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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 56 22
Rank change year-on-year -26 -34 +19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 550 682 2,738
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 5.20% 8.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.93% 20.32% 37.94%
Number of salaries quoted 474 584 2,481
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,825 £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 £56,125 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.05% - -1.79%

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 2,298 3,356 7,217
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.15% 25.61% 22.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,706 2,431 6,200
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,059 £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 15 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 22 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.36%) IIS
4 11 (2.00%) Confluence
5 7 (1.27%) 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%) Drupal
Applications
1 33 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (3.27%) 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
7 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 363 (66.00%) Azure
2 106 (19.27%) AWS
3 86 (15.64%) Power Platform
4 82 (14.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 78 (14.18%) SaaS
6 58 (10.55%) Azure AI
7 57 (10.36%) Snowflake
8 55 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
9 54 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
11 41 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (7.09%) GitHub
13 32 (5.82%) Serverless
14 29 (5.27%) Entra ID
15 24 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
16 20 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (3.45%) PaaS
17 19 (3.45%) Power Automate
18 17 (3.09%) PowerApps
19 12 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.18%) Firewall
2 16 (2.91%) VPN
3 12 (2.18%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.82%) DNS
5 8 (1.45%) DHCP
6 7 (1.27%) DMZ
6 7 (1.27%) VLAN
7 5 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.91%) STUN
7 5 (0.91%) VoIP
8 4 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.55%) AMQP
9 3 (0.55%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.55%) SAN
9 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.36%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.36%) Network Security
10 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.36%) WAN
11 1 (0.18%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (14.73%) Power BI
2 63 (11.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 60 (10.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 47 (8.55%) MySQL
4 47 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 21 (3.82%) Relational Database
7 20 (3.64%) NoSQL
8 17 (3.09%) Oracle Database
9 16 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.00%) DB2
10 11 (2.00%) Redis
11 8 (1.45%) Tableau
12 7 (1.27%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.27%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.73%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.73%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.73%) GIS
14 4 (0.73%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 40 (7.27%) Git
2 23 (4.18%) JIRA
3 11 (2.00%) 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
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
1 182 (33.09%) Finance
2 173 (31.45%) Social Skills
3 92 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.00%) Banking
5 15 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
5 15 (2.73%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.55%) Billing
7 12 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.18%) Legal
7 12 (2.18%) Retail
8 11 (2.00%) Law
9 10 (1.82%) Back Office
10 7 (1.27%) Front Office
11 6 (1.09%) Marketing
12 5 (0.91%) Automotive
12 5 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 159 (28.91%) Developer
2 112 (20.36%) Senior
3 64 (11.64%) Analyst
4 60 (10.91%) Software Developer
5 50 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 50 (9.09%) SQL Developer
6 40 (7.27%) Azure Developer
6 40 (7.27%) Support Engineer
7 39 (7.09%) .NET Developer
7 39 (7.09%) C# Software Developer
8 37 (6.73%) Graduate
8 37 (6.73%) Graduate Developer
8 37 (6.73%) Graduate Software Developer
8 37 (6.73%) Software Engineer
9 36 (6.55%) Engineering Manager
9 36 (6.55%) Graduate C# Developer
9 36 (6.55%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 34 (6.18%) Data Manager
10 34 (6.18%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 34 (6.18%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (33.64%) .NET
2 73 (13.27%) CSS
3 49 (8.91%) .NET Core
4 48 (8.73%) React
5 43 (7.82%) HTML
6 39 (7.09%) jQuery
7 35 (6.36%) REST
8 31 (5.64%) .NET Framework
9 30 (5.45%) ASP.NET
10 29 (5.27%) AngularJS
10 29 (5.27%) Entity Framework
11 28 (5.09%) RESTful
12 19 (3.45%) Django
13 18 (3.27%) JSON
14 17 (3.09%) XML
15 16 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (2.91%) SOAP
16 15 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
16 15 (2.73%) Razor View Engine
17 14 (2.55%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 24 (4.36%) Legacy Applications
3 24 (4.36%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.36%) Replication
7 13 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.82%) Driving Licence
10 9 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.45%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.27%) NHS
12 7 (1.27%) 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 79 (14.36%) Windows
2 47 (8.55%) Windows Server
3 31 (5.64%) Linux
4 9 (1.64%) VMS
5 8 (1.45%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.91%) Debian
7 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.55%) CentOS
8 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) AIX
10 1 (0.18%) Android
10 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.18%) Solaris
10 1 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (33.27%) Agile
2 117 (21.27%) DevOps
3 111 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 99 (18.00%) CI/CD
6 96 (17.45%) Business Intelligence
7 92 (16.73%) Data Engineering
8 89 (16.18%) AI
9 85 (15.45%) Roadmaps
10 84 (15.27%) Analytics
10 84 (15.27%) Migration
11 83 (15.09%) Software Engineering
12 82 (14.91%) Mentoring
13 76 (13.82%) Data Architecture
14 68 (12.36%) Machine Learning
15 66 (12.00%) Computer Science
15 66 (12.00%) MVC
15 66 (12.00%) Regulatory Compliance
16 65 (11.82%) Full-Stack Development
17 64 (11.64%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 338 (61.45%) SQL
2 168 (30.55%) C#
3 90 (16.36%) Python
4 56 (10.18%) T-SQL
5 55 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 49 (8.91%) Java
7 46 (8.36%) PowerShell
8 43 (7.82%) PHP
9 36 (6.55%) TypeScript
10 30 (5.45%) C++
11 28 (5.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (2.91%) R
13 13 (2.36%) Bicep
13 13 (2.36%) PL/SQL
14 11 (2.00%) Bash
14 11 (2.00%) VB.NET
15 9 (1.64%) Delphi
16 3 (0.55%) Korn
16 3 (0.55%) VB
17 2 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 102 (18.55%) Degree
2 55 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.73%) Azure Certification
3 15 (2.73%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.45%) SC Cleared
8 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.73%) HNC
9 4 (0.73%) HND
10 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.55%) DV Cleared
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 54 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.36%) QA
3 19 (3.45%) SLA
4 17 (3.09%) GDPR
5 15 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.18%) 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 60 (10.91%) Virtual Machines
2 50 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 50 (9.09%) Docker
3 9 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.09%) vSphere
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.36%) XenApp
7 1 (0.18%) Firmware
7 1 (0.18%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 42 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.00%) Terraform
3 12 (2.18%) Grafana
4 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.09%) Ansible
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%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 239 (43.45%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.55%) Databricks
3 57 (10.36%) Oracle
4 20 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.55%) Cisco
6 12 (2.18%) VMware
7 11 (2.00%) Citrix
8 10 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.64%) ConnectWise
9 9 (1.64%) Google
9 9 (1.64%) WooCommerce
10 8 (1.45%) New Relic
10 8 (1.45%) Veeam
11 5 (0.91%) Informatica
11 5 (0.91%) Sage
12 4 (0.73%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.73%) Dell
12 4 (0.73%) ESRI
12 4 (0.73%) Meraki