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 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 55 32
Rank change year-on-year -14 -23 +10
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 784 1,004 1,716
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.67% 4.63% 7.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.86% 21.03% 29.11%
Number of salaries quoted 454 641 1,522
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,250 £38,188
25th Percentile £39,156 £41,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 2,626 4,774 5,895
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.64% 22.03% 25.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,799 2,981 4,898
10th Percentile £35,854 £39,250 £39,800
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £112,500 £138,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

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 9 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 (21.94%) Confluence
2 60 (7.65%) IIS
3 40 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (2.68%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.91%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.02%) Moodle
7 6 (0.77%) CMS
8 5 (0.64%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.51%) nginx
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.26%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.26%) SAS
10 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.13%) Kentico
11 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 22 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.38%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.38%) EPLAN
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 18 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.04%) Unit4 Business World
3 12 (1.53%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.89%) Infor CloudSuite
4 7 (0.89%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 5 (0.64%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.51%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.51%) Sage 1000
7 2 (0.26%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
8 1 (0.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 533 (67.98%) Azure
2 329 (41.96%) AWS
3 172 (21.94%) GCP
4 101 (12.88%) Power Platform
5 78 (9.95%) SaaS
6 70 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (8.04%) GitHub
8 46 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
10 33 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (3.57%) Power Automate
12 26 (3.32%) Serverless
13 25 (3.19%) Entra ID
14 18 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.04%) PowerApps
16 14 (1.79%) Cloudflare
17 13 (1.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 12 (1.53%) PaaS
19 11 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
20 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.55%) Firewall
2 15 (1.91%) DNS
3 14 (1.79%) SSL
3 14 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.28%) DHCP
4 10 (1.28%) VPN
5 9 (1.15%) DMARC
6 6 (0.77%) SAN
6 6 (0.77%) VLAN
6 6 (0.77%) VoIP
7 5 (0.64%) DMZ
7 5 (0.64%) STUN
8 4 (0.51%) Internet
8 4 (0.51%) WAN
9 3 (0.38%) LAN
10 2 (0.26%) Broadband
10 2 (0.26%) HTTP
10 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.26%) Skype
10 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.35%) Power BI
2 88 (11.22%) MySQL
3 57 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 52 (6.63%) MongoDB
5 51 (6.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 50 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (4.21%) Relational Database
9 30 (3.83%) Data Hub
10 26 (3.32%) SQL CLR
11 23 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (2.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 18 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (2.17%) Metadata
13 17 (2.17%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.53%) Tableau
15 11 (1.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.28%) DB2
17 9 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
17 9 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 270 (34.44%) JIRA
2 255 (32.53%) GitLab
3 252 (32.14%) Bitbucket
4 251 (32.02%) SonarQube
5 249 (31.76%) Selenium
6 248 (31.63%) Maven
7 247 (31.51%) Cucumber
7 247 (31.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 90 (11.48%) Git
9 19 (2.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 13 (1.66%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.40%) Visual Studio
12 10 (1.28%) NUnit
13 8 (1.02%) Jasmine
13 8 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.89%) Jenkins
15 5 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
16 4 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
16 4 (0.51%) Toad
17 3 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 395 (50.38%) Finance
2 263 (33.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 261 (33.29%) Banking
4 196 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 121 (15.43%) Retail
6 91 (11.61%) Investment Banking
7 90 (11.48%) Corporate Banking
8 52 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (5.99%) Back Office
10 29 (3.70%) Manufacturing
11 28 (3.57%) Law
12 24 (3.06%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (2.68%) Front Office
15 17 (2.17%) Games
15 17 (2.17%) Marketing
16 10 (1.28%) Legal
16 10 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.15%) Czech Language
17 9 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (34.31%) Software Engineer
2 246 (31.38%) Developer
3 92 (11.73%) Senior
4 66 (8.42%) .NET Developer
5 59 (7.53%) Senior Developer
6 55 (7.02%) Analyst
7 46 (5.87%) Lead
8 42 (5.36%) Graduate
9 41 (5.23%) C# Developer
10 40 (5.10%) IT Graduate
10 40 (5.10%) SQL Developer
11 38 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 37 (4.72%) Graduate Developer
13 32 (4.08%) Applications Support
14 30 (3.83%) SaaS Developer
15 29 (3.70%) DBA
15 29 (3.70%) Support Engineer
16 26 (3.32%) Administrator
16 26 (3.32%) Software Developer
17 23 (2.93%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (42.60%) CSS
2 303 (38.65%) React
3 298 (38.01%) HTML
4 266 (33.93%) Kafka
5 252 (32.14%) Spring
5 252 (32.14%) Spring Boot
6 249 (31.76%) Redux
7 248 (31.63%) JPA
8 240 (30.61%) .NET
9 157 (20.03%) Hibernate
10 143 (18.24%) REST
11 123 (15.69%) RESTful
12 107 (13.65%) HTML5
13 104 (13.27%) CSS3
14 98 (12.50%) Jest
15 91 (11.61%) Sass
16 75 (9.57%) ASP.NET
17 74 (9.44%) .NET Core
18 68 (8.67%) .NET Framework
19 52 (6.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 270 (34.44%) Enterprise Software
2 256 (32.65%) Product Ownership
3 39 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (3.32%) Private Cloud
5 21 (2.68%) NHS
6 16 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 15 (1.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 15 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.28%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.28%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.02%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.02%) Learning Management System
12 7 (0.89%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.77%) BYOD
14 5 (0.64%) Clustering
14 5 (0.64%) Online Games
14 5 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (12.12%) Windows
2 53 (6.76%) Windows Server
3 52 (6.63%) Linux
4 22 (2.81%) Unix
5 7 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.77%) Debian
6 6 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.64%) Android
8 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.26%) Solaris
9 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.26%) VMS
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (57.91%) Agile
2 377 (48.09%) DevOps
3 351 (44.77%) CI/CD
4 337 (42.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 322 (41.07%) Software Engineering
6 321 (40.94%) Microservices
7 286 (36.48%) Test Automation
8 277 (35.33%) SDLC
9 275 (35.08%) Performance Optimisation
10 273 (34.82%) Containerisation
11 269 (34.31%) Front End Development
12 254 (32.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 227 (28.95%) Clean Code
14 178 (22.70%) TDD
15 170 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
16 167 (21.30%) Mentoring
17 126 (16.07%) Migration
18 118 (15.05%) Business Intelligence
19 109 (13.90%) Strategic Thinking
20 103 (13.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 541 (69.01%) SQL
2 366 (46.68%) JavaScript
3 319 (40.69%) Java
4 245 (31.25%) C#
5 129 (16.45%) TypeScript
6 61 (7.78%) T-SQL
7 53 (6.76%) Python
8 51 (6.51%) PowerShell
9 46 (5.87%) PHP
10 40 (5.10%) C++
11 21 (2.68%) VB.NET
12 16 (2.04%) C
13 14 (1.79%) VBA
14 8 (1.02%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.89%) Bicep
15 7 (0.89%) VB
16 5 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.51%) X++
18 3 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 126 (16.07%) Degree
2 71 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (2.30%) Security Cleared
4 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (1.53%) Master's Degree
5 12 (1.53%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.02%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.51%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.38%) MCP
9 3 (0.38%) MCSA
9 3 (0.38%) MCSE
10 2 (0.26%) ACCA
10 2 (0.26%) CCNA
10 2 (0.26%) CCNP
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (36.73%) QA
2 105 (13.39%) Accessibility
3 33 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.55%) ISO 9001
5 19 (2.42%) GDPR
6 18 (2.30%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.89%) SLA
8 5 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 291 (37.12%) Docker
2 39 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (4.85%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.64%) Kamailio
7 4 (0.51%) vSphere
8 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 289 (36.86%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.19%) Terraform
3 13 (1.66%) Failover Clustering
4 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.02%) Ansible
6 8 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.02%) SCCM
7 7 (0.89%) Grafana
8 3 (0.38%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.26%) SCOM
9 2 (0.26%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.26%) SCSM
9 2 (0.26%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.13%) Kibana
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 249 (31.76%) Microsoft
2 247 (31.51%) Solace
3 47 (5.99%) Oracle
4 44 (5.61%) VMware
5 27 (3.44%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.04%) DevExpress
7 13 (1.66%) Databricks
8 11 (1.40%) Rollbar
9 10 (1.28%) Google
9 10 (1.28%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.28%) Talend
10 9 (1.15%) Informatica
11 8 (1.02%) HubSpot
11 8 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.02%) Splunk
12 7 (0.89%) Infor
12 7 (0.89%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.89%) Sage
12 7 (0.89%) Zoho
13 6 (0.77%) Fortinet