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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 61 57
Rank change year-on-year -46 -4 -24
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 632 821 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.59% 5.07% 4.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.91% 30.22% 21.37%
Number of salaries quoted 531 484 697
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,150 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,125 £39,906 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £86,250 £86,750
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 3,174 2,717 4,852
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.00% 16.76% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,478 1,893 3,240
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.54% +8.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%

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 21 September 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 (6.96%) IIS
2 37 (5.85%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.42%) Confluence
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.79%) nginx
6 4 (0.63%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.63%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.63%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.32%) Apache
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) Documentum
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.79%) Elite 3E
1 5 (0.79%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.47%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.32%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.32%) 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%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 370 (58.54%) Azure
2 103 (16.30%) AWS
3 92 (14.56%) Power Platform
4 88 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (10.44%) Snowflake
6 52 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (8.23%) SaaS
7 50 (7.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 48 (7.59%) Azure AI
9 41 (6.49%) Azure Machine Learning
10 39 (6.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 29 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
12 28 (4.43%) Power Automate
13 27 (4.27%) PowerApps
14 25 (3.96%) Serverless
15 24 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (3.80%) Entra ID
16 23 (3.64%) GCP
17 18 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (2.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.65%) Firewall
2 31 (4.91%) DNS
3 30 (4.75%) TCP/IP
4 27 (4.27%) VPN
5 22 (3.48%) DHCP
6 10 (1.58%) VLAN
6 10 (1.58%) WAN
7 8 (1.27%) HTTP
7 8 (1.27%) LAN
7 8 (1.27%) VoIP
8 6 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.79%) Network Security
10 3 (0.47%) FTP
10 3 (0.47%) Wireless
11 2 (0.32%) Broadband
11 2 (0.32%) SAN
12 1 (0.16%) Intranet
12 1 (0.16%) RTP
12 1 (0.16%) SS7
12 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 68 (10.76%) Power BI
2 53 (8.39%) Relational Database
3 51 (8.07%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (7.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 36 (5.70%) MySQL
7 33 (5.22%) Redis
8 29 (4.59%) MongoDB
8 29 (4.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 23 (3.64%) NoSQL
10 21 (3.32%) Data Lake
11 13 (2.06%) Metadata
12 12 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.74%) DynamoDB
13 11 (1.74%) Star Schema
14 10 (1.58%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.58%) Tableau
15 9 (1.42%) Amazon QuickSight
15 9 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (9.34%) Git
2 22 (3.48%) JIRA
3 10 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.42%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.11%) NUnit
6 6 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.95%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.32%) MSTest
10 2 (0.32%) Selenium
11 1 (0.16%) GitLab
11 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.16%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.16%) JUnit
11 1 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.16%) Ranorex
11 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 179 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 151 (23.89%) Finance
3 71 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (6.96%) Law
5 35 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (5.54%) Legal
6 27 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 22 (3.48%) Banking
8 15 (2.37%) Retail
9 11 (1.74%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.58%) Front Office
11 9 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.95%) Marketing
13 6 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.79%) Billing
14 5 (0.79%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.79%) Publishing
15 3 (0.47%) Advertising
15 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 221 (34.97%) Developer
2 99 (15.66%) Senior
3 75 (11.87%) Software Developer
4 65 (10.28%) Data Engineer
5 59 (9.34%) .NET Developer
6 58 (9.18%) Graduate
6 58 (9.18%) Software Engineer
7 56 (8.86%) Lead
8 52 (8.23%) SQL Developer
9 44 (6.96%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (6.17%) Analyst
11 38 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 36 (5.70%) Lead Developer
13 35 (5.54%) C# Developer
14 32 (5.06%) Senior Developer
15 31 (4.91%) Architect
16 30 (4.75%) Graduate Developer
16 30 (4.75%) Graduate Software Developer
17 28 (4.43%) Support Analyst
18 26 (4.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (34.34%) .NET
2 70 (11.08%) CSS
3 61 (9.65%) .NET Framework
4 60 (9.49%) ASP.NET
5 56 (8.86%) .NET Core
5 56 (8.86%) REST
6 54 (8.54%) HTML
6 54 (8.54%) React
7 45 (7.12%) Entity Framework
8 43 (6.80%) AngularJS
9 38 (6.01%) Node.js
10 34 (5.38%) XML
11 32 (5.06%) jQuery
12 30 (4.75%) Blazor
13 29 (4.59%) Terraform
14 27 (4.27%) Vue
15 20 (3.16%) JSON
15 20 (3.16%) Web Services
16 19 (3.01%) RESTful
17 18 (2.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
2 29 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (4.11%) Cloud Native
5 18 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.69%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.22%) Replication
9 13 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.58%) Clustering
13 9 (1.42%) Client/Server
13 9 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
15 6 (0.95%) Equities
15 6 (0.95%) Online Gambling
16 5 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 100 (15.82%) Windows
2 68 (10.76%) Windows Server
3 40 (6.33%) Linux
4 9 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (1.27%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.32%) AIX
7 2 (0.32%) Android
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Solaris
8 1 (0.16%) Unix
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (29.11%) Agile
2 162 (25.63%) DevOps
3 136 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (19.15%) CI/CD
5 117 (18.51%) AI
5 117 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 114 (18.04%) Software Engineering
7 93 (14.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 89 (14.08%) Computer Science
8 89 (14.08%) Migration
9 87 (13.77%) Data Architecture
10 86 (13.61%) Roadmaps
11 82 (12.97%) Mentoring
12 80 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
12 80 (12.66%) Data Engineering
13 74 (11.71%) Clean Code
14 69 (10.92%) Analytics
15 68 (10.76%) ETL
16 64 (10.13%) Microservices
17 58 (9.18%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 351 (55.54%) SQL
2 259 (40.98%) C#
3 99 (15.66%) JavaScript
4 86 (13.61%) Python
5 57 (9.02%) PowerShell
6 55 (8.70%) PHP
6 55 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 50 (7.91%) T-SQL
8 47 (7.44%) Java
9 24 (3.80%) C++
10 11 (1.74%) Bicep
10 11 (1.74%) Go
11 9 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.11%) VB.NET
12 7 (1.11%) VBA
13 6 (0.95%) VBScript
14 5 (0.79%) Bash
14 5 (0.79%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.79%) Rust
14 5 (0.79%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 117 (18.51%) Degree
2 68 (10.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 18 (2.85%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.63%) HNC
10 4 (0.63%) HND
11 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.16%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.34%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.70%) QA
3 23 (3.64%) GDPR
4 19 (3.01%) SLA
5 11 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.47%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
2 53 (8.39%) Docker
3 51 (8.07%) Active Directory
4 19 (3.01%) Hyper-V
5 13 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.63%) vSphere
7 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.16%) HDFS
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.74%) Ansible
4 7 (1.11%) Grafana
4 7 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.79%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.47%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.32%) SCCM
9 1 (0.16%) Control-M
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.16%) MIIS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 332 (52.53%) Microsoft
2 76 (12.03%) Databricks
3 45 (7.12%) Oracle
4 21 (3.32%) VMware
5 14 (2.22%) Informatica
5 14 (2.22%) Veeam
6 13 (2.06%) Google
6 13 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.74%) IBM
7 11 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.58%) Citrix
8 10 (1.58%) iManage
8 10 (1.58%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.58%) Talend
9 9 (1.42%) TIBCO
10 8 (1.27%) Cisco
11 6 (0.95%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.79%) Remedy
12 5 (0.79%) Sybase
13 4 (0.63%) JDA