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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 56 45
Rank change year-on-year -29 -11 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 675 899 1,199
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.98% 5.45% 4.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.40% 28.70% 23.60%
Number of salaries quoted 588 557 966
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -4.35%

All Database & 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 3,154 3,132 5,081
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.92% 19.00% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,533 2,098 3,966
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,163 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 8 August 2026.

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 44 (6.52%) IIS
2 32 (4.74%) SharePoint
3 23 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.78%) Confluence
5 7 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.89%) nginx
7 3 (0.44%) Apache
7 3 (0.44%) SAS
8 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.30%) CMS
8 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.15%) Documentum
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.74%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.44%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.44%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.44%) Magento
3 2 (0.30%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 412 (61.04%) Azure
2 119 (17.63%) AWS
3 86 (12.74%) Power Platform
4 79 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
4 79 (11.70%) Snowflake
5 60 (8.89%) Azure AI
6 58 (8.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 56 (8.30%) Azure Machine Learning
8 55 (8.15%) SaaS
9 52 (7.70%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (4.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 28 (4.15%) Azure Service Bus
11 25 (3.70%) Power Automate
11 25 (3.70%) PowerApps
12 23 (3.41%) GCP
12 23 (3.41%) Serverless
13 22 (3.26%) GitHub
14 21 (3.11%) Entra ID
15 20 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (2.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.93%) Firewall
2 28 (4.15%) VPN
3 26 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 25 (3.70%) DNS
5 17 (2.52%) DHCP
6 8 (1.19%) HTTP
6 8 (1.19%) LAN
6 8 (1.19%) WAN
7 7 (1.04%) VLAN
8 5 (0.74%) Network Security
8 5 (0.74%) VoIP
8 5 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.44%) DMZ
9 3 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.44%) SAN
9 3 (0.44%) STUN
9 3 (0.44%) Wireless
10 2 (0.30%) Broadband
10 2 (0.30%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.04%) Azure SQL Database
1 61 (9.04%) Power BI
2 58 (8.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 48 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (7.11%) Relational Database
4 47 (6.96%) MySQL
5 40 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 38 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (4.89%) Redis
8 21 (3.11%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.67%) MongoDB
10 16 (2.37%) Oracle Database
11 15 (2.22%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.93%) Db2
13 11 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.48%) Tableau
15 4 (0.59%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.59%) IBM InfoSphere
15 4 (0.59%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 47 (6.96%) Git
2 27 (4.00%) JIRA
3 10 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (1.33%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.19%) NUnit
5 8 (1.19%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.44%) Jasmine
8 3 (0.44%) Selenium
9 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.30%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.30%) MSTest
9 2 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.15%) Gatling
10 1 (0.15%) GitLab
10 1 (0.15%) Ranorex
10 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 179 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 178 (26.37%) Finance
3 78 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (5.63%) Law
5 33 (4.89%) Legal
6 32 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.70%) Banking
7 25 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 13 (1.93%) Retail
9 12 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.19%) Front Office
12 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.74%) Billing
13 5 (0.74%) Marketing
14 4 (0.59%) Legal Technology
14 4 (0.59%) Publishing
15 3 (0.44%) Advertising
15 3 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 234 (34.67%) Developer
2 95 (14.07%) Senior
3 89 (13.19%) Software Developer
4 68 (10.07%) Data Engineer
5 67 (9.93%) SQL Developer
6 66 (9.78%) Graduate
7 59 (8.74%) .NET Developer
8 58 (8.59%) Lead
9 56 (8.30%) Software Engineer
10 51 (7.56%) C# Developer
11 50 (7.41%) Analyst
12 46 (6.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 43 (6.37%) Graduate Developer
13 43 (6.37%) Graduate Software Developer
14 38 (5.63%) C# Software Developer
15 37 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
16 36 (5.33%) Data Manager
16 36 (5.33%) Lead Developer
17 35 (5.19%) Engineering Manager
17 35 (5.19%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (33.78%) .NET
2 87 (12.89%) CSS
3 63 (9.33%) .NET Framework
4 59 (8.74%) .NET Core
4 59 (8.74%) HTML
5 58 (8.59%) ASP.NET
6 56 (8.30%) React
7 53 (7.85%) REST
8 48 (7.11%) AngularJS
8 48 (7.11%) Entity Framework
9 45 (6.67%) jQuery
10 39 (5.78%) Node.js
11 31 (4.59%) Vue
12 27 (4.00%) XML
13 21 (3.11%) Blazor
14 19 (2.81%) ASP.NET MVC
15 18 (2.67%) JSON
15 18 (2.67%) Web Services
16 17 (2.52%) RESTful
17 16 (2.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
2 28 (4.15%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (3.11%) Virtual Team
5 20 (2.96%) Replication
6 19 (2.81%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.22%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.63%) Client/Server
9 11 (1.63%) Clustering
9 11 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.04%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
11 6 (0.89%) Online Gambling
12 5 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 102 (15.11%) Windows
2 68 (10.07%) Windows Server
3 44 (6.52%) Linux
4 10 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.44%) Debian
6 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.30%) CentOS
7 2 (0.30%) Unix
8 1 (0.15%) AIX
8 1 (0.15%) Solaris
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (30.22%) Agile
2 147 (21.78%) DevOps
3 126 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (18.07%) AI
5 119 (17.63%) CI/CD
6 109 (16.15%) Software Engineering
7 108 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 105 (15.56%) Roadmaps
9 104 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 103 (15.26%) Data Engineering
11 100 (14.81%) Data Architecture
11 100 (14.81%) Migration
12 92 (13.63%) Computer Science
13 86 (12.74%) Mentoring
14 76 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
15 73 (10.81%) MVC
16 72 (10.67%) Clean Code
16 72 (10.67%) Data Governance
17 70 (10.37%) Microservices
18 68 (10.07%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 389 (57.63%) SQL
2 268 (39.70%) C#
3 104 (15.41%) JavaScript
4 85 (12.59%) Python
5 66 (9.78%) PHP
6 64 (9.48%) PowerShell
7 63 (9.33%) TypeScript
8 55 (8.15%) Java
9 53 (7.85%) T-SQL
10 34 (5.04%) C++
11 13 (1.93%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.93%) VB.NET
12 11 (1.63%) Bash
13 8 (1.19%) Bicep
13 8 (1.19%) Go
14 7 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.04%) VBA
15 6 (0.89%) R
15 6 (0.89%) VBScript
16 5 (0.74%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 122 (18.07%) Degree
2 76 (11.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (3.11%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.07%) Azure Certification
5 13 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (1.93%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.74%) HNC
7 5 (0.74%) HND
7 5 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) CCNA
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.70%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.33%) QA
3 25 (3.70%) SLA
4 22 (3.26%) GDPR
5 14 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.44%) PMO
8 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.15%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 71 (10.52%) Virtual Machines
2 59 (8.74%) Docker
3 56 (8.30%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.07%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.74%) vSphere
6 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (4.59%) Kubernetes
1 31 (4.59%) Terraform
2 13 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.33%) Ansible
4 7 (1.04%) Grafana
4 7 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.74%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.30%) MIIS
9 1 (0.15%) Consul
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.15%) SCCM
9 1 (0.15%) SCOM
9 1 (0.15%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 348 (51.56%) Microsoft
2 91 (13.48%) Databricks
3 49 (7.26%) Oracle
4 22 (3.26%) VMware
5 18 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.07%) Cisco
7 14 (2.07%) Google
8 12 (1.78%) Citrix
9 11 (1.63%) iManage
9 11 (1.63%) Veeam
10 10 (1.48%) IBM
11 9 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.33%) TIBCO
12 8 (1.19%) Informatica
13 7 (1.04%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.74%) Intapp
14 5 (0.74%) Remedy
14 5 (0.74%) Sybase
14 5 (0.74%) Synology