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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 218 186
Rank change year-on-year -59 -32 -1
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 91 268 363
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 1.52% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.18% 3.57% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 67 165 332
10th Percentile £30,500 £38,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,094 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,150 £81,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -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 4,177 7,516 9,220
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.20% 42.70% 46.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,205 4,872 7,793
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,968
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 17 December 2025.

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 7 (7.69%) IIS
2 2 (2.20%) HCL Notes
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (16.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (4.40%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (4.40%) Magento
1 4 (4.40%) Shopify
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.35%) Azure
2 13 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 13 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 12 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (13.19%) Power Platform
4 10 (10.99%) Google Workspace
5 9 (9.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (9.89%) GitHub
6 7 (7.69%) Snowflake
7 6 (6.59%) AWS
7 6 (6.59%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (5.49%) GCP
8 5 (5.49%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.20%) SaaS
10 2 (2.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.99%) Broadband
2 1 (1.10%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (50.55%) SQL Server
2 24 (26.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 20 (21.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (18.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 13 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (13.19%) Power BI
7 11 (12.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (8.79%) Metadata
9 6 (6.59%) OLAP
10 4 (4.40%) MySQL
10 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
11 3 (3.30%) Data Mining
12 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
12 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
12 2 (2.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.20%) Git
2 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (36.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.18%) Finance
3 13 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (9.89%) Games
6 5 (5.49%) Back Office
6 5 (5.49%) Law
6 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.40%) Billing
7 4 (4.40%) Legal
8 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.20%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 30 (32.97%) Developer
2 18 (19.78%) DBA
2 18 (19.78%) Senior
3 16 (17.58%) SQL DBA
4 14 (15.38%) SQL Developer
5 13 (14.29%) Analyst
6 10 (10.99%) Administrator
6 10 (10.99%) Data Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.69%) IAM Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Integration Developer
8 6 (6.59%) IT Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) IT Support
8 6 (6.59%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Consultant
9 5 (5.49%) Software Support Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Support Analyst
10 4 (4.40%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.27%) REST
2 17 (18.68%) SOAP
3 15 (16.48%) .NET
4 11 (12.09%) OAuth
4 11 (12.09%) OpenID
5 10 (10.99%) GraphQL
5 10 (10.99%) LDAP
5 10 (10.99%) SAML
6 8 (8.79%) .NET Framework
7 6 (6.59%) JSON
7 6 (6.59%) Middleware
7 6 (6.59%) XML
8 5 (5.49%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.49%) Entity Framework
8 5 (5.49%) WinForms
9 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (2.20%) D3.js
10 2 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.20%) Symfony
10 2 (2.20%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.99%) Cyber Threat
1 10 (10.99%) Cyberattack
2 9 (9.89%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.79%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.40%) Clustering
4 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.30%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.20%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.20%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (3.30%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) VMS
3 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.67%) ETL
2 25 (27.47%) DevOps
3 24 (26.37%) Analytics
3 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (25.27%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (18.68%) Agile
7 14 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 12 (13.19%) Data Integration
9 12 (13.19%) Data Management
9 12 (13.19%) Data Modelling
9 12 (13.19%) ERP
10 11 (12.09%) AI
10 11 (12.09%) CI/CD
10 11 (12.09%) Data Engineering
10 11 (12.09%) Roadmaps
11 10 (10.99%) Programme Delivery
11 10 (10.99%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 82 (90.11%) SQL
2 17 (18.68%) C#
3 13 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 13 (14.29%) Python
4 10 (10.99%) Bash
5 6 (6.59%) PL/SQL
6 4 (4.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.20%) Bicep
8 2 (2.20%) C++
8 2 (2.20%) PHP
8 2 (2.20%) Scala
9 1 (1.10%) R
9 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (12.09%) Degree
2 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.40%) ACCA
3 4 (4.40%) CIMA
4 3 (3.30%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.78%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.99%) NCSC
2 10 (10.99%) NIST
3 3 (3.30%) GDPR
3 3 (3.30%) QA
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (13.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) Terraform
2 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (45.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.99%) Databricks
3 8 (8.79%) Oracle
4 6 (6.59%) Sage
5 5 (5.49%) Google
5 5 (5.49%) Xamarin
5 5 (5.49%) Zoho
6 4 (4.40%) ConnectWise
6 4 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.40%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.40%) WooCommerce
7 2 (2.20%) Informatica
7 2 (2.20%) Lotus
7 2 (2.20%) RedGate
7 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.20%) Talend
8 1 (1.10%) Concur
8 1 (1.10%) Foundry