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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 377 284
Rank change year-on-year -169 -93 -44
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 211 352 889
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.72% 0.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 2.45% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 167 281 701
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,438 £42,500 £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 £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,875 £51,500 £54,750
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.94% +4.29%

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 17,792 14,377 29,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.76% 29.24% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,757 9,545 21,410
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,250 £35,525
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 £80,000
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 22 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 22 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 -170 195 £52,500 -8.70% 66
UK excluding London -149 149 £49,875 -3.16% 51
Work from Home -37 109 £53,499 -2.73% 40
London -77 53 £70,000 - 21
South East -26 46 £52,500 +16.67% 14
North of England -71 34 £47,500 -20.83% 11
Midlands -59 22 £44,500 -8.25% 10
North West -7 21 £47,500 -17.39% 6
South West -67 18 £49,375 +1.28% 8
East of England -18 16 £62,500 +48.81% 5
West Midlands -25 15 £44,000 -23.48% 9
Scotland +19 12 - - 2
Yorkshire -74 11 £45,000 -25.00% 5
East Midlands -51 7 £59,366 +24.98% 1
North East -56 2 £45,500 -13.33%
Northern Ireland -65 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 (9.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.64%) IIS
3 7 (3.32%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.84%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (2.84%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.90%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.90%) JDE World
4 4 (1.90%) Magento
4 4 (1.90%) Shopify
5 2 (0.95%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.95%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.47%) FastStats
6 1 (0.47%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 126 (59.72%) Azure
2 67 (31.75%) Power Platform
3 34 (16.11%) Entra ID
4 26 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (10.90%) Google Workspace
6 22 (10.43%) SaaS
7 19 (9.00%) AWS
7 19 (9.00%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (7.58%) Power Automate
10 14 (6.64%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (5.21%) PowerApps
13 8 (3.79%) GitHub
13 8 (3.79%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.32%) Serverless
15 4 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.90%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.48%) Broadband
2 4 (1.90%) Firewall
3 3 (1.42%) DNS
3 3 (1.42%) VLAN
4 1 (0.47%) HTTP
4 1 (0.47%) LAN
4 1 (0.47%) Network Security
4 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.47%) WAN
4 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (58.29%) SQL Server
2 56 (26.54%) Power BI
3 46 (21.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (21.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (7.58%) Power Query
6 15 (7.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (5.21%) MySQL
10 8 (3.79%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (2.84%) Star Schema
12 5 (2.37%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.42%) Db2
14 3 (1.42%) WhereScape RED
15 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (10.43%) Git
2 14 (6.64%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.74%) JIRA
3 10 (4.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.95%) Postman
4 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.47%) Yeoman
General
1 68 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (13.27%) Finance
4 27 (12.80%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (9.00%) Law
6 10 (4.74%) Games
6 10 (4.74%) Legal
7 7 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.84%) Retail
9 5 (2.37%) Back Office
10 4 (1.90%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.42%) Billing
11 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.42%) Marketing
12 2 (0.95%) Automotive
13 1 (0.47%) Advertising
13 1 (0.47%) Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (39.34%) Developer
2 41 (19.43%) Analyst
3 38 (18.01%) Senior
4 18 (8.53%) Applications Support
5 17 (8.06%) Data Analyst
5 17 (8.06%) Software Developer
5 17 (8.06%) SQL Developer
6 16 (7.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 15 (7.11%) .NET Developer
7 15 (7.11%) DBA
8 14 (6.64%) Applications Support Analyst
8 14 (6.64%) Data Engineer
8 14 (6.64%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.16%) SQL DBA
9 13 (6.16%) Support Analyst
10 12 (5.69%) SQL Analyst
11 10 (4.74%) IAM Developer
11 10 (4.74%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (4.74%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.27%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.01%) .NET
2 34 (16.11%) REST
3 28 (13.27%) SOAP
4 23 (10.90%) GraphQL
4 23 (10.90%) LDAP
4 23 (10.90%) OAuth
4 23 (10.90%) OpenID
4 23 (10.90%) SAML
5 17 (8.06%) JSON
6 16 (7.58%) HTML
7 15 (7.11%) CSS
8 14 (6.64%) ASP.NET
8 14 (6.64%) XML
9 13 (6.16%) .NET Core
10 9 (4.27%) Kafka
11 8 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (3.79%) Blazor
11 8 (3.79%) React
11 8 (3.79%) WinForms
12 7 (3.32%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.48%) Cyber Threat
1 20 (9.48%) Cyberattack
2 19 (9.00%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.64%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.21%) Replication
6 10 (4.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (4.27%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.37%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.37%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.90%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.42%) LIMS
11 3 (1.42%) NHS
11 3 (1.42%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.95%) Clustering
12 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.58%) Windows
2 9 (4.27%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (30.33%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (28.44%) Business Intelligence
3 48 (22.75%) Performance Tuning
4 41 (19.43%) Data Modelling
5 37 (17.54%) DevOps
5 37 (17.54%) Roadmaps
6 36 (17.06%) ETL
7 34 (16.11%) Agile
7 34 (16.11%) CI/CD
8 33 (15.64%) Mentoring
9 30 (14.22%) Analytics
10 29 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (11.37%) Validation
13 23 (10.90%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (10.90%) Identity Access Management
14 20 (9.48%) Programme Delivery
14 20 (9.48%) Regulatory Compliance
15 17 (8.06%) Root Cause Analysis
16 16 (7.58%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 201 (95.26%) SQL
2 58 (27.49%) C#
3 57 (27.01%) PowerShell
4 38 (18.01%) Python
5 23 (10.90%) Bash
5 23 (10.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.74%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.27%) VBScript
9 7 (3.32%) VBA
10 5 (2.37%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.90%) Delphi
11 4 (1.90%) R
12 3 (1.42%) Java
12 3 (1.42%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.95%) VB
14 1 (0.47%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (8.06%) Degree
2 5 (2.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.42%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.95%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.11%) Data Quality
2 28 (13.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (10.90%) NIST
4 20 (9.48%) NCSC
5 16 (7.58%) QA
6 7 (3.32%) SLA
7 3 (1.42%) GDPR
8 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.47%) HL7
9 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (19.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.90%) Docker
3 3 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.37%) Terraform
1 5 (2.37%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.47%) SCCM
3 1 (0.47%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 74 (35.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.27%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.79%) iManage
3 8 (3.79%) Oracle
4 7 (3.32%) SAP
5 6 (2.84%) IFS
5 6 (2.84%) Infor
6 5 (2.37%) Databricks
6 5 (2.37%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.37%) Remedy
7 4 (1.90%) Epicor
7 4 (1.90%) RedGate
7 4 (1.90%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.90%) WooCommerce
8 3 (1.42%) ConnectWise
8 3 (1.42%) Google
8 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.42%) Veeam
8 3 (1.42%) VMware
9 2 (0.95%) Rollbar