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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 299 221
Rank change year-on-year -114 -78 +7
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 249 573 811
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.85% 1.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.10% 2.64% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 207 351 727
10th Percentile £30,875 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,100 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,250 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -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 11,860 21,726 21,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 32.33% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,585 12,992 17,368
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,645
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
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 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 19 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 25 November 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 -96 223 £51,000 +2.00% 73
UK excluding London -24 174 £49,250 +3.68% 69
Work from Home -49 92 £50,000 - 46
London -77 65 £80,000 +32.23% 21
Midlands +31 50 £46,250 +2.78% 9
South East +18 46 £42,500 -14.10% 20
North of England +3 36 £45,000 -7.69% 14
West Midlands +32 28 £42,500 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire +19 27 £40,000 -17.95% 6
East Midlands +26 22 £49,250 +6.49% 3
South West +23 18 £50,000 -6.98% 12
Scotland -1 13 £37,500 -17.58% 8
North East +20 5 £52,500 -10.26%
East of England -25 5 £50,000 +2.56% 4
North West +11 4 £57,500 +17.95% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £50,000 -
Wales +13 1 £35,000 -18.13% 2
Isle of Man +10 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 17 (6.83%) IIS
2 9 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.20%) CMS
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.80%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.80%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 27 (10.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.80%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.80%) Sage 1000
1 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 134 (53.82%) Azure
2 64 (25.70%) Power Platform
3 47 (18.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 46 (18.47%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (7.63%) Snowflake
7 18 (7.23%) AWS
8 17 (6.83%) GCP
9 15 (6.02%) GitHub
10 13 (5.22%) SaaS
11 12 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (4.82%) Entra ID
12 10 (4.02%) PowerApps
13 8 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.41%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.41%) Google Workspace
14 6 (2.41%) Serverless
15 5 (2.01%) dbt
15 5 (2.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.41%) Broadband
2 3 (1.20%) DNS
3 2 (0.80%) DHCP
3 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.80%) Firewall
3 2 (0.80%) SSL
3 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.80%) VLAN
3 2 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (52.61%) SQL Server
2 66 (26.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 63 (25.30%) Power BI
4 60 (24.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 35 (14.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (13.65%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (11.65%) Data Lake
8 28 (11.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 13 (5.22%) Metadata
10 11 (4.42%) MySQL
10 11 (4.42%) NoSQL
10 11 (4.42%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.81%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.81%) OLAP
13 6 (2.41%) Data Mining
14 5 (2.01%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.01%) RDBMS
14 5 (2.01%) Tableau
15 3 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (8.03%) Git
2 8 (3.21%) JIRA
2 8 (3.21%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (2.41%) Bitbucket
3 6 (2.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (2.41%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.40%) Mercurial
General
1 93 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 61 (24.50%) Finance
3 47 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.82%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.42%) Games
5 11 (4.42%) Law
6 9 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.61%) Legal
6 9 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.61%) Retail
7 8 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.41%) Back Office
10 5 (2.01%) Automotive
11 4 (1.61%) Billing
12 3 (1.20%) Advertising
12 3 (1.20%) Front Office
12 3 (1.20%) Marketing
13 2 (0.80%) Banking
13 2 (0.80%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (33.33%) Developer
2 53 (21.29%) Senior
3 43 (17.27%) Data Engineer
4 41 (16.47%) Analyst
5 31 (12.45%) SQL Developer
6 27 (10.84%) DBA
7 26 (10.44%) Applications Support
8 24 (9.64%) SQL DBA
8 24 (9.64%) Support Analyst
9 22 (8.84%) Applications Support Analyst
10 21 (8.43%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (8.43%) Software Engineer
11 20 (8.03%) Senior Developer
12 15 (6.02%) IT Support
13 14 (5.62%) Administrator
13 14 (5.62%) Support Engineer
14 13 (5.22%) IT Engineer
14 13 (5.22%) IT Support Engineer
15 12 (4.82%) Software Support Engineer
16 10 (4.02%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.48%) .NET
2 24 (9.64%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.84%) CSS
4 21 (8.43%) HTML
4 21 (8.43%) REST
5 20 (8.03%) ASP.NET
6 19 (7.63%) Entity Framework
7 14 (5.62%) PySpark
8 13 (5.22%) .NET Core
9 12 (4.82%) SOAP
9 12 (4.82%) WinForms
10 11 (4.42%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.42%) JSON
10 11 (4.42%) Web Services
11 10 (4.02%) XML
12 8 (3.21%) React
13 7 (2.81%) OAuth
13 7 (2.81%) OpenID
14 6 (2.41%) LDAP
14 6 (2.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.83%) Data Structures
2 14 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.02%) Clustering
5 6 (2.41%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.41%) Cyberattack
5 6 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.01%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.20%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.80%) Derivative
9 2 (0.80%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.84%) Windows
2 8 (3.21%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.01%) Linux
4 3 (1.20%) VMS
5 2 (0.80%) Android
5 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.13%) Business Intelligence
2 75 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (27.31%) ETL
4 67 (26.91%) DevOps
5 46 (18.47%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (17.67%) Analytics
7 43 (17.27%) Agile
8 37 (14.86%) Software Engineering
9 36 (14.46%) Data Modelling
10 35 (14.06%) CI/CD
10 35 (14.06%) Data Engineering
11 29 (11.65%) Decision-Making
12 23 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (9.24%) Mentoring
13 21 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (8.03%) Dimensional Modelling
14 20 (8.03%) Performance Tuning
15 19 (7.63%) Machine Learning
16 18 (7.23%) AI
16 18 (7.23%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 239 (95.98%) SQL
2 55 (22.09%) C#
3 54 (21.69%) Python
4 25 (10.04%) PowerShell
5 24 (9.64%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.02%) PL/SQL
7 12 (4.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.41%) Bash
9 5 (2.01%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.61%) Java
11 3 (1.20%) Bicep
11 3 (1.20%) PHP
11 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.20%) VBA
12 2 (0.80%) C++
12 2 (0.80%) Scala
13 1 (0.40%) Dart
13 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (14.46%) Degree
2 16 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.01%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.61%) ACCA
5 4 (1.61%) CIMA
5 4 (1.61%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.20%) MCSE
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) MCITP
7 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.24%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.02%) QA
3 9 (3.61%) GDPR
4 6 (2.41%) NCSC
4 6 (2.41%) NIST
5 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.21%) Docker
3 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.61%) Terraform
3 2 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 91 (36.55%) Microsoft
2 42 (16.87%) Databricks
3 19 (7.63%) Oracle
4 15 (6.02%) Sage
5 12 (4.82%) Xamarin
6 9 (3.61%) RedGate
7 7 (2.81%) Google
8 5 (2.01%) Informatica
8 5 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.01%) Talend
8 5 (2.01%) Zoho
9 4 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.61%) Dataiku
9 4 (1.61%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.61%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.61%) VMware
10 2 (0.80%) Aderant
10 2 (0.80%) iManage
10 2 (0.80%) Intapp
10 2 (0.80%) Lotus