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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 50 22
Rank change year-on-year -31 -28 +20
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 514 914 2,666
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.75% 6.04% 8.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.24% 26.55% 36.39%
Number of salaries quoted 460 560 2,421
10th Percentile £27,725 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £82,625 £78,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -0.97%

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 2,420 3,442 7,326
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.96% 22.73% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,843 2,318 6,225
10th Percentile £38,300 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £122,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 18 May 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 26 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.47%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.11%) IIS
4 13 (2.53%) Confluence
5 5 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.78%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.78%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.78%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.58%) nginx
7 3 (0.58%) SAS
8 2 (0.39%) Apache
8 2 (0.39%) CMS
8 2 (0.39%) JBoss
8 2 (0.39%) Moodle
8 2 (0.39%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.19%) Drupal
9 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 13 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.14%) Magento
4 9 (1.75%) Shopify
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.58%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.19%) Actimize
7 1 (0.19%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 339 (65.95%) Azure
2 89 (17.32%) AWS
3 70 (13.62%) Power Platform
4 61 (11.87%) SaaS
4 61 (11.87%) Snowflake
5 58 (11.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 57 (11.09%) Azure AI
7 56 (10.89%) Azure Machine Learning
8 50 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
10 30 (5.84%) GitHub
11 29 (5.64%) Serverless
12 27 (5.25%) Entra ID
13 22 (4.28%) PaaS
14 20 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (3.70%) Power Automate
16 16 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (3.11%) PowerApps
17 14 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
18 12 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.64%) Firewall
2 14 (2.72%) VPN
3 10 (1.95%) DNS
4 9 (1.75%) VLAN
5 8 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.36%) DMZ
7 6 (1.17%) DHCP
7 6 (1.17%) VoIP
8 5 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.97%) STUN
9 4 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.58%) AMQP
10 3 (0.58%) PuTTY
10 3 (0.58%) SAN
11 2 (0.39%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.39%) Network Security
11 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.39%) WAN
12 1 (0.19%) LAN
12 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.87%) Power BI
2 42 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (7.78%) MySQL
4 39 (7.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 36 (7.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (4.28%) Relational Database
8 16 (3.11%) NoSQL
9 15 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.92%) Oracle Database
10 14 (2.72%) Redis
11 11 (2.14%) DB2
12 10 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.17%) Metadata
14 5 (0.97%) Tableau
15 4 (0.78%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.78%) GIS
15 4 (0.78%) Power Query
15 4 (0.78%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 29 (5.64%) Git
2 27 (5.25%) JIRA
3 11 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (1.56%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.97%) NUnit
5 5 (0.97%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.58%) Jasmine
6 3 (0.58%) Maven
6 3 (0.58%) MSTest
6 3 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.39%) Selenium
7 2 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.19%) Gatling
8 1 (0.19%) JMeter
8 1 (0.19%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.19%) Moq
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 159 (30.93%) Finance
2 129 (25.10%) Social Skills
3 55 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (4.86%) Banking
5 16 (3.11%) Public Sector
6 15 (2.92%) Legal
7 13 (2.53%) Law
8 11 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.14%) Retail
9 10 (1.95%) Back Office
10 6 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.97%) Automotive
11 5 (0.97%) Front Office
12 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Publishing
13 3 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.39%) Marketing
14 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 161 (31.32%) Developer
2 108 (21.01%) Senior
3 64 (12.45%) Software Developer
4 48 (9.34%) Analyst
5 47 (9.14%) C# Developer
5 47 (9.14%) SQL Developer
6 43 (8.37%) Graduate
6 43 (8.37%) Graduate Developer
6 43 (8.37%) Graduate Software Developer
7 38 (7.39%) Software Engineer
8 37 (7.20%) Data Manager
8 37 (7.20%) Lead
9 36 (7.00%) C# Software Developer
9 36 (7.00%) Engineering Manager
10 35 (6.81%) .NET Developer
10 35 (6.81%) Applications Support
11 33 (6.42%) Finance Manager
11 33 (6.42%) Graduate C# Developer
11 33 (6.42%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 32 (6.23%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (33.46%) .NET
2 67 (13.04%) CSS
3 48 (9.34%) React
4 42 (8.17%) .NET Core
5 41 (7.98%) HTML
6 37 (7.20%) jQuery
7 34 (6.61%) REST
8 31 (6.03%) AngularJS
9 28 (5.45%) ASP.NET
10 27 (5.25%) .NET Framework
10 27 (5.25%) RESTful
11 25 (4.86%) Entity Framework
12 21 (4.09%) Node.js
13 16 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (3.11%) Vue
14 15 (2.92%) JSON
14 15 (2.92%) SOAP
15 14 (2.72%) Kafka
15 14 (2.72%) XML
16 12 (2.33%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.47%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.31%) Legacy Applications
3 16 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (2.92%) Data Structures
4 15 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (2.92%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.92%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.14%) Replication
6 9 (1.75%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.56%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.36%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.17%) Clustering
10 5 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.97%) NHS
10 5 (0.97%) Raspberry Pi
10 5 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.78%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 71 (13.81%) Windows
2 42 (8.17%) Windows Server
3 37 (7.20%) Linux
4 9 (1.75%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.56%) VMS
6 5 (0.97%) Debian
6 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.58%) CentOS
7 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.19%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) Unix
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (32.88%) Agile
2 106 (20.62%) DevOps
3 98 (19.07%) Data Engineering
4 90 (17.51%) Roadmaps
5 87 (16.93%) CI/CD
6 86 (16.73%) AI
7 81 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (15.37%) Data Architecture
9 78 (15.18%) Migration
10 76 (14.79%) Business Intelligence
10 76 (14.79%) Mentoring
11 75 (14.59%) Full-Stack Development
12 73 (14.20%) Software Engineering
13 72 (14.01%) Computer Science
14 67 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (13.04%) Regulatory Compliance
15 65 (12.65%) Machine Learning
16 63 (12.26%) Line Management
17 62 (12.06%) Data Governance
18 61 (11.87%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 311 (60.51%) SQL
2 175 (34.05%) C#
3 88 (17.12%) Python
4 59 (11.48%) JavaScript
5 53 (10.31%) T-SQL
6 51 (9.92%) PHP
7 46 (8.95%) Java
7 46 (8.95%) PowerShell
8 39 (7.59%) TypeScript
9 26 (5.06%) C++
10 15 (2.92%) R
11 13 (2.53%) PL/SQL
12 12 (2.33%) Bash
13 11 (2.14%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.36%) Bicep
14 7 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.78%) VB
15 4 (0.78%) VBA
15 4 (0.78%) VBScript
16 3 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 96 (18.68%) Degree
2 63 (12.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.11%) Azure Certification
4 14 (2.72%) Security Cleared
5 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.17%) SC Cleared
7 5 (0.97%) HNC
7 5 (0.97%) HND
7 5 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.58%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.39%) CCNA
10 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.39%) MCSA
10 2 (0.39%) MCSE
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.89%) QA
3 19 (3.70%) SLA
4 18 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (3.31%) GDPR
6 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.39%) HL7
7 2 (0.39%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 62 (12.06%) Virtual Machines
2 51 (9.92%) Active Directory
3 43 (8.37%) Docker
4 8 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.97%) vSphere
7 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.19%) Firmware
10 1 (0.19%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 37 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.25%) Terraform
3 9 (1.75%) Ansible
4 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.78%) Grafana
6 4 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.58%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.58%) SCCM
8 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.39%) MIIS
8 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.19%) CASB
9 1 (0.19%) Consul
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 245 (47.67%) Microsoft
2 76 (14.79%) Databricks
3 50 (9.73%) Oracle
4 21 (4.09%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.11%) Cisco
6 13 (2.53%) VMware
7 11 (2.14%) Veeam
8 10 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.75%) Citrix
9 9 (1.75%) ConnectWise
9 9 (1.75%) WooCommerce
10 5 (0.97%) IBM
10 5 (0.97%) iManage
10 5 (0.97%) Meraki
10 5 (0.97%) Synology
11 4 (0.78%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.78%) Dell
11 4 (0.78%) ESRI
11 4 (0.78%) JDA
304 hybrid/remote SQL Server jobs