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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 236 173
Rank change year-on-year -59 -63 +7
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 99 259 438
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 1.30% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.31% 3.11% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80 149 406
10th Percentile £37,375 £36,738 £41,375
25th Percentile £40,938 £41,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% -

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 4,290 8,326 10,291
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.41% 41.86% 47.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,299 5,311 8,663
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £114,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 15 November 2025.

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 7 (7.07%) IIS
1 7 (7.07%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.02%) HCL Notes
3 2 (2.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.01%) Apache
4 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 17 (17.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Sage 1000
2 2 (2.02%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.02%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (51.52%) Azure
2 21 (21.21%) Power Platform
3 15 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (13.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (9.09%) GitHub
6 8 (8.08%) Entra ID
6 8 (8.08%) PowerApps
7 7 (7.07%) AWS
7 7 (7.07%) GCP
8 6 (6.06%) Google Workspace
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (5.05%) SaaS
10 4 (4.04%) Power Automate
10 4 (4.04%) Snowflake
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (51.52%) SQL Server
2 30 (30.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 27 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 21 (21.21%) Power BI
5 16 (16.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (15.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 14 (14.14%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (10.10%) Data Lake
9 7 (7.07%) Metadata
9 7 (7.07%) MySQL
9 7 (7.07%) Relational Database
10 6 (6.06%) OLAP
11 5 (5.05%) MongoDB
11 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (5.05%) RDBMS
12 3 (3.03%) Data Mining
12 3 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
12 3 (3.03%) Redis
12 3 (3.03%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) JIRA
3 5 (5.05%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.01%) Postman
General
1 36 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.27%) Finance
3 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 8 (8.08%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Games
6 5 (5.05%) Law
7 4 (4.04%) Advertising
7 4 (4.04%) Billing
7 4 (4.04%) Social Housing
7 4 (4.04%) Swedish Language
8 3 (3.03%) Automotive
8 3 (3.03%) Back Office
8 3 (3.03%) Legal
8 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (45.45%) Developer
2 21 (21.21%) Senior
3 19 (19.19%) SQL Developer
4 18 (18.18%) DBA
5 16 (16.16%) SQL DBA
6 15 (15.15%) Analyst
7 13 (13.13%) Senior Developer
8 11 (11.11%) Data Engineer
9 10 (10.10%) Administrator
9 10 (10.10%) IT Support
10 7 (7.07%) Analyst Developer
10 7 (7.07%) Software Engineer
11 6 (6.06%) Integration Developer
11 6 (6.06%) IT Engineer
11 6 (6.06%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (6.06%) Support Analyst
11 6 (6.06%) Support Engineer
12 5 (5.05%) IAM Developer
12 5 (5.05%) Software Support Engineer
13 4 (4.04%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.23%) .NET
2 15 (15.15%) REST
3 13 (13.13%) ASP.NET
4 12 (12.12%) .NET Framework
5 11 (11.11%) CSS
6 10 (10.10%) HTML
7 9 (9.09%) SOAP
8 8 (8.08%) Entity Framework
9 6 (6.06%) GraphQL
9 6 (6.06%) JSON
9 6 (6.06%) LDAP
9 6 (6.06%) OAuth
9 6 (6.06%) OpenID
9 6 (6.06%) SAML
9 6 (6.06%) XML
10 5 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.05%) Web Services
10 5 (5.05%) WinForms
11 4 (4.04%) .NET Core
11 4 (4.04%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (6.06%) Cyberattack
3 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.05%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.04%) Clustering
4 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.03%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.03%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.01%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.01%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.09%) Windows
2 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.34%) ETL
1 34 (34.34%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (26.26%) DevOps
4 20 (20.20%) Agile
5 19 (19.19%) Analytics
6 13 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (13.13%) Data Integration
6 13 (13.13%) ERP
7 12 (12.12%) Data Engineering
7 12 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (12.12%) SDLC
8 11 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.10%) CI/CD
9 10 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (9.09%) Data Management
10 9 (9.09%) Data Modelling
10 9 (9.09%) Machine Learning
10 9 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (91.92%) SQL
2 25 (25.25%) C#
3 10 (10.10%) JavaScript
3 10 (10.10%) Python
4 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.06%) Bash
5 6 (6.06%) PL/SQL
6 5 (5.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (5.05%) VB.NET
7 4 (4.04%) VBA
8 2 (2.02%) C++
8 2 (2.02%) PHP
8 2 (2.02%) X++
9 1 (1.01%) Bicep
9 1 (1.01%) R
9 1 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (11.11%) Degree
2 8 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.06%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.04%) ACCA
4 4 (4.04%) CIMA
5 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.06%) NCSC
2 6 (6.06%) NIST
3 3 (3.03%) QA
4 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.02%) GDPR
5 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (8.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.04%) Docker
3 3 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.10%) Sage
3 7 (7.07%) Databricks
4 6 (6.06%) Google
4 6 (6.06%) Oracle
4 6 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.05%) Informatica
5 5 (5.05%) RedGate
5 5 (5.05%) Talend
5 5 (5.05%) Xamarin
5 5 (5.05%) Zoho
6 4 (4.04%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.04%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.04%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.03%) VMware
8 2 (2.02%) Lotus
9 1 (1.01%) Concur
9 1 (1.01%) DocuSign