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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 368 268
Rank change year-on-year -167 -100 -23
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 222 351 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.72% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.26% 2.43% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 169 279 820
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,565 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £44,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,375 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.13% -6.36% +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 17,623 14,419 32,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.00% 29.46% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,522 9,595 24,220
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -164 200 £52,500 -8.70% 88
UK excluding London -133 157 £49,375 -4.13% 73
Work from Home -17 117 £52,500 -4.55% 52
London -72 57 £70,000 - 26
South East -38 45 £52,500 +16.67% 22
North of England -75 35 £47,500 -20.83% 29
Midlands -63 25 £45,000 -7.22% 10
North West -2 22 £53,750 - 18
South West -57 19 £48,750 - 7
Scotland +24 18 - - 2
West Midlands -22 17 £44,000 -23.48% 8
East of England -24 14 £62,500 +48.81% 4
Yorkshire -63 11 £45,000 -25.00% 9
East Midlands -47 8 £59,000 +24.21% 2
North East -51 2 £45,500 -13.33% 2
Northern Ireland -61 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 20 (9.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.31%) IIS
3 7 (3.15%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.90%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.90%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) Confluence
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (2.70%) Infor M3
4 5 (2.25%) Magento
4 5 (2.25%) NetSuite
4 5 (2.25%) Shopify
5 4 (1.80%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.80%) JDE World
6 3 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.90%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.90%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.45%) FastStats
8 1 (0.45%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 138 (62.16%) Azure
2 68 (30.63%) Power Platform
3 42 (18.92%) Entra ID
4 31 (13.96%) Google Workspace
5 26 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.91%) SaaS
7 21 (9.46%) AWS
8 20 (9.01%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (7.21%) Power Automate
11 14 (6.31%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (5.41%) PowerApps
14 9 (4.05%) GitHub
15 8 (3.60%) Serverless
15 8 (3.60%) Snowflake
16 5 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
17 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.61%) Broadband
2 4 (1.80%) Firewall
3 3 (1.35%) DNS
3 3 (1.35%) VLAN
4 1 (0.45%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) LAN
4 1 (0.45%) Network Security
4 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
4 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (54.95%) SQL Server
2 56 (25.23%) Power BI
3 50 (22.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 48 (21.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (7.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (7.21%) Power Query
6 12 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.95%) MySQL
7 11 (4.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (3.60%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.70%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.25%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.35%) Db2
12 3 (1.35%) WhereScape RED
13 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (10.36%) Git
2 14 (6.31%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.41%) JIRA
4 10 (4.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.90%) Postman
5 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 72 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.42%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (15.77%) Organisational Skills
4 30 (13.51%) Finance
5 20 (9.01%) Law
6 15 (6.76%) Games
7 10 (4.50%) Legal
8 7 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.70%) Back Office
9 6 (2.70%) Retail
10 5 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.80%) Marketing
11 4 (1.80%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.35%) Billing
12 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.90%) Automotive
13 2 (0.90%) Banking
14 1 (0.45%) Advertising
14 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (36.94%) Developer
2 44 (19.82%) Senior
3 43 (19.37%) Analyst
4 20 (9.01%) Applications Support
5 17 (7.66%) Data Analyst
5 17 (7.66%) Software Developer
5 17 (7.66%) SQL Developer
6 16 (7.21%) Applications Support Analyst
6 16 (7.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 16 (7.21%) Data Engineer
6 16 (7.21%) Senior Developer
7 15 (6.76%) DBA
7 15 (6.76%) Support Analyst
8 14 (6.31%) .NET Developer
9 13 (5.86%) SQL DBA
10 12 (5.41%) IAM Developer
10 12 (5.41%) SQL Analyst
10 12 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (4.50%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (4.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.68%) .NET
2 43 (19.37%) REST
3 37 (16.67%) SOAP
4 31 (13.96%) GraphQL
4 31 (13.96%) LDAP
4 31 (13.96%) OAuth
4 31 (13.96%) OpenID
4 31 (13.96%) SAML
5 17 (7.66%) HTML
5 17 (7.66%) JSON
6 16 (7.21%) ASP.NET
6 16 (7.21%) CSS
7 14 (6.31%) XML
8 13 (5.86%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.05%) Blazor
9 9 (4.05%) Kafka
9 9 (4.05%) React
10 8 (3.60%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (3.15%) .NET Framework
11 7 (3.15%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.61%) Cyber Threat
1 28 (12.61%) Cyberattack
2 18 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.31%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.95%) Replication
6 9 (4.05%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.25%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.25%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.80%) Clustering
8 4 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.80%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.35%) LIMS
9 3 (1.35%) NHS
9 3 (1.35%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.76%) Windows
2 9 (4.05%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (28.38%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (27.93%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (22.52%) Performance Tuning
4 43 (19.37%) Data Modelling
4 43 (19.37%) Roadmaps
5 41 (18.47%) Mentoring
6 38 (17.12%) ETL
7 37 (16.67%) DevOps
8 36 (16.22%) CI/CD
9 35 (15.77%) Agile
10 32 (14.41%) Analytics
11 31 (13.96%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (13.96%) Identity Access Management
12 30 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (12.61%) Programme Delivery
13 28 (12.61%) Regulatory Compliance
14 26 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (11.26%) Validation
16 18 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
17 17 (7.66%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 207 (93.24%) SQL
2 65 (29.28%) PowerShell
3 59 (26.58%) C#
4 40 (18.02%) Python
5 31 (13.96%) Bash
6 23 (10.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (7.66%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.95%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.05%) VBScript
10 7 (3.15%) VBA
11 6 (2.70%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.80%) Java
12 4 (1.80%) R
13 3 (1.35%) Delphi
13 3 (1.35%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.90%) VB
15 1 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (8.11%) Degree
2 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
2 3 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.77%) Data Quality
2 32 (14.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (13.96%) NIST
4 28 (12.61%) NCSC
5 17 (7.66%) QA
6 5 (2.25%) SLA
7 4 (1.80%) GDPR
8 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) HL7
9 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (22.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.25%) Docker
3 3 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.25%) Terraform
2 4 (1.80%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.35%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.45%) SCCM
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 79 (35.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.60%) iManage
2 8 (3.60%) Oracle
2 8 (3.60%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.15%) SAP
4 6 (2.70%) Databricks
4 6 (2.70%) IFS
4 6 (2.70%) Infor
5 5 (2.25%) JD Edwards
5 5 (2.25%) WooCommerce
6 4 (1.80%) ConnectWise
6 4 (1.80%) Epicor
6 4 (1.80%) RedGate
6 4 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.80%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.35%) Google
7 3 (1.35%) Remedy
7 3 (1.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) Veeam
7 3 (1.35%) VMware