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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 60 58
Rank change year-on-year -36 -2 -25
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 656 833 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.70% 5.13% 4.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.52% 30.35% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 556 497 698
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,950 £39,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +0.92% -4.39%
75th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £86,250 £86,625
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

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 3,197 2,745 4,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.16% 16.90% 20.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 1,919 3,275
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,500 £39,100
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% +8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £114,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%

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 17 September 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 45 (6.86%) IIS
2 36 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.68%) Confluence
5 6 (0.91%) nginx
6 5 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.61%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.61%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.61%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.46%) Apache
9 2 (0.30%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.76%) Elite 3E
1 5 (0.76%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.46%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.30%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.30%) Magento
4 2 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.15%) Finacle
5 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 394 (60.06%) Azure
2 109 (16.62%) AWS
3 92 (14.02%) Power Platform
4 89 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (12.35%) Snowflake
6 65 (9.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 63 (9.60%) Azure AI
8 56 (8.54%) Azure Machine Learning
9 52 (7.93%) SaaS
10 51 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
11 39 (5.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 29 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (4.12%) Power Automate
13 27 (4.12%) PowerApps
14 25 (3.81%) Serverless
15 24 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (3.66%) GCP
16 23 (3.51%) Entra ID
17 19 (2.90%) GitHub
18 18 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 43 (6.55%) Firewall
2 30 (4.57%) DNS
2 30 (4.57%) TCP/IP
3 26 (3.96%) VPN
4 22 (3.35%) DHCP
5 10 (1.52%) VLAN
5 10 (1.52%) WAN
6 8 (1.22%) HTTP
6 8 (1.22%) LAN
6 8 (1.22%) VoIP
7 6 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.76%) Network Security
9 3 (0.46%) FTP
9 3 (0.46%) Wireless
10 2 (0.30%) Broadband
10 2 (0.30%) SAN
11 1 (0.15%) Intranet
11 1 (0.15%) RTP
11 1 (0.15%) SS7
11 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (10.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 68 (10.37%) Power BI
3 54 (8.23%) Relational Database
4 50 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
5 49 (7.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 37 (5.64%) MySQL
7 34 (5.18%) Redis
8 31 (4.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 29 (4.42%) MongoDB
10 23 (3.51%) NoSQL
11 21 (3.20%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.98%) Metadata
13 12 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.83%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.68%) DynamoDB
14 11 (1.68%) Star Schema
15 10 (1.52%) Tableau
16 9 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
16 9 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (8.99%) Git
2 23 (3.51%) JIRA
3 10 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.37%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.07%) NUnit
6 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.91%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.30%) MSTest
10 2 (0.30%) Selenium
11 1 (0.15%) Gatling
11 1 (0.15%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.15%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.15%) JMeter
11 1 (0.15%) JUnit
11 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 185 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 172 (26.22%) Finance
3 73 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (6.71%) Law
5 36 (5.49%) Legal
6 34 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (4.12%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.35%) Banking
9 15 (2.29%) Retail
10 11 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.52%) Front Office
12 9 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.91%) Legal Technology
14 6 (0.91%) Marketing
15 5 (0.76%) Billing
15 5 (0.76%) Publishing
16 3 (0.46%) Advertising
16 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 226 (34.45%) Developer
2 100 (15.24%) Senior
3 81 (12.35%) Software Developer
4 66 (10.06%) Data Engineer
5 64 (9.76%) Graduate
6 59 (8.99%) .NET Developer
7 58 (8.84%) Software Engineer
8 57 (8.69%) SQL Developer
9 56 (8.54%) Lead
10 45 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
11 41 (6.25%) C# Developer
12 39 (5.95%) Analyst
13 38 (5.79%) Full-Stack Developer
14 36 (5.49%) Data Manager
14 36 (5.49%) Graduate Developer
14 36 (5.49%) Graduate Software Developer
14 36 (5.49%) Lead Developer
15 35 (5.34%) Architect
16 34 (5.18%) Engineering Manager
17 33 (5.03%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (33.54%) .NET
2 75 (11.43%) CSS
3 62 (9.45%) .NET Framework
4 60 (9.15%) ASP.NET
5 56 (8.54%) .NET Core
5 56 (8.54%) REST
6 54 (8.23%) HTML
6 54 (8.23%) React
7 45 (6.86%) Entity Framework
8 43 (6.55%) AngularJS
9 38 (5.79%) Node.js
10 37 (5.64%) jQuery
11 34 (5.18%) XML
12 30 (4.57%) Blazor
12 30 (4.57%) Terraform
13 27 (4.12%) Vue
14 20 (3.05%) JSON
14 20 (3.05%) Web Services
15 19 (2.90%) RESTful
16 18 (2.74%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.55%) Enterprise Software
2 29 (4.42%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.96%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.35%) Virtual Team
6 18 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.44%) Replication
8 15 (2.29%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.52%) Clustering
12 9 (1.37%) Client/Server
12 9 (1.37%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.37%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (0.91%) Equities
14 6 (0.91%) Online Gambling
15 5 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 104 (15.85%) Windows
2 71 (10.82%) Windows Server
3 42 (6.40%) Linux
4 9 (1.37%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.30%) AIX
6 2 (0.30%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Solaris
7 1 (0.15%) Unix
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (31.10%) Agile
2 163 (24.85%) DevOps
3 134 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
4 131 (19.97%) AI
5 122 (18.60%) CI/CD
6 116 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 115 (17.53%) Software Engineering
8 103 (15.70%) Data Architecture
8 103 (15.70%) Migration
9 101 (15.40%) Roadmaps
10 96 (14.63%) Data Engineering
11 95 (14.48%) Computer Science
12 93 (14.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 89 (13.57%) Mentoring
14 81 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
15 79 (12.04%) Clean Code
16 72 (10.98%) Data Governance
17 69 (10.52%) Analytics
18 68 (10.37%) ETL
19 64 (9.76%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 374 (57.01%) SQL
2 267 (40.70%) C#
3 99 (15.09%) JavaScript
4 92 (14.02%) Python
5 61 (9.30%) PHP
6 58 (8.84%) PowerShell
7 55 (8.38%) TypeScript
8 52 (7.93%) Java
9 50 (7.62%) T-SQL
10 29 (4.42%) C++
11 11 (1.68%) Bicep
11 11 (1.68%) Go
12 9 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (1.22%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.07%) VBA
15 6 (0.91%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.91%) VBScript
16 5 (0.76%) Bash
16 5 (0.76%) Rust
16 5 (0.76%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 124 (18.90%) Degree
2 74 (11.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 18 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 13 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.76%) HNC
9 5 (0.76%) HND
9 5 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.30%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.15%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.49%) QA
3 24 (3.66%) GDPR
4 19 (2.90%) SLA
5 11 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.46%) PMO
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (10.82%) Virtual Machines
2 54 (8.23%) Docker
3 52 (7.93%) Active Directory
4 18 (2.74%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.76%) vSphere
7 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.15%) HDFS
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.83%) Ansible
4 7 (1.07%) Grafana
4 7 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.76%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.61%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.30%) SCCM
9 1 (0.15%) Consul
9 1 (0.15%) Control-M
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.15%) MIIS
9 1 (0.15%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 355 (54.12%) Microsoft
2 91 (13.87%) Databricks
3 47 (7.16%) Oracle
4 21 (3.20%) VMware
5 15 (2.29%) Veeam
6 14 (2.13%) Google
6 14 (2.13%) Informatica
7 13 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.68%) IBM
8 11 (1.68%) iManage
8 11 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.52%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.52%) Talend
10 9 (1.37%) Cisco
10 9 (1.37%) Citrix
10 9 (1.37%) TIBCO
11 6 (0.91%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.76%) Intapp
12 5 (0.76%) Remedy
12 5 (0.76%) Sybase
532 hybrid/remote SQL Server jobs