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

 6 months to
29 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 63 54
Rank change year-on-year -44 -9 -22
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 602 807 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.42% 4.87% 4.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.92% 30.37% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 497 472 666
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,556 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 £70,188
90th Percentile £98,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 3,182 2,657 4,828
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.81% 16.05% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,458 1,831 3,093
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £139,750
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 29 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 (7.31%) IIS
2 37 (6.15%) SharePoint
3 25 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.16%) Confluence
5 5 (0.83%) 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 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.17%) Documentum
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Elite 3E
1 5 (0.83%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
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
1 345 (57.31%) Azure
2 104 (17.28%) AWS
3 95 (15.78%) Power Platform
4 88 (14.62%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (9.47%) SaaS
6 52 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (8.14%) Snowflake
8 39 (6.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 33 (5.48%) Azure Service Bus
10 32 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 29 (4.82%) Azure AI
12 27 (4.49%) Power Automate
13 26 (4.32%) GCP
13 26 (4.32%) PowerApps
13 26 (4.32%) Serverless
14 25 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (3.99%) Entra ID
16 22 (3.65%) Azure Machine Learning
17 19 (3.16%) GitHub
18 18 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.64%) Firewall
2 33 (5.48%) DNS
3 30 (4.98%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.65%) VPN
5 22 (3.65%) DHCP
6 10 (1.66%) VLAN
7 9 (1.50%) 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%) Intranet
14 1 (0.17%) RTP
14 1 (0.17%) SS7
14 1 (0.17%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (11.79%) Power BI
2 66 (10.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 54 (8.97%) Relational Database
4 53 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (8.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 35 (5.81%) MySQL
7 35 (5.81%) Redis
8 31 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 29 (4.82%) MongoDB
10 22 (3.65%) Data Lake
10 22 (3.65%) NoSQL
11 14 (2.33%) Metadata
12 12 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.99%) Star Schema
13 11 (1.83%) DynamoDB
13 11 (1.83%) Tableau
14 9 (1.50%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 64 (10.63%) Git
2 24 (3.99%) 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
8 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.33%) MSTest
10 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.17%) Flyway
10 1 (0.17%) GitLab
10 1 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.17%) Ranorex
10 1 (0.17%) Storybook
10 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 183 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 128 (21.26%) Finance
3 70 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.14%) Law
5 34 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (5.65%) Legal
6 26 (4.32%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.16%) Banking
8 16 (2.66%) Retail
9 11 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.66%) Front Office
11 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.16%) Marketing
12 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.83%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.83%) Publishing
15 4 (0.66%) Billing
16 3 (0.50%) Advertising
16 3 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 213 (35.38%) Developer
2 102 (16.94%) Senior
3 70 (11.63%) Software Developer
4 62 (10.30%) Data Engineer
5 61 (10.13%) Software Engineer
6 56 (9.30%) .NET Developer
6 56 (9.30%) Lead
7 53 (8.80%) Graduate
8 46 (7.64%) SQL Developer
9 44 (7.31%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (5.81%) Analyst
11 35 (5.81%) Lead Developer
12 32 (5.32%) Senior Developer
13 29 (4.82%) C# Developer
14 28 (4.65%) Architect
15 27 (4.49%) Support Engineer
16 26 (4.32%) Support Analyst
17 25 (4.15%) Graduate Developer
17 25 (4.15%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (36.05%) .NET
2 66 (10.96%) CSS
3 63 (10.47%) .NET Framework
3 63 (10.47%) ASP.NET
4 57 (9.47%) .NET Core
4 57 (9.47%) REST
5 54 (8.97%) HTML
6 53 (8.80%) React
7 47 (7.81%) Entity Framework
8 43 (7.14%) AngularJS
9 37 (6.15%) Node.js
10 33 (5.48%) XML
11 30 (4.98%) Blazor
12 28 (4.65%) jQuery
12 28 (4.65%) Vue
13 27 (4.49%) Terraform
14 21 (3.49%) RESTful
14 21 (3.49%) Web Services
15 20 (3.32%) JSON
15 20 (3.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.31%) Enterprise Software
2 30 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.49%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.16%) Replication
7 13 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.66%) Clustering
11 9 (1.50%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.33%) Client/Server
13 7 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.00%) Equities
14 6 (1.00%) Online Gambling
15 5 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 99 (16.45%) Windows
2 69 (11.46%) Windows Server
3 39 (6.48%) Linux
4 9 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (1.16%) 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
1 165 (27.41%) Agile
2 163 (27.08%) DevOps
3 137 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (20.76%) CI/CD
5 119 (19.77%) Software Engineering
6 117 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 100 (16.61%) AI
8 93 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 85 (14.12%) Computer Science
10 81 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
11 77 (12.79%) Mentoring
12 73 (12.13%) Clean Code
13 71 (11.79%) Analytics
13 71 (11.79%) Migration
14 68 (11.30%) Data Architecture
15 66 (10.96%) Roadmaps
16 65 (10.80%) ETL
17 63 (10.47%) Microservices
18 59 (9.80%) Data Engineering
19 53 (8.80%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 327 (54.32%) SQL
2 255 (42.36%) C#
3 100 (16.61%) JavaScript
4 86 (14.29%) Python
5 57 (9.47%) PowerShell
6 54 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 51 (8.47%) PHP
8 48 (7.97%) T-SQL
9 42 (6.98%) Java
10 20 (3.32%) C++
11 11 (1.83%) Bicep
11 11 (1.83%) Go
12 10 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.16%) VB.NET
13 7 (1.16%) VBA
14 6 (1.00%) VBScript
15 5 (0.83%) Bash
15 5 (0.83%) Rust
15 5 (0.83%) Tcl
16 4 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 111 (18.44%) Degree
2 63 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (3.99%) Security Cleared
4 19 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.66%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.50%) HNC
10 3 (0.50%) HND
11 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.17%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.17%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.17%) MCT
11 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.63%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.81%) QA
3 20 (3.32%) GDPR
4 16 (2.66%) SLA
5 12 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.50%) 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 54 (8.97%) Docker
2 49 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 35 (5.81%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (3.49%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.50%) vSphere
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
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 29 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.83%) Ansible
4 8 (1.33%) Grafana
5 7 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (0.83%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.50%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.33%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.17%) Control-M
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.17%) SCCM
9 1 (0.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 307 (51.00%) Microsoft
2 61 (10.13%) Databricks
3 42 (6.98%) Oracle
4 23 (3.82%) VMware
5 14 (2.33%) Informatica
6 13 (2.16%) Google
6 13 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.16%) Veeam
7 11 (1.83%) Citrix
7 11 (1.83%) IBM
8 10 (1.66%) iManage
8 10 (1.66%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.66%) Talend
9 9 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.50%) TIBCO
10 7 (1.16%) Cisco
11 6 (1.00%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.83%) RedGate
12 5 (0.83%) Remedy
12 5 (0.83%) Sybase
392 hybrid/remote SQL Server jobs