Hybrid/Remote T-SQL Job Trends

Transact-SQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring T-SQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 265 173
Rank change year-on-year -40 -92 +13
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 121 250 493
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.75% 1.07% 1.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.39% 2.79% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 99 149 464
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £59,375 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

T-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 5,068 8,976 11,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.30% 38.57% 47.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,419 6,148 10,236
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

T-SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

T-SQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

T-SQL
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing T-SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

T-SQL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (10.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.65%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.65%) IIS
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) CMS
4 1 (0.83%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.83%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.96%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (3.31%) Sage 1000
3 2 (1.65%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 72 (59.50%) Azure
2 37 (30.58%) Power Platform
3 21 (17.36%) SaaS
4 14 (11.57%) Power Automate
5 13 (10.74%) AWS
5 13 (10.74%) PowerApps
6 12 (9.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.96%) GitHub
10 5 (4.13%) Azure Stack
10 5 (4.13%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (3.31%) Fivetran
11 4 (3.31%) Google Analytics
11 4 (3.31%) Zapier
12 3 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.48%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (57.85%) SQL Server
2 35 (28.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 34 (28.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 31 (25.62%) Power BI
5 22 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 14 (11.57%) Metadata
7 13 (10.74%) Data Hub
7 13 (10.74%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (10.74%) SQL CLR
8 10 (8.26%) Data Lake
9 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
10 7 (5.79%) MySQL
11 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
11 5 (4.13%) OLAP
11 5 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (4.13%) RDBMS
12 4 (3.31%) NoSQL
13 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (2.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) Git
2 5 (4.13%) Bitbucket
2 5 (4.13%) JIRA
2 5 (4.13%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.83%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.83%) Grunt
4 1 (0.83%) gulp
4 1 (0.83%) Postman
4 1 (0.83%) Subversion
4 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (35.54%) Finance
2 29 (23.97%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.74%) Back Office
4 12 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.61%) Law
7 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.31%) Advertising
8 4 (3.31%) Billing
8 4 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.31%) Social Housing
8 4 (3.31%) Swedish Language
9 3 (2.48%) Automotive
9 3 (2.48%) Legal
9 3 (2.48%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Games
11 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (49.59%) Developer
2 32 (26.45%) Senior
3 27 (22.31%) SQL Developer
4 26 (21.49%) DBA
5 24 (19.83%) SQL DBA
6 23 (19.01%) Senior Developer
7 17 (14.05%) Administrator
7 17 (14.05%) Analyst
8 13 (10.74%) Microsoft Developer
8 13 (10.74%) SaaS Developer
8 13 (10.74%) Senior Microsoft Developer
8 13 (10.74%) Senior SQL Developer
9 8 (6.61%) Support Analyst
10 7 (5.79%) Analyst Developer
10 7 (5.79%) Lead
11 6 (4.96%) Data Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Applications Support
12 5 (4.13%) IT Support
12 5 (4.13%) Lead Developer
12 5 (4.13%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.66%) .NET
2 19 (15.70%) CSS
3 17 (14.05%) ASP.NET
3 17 (14.05%) HTML
4 11 (9.09%) .NET Framework
5 7 (5.79%) .NET Core
5 7 (5.79%) React
5 7 (5.79%) Web Services
6 6 (4.96%) REST
7 5 (4.13%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (4.13%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (4.13%) HTML5
7 5 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.31%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (3.31%) SOAP
9 3 (2.48%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.48%) CSS3
9 3 (2.48%) Entity Framework
9 3 (2.48%) LINQ
9 3 (2.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Private Cloud
2 9 (7.44%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.13%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.13%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.31%) Clustering
4 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.31%) Social Media
5 3 (2.48%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.65%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.96%) Windows
2 4 (3.31%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.65%) Linux
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (33.06%) ETL
2 37 (30.58%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (19.83%) Performance Tuning
5 21 (17.36%) Analytics
6 19 (15.70%) DevOps
7 18 (14.88%) High Availability
8 17 (14.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (14.05%) Fintech
8 17 (14.05%) Migration
9 16 (13.22%) Agile
9 16 (13.22%) Statistics
10 14 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (10.74%) Data Privacy
11 13 (10.74%) Refactoring
11 13 (10.74%) Wealth Management
11 13 (10.74%) Workflow
12 12 (9.92%) CRM
12 12 (9.92%) Data Analysis
12 12 (9.92%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 115 (95.04%) SQL
2 26 (21.49%) C#
3 19 (15.70%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.79%) Python
5 7 (5.79%) VB.NET
6 6 (4.96%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.31%) VBA
8 3 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.65%) C++
9 2 (1.65%) PHP
9 2 (1.65%) X++
10 1 (0.83%) Bash
10 1 (0.83%) Bicep
10 1 (0.83%) Java
10 1 (0.83%) R
10 1 (0.83%) Scala
10 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (9.09%) Degree
2 6 (4.96%) DBS Check
3 5 (4.13%) ACCA
4 4 (3.31%) CIMA
5 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) MCSD
6 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.96%) GDPR
3 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.31%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) NCSC
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (10.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.31%) Docker
3 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (10.74%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (47.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.74%) VMware
3 10 (8.26%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.79%) Oracle
5 5 (4.13%) Google
5 5 (4.13%) Informatica
5 5 (4.13%) RedGate
5 5 (4.13%) Sage
5 5 (4.13%) Talend
6 4 (3.31%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (3.31%) Databricks
6 4 (3.31%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.31%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.31%) Xero
7 2 (1.65%) Lotus
8 1 (0.83%) Concur
8 1 (0.83%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.83%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.83%) Telerik