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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 338 227
Rank change year-on-year -130 -111 +52
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 238 325 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.79% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 2.38% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 153 266 1,005
10th Percentile £28,500 £39,288 £37,350
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,437 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +6.80%

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 14,461 13,677 31,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.97% 33.42% 34.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10,063 10,250 24,845
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,529
25th Percentile £46,563 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £55,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +1.80% +2.78% -1.82%

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 4 April 2026.

Salary histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Top 17 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 4 April 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
UK excluding London -57 187 £47,500 - 91
England -145 187 £48,000 -16.52% 98
Work from Home -34 133 £47,500 -15.18% 47
Midlands -41 48 £46,750 -1.58% 19
London -107 46 £57,500 -11.54% 23
Scotland +12 42 - - 8
North of England -76 31 £51,000 -11.30% 16
West Midlands 0 30 £42,500 -20.84% 8
South East -26 30 £40,000 -19.58% 23
South West -29 18 £42,500 +10.39% 14
East Midlands -55 18 £54,500 +18.48% 11
Yorkshire -64 17 £50,000 -16.67% 6
East of England -44 12 £62,500 +31.58% 10
North West -30 11 £60,000 +37.14% 9
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
North East -22 3 £51,000 -23.02% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 9 (3.78%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.36%) IIS
2 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.68%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.68%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.26%) Confluence
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.84%) CMS
5 2 (0.84%) WordPress
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.20%) Magento
1 10 (4.20%) Shopify
2 9 (3.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.78%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.84%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 143 (60.08%) Azure
2 67 (28.15%) Entra ID
3 56 (23.53%) Google Workspace
4 52 (21.85%) Power Platform
5 31 (13.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.56%) SaaS
8 17 (7.14%) AWS
9 16 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (6.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (6.30%) GitHub
11 14 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (4.62%) Power Automate
12 11 (4.62%) PowerApps
13 7 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.94%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.10%) GCP
15 5 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.53%) Broadband
2 3 (1.26%) DNS
2 3 (1.26%) Firewall
3 2 (0.84%) DHCP
3 2 (0.84%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.84%) SSL
3 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.84%) VLAN
3 2 (0.84%) Wireless
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) Network Security
4 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (47.90%) SQL Server
2 50 (21.01%) Power BI
3 40 (16.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 39 (16.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 28 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (7.98%) Data Lake
7 13 (5.46%) Metadata
7 13 (5.46%) MySQL
8 11 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.62%) Power Query
9 9 (3.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (3.36%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.68%) Star Schema
11 4 (1.68%) Tableau
12 3 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.84%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (7.56%) JIRA
2 12 (5.04%) Git
3 4 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.26%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 90 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 59 (24.79%) Organisational Skills
3 47 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.97%) Finance
4 38 (15.97%) Games
5 12 (5.04%) Back Office
6 11 (4.62%) Law
7 6 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.52%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.10%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.68%) Legal
10 3 (1.26%) Banking
10 3 (1.26%) Marketing
10 3 (1.26%) Retail
11 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 60 (25.21%) Developer
2 56 (23.53%) Senior
3 52 (21.85%) Analyst
4 30 (12.61%) Support Analyst
5 27 (11.34%) Applications Support
6 26 (10.92%) Applications Support Analyst
7 23 (9.66%) Senior Developer
8 22 (9.24%) Data Engineer
8 22 (9.24%) DBA
9 21 (8.82%) IAM Developer
10 20 (8.40%) SQL DBA
11 16 (6.72%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (6.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 15 (6.30%) SQL Developer
13 13 (5.46%) C# Developer
13 13 (5.46%) Data Analyst
14 11 (4.62%) SQL Analyst
15 10 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (4.20%) Senior Support Analyst
15 10 (4.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (31.51%) REST
2 69 (28.99%) SOAP
3 57 (23.95%) OAuth
3 57 (23.95%) OpenID
4 56 (23.53%) GraphQL
4 56 (23.53%) LDAP
4 56 (23.53%) SAML
5 39 (16.39%) .NET
6 16 (6.72%) XML
7 15 (6.30%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.88%) JSON
9 11 (4.62%) .NET Framework
10 10 (4.20%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.78%) Entity Framework
11 9 (3.78%) Middleware
11 9 (3.78%) PySpark
12 7 (2.94%) WinForms
13 6 (2.52%) CSS
13 6 (2.52%) DirectX
13 6 (2.52%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (23.53%) Cyberattack
2 17 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.20%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.78%) Clustering
6 8 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.94%) Replication
8 6 (2.52%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (2.52%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.68%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.84%) Derivative
12 2 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.84%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.72%) Windows
2 9 (3.78%) Linux
3 7 (2.94%) VMS
4 5 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.84%) Android
5 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Unix
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 67 (28.15%) Roadmaps
3 56 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 56 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 56 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
3 56 (23.53%) Programme Delivery
3 56 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
4 53 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (19.75%) Analytics
6 46 (19.33%) Data Modelling
7 39 (16.39%) ETL
8 38 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (13.45%) DevOps
11 30 (12.61%) Performance Tuning
12 29 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (12.18%) Decision-Making
13 28 (11.76%) Agile
13 28 (11.76%) Change Control
14 27 (11.34%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 205 (86.13%) SQL
2 82 (34.45%) PowerShell
3 56 (23.53%) Bash
4 48 (20.17%) Python
5 41 (17.23%) C#
6 19 (7.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.52%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.10%) Java
8 5 (2.10%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.10%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.68%) R
10 2 (0.84%) Bicep
10 2 (0.84%) Scala
10 2 (0.84%) VBA
11 1 (0.42%) Delphi
11 1 (0.42%) PHP
11 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (12.18%) Degree
2 9 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.10%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.84%) MCSE
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) MCITP
7 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.53%) NCSC
1 56 (23.53%) NIST
2 42 (17.65%) Data Quality
3 35 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.62%) QA
5 6 (2.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.68%) Docker
3 2 (0.84%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.94%) Terraform
2 5 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
3 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (31.51%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.24%) Databricks
3 10 (4.20%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.78%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.78%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.94%) Oracle
6 6 (2.52%) Sage
6 6 (2.52%) Xamarin
7 5 (2.10%) RedGate
8 4 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.26%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.26%) Zoho
10 2 (0.84%) Citrix
10 2 (0.84%) Google
10 2 (0.84%) Infor
10 2 (0.84%) Informatica
10 2 (0.84%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.84%) Talend
10 2 (0.84%) VMware