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

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 56 33
Rank change year-on-year -14 -23 +9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 772 981 1,718
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.67% 4.57% 7.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.75% 20.73% 29.38%
Number of salaries quoted 444 632 1,523
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,325 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,125 £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 2,595 4,732 5,847
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.70% 22.03% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 2,933 4,862
10th Percentile £35,750 £39,250 £39,820
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,387
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.20% +3.98%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £112,500 £132,000 £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 12 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 (22.28%) Confluence
2 60 (7.77%) IIS
3 38 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (2.72%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.94%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.04%) Moodle
7 6 (0.78%) CMS
8 5 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.65%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.52%) nginx
9 4 (0.52%) 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%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.39%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.39%) EPLAN
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 17 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.07%) Unit4 Business World
3 12 (1.55%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.91%) Infor CloudSuite
4 7 (0.91%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 5 (0.65%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.52%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.52%) 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
1 525 (68.01%) Azure
2 325 (42.10%) AWS
3 172 (22.28%) GCP
4 96 (12.44%) Power Platform
5 76 (9.84%) SaaS
6 69 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (8.03%) GitHub
8 45 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
9 33 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
10 32 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 27 (3.50%) Power Automate
12 25 (3.24%) Serverless
13 24 (3.11%) Entra ID
14 17 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.07%) PowerApps
16 13 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (1.68%) Cloudflare
17 12 (1.55%) PaaS
18 11 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
19 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.46%) Firewall
2 14 (1.81%) DNS
2 14 (1.81%) SSL
2 14 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.30%) DHCP
3 10 (1.30%) VPN
4 9 (1.17%) DMARC
5 6 (0.78%) SAN
5 6 (0.78%) VLAN
5 6 (0.78%) VoIP
6 5 (0.65%) DMZ
6 5 (0.65%) STUN
7 4 (0.52%) Internet
8 3 (0.39%) WAN
9 2 (0.26%) Broadband
9 2 (0.26%) HTTP
9 2 (0.26%) LAN
9 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.26%) Skype
9 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (11.40%) MySQL
2 87 (11.27%) Power BI
3 54 (6.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 50 (6.48%) MongoDB
4 50 (6.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 49 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (4.27%) Relational Database
8 30 (3.89%) Data Hub
9 26 (3.37%) SQL CLR
10 23 (2.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 22 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (2.20%) Metadata
13 17 (2.20%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.55%) Tableau
15 10 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 9 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (1.17%) DB2
16 9 (1.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 270 (34.97%) JIRA
2 255 (33.03%) GitLab
3 252 (32.64%) Bitbucket
4 251 (32.51%) SonarQube
5 249 (32.25%) Selenium
6 248 (32.12%) Maven
7 247 (31.99%) Cucumber
7 247 (31.99%) Sonatype Nexus
8 91 (11.79%) Git
9 17 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 13 (1.68%) TeamCity
11 10 (1.30%) NUnit
12 8 (1.04%) Jasmine
12 8 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (1.04%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.78%) Jenkins
14 5 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
15 4 (0.52%) Toad
16 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 388 (50.26%) Finance
2 266 (34.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 260 (33.68%) Banking
4 194 (25.13%) Social Skills
5 120 (15.54%) Retail
6 91 (11.79%) Investment Banking
7 90 (11.66%) Corporate Banking
8 50 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
9 46 (5.96%) Back Office
10 29 (3.76%) Manufacturing
11 27 (3.50%) Law
12 24 (3.11%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (2.59%) Front Office
15 17 (2.20%) Games
15 17 (2.20%) Marketing
16 10 (1.30%) Legal
16 10 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.17%) Czech Language
17 9 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 270 (34.97%) Software Engineer
2 242 (31.35%) Developer
3 92 (11.92%) Senior
4 64 (8.29%) .NET Developer
5 59 (7.64%) Senior Developer
6 54 (6.99%) Analyst
7 44 (5.70%) Lead
8 42 (5.44%) Graduate
9 41 (5.31%) C# Developer
10 40 (5.18%) IT Graduate
11 39 (5.05%) SQL Developer
12 38 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
13 37 (4.79%) Graduate Developer
14 32 (4.15%) Applications Support
15 30 (3.89%) SaaS Developer
15 30 (3.89%) Support Engineer
16 28 (3.63%) DBA
17 26 (3.37%) Administrator
17 26 (3.37%) Software Developer
18 24 (3.11%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (43.39%) CSS
2 302 (39.12%) React
3 299 (38.73%) HTML
4 263 (34.07%) Kafka
5 252 (32.64%) Spring
5 252 (32.64%) Spring Boot
6 249 (32.25%) Redux
7 248 (32.12%) JPA
8 241 (31.22%) .NET
9 157 (20.34%) Hibernate
10 143 (18.52%) REST
11 123 (15.93%) RESTful
12 107 (13.86%) HTML5
13 104 (13.47%) CSS3
14 98 (12.69%) Jest
15 91 (11.79%) Sass
16 75 (9.72%) ASP.NET
17 74 (9.59%) .NET Core
18 72 (9.33%) .NET Framework
19 52 (6.74%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 270 (34.97%) Enterprise Software
2 254 (32.90%) Product Ownership
3 38 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (3.37%) Private Cloud
5 20 (2.59%) NHS
6 16 (2.07%) Cloud Native
7 15 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 13 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.68%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.30%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.30%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.04%) Client/Server
12 8 (1.04%) Learning Management System
13 7 (0.91%) Management Information System
14 6 (0.78%) BYOD
15 5 (0.65%) Clustering
15 5 (0.65%) Online Games
16 4 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (12.18%) Windows
2 52 (6.74%) Windows Server
3 49 (6.35%) Linux
4 22 (2.85%) Unix
5 6 (0.78%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.65%) Android
6 5 (0.65%) Debian
7 4 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.26%) Solaris
8 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.26%) VMS
8 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (58.29%) Agile
2 374 (48.45%) DevOps
3 351 (45.47%) CI/CD
4 336 (43.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 323 (41.84%) Software Engineering
6 320 (41.45%) Microservices
7 285 (36.92%) Test Automation
8 277 (35.88%) SDLC
9 274 (35.49%) Containerisation
9 274 (35.49%) Performance Optimisation
10 269 (34.84%) Front End Development
11 255 (33.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 229 (29.66%) Clean Code
13 178 (23.06%) TDD
14 168 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
15 165 (21.37%) Mentoring
16 125 (16.19%) Migration
17 116 (15.03%) Business Intelligence
18 109 (14.12%) Strategic Thinking
19 101 (13.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 536 (69.43%) SQL
2 366 (47.41%) JavaScript
3 317 (41.06%) Java
4 242 (31.35%) C#
5 127 (16.45%) TypeScript
6 58 (7.51%) T-SQL
7 52 (6.74%) PowerShell
7 52 (6.74%) Python
8 46 (5.96%) PHP
9 40 (5.18%) C++
10 21 (2.72%) VB.NET
11 14 (1.81%) C
11 14 (1.81%) VBA
12 7 (0.91%) Bicep
12 7 (0.91%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.91%) VB
13 5 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.65%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.39%) Erlang
14 3 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 127 (16.45%) Degree
2 72 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (2.33%) Security Cleared
4 13 (1.68%) Master's Degree
4 13 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (1.55%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.39%) MCP
9 3 (0.39%) MCSA
9 3 (0.39%) 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 (37.31%) QA
2 105 (13.60%) Accessibility
3 33 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.46%) GDPR
4 19 (2.46%) ISO 9001
5 17 (2.20%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.91%) SLA
7 5 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.13%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 289 (37.44%) Docker
2 38 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (4.66%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.65%) Kamailio
7 3 (0.39%) 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
1 288 (37.31%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.24%) Terraform
3 13 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
4 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.04%) Ansible
6 8 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.04%) SCCM
7 7 (0.91%) Grafana
8 3 (0.39%) 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
1 247 (31.99%) Solace
2 243 (31.48%) Microsoft
3 46 (5.96%) Oracle
4 43 (5.57%) VMware
5 27 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.07%) DevExpress
7 13 (1.68%) Databricks
8 11 (1.42%) Rollbar
9 10 (1.30%) Google
9 10 (1.30%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.30%) Talend
10 9 (1.17%) Informatica
11 8 (1.04%) HubSpot
11 8 (1.04%) Sage
11 8 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.04%) Zoho
12 7 (0.91%) Infor
12 7 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.78%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.78%) SAP