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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 386 321
Rank change year-on-year -202 -65 -103
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 203 306 601
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.62% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 2.39% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 173 240 357
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,532 £38,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +2.38% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,350 £83,525 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18,479 12,786 22,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.64% 25.74% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13,116 8,181 13,706
10th Percentile £39,163 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -199 191 £60,000 +9.09% 192
UK excluding London -190 131 £55,000 +10.00% 112
Work from Home -75 87 £62,500 +25.00% 86
London -93 63 £70,000 -12.50% 86
South East -45 55 £55,000 +22.22% 38
North of England -89 31 £60,000 +4.35% 25
North West -21 17 £60,000 -5.88% 14
East of England -40 13 £55,000 +33.33% 15
Yorkshire -57 13 £61,500 +2.50% 9
Midlands -66 13 £50,000 +3.09% 21
South West -85 12 £52,500 +5.00% 7
West Midlands -58 10 £50,000 -13.04% 17
Scotland +3 7 £85,000 +78.95% 5
East Midlands -47 3 £59,732 +23.16% 4
North East -75 1 £47,500 -9.52% 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 14 (6.90%) IIS
2 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (4.93%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.46%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.97%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.97%) Infor M3
3 4 (1.97%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (1.97%) JDE World
4 3 (1.48%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.48%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.99%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.49%) FastStats
6 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (57.14%) Azure
2 62 (30.54%) Power Platform
3 44 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.34%) Power Automate
5 18 (8.87%) SaaS
6 17 (8.37%) AWS
7 16 (7.88%) PowerApps
8 14 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (5.91%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (5.42%) Serverless
11 11 (5.42%) Snowflake
12 9 (4.43%) GitHub
13 8 (3.94%) Azure Functions
13 8 (3.94%) Entra ID
14 7 (3.45%) dbt
15 6 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (2.46%) Copilot Studio
16 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) DNS
1 3 (1.48%) Firewall
1 3 (1.48%) VLAN
2 2 (0.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (65.02%) SQL Server
2 49 (24.14%) Power BI
3 47 (23.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 36 (17.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 31 (15.27%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.40%) Power Query
7 11 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 9 (4.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (3.45%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.46%) Metadata
10 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.97%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.97%) Db2
11 4 (1.97%) OLTP
11 4 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.97%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.48%) Big Data
12 3 (1.48%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.48%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 29 (14.29%) Git
2 15 (7.39%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.43%) JIRA
4 8 (3.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.99%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.99%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.62%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.29%) Finance
4 22 (10.84%) Law
5 20 (9.85%) Legal
6 6 (2.96%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.97%) Retail
9 3 (1.48%) Back Office
9 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.48%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.99%) Automotive
10 2 (0.99%) Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Billing
10 2 (0.99%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (51.72%) Developer
2 49 (24.14%) Senior
3 25 (12.32%) .NET Developer
3 25 (12.32%) Senior Developer
4 21 (10.34%) Analyst
4 21 (10.34%) Software Developer
4 21 (10.34%) SQL Developer
5 18 (8.87%) Data Engineer
6 14 (6.90%) DBA
6 14 (6.90%) SQL DBA
7 13 (6.40%) Applications Support
8 12 (5.91%) SQL Server DBA
9 10 (4.93%) Applications Developer
9 10 (4.93%) Lead
9 10 (4.93%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.43%) Business Developer
10 9 (4.43%) Database Engineer
11 8 (3.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (3.94%) Senior Database Engineer
11 8 (3.94%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (34.98%) .NET
2 19 (9.36%) REST
3 14 (6.90%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.90%) HTML
4 13 (6.40%) CSS
5 12 (5.91%) ASP.NET
6 11 (5.42%) JSON
7 10 (4.93%) .NET Framework
7 10 (4.93%) React
7 10 (4.93%) SOAP
8 8 (3.94%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.94%) Blazor
8 8 (3.94%) WinForms
9 7 (3.45%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.45%) XML
10 6 (2.96%) jQuery
10 6 (2.96%) Kafka
10 6 (2.96%) LDAP
10 6 (2.96%) PySpark
10 6 (2.96%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.33%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.94%) Replication
4 8 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.46%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.97%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.97%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.97%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.48%) NHS
8 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.99%) LIMS
8 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.99%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.99%) SystemC
9 1 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.36%) Windows
2 11 (5.42%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (38.92%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (28.57%) DevOps
3 52 (25.62%) Business Intelligence
4 46 (22.66%) CI/CD
5 45 (22.17%) Performance Tuning
6 39 (19.21%) ETL
7 36 (17.73%) Agile
8 33 (16.26%) Data Modelling
9 29 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (12.81%) Analytics
11 24 (11.82%) Software Engineering
12 21 (10.34%) SDLC
13 20 (9.85%) Data Integration
13 20 (9.85%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (9.36%) AI
15 18 (8.87%) Mentoring
15 18 (8.87%) Secure Coding
16 17 (8.37%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (7.88%) Data Pipeline
17 16 (7.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 203 (100.00%) SQL
2 75 (36.95%) C#
3 37 (18.23%) PowerShell
4 32 (15.76%) Python
5 19 (9.36%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (6.40%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.43%) VBScript
9 8 (3.94%) VBA
10 7 (3.45%) Delphi
10 7 (3.45%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.97%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.48%) Bash
12 3 (1.48%) XPath
13 2 (0.99%) Bicep
13 2 (0.99%) VB
14 1 (0.49%) Java
14 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (6.40%) Degree
2 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (1.97%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.97%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.48%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.26%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.40%) QA
3 12 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.96%) NIST
4 6 (2.96%) SLA
5 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (7.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.97%) Docker
3 3 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.46%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.97%) SQL Sentry
3 3 (1.48%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 85 (41.87%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.39%) Oracle
3 9 (4.43%) iManage
4 8 (3.94%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.45%) Intapp
5 7 (3.45%) RedGate
5 7 (3.45%) SAP
6 6 (2.96%) Databricks
6 6 (2.96%) JD Edwards
7 5 (2.46%) IFS
7 5 (2.46%) Remedy
7 5 (2.46%) Teradata
8 4 (1.97%) Epicor
8 4 (1.97%) Infor
9 3 (1.48%) Google
9 3 (1.48%) Veeam
9 3 (1.48%) VMware
10 2 (0.99%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.99%) SolarWinds