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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 227 163
Rank change year-on-year -31 -64 +80
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 135 182 640
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 1.39% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.86% 3.18% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 69 141 547
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,500 £39,900
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -2.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.79%

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 4,725 5,721 13,291
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.09% 43.54% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,439 4,534 11,461
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,200 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 14 April 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 10 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.22%) IIS
3 2 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.74%) JBoss
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (6.67%) Magento
1 9 (6.67%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.74%) JDE OneWorld
2 1 (0.74%) JDE World
2 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 98 (72.59%) Azure
2 66 (48.89%) Entra ID
3 56 (41.48%) Google Workspace
4 24 (17.78%) Power Platform
5 13 (9.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (9.63%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (5.93%) GitHub
8 8 (5.93%) SaaS
9 7 (5.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (5.19%) PowerApps
9 7 (5.19%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.44%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (1.48%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (1.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (41.48%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) DNS
2 1 (0.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.74%) LAN
2 1 (0.74%) Network Security
2 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.74%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.74%) WAN
2 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (41.48%) SQL Server
2 22 (16.30%) Power BI
2 22 (16.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 21 (15.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 17 (12.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (8.89%) Data Lake
6 10 (7.41%) MySQL
7 9 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (5.93%) Metadata
9 4 (2.96%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.48%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.48%) Power Query
10 2 (1.48%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.48%) Tableau
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.89%) JIRA
2 3 (2.22%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.48%) Git
3 2 (1.48%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (42.96%) Social Skills
2 57 (42.22%) Organisational Skills
3 32 (23.70%) Games
4 24 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (11.85%) Finance
6 10 (7.41%) Back Office
7 8 (5.93%) Law
8 5 (3.70%) Legal
9 4 (2.96%) Retail
10 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.74%) Police
11 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 42 (31.11%) Developer
2 37 (27.41%) Senior
3 24 (17.78%) Analyst
4 21 (15.56%) IAM Developer
5 16 (11.85%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.63%) Support Analyst
8 12 (8.89%) DBA
9 10 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 10 (7.41%) Data Analyst
9 10 (7.41%) SQL DBA
10 9 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 9 (6.67%) Data Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) SQL Analyst
10 9 (6.67%) SQL Data Analyst
10 9 (6.67%) SQL Developer
11 8 (5.93%) Applications Support Analyst
11 8 (5.93%) Senior Architect
11 8 (5.93%) SSRS Analyst
11 8 (5.93%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (51.11%) REST
2 66 (48.89%) SOAP
3 57 (42.22%) OAuth
3 57 (42.22%) OpenID
4 56 (41.48%) GraphQL
4 56 (41.48%) LDAP
4 56 (41.48%) SAML
5 15 (11.11%) .NET
6 12 (8.89%) JSON
7 11 (8.15%) XML
8 9 (6.67%) Middleware
9 7 (5.19%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.96%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.96%) Kafka
11 3 (2.22%) CSS
11 3 (2.22%) Entity Framework
11 3 (2.22%) HTML
11 3 (2.22%) WPF
12 2 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.48%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 56 (41.48%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (41.48%) Cyberattack
2 14 (10.37%) Data Structures
3 10 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.93%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.70%) Clustering
5 5 (3.70%) Replication
5 5 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.96%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.22%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.48%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.74%) LIMS
9 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.74%) NHS
9 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.93%) Windows
2 4 (2.96%) Linux
2 4 (2.96%) VMS
3 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (47.41%) Mentoring
2 56 (41.48%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (41.48%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (41.48%) Programme Delivery
2 56 (41.48%) Regulatory Compliance
2 56 (41.48%) Roadmaps
3 28 (20.74%) Change Control
4 27 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (17.78%) Analytics
6 24 (17.78%) Data Modelling
7 23 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (13.33%) ETL
9 17 (12.59%) CI/CD
9 17 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (12.59%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (11.85%) Agile
10 16 (11.85%) Data Engineering
11 13 (9.63%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 104 (77.04%) SQL
2 72 (53.33%) PowerShell
3 56 (41.48%) Bash
4 22 (16.30%) Python
5 19 (14.07%) C#
6 4 (2.96%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.48%) VBA
8 2 (1.48%) VBScript
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) Delphi
9 1 (0.74%) Java
9 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.74%) Scala
9 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (8.15%) Degree
2 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.96%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.22%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (41.48%) NCSC
1 56 (41.48%) NIST
2 37 (27.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (21.48%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.70%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (49.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.48%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.74%) SCCM
2 1 (0.74%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 35 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.89%) Databricks
3 9 (6.67%) ConnectWise
3 9 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.67%) WooCommerce
4 6 (4.44%) Oracle
5 2 (1.48%) iManage
5 2 (1.48%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.74%) Cognos
6 1 (0.74%) Epicor
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) IBM
6 1 (0.74%) IFS
6 1 (0.74%) Infor
6 1 (0.74%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.74%) Sage
6 1 (0.74%) SAP
6 1 (0.74%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.74%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.74%) Zoho