Hybrid/Remote SQL Server Job Trends

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 53 34
Rank change year-on-year -17 -19 +6
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 747 947 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.64% 4.74% 7.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.55% 20.56% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 431 608 1,482
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,528 4,606 5,665
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.69% 23.05% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,756 2,798 4,550
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £94,550
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -0.96%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SQL Server job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SQL Server
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

SQL Server salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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
1 172 (23.03%) Confluence
2 52 (6.96%) IIS
3 21 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (2.01%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.74%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.94%) CMS
6 7 (0.94%) Moodle
7 6 (0.80%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.80%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.54%) nginx
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Apache
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.40%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.40%) EPLAN
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 16 (2.14%) Unit4 Business World
2 14 (1.87%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.94%) Infor CloudSuite
3 7 (0.94%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 5 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.54%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.54%) Sage 1000
6 3 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.27%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
8 1 (0.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 514 (68.81%) Azure
2 320 (42.84%) AWS
3 176 (23.56%) GCP
4 87 (11.65%) Power Platform
5 73 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (9.10%) SaaS
7 60 (8.03%) GitHub
8 40 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (4.02%) Serverless
12 23 (3.08%) Power Automate
13 21 (2.81%) Entra ID
14 18 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.14%) PowerApps
16 13 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (1.74%) PaaS
17 12 (1.61%) Cloudflare
18 11 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
19 9 (1.20%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.54%) Firewall
2 13 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 12 (1.61%) SSL
4 10 (1.34%) DNS
5 9 (1.20%) VPN
6 6 (0.80%) DHCP
6 6 (0.80%) DMARC
7 5 (0.67%) DMZ
7 5 (0.67%) STUN
7 5 (0.67%) VLAN
7 5 (0.67%) VoIP
8 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.40%) Internet
9 3 (0.40%) SAN
9 3 (0.40%) WAN
10 2 (0.27%) Broadband
10 2 (0.27%) HTTP
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
10 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (12.05%) MySQL
2 79 (10.58%) Power BI
3 51 (6.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 47 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (5.76%) MongoDB
5 43 (5.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 40 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (4.69%) Relational Database
8 22 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (2.41%) NoSQL
10 17 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 14 (1.87%) Data Hub
12 14 (1.87%) SQL CLR
13 13 (1.74%) Tableau
14 10 (1.34%) DB2
14 10 (1.34%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.94%) Crystal Reports
17 6 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 268 (35.88%) JIRA
2 252 (33.73%) Bitbucket
3 251 (33.60%) GitLab
3 251 (33.60%) SonarQube
4 249 (33.33%) Selenium
5 248 (33.20%) Maven
6 247 (33.07%) Cucumber
6 247 (33.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 90 (12.05%) Git
8 14 (1.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 12 (1.61%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.20%) NUnit
11 8 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (0.94%) Jasmine
13 6 (0.80%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
14 4 (0.54%) Jenkins
14 4 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.54%) Toad
15 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 372 (49.80%) Finance
2 264 (35.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 262 (35.07%) Banking
4 198 (26.51%) Social Skills
5 120 (16.06%) Retail
6 91 (12.18%) Investment Banking
7 90 (12.05%) Corporate Banking
8 55 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
9 33 (4.42%) Back Office
10 26 (3.48%) Public Sector
11 25 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (3.35%) Law
11 25 (3.35%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.68%) Front Office
13 18 (2.41%) Marketing
14 17 (2.28%) Games
15 11 (1.47%) Legal
16 9 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 263 (35.21%) Software Engineer
2 235 (31.46%) Developer
3 82 (10.98%) Senior
4 64 (8.57%) .NET Developer
5 55 (7.36%) Analyst
6 48 (6.43%) Senior Developer
7 44 (5.89%) Graduate
8 42 (5.62%) IT Graduate
9 40 (5.35%) C# Developer
10 39 (5.22%) Graduate Developer
11 36 (4.82%) Lead
12 34 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 34 (4.55%) SQL Developer
12 34 (4.55%) Support Engineer
13 33 (4.42%) Applications Support
14 28 (3.75%) DBA
14 28 (3.75%) Software Developer
15 24 (3.21%) Administrator
16 23 (3.08%) IT Support
16 23 (3.08%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (45.38%) CSS
2 300 (40.16%) HTML
3 297 (39.76%) React
4 257 (34.40%) Kafka
5 252 (33.73%) Spring
5 252 (33.73%) Spring Boot
6 249 (33.33%) Redux
7 248 (33.20%) JPA
8 234 (31.33%) .NET
9 157 (21.02%) Hibernate
10 136 (18.21%) REST
11 123 (16.47%) RESTful
12 105 (14.06%) HTML5
13 103 (13.79%) CSS3
14 97 (12.99%) Jest
15 91 (12.18%) Sass
16 75 (10.04%) ASP.NET
17 67 (8.97%) .NET Framework
18 64 (8.57%) .NET Core
19 49 (6.56%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 267 (35.74%) Enterprise Software
2 252 (33.73%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (2.68%) Cloud Native
5 17 (2.28%) NHS
6 15 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.87%) Private Cloud
8 12 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.34%) Client/Server
10 9 (1.20%) Driving Licence
10 9 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 8 (1.07%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.94%) Learning Management System
13 6 (0.80%) BYOD
13 6 (0.80%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.80%) Replication
14 5 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 86 (11.51%) Windows
2 46 (6.16%) Windows Server
3 43 (5.76%) Linux
4 20 (2.68%) Unix
5 7 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.67%) Debian
6 5 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.40%) Android
7 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.27%) Solaris
8 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.27%) VMS
8 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (58.90%) Agile
2 374 (50.07%) DevOps
3 351 (46.99%) CI/CD
4 323 (43.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 313 (41.90%) Microservices
6 312 (41.77%) Software Engineering
7 282 (37.75%) Test Automation
8 278 (37.22%) SDLC
9 277 (37.08%) Performance Optimisation
10 273 (36.55%) Containerisation
11 271 (36.28%) Front End Development
12 259 (34.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 225 (30.12%) Clean Code
14 172 (23.03%) TDD
15 165 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
16 161 (21.55%) Mentoring
17 119 (15.93%) Migration
18 106 (14.19%) Strategic Thinking
19 105 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
20 101 (13.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 517 (69.21%) SQL
2 358 (47.93%) JavaScript
3 313 (41.90%) Java
4 231 (30.92%) C#
5 123 (16.47%) TypeScript
6 54 (7.23%) Python
7 50 (6.69%) T-SQL
8 49 (6.56%) PHP
9 47 (6.29%) PowerShell
10 42 (5.62%) C++
11 20 (2.68%) VB.NET
12 13 (1.74%) C
13 11 (1.47%) VBA
14 10 (1.34%) Bicep
15 7 (0.94%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.80%) VB
17 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 129 (17.27%) Degree
2 78 (10.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (2.28%) Security Cleared
4 16 (2.14%) Master's Degree
5 13 (1.74%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.27%) ACCA
12 2 (0.27%) CCNA
12 2 (0.27%) CCNP
12 2 (0.27%) CIMA
12 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.27%) CISSP
12 2 (0.27%) MCSE
13 1 (0.13%) MCP
13 1 (0.13%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (38.42%) QA
2 104 (13.92%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.68%) Data Quality
5 18 (2.41%) GDPR
6 17 (2.28%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.80%) SLA
8 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 289 (38.69%) Docker
2 31 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.67%) Kamailio
6 4 (0.54%) vSphere
7 3 (0.40%) XenApp
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 283 (37.88%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.61%) Terraform
3 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.94%) Grafana
5 7 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.80%) Ansible
6 6 (0.80%) SCCM
7 5 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.40%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.13%) Kibana
9 1 (0.13%) logstash
9 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 247 (33.07%) Solace
2 214 (28.65%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.62%) Oracle
4 29 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 27 (3.61%) VMware
6 16 (2.14%) DevExpress
7 14 (1.87%) Databricks
8 13 (1.74%) Google
9 10 (1.34%) Rollbar
9 10 (1.34%) Talend
10 9 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.20%) Sage
10 9 (1.20%) Zoho
11 8 (1.07%) HubSpot
11 8 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.94%) Infor
12 7 (0.94%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.80%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.80%) Informatica
13 6 (0.80%) Trayport