Hybrid/Remote SQL Job Trends

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,716 2,808 3,327
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.23% 16.29% 16.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.24% 38.26% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 1,763 2,856
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,161 7,339 9,184
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.22% 42.56% 46.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,183 4,711 7,764
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SQL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQL

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQL over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

SQL salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 48 (2.80%) Confluence
2 36 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 30 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 29 (1.69%) IIS
6 23 (1.34%) Apache
7 19 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 18 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.87%) SAS
10 11 (0.64%) JBoss
11 10 (0.58%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.47%) Headless CMS
13 6 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.23%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.17%) CMS
16 3 (0.17%) Moodle
16 3 (0.17%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 164 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.82%) Oracle Smart View
4 11 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.058%) Notion
Business Applications
1 58 (3.38%) Oracle ERP
2 47 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (2.16%) Oracle Receivables
4 30 (1.75%) Oracle Financials
4 30 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (1.63%) Oracle Assets
5 28 (1.63%) Oracle General Ledger
6 18 (1.05%) Unit4 Business World
7 17 (0.99%) Shopify
8 15 (0.87%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.82%) Hyperion Planning
10 10 (0.58%) NEC Housing
11 9 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
11 9 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
12 8 (0.47%) Visualfiles
13 6 (0.35%) Markit EDM
14 5 (0.29%) PlanetPress Connect
15 4 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
15 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 727 (42.37%) Azure
2 402 (23.43%) Power Platform
3 294 (17.13%) AWS
4 217 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
5 202 (11.77%) SaaS
6 146 (8.51%) GitHub
7 118 (6.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 108 (6.29%) Snowflake
9 99 (5.77%) GCP
10 83 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 76 (4.43%) Entra ID
11 76 (4.43%) Serverless
12 56 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
13 55 (3.21%) dbt
14 49 (2.86%) OCI
15 44 (2.56%) Amazon S3
15 44 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
15 44 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (2.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
2 32 (1.86%) VPN
3 26 (1.52%) DNS
3 26 (1.52%) Firewall
4 18 (1.05%) DHCP
5 12 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 12 (0.70%) VoIP
6 9 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 9 (0.52%) WAN
7 8 (0.47%) Telnet
8 7 (0.41%) DMZ
8 7 (0.41%) Network Security
8 7 (0.41%) SSL
9 6 (0.35%) Broadband
9 6 (0.35%) HTTP
9 6 (0.35%) VLAN
10 5 (0.29%) Internet
10 5 (0.29%) STUN
11 4 (0.23%) AMQP
11 4 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (19.46%) Power BI
2 275 (16.03%) SQL Server
3 195 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
4 145 (8.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 119 (6.93%) Tableau
6 106 (6.18%) NoSQL
7 105 (6.12%) Data Lake
8 88 (5.13%) MySQL
9 85 (4.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 78 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 73 (4.25%) MongoDB
12 66 (3.85%) Relational Database
13 56 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
14 38 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (1.98%) Metadata
16 30 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
17 29 (1.69%) BigQuery
17 29 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
18 27 (1.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 24 (1.40%) Looker
Development Applications
1 137 (7.98%) JIRA
2 135 (7.87%) Git
3 72 (4.20%) Oracle Forms
4 57 (3.32%) Jenkins
5 49 (2.86%) Postman
6 39 (2.27%) Selenium
7 36 (2.10%) SoapUI
8 32 (1.86%) Team Foundation Server
9 29 (1.69%) WebDriver
10 17 (0.99%) GitLab
11 15 (0.87%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.70%) ER Studio
12 12 (0.70%) ERwin
12 12 (0.70%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.41%) PowerBuilder
13 7 (0.41%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.35%) JMeter
14 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.29%) MLflow
15 5 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 614 (35.78%) Finance
2 585 (34.09%) Social Skills
3 330 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (6.24%) Retail
5 91 (5.30%) Marketing
6 56 (3.26%) Public Sector
7 54 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (2.74%) Manufacturing
9 46 (2.68%) Law
10 39 (2.27%) Banking
11 38 (2.21%) Legal
12 33 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
13 32 (1.86%) Front Office
14 22 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.22%) Billing
16 20 (1.17%) Advertising
17 17 (0.99%) Games
18 16 (0.93%) Back Office
19 14 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
19 14 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 416 (24.24%) Developer
2 361 (21.04%) Senior
3 347 (20.22%) Analyst
4 187 (10.90%) Data Engineer
5 127 (7.40%) Lead
6 76 (4.43%) Applications Engineer
7 75 (4.37%) Applications Support
7 75 (4.37%) Data Analyst
8 73 (4.25%) Senior Developer
9 72 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
10 70 (4.08%) .NET Developer
11 69 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
11 69 (4.02%) Software Developer
12 68 (3.96%) Software Engineer
13 66 (3.85%) Support Analyst
14 64 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
15 62 (3.61%) Support Engineer
16 61 (3.55%) SQL Developer
17 59 (3.44%) Graduate
18 57 (3.32%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (15.91%) .NET
2 119 (6.93%) HTML
3 114 (6.64%) React
4 109 (6.35%) RESTful
5 105 (6.12%) SOAP
6 99 (5.77%) REST
7 90 (5.24%) CSS
8 84 (4.90%) ASP.NET
9 75 (4.37%) .NET Core
9 75 (4.37%) XML
10 72 (4.20%) .NET Framework
11 68 (3.96%) AngularJS
11 68 (3.96%) Node.js
12 60 (3.50%) JSON
13 57 (3.32%) Entity Framework
14 47 (2.74%) ASP.NET MVC
15 46 (2.68%) ASP.NET Web API
16 45 (2.62%) Vue
17 42 (2.45%) OAuth
18 38 (2.21%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 113 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 88 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
4 60 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 57 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
7 55 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 40 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 32 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.40%) Algorithms
13 20 (1.17%) Low-Code
14 18 (1.05%) Driving Licence
14 18 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 17 (0.99%) Mobile App
16 15 (0.87%) Client/Server
17 12 (0.70%) Reinsurance
18 11 (0.64%) Equities
19 10 (0.58%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 148 (8.62%) Windows
2 75 (4.37%) Linux
3 70 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.92%) Unix
5 13 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.58%) Windows 7
7 9 (0.52%) VMS
8 7 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.35%) Android
10 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.29%) Debian
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
13 1 (0.058%) AIX
13 1 (0.058%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (34.27%) Agile
2 472 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
3 402 (23.43%) Business Intelligence
4 400 (23.31%) DevOps
5 349 (20.34%) Analytics
6 316 (18.41%) CI/CD
7 314 (18.30%) Mentoring
8 263 (15.33%) AI
8 263 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 241 (14.04%) ETL
10 221 (12.88%) Data Modelling
11 219 (12.76%) ERP
12 200 (11.66%) Coaching
13 194 (11.31%) Decision-Making
14 187 (10.90%) Data Engineering
15 181 (10.55%) Visualisation
16 162 (9.44%) Asset Management
17 158 (9.21%) Data Pipeline
18 156 (9.09%) Microservices
19 155 (9.03%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 513 (29.90%) Python
2 342 (19.93%) C#
3 190 (11.07%) Java
4 169 (9.85%) JavaScript
5 108 (6.29%) PowerShell
6 87 (5.07%) PL/SQL
7 85 (4.95%) T-SQL
8 80 (4.66%) TypeScript
9 74 (4.31%) PHP
10 60 (3.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 49 (2.86%) Shell Script
12 42 (2.45%) C++
13 38 (2.21%) R
14 34 (1.98%) VBA
15 31 (1.81%) Scala
16 21 (1.22%) Bash
17 18 (1.05%) Bicep
18 17 (0.99%) Groovy
19 15 (0.87%) Go
20 13 (0.76%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 232 (13.52%) Degree
2 81 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 44 (2.56%) ISTQB
5 42 (2.45%) SC Cleared
6 34 (1.98%) ACCA
6 34 (1.98%) CIMA
7 27 (1.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 25 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.05%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 13 (0.76%) AWS Certification
14 12 (0.70%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 11 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
16 8 (0.47%) CISA
17 7 (0.41%) CISSP
18 5 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (7.52%) QA
2 114 (6.64%) Data Quality
3 53 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 32 (1.86%) GDPR
5 25 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.05%) SLA
7 13 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.70%) NIST
9 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.29%) WCAG
11 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.17%) COREP
12 3 (0.17%) EMIR
12 3 (0.17%) HL7
12 3 (0.17%) NCSC
12 3 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 122 (7.11%) Docker
2 92 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.29%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.17%) Firmware
8 3 (0.17%) vSphere
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.058%) vCloud
10 1 (0.058%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 136 (7.93%) Terraform
2 93 (5.42%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.82%) Ansible
6 11 (0.64%) Grafana
7 9 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.23%) Control-M
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.17%) SCCM
10 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.12%) Kibana
10 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.12%) Nagios
10 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.12%) Puppet
11 1 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.058%) Icinga
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.058%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 447 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 191 (11.13%) Oracle
3 152 (8.86%) Databricks
4 57 (3.32%) SAP
5 49 (2.86%) Google
6 45 (2.62%) Blue Prism
7 43 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 22 (1.28%) Talend
9 21 (1.22%) Apple
10 20 (1.17%) Okta
10 20 (1.17%) Workday
11 18 (1.05%) Informatica
12 17 (0.99%) Sage
13 16 (0.93%) Alteryx
14 14 (0.82%) Hyperion
15 12 (0.70%) Charles River
15 12 (0.70%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.64%) VMware
17 10 (0.58%) Adaptive Insights
2,564 hybrid/remote SQL jobs