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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 287 169
Rank change year-on-year +5 -118 +52
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 138 140 604
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 0.96% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.69% 2.43% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 74 113 506
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,300 £39,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -2.61% +2.68%
75th Percentile £65,188 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,625 £84,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £48,875 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +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 5,130 5,750 13,486
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.77% 39.43% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,783 3,954 11,433
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 28 May 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 16 (11.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.80%) IIS
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (6.52%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (6.52%) Magento
1 9 (6.52%) Shopify
2 4 (2.90%) Infor M3
2 4 (2.90%) JDE OneWorld
2 4 (2.90%) JDE World
2 4 (2.90%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 91 (65.94%) Azure
2 61 (44.20%) Entra ID
3 52 (37.68%) Google Workspace
4 30 (21.74%) Power Platform
5 16 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (10.87%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (7.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (7.25%) PowerApps
9 9 (6.52%) Power Automate
10 8 (5.80%) SaaS
11 7 (5.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (5.07%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.62%) AWS
12 5 (3.62%) GitHub
12 5 (3.62%) Serverless
13 4 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (2.17%) Azure AKS
14 3 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 52 (37.68%) Broadband
2 3 (2.17%) Firewall
3 2 (1.45%) DNS
3 2 (1.45%) VLAN
4 1 (0.72%) HTTP
4 1 (0.72%) LAN
4 1 (0.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.72%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.72%) WAN
4 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (41.30%) SQL Server
2 27 (19.57%) Power BI
3 23 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 19 (13.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (7.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (7.25%) MySQL
6 10 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (5.07%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.62%) Metadata
8 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.17%) Power Query
10 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.45%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.45%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (9.42%) JIRA
2 4 (2.90%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.45%) Git
4 2 (1.45%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 53 (38.41%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (21.01%) Games
4 27 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (11.59%) Finance
6 9 (6.52%) Back Office
6 9 (6.52%) Law
6 9 (6.52%) Legal
7 5 (3.62%) Retail
8 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
10 1 (0.72%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.72%) Police
10 1 (0.72%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 47 (34.06%) Developer
2 40 (28.99%) Senior
3 30 (21.74%) Analyst
4 18 (13.04%) IAM Developer
5 16 (11.59%) Support Analyst
5 16 (11.59%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (10.87%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.42%) Applications Support
7 13 (9.42%) Data Analyst
8 11 (7.97%) Applications Support Analyst
9 10 (7.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 9 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 9 (6.52%) SQL Analyst
10 9 (6.52%) SQL Data Analyst
11 8 (5.80%) Architect
11 8 (5.80%) Senior Architect
11 8 (5.80%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Software Developer
11 8 (5.80%) SSRS Analyst
11 8 (5.80%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (46.38%) REST
2 61 (44.20%) SOAP
3 52 (37.68%) GraphQL
3 52 (37.68%) LDAP
3 52 (37.68%) OAuth
3 52 (37.68%) OpenID
3 52 (37.68%) SAML
4 19 (13.77%) .NET
5 11 (7.97%) JSON
6 10 (7.25%) ASP.NET
7 9 (6.52%) HTML
7 9 (6.52%) Middleware
8 8 (5.80%) CSS
8 8 (5.80%) XML
9 5 (3.62%) Kafka
10 4 (2.90%) Blazor
11 3 (2.17%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 52 (37.68%) Cyber Threat
1 52 (37.68%) Cyberattack
2 9 (6.52%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.07%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.62%) Clustering
5 5 (3.62%) Replication
6 4 (2.90%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.90%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.17%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.45%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.45%) LIMS
8 2 (1.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.97%) Windows
2 6 (4.35%) Windows Server
2 6 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (2.90%) Linux
4 3 (2.17%) VMS
5 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.20%) Mentoring
2 55 (39.86%) Roadmaps
3 52 (37.68%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (37.68%) Identity Access Management
3 52 (37.68%) Programme Delivery
3 52 (37.68%) Regulatory Compliance
4 32 (23.19%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (20.29%) Change Control
6 25 (18.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (15.94%) Data Modelling
7 22 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (15.22%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (14.49%) CI/CD
10 18 (13.04%) Agile
10 18 (13.04%) Analytics
11 17 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (10.14%) DevOps
12 14 (10.14%) ETL
13 13 (9.42%) ERP
14 12 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 110 (79.71%) SQL
2 71 (51.45%) PowerShell
3 52 (37.68%) Bash
4 23 (16.67%) C#
4 23 (16.67%) Python
5 7 (5.07%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.07%) PL/SQL
6 6 (4.35%) VBA
6 6 (4.35%) VBScript
7 4 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.45%) VB
9 1 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.72%) Delphi
9 1 (0.72%) Java
9 1 (0.72%) Scala
9 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (7.97%) Degree
2 4 (2.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.17%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (37.68%) NCSC
1 52 (37.68%) NIST
2 40 (28.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (16.67%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.17%) Docker
3 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.45%) Terraform
3 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.72%) SCCM
3 1 (0.72%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 38 (27.54%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.52%) ConnectWise
2 9 (6.52%) Databricks
2 9 (6.52%) ServiceNow
2 9 (6.52%) WooCommerce
3 8 (5.80%) Oracle
4 6 (4.35%) iManage
5 4 (2.90%) Epicor
5 4 (2.90%) IFS
5 4 (2.90%) Infor
5 4 (2.90%) JD Edwards
5 4 (2.90%) SAP
6 2 (1.45%) Rollbar
6 2 (1.45%) Veeam
6 2 (1.45%) VMware
7 1 (0.72%) Cognos
7 1 (0.72%) IBM
7 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.72%) SolarWinds