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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 396 310
Rank change year-on-year -210 -86 -98
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 200 288 594
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.58% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 2.27% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 172 226 356
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,532 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% +2.38% -7.08%
75th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £84,375 £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 18,408 12,709 22,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 25.71% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13,012 8,137 13,582
10th Percentile £39,016 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%
75th Percentile £83,813 £83,750 £85,000
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 10 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 10 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 -191 188 £60,000 +9.09% 183
UK excluding London -195 128 £55,000 +10.00% 97
Work from Home -71 86 £62,500 +19.05% 80
London -63 63 £70,000 -12.50% 86
South East -60 53 £55,000 +22.22% 30
North of England -78 31 £60,000 +14.29% 27
North West -19 17 £60,000 -14.29% 12
East of England -39 13 £55,000 +33.33% 14
Yorkshire -48 13 £60,500 +15.24% 13
Midlands -68 12 £55,000 +13.40% 16
South West -85 12 £52,500 +5.00% 4
West Midlands -59 9 £50,000 -13.04% 12
Scotland +7 7 £85,000 +78.95% 5
East Midlands -49 3 £65,000 +36.84% 4
North East -76 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 13 (6.50%) IIS
2 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.50%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (2.00%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.50%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.50%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.50%) Elite 3E
4 3 (1.50%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.50%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (1.50%) JDE World
4 3 (1.50%) SAP Business One
5 2 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (58.00%) Azure
2 62 (31.00%) Power Platform
3 44 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.50%) Power Automate
4 19 (9.50%) SaaS
5 17 (8.50%) AWS
6 15 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (7.50%) PowerApps
7 13 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (6.00%) Serverless
9 11 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (5.00%) GitHub
10 10 (5.00%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.00%) Azure Functions
11 8 (4.00%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.50%) dbt
13 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (2.50%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.50%) DNS
1 3 (1.50%) Firewall
1 3 (1.50%) VLAN
2 2 (1.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (65.00%) SQL Server
2 49 (24.50%) Power BI
3 45 (22.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (17.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.50%) Power Query
7 11 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (4.00%) Star Schema
10 6 (3.00%) Metadata
11 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (2.00%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.00%) Db2
12 4 (2.00%) OLTP
12 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.00%) WhereScape RED
13 3 (1.50%) Big Data
13 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.50%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 30 (15.00%) Git
2 14 (7.00%) Visual Studio
3 8 (4.00%) JIRA
3 8 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.00%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.00%) Postman
5 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 51 (25.50%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.00%) Finance
4 20 (10.00%) Law
5 18 (9.00%) Legal
6 6 (3.00%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.00%) Retail
7 5 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Back Office
8 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.50%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.00%) Automotive
9 2 (1.00%) Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (53.00%) Developer
2 49 (24.50%) Senior
3 26 (13.00%) Senior Developer
4 25 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.50%) Software Developer
5 21 (10.50%) SQL Developer
6 19 (9.50%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.50%) Analyst
8 13 (6.50%) DBA
8 13 (6.50%) SQL DBA
9 12 (6.00%) Lead
10 11 (5.50%) Applications Support
10 11 (5.50%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (5.00%) Applications Developer
11 10 (5.00%) Business Developer
11 10 (5.00%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (4.00%) Database Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Software Support Engineer
14 7 (3.50%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (35.50%) .NET
2 19 (9.50%) REST
3 14 (7.00%) .NET Core
4 12 (6.00%) ASP.NET
4 12 (6.00%) HTML
5 11 (5.50%) CSS
6 10 (5.00%) .NET Framework
6 10 (5.00%) JSON
6 10 (5.00%) React
6 10 (5.00%) SOAP
7 8 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (4.00%) Blazor
7 8 (4.00%) WinForms
8 7 (3.50%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.50%) XML
9 6 (3.00%) Entity Framework
9 6 (3.00%) Kafka
9 6 (3.00%) LDAP
9 6 (3.00%) OpenID
9 6 (3.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.50%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.50%) Replication
6 6 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.00%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.50%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.50%) NHS
9 3 (1.50%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.00%) LIMS
10 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.00%) SystemC
11 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.00%) Windows
2 10 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (39.50%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (29.50%) DevOps
3 51 (25.50%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (24.00%) CI/CD
5 42 (21.00%) Performance Tuning
6 40 (20.00%) ETL
7 36 (18.00%) Agile
8 34 (17.00%) Data Modelling
9 29 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (14.00%) Analytics
11 24 (12.00%) Software Engineering
12 21 (10.50%) AI
12 21 (10.50%) Data Integration
13 20 (10.00%) Mentoring
13 20 (10.00%) SDLC
14 18 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (9.00%) Visualisation
15 17 (8.50%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (8.50%) Secure Coding
15 17 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 200 (100.00%) SQL
2 75 (37.50%) C#
3 36 (18.00%) PowerShell
4 34 (17.00%) Python
5 18 (9.00%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (6.00%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.00%) VBA
8 8 (4.00%) VBScript
9 7 (3.50%) Delphi
9 7 (3.50%) VB.NET
10 4 (2.00%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.50%) Bash
11 3 (1.50%) XPath
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 1 (0.50%) Java
13 1 (0.50%) Tcl
13 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (6.50%) Degree
2 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.50%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.00%) QA
3 11 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.00%) NIST
4 6 (3.00%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.50%) Docker
3 3 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.50%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.00%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 86 (43.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.00%) Oracle
3 8 (4.00%) iManage
3 8 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.50%) Databricks
5 6 (3.00%) Intapp
5 6 (3.00%) RedGate
5 6 (3.00%) SAP
6 5 (2.50%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.50%) Remedy
6 5 (2.50%) Teradata
7 3 (1.50%) Epicor
7 3 (1.50%) Google
7 3 (1.50%) IFS
7 3 (1.50%) Infor
7 3 (1.50%) Veeam
7 3 (1.50%) VMware
8 2 (1.00%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.50%) New Relic