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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 294 224
Rank change year-on-year -132 -70 +6
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 229 548 750
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.96% 1.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 2.81% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 192 345 664
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,500 £40,150
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,813 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -2.91%

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 11,623 19,471 19,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.79% 33.96% 40.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,549 11,698 16,269
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,649
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 18 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 17 December 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 -136 201 £50,000 -4.76% 70
UK excluding London -63 165 £48,500 +2.11% 90
Work from Home -59 91 £50,000 - 83
London -82 56 £80,000 +28.00% 26
Midlands +5 48 £48,500 +5.77% 9
South East +2 37 £41,250 -17.07% 24
North of England -11 37 £40,000 -20.00% 10
Yorkshire -5 30 £40,000 -16.23% 1
West Midlands +14 29 £44,500 +3.49% 6
East Midlands -6 19 £48,500 +2.11% 3
Scotland +1 18 £37,500 -17.58% 31
South West -2 18 £50,000 -16.67% 7
North East +6 4 £51,750 -31.00% 1
North West -4 3 £57,500 +15.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £50,000 - 3
East of England -25 2 £52,338 +7.36% 3
Wales +4 1 £35,000 -18.13% 3
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 17 (7.42%) IIS
2 10 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.31%) CMS
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.87%) Confluence
4 2 (0.87%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.87%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 27 (11.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.75%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.75%) Magento
2 4 (1.75%) Shopify
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 117 (51.09%) Azure
2 53 (23.14%) Power Platform
3 46 (20.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 39 (17.03%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (9.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (8.73%) Snowflake
7 17 (7.42%) GitHub
8 15 (6.55%) Entra ID
9 14 (6.11%) AWS
10 12 (5.24%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (5.24%) GCP
11 11 (4.80%) SaaS
12 10 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (4.37%) Google Workspace
12 10 (4.37%) PowerApps
13 9 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (2.18%) Azure Functions
15 5 (2.18%) Power Automate
15 5 (2.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.37%) Broadband
2 3 (1.31%) DNS
3 2 (0.87%) DHCP
3 2 (0.87%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.87%) Firewall
3 2 (0.87%) SSL
3 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.87%) VLAN
3 2 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (54.59%) SQL Server
2 54 (23.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 52 (22.71%) Power BI
4 50 (21.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (13.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 30 (13.10%) Data Lake
7 23 (10.04%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (9.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (6.11%) Metadata
10 10 (4.37%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.93%) MySQL
12 7 (3.06%) OLAP
12 7 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (2.62%) Data Mining
13 6 (2.62%) NoSQL
14 5 (2.18%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.18%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.75%) MongoDB
16 3 (1.31%) GIS
16 3 (1.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.99%) Git
2 14 (6.11%) JIRA
3 8 (3.49%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (2.62%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.62%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.44%) Mercurial
General
1 85 (37.12%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.58%) Finance
3 44 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.55%) Games
5 12 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.93%) Law
8 8 (3.49%) Back Office
9 7 (3.06%) Legal
9 7 (3.06%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.18%) Retail
11 4 (1.75%) Billing
12 3 (1.31%) Front Office
12 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 66 (28.82%) Developer
2 53 (23.14%) Senior
3 43 (18.78%) Analyst
4 41 (17.90%) Data Engineer
5 27 (11.79%) Applications Support
5 27 (11.79%) DBA
5 27 (11.79%) Support Analyst
6 24 (10.48%) Applications Support Analyst
6 24 (10.48%) SQL DBA
6 24 (10.48%) SQL Developer
7 20 (8.73%) Senior Data Engineer
8 18 (7.86%) Senior Developer
8 18 (7.86%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.55%) Administrator
10 13 (5.68%) IT Engineer
10 13 (5.68%) IT Support
10 13 (5.68%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (5.68%) Support Engineer
11 12 (5.24%) Software Support Engineer
12 11 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (19.21%) .NET
2 28 (12.23%) REST
3 20 (8.73%) SOAP
4 19 (8.30%) .NET Framework
5 15 (6.55%) ASP.NET
5 15 (6.55%) Entity Framework
6 13 (5.68%) CSS
6 13 (5.68%) HTML
7 12 (5.24%) WinForms
8 11 (4.80%) JSON
8 11 (4.80%) OAuth
8 11 (4.80%) OpenID
8 11 (4.80%) PySpark
9 10 (4.37%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.37%) GraphQL
9 10 (4.37%) LDAP
9 10 (4.37%) SAML
9 10 (4.37%) XML
10 7 (3.06%) Web Services
11 6 (2.62%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.55%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.11%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.80%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.37%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.37%) Cyberattack
5 8 (3.49%) Clustering
6 6 (2.62%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.31%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.87%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.87%) Derivative
10 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.87%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.87%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.61%) Windows
2 8 (3.49%) Linux
3 6 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.18%) VMS
5 2 (0.87%) Android
5 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (27.95%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (27.07%) ETL
4 59 (25.76%) DevOps
5 48 (20.96%) Analytics
6 46 (20.09%) Data Pipeline
7 38 (16.59%) Data Modelling
8 37 (16.16%) Agile
9 34 (14.85%) Software Engineering
10 31 (13.54%) CI/CD
11 30 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (12.66%) Data Engineering
13 27 (11.79%) Decision-Making
14 25 (10.92%) Mentoring
15 19 (8.30%) AI
16 18 (7.86%) Computer Science
16 18 (7.86%) Data Integration
16 18 (7.86%) Roadmaps
16 18 (7.86%) Stakeholder Management
17 17 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 218 (95.20%) SQL
2 50 (21.83%) Python
3 47 (20.52%) C#
4 29 (12.66%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.30%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.11%) PL/SQL
7 11 (4.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (4.37%) Bash
9 4 (1.75%) Bicep
10 3 (1.31%) PHP
10 3 (1.31%) Scala
10 3 (1.31%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.87%) C++
11 2 (0.87%) Java
11 2 (0.87%) VBA
12 1 (0.44%) Dart
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (14.85%) Degree
2 15 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.37%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.75%) ACCA
4 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.75%) CIMA
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.31%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.87%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) MCITP
7 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.41%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.80%) GDPR
2 11 (4.80%) QA
3 10 (4.37%) NCSC
3 10 (4.37%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (7.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.18%) Docker
3 2 (0.87%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.62%) Terraform
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 88 (38.43%) Microsoft
2 42 (18.34%) Databricks
3 18 (7.86%) Oracle
4 13 (5.68%) Sage
5 12 (5.24%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.49%) RedGate
7 5 (2.18%) Google
7 5 (2.18%) Zoho
8 4 (1.75%) ConnectWise
8 4 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.75%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.75%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.75%) Informatica
8 4 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.75%) Talend
8 4 (1.75%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.87%) Aderant
9 2 (0.87%) iManage
9 2 (0.87%) Intapp