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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 275 190
Rank change year-on-year -14 -85 +12
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 130 149 594
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 0.97% 1.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.46% 2.56% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 73 124 482
10th Percentile £39,470 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,400 £83,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 5,292 5,826 14,067
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.44% 37.81% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,913 4,038 11,657
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,538
25th Percentile £48,289 £49,813 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
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 18 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 17 (13.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.15%) IIS
3 3 (2.31%) 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 5 (3.85%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (3.85%) Magento
2 5 (3.85%) Shopify
3 4 (3.08%) Infor M3
3 4 (3.08%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (3.08%) JDE World
3 4 (3.08%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 90 (69.23%) Azure
2 58 (44.62%) Entra ID
3 48 (36.92%) Google Workspace
4 38 (29.23%) Power Platform
5 16 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (10.77%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (10.00%) Power Automate
8 11 (8.46%) PowerApps
9 9 (6.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (6.92%) SaaS
10 6 (4.62%) AWS
10 6 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.62%) Serverless
11 4 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.08%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.31%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.31%) iPaaS
13 2 (1.54%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 48 (36.92%) Broadband
2 3 (2.31%) Firewall
3 2 (1.54%) DNS
3 2 (1.54%) 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 52 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 30 (23.08%) Power BI
3 24 (18.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 22 (16.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (7.69%) MySQL
5 10 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.38%) 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%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.54%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.54%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.77%) Db2
11 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.77%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 9 (6.92%) JIRA
2 8 (6.15%) Git
2 8 (6.15%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.54%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (41.54%) Social Skills
2 49 (37.69%) Organisational Skills
3 31 (23.85%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (19.23%) Games
5 13 (10.00%) Finance
6 10 (7.69%) Law
7 8 (6.15%) Legal
8 5 (3.85%) Back Office
8 5 (3.85%) Retail
9 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.77%) Advertising
11 1 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.77%) Police
11 1 (0.77%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 49 (37.69%) Developer
2 35 (26.92%) Senior
3 25 (19.23%) Analyst
4 16 (12.31%) IAM Developer
4 16 (12.31%) Systems Engineer
5 14 (10.77%) Senior Developer
6 13 (10.00%) Data Analyst
7 12 (9.23%) Applications Support
7 12 (9.23%) Support Analyst
8 11 (8.46%) Software Developer
9 10 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
9 10 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 9 (6.92%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 9 (6.92%) SQL Analyst
10 9 (6.92%) SQL Data Analyst
11 8 (6.15%) Architect
11 8 (6.15%) Senior Architect
11 8 (6.15%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 8 (6.15%) SSRS Analyst
11 8 (6.15%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (43.08%) REST
2 53 (40.77%) SOAP
3 48 (36.92%) GraphQL
3 48 (36.92%) LDAP
3 48 (36.92%) OAuth
3 48 (36.92%) OpenID
3 48 (36.92%) SAML
4 20 (15.38%) .NET
5 13 (10.00%) JSON
6 10 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 9 (6.92%) HTML
8 8 (6.15%) CSS
8 8 (6.15%) XML
9 6 (4.62%) Blazor
10 5 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (3.85%) Kafka
10 5 (3.85%) Middleware
11 4 (3.08%) .NET Core
12 3 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (2.31%) React
Miscellaneous
1 48 (36.92%) Cyber Threat
1 48 (36.92%) Cyberattack
2 9 (6.92%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.15%) Data Structures
3 8 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (5.38%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.85%) Replication
7 4 (3.08%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.08%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.31%) Clustering
8 3 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.31%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.31%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.54%) LIMS
9 2 (1.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.69%) Windows
2 7 (5.38%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.54%) Linux
5 1 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (43.08%) Mentoring
2 51 (39.23%) Roadmaps
3 48 (36.92%) Cybersecurity
3 48 (36.92%) Identity Access Management
3 48 (36.92%) Programme Delivery
3 48 (36.92%) Regulatory Compliance
4 33 (25.38%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (20.00%) Change Control
6 25 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (16.15%) Agile
8 21 (16.15%) CI/CD
9 20 (15.38%) Data Modelling
10 19 (14.62%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (11.54%) ETL
12 14 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (10.00%) DevOps
13 13 (10.00%) Validation
14 12 (9.23%) Analytics
15 10 (7.69%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 106 (81.54%) SQL
2 68 (52.31%) PowerShell
3 48 (36.92%) Bash
4 24 (18.46%) C#
5 19 (14.62%) Python
6 9 (6.92%) 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 10 (7.69%) Degree
2 3 (2.31%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.54%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (36.92%) NCSC
1 48 (36.92%) NIST
2 39 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (13.85%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.85%) QA
5 3 (2.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.31%) Docker
3 2 (1.54%) 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
Vendors
1 33 (25.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.38%) Oracle
3 6 (4.62%) iManage
4 5 (3.85%) ConnectWise
4 5 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.85%) WooCommerce
5 4 (3.08%) Databricks
5 4 (3.08%) Epicor
5 4 (3.08%) IFS
5 4 (3.08%) Infor
5 4 (3.08%) JD Edwards
5 4 (3.08%) SAP
6 2 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.54%) Rollbar
6 2 (1.54%) Veeam
6 2 (1.54%) VMware
7 1 (0.77%) Cognos
7 1 (0.77%) IBM
7 1 (0.77%) SolarWinds