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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 54 32
Rank change year-on-year -26 -22 +7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 567 923 1,667
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 4.69% 7.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.42% 20.61% 30.15%
Number of salaries quoted 442 590 1,456
10th Percentile £26,625 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £74,688 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

All Database and 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 2,322 4,478 5,529
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.72% 22.75% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,753 2,701 4,422
10th Percentile £35,500 £39,750 £39,511
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £94,425
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -3.23%

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 10 November 2025.

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 42 (7.41%) IIS
2 17 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.65%) Confluence
4 9 (1.59%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.23%) CMS
6 6 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.71%) Moodle
7 4 (0.71%) nginx
7 4 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.35%) Apache
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.35%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 40 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) EPLAN
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.82%) Unit4 Business World
3 15 (2.65%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (1.06%) Infor CloudSuite
4 6 (1.06%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 5 (0.88%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.71%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.71%) Sage 1000
7 3 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.35%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.18%) ION Anvil
9 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 326 (57.50%) Azure
2 122 (21.52%) AWS
3 101 (17.81%) Power Platform
4 75 (13.23%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (12.17%) SaaS
6 68 (11.99%) GitHub
7 53 (9.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (5.64%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (5.64%) Serverless
9 29 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 20 (3.53%) GCP
11 20 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (3.53%) Power Automate
12 18 (3.17%) Entra ID
13 17 (3.00%) PowerApps
14 13 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (2.29%) PaaS
15 11 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (1.94%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.00%) Firewall
2 11 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.59%) DNS
3 9 (1.59%) VPN
4 8 (1.41%) SSL
5 5 (0.88%) DHCP
5 5 (0.88%) DMZ
5 5 (0.88%) STUN
5 5 (0.88%) VLAN
5 5 (0.88%) VoIP
6 4 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.53%) Internet
8 2 (0.35%) Broadband
8 2 (0.35%) DMARC
8 2 (0.35%) HTTP
8 2 (0.35%) SAN
8 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.35%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) FTP
9 1 (0.18%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.58%) Power BI
2 92 (16.23%) MySQL
3 67 (11.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 54 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (9.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 49 (8.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 42 (7.41%) MongoDB
8 39 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (6.35%) Relational Database
10 20 (3.53%) NoSQL
11 16 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (2.29%) Tableau
13 10 (1.76%) Data Hub
13 10 (1.76%) DB2
13 10 (1.76%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.76%) SQL CLR
14 9 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 95 (16.75%) Git
2 56 (9.88%) JIRA
3 48 (8.47%) GitLab
4 45 (7.94%) Selenium
5 44 (7.76%) Cucumber
6 41 (7.23%) Bitbucket
7 40 (7.05%) SonarQube
8 37 (6.53%) Maven
9 36 (6.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (2.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 11 (1.94%) Jenkins
11 11 (1.94%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.41%) JUnit
12 8 (1.41%) NUnit
12 8 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (1.06%) Jasmine
14 5 (0.88%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
15 4 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.71%) Toad
General
1 230 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 188 (33.16%) Finance
3 78 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (11.82%) Retail
5 57 (10.05%) Banking
6 53 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (6.53%) Investment Banking
8 36 (6.35%) Corporate Banking
9 28 (4.94%) Back Office
10 25 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (4.23%) Front Office
11 24 (4.23%) Law
11 24 (4.23%) Public Sector
12 23 (4.06%) Manufacturing
13 18 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (3.00%) Marketing
15 16 (2.82%) Games
16 15 (2.65%) Billing
17 11 (1.94%) Legal
18 7 (1.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 237 (41.80%) Developer
2 88 (15.52%) Senior
3 69 (12.17%) Analyst
4 63 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 57 (10.05%) Software Engineer
6 48 (8.47%) Graduate
6 48 (8.47%) Senior Developer
7 43 (7.58%) Graduate Developer
8 42 (7.41%) C# Developer
8 42 (7.41%) IT Graduate
9 38 (6.70%) Software Developer
10 37 (6.53%) Lead
10 37 (6.53%) SQL Developer
10 37 (6.53%) Support Engineer
11 33 (5.82%) Applications Support
11 33 (5.82%) DBA
12 31 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
13 24 (4.23%) Azure Developer
14 22 (3.88%) SaaS Developer
14 22 (3.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (41.98%) .NET
2 130 (22.93%) CSS
3 88 (15.52%) React
4 87 (15.34%) HTML
5 76 (13.40%) REST
6 75 (13.23%) ASP.NET
7 69 (12.17%) RESTful
8 64 (11.29%) .NET Framework
9 63 (11.11%) .NET Core
10 51 (8.99%) jQuery
11 49 (8.64%) HTML5
12 48 (8.47%) AngularJS
12 48 (8.47%) Entity Framework
12 48 (8.47%) Spring
12 48 (8.47%) Spring Boot
13 47 (8.29%) CSS3
14 46 (8.11%) Kafka
15 42 (7.41%) Jest
16 41 (7.23%) Web Services
17 38 (6.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.70%) Enterprise Software
2 41 (7.23%) Product Ownership
2 41 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (4.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (4.59%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.00%) NHS
7 15 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 13 (2.29%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.76%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.59%) Client/Server
11 9 (1.59%) Driving Licence
11 9 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.59%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.41%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.23%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 6 (1.06%) BYOD
14 6 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 76 (13.40%) Windows
2 44 (7.76%) Windows Server
3 37 (6.53%) Linux
4 15 (2.65%) Unix
5 7 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.88%) Debian
6 5 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.53%) Android
7 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.35%) Solaris
8 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (40.92%) Agile
2 193 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
3 176 (31.04%) DevOps
4 147 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 120 (21.16%) Business Intelligence
6 114 (20.11%) Mentoring
7 113 (19.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 111 (19.58%) Microservices
9 108 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 108 (19.05%) Software Engineering
10 87 (15.34%) Computer Science
11 78 (13.76%) Test Automation
12 75 (13.23%) MVC
13 70 (12.35%) Containerisation
14 69 (12.17%) OOP
15 68 (11.99%) SDLC
16 65 (11.46%) Migration
16 65 (11.46%) Performance Optimisation
17 64 (11.29%) Analytics
17 64 (11.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 332 (58.55%) SQL
2 232 (40.92%) C#
3 140 (24.69%) JavaScript
4 110 (19.40%) Java
5 71 (12.52%) TypeScript
6 64 (11.29%) Python
7 53 (9.35%) PHP
8 50 (8.82%) T-SQL
9 46 (8.11%) C++
10 40 (7.05%) PowerShell
11 29 (5.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 19 (3.35%) VB.NET
13 14 (2.47%) C
14 11 (1.94%) Bicep
15 8 (1.41%) Delphi
16 7 (1.23%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.23%) VBA
17 6 (1.06%) VB
18 5 (0.88%) PL/SQL
19 3 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 145 (25.57%) Degree
2 82 (14.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.00%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.29%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 11 (1.94%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.76%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.35%) ACCA
13 2 (0.35%) CIMA
14 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.18%) MCSE
14 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (13.93%) QA
2 50 (8.82%) Accessibility
3 33 (5.82%) Data Quality
4 22 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (3.00%) ISO 9001
6 13 (2.29%) GDPR
7 12 (2.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.06%) SLA
9 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
10 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 87 (15.34%) Docker
2 25 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.88%) Kamailio
6 3 (0.53%) vSphere
6 3 (0.53%) XenApp
7 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 80 (14.11%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.41%) Terraform
3 14 (2.47%) Grafana
4 7 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.88%) SCCM
6 4 (0.71%) Ansible
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.18%) Kibana
8 1 (0.18%) logstash
8 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 204 (35.98%) Microsoft
2 48 (8.47%) Oracle
3 36 (6.35%) Solace
4 31 (5.47%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.17%) VMware
6 15 (2.65%) DevExpress
6 15 (2.65%) Google
7 14 (2.47%) Databricks
8 10 (1.76%) Sage
8 10 (1.76%) Talend
9 9 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.59%) Rollbar
9 9 (1.59%) Zoho
10 8 (1.41%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.23%) Informatica
11 7 (1.23%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.06%) Alteryx
12 6 (1.06%) IBM
12 6 (1.06%) Infor
12 6 (1.06%) Trayport