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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 376 333
Rank change year-on-year -207 -43 -104
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 202 353 668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.71% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 2.52% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 174 279 495
10th Percentile £42,000 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £81,400 £82,500 £77,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -

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 18,503 14,008 25,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.45% 28.13% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,140 9,185 17,818
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -187 194 £57,500 - 138
UK excluding London -180 139 £52,500 +1.94% 67
Work from Home -67 87 £60,000 +14.29% 60
London -92 54 £70,000 - 80
South East -29 46 £52,500 +16.67% 17
North of England -92 34 £47,500 -20.83% 22
Midlands -60 20 £48,750 +0.52% 12
North West -22 19 £47,500 -17.39% 12
East of England -41 17 £62,500 +51.52% 10
South West -64 17 £51,250 +2.50% 4
West Midlands -33 15 £47,500 -17.39% 9
Yorkshire -62 13 £45,000 -25.00% 8
Scotland +9 5 £85,000 +78.95% 2
East Midlands -48 5 £59,732 +25.75% 3
North East -60 2 £45,500 -13.33% 3

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 (6.93%) IIS
2 13 (6.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.97%) Infor M3
3 5 (2.48%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.98%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (1.98%) Elite 3E
4 4 (1.98%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (1.98%) JDE World
5 2 (0.99%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.99%) Magento
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.99%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.99%) Shopify
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.50%) FastStats
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 110 (54.46%) Azure
2 66 (32.67%) Power Platform
3 36 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.41%) AWS
5 17 (8.42%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (8.42%) Power Automate
6 16 (7.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (6.93%) SaaS
8 13 (6.44%) PowerApps
9 11 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (4.95%) GitHub
10 10 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.95%) Serverless
11 8 (3.96%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.96%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.97%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.98%) GCP
13 4 (1.98%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) Firewall
2 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 3 (1.49%) VLAN
3 2 (0.99%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (65.84%) SQL Server
2 54 (26.73%) Power BI
3 52 (25.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 40 (19.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (8.91%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (7.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (7.92%) Power Query
7 10 (4.95%) Relational Database
7 10 (4.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (3.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.97%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.97%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.98%) Db2
11 4 (1.98%) WhereScape RED
12 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.49%) MySQL
12 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 25 (12.38%) Git
2 15 (7.43%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (4.46%) JIRA
5 2 (0.99%) Postman
5 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 61 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.77%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.34%) Finance
4 21 (10.40%) Law
5 14 (6.93%) Legal
6 7 (3.47%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.97%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.48%) Retail
9 4 (1.98%) Back Office
10 3 (1.49%) Billing
10 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.99%) Banking
11 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Advertising
12 1 (0.50%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (44.55%) Developer
2 34 (16.83%) Senior
3 30 (14.85%) Analyst
4 22 (10.89%) .NET Developer
5 21 (10.40%) SQL Developer
6 18 (8.91%) DBA
6 18 (8.91%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.42%) SQL DBA
8 16 (7.92%) Applications Support
8 16 (7.92%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.43%) Data Engineer
9 15 (7.43%) SQL Server DBA
10 11 (5.45%) Data Analyst
10 11 (5.45%) Lead
11 10 (4.95%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (4.95%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (3.96%) Software Support Engineer
12 8 (3.96%) Support Analyst
13 7 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (32.18%) .NET
2 17 (8.42%) REST
3 14 (6.93%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.93%) ASP.NET
3 14 (6.93%) HTML
4 13 (6.44%) CSS
5 12 (5.94%) .NET Framework
6 11 (5.45%) JSON
6 11 (5.45%) SOAP
7 9 (4.46%) Entity Framework
7 9 (4.46%) Kafka
7 9 (4.46%) WinForms
7 9 (4.46%) XML
8 8 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.96%) Blazor
9 7 (3.47%) jQuery
9 7 (3.47%) PySpark
9 7 (3.47%) React
9 7 (3.47%) WPF
10 6 (2.97%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.89%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (6.93%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.45%) Replication
4 9 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.96%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.97%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.48%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.98%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.49%) LIMS
9 3 (1.49%) NHS
9 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Clustering
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.99%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.41%) Windows
2 10 (4.95%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Linux
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.65%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (28.71%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (25.74%) Performance Tuning
4 47 (23.27%) DevOps
5 39 (19.31%) CI/CD
6 38 (18.81%) ETL
7 37 (18.32%) Data Modelling
8 35 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (16.83%) Agile
10 27 (13.37%) Analytics
11 19 (9.41%) AI
11 19 (9.41%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (8.91%) SDLC
12 18 (8.91%) Secure Coding
12 18 (8.91%) Software Engineering
13 17 (8.42%) Decision-Making
13 17 (8.42%) Roadmaps
13 17 (8.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (7.92%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (7.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 201 (99.50%) SQL
2 67 (33.17%) C#
3 37 (18.32%) PowerShell
4 32 (15.84%) Python
5 22 (10.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (7.92%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.44%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.46%) VBScript
9 8 (3.96%) VBA
10 5 (2.48%) Delphi
10 5 (2.48%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.98%) R
11 4 (1.98%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.49%) Bash
13 2 (0.99%) Java
13 2 (0.99%) VB
13 2 (0.99%) XPath
14 1 (0.50%) Bicep
14 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 16 (7.92%) Degree
2 5 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (1.98%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.85%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.92%) QA
3 11 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.47%) SLA
5 4 (1.98%) NIST
6 3 (1.49%) GDPR
7 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) HL7
8 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.48%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.48%) ZABBIX
2 4 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.98%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 79 (39.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.93%) Oracle
3 9 (4.46%) iManage
3 9 (4.46%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.47%) SAP
5 6 (2.97%) IFS
5 6 (2.97%) Infor
5 6 (2.97%) JD Edwards
6 5 (2.48%) Databricks
6 5 (2.48%) RedGate
6 5 (2.48%) Remedy
7 4 (1.98%) Epicor
7 4 (1.98%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.49%) Google
8 3 (1.49%) Intapp
8 3 (1.49%) Veeam
8 3 (1.49%) VMware
9 2 (0.99%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (0.99%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.99%) WooCommerce