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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 54 31
Rank change year-on-year -40 -23 +6
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 598 929 2,119
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.82% 5.64% 6.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.93% 28.16% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 533 578 1,836
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,425 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -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 3,000 3,299 6,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.14% 20.03% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 2,210 5,653
10th Percentile £37,450 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,748 £46,858 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 10 July 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 41 (6.86%) IIS
2 31 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 29 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.01%) Confluence
5 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.84%) nginx
7 4 (0.67%) SAS
8 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.33%) JBoss
8 2 (0.33%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.17%) Apache
9 1 (0.17%) Documentum
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.00%) Magento
3 5 (0.84%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.67%) Shopify
5 3 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.50%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.17%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 378 (63.21%) Azure
2 105 (17.56%) AWS
3 88 (14.72%) Power Platform
4 68 (11.37%) Snowflake
5 66 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (9.87%) SaaS
7 57 (9.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 56 (9.36%) Azure Machine Learning
8 56 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
9 55 (9.20%) Azure AI
10 28 (4.68%) Entra ID
11 26 (4.35%) Serverless
12 22 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 22 (3.68%) PaaS
13 21 (3.51%) Power Automate
14 20 (3.34%) GitHub
14 20 (3.34%) PowerApps
15 19 (3.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
16 16 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.52%) Firewall
2 28 (4.68%) VPN
3 21 (3.51%) TCP/IP
4 20 (3.34%) DNS
5 14 (2.34%) DHCP
6 9 (1.51%) VLAN
7 7 (1.17%) VoIP
8 5 (0.84%) DMZ
8 5 (0.84%) LAN
8 5 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.84%) STUN
8 5 (0.84%) WAN
9 4 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.50%) SAN
10 3 (0.50%) Wireless
11 2 (0.33%) HTTP
11 2 (0.33%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.33%) Network Security
11 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.17%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (11.20%) Power BI
2 48 (8.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 45 (7.53%) MySQL
4 43 (7.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 42 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (6.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (5.35%) Relational Database
8 25 (4.18%) Redis
9 17 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (2.68%) Oracle Database
11 14 (2.34%) Db2
12 12 (2.01%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.67%) NoSQL
14 8 (1.34%) Tableau
15 7 (1.17%) Data Lake
16 6 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
17 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
17 4 (0.67%) Power Query
17 4 (0.67%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 29 (4.85%) JIRA
2 24 (4.01%) Git
3 13 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (1.51%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.00%) NUnit
5 6 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
7 3 (0.50%) Selenium
8 2 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.33%) MSTest
8 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.17%) Gatling
9 1 (0.17%) GitLab
9 1 (0.17%) Postman
9 1 (0.17%) Ranorex
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 166 (27.76%) Finance
2 159 (26.59%) Social Skills
3 71 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.52%) Banking
5 25 (4.18%) Law
6 23 (3.85%) Legal
7 19 (3.18%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.34%) Retail
11 10 (1.67%) Front Office
12 7 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.67%) Back Office
15 4 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.67%) Marketing
15 4 (0.67%) Publishing
15 4 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 207 (34.62%) Developer
2 86 (14.38%) Senior
3 80 (13.38%) Software Developer
4 64 (10.70%) SQL Developer
5 54 (9.03%) Analyst
6 53 (8.86%) Graduate
7 49 (8.19%) .NET Developer
7 49 (8.19%) Data Engineer
8 45 (7.53%) C# Developer
9 43 (7.19%) Graduate Developer
9 43 (7.19%) Graduate Software Developer
10 42 (7.02%) Lead
10 42 (7.02%) Software Engineer
11 41 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 37 (6.19%) C# Software Developer
12 37 (6.19%) Data Manager
13 36 (6.02%) Engineering Manager
14 35 (5.85%) Support Analyst
15 34 (5.69%) Applications Support
15 34 (5.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (32.44%) .NET
2 79 (13.21%) CSS
3 51 (8.53%) HTML
4 47 (7.86%) .NET Core
4 47 (7.86%) .NET Framework
5 46 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 44 (7.36%) jQuery
7 42 (7.02%) React
8 39 (6.52%) REST
9 36 (6.02%) AngularJS
10 35 (5.85%) Entity Framework
11 32 (5.35%) Node.js
12 30 (5.02%) XML
13 24 (4.01%) Vue
14 23 (3.85%) JSON
15 18 (3.01%) Middleware
15 18 (3.01%) RESTful
16 15 (2.51%) ASP.NET Core
16 15 (2.51%) Web Services
17 14 (2.34%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (3.68%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (3.34%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.18%) Data Structures
5 17 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.68%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.01%) Replication
10 11 (1.84%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.51%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.34%) Clustering
14 7 (1.17%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
15 6 (1.00%) Mobile App
16 5 (0.84%) Equities
16 5 (0.84%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 96 (16.05%) Windows
2 65 (10.87%) Windows Server
3 40 (6.69%) Linux
4 10 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (1.17%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.84%) Debian
7 3 (0.50%) CentOS
7 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.33%) Unix
8 2 (0.33%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (31.77%) Agile
2 122 (20.40%) DevOps
3 110 (18.39%) AI
4 103 (17.22%) CI/CD
5 101 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
5 101 (16.89%) Roadmaps
6 100 (16.72%) Data Engineering
7 97 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 89 (14.88%) Migration
9 85 (14.21%) Data Architecture
10 84 (14.05%) Business Intelligence
10 84 (14.05%) Computer Science
11 83 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 77 (12.88%) Software Engineering
13 72 (12.04%) Mentoring
14 69 (11.54%) MVC
15 68 (11.37%) Regulatory Compliance
16 66 (11.04%) Data Governance
17 64 (10.70%) Line Management
18 60 (10.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 369 (61.71%) SQL
2 214 (35.79%) C#
3 86 (14.38%) JavaScript
4 85 (14.21%) Python
5 69 (11.54%) PowerShell
6 55 (9.20%) PHP
6 55 (9.20%) T-SQL
6 55 (9.20%) TypeScript
7 52 (8.70%) Java
8 31 (5.18%) C++
9 15 (2.51%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.34%) Bash
11 11 (1.84%) VB.NET
12 9 (1.51%) Bicep
12 9 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.51%) R
13 6 (1.00%) VBA
13 6 (1.00%) VBScript
14 5 (0.84%) Tcl
15 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 110 (18.39%) Degree
2 70 (11.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (2.84%) Azure Certification
4 15 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.17%) Security Cleared
6 10 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.84%) HNC
7 5 (0.84%) HND
7 5 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.84%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.33%) CCNA
9 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.33%) MCSA
9 2 (0.33%) MCSE
10 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.17%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.35%) QA
3 22 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.68%) SLA
4 21 (3.51%) GDPR
5 5 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.50%) PMO
7 1 (0.17%) HL7
7 1 (0.17%) NCSC
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 70 (11.71%) Virtual Machines
2 64 (10.70%) Active Directory
3 46 (7.69%) Docker
4 17 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.84%) vSphere
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (4.68%) Terraform
2 27 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.34%) Ansible
5 6 (1.00%) Grafana
5 6 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.50%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.50%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.33%) MIIS
10 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.17%) Puppet
10 1 (0.17%) SCCM
10 1 (0.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 314 (52.51%) Microsoft
2 79 (13.21%) Databricks
3 47 (7.86%) Oracle
4 21 (3.51%) VMware
5 19 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.34%) Cisco
8 13 (2.17%) Citrix
9 12 (2.01%) Veeam
10 11 (1.84%) Google
11 10 (1.67%) IBM
11 10 (1.67%) iManage
12 8 (1.34%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.17%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.17%) TIBCO
14 6 (1.00%) Informatica
15 5 (0.84%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.84%) Meraki
15 5 (0.84%) Sybase
15 5 (0.84%) Synology