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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 389 324
Rank change year-on-year -223 -65 -118
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 198 323 614
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.65% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 2.51% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 168 256 365
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -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 18,653 12,844 23,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.79% 25.90% 30.97%
Number of salaries quoted 13,227 8,240 14,152
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -223 186 £60,000 +9.09% 206
UK excluding London -216 127 £53,750 +7.50% 126
Work from Home -65 86 £62,500 +19.05% 97
London -79 62 £70,000 -12.50% 90
South East -53 51 £55,000 +22.22% 34
North of England -104 31 £60,000 - 28
North West -32 17 £60,000 +4.35% 17
East of England -47 13 £55,000 +33.33% 19
Yorkshire -66 13 £60,500 +0.83% 9
South West -82 13 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Midlands -83 12 £54,866 +9.73% 26
West Midlands -57 10 £50,000 -13.04% 17
Scotland +5 7 £85,000 +78.95% 8
East Midlands -58 2 £65,616 +35.29% 9
North East -68 1 £47,500 -9.52% 2

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 (7.07%) IIS
2 12 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.53%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.02%) Elite 3E
3 4 (2.02%) Infor M3
3 4 (2.02%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (2.02%) JDE World
4 3 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.01%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (1.01%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.01%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.51%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 113 (57.07%) Azure
2 61 (30.81%) Power Platform
3 43 (21.72%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (10.10%) Power Automate
5 17 (8.59%) SaaS
6 15 (7.58%) AWS
6 15 (7.58%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (7.58%) PowerApps
7 13 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (5.56%) Serverless
10 10 (5.05%) Snowflake
11 9 (4.55%) GitHub
12 8 (4.04%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.54%) Azure Functions
14 6 (3.03%) dbt
15 5 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (2.02%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) DNS
1 3 (1.52%) Firewall
1 3 (1.52%) VLAN
2 2 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (65.15%) SQL Server
2 48 (24.24%) Power BI
3 46 (23.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 36 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 28 (14.14%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.57%) Power Query
7 11 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (5.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (4.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (3.03%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.03%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.02%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.02%) Db2
11 4 (2.02%) Metadata
11 4 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.02%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.52%) Big Data
12 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.52%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 27 (13.64%) Git
2 15 (7.58%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (4.04%) JIRA
5 2 (1.01%) Postman
6 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 50 (25.25%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (13.64%) Finance
4 20 (10.10%) Law
5 18 (9.09%) Legal
6 6 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.53%) Retail
8 4 (2.02%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.52%) Back Office
9 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.01%) Automotive
10 2 (1.01%) Banking
10 2 (1.01%) Billing
10 2 (1.01%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (51.01%) Developer
2 46 (23.23%) Senior
3 24 (12.12%) .NET Developer
4 23 (11.62%) Senior Developer
5 21 (10.61%) Software Developer
6 20 (10.10%) Analyst
7 19 (9.60%) SQL Developer
8 18 (9.09%) Data Engineer
9 14 (7.07%) DBA
9 14 (7.07%) SQL DBA
10 13 (6.57%) Applications Support
11 12 (6.06%) SQL Server DBA
12 11 (5.56%) Lead
13 10 (5.05%) Support Engineer
14 9 (4.55%) Applications Developer
15 8 (4.04%) Business Developer
15 8 (4.04%) Database Engineer
15 8 (4.04%) Software Support Engineer
16 7 (3.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 7 (3.54%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (34.34%) .NET
2 19 (9.60%) REST
3 14 (7.07%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.57%) HTML
5 12 (6.06%) CSS
6 11 (5.56%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.56%) JSON
7 10 (5.05%) React
7 10 (5.05%) SOAP
8 9 (4.55%) .NET Framework
9 8 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.04%) Blazor
9 8 (4.04%) WinForms
10 7 (3.54%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.54%) Kafka
10 7 (3.54%) XML
11 6 (3.03%) Entity Framework
11 6 (3.03%) jQuery
11 6 (3.03%) OAuth
11 6 (3.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.62%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.04%) Replication
4 8 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.02%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.02%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.52%) NHS
7 3 (1.52%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.01%) LIMS
8 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.01%) SystemC
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.60%) Windows
2 11 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (28.28%) DevOps
3 51 (25.76%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 44 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
6 37 (18.69%) ETL
7 36 (18.18%) Agile
8 31 (15.66%) Data Modelling
9 30 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (13.13%) Analytics
11 23 (11.62%) Software Engineering
12 20 (10.10%) SDLC
13 19 (9.60%) AI
13 19 (9.60%) Mentoring
13 19 (9.60%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (9.09%) Data Integration
14 18 (9.09%) Secure Coding
15 16 (8.08%) Clean Code
15 16 (8.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 15 (7.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 198 (100.00%) SQL
2 71 (35.86%) C#
3 37 (18.69%) PowerShell
4 30 (15.15%) Python
5 18 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (6.57%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.55%) VBScript
9 8 (4.04%) VBA
10 7 (3.54%) Delphi
11 6 (3.03%) VB.NET
12 4 (2.02%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.52%) Bash
13 3 (1.52%) XPath
14 2 (1.01%) Bicep
14 2 (1.01%) VB
15 1 (0.51%) Java
15 1 (0.51%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 12 (6.06%) Degree
2 5 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.53%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.02%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.16%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.57%) QA
3 12 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.03%) NIST
4 6 (3.03%) SLA
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (8.08%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.53%) Docker
3 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.53%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.52%) SQL Sentry
4 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 83 (41.92%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.58%) Oracle
3 9 (4.55%) iManage
4 8 (4.04%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.03%) Intapp
5 6 (3.03%) JD Edwards
5 6 (3.03%) RedGate
5 6 (3.03%) SAP
6 5 (2.53%) Databricks
6 5 (2.53%) IFS
6 5 (2.53%) Remedy
7 4 (2.02%) Epicor
7 4 (2.02%) Infor
7 4 (2.02%) Teradata
8 3 (1.52%) Google
8 3 (1.52%) Veeam
8 3 (1.52%) VMware
9 2 (1.01%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.01%) SolarWinds