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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 64 55
Rank change year-on-year -46 -9 -23
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 603 795 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.43% 4.73% 4.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.21% 30.00% 21.15%
Number of salaries quoted 495 463 655
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,875 £39,813 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.85% -4.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £87,500 £87,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 3,139 2,650 4,828
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.64% 15.77% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,419 1,820 3,040
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,844 £39,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 5 October 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 43 (7.13%) IIS
2 38 (6.30%) SharePoint
3 25 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.33%) Confluence
5 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.83%) nginx
7 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.50%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.33%) Apache
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.17%) Documentum
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.83%) Elite 3E
2 5 (0.83%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.33%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.33%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.17%) Finacle
5 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.17%) Magento
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 343 (56.88%) Azure
2 104 (17.25%) AWS
3 98 (16.25%) Power Platform
4 92 (15.26%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (9.62%) SaaS
6 57 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (7.96%) Snowflake
8 39 (6.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 32 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
10 30 (4.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 29 (4.81%) Power Automate
11 29 (4.81%) PowerApps
12 27 (4.48%) Azure AI
13 26 (4.31%) Serverless
14 25 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
14 25 (4.15%) Entra ID
14 25 (4.15%) GCP
15 22 (3.65%) GitHub
16 20 (3.32%) Azure Machine Learning
17 19 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.30%) Firewall
2 33 (5.47%) DNS
3 29 (4.81%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.64%) VPN
5 21 (3.48%) DHCP
6 10 (1.66%) VLAN
7 9 (1.49%) WAN
8 8 (1.33%) HTTP
8 8 (1.33%) VoIP
9 7 (1.16%) LAN
10 5 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.66%) Network Security
12 3 (0.50%) FTP
12 3 (0.50%) Wireless
13 2 (0.33%) Broadband
13 2 (0.33%) SAN
14 1 (0.17%) ATM
14 1 (0.17%) RTP
14 1 (0.17%) SS7
14 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (12.11%) Power BI
2 63 (10.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (8.96%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (8.79%) Relational Database
5 49 (8.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 36 (5.97%) MySQL
7 35 (5.80%) Redis
8 32 (5.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 30 (4.98%) MongoDB
10 21 (3.48%) Data Lake
11 20 (3.32%) NoSQL
12 14 (2.32%) Metadata
13 12 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.99%) Star Schema
14 11 (1.82%) Tableau
15 10 (1.66%) DynamoDB
16 9 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
16 9 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
17 8 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 67 (11.11%) Git
2 28 (4.64%) JIRA
3 10 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.33%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.00%) NUnit
5 6 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.33%) MSTest
10 1 (0.17%) Flyway
10 1 (0.17%) GitLab
10 1 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.17%) JUnit
10 1 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.17%) Ranorex
10 1 (0.17%) Selenium
10 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 188 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 127 (21.06%) Finance
3 70 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.30%) Law
5 36 (5.97%) Legal
6 34 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (4.15%) Public Sector
8 17 (2.82%) Banking
9 15 (2.49%) Retail
10 11 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.66%) Front Office
12 9 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.16%) Marketing
13 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.83%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.83%) Publishing
16 4 (0.66%) Billing
17 3 (0.50%) Advertising
17 3 (0.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 217 (35.99%) Developer
2 103 (17.08%) Senior
3 70 (11.61%) Software Developer
4 61 (10.12%) Software Engineer
5 60 (9.95%) Data Engineer
6 56 (9.29%) .NET Developer
7 55 (9.12%) Lead
8 54 (8.96%) Graduate
9 46 (7.63%) SQL Developer
10 44 (7.30%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
12 34 (5.64%) Lead Developer
13 33 (5.47%) Analyst
14 32 (5.31%) Senior Developer
15 29 (4.81%) C# Developer
16 27 (4.48%) Architect
16 27 (4.48%) Support Engineer
17 25 (4.15%) Graduate Developer
17 25 (4.15%) Graduate Software Developer
17 25 (4.15%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (36.32%) .NET
2 67 (11.11%) CSS
3 66 (10.95%) ASP.NET
4 63 (10.45%) .NET Framework
5 59 (9.78%) REST
6 57 (9.45%) .NET Core
7 54 (8.96%) HTML
7 54 (8.96%) React
8 47 (7.79%) Entity Framework
9 42 (6.97%) AngularJS
10 39 (6.47%) Node.js
11 33 (5.47%) XML
12 30 (4.98%) Blazor
13 28 (4.64%) jQuery
14 27 (4.48%) Vue
15 25 (4.15%) Terraform
16 22 (3.65%) RESTful
16 22 (3.65%) Web Services
17 20 (3.32%) JSON
17 20 (3.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.30%) Enterprise Software
2 30 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 15 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.16%) Replication
9 13 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.16%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.82%) Clustering
10 11 (1.82%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.16%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.00%) Equities
13 6 (1.00%) Online Gambling
13 6 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 98 (16.25%) Windows
2 69 (11.44%) Windows Server
3 38 (6.30%) Linux
4 9 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.33%) AIX
7 2 (0.33%) Android
7 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.17%) Solaris
8 1 (0.17%) Unix
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (27.69%) DevOps
2 165 (27.36%) Agile
3 139 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (20.56%) CI/CD
5 119 (19.73%) Software Engineering
6 114 (18.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 100 (16.58%) AI
8 95 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 85 (14.10%) Computer Science
10 82 (13.60%) Business Intelligence
11 78 (12.94%) Mentoring
12 74 (12.27%) Clean Code
13 71 (11.77%) Analytics
14 68 (11.28%) Migration
15 65 (10.78%) Data Architecture
16 63 (10.45%) Microservices
16 63 (10.45%) Roadmaps
17 62 (10.28%) ETL
18 56 (9.29%) Data Engineering
19 54 (8.96%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 327 (54.23%) SQL
2 259 (42.95%) C#
3 102 (16.92%) JavaScript
4 86 (14.26%) Python
5 59 (9.78%) PowerShell
6 55 (9.12%) TypeScript
7 51 (8.46%) PHP
8 49 (8.13%) T-SQL
9 42 (6.97%) Java
10 20 (3.32%) C++
11 11 (1.82%) Bicep
11 11 (1.82%) Go
12 9 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.16%) VB.NET
13 7 (1.16%) VBA
14 6 (1.00%) Bash
14 6 (1.00%) VBScript
15 5 (0.83%) Rust
15 5 (0.83%) Tcl
16 4 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 111 (18.41%) Degree
2 63 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 19 (3.15%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.99%) DBS Check
6 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.33%) HNC
9 2 (0.33%) HND
10 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.17%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.17%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.17%) MCT
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.29%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.80%) QA
3 19 (3.15%) GDPR
4 15 (2.49%) SLA
5 12 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.50%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) IASME
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (8.62%) Docker
2 48 (7.96%) Active Directory
3 33 (5.47%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (3.81%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.33%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.17%) HDFS
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.66%) Ansible
4 7 (1.16%) Grafana
5 6 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.83%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.50%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.50%) SQL Sentry
8 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (0.33%) SCOM
8 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.17%) Control-M
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 305 (50.58%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.95%) Databricks
3 41 (6.80%) Oracle
4 23 (3.81%) VMware
5 14 (2.32%) Google
5 14 (2.32%) Informatica
6 13 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.99%) Veeam
8 11 (1.82%) Citrix
8 11 (1.82%) IBM
8 11 (1.82%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.66%) iManage
9 10 (1.66%) Talend
10 9 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.49%) TIBCO
11 6 (1.00%) Cisco
11 6 (1.00%) Intapp
11 6 (1.00%) RedGate
12 5 (0.83%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.83%) Remedy
518 hybrid/remote SQL Server jobs