Transact-SQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for T-SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited T-SQL over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 281 210
Rank change year-on-year +39 -71 -42
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 1,177 1,300 3,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 1.26% 1.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.55% 2.90% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 955 1,105 2,283
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,175 £35,047
25th Percentile £44,500 £46,250 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £74,500 £81,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
UK

T-SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,199 44,762 84,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.22% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24,953 28,538 44,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.09% +6.70%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing T-SQL.

Salary trend for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +35 1,032 £57,250 -0.43% 184
UK excluding London +16 782 £55,000 +5.77% 145
Work from Home +66 622 £57,500 +4.55% 106
London +64 345 £60,000 -7.69% 55
North of England +38 256 £51,250 -1.44% 31
North West +45 157 £50,000 -3.85% 13
Midlands +23 148 £57,500 +16.98% 51
South East -39 137 £60,000 +9.09% 17
West Midlands +16 109 £60,000 +26.32% 29
Scotland +16 95 £53,000 +11.58% 18
South West +13 78 £57,250 +17.44% 15
Yorkshire +37 71 £55,000 +4.76% 16
East of England +13 60 £41,500 -17.00% 11
East Midlands -5 39 £53,750 +2.38% 22
North East +9 28 £57,500 +9.52% 2
Wales -2 7 £41,629 -2.05% 2
Northern Ireland +13 1 - - 1

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 79 (6.71%) IIS
2 69 (5.86%) SharePoint
3 48 (4.08%) CMS
4 17 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.85%) EPiServer
6 7 (0.59%) NServiceBus
7 5 (0.42%) IBM Notes
7 5 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.25%) IBM Domino
8 3 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.17%) Liferay
9 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.085%) SAS
10 1 (0.085%) Tornado
Applications
1 70 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.19%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.51%) Trello
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.085%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.085%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 55 (4.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.29%) SDL Web 8
3 19 (1.61%) Elite 3E
4 13 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 13 (1.10%) NEC Housing
5 12 (1.02%) Shopify
6 11 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.34%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 4 (0.34%) Sonata
8 3 (0.25%) BusinessWorks
8 3 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.25%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.17%) Magento
9 2 (0.17%) nopCommerce
9 2 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.085%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.085%) JDE OneWorld
10 1 (0.085%) JDE World
10 1 (0.085%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.085%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 628 (53.36%) Azure
2 421 (35.77%) Power Platform
3 116 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
4 105 (8.92%) AWS
5 77 (6.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 69 (5.86%) Snowflake
7 49 (4.16%) Serverless
8 45 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (3.57%) Matillion
9 42 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 30 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 28 (2.38%) GCP
12 26 (2.21%) Azure App Service
13 22 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 21 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (1.78%) GitHub
14 21 (1.78%) PowerApps
15 19 (1.61%) SaaS
16 18 (1.53%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.27%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (6.29%) Broadband
2 32 (2.72%) DNS
3 21 (1.78%) HTTP
4 14 (1.19%) BIG-IP
5 10 (0.85%) DHCP
6 8 (0.68%) Internet
6 8 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (0.51%) Firewall
7 6 (0.51%) Intranet
7 6 (0.51%) Network Security
8 4 (0.34%) FTP
8 4 (0.34%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.25%) LAN
9 3 (0.25%) VPN
9 3 (0.25%) WAN
9 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.17%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.17%) SSL
10 2 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 825 (70.09%) SQL Server
2 397 (33.73%) Power BI
3 322 (27.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 227 (19.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 218 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
6 136 (11.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 129 (10.96%) Relational Database
8 97 (8.24%) Data Lake
9 81 (6.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 65 (5.52%) Tableau
11 39 (3.31%) Metadata
12 37 (3.14%) MySQL
13 24 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
14 21 (1.78%) MS Access
14 21 (1.78%) Oracle Database
15 20 (1.70%) Power Query
16 19 (1.61%) Big Data
17 18 (1.53%) NoSQL
18 17 (1.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 16 (1.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 168 (14.27%) Git
2 130 (11.05%) Visual Studio
3 54 (4.59%) JIRA
4 43 (3.65%) Jasmine
4 43 (3.65%) Karma Test Runner
5 38 (3.23%) Moq
6 37 (3.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 33 (2.80%) TeamCity
8 30 (2.55%) NUnit
9 25 (2.12%) Visual Studio Code
10 17 (1.44%) Postman
11 16 (1.36%) SpecFlow
12 15 (1.27%) Maven
13 14 (1.19%) git-flow
13 14 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
13 14 (1.19%) Sourcetree
14 13 (1.10%) GitLab
15 12 (1.02%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.02%) Subversion
16 10 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 364 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 241 (20.48%) Finance
3 137 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (10.03%) Law
5 72 (6.12%) Marketing
6 60 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (5.01%) Banking
8 45 (3.82%) Retail
9 44 (3.74%) Legal
9 44 (3.74%) Manufacturing
10 30 (2.55%) Public Sector
11 22 (1.87%) Private Banking
12 21 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.70%) Back Office
14 17 (1.44%) Billing
14 17 (1.44%) Games
15 16 (1.36%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.27%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.27%) Publishing
17 13 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 452 (38.40%) Developer
2 214 (18.18%) Senior
3 169 (14.36%) DBA
4 168 (14.27%) Analyst
5 131 (11.13%) SQL DBA
6 103 (8.75%) Senior Developer
7 96 (8.16%) C# Developer
8 86 (7.31%) Data Engineer
9 82 (6.97%) Software Engineer
9 82 (6.97%) SQL Developer
10 80 (6.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 72 (6.12%) Support Analyst
12 67 (5.69%) Full Stack Developer
13 62 (5.27%) Administrator
14 61 (5.18%) .NET Developer
14 61 (5.18%) Applications Support
15 49 (4.16%) Lead
16 47 (3.99%) Applications Support Analyst
17 44 (3.74%) Architect
18 41 (3.48%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (33.98%) .NET
2 246 (20.90%) ASP.NET
3 202 (17.16%) HTML
4 185 (15.72%) CSS
5 147 (12.49%) Web Services
6 144 (12.23%) XML
7 138 (11.72%) .NET Framework
8 135 (11.47%) JSON
9 134 (11.38%) AngularJS
10 119 (10.11%) SOAP
11 116 (9.86%) RESTful
12 109 (9.26%) REST
13 108 (9.18%) jQuery
14 106 (9.01%) Entity Framework
15 100 (8.50%) ASP.NET MVC
16 88 (7.48%) React
17 85 (7.22%) .NET Core
18 65 (5.52%) ASP.NET Web API
19 54 (4.59%) Sass
20 30 (2.55%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.59%) Management Information System
2 49 (4.16%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.14%) Replication
4 32 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (2.21%) Legacy Code
6 20 (1.70%) Life Science
7 19 (1.61%) Clustering
7 19 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 18 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.36%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.36%) NHS
11 15 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
12 14 (1.19%) Housing Association
12 14 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.02%) CCTV
14 10 (0.85%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.85%) Public Cloud
15 9 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 115 (9.77%) Windows
2 75 (6.37%) VMS
3 30 (2.55%) Linux
4 22 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.93%) Android
5 11 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.59%) Unix
7 4 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.085%) AIX
9 1 (0.085%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (35.09%) Business Intelligence
2 300 (25.49%) ETL
3 282 (23.96%) Agile
4 216 (18.35%) Performance Tuning
5 213 (18.10%) DevOps
6 200 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
7 160 (13.59%) MVC
8 137 (11.64%) Analytics
9 132 (11.21%) Software Engineering
10 131 (11.13%) Visualisation
11 130 (11.05%) Full Stack Development
12 125 (10.62%) Collaborative Working
13 115 (9.77%) Disaster Recovery
14 109 (9.26%) Data Modelling
14 109 (9.26%) High Availability
15 102 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 101 (8.58%) Computer Science
17 98 (8.33%) Mentoring
18 87 (7.39%) ITIL
19 86 (7.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,105 (93.88%) SQL
2 374 (31.78%) C#
3 287 (24.38%) JavaScript
4 111 (9.43%) Python
5 108 (9.18%) PowerShell
6 85 (7.22%) VB.NET
7 76 (6.46%) PL/SQL
7 76 (6.46%) TypeScript
8 66 (5.61%) Java
9 48 (4.08%) VB
10 47 (3.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 40 (3.40%) XPath
12 32 (2.72%) VBA
13 28 (2.38%) VB6
14 18 (1.53%) R
15 16 (1.36%) PHP
16 15 (1.27%) Groovy
17 13 (1.10%) VBScript
17 13 (1.10%) XAML
18 12 (1.02%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 217 (18.44%) Degree
2 96 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 37 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (1.44%) Master's Degree
4 17 (1.44%) Security Cleared
5 14 (1.19%) DBS Check
6 9 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 8 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (0.68%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.51%) IIBA
8 6 (0.51%) MCP
8 6 (0.51%) MCSE
9 4 (0.34%) HND
9 4 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.25%) CIPD
10 3 (0.25%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.17%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.42%) QA
3 30 (2.55%) GDPR
4 29 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.70%) SLA
6 15 (1.27%) WAI
7 8 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 48 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.38%) Docker
4 9 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.34%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 43 (3.65%) Terraform
2 19 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.76%) Foglight
3 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
4 7 (0.59%) Ansible
4 7 (0.59%) Nagios
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.085%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.085%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 583 (49.53%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.20%) Databricks
3 64 (5.44%) Oracle
4 18 (1.53%) DevExpress
4 18 (1.53%) NEC
5 16 (1.36%) Google
6 15 (1.27%) Commvault
7 14 (1.19%) Adobe
7 14 (1.19%) Alteryx
7 14 (1.19%) Cognizant
7 14 (1.19%) F5
7 14 (1.19%) SAP
7 14 (1.19%) VMware
8 13 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 11 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.85%) Adaptive Insights
10 10 (0.85%) Anaplan
10 10 (0.85%) Jedox
10 10 (0.85%) Tagetik
11 9 (0.76%) Sun