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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 367 266
Rank change year-on-year -190 -101 -27
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 219 354 1,018
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.72% 1.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 2.44% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 169 282 808
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,918 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,625 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,375 £51,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.89% -6.59% +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 17,648 14,488 31,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.88% 29.42% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,569 9,645 23,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -167 198 £52,500 -8.70% 94
UK excluding London -135 156 £49,375 -3.89% 78
Work from Home -35 115 £52,500 -4.55% 62
London -76 55 £70,000 - 28
South East -20 45 £52,500 +20.00% 21
North of England -67 35 £47,500 -20.83% 29
Midlands -66 25 £45,000 -7.22% 14
North West -16 22 £53,750 -6.52% 19
South West -62 19 £48,750 - 6
Scotland +16 17 - - 3
West Midlands -29 17 £44,000 -23.48% 12
East of England -31 14 £62,500 +48.81% 5
Yorkshire -66 11 £45,000 -25.00% 8
East Midlands -56 8 £59,000 +24.21% 2
North East -56 2 £45,500 -13.33% 2
Northern Ireland -58 1 - -

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 20 (9.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.39%) IIS
3 7 (3.20%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.91%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) JBoss
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.74%) Infor M3
4 5 (2.28%) Magento
4 5 (2.28%) NetSuite
4 5 (2.28%) Shopify
5 4 (1.83%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.83%) JDE World
6 3 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.91%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.91%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.46%) FastStats
8 1 (0.46%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 135 (61.64%) Azure
2 68 (31.05%) Power Platform
3 40 (18.26%) Entra ID
4 29 (13.24%) Google Workspace
5 25 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (10.05%) SaaS
7 20 (9.13%) AWS
7 20 (9.13%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (7.31%) Power Automate
10 14 (6.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (5.48%) PowerApps
13 8 (3.65%) GitHub
13 8 (3.65%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.20%) Serverless
15 5 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 4 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.87%) Broadband
2 4 (1.83%) Firewall
3 3 (1.37%) DNS
3 3 (1.37%) VLAN
4 1 (0.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.46%) LAN
4 1 (0.46%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.46%) WAN
4 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (55.71%) SQL Server
2 56 (25.57%) Power BI
3 49 (22.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 47 (21.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (7.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (7.31%) Power Query
6 15 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (5.02%) MySQL
9 10 (4.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.65%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.74%) Star Schema
12 5 (2.28%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.37%) Db2
14 3 (1.37%) WhereScape RED
15 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (10.50%) Git
2 14 (6.39%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.48%) JIRA
4 10 (4.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.91%) Postman
5 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 71 (32.42%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.74%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (15.07%) Organisational Skills
4 30 (13.70%) Finance
5 20 (9.13%) Law
6 14 (6.39%) Games
7 10 (4.57%) Legal
8 7 (3.20%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.74%) Back Office
9 6 (2.74%) Retail
10 5 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.83%) Marketing
11 4 (1.83%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.37%) Billing
12 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.91%) Automotive
14 1 (0.46%) Advertising
14 1 (0.46%) Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (36.53%) Developer
2 43 (19.63%) Analyst
3 42 (19.18%) Senior
4 20 (9.13%) Applications Support
5 17 (7.76%) Data Analyst
5 17 (7.76%) Software Developer
5 17 (7.76%) SQL Developer
6 16 (7.31%) Applications Support Analyst
6 16 (7.31%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 16 (7.31%) DBA
7 15 (6.85%) Data Engineer
7 15 (6.85%) Senior Developer
7 15 (6.85%) Support Analyst
8 14 (6.39%) .NET Developer
8 14 (6.39%) SQL DBA
9 12 (5.48%) SQL Analyst
10 11 (5.02%) IAM Developer
10 11 (5.02%) SQL Server DBA
10 11 (5.02%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (4.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (25.57%) .NET
2 41 (18.72%) REST
3 35 (15.98%) SOAP
4 29 (13.24%) GraphQL
4 29 (13.24%) LDAP
4 29 (13.24%) OAuth
4 29 (13.24%) OpenID
4 29 (13.24%) SAML
5 17 (7.76%) HTML
5 17 (7.76%) JSON
6 16 (7.31%) CSS
7 15 (6.85%) ASP.NET
8 14 (6.39%) XML
9 12 (5.48%) .NET Core
10 9 (4.11%) Kafka
11 8 (3.65%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (3.65%) Blazor
11 8 (3.65%) React
12 7 (3.20%) .NET Framework
12 7 (3.20%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.87%) Cyber Threat
1 26 (11.87%) Cyberattack
2 18 (8.22%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.39%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.48%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (5.02%) Replication
6 9 (4.11%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.28%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.28%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.83%) Clustering
8 4 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.83%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.37%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.37%) LIMS
9 3 (1.37%) NHS
9 3 (1.37%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.85%) Windows
2 9 (4.11%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (27.85%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (22.83%) Performance Tuning
4 42 (19.18%) Data Modelling
5 41 (18.72%) Roadmaps
6 39 (17.81%) Mentoring
7 37 (16.89%) ETL
8 36 (16.44%) DevOps
9 34 (15.53%) CI/CD
10 33 (15.07%) Agile
11 31 (14.16%) Analytics
12 30 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (13.24%) Cybersecurity
13 29 (13.24%) Identity Access Management
14 26 (11.87%) Programme Delivery
14 26 (11.87%) Regulatory Compliance
15 25 (11.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (10.96%) Validation
17 18 (8.22%) Root Cause Analysis
18 17 (7.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 205 (93.61%) SQL
2 63 (28.77%) PowerShell
3 58 (26.48%) C#
4 40 (18.26%) Python
5 29 (13.24%) Bash
6 23 (10.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (7.31%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.57%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.11%) VBScript
10 7 (3.20%) VBA
11 5 (2.28%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.83%) Java
12 4 (1.83%) R
13 3 (1.37%) Delphi
13 3 (1.37%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.91%) VB
15 1 (0.46%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (8.22%) Degree
2 3 (1.37%) DBS Check
2 3 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.91%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 31 (14.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (13.24%) NIST
4 26 (11.87%) NCSC
5 17 (7.76%) QA
6 5 (2.28%) SLA
7 4 (1.83%) GDPR
8 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.46%) HL7
9 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (21.92%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.83%) Docker
3 3 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.28%) Terraform
2 4 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.37%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.46%) SCCM
4 1 (0.46%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 78 (35.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.65%) iManage
2 8 (3.65%) Oracle
2 8 (3.65%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.20%) SAP
4 6 (2.74%) Databricks
4 6 (2.74%) IFS
4 6 (2.74%) Infor
5 5 (2.28%) JD Edwards
5 5 (2.28%) WooCommerce
6 4 (1.83%) ConnectWise
6 4 (1.83%) Epicor
6 4 (1.83%) RedGate
6 4 (1.83%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.83%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.37%) Google
7 3 (1.37%) Remedy
7 3 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.37%) Veeam
7 3 (1.37%) VMware