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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 275 234
Rank change year-on-year +13 -41 -57
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 1,142 1,232 3,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.32% 1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.33% 3.14% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 913 1,060 2,210
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +5.33% +9.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%

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 34,343 39,181 92,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.67% 42.09% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 25,459 26,275 43,476
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 9 June 2024.

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 9 June 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 +9 1,011 £57,500 - 157
UK excluding London -12 757 £55,000 +4.76% 106
Work from Home +39 601 £57,500 +0.88% 83
London +25 338 £60,500 -6.92% 56
North of England +21 251 £51,250 -1.44% 28
North West +13 149 £50,000 -3.85% 11
Midlands -28 148 £57,500 +9.52% 27
South East -52 127 £60,000 +9.09% 8
West Midlands -8 114 £57,500 +15.00% 19
Scotland 0 86 £54,000 +8.00% 10
South West +2 79 £57,000 +15.15% 19
Yorkshire +33 73 £55,000 +6.80% 14
East of England -11 60 £41,686 -16.63% 10
East Midlands -34 34 £53,750 -2.27% 8
North East -2 29 £57,500 +6.98% 3
Wales +3 6 £41,629 -2.05% 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 73 (6.39%) IIS
2 60 (5.25%) SharePoint
3 58 (5.08%) CMS
4 16 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.88%) EPiServer
6 7 (0.61%) NServiceBus
7 5 (0.44%) IBM Notes
7 5 (0.44%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) Liferay
10 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.18%) nginx
10 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.088%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.088%) SAS
11 1 (0.088%) Tornado
Applications
1 72 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.66%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.53%) Trello
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.088%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (3.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (3.24%) SDL Web 8
3 19 (1.66%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.96%) Shopify
5 10 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
5 10 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.79%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.35%) Sonata
8 3 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.26%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.26%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.18%) Magento
9 2 (0.18%) nopCommerce
10 1 (0.088%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.088%) JDE OneWorld
10 1 (0.088%) JDE World
10 1 (0.088%) Maximo
10 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.088%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 601 (52.63%) Azure
2 404 (35.38%) Power Platform
3 107 (9.37%) AWS
3 107 (9.37%) Azure DevOps
4 85 (7.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 66 (5.78%) Snowflake
6 47 (4.12%) Serverless
7 46 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 40 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
9 39 (3.42%) Matillion
10 36 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (2.28%) Azure App Service
11 26 (2.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 24 (2.10%) SaaS
13 23 (2.01%) GitHub
14 21 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (1.84%) GCP
14 21 (1.84%) PowerApps
15 19 (1.66%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (1.66%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 74 (6.48%) Broadband
2 36 (3.15%) DNS
3 21 (1.84%) HTTP
4 10 (0.88%) DHCP
5 8 (0.70%) BIG-IP
5 8 (0.70%) Internet
6 6 (0.53%) Firewall
6 6 (0.53%) Intranet
6 6 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.35%) Network Security
7 4 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.26%) LAN
8 3 (0.26%) VPN
8 3 (0.26%) WAN
8 3 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.18%) FTP
9 2 (0.18%) SSL
9 2 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 791 (69.26%) SQL Server
2 380 (33.27%) Power BI
3 312 (27.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 231 (20.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 205 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
6 137 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 129 (11.30%) Relational Database
8 101 (8.84%) Data Lake
9 93 (8.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 66 (5.78%) Tableau
11 40 (3.50%) Metadata
12 34 (2.98%) MySQL
13 28 (2.45%) Oracle Database
13 28 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
14 26 (2.28%) MS Access
15 21 (1.84%) Big Data
16 20 (1.75%) Power Query
17 19 (1.66%) NoSQL
18 16 (1.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 15 (1.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 172 (15.06%) Git
2 125 (10.95%) Visual Studio
3 64 (5.60%) JIRA
4 47 (4.12%) Moq
5 39 (3.42%) NUnit
5 39 (3.42%) TeamCity
6 37 (3.24%) Jasmine
6 37 (3.24%) Karma Test Runner
7 31 (2.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 21 (1.84%) SpecFlow
9 19 (1.66%) git-flow
9 19 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
9 19 (1.66%) Sourcetree
9 19 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
10 18 (1.58%) GitLab
11 16 (1.40%) Postman
12 15 (1.31%) Maven
13 11 (0.96%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.96%) Subversion
13 11 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 362 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 246 (21.54%) Finance
3 131 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (9.37%) Law
5 84 (7.36%) Marketing
6 55 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (4.38%) Manufacturing
7 50 (4.38%) Retail
8 44 (3.85%) Banking
9 41 (3.59%) Legal
10 27 (2.36%) Public Sector
11 20 (1.75%) Back Office
12 17 (1.49%) Billing
12 17 (1.49%) Games
13 16 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.40%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.31%) Investment Banking
14 15 (1.31%) Private Banking
14 15 (1.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 443 (38.79%) Developer
2 217 (19.00%) Senior
3 169 (14.80%) DBA
4 144 (12.61%) Analyst
5 125 (10.95%) SQL DBA
6 104 (9.11%) Senior Developer
7 98 (8.58%) C# Developer
8 91 (7.97%) SQL Developer
9 86 (7.53%) Data Engineer
10 78 (6.83%) Software Engineer
11 70 (6.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 70 (6.13%) Full Stack Developer
12 59 (5.17%) .NET Developer
13 58 (5.08%) Administrator
14 54 (4.73%) Support Analyst
15 48 (4.20%) Applications Support
16 46 (4.03%) Lead
17 44 (3.85%) Architect
18 40 (3.50%) Data Analyst
19 36 (3.15%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (33.80%) .NET
2 234 (20.49%) ASP.NET
3 204 (17.86%) HTML
4 185 (16.20%) CSS
5 147 (12.87%) XML
6 141 (12.35%) .NET Framework
6 141 (12.35%) Web Services
7 127 (11.12%) JSON
8 125 (10.95%) SOAP
9 120 (10.51%) AngularJS
10 110 (9.63%) RESTful
11 108 (9.46%) Entity Framework
12 107 (9.37%) jQuery
13 104 (9.11%) REST
14 96 (8.41%) ASP.NET MVC
15 84 (7.36%) React
16 79 (6.92%) .NET Core
17 52 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
18 48 (4.20%) Sass
19 39 (3.42%) ASP.NET MVC 5
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.47%) Management Information System
2 42 (3.68%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
4 36 (3.15%) Legacy Code
5 34 (2.98%) Replication
6 20 (1.75%) Life Science
7 19 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.58%) NHS
9 17 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.49%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.40%) Clustering
11 15 (1.31%) Distributed Applications
11 15 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.31%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.05%) Housing Association
14 10 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.88%) Public Cloud
15 9 (0.79%) EPoS
16 8 (0.70%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 107 (9.37%) Windows
2 75 (6.57%) VMS
3 35 (3.06%) Linux
4 23 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.61%) Unix
6 5 (0.44%) Android
6 5 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.088%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (34.15%) Business Intelligence
2 281 (24.61%) Agile
3 273 (23.91%) ETL
4 221 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
5 214 (18.74%) DevOps
6 196 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (12.78%) MVC
8 140 (12.26%) Full Stack Development
9 134 (11.73%) Analytics
10 129 (11.30%) Collaborative Working
11 126 (11.03%) Software Engineering
12 117 (10.25%) Visualisation
13 112 (9.81%) Computer Science
14 111 (9.72%) Data Modelling
14 111 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
15 109 (9.54%) High Availability
16 101 (8.84%) Mentoring
17 99 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
18 88 (7.71%) Scrum
19 86 (7.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,077 (94.31%) SQL
2 360 (31.52%) C#
3 271 (23.73%) JavaScript
4 106 (9.28%) PowerShell
5 102 (8.93%) Python
6 89 (7.79%) VB.NET
7 70 (6.13%) TypeScript
8 68 (5.95%) PL/SQL
9 60 (5.25%) Java
10 48 (4.20%) VB
11 47 (4.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 44 (3.85%) XPath
13 39 (3.42%) VBA
14 28 (2.45%) VB6
15 19 (1.66%) R
16 15 (1.31%) Groovy
16 15 (1.31%) PHP
17 13 (1.14%) XAML
18 12 (1.05%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 211 (18.48%) Degree
2 100 (8.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 40 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (1.66%) Master's Degree
5 14 (1.23%) DBS Check
5 14 (1.23%) Security Cleared
6 10 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.53%) IIBA
8 6 (0.53%) MCP
8 6 (0.53%) MCSE
8 6 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (0.53%) SnowPro
9 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.35%) HND
10 4 (0.35%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.26%) CIPD
11 3 (0.26%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.18%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 42 (3.68%) QA
3 30 (2.63%) GDPR
4 20 (1.75%) SLA
5 18 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.79%) WAI
7 8 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (8.58%) Virtual Machines
2 37 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.66%) Docker
4 9 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.35%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 46 (4.03%) Terraform
2 22 (1.93%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.79%) Foglight
4 8 (0.70%) Ansible
4 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (0.61%) Nagios
6 4 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.088%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 564 (49.39%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.01%) Databricks
3 68 (5.95%) Oracle
4 19 (1.66%) Adobe
4 19 (1.66%) Cognizant
5 18 (1.58%) DevExpress
6 16 (1.40%) NEC
7 15 (1.31%) Commvault
7 15 (1.31%) Google
8 13 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.14%) SAP
9 12 (1.05%) VMware
10 11 (0.96%) Alteryx
10 11 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.88%) Adaptive Insights
11 10 (0.88%) Anaplan
11 10 (0.88%) Jedox
11 10 (0.88%) Tagetik
12 9 (0.79%) Sun
13 8 (0.70%) Dell