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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 63 55
Rank change year-on-year -44 -8 -23
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 607 812 1,027
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.43% 4.83% 4.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.03% 30.33% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 502 477 657
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,838 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,563 £39,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £86,750
UK median annual salary £56,529 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% +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 3,189 2,677 4,843
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.78% 15.91% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,470 1,847 3,087
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £46,217 £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 1 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 44 (7.25%) IIS
2 39 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 25 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.15%) Confluence
5 5 (0.82%) nginx
6 4 (0.66%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.33%) Apache
7 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) Documentum
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.82%) Elite 3E
2 5 (0.82%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.49%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.33%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.33%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.16%) Finacle
5 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.16%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 349 (57.50%) Azure
2 104 (17.13%) AWS
3 98 (16.14%) Power Platform
4 91 (14.99%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (9.39%) SaaS
6 55 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (8.07%) Snowflake
8 39 (6.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 33 (5.44%) Azure Service Bus
10 32 (5.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 30 (4.94%) Power Automate
12 29 (4.78%) Azure AI
12 29 (4.78%) PowerApps
13 28 (4.61%) Serverless
14 27 (4.45%) GCP
15 25 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (4.12%) Entra ID
16 22 (3.62%) Azure Machine Learning
17 20 (3.29%) GitHub
18 19 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.59%) Firewall
2 34 (5.60%) DNS
3 30 (4.94%) TCP/IP
4 29 (4.78%) VPN
5 22 (3.62%) DHCP
6 10 (1.65%) VLAN
7 9 (1.48%) WAN
8 8 (1.32%) HTTP
8 8 (1.32%) VoIP
9 7 (1.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.66%) Network Security
12 3 (0.49%) FTP
12 3 (0.49%) Wireless
13 2 (0.33%) Broadband
13 2 (0.33%) SAN
14 1 (0.16%) ATM
14 1 (0.16%) Intranet
14 1 (0.16%) RTP
14 1 (0.16%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (12.03%) Power BI
2 65 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (8.90%) Relational Database
4 53 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
5 50 (8.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 35 (5.77%) MySQL
6 35 (5.77%) Redis
7 31 (5.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (4.94%) MongoDB
9 22 (3.62%) Data Lake
9 22 (3.62%) NoSQL
10 14 (2.31%) Metadata
11 12 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.98%) Star Schema
12 11 (1.81%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.81%) Tableau
13 9 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (1.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (10.87%) Git
2 24 (3.95%) JIRA
3 10 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.32%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.99%) NUnit
5 6 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.82%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.33%) MSTest
10 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.16%) GitLab
10 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.16%) JUnit
10 1 (0.16%) Postman
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) Storybook
10 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 187 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 128 (21.09%) Finance
3 70 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (7.41%) Law
5 36 (5.93%) Legal
6 34 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.45%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.13%) Banking
9 16 (2.64%) Retail
10 11 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.65%) Front Office
12 9 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.15%) Marketing
13 7 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.82%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.82%) Publishing
16 4 (0.66%) Billing
17 3 (0.49%) Advertising
17 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 215 (35.42%) Developer
2 104 (17.13%) Senior
3 70 (11.53%) Software Developer
4 62 (10.21%) Data Engineer
5 61 (10.05%) Software Engineer
6 56 (9.23%) .NET Developer
6 56 (9.23%) Lead
7 54 (8.90%) Graduate
8 46 (7.58%) SQL Developer
9 44 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (5.77%) Analyst
11 35 (5.77%) Lead Developer
12 32 (5.27%) Senior Developer
13 29 (4.78%) C# Developer
14 28 (4.61%) Architect
14 28 (4.61%) Support Engineer
15 26 (4.28%) Support Analyst
16 25 (4.12%) Graduate Developer
16 25 (4.12%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (36.08%) .NET
2 67 (11.04%) CSS
3 63 (10.38%) .NET Framework
3 63 (10.38%) ASP.NET
4 60 (9.88%) REST
5 57 (9.39%) .NET Core
6 54 (8.90%) HTML
6 54 (8.90%) React
7 47 (7.74%) Entity Framework
8 43 (7.08%) AngularJS
9 37 (6.10%) Node.js
10 33 (5.44%) XML
11 30 (4.94%) Blazor
12 28 (4.61%) jQuery
12 28 (4.61%) Vue
13 27 (4.45%) Terraform
14 22 (3.62%) RESTful
15 21 (3.46%) Web Services
16 20 (3.29%) JSON
16 20 (3.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.26%) Enterprise Software
2 30 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.78%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.64%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.14%) Replication
8 13 (2.14%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.81%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.65%) Clustering
12 9 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.32%) Client/Server
14 7 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
15 6 (0.99%) Equities
15 6 (0.99%) Online Gambling
16 5 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 100 (16.47%) Windows
2 70 (11.53%) Windows Server
3 39 (6.43%) Linux
4 9 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.33%) AIX
7 2 (0.33%) Android
7 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Solaris
8 1 (0.16%) Unix
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (27.51%) Agile
2 166 (27.35%) DevOps
3 140 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 120 (19.77%) Software Engineering
6 116 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 101 (16.64%) AI
8 94 (15.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 85 (14.00%) Computer Science
10 83 (13.67%) Business Intelligence
11 77 (12.69%) Mentoring
12 74 (12.19%) Clean Code
13 72 (11.86%) Analytics
14 71 (11.70%) Migration
15 68 (11.20%) Data Architecture
16 66 (10.87%) Roadmaps
17 65 (10.71%) ETL
18 63 (10.38%) Microservices
19 60 (9.88%) Data Engineering
20 52 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 330 (54.37%) SQL
2 257 (42.34%) C#
3 101 (16.64%) JavaScript
4 87 (14.33%) Python
5 57 (9.39%) PowerShell
6 55 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 51 (8.40%) PHP
8 50 (8.24%) T-SQL
9 42 (6.92%) Java
10 20 (3.29%) C++
11 11 (1.81%) Bicep
11 11 (1.81%) Go
12 10 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.15%) VB.NET
13 7 (1.15%) VBA
14 6 (0.99%) Bash
14 6 (0.99%) VBScript
15 5 (0.82%) Rust
15 5 (0.82%) Tcl
16 4 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (18.45%) Degree
2 63 (10.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 19 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.49%) HNC
10 3 (0.49%) HND
11 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.16%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.16%) MCT
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.77%) QA
3 20 (3.29%) GDPR
4 16 (2.64%) SLA
5 12 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.49%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.16%) IASME
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (9.06%) Docker
2 50 (8.24%) Active Directory
3 35 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (3.62%) Hyper-V
5 15 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.49%) vSphere
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.16%) HDFS
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.81%) Ansible
4 8 (1.32%) Grafana
5 7 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.82%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (0.82%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.49%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.33%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.16%) Control-M
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.16%) SCCM
9 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 312 (51.40%) Microsoft
2 61 (10.05%) Databricks
3 41 (6.75%) Oracle
4 24 (3.95%) VMware
5 14 (2.31%) Google
5 14 (2.31%) Informatica
6 13 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.14%) Veeam
7 12 (1.98%) Citrix
8 11 (1.81%) IBM
8 11 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.65%) iManage
9 10 (1.65%) Talend
10 9 (1.48%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.48%) TIBCO
11 7 (1.15%) Cisco
12 6 (0.99%) Intapp
12 6 (0.99%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.82%) RedGate
13 5 (0.82%) Sybase