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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 280 224
Rank change year-on-year +29 -56 -48
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 1,162 1,287 3,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.29% 1.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.50% 2.98% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 937 1,099 2,229
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,829 £43,750
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 £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% +14.44%

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 33,238 43,130 87,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.26% 43.34% 53.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 27,636 43,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £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 19 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 19 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 +21 1,019 £57,500 - 213
UK excluding London +7 769 £55,000 +4.76% 153
Work from Home +53 607 £57,500 +4.55% 100
London +48 343 £60,000 -7.69% 74
North of England +28 249 £51,250 -1.44% 36
North West +21 150 £50,000 -3.85% 21
Midlands +1 146 £57,500 +15.00% 43
South East -48 135 £60,000 +9.09% 25
West Midlands +17 111 £60,000 +26.32% 30
Scotland +3 93 £53,500 +7.00% 15
South West +24 78 £57,000 +14.57% 22
Yorkshire +43 71 £55,000 +6.80% 13
East of England -6 60 £41,500 -17.00% 13
East Midlands -10 35 £56,250 +2.27% 13
North East +10 28 £57,500 +9.52% 2
Wales -5 7 £41,629 -7.49%
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 78 (6.71%) IIS
2 65 (5.59%) SharePoint
3 52 (4.48%) CMS
4 17 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.86%) EPiServer
6 7 (0.60%) NServiceBus
7 5 (0.43%) IBM Notes
7 5 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.17%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.17%) Liferay
10 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.17%) nginx
10 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.086%) SAS
11 1 (0.086%) Tornado
Applications
1 72 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.38%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.52%) Trello
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.086%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.086%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 48 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (2.67%) SDL Web 8
3 19 (1.64%) Elite 3E
4 12 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
5 11 (0.95%) NEC Housing
5 11 (0.95%) Shopify
6 10 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.34%) Sonata
8 3 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.26%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.26%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.17%) Magento
9 2 (0.17%) nopCommerce
9 2 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.086%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.086%) JDE OneWorld
10 1 (0.086%) JDE World
10 1 (0.086%) Maximo
10 1 (0.086%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 617 (53.10%) Azure
2 413 (35.54%) Power Platform
3 114 (9.81%) AWS
4 110 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (6.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (5.77%) Snowflake
7 47 (4.04%) Serverless
8 42 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (3.44%) Matillion
10 39 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
11 36 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (2.24%) Azure App Service
12 26 (2.24%) GCP
13 24 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 21 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (1.81%) GitHub
15 19 (1.64%) PowerApps
15 19 (1.64%) SaaS
16 16 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 16 (1.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 74 (6.37%) Broadband
2 35 (3.01%) DNS
3 21 (1.81%) HTTP
4 12 (1.03%) BIG-IP
5 10 (0.86%) DHCP
6 8 (0.69%) Internet
6 8 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (0.52%) Firewall
7 6 (0.52%) Intranet
8 5 (0.43%) Network Security
9 4 (0.34%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.26%) FTP
10 3 (0.26%) LAN
10 3 (0.26%) VPN
10 3 (0.26%) WAN
10 3 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.17%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.17%) SSL
11 2 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 818 (70.40%) SQL Server
2 389 (33.48%) Power BI
3 318 (27.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 230 (19.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 218 (18.76%) Data Warehouse
6 135 (11.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 129 (11.10%) Relational Database
8 98 (8.43%) Data Lake
9 86 (7.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 66 (5.68%) Tableau
11 40 (3.44%) Metadata
12 36 (3.10%) MySQL
13 28 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
14 26 (2.24%) Oracle Database
15 22 (1.89%) MS Access
16 21 (1.81%) Power Query
17 20 (1.72%) Big Data
17 20 (1.72%) NoSQL
18 16 (1.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 15 (1.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 171 (14.72%) Git
2 130 (11.19%) Visual Studio
3 58 (4.99%) JIRA
4 43 (3.70%) Jasmine
4 43 (3.70%) Karma Test Runner
5 42 (3.61%) Moq
6 37 (3.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 36 (3.10%) TeamCity
8 33 (2.84%) NUnit
9 25 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 18 (1.55%) SpecFlow
11 16 (1.38%) git-flow
11 16 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (1.38%) Sourcetree
12 15 (1.29%) GitLab
12 15 (1.29%) Maven
12 15 (1.29%) Postman
13 12 (1.03%) Subversion
14 11 (0.95%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 364 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 252 (21.69%) Finance
3 136 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (10.07%) Law
5 77 (6.63%) Marketing
6 60 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (4.91%) Banking
8 44 (3.79%) Manufacturing
8 44 (3.79%) Retail
9 43 (3.70%) Legal
10 26 (2.24%) Public Sector
11 22 (1.89%) Private Banking
12 21 (1.81%) Back Office
13 19 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.55%) Billing
15 17 (1.46%) Games
15 17 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.29%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 442 (38.04%) Developer
2 212 (18.24%) Senior
3 172 (14.80%) DBA
4 158 (13.60%) Analyst
5 130 (11.19%) SQL DBA
6 102 (8.78%) Senior Developer
7 98 (8.43%) C# Developer
8 89 (7.66%) Data Engineer
9 83 (7.14%) SQL Developer
10 81 (6.97%) Software Engineer
11 74 (6.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 69 (5.94%) Support Analyst
13 67 (5.77%) Full Stack Developer
14 62 (5.34%) Administrator
15 59 (5.08%) .NET Developer
15 59 (5.08%) Applications Support
16 46 (3.96%) Lead
17 44 (3.79%) Applications Support Analyst
17 44 (3.79%) Architect
18 38 (3.27%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (34.08%) .NET
2 246 (21.17%) ASP.NET
3 203 (17.47%) HTML
4 187 (16.09%) CSS
5 146 (12.56%) XML
6 145 (12.48%) Web Services
7 136 (11.70%) .NET Framework
8 131 (11.27%) AngularJS
8 131 (11.27%) JSON
9 120 (10.33%) SOAP
10 117 (10.07%) RESTful
11 109 (9.38%) jQuery
12 105 (9.04%) Entity Framework
13 104 (8.95%) REST
14 102 (8.78%) ASP.NET MVC
15 88 (7.57%) React
16 78 (6.71%) .NET Core
17 60 (5.16%) ASP.NET Web API
18 54 (4.65%) Sass
19 33 (2.84%) ASP.NET MVC 5
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.48%) Management Information System
2 49 (4.22%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.18%) Replication
4 34 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
5 30 (2.58%) Legacy Code
6 20 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (1.72%) Life Science
7 19 (1.64%) Clustering
8 18 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.46%) NHS
9 17 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 15 (1.29%) Distributed Applications
11 14 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.12%) Housing Association
13 12 (1.03%) CCTV
14 10 (0.86%) Public Cloud
15 9 (0.77%) EPoS
15 9 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 117 (10.07%) Windows
2 75 (6.45%) VMS
3 34 (2.93%) Linux
4 25 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.77%) Android
5 9 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.60%) Unix
7 4 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.086%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (34.60%) Business Intelligence
2 286 (24.61%) ETL
3 275 (23.67%) Agile
4 217 (18.67%) Performance Tuning
5 213 (18.33%) DevOps
6 203 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
7 156 (13.43%) MVC
8 136 (11.70%) Full Stack Development
9 133 (11.45%) Analytics
10 129 (11.10%) Collaborative Working
10 129 (11.10%) Software Engineering
11 125 (10.76%) Visualisation
12 114 (9.81%) Disaster Recovery
13 109 (9.38%) High Availability
14 105 (9.04%) Data Modelling
15 104 (8.95%) Computer Science
16 102 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
17 98 (8.43%) Mentoring
18 87 (7.49%) ITIL
19 86 (7.40%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,090 (93.80%) SQL
2 369 (31.76%) C#
3 280 (24.10%) JavaScript
4 110 (9.47%) PowerShell
5 104 (8.95%) Python
6 87 (7.49%) VB.NET
7 73 (6.28%) TypeScript
8 72 (6.20%) PL/SQL
9 65 (5.59%) Java
10 48 (4.13%) VB
11 47 (4.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 42 (3.61%) XPath
13 35 (3.01%) VBA
14 28 (2.41%) VB6
15 18 (1.55%) R
16 15 (1.29%) Groovy
17 14 (1.20%) PHP
18 13 (1.12%) Kotlin
18 13 (1.12%) VBScript
18 13 (1.12%) XAML
Qualifications
1 220 (18.93%) Degree
2 97 (8.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 37 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (1.46%) Master's Degree
5 14 (1.20%) DBS Check
5 14 (1.20%) Security Cleared
6 8 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 7 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.52%) IIBA
8 6 (0.52%) MCP
8 6 (0.52%) MCSE
8 6 (0.52%) SnowPro
9 5 (0.43%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.34%) HND
10 4 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.26%) CIPD
11 3 (0.26%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.17%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 46 (3.96%) QA
3 30 (2.58%) GDPR
4 25 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.72%) SLA
6 15 (1.29%) WAI
7 8 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (8.43%) Virtual Machines
2 44 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.15%) Docker
4 9 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.34%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 45 (3.87%) Terraform
2 20 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
4 9 (0.77%) Foglight
5 8 (0.69%) Ansible
6 7 (0.60%) Nagios
7 4 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.086%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.086%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.086%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 575 (49.48%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.45%) Databricks
3 67 (5.77%) Oracle
4 18 (1.55%) DevExpress
4 18 (1.55%) NEC
5 16 (1.38%) Adobe
5 16 (1.38%) Cognizant
5 16 (1.38%) Google
6 15 (1.29%) Commvault
7 14 (1.20%) SAP
8 13 (1.12%) Alteryx
8 13 (1.12%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.12%) VMware
9 12 (1.03%) F5
10 11 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.86%) Adaptive Insights
11 10 (0.86%) Anaplan
11 10 (0.86%) Jedox
11 10 (0.86%) Tagetik
12 9 (0.77%) Sun