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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 306 267
Rank change year-on-year -66 -39 -101
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 89 121 263
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 0.74% 1.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.44% 2.37% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 80 99 168
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £45,625 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,625 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.39% -4.72%

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 6,185 5,111 9,043
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.79% 31.46% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,633 3,465 6,346
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 11 September 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 11 (12.36%) IIS
1 11 (12.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (5.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (4.49%) Infor M3
2 4 (4.49%) JDE OneWorld
2 4 (4.49%) JDE World
2 4 (4.49%) NetSuite
3 2 (2.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (1.12%) Elite 3E
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 50 (56.18%) Azure
2 33 (37.08%) Power Platform
3 17 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (13.48%) Power Automate
5 11 (12.36%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (11.24%) PowerApps
7 9 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (8.99%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (7.87%) Serverless
10 5 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (5.62%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.49%) AWS
12 3 (3.37%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.37%) Azure Functions
12 3 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (3.37%) iPaaS
12 3 (3.37%) Snowflake
13 2 (2.25%) Copilot Studio
13 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (2.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) Firewall
2 3 (3.37%) DNS
2 3 (3.37%) VLAN
3 2 (2.25%) HTTP
4 1 (1.12%) LAN
4 1 (1.12%) Network Security
4 1 (1.12%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.12%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.12%) WAN
4 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (59.55%) SQL Server
2 31 (34.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 22 (24.72%) Power BI
4 16 (17.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (10.11%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (4.49%) Db2
7 4 (4.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (4.49%) WhereScape RED
8 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.37%) Power Query
8 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.25%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (2.25%) MS Access
9 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.25%) Star Schema
10 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Git
2 9 (10.11%) Visual Studio
3 6 (6.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (3.37%) JIRA
5 2 (2.25%) Postman
6 1 (1.12%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (33.71%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.85%) Finance
4 12 (13.48%) Law
5 10 (11.24%) Legal
6 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.37%) Retail
7 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.12%) Games
8 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Police
8 1 (1.12%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 49 (55.06%) Developer
2 14 (15.73%) Senior
2 14 (15.73%) Software Developer
3 11 (12.36%) SQL Developer
4 10 (11.24%) .NET Developer
4 10 (11.24%) Analyst
5 9 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Applications Support
8 6 (6.74%) Lead
9 5 (5.62%) Data Analyst
10 4 (4.49%) Applications Support Analyst
10 4 (4.49%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
10 4 (4.49%) ERP Analyst
10 4 (4.49%) ERP Support
10 4 (4.49%) Support Analyst
11 3 (3.37%) DBA
11 3 (3.37%) Integration Developer
11 3 (3.37%) IT Manager
11 3 (3.37%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (30.34%) .NET
2 12 (13.48%) HTML
3 11 (12.36%) CSS
4 10 (11.24%) ASP.NET
5 9 (10.11%) JSON
6 8 (8.99%) ASP.NET Core
7 7 (7.87%) REST
8 6 (6.74%) .NET Core
8 6 (6.74%) Blazor
8 6 (6.74%) jQuery
9 5 (5.62%) .NET Framework
9 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.49%) Entity Framework
10 4 (4.49%) Kafka
10 4 (4.49%) SOAP
11 3 (3.37%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (3.37%) React
11 3 (3.37%) RESTful
12 2 (2.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (11.24%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (10.11%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (7.87%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.49%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.49%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.49%) NHS
5 4 (4.49%) Replication
6 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.37%) LIMS
6 3 (3.37%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.61%) Windows
2 9 (10.11%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.71%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (28.09%) DevOps
3 23 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (24.72%) CI/CD
4 22 (24.72%) ETL
4 22 (24.72%) Performance Tuning
5 21 (23.60%) Agile
6 18 (20.22%) Data Modelling
7 13 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (13.48%) Clean Code
8 12 (13.48%) Secure Coding
9 9 (10.11%) AI
9 9 (10.11%) Analytics
9 9 (10.11%) Change Management
9 9 (10.11%) Roadmaps
9 9 (10.11%) Validation
10 8 (8.99%) CRM
10 8 (8.99%) MVC
10 8 (8.99%) Scrum
10 8 (8.99%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 89 (100.00%) SQL
2 32 (35.96%) C#
3 23 (25.84%) PowerShell
4 12 (13.48%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.48%) Python
5 9 (10.11%) PL/SQL
6 6 (6.74%) VBA
6 6 (6.74%) VBScript
7 5 (5.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.25%) VB
9 1 (1.12%) Bicep
9 1 (1.12%) Delphi
9 1 (1.12%) Java
9 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.12%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (6.74%) Degree
2 5 (5.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.36%) Data Quality
1 11 (12.36%) QA
2 8 (8.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.62%) SLA
4 2 (2.25%) GDPR
4 2 (2.25%) NIST
5 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (13.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.49%) Docker
3 3 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (5.62%) ZABBIX
2 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.12%) SCCM
3 1 (1.12%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 37 (41.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.99%) Oracle
3 7 (7.87%) iManage
4 6 (6.74%) JD Edwards
5 5 (5.62%) Remedy
5 5 (5.62%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.49%) Epicor
6 4 (4.49%) IFS
6 4 (4.49%) Infor
6 4 (4.49%) SAP
7 3 (3.37%) Veeam
7 3 (3.37%) VMware
8 2 (2.25%) Databricks
8 2 (2.25%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.25%) RedGate
9 1 (1.12%) IBM
9 1 (1.12%) Intapp
9 1 (1.12%) Rollbar
9 1 (1.12%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.12%) Teradata