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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 289 194
Rank change year-on-year -16 -95 +1
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 130 144 568
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.64% 0.92% 1.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.39% 2.46% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 78 123 457
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,100 £79,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

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 5,431 5,856 13,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.65% 37.45% 40.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,059 4,065 11,563
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,835 £49,118 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

T-SQL
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

T-SQL
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

T-SQL salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

T-SQL
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 19 (14.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (8.46%) IIS
3 4 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.77%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (6.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.08%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (3.08%) Infor M3
2 4 (3.08%) JDE OneWorld
2 4 (3.08%) JDE World
2 4 (3.08%) Magento
2 4 (3.08%) NetSuite
2 4 (3.08%) Shopify
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (70.00%) Azure
2 55 (42.31%) Entra ID
3 44 (33.85%) Google Workspace
4 40 (30.77%) Power Platform
5 17 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (10.00%) Power Automate
7 10 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (7.69%) PowerApps
7 10 (7.69%) SaaS
8 8 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.62%) AWS
9 6 (4.62%) Serverless
10 5 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.31%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.31%) iPaaS
11 3 (2.31%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.54%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 44 (33.85%) Broadband
2 4 (3.08%) Firewall
3 3 (2.31%) DNS
3 3 (2.31%) VLAN
4 1 (0.77%) HTTP
4 1 (0.77%) LAN
4 1 (0.77%) Network Security
4 1 (0.77%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.77%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.77%) WAN
4 1 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (40.77%) SQL Server
2 30 (23.08%) Power BI
3 25 (19.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 24 (18.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (7.69%) MySQL
5 10 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.31%) Power Query
10 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.54%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.54%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.77%) Db2
11 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.77%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 13 (10.00%) Git
2 10 (7.69%) Visual Studio
3 8 (6.15%) JIRA
4 6 (4.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.54%) Postman
5 2 (1.54%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 45 (34.62%) Organisational Skills
3 32 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (16.15%) Games
5 12 (9.23%) Finance
6 11 (8.46%) Law
7 8 (6.15%) Legal
8 5 (3.85%) Retail
9 4 (3.08%) Back Office
10 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.77%) Advertising
12 1 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.77%) Police
12 1 (0.77%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 53 (40.77%) Developer
2 33 (25.38%) Senior
3 23 (17.69%) Analyst
4 15 (11.54%) IAM Developer
5 14 (10.77%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.77%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (10.00%) Data Analyst
7 12 (9.23%) Applications Support
7 12 (9.23%) Software Developer
8 10 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 10 (7.69%) Support Analyst
9 9 (6.92%) Applications Support Analyst
9 9 (6.92%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 9 (6.92%) SQL Analyst
9 9 (6.92%) SQL Data Analyst
10 8 (6.15%) Architect
10 8 (6.15%) Senior Architect
10 8 (6.15%) SQL Developer
10 8 (6.15%) SSRS Analyst
11 7 (5.38%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (39.23%) REST
2 48 (36.92%) SOAP
3 44 (33.85%) GraphQL
3 44 (33.85%) LDAP
3 44 (33.85%) OAuth
3 44 (33.85%) OpenID
3 44 (33.85%) SAML
4 23 (17.69%) .NET
5 15 (11.54%) JSON
6 12 (9.23%) ASP.NET
6 12 (9.23%) HTML
7 11 (8.46%) CSS
8 9 (6.92%) XML
9 8 (6.15%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (4.62%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.62%) Blazor
10 6 (4.62%) jQuery
11 5 (3.85%) Kafka
12 4 (3.08%) .NET Framework
12 4 (3.08%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 44 (33.85%) Cyber Threat
1 44 (33.85%) Cyberattack
2 10 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.92%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.38%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.85%) Replication
7 4 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.08%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.31%) LIMS
8 3 (2.31%) NHS
8 3 (2.31%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.54%) Clustering
9 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.54%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.23%) Windows
2 8 (6.15%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (39.23%) Mentoring
2 49 (37.69%) Roadmaps
3 44 (33.85%) Cybersecurity
3 44 (33.85%) Identity Access Management
3 44 (33.85%) Programme Delivery
3 44 (33.85%) Regulatory Compliance
4 33 (25.38%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (19.23%) Change Control
7 21 (16.15%) Agile
7 21 (16.15%) CI/CD
8 20 (15.38%) Data Modelling
9 18 (13.85%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (13.08%) ETL
11 16 (12.31%) DevOps
12 14 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (10.77%) Validation
13 11 (8.46%) Analytics
14 10 (7.69%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 110 (84.62%) SQL
2 67 (51.54%) PowerShell
3 44 (33.85%) Bash
4 26 (20.00%) C#
5 17 (13.08%) Python
6 12 (9.23%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.15%) PL/SQL
8 6 (4.62%) VBA
8 6 (4.62%) VBScript
9 4 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.54%) VB
11 1 (0.77%) Delphi
11 1 (0.77%) Java
11 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (6.92%) Degree
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.54%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.77%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (33.85%) NCSC
1 44 (33.85%) NIST
2 39 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (13.08%) Data Quality
4 9 (6.92%) QA
5 3 (2.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (47.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.31%) Docker
2 3 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.77%) SCCM
2 1 (0.77%) SQL Sentry
2 1 (0.77%) Terraform
2 1 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.62%) iManage
2 6 (4.62%) Oracle
3 5 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.08%) ConnectWise
4 4 (3.08%) Epicor
4 4 (3.08%) IFS
4 4 (3.08%) Infor
4 4 (3.08%) JD Edwards
4 4 (3.08%) SAP
4 4 (3.08%) WooCommerce
5 3 (2.31%) Databricks
5 3 (2.31%) Veeam
5 3 (2.31%) VMware
6 2 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.54%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.77%) Cognos
7 1 (0.77%) IBM
7 1 (0.77%) Remedy
7 1 (0.77%) SolarWinds