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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 358 323
Rank change year-on-year -225 -35 -102
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 203 347 683
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.69% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 2.54% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 172 276 486
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,288 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -

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 18,524 13,683 25,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.00% 27.38% 30.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13,186 8,960 17,340
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 26 August 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 15 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 26 August 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 -197 193 £57,500 - 107
UK excluding London -179 138 £52,500 +1.94% 51
Work from Home -47 89 £62,500 +19.05% 36
London -91 55 £70,000 -4.76% 59
South East -32 49 £53,750 +19.44% 11
North of England -88 33 £47,500 -20.83% 20
North West -11 17 £47,500 -17.39% 16
East of England -33 17 £62,500 +51.52% 6
South West -79 17 £52,500 +5.00% 5
Midlands -79 16 £50,000 +3.09% 9
Yorkshire -68 14 £51,250 -14.58% 4
West Midlands -45 11 £50,000 -13.04% 7
Scotland +2 6 £85,000 +78.95% 1
East Midlands -48 5 £59,732 +23.16% 2
North East -67 2 £45,500 -13.33% 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 14 (6.90%) IIS
2 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.96%) Infor M3
2 5 (2.46%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.46%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.97%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.97%) JDE World
4 3 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.99%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.99%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.49%) FastStats
6 1 (0.49%) Magento
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 117 (57.64%) Azure
2 65 (32.02%) Power Platform
3 40 (19.70%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.36%) AWS
5 17 (8.37%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (7.88%) Power Automate
7 14 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (6.40%) SaaS
9 12 (5.91%) PowerApps
10 10 (4.93%) GitHub
11 9 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.43%) Serverless
12 8 (3.94%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.94%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.46%) Azure Functions
13 5 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.97%) GCP
14 4 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.97%) Firewall
2 3 (1.48%) DNS
2 3 (1.48%) VLAN
3 2 (0.99%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) LAN
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.49%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (65.52%) SQL Server
2 53 (26.11%) Power BI
3 52 (25.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 39 (19.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (7.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (7.39%) Power Query
8 11 (5.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (4.93%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.43%) Star Schema
11 7 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.96%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.97%) Db2
13 4 (1.97%) Metadata
13 4 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (1.97%) WhereScape RED
14 3 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.48%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.48%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 27 (13.30%) Git
2 15 (7.39%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.94%) JIRA
5 2 (0.99%) Postman
5 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) Yeoman
General
1 60 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.63%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (16.75%) Finance
4 20 (9.85%) Law
5 15 (7.39%) Legal
6 8 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.46%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.97%) Retail
10 3 (1.48%) Back Office
10 3 (1.48%) Billing
10 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.99%) Banking
11 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Local Government
12 1 (0.49%) Marketing
12 1 (0.49%) Police
12 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 96 (47.29%) Developer
2 37 (18.23%) Senior
3 26 (12.81%) Analyst
4 23 (11.33%) .NET Developer
4 23 (11.33%) SQL Developer
5 19 (9.36%) Software Developer
6 18 (8.87%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.87%) DBA
6 18 (8.87%) Senior Developer
7 17 (8.37%) SQL DBA
8 15 (7.39%) Applications Support
8 15 (7.39%) SQL Server DBA
9 11 (5.42%) Lead
10 10 (4.93%) Data Analyst
10 10 (4.93%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.43%) Applications Support Analyst
11 9 (4.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (3.94%) Software Support Engineer
13 7 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 7 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (33.00%) .NET
2 17 (8.37%) REST
3 14 (6.90%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.90%) ASP.NET
3 14 (6.90%) HTML
4 13 (6.40%) .NET Framework
4 13 (6.40%) CSS
5 11 (5.42%) JSON
5 11 (5.42%) SOAP
6 9 (4.43%) Entity Framework
6 9 (4.43%) Kafka
6 9 (4.43%) WinForms
6 9 (4.43%) XML
7 8 (3.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (3.94%) Blazor
7 8 (3.94%) PySpark
8 7 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.45%) jQuery
8 7 (3.45%) React
8 7 (3.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.84%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (4.93%) Replication
4 10 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.43%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.96%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.46%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.97%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.97%) NHS
10 3 (1.48%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.48%) LIMS
10 3 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.48%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.99%) Clustering
11 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.99%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.36%) Windows
2 10 (4.93%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Linux
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.96%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (28.08%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (26.11%) Performance Tuning
4 52 (25.62%) DevOps
5 41 (20.20%) CI/CD
5 41 (20.20%) ETL
6 36 (17.73%) Data Modelling
7 35 (17.24%) Agile
8 34 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (12.81%) Analytics
10 19 (9.36%) AI
10 19 (9.36%) Root Cause Analysis
10 19 (9.36%) SDLC
10 19 (9.36%) Secure Coding
11 17 (8.37%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (8.37%) Software Engineering
11 17 (8.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (7.88%) Clean Code
12 16 (7.88%) Data Engineering
12 16 (7.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 202 (99.51%) SQL
2 68 (33.50%) C#
3 37 (18.23%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.26%) Python
5 21 (10.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.88%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.40%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.43%) VBScript
9 8 (3.94%) VBA
10 6 (2.96%) VB.NET
11 5 (2.46%) Delphi
12 4 (1.97%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.48%) Bash
13 3 (1.48%) XPath
14 2 (0.99%) Bicep
14 2 (0.99%) Java
14 2 (0.99%) R
14 2 (0.99%) VB
15 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (7.39%) Degree
2 5 (2.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.97%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.48%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.48%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.27%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.88%) QA
3 11 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.45%) SLA
5 5 (2.46%) NIST
6 3 (1.48%) GDPR
7 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) HL7
8 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.46%) Docker
3 3 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.46%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.49%) SCCM
3 1 (0.49%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 80 (39.41%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.90%) Oracle
3 9 (4.43%) iManage
4 8 (3.94%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.45%) SAP
6 6 (2.96%) IFS
6 6 (2.96%) Infor
6 6 (2.96%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.46%) Databricks
7 5 (2.46%) RedGate
7 5 (2.46%) Remedy
8 4 (1.97%) Epicor
8 4 (1.97%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.48%) Google
9 3 (1.48%) Intapp
9 3 (1.48%) Veeam
9 3 (1.48%) VMware
10 2 (0.99%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.99%) Rollbar