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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 213 153
Rank change year-on-year -47 -60 +73
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 131 202 644
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.51% 2.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.94% 3.29% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 64 144 559
10th Percentile £32,075 £41,250 £40,833
25th Percentile £39,438 £43,750 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £56,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% -2.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £53,750 £71,563 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,575 £82,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%

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 4,458 6,137 13,055
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.45% 45.76% 43.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,234 4,510 11,363
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £48,867 £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 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 19 March 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 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.05%) IIS
3 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (6.87%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (6.87%) Magento
1 9 (6.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (73.28%) Azure
2 66 (50.38%) Entra ID
3 57 (43.51%) Google Workspace
4 21 (16.03%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (9.16%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (6.11%) GitHub
8 8 (6.11%) SaaS
9 7 (5.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (5.34%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.58%) PowerApps
11 4 (3.05%) GCP
11 4 (3.05%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.53%) AWS
12 2 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (43.51%) Broadband
2 1 (0.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (40.46%) SQL Server
2 23 (17.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 20 (15.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 19 (14.50%) Power BI
5 17 (12.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (9.92%) Data Lake
7 10 (7.63%) MySQL
8 9 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (6.11%) Metadata
10 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.53%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.53%) Tableau
12 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.76%) OLAP
12 1 (0.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) JIRA
2 2 (1.53%) Git
2 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 57 (43.51%) Organisational Skills
3 33 (25.19%) Games
4 22 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.92%) Finance
6 10 (7.63%) Back Office
7 7 (5.34%) Law
8 3 (2.29%) Legal
9 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (30.53%) Developer
2 38 (29.01%) Senior
3 22 (16.79%) IAM Developer
4 20 (15.27%) Analyst
5 16 (12.21%) Senior Developer
5 16 (12.21%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (9.92%) DBA
7 12 (9.16%) Data Engineer
7 12 (9.16%) SQL Developer
7 12 (9.16%) Support Analyst
8 11 (8.40%) SQL DBA
9 8 (6.11%) Architect
9 8 (6.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (6.11%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 8 (6.11%) Data Analyst
9 8 (6.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) SQL Analyst
9 8 (6.11%) SQL Data Analyst
9 8 (6.11%) SSRS Analyst
9 8 (6.11%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (55.73%) REST
2 67 (51.15%) SOAP
3 58 (44.27%) OAuth
3 58 (44.27%) OpenID
4 57 (43.51%) GraphQL
4 57 (43.51%) LDAP
4 57 (43.51%) SAML
5 14 (10.69%) JSON
5 14 (10.69%) XML
6 13 (9.92%) .NET
7 9 (6.87%) Middleware
8 7 (5.34%) .NET Framework
8 7 (5.34%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.58%) Entity Framework
10 4 (3.05%) WinForms
11 2 (1.53%) Kafka
11 2 (1.53%) WPF
12 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 1 (0.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 57 (43.51%) Cyber Threat
1 57 (43.51%) Cyberattack
2 15 (11.45%) Data Structures
3 8 (6.11%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.11%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.82%) Clustering
5 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.05%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.05%) Replication
5 4 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.29%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.11%) Windows
2 4 (3.05%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) VMS
3 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (47.33%) Mentoring
2 57 (43.51%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (43.51%) Identity Access Management
2 57 (43.51%) Programme Delivery
2 57 (43.51%) Regulatory Compliance
2 57 (43.51%) Roadmaps
3 28 (21.37%) Change Control
4 25 (19.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (17.56%) Analytics
5 23 (17.56%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (16.03%) Data Modelling
7 16 (12.21%) ETL
8 15 (11.45%) Agile
8 15 (11.45%) Data Engineering
8 15 (11.45%) Data Management
8 15 (11.45%) Data Pipeline
8 15 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (10.69%) CI/CD
9 14 (10.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 99 (75.57%) SQL
2 71 (54.20%) PowerShell
3 57 (43.51%) Bash
4 21 (16.03%) Python
5 17 (12.98%) C#
6 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.53%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.76%) Bicep
7 1 (0.76%) Java
7 1 (0.76%) Scala
7 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (9.16%) Degree
2 6 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.05%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.29%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (43.51%) NCSC
1 57 (43.51%) NIST
2 35 (26.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (21.37%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (49.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.53%) Terraform
2 1 (0.76%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 37 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.16%) Databricks
3 9 (6.87%) ConnectWise
3 9 (6.87%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.87%) WooCommerce
4 4 (3.05%) Google
4 4 (3.05%) Oracle
4 4 (3.05%) Sage
4 4 (3.05%) Xamarin
4 4 (3.05%) Zoho
5 2 (1.53%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.76%) Cognos
6 1 (0.76%) Foundry
6 1 (0.76%) IBM
6 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds