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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 339 240
Rank change year-on-year -138 -99 +34
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 233 354 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.84% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% 2.55% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 147 287 960
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,380 £36,423
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +5.77%

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 15,542 13,865 32,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.47% 32.99% 33.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,562 10,168 25,031
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 26 April 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 April 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 -176 186 £48,500 -15.65% 72
UK excluding London -99 178 £47,500 -5.00% 62
Work from Home -26 134 £47,500 -15.18% 56
London -98 51 £70,000 +3.70% 24
Midlands -51 43 £48,500 - 8
Scotland +14 40 - - 5
North of England -102 33 £48,750 -18.75% 19
South East -33 27 £42,500 -12.82% 22
West Midlands -22 26 £42,500 -26.09% 2
Yorkshire -83 19 £44,000 -26.67% 5
South West -43 18 £42,500 +6.25% 1
East Midlands -74 17 £59,732 +23.16% 6
East of England -51 12 £62,500 +39.66% 5
North West -39 11 £61,250 +16.67% 14
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 - 2
North East -46 3 £51,000 -11.30%
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 12 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.00%) IIS
4 3 (1.29%) Confluence
4 3 (1.29%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.29%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.86%) CMS
5 2 (0.86%) WordPress
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.29%) Magento
1 10 (4.29%) Shopify
2 9 (3.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.86%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (2.15%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.29%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (1.29%) JDE World
4 3 (1.29%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.86%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 135 (57.94%) Azure
2 66 (28.33%) Entra ID
3 56 (24.03%) Google Workspace
4 53 (22.75%) Power Platform
5 25 (10.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (7.73%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (6.87%) AWS
8 16 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (6.44%) SaaS
10 14 (6.01%) Power Automate
11 13 (5.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (5.58%) PowerApps
12 12 (5.15%) GitHub
13 8 (3.43%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.43%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (2.15%) Serverless
16 4 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.72%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (24.03%) Broadband
2 3 (1.29%) DNS
2 3 (1.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.86%) DHCP
3 2 (0.86%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.86%) SSL
3 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.86%) VLAN
3 2 (0.86%) Wireless
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) Network Security
4 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (48.50%) SQL Server
2 51 (21.89%) Power BI
3 38 (16.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 38 (16.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (10.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (6.44%) Data Lake
6 14 (6.01%) Power Query
7 13 (5.58%) MySQL
8 11 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (4.29%) Metadata
10 9 (3.86%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (3.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (1.72%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.86%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.43%) Big Data
14 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (8.15%) JIRA
2 10 (4.29%) Git
3 6 (2.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.72%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.86%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 91 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.75%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (16.31%) Games
5 36 (15.45%) Finance
6 16 (6.87%) Law
7 11 (4.72%) Back Office
8 8 (3.43%) Legal
9 6 (2.58%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.15%) Retail
11 4 (1.72%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.29%) Marketing
13 2 (0.86%) Banking
13 2 (0.86%) Billing
14 1 (0.43%) Advertising
14 1 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Police
14 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 64 (27.47%) Developer
2 55 (23.61%) Senior
3 54 (23.18%) Analyst
4 28 (12.02%) Support Analyst
5 26 (11.16%) Applications Support
6 25 (10.73%) Applications Support Analyst
7 24 (10.30%) Senior Developer
8 21 (9.01%) IAM Developer
9 20 (8.58%) DBA
10 18 (7.73%) SQL DBA
11 16 (6.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 16 (6.87%) Systems Engineer
12 14 (6.01%) Data Analyst
13 13 (5.58%) Data Engineer
14 12 (5.15%) C# Developer
14 12 (5.15%) SQL Analyst
15 10 (4.29%) Lead
15 10 (4.29%) SQL Developer
16 9 (3.86%) Architect
16 9 (3.86%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (30.47%) REST
2 68 (29.18%) SOAP
3 57 (24.46%) OAuth
3 57 (24.46%) OpenID
4 56 (24.03%) GraphQL
4 56 (24.03%) LDAP
4 56 (24.03%) SAML
5 40 (17.17%) .NET
6 13 (5.58%) ASP.NET
7 11 (4.72%) .NET Core
7 11 (4.72%) CSS
7 11 (4.72%) HTML
8 10 (4.29%) JSON
8 10 (4.29%) XML
9 9 (3.86%) Middleware
10 8 (3.43%) PySpark
11 7 (3.00%) React
12 6 (2.58%) DirectX
12 6 (2.58%) Kafka
12 6 (2.58%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (24.03%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (24.03%) Cyberattack
2 15 (6.44%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.86%) Clustering
5 9 (3.86%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.43%) Replication
7 6 (2.58%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.58%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.72%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.29%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.29%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.86%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.44%) Windows
2 9 (3.86%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.43%) Linux
4 7 (3.00%) VMS
5 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.86%) Android
6 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.43%) Unix
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (29.61%) Mentoring
2 65 (27.90%) Roadmaps
3 58 (24.89%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (24.03%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (24.03%) Identity Access Management
4 56 (24.03%) Programme Delivery
4 56 (24.03%) Regulatory Compliance
5 47 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (18.45%) Data Modelling
7 40 (17.17%) Analytics
8 35 (15.02%) Performance Tuning
9 34 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (14.59%) ETL
10 31 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (12.88%) DevOps
12 28 (12.02%) Agile
12 28 (12.02%) Change Control
13 27 (11.59%) CI/CD
13 27 (11.59%) Decision-Making
14 20 (8.58%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 200 (85.84%) SQL
2 84 (36.05%) PowerShell
3 56 (24.03%) Bash
4 43 (18.45%) Python
5 41 (17.60%) C#
6 21 (9.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (3.43%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.58%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.58%) VBA
10 4 (1.72%) Java
10 4 (1.72%) R
10 4 (1.72%) VBScript
11 2 (0.86%) Bicep
11 2 (0.86%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) Delphi
12 1 (0.43%) PHP
12 1 (0.43%) VB
12 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (9.44%) Degree
2 6 (2.58%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.29%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.29%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.43%) MCITP
5 1 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (24.03%) NCSC
1 56 (24.03%) NIST
2 39 (16.74%) Data Quality
3 38 (16.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.29%) QA
5 6 (2.58%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.86%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (30.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.15%) Docker
3 2 (0.86%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.00%) Terraform
2 5 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 68 (29.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.30%) Databricks
3 10 (4.29%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.86%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.86%) Oracle
4 9 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.58%) RedGate
6 5 (2.15%) IFS
6 5 (2.15%) iManage
6 5 (2.15%) Infor
7 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.72%) SAP
7 4 (1.72%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.29%) Epicor
8 3 (1.29%) JD Edwards
8 3 (1.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Intapp
9 2 (0.86%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.86%) Talend
9 2 (0.86%) VMware