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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 292 221
Rank change year-on-year -134 -71 +7
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 228 538 759
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.96% 1.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 2.83% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 190 333 672
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £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 11,612 19,016 19,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.66% 33.90% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8,528 11,295 16,157
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,658
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,140
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 £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 22 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 22 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 -131 200 £50,000 -4.76% 77
UK excluding London -71 167 £48,500 +2.11% 78
Work from Home -70 94 £50,000 - 68
London -86 54 £80,000 +28.00% 25
Midlands +6 48 £48,500 +6.76% 10
South East 0 37 £40,000 -20.00% 21
North of England -7 37 £40,000 -16.67% 12
West Midlands +27 30 £45,000 +4.65% 7
Yorkshire -3 30 £40,000 -15.79% 3
Scotland +5 19 £37,500 -17.58% 19
South West -4 18 £50,000 -16.67% 10
East Midlands -15 18 £49,250 +3.68% 3
North East +11 4 £51,750 -31.00% 1
North West 0 3 £57,500 +15.00% 8
East of England -28 3 £42,175 -11.21% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £50,000 - 2
Wales -2 1 £35,000 -18.13% 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 (7.46%) IIS
2 10 (4.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.32%) CMS
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.88%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.88%) 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 (11.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.75%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.75%) Magento
2 4 (1.75%) Shopify
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.88%) 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
1 116 (50.88%) Azure
2 50 (21.93%) Power Platform
3 45 (19.74%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (9.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (8.77%) Snowflake
7 18 (7.89%) GitHub
8 15 (6.58%) Entra ID
9 14 (6.14%) AWS
10 12 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (4.82%) GCP
11 11 (4.82%) SaaS
12 10 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (4.39%) Google Workspace
12 10 (4.39%) PowerApps
13 9 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (3.07%) GitHub Copilot
15 5 (2.19%) dbt
15 5 (2.19%) Power Automate
15 5 (2.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.39%) Broadband
2 3 (1.32%) DNS
3 2 (0.88%) DHCP
3 2 (0.88%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.88%) Firewall
3 2 (0.88%) SSL
3 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.88%) VLAN
3 2 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (54.82%) SQL Server
2 54 (23.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 49 (21.49%) Power BI
3 49 (21.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 32 (14.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 30 (13.16%) Data Lake
6 22 (9.65%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (9.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 15 (6.58%) Metadata
8 10 (4.39%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.95%) MySQL
10 7 (3.07%) OLAP
10 7 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.63%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.19%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.19%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.75%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.75%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.32%) GIS
14 3 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.02%) Git
2 14 (6.14%) JIRA
3 8 (3.51%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.63%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.44%) Mercurial
General
1 86 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.68%) Finance
3 44 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.58%) Games
5 12 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.95%) Law
8 8 (3.51%) Back Office
8 8 (3.51%) Legal
9 7 (3.07%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.75%) Billing
10 4 (1.75%) Retail
11 3 (1.32%) Front Office
12 2 (0.88%) Advertising
12 2 (0.88%) Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 66 (28.95%) Developer
2 53 (23.25%) Senior
3 42 (18.42%) Analyst
4 39 (17.11%) Data Engineer
5 28 (12.28%) DBA
6 27 (11.84%) Applications Support
6 27 (11.84%) Support Analyst
7 25 (10.96%) SQL DBA
8 24 (10.53%) Applications Support Analyst
9 23 (10.09%) SQL Developer
10 20 (8.77%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (7.89%) Senior Developer
11 18 (7.89%) Software Engineer
12 15 (6.58%) Administrator
13 13 (5.70%) IT Engineer
13 13 (5.70%) IT Support
13 13 (5.70%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (5.70%) Support Engineer
14 12 (5.26%) Software Support Engineer
15 11 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (19.74%) .NET
2 28 (12.28%) REST
3 20 (8.77%) SOAP
4 19 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 16 (7.02%) ASP.NET
6 15 (6.58%) Entity Framework
7 13 (5.70%) CSS
7 13 (5.70%) HTML
8 12 (5.26%) WinForms
9 11 (4.82%) JSON
9 11 (4.82%) OAuth
9 11 (4.82%) OpenID
10 10 (4.39%) .NET Core
10 10 (4.39%) GraphQL
10 10 (4.39%) LDAP
10 10 (4.39%) SAML
10 10 (4.39%) XML
11 9 (3.95%) PySpark
12 7 (3.07%) Web Services
13 6 (2.63%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.58%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.70%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.39%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.39%) Cyberattack
5 9 (3.95%) Clustering
6 6 (2.63%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.88%) Derivative
10 2 (0.88%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.88%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.09%) Windows
2 9 (3.95%) Linux
3 6 (2.63%) VMS
3 6 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.88%) Android
4 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (26.75%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (26.75%) ETL
3 57 (25.00%) DevOps
4 48 (21.05%) Analytics
5 45 (19.74%) Data Pipeline
6 39 (17.11%) Data Modelling
7 38 (16.67%) Agile
8 34 (14.91%) Software Engineering
9 31 (13.60%) CI/CD
9 31 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (13.16%) Data Engineering
11 26 (11.40%) Decision-Making
12 25 (10.96%) Mentoring
13 20 (8.77%) AI
14 18 (7.89%) Computer Science
14 18 (7.89%) Data Integration
14 18 (7.89%) Roadmaps
14 18 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (7.46%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 217 (95.18%) SQL
2 49 (21.49%) Python
3 47 (20.61%) C#
4 28 (12.28%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.14%) PL/SQL
7 11 (4.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (4.39%) Bash
9 4 (1.75%) Bicep
10 3 (1.32%) PHP
10 3 (1.32%) Scala
10 3 (1.32%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.88%) C++
11 2 (0.88%) Java
11 2 (0.88%) VBA
12 1 (0.44%) Dart
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (14.91%) Degree
2 15 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.39%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.75%) ACCA
4 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.75%) CIMA
4 4 (1.75%) DBS Check
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.88%) MCSE
6 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.44%) MCITP
6 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.91%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.82%) GDPR
2 11 (4.82%) QA
3 10 (4.39%) NCSC
3 10 (4.39%) NIST
4 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.19%) Docker
3 2 (0.88%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.63%) Terraform
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 87 (38.16%) Microsoft
2 40 (17.54%) Databricks
3 19 (8.33%) Oracle
4 13 (5.70%) Sage
5 12 (5.26%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.51%) RedGate
7 5 (2.19%) Google
7 5 (2.19%) 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 (0.88%) Aderant
9 2 (0.88%) iManage
9 2 (0.88%) Intapp