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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 56 23
Rank change year-on-year -24 -33 +17
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 548 672 2,739
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 5.20% 8.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.68% 19.86% 37.72%
Number of salaries quoted 472 577 2,499
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -3.08%

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 2,314 3,383 7,262
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.43% 26.17% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,719 2,434 6,206
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,825 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 9 April 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 21 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.19%) IIS
4 10 (1.82%) Confluence
5 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.73%) Apache
6 4 (0.73%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.73%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.73%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.55%) nginx
7 3 (0.55%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.55%) SAS
8 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) JBoss
8 2 (0.36%) Moodle
8 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.36%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 33 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (3.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 10 (1.82%) Magento
4 9 (1.64%) Shopify
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.55%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.18%) Actimize
7 1 (0.18%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 358 (65.33%) Azure
2 107 (19.53%) AWS
3 87 (15.88%) Power Platform
4 83 (15.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 79 (14.42%) SaaS
6 58 (10.58%) Azure AI
6 58 (10.58%) Snowflake
7 55 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (10.04%) Azure Machine Learning
8 44 (8.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 44 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (7.30%) GitHub
10 33 (6.02%) Serverless
11 29 (5.29%) Entra ID
12 24 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.47%) Power Automate
15 18 (3.28%) PaaS
16 17 (3.10%) PowerApps
17 13 (2.37%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.84%) Firewall
2 15 (2.74%) VPN
3 11 (2.01%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.64%) DNS
5 7 (1.28%) DHCP
5 7 (1.28%) DMZ
5 7 (1.28%) VLAN
6 5 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.91%) STUN
6 5 (0.91%) VoIP
7 4 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.55%) AMQP
8 3 (0.55%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.55%) SAN
8 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.36%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.36%) Network Security
9 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.36%) SSL
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (14.96%) Power BI
2 64 (11.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 60 (10.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 48 (8.76%) MySQL
4 48 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (8.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 19 (3.47%) Relational Database
7 18 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.10%) Oracle Database
9 12 (2.19%) DB2
10 11 (2.01%) Redis
11 8 (1.46%) Tableau
12 7 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.28%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.28%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.73%) Metadata
13 4 (0.73%) Oracle Database 11g
13 4 (0.73%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (0.73%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 39 (7.12%) Git
2 23 (4.20%) JIRA
3 11 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.82%) Selenium
5 9 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (1.46%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.46%) GitLab
6 8 (1.46%) JUnit
7 5 (0.91%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.55%) Jasmine
9 3 (0.55%) Maven
9 3 (0.55%) NUnit
9 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.18%) JMeter
11 1 (0.18%) Moq
11 1 (0.18%) MSTest
11 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 180 (32.85%) Finance
2 175 (31.93%) Social Skills
3 91 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.84%) Banking
5 16 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (2.92%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.55%) Billing
6 14 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.01%) Law
7 11 (2.01%) Legal
8 10 (1.82%) Back Office
8 10 (1.82%) Retail
9 7 (1.28%) Front Office
10 6 (1.09%) Automotive
10 6 (1.09%) Marketing
11 5 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 157 (28.65%) Developer
2 112 (20.44%) Senior
3 63 (11.50%) Analyst
4 55 (10.04%) Software Developer
5 46 (8.39%) C# Developer
5 46 (8.39%) SQL Developer
6 41 (7.48%) Support Engineer
7 40 (7.30%) .NET Developer
8 38 (6.93%) Software Engineer
9 36 (6.57%) Engineering Manager
10 35 (6.39%) Azure Developer
10 35 (6.39%) Senior Developer
11 34 (6.20%) Applications Support
11 34 (6.20%) C# Software Developer
11 34 (6.20%) Data Manager
11 34 (6.20%) Lead
12 33 (6.02%) Finance Manager
12 33 (6.02%) Graduate
12 33 (6.02%) Graduate Developer
12 33 (6.02%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (34.49%) .NET
2 73 (13.32%) CSS
3 50 (9.12%) .NET Core
4 49 (8.94%) React
5 42 (7.66%) HTML
6 40 (7.30%) jQuery
7 35 (6.39%) REST
8 34 (6.20%) .NET Framework
9 30 (5.47%) ASP.NET
9 30 (5.47%) Entity Framework
10 28 (5.11%) AngularJS
11 26 (4.74%) RESTful
12 20 (3.65%) Django
13 19 (3.47%) JSON
14 18 (3.28%) XML
15 16 (2.92%) ASP.NET Web API
15 16 (2.92%) SOAP
16 15 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (2.74%) Razor View Engine
17 14 (2.55%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.93%) Analytical Mindset
3 24 (4.38%) Legacy Applications
3 24 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (4.20%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.55%) Replication
8 13 (2.37%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.82%) Driving Licence
9 10 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.46%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.28%) NHS
12 7 (1.28%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.09%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.91%) Clustering
15 4 (0.73%) CMDB
15 4 (0.73%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 76 (13.87%) Windows
2 44 (8.03%) Windows Server
3 30 (5.47%) Linux
4 9 (1.64%) VMS
5 7 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.91%) Debian
7 3 (0.55%) CentOS
7 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.36%) Unix
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.18%) Android
9 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (33.94%) Agile
2 116 (21.17%) DevOps
3 112 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 100 (18.25%) CI/CD
6 97 (17.70%) Business Intelligence
7 93 (16.97%) Data Engineering
8 90 (16.42%) AI
9 86 (15.69%) Migration
9 86 (15.69%) Software Engineering
10 85 (15.51%) Roadmaps
11 83 (15.15%) Analytics
12 82 (14.96%) Mentoring
13 74 (13.50%) Data Architecture
14 68 (12.41%) Machine Learning
15 65 (11.86%) Data Governance
15 65 (11.86%) Regulatory Compliance
16 63 (11.50%) Computer Science
16 63 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
17 62 (11.31%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 332 (60.58%) SQL
2 166 (30.29%) C#
3 93 (16.97%) Python
4 56 (10.22%) T-SQL
5 55 (10.04%) JavaScript
6 50 (9.12%) Java
7 45 (8.21%) PowerShell
8 38 (6.93%) PHP
9 36 (6.57%) TypeScript
10 31 (5.66%) C++
11 28 (5.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (2.92%) R
13 13 (2.37%) Bicep
13 13 (2.37%) PL/SQL
14 11 (2.01%) VB.NET
15 10 (1.82%) Bash
16 9 (1.64%) Delphi
17 3 (0.55%) Korn
17 3 (0.55%) VB
18 2 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 100 (18.25%) Degree
2 52 (9.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.92%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.19%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.64%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.55%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.55%) HNC
10 3 (0.55%) HND
11 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.36%) CCNA
11 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.36%) MCSA
11 2 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.38%) QA
3 19 (3.47%) SLA
4 16 (2.92%) GDPR
5 14 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.36%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 59 (10.77%) Virtual Machines
2 49 (8.94%) Docker
3 46 (8.39%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.09%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.91%) vSphere
7 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.36%) XenApp
9 1 (0.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.18%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 40 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.02%) Terraform
3 11 (2.01%) Grafana
4 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.09%) Ansible
6 5 (0.91%) SCCM
7 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.36%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.36%) MIIS
10 1 (0.18%) CASB
10 1 (0.18%) Consul
10 1 (0.18%) Packer
10 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.18%) Puppet
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 235 (42.88%) Microsoft
2 71 (12.96%) Databricks
3 56 (10.22%) Oracle
4 19 (3.47%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.37%) Cisco
6 11 (2.01%) VMware
7 10 (1.82%) Citrix
7 10 (1.82%) Google
7 10 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.64%) ConnectWise
8 9 (1.64%) WooCommerce
9 8 (1.46%) New Relic
10 7 (1.28%) Veeam
11 6 (1.09%) Sage
12 5 (0.91%) Informatica
13 4 (0.73%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.73%) Dell
13 4 (0.73%) ESRI
13 4 (0.73%) IBM