07%) VBScript
11 4 (1.75%) Java
11 4 (1.75%) R
12 2 (0.88%) Bicep
12 2 (0.88%) Delphi
12 2 (0.88%) VB
13 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (9.65%) Degree
2 6 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.75%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (22.81%) NCSC
1 52 (22.81%) NIST
2 40 (17.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (15.79%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.95%) QA
5 5 (2.19%) 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 70 (30.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.07%) 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 (33.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.82%) Oracle
3 10 (4.39%) Databricks
4 8 (3.51%) iManage
4 8 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.51%) WooCommerce
5 7 (3.07%) ConnectWise
6 6 (2.63%) IFS
6 6 (2.63%) Infor
7 5 (2.19%) SAP
8 4 (1.75%) Epicor
8 4 (1.75%) JD Edwards
8 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.32%) RedGate
9 3 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.88%) Intapp
10 2 (0.88%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.88%) Veeam
10 2 (0.88%) VMware