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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 57 20
Rank change year-on-year -35 -37 +19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 475 739 2,737
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.82% 5.34% 9.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.88% 19.57% 38.80%
Number of salaries quoted 397 579 2,501
10th Percentile £34,950 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.55% -3.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,200 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.36% - -3.51%

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 2,171 3,776 7,055
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.91% 27.30% 23.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,579 2,448 6,045
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -8.49%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.49%

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 14 March 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 19 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.79%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.74%) IIS
4 7 (1.47%) Confluence
5 5 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.84%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.84%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.84%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.63%) Apache
7 3 (0.63%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.63%) SAS
8 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.42%) CMS
8 2 (0.42%) JBoss
8 2 (0.42%) Moodle
8 2 (0.42%) nginx
8 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 33 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (3.79%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (1.89%) Magento
3 9 (1.89%) Shopify
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.63%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.42%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.42%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.21%) Actimize
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 283 (59.58%) Azure
2 98 (20.63%) AWS
3 91 (19.16%) SaaS
4 84 (17.68%) Power Platform
5 60 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 40 (8.42%) GitHub
8 37 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (7.79%) Serverless
9 29 (6.11%) Entra ID
10 28 (5.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (4.21%) PaaS
14 17 (3.58%) GCP
15 14 (2.95%) Azure App Service
15 14 (2.95%) PowerApps
16 13 (2.74%) Power Automate
17 11 (2.32%) IaaS
18 10 (2.11%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.47%) Firewall
2 12 (2.53%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.53%) VPN
3 11 (2.32%) DNS
4 7 (1.47%) DHCP
4 7 (1.47%) DMZ
4 7 (1.47%) VLAN
5 5 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (1.05%) STUN
5 5 (1.05%) VoIP
6 3 (0.63%) AMQP
6 3 (0.63%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.63%) SSL
7 2 (0.42%) SAN
7 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.21%) Internet
8 1 (0.21%) IPv6
8 1 (0.21%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (16.21%) Power BI
2 67 (14.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 49 (10.32%) MySQL
4 47 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
5 46 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 40 (8.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (4.21%) NoSQL
8 20 (4.21%) Relational Database
9 16 (3.37%) MongoDB
10 12 (2.53%) DB2
11 10 (2.11%) Oracle Database
11 10 (2.11%) Redis
12 9 (1.89%) Tableau
13 7 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.47%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.84%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.84%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 51 (10.74%) Git
2 23 (4.84%) JIRA
3 11 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.11%) GitLab
5 9 (1.89%) Selenium
5 9 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (1.68%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.68%) JUnit
7 4 (0.84%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.63%) Maven
8 3 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.63%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.42%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.42%) NUnit
9 2 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.21%) Moq
10 1 (0.21%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.21%) MSTest
10 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 176 (37.05%) Social Skills
2 112 (23.58%) Finance
3 86 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (5.26%) Banking
5 19 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (3.16%) Billing
7 15 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.16%) Law
7 15 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.74%) Marketing
9 12 (2.53%) Retail
10 11 (2.32%) Back Office
11 10 (2.11%) Legal
12 9 (1.89%) Front Office
13 6 (1.26%) Automotive
14 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.84%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.63%) Advertising
16 3 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 146 (30.74%) Developer
2 109 (22.95%) Senior
3 60 (12.63%) Analyst
4 46 (9.68%) .NET Developer
5 44 (9.26%) Software Engineer
6 43 (9.05%) Software Developer
6 43 (9.05%) Support Engineer
7 40 (8.42%) Lead
8 36 (7.58%) Senior Developer
9 35 (7.37%) C# Developer
10 33 (6.95%) Applications Support
10 33 (6.95%) Azure Developer
11 32 (6.74%) SQL Developer
12 31 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 28 (5.89%) DBA
14 26 (5.47%) Data Engineer
15 23 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (4.63%) Support Analyst
17 20 (4.21%) C# Software Developer
17 20 (4.21%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (43.37%) .NET
2 64 (13.47%) CSS
3 62 (13.05%) .NET Core
4 52 (10.95%) React
5 45 (9.47%) HTML
6 42 (8.84%) .NET Framework
7 36 (7.58%) Entity Framework
8 33 (6.95%) REST
9 31 (6.53%) ASP.NET
10 30 (6.32%) AngularJS
11 29 (6.11%) RESTful
12 28 (5.89%) jQuery
13 23 (4.84%) ASP.NET Web API
14 20 (4.21%) JSON
15 19 (4.00%) Django
15 19 (4.00%) XML
16 17 (3.58%) Razor View Engine
17 16 (3.37%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 16 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
17 16 (3.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 24 (5.05%) Data Structures
3 24 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (4.84%) Legacy Applications
5 18 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.11%) Replication
8 9 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.47%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.47%) NHS
11 6 (1.26%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.26%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.05%) Clustering
13 4 (0.84%) CMDB
13 4 (0.84%) N-Tier
13 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (14.11%) Windows
2 36 (7.58%) Windows Server
3 25 (5.26%) Linux
4 11 (2.32%) VMS
5 5 (1.05%) Debian
6 4 (0.84%) Android
6 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.63%) CentOS
7 3 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.63%) Unix
8 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (28.21%) Agile
2 121 (25.47%) DevOps
3 118 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (24.42%) CI/CD
5 112 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 99 (20.84%) Software Engineering
7 89 (18.74%) Business Intelligence
8 82 (17.26%) Analytics
9 79 (16.63%) Mentoring
10 65 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
11 64 (13.47%) Microservices
12 57 (12.00%) Decision-Making
13 55 (11.58%) Computer Science
14 51 (10.74%) MVC
15 49 (10.32%) Visualisation
16 47 (9.89%) Data Modelling
17 43 (9.05%) Scrum
18 42 (8.84%) ETL
19 39 (8.21%) Data Analysis
19 39 (8.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 259 (54.53%) SQL
2 161 (33.89%) C#
3 87 (18.32%) Python
4 58 (12.21%) JavaScript
5 54 (11.37%) T-SQL
6 46 (9.68%) PowerShell
7 36 (7.58%) Java
8 35 (7.37%) TypeScript
9 27 (5.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 24 (5.05%) PHP
11 19 (4.00%) C++
12 16 (3.37%) R
13 12 (2.53%) Bicep
14 11 (2.32%) PL/SQL
14 11 (2.32%) VB.NET
15 9 (1.89%) Bash
16 8 (1.68%) Delphi
17 3 (0.63%) Erlang
17 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 98 (20.63%) Degree
2 43 (9.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.58%) Master's Degree
3 17 (3.58%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 12 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.63%) MCSE
9 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.42%) CCNA
9 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.42%) MCSA
10 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.11%) Data Quality
2 34 (7.16%) QA
3 15 (3.16%) SLA
4 14 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (2.32%) GDPR
7 2 (0.42%) HL7
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 45 (9.47%) Docker
2 37 (7.79%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.42%) vSphere
6 2 (0.42%) XenApp
7 1 (0.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.21%) vCloud
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.47%) Terraform
3 10 (2.11%) Grafana
4 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.05%) Ansible
6 4 (0.84%) SCCM
7 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.21%) CASB
9 1 (0.21%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.21%) MIIS
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 155 (32.63%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.89%) Oracle
3 17 (3.58%) Databricks
4 16 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.74%) Google
6 12 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.11%) Cisco
7 10 (2.11%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.11%) VMware
8 9 (1.89%) ConnectWise
8 9 (1.89%) Sage
8 9 (1.89%) WooCommerce
9 8 (1.68%) New Relic
10 7 (1.47%) Citrix
11 6 (1.26%) Xamarin
12 5 (1.05%) IBM
12 5 (1.05%) Informatica
12 5 (1.05%) Zoho
13 4 (0.84%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.84%) ESRI