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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 55 23
Rank change year-on-year -29 -32 +17
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 550 684 2,717
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.06% 5.13% 8.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.65% 20.70% 37.56%
Number of salaries quoted 474 585 2,474
10th Percentile £29,450 £33,080 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,419 £45,000 £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 £84,688 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,200 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.36% - -2.65%

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 2,326 3,305 7,234
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.96% 24.77% 22.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,736 2,414 6,237
10th Percentile £36,875 £37,500 £37,042
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
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 24 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 23 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.36%) IIS
4 10 (1.82%) Confluence
5 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.91%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.91%) GeoServer
6 5 (0.91%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.55%) Apache
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
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (3.09%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (2.00%) 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
Cloud Services
1 369 (67.09%) Azure
2 107 (19.45%) AWS
3 85 (15.45%) Power Platform
4 82 (14.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 73 (13.27%) SaaS
6 57 (10.36%) Azure AI
6 57 (10.36%) Snowflake
7 56 (10.18%) Azure Machine Learning
8 53 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
10 41 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 39 (7.09%) GitHub
12 32 (5.82%) Serverless
13 28 (5.09%) Entra ID
14 24 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (3.64%) Power Automate
16 19 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (3.27%) PaaS
18 17 (3.09%) PowerApps
19 13 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.64%) Firewall
2 16 (2.91%) VPN
3 11 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.64%) DNS
5 7 (1.27%) DHCP
5 7 (1.27%) DMZ
5 7 (1.27%) 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
9 2 (0.36%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.36%) Network Security
9 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (14.00%) Power BI
2 59 (10.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (10.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 49 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (8.00%) MySQL
6 41 (7.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.45%) NoSQL
9 16 (2.91%) Oracle Database
10 12 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (2.00%) DB2
11 11 (2.00%) Redis
12 10 (1.82%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.09%) Metadata
14 5 (0.91%) GIS
14 5 (0.91%) QGIS
14 5 (0.91%) Tableau
15 4 (0.73%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (7.09%) Git
2 23 (4.18%) JIRA
3 13 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.82%) Selenium
5 9 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (1.45%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.45%) GitLab
6 8 (1.45%) JUnit
7 5 (0.91%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.91%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.55%) Jasmine
8 3 (0.55%) Maven
8 3 (0.55%) NUnit
8 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.18%) JMeter
10 1 (0.18%) Moq
10 1 (0.18%) MSTest
10 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 182 (33.09%) Finance
2 166 (30.18%) Social Skills
3 84 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.82%) Banking
5 15 (2.73%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.55%) Billing
6 14 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.18%) Legal
7 12 (2.18%) Retail
8 11 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.82%) Back Office
9 10 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.64%) Law
11 7 (1.27%) Front Office
12 5 (0.91%) Automotive
12 5 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.91%) Marketing
12 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 161 (29.27%) Developer
2 113 (20.55%) Senior
3 68 (12.36%) Software Developer
4 61 (11.09%) Analyst
5 50 (9.09%) C# Developer
6 46 (8.36%) SQL Developer
7 44 (8.00%) Graduate
7 44 (8.00%) Graduate Developer
7 44 (8.00%) Graduate Software Developer
8 39 (7.09%) Azure Developer
8 39 (7.09%) C# Software Developer
9 38 (6.91%) Software Engineer
10 37 (6.73%) .NET Developer
10 37 (6.73%) Support Engineer
11 36 (6.55%) Engineering Manager
11 36 (6.55%) Graduate C# Developer
11 36 (6.55%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 35 (6.36%) Applications Support
13 34 (6.18%) Data Manager
13 34 (6.18%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (32.73%) .NET
2 72 (13.09%) CSS
3 48 (8.73%) React
4 47 (8.55%) .NET Core
5 43 (7.82%) HTML
6 38 (6.91%) jQuery
7 34 (6.18%) REST
8 30 (5.45%) AngularJS
9 28 (5.09%) .NET Framework
10 27 (4.91%) ASP.NET
10 27 (4.91%) Entity Framework
11 26 (4.73%) RESTful
12 19 (3.45%) Django
13 17 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (2.91%) JSON
14 16 (2.91%) SOAP
15 14 (2.55%) Kafka
15 14 (2.55%) Node.js
15 14 (2.55%) Razor View Engine
15 14 (2.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.18%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (4.18%) Legacy Applications
3 23 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (3.27%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.36%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.00%) Replication
8 10 (1.82%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.45%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.27%) NHS
11 7 (1.27%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.91%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.91%) Clustering
13 4 (0.73%) N-Tier
13 4 (0.73%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 77 (14.00%) Windows
2 46 (8.36%) Windows Server
3 34 (6.18%) Linux
4 9 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.64%) VMS
5 5 (0.91%) Debian
5 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.55%) CentOS
6 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) Solaris
7 1 (0.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (33.82%) Agile
2 120 (21.82%) DevOps
3 107 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 101 (18.36%) CI/CD
6 91 (16.55%) Business Intelligence
6 91 (16.55%) Data Engineering
7 90 (16.36%) AI
8 87 (15.82%) Roadmaps
9 85 (15.45%) Mentoring
10 81 (14.73%) Migration
10 81 (14.73%) Software Engineering
11 79 (14.36%) Analytics
12 75 (13.64%) Data Architecture
13 70 (12.73%) Computer Science
14 67 (12.18%) Machine Learning
14 67 (12.18%) Regulatory Compliance
15 65 (11.82%) Full-Stack Development
16 64 (11.64%) MVC
17 62 (11.27%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 334 (60.73%) SQL
2 178 (32.36%) C#
3 93 (16.91%) Python
4 56 (10.18%) Java
4 56 (10.18%) JavaScript
5 53 (9.64%) T-SQL
6 52 (9.45%) PHP
7 44 (8.00%) PowerShell
8 37 (6.73%) TypeScript
9 29 (5.27%) C++
9 29 (5.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (2.91%) R
11 13 (2.36%) PL/SQL
12 11 (2.00%) Bash
12 11 (2.00%) Bicep
12 11 (2.00%) VB.NET
13 9 (1.64%) Delphi
14 4 (0.73%) Scala
15 3 (0.55%) Korn
15 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 105 (19.09%) Degree
2 59 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.91%) Azure Certification
4 14 (2.55%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.27%) SC Cleared
9 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.73%) HNC
10 4 (0.73%) HND
11 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.55%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.36%) CCNA
12 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.36%) MCSA
12 2 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.36%) QA
3 19 (3.45%) SLA
4 17 (3.09%) GDPR
5 16 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.36%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
9 1 (0.18%) PMO
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 60 (10.91%) Virtual Machines
2 54 (9.82%) Docker
3 49 (8.91%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.45%) 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%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) vCloud
9 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 47 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.00%) Terraform
3 12 (2.18%) Grafana
4 10 (1.82%) Ansible
5 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.91%) SCCM
7 4 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.55%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.36%) MIIS
9 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.18%) CASB
10 1 (0.18%) Consul
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.18%) Packer
10 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 236 (42.91%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.55%) Databricks
3 58 (10.55%) Oracle
4 21 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.55%) Cisco
6 11 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.00%) VMware
7 10 (1.82%) Citrix
8 9 (1.64%) ConnectWise
8 9 (1.64%) WooCommerce
9 8 (1.45%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.45%) Veeam
10 6 (1.09%) Google
10 6 (1.09%) New Relic
11 5 (0.91%) ESRI
12 4 (0.73%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.73%) iManage
12 4 (0.73%) Meraki
12 4 (0.73%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.73%) Synology