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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 50 22
Rank change year-on-year -42 -28 +17
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 522 898 2,676
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.64% 5.89% 7.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.96% 27.45% 35.57%
Number of salaries quoted 463 552 2,375
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,456 £36,172
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -

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 2,615 3,271 7,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.24% 21.46% 21.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,018 2,187 6,286
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 13 June 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 28 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (5.17%) IIS
3 24 (4.60%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.30%) Confluence
5 6 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.57%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.38%) CMS
7 2 (0.38%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.38%) JBoss
7 2 (0.38%) nginx
7 2 (0.38%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (1.53%) Magento
2 6 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.15%) Shopify
3 3 (0.57%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 330 (63.22%) Azure
2 86 (16.48%) AWS
3 80 (15.33%) Power Platform
4 63 (12.07%) Snowflake
5 57 (10.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 56 (10.73%) Azure Machine Learning
7 55 (10.54%) Azure AI
8 52 (9.96%) SaaS
9 50 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
11 27 (5.17%) Serverless
12 23 (4.41%) Entra ID
13 21 (4.02%) GitHub
13 21 (4.02%) PaaS
14 19 (3.64%) Power Automate
15 17 (3.26%) PowerApps
16 15 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
17 14 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
18 13 (2.49%) Azure Functions
18 13 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.36%) Firewall
2 17 (3.26%) VPN
3 9 (1.72%) DNS
3 9 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.53%) VLAN
5 7 (1.34%) DHCP
5 7 (1.34%) VoIP
6 5 (0.96%) DMZ
6 5 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.96%) STUN
7 4 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.57%) SAN
9 2 (0.38%) AMQP
9 2 (0.38%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.38%) LAN
9 2 (0.38%) WAN
10 1 (0.19%) Network Security
10 1 (0.19%) RTSP
10 1 (0.19%) SCTP
10 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.07%) Power BI
2 43 (8.24%) MySQL
3 40 (7.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 36 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (6.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 29 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (5.36%) Relational Database
8 16 (3.07%) Oracle Database
9 14 (2.68%) Redis
10 12 (2.30%) MongoDB
11 11 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (2.11%) Db2
12 9 (1.72%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.15%) Tableau
14 5 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.77%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.77%) Metadata
15 4 (0.77%) Power Query
16 3 (0.57%) SAS EBI
16 3 (0.57%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 28 (5.36%) JIRA
2 17 (3.26%) Git
3 13 (2.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (1.53%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.96%) NUnit
5 5 (0.96%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.57%) Jasmine
6 3 (0.57%) Selenium
7 2 (0.38%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.38%) MSTest
7 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.19%) Gatling
8 1 (0.19%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.19%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) Ranorex
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 161 (30.84%) Finance
2 125 (23.95%) Social Skills
3 60 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (4.98%) Banking
5 20 (3.83%) Law
6 17 (3.26%) Legal
7 16 (3.07%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.49%) Retail
10 10 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.53%) Front Office
11 8 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.15%) Back Office
13 4 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Publishing
14 3 (0.57%) Automotive
14 3 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 174 (33.33%) Developer
2 95 (18.20%) Senior
3 74 (14.18%) Software Developer
4 57 (10.92%) SQL Developer
5 51 (9.77%) Graduate
6 50 (9.58%) Analyst
7 45 (8.62%) C# Developer
8 43 (8.24%) Graduate Developer
8 43 (8.24%) Graduate Software Developer
8 43 (8.24%) Software Engineer
9 38 (7.28%) Data Engineer
10 37 (7.09%) C# Software Developer
10 37 (7.09%) Data Manager
11 36 (6.90%) Engineering Manager
12 35 (6.70%) .NET Developer
13 33 (6.32%) Applications Support
13 33 (6.32%) Finance Manager
13 33 (6.32%) Graduate C# Developer
13 33 (6.32%) Graduate C# Software Developer
14 32 (6.13%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (31.99%) .NET
2 73 (13.98%) CSS
3 45 (8.62%) HTML
4 42 (8.05%) jQuery
5 41 (7.85%) .NET Core
5 41 (7.85%) React
6 34 (6.51%) AngularJS
7 32 (6.13%) ASP.NET
8 30 (5.75%) REST
9 29 (5.56%) .NET Framework
10 25 (4.79%) Entity Framework
10 25 (4.79%) Node.js
11 18 (3.45%) RESTful
11 18 (3.45%) Vue
12 17 (3.26%) XML
13 15 (2.87%) JSON
14 13 (2.49%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (2.49%) Kafka
15 12 (2.30%) Middleware
16 11 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.02%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (2.87%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.68%) Legacy Applications
4 14 (2.68%) Virtual Team
5 13 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.11%) Replication
8 10 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.92%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.53%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.34%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.96%) Clustering
11 5 (0.96%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.96%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 77 (14.75%) Windows
2 50 (9.58%) Windows Server
3 33 (6.32%) Linux
4 8 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (1.34%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.96%) Debian
7 3 (0.57%) CentOS
7 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.57%) VMS
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) Unix
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (32.57%) Agile
2 98 (18.77%) AI
2 98 (18.77%) Data Engineering
3 97 (18.58%) DevOps
4 90 (17.24%) Roadmaps
5 81 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 81 (15.52%) Migration
6 80 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
7 79 (15.13%) Data Architecture
8 77 (14.75%) CI/CD
9 76 (14.56%) Computer Science
10 72 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (13.79%) Software Engineering
11 71 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
12 68 (13.03%) Mentoring
13 67 (12.84%) Regulatory Compliance
14 64 (12.26%) Line Management
15 63 (12.07%) Machine Learning
16 61 (11.69%) Data Governance
17 59 (11.30%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 326 (62.45%) SQL
2 179 (34.29%) C#
3 87 (16.67%) Python
4 63 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 55 (10.54%) PHP
6 54 (10.34%) PowerShell
7 53 (10.15%) T-SQL
8 49 (9.39%) Java
9 44 (8.43%) TypeScript
10 31 (5.94%) C++
11 15 (2.87%) PL/SQL
12 13 (2.49%) Bash
13 12 (2.30%) R
14 11 (2.11%) VB.NET
15 7 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (1.15%) Bicep
16 6 (1.15%) VBA
16 6 (1.15%) VBScript
17 4 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.77%) VB
Qualifications
1 103 (19.73%) Degree
2 65 (12.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.07%) Azure Certification
4 14 (2.68%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.53%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.96%) HNC
7 5 (0.96%) HND
7 5 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.96%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.38%) CCNA
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.38%) MCSA
9 2 (0.38%) MCSE
10 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.19%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.45%) QA
4 17 (3.26%) GDPR
4 17 (3.26%) SLA
5 4 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.57%) PMO
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 64 (12.26%) Virtual Machines
2 55 (10.54%) Active Directory
3 36 (6.90%) Docker
4 9 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.96%) vSphere
7 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (4.79%) Kubernetes
1 25 (4.79%) Terraform
2 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.15%) Ansible
4 5 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.57%) Data Guard
6 3 (0.57%) Grafana
6 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.38%) MIIS
8 1 (0.19%) Consul
8 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.19%) Puppet
8 1 (0.19%) SCCM
8 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 257 (49.23%) Microsoft
2 74 (14.18%) Databricks
3 44 (8.43%) Oracle
4 18 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.68%) Cisco
6 14 (2.68%) VMware
7 11 (2.11%) Citrix
7 11 (2.11%) Veeam
8 8 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.34%) iManage
10 6 (1.15%) ConnectWise
10 6 (1.15%) IBM
10 6 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.15%) WooCommerce
11 5 (0.96%) Meraki
11 5 (0.96%) Synology
12 4 (0.77%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.77%) Okta
12 4 (0.77%) OneLogin