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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 350 247
Rank change year-on-year -161 -103 +21
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 232 345 1,154
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.80% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 2.52% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 151 269 935
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £76,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +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 16,446 13,676 32,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 31.54% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11,478 9,178 25,107
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £111,250 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,810
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.21% -2.16%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -171 192 £48,625 -15.43% 57
UK excluding London -91 174 £47,500 -9.52% 46
Work from Home +9 137 £47,500 -15.18% 30
London -102 51 £65,000 -4.76% 17
North of England -90 38 £47,500 -20.83% 10
South East -21 35 £44,375 -1.39% 19
Scotland +34 34 - - 1
Midlands -57 29 £46,750 -3.61% 5
North West -3 21 £60,000 +23.08% 4
South West -51 20 £42,500 -10.53% 7
West Midlands -35 19 £44,000 -23.48% 4
East of England -27 15 £62,500 +48.81% 5
Yorkshire -74 15 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands -41 10 £53,750 +13.16% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -47 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 17 (7.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.74%) IIS
3 9 (3.88%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.29%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.29%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.86%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (5.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (4.31%) Magento
2 10 (4.31%) Shopify
3 9 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (2.59%) Infor M3
5 4 (1.72%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (1.72%) JDE World
5 4 (1.72%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.86%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 139 (59.91%) Azure
2 61 (26.29%) Entra ID
3 60 (25.86%) Power Platform
4 52 (22.41%) Google Workspace
5 23 (9.91%) AWS
6 22 (9.48%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (8.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (7.33%) SaaS
9 16 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (6.90%) Power Automate
10 15 (6.47%) PowerApps
11 12 (5.17%) GitHub
12 10 (4.31%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (3.02%) Serverless
16 5 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
17 4 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 52 (22.41%) Broadband
2 3 (1.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.86%) DNS
3 2 (0.86%) 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
1 119 (51.29%) SQL Server
2 56 (24.14%) Power BI
3 48 (20.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 40 (17.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (9.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.03%) Power Query
7 12 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.74%) MySQL
9 10 (4.31%) Data Lake
9 10 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (4.31%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (2.59%) Metadata
11 4 (1.72%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.86%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 19 (8.19%) JIRA
2 12 (5.17%) Git
3 7 (3.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.02%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.86%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 91 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.14%) Organisational Skills
3 45 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.09%) Finance
5 29 (12.50%) Games
6 17 (7.33%) Law
7 11 (4.74%) Legal
8 10 (4.31%) Back Office
9 6 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.59%) Retail
10 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.29%) Billing
11 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.29%) Marketing
11 3 (1.29%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.86%) Automotive
12 2 (0.86%) Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 73 (31.47%) Developer
2 53 (22.84%) Senior
3 51 (21.98%) Analyst
4 23 (9.91%) Support Analyst
5 22 (9.48%) Applications Support
6 20 (8.62%) Applications Support Analyst
7 18 (7.76%) IAM Developer
8 17 (7.33%) DBA
8 17 (7.33%) Senior Developer
9 16 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (6.90%) Data Analyst
9 16 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
10 15 (6.47%) SQL DBA
11 13 (5.60%) Database Engineer
11 13 (5.60%) Software Developer
11 13 (5.60%) SQL Developer
12 12 (5.17%) Data Engineer
12 12 (5.17%) SQL Analyst
13 9 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
13 9 (3.88%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (28.88%) REST
2 63 (27.16%) SOAP
3 52 (22.41%) GraphQL
3 52 (22.41%) LDAP
3 52 (22.41%) OAuth
3 52 (22.41%) OpenID
3 52 (22.41%) SAML
4 44 (18.97%) .NET
5 14 (6.03%) ASP.NET
5 14 (6.03%) HTML
6 13 (5.60%) CSS
7 11 (4.74%) JSON
7 11 (4.74%) XML
8 10 (4.31%) React
9 9 (3.88%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.88%) Kafka
9 9 (3.88%) Middleware
10 7 (3.02%) Blazor
11 6 (2.59%) PySpark
12 5 (2.16%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.41%) Cyber Threat
1 52 (22.41%) Cyberattack
2 12 (5.17%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.17%) Replication
3 10 (4.31%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.02%) Clustering
6 7 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.59%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.72%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.72%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.29%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.86%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.47%) Windows
2 8 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (2.16%) Linux
5 4 (1.72%) VMS
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.31%) Mentoring
2 63 (27.16%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (26.72%) Roadmaps
4 52 (22.41%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (22.41%) Identity Access Management
4 52 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (22.41%) Programme Delivery
4 52 (22.41%) Regulatory Compliance
5 45 (19.40%) Performance Tuning
6 41 (17.67%) Data Modelling
7 36 (15.52%) Analytics
8 33 (14.22%) ETL
9 32 (13.79%) Agile
9 32 (13.79%) CI/CD
10 31 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (13.36%) DevOps
11 30 (12.93%) Change Control
12 29 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (9.48%) Decision-Making
14 20 (8.62%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 203 (87.50%) SQL
2 79 (34.05%) PowerShell
3 52 (22.41%) Bash
4 45 (19.40%) C#
5 44 (18.97%) Python
6 21 (9.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (4.74%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.31%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.45%) VBA
10 7 (3.02%) VBScript
11 4 (1.72%) Java
11 4 (1.72%) R
12 2 (0.86%) Bicep
12 2 (0.86%) Delphi
12 2 (0.86%) VB
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (9.91%) Degree
2 6 (2.59%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.72%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (22.41%) NCSC
1 52 (22.41%) NIST
2 40 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (15.95%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.88%) QA
5 5 (2.16%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.86%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (30.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.72%) Docker
3 2 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (3.02%) 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 79 (34.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.74%) Databricks
2 11 (4.74%) Oracle
3 10 (4.31%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.31%) WooCommerce
4 9 (3.88%) ConnectWise
5 8 (3.45%) iManage
6 6 (2.59%) IFS
6 6 (2.59%) Infor
7 5 (2.16%) SAP
8 4 (1.72%) Epicor
8 4 (1.72%) JD Edwards
8 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.72%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.29%) RedGate
9 3 (1.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.86%) Intapp
10 2 (0.86%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.86%) Veeam
10 2 (0.86%) VMware