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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 368 268
Rank change year-on-year -146 -100 -16
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 232 346 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.77% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 2.48% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 156 271 891
10th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £67,813 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +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 16,841 13,971 34,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.89% 31.13% 31.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,911 9,215 25,983
10th Percentile £37,000 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -176 198 £50,000 -13.04% 49
UK excluding London -94 166 £47,500 -8.65% 45
Work from Home -6 131 £48,500 -11.82% 38
London -76 59 £70,000 - 17
South East -24 40 £47,500 +5.56% 10
North of England -61 36 £47,500 -20.83% 19
Scotland +30 28 - - 3
Midlands -56 26 £45,000 -7.22% 1
North West +3 22 £53,750 - 12
South West -58 20 £48,125 -3.75% 5
West Midlands -24 17 £44,000 -23.48%
East of England -27 13 £62,500 +48.81% 2
Yorkshire -69 12 £45,000 -25.00% 5
East Midlands -56 9 £59,000 +24.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
North East -53 2 £45,500 -17.27% 2

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 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.60%) IIS
3 8 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.86%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.59%) Infor M3
3 6 (2.59%) Magento
3 6 (2.59%) Shopify
4 4 (1.72%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.72%) JDE World
4 4 (1.72%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.86%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.43%) FastStats
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 148 (63.79%) Azure
2 68 (29.31%) Power Platform
3 62 (26.72%) Entra ID
4 51 (21.98%) Google Workspace
5 23 (9.91%) AWS
6 22 (9.48%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (9.48%) SaaS
7 20 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (8.19%) Power Automate
9 18 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (6.47%) PowerApps
11 13 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (5.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (3.88%) GitHub
13 8 (3.45%) Serverless
14 7 (3.02%) Snowflake
15 5 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 48 (20.69%) Broadband
2 4 (1.72%) Firewall
3 3 (1.29%) DNS
3 3 (1.29%) VLAN
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) Network Security
4 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (49.14%) SQL Server
2 58 (25.00%) Power BI
3 47 (20.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 44 (18.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (6.47%) Power Query
7 12 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.74%) MySQL
9 10 (4.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.45%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.16%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.16%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.86%) Metadata
14 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.43%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 18 (7.76%) Git
2 13 (5.60%) JIRA
3 12 (5.17%) Visual Studio
4 10 (4.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.86%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.43%) Postman
6 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 82 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.71%) Organisational Skills
3 48 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.36%) Finance
5 25 (10.78%) Games
6 19 (8.19%) Law
7 10 (4.31%) Legal
8 6 (2.59%) Back Office
8 6 (2.59%) Retail
9 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.72%) Marketing
10 4 (1.72%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.29%) Billing
11 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.86%) Automotive
12 2 (0.86%) Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.43%) Police
13 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 82 (35.34%) Developer
2 52 (22.41%) Senior
3 44 (18.97%) Analyst
4 20 (8.62%) Applications Support
5 19 (8.19%) IAM Developer
5 19 (8.19%) Senior Developer
6 17 (7.33%) Data Analyst
6 17 (7.33%) Systems Engineer
7 16 (6.90%) Applications Support Analyst
7 16 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 16 (6.90%) Software Developer
7 16 (6.90%) SQL Developer
7 16 (6.90%) Support Analyst
8 12 (5.17%) .NET Developer
8 12 (5.17%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.17%) Database Engineer
8 12 (5.17%) DBA
8 12 (5.17%) SQL Analyst
9 10 (4.31%) SQL DBA
10 9 (3.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (27.16%) REST
2 58 (25.00%) SOAP
3 51 (21.98%) .NET
3 51 (21.98%) GraphQL
3 51 (21.98%) LDAP
3 51 (21.98%) OAuth
3 51 (21.98%) OpenID
3 51 (21.98%) SAML
4 15 (6.47%) ASP.NET
4 15 (6.47%) HTML
5 14 (6.03%) CSS
5 14 (6.03%) JSON
6 12 (5.17%) .NET Core
6 12 (5.17%) XML
7 11 (4.74%) React
8 9 (3.88%) Blazor
8 9 (3.88%) Kafka
9 6 (2.59%) .NET Framework
9 6 (2.59%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (2.59%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.69%) Cyber Threat
1 48 (20.69%) Cyberattack
2 16 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.74%) Replication
5 10 (4.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.88%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.16%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.16%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.72%) Clustering
9 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.72%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.72%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.29%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.47%) Windows
2 9 (3.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.43%) Linux
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.59%) Mentoring
2 60 (25.86%) Roadmaps
3 56 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (21.98%) Cybersecurity
4 51 (21.98%) Identity Access Management
5 48 (20.69%) Programme Delivery
5 48 (20.69%) Regulatory Compliance
6 45 (19.40%) Performance Tuning
7 40 (17.24%) Data Modelling
8 36 (15.52%) Agile
9 34 (14.66%) CI/CD
9 34 (14.66%) ETL
10 33 (14.22%) DevOps
10 33 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (13.36%) Analytics
12 30 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (11.64%) Change Control
14 21 (9.05%) Validation
15 18 (7.76%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 207 (89.22%) SQL
2 81 (34.91%) PowerShell
3 53 (22.84%) C#
4 51 (21.98%) Bash
5 41 (17.67%) Python
6 22 (9.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (6.47%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.74%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.45%) VBScript
10 7 (3.02%) VBA
11 4 (1.72%) Java
11 4 (1.72%) R
12 2 (0.86%) Delphi
12 2 (0.86%) VB
13 1 (0.43%) Bicep
13 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (8.62%) Degree
2 5 (2.16%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.72%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.86%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (21.98%) NIST
2 48 (20.69%) NCSC
3 42 (18.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (14.66%) Data Quality
5 14 (6.03%) QA
6 4 (1.72%) GDPR
7 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.86%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) HL7
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (30.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.72%) Docker
3 3 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.59%) Terraform
2 4 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 79 (34.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.45%) iManage
2 8 (3.45%) Oracle
3 6 (2.59%) Databricks
3 6 (2.59%) IFS
3 6 (2.59%) Infor
3 6 (2.59%) SAP
3 6 (2.59%) ServiceNow
3 6 (2.59%) WooCommerce
4 5 (2.16%) ConnectWise
5 4 (1.72%) Epicor
5 4 (1.72%) JD Edwards
5 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.72%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.29%) Google
6 3 (1.29%) RedGate
6 3 (1.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (1.29%) Veeam
6 3 (1.29%) VMware
7 2 (0.86%) Rollbar