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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 230 167
Rank change year-on-year -34 -63 +74
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 133 175 623
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.73% 1.30% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.79% 3.15% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 68 133 526
10th Percentile £38,331 £42,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £47,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -2.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,813 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,500 £81,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £49,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.91% +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 4,760 5,555 13,331
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.24% 41.29% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,497 4,448 11,434
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £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 1 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 12 (9.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.01%) IIS
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.75%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (6.77%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (6.77%) Magento
1 9 (6.77%) Shopify
2 3 (2.26%) Infor M3
2 3 (2.26%) JDE OneWorld
2 3 (2.26%) JDE World
2 3 (2.26%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 94 (70.68%) Azure
2 65 (48.87%) Entra ID
3 55 (41.35%) Google Workspace
4 25 (18.80%) Power Platform
5 14 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (8.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (6.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (6.02%) PowerApps
7 8 (6.02%) SaaS
8 7 (5.26%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.26%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.51%) GitHub
10 5 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.26%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.26%) iPaaS
12 3 (2.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 55 (41.35%) Broadband
2 1 (0.75%) DNS
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) LAN
2 1 (0.75%) Network Security
2 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.75%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.75%) WAN
2 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (40.60%) SQL Server
2 23 (17.29%) Power BI
3 21 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 20 (15.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (7.52%) MySQL
7 9 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (6.02%) Data Lake
9 6 (4.51%) Metadata
10 5 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.01%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.26%) Power Query
13 2 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.50%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
14 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (9.77%) JIRA
2 4 (3.01%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.50%) Git
3 2 (1.50%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 60 (45.11%) Social Skills
2 56 (42.11%) Organisational Skills
3 31 (23.31%) Games
4 24 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (11.28%) Finance
6 10 (7.52%) Back Office
7 8 (6.02%) Law
8 7 (5.26%) Legal
9 5 (3.76%) Retail
10 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.75%) Advertising
11 1 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.75%) Police
11 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 42 (31.58%) Developer
2 39 (29.32%) Senior
3 28 (21.05%) Analyst
4 20 (15.04%) IAM Developer
5 16 (12.03%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (11.28%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.28%) Support Analyst
7 12 (9.02%) Data Analyst
8 10 (7.52%) Applications Support
8 10 (7.52%) Applications Support Analyst
8 10 (7.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 9 (6.77%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 9 (6.77%) DBA
9 9 (6.77%) SQL Analyst
9 9 (6.77%) SQL Data Analyst
10 8 (6.02%) Architect
10 8 (6.02%) Senior Architect
10 8 (6.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) SSRS Analyst
10 8 (6.02%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (50.38%) REST
2 65 (48.87%) SOAP
3 56 (42.11%) OAuth
3 56 (42.11%) OpenID
4 55 (41.35%) GraphQL
4 55 (41.35%) LDAP
4 55 (41.35%) SAML
5 17 (12.78%) .NET
6 10 (7.52%) JSON
7 9 (6.77%) Middleware
8 8 (6.02%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.02%) XML
9 6 (4.51%) CSS
9 6 (4.51%) HTML
10 5 (3.76%) Kafka
11 3 (2.26%) .NET Framework
11 3 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.26%) RESTful
11 3 (2.26%) WPF
12 2 (1.50%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 55 (41.35%) Cyber Threat
1 55 (41.35%) Cyberattack
2 11 (8.27%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.77%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.02%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.76%) Clustering
6 5 (3.76%) Replication
7 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.01%) Low-Code
7 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.26%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.26%) Legacy Code
8 3 (2.26%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.75%) LIMS
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.77%) Windows
2 4 (3.01%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) VMS
2 4 (3.01%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (48.12%) Mentoring
2 55 (41.35%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (41.35%) Identity Access Management
2 55 (41.35%) Programme Delivery
2 55 (41.35%) Regulatory Compliance
2 55 (41.35%) Roadmaps
3 28 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (21.05%) Change Control
4 25 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (16.54%) Data Modelling
6 20 (15.04%) Performance Tuning
7 19 (14.29%) Analytics
7 19 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (12.78%) CI/CD
8 17 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (11.28%) Agile
10 14 (10.53%) ETL
11 13 (9.77%) DevOps
11 13 (9.77%) ERP
12 12 (9.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 103 (77.44%) SQL
2 73 (54.89%) PowerShell
3 55 (41.35%) Bash
4 22 (16.54%) Python
5 21 (15.79%) C#
6 7 (5.26%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.01%) VBA
7 4 (3.01%) VBScript
8 3 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) Delphi
9 1 (0.75%) Java
9 1 (0.75%) Scala
9 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (6.77%) Degree
2 4 (3.01%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.26%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (41.35%) NCSC
1 55 (41.35%) NIST
2 39 (29.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (18.80%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (51.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.50%) Terraform
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.75%) SCCM
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 33 (24.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) Databricks
3 9 (6.77%) ConnectWise
3 9 (6.77%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.77%) WooCommerce
4 8 (6.02%) Oracle
5 4 (3.01%) iManage
6 3 (2.26%) Epicor
6 3 (2.26%) IFS
6 3 (2.26%) Infor
6 3 (2.26%) JD Edwards
6 3 (2.26%) SAP
7 2 (1.50%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.75%) Cognos
8 1 (0.75%) Foundry
8 1 (0.75%) IBM
8 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds