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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 365 257
Rank change year-on-year -152 -108 -2
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 232 346 1,140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.77% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 2.48% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 155 271 910
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 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £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 16,777 13,975 34,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.87% 31.16% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,850 9,210 25,980
10th Percentile £37,225 £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 £110,125 £98,474
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 19 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 19 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 -177 197 £50,000 -13.04% 48
UK excluding London -111 166 £47,500 -8.65% 42
Work from Home -4 132 £48,500 -11.82% 36
London -82 59 £70,000 - 17
South East -26 39 £46,250 +2.78% 12
North of England -63 36 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Scotland +31 29 - - 2
Midlands -49 26 £45,000 -7.22% 2
North West +2 22 £53,750 - 9
South West -52 20 £48,125 -3.75% 5
West Midlands -19 17 £44,000 -23.48% 1
East of England -33 13 £62,500 +48.81% 3
Yorkshire -71 12 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -49 9 £59,000 +24.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
North East -46 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 19 (8.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.60%) IIS
3 7 (3.02%) 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 67 (28.88%) Power Platform
3 61 (26.29%) Entra ID
4 51 (21.98%) Google Workspace
5 23 (9.91%) AWS
6 22 (9.48%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (9.05%) SaaS
8 19 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (8.19%) Power Automate
9 17 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (6.47%) PowerApps
11 14 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (5.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.31%) GitHub
14 8 (3.45%) Serverless
14 8 (3.45%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
17 4 (1.72%) Azure Functions
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
1 113 (48.71%) SQL Server
2 58 (25.00%) Power BI
3 47 (20.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 45 (19.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (7.33%) 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 6 (2.59%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.16%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.29%) Metadata
14 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
15 1 (0.43%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 18 (7.76%) Git
2 13 (5.60%) JIRA
3 12 (5.17%) Visual Studio
4 9 (3.88%) 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 47 (20.26%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.79%) 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
10 4 (1.72%) 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%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Publishing
13 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 82 (35.34%) Developer
2 51 (21.98%) Senior
3 44 (18.97%) Analyst
4 19 (8.19%) Applications Support
4 19 (8.19%) IAM Developer
4 19 (8.19%) Senior Developer
5 17 (7.33%) Data Analyst
6 16 (6.90%) Applications Support Analyst
6 16 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 16 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 16 (6.90%) SQL Developer
6 16 (6.90%) Support Analyst
6 16 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
7 13 (5.60%) DBA
8 12 (5.17%) .NET Developer
8 12 (5.17%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.17%) Database Engineer
8 12 (5.17%) SQL Analyst
9 11 (4.74%) SQL DBA
10 9 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (27.16%) REST
2 58 (25.00%) SOAP
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 50 (21.55%) .NET
5 15 (6.47%) ASP.NET
5 15 (6.47%) HTML
6 14 (6.03%) CSS
6 14 (6.03%) JSON
7 12 (5.17%) .NET Core
7 12 (5.17%) XML
8 11 (4.74%) React
9 9 (3.88%) Blazor
9 9 (3.88%) Kafka
10 6 (2.59%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.59%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (2.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.69%) Cyber Threat
1 48 (20.69%) Cyberattack
2 15 (6.47%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.74%) 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 6 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.16%) Clustering
9 5 (2.16%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.72%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.72%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.29%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.03%) Windows
2 8 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.86%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.59%) Mentoring
2 60 (25.86%) Roadmaps
3 55 (23.71%) 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 46 (19.83%) Performance Tuning
7 41 (17.67%) Data Modelling
8 37 (15.95%) Agile
9 35 (15.09%) CI/CD
10 34 (14.66%) ETL
11 33 (14.22%) DevOps
11 33 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (13.79%) Analytics
13 30 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (12.07%) Change Control
15 21 (9.05%) Validation
16 19 (8.19%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 207 (89.22%) SQL
2 80 (34.48%) PowerShell
3 52 (22.41%) C#
4 51 (21.98%) Bash
5 42 (18.10%) 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
Qualifications
1 20 (8.62%) Degree
2 5 (2.16%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.72%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 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 35 (15.09%) 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 78 (33.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.45%) iManage
2 8 (3.45%) Oracle
3 7 (3.02%) Databricks
4 6 (2.59%) IFS
4 6 (2.59%) Infor
4 6 (2.59%) SAP
4 6 (2.59%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.59%) WooCommerce
5 5 (2.16%) ConnectWise
6 4 (1.72%) Epicor
6 4 (1.72%) JD Edwards
6 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.72%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.29%) Google
7 3 (1.29%) RedGate
7 3 (1.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) Veeam
7 3 (1.29%) VMware
8 2 (0.86%) Rollbar