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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 222 156
Rank change year-on-year -28 -66 +79
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 134 176 651
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.37% 2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.90% 3.04% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 68 138 559
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,425 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £46,313 £47,769
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £56,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% -1.30% +4.55%
75th Percentile £57,813 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,875 £82,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -1.79%

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 4,617 5,793 13,205
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.40% 45.09% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,364 4,516 11,455
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,310 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +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 2 April 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 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.24%) IIS
3 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (6.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (6.72%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (6.72%) Magento
1 9 (6.72%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 97 (72.39%) Azure
2 66 (49.25%) Entra ID
3 56 (41.79%) Google Workspace
4 23 (17.16%) Power Platform
5 13 (9.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (5.97%) GitHub
8 8 (5.97%) SaaS
9 7 (5.22%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (5.22%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.48%) PowerApps
11 5 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.73%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.24%) GCP
13 2 (1.49%) AWS
13 2 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 56 (41.79%) 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 55 (41.04%) SQL Server
2 22 (16.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 21 (15.67%) Power BI
3 21 (15.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 17 (12.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (8.96%) Data Lake
6 10 (7.46%) MySQL
7 9 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.97%) Metadata
9 7 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.49%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.49%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.49%) Tableau
12 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.75%) OLAP
12 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) JIRA
2 2 (1.49%) Git
2 2 (1.49%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (42.54%) Organisational Skills
1 57 (42.54%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.88%) Games
3 23 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.45%) Finance
5 10 (7.46%) Back Office
6 6 (4.48%) Law
7 3 (2.24%) Legal
8 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.49%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.75%) Police
9 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 40 (29.85%) Developer
2 37 (27.61%) Senior
3 23 (17.16%) Analyst
4 21 (15.67%) IAM Developer
5 16 (11.94%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.96%) DBA
7 12 (8.96%) SQL Developer
7 12 (8.96%) Support Analyst
8 11 (8.21%) Data Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 10 (7.46%) Data Analyst
9 10 (7.46%) SQL DBA
10 9 (6.72%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 9 (6.72%) SQL Analyst
10 9 (6.72%) SQL Data Analyst
11 8 (5.97%) Senior Architect
11 8 (5.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) SSRS Analyst
11 8 (5.97%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (52.99%) REST
2 66 (49.25%) SOAP
3 57 (42.54%) OAuth
3 57 (42.54%) OpenID
4 56 (41.79%) GraphQL
4 56 (41.79%) LDAP
4 56 (41.79%) SAML
5 14 (10.45%) .NET
6 13 (9.70%) JSON
6 13 (9.70%) XML
7 9 (6.72%) Middleware
8 7 (5.22%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.48%) .NET Framework
10 5 (3.73%) Entity Framework
11 4 (2.99%) WinForms
12 3 (2.24%) WPF
13 2 (1.49%) Kafka
13 2 (1.49%) PySpark
14 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
14 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 56 (41.79%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (41.79%) Cyberattack
2 14 (10.45%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.73%) Clustering
4 5 (3.73%) Replication
4 5 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.99%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.24%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.24%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.75%) LIMS
8 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.75%) NHS
8 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.97%) Windows
2 4 (2.99%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) VMS
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (46.27%) Mentoring
2 56 (41.79%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (41.79%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (41.79%) Programme Delivery
2 56 (41.79%) Regulatory Compliance
2 56 (41.79%) Roadmaps
3 28 (20.90%) Change Control
4 26 (19.40%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (18.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (17.91%) Analytics
6 24 (17.91%) Data Modelling
7 23 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (13.43%) ETL
9 17 (12.69%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (11.94%) Data Engineering
11 15 (11.19%) Agile
11 15 (11.19%) CI/CD
12 14 (10.45%) Data Management
12 14 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 103 (76.87%) SQL
2 70 (52.24%) PowerShell
3 56 (41.79%) Bash
4 22 (16.42%) Python
5 18 (13.43%) C#
6 3 (2.24%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.75%) Bicep
8 1 (0.75%) Delphi
8 1 (0.75%) Java
8 1 (0.75%) Scala
8 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (9.70%) Degree
2 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.99%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.24%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (41.79%) NCSC
1 56 (41.79%) NIST
2 35 (26.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (21.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.73%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (48.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.49%) Terraform
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.75%) SCCM
2 1 (0.75%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 36 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.96%) Databricks
3 9 (6.72%) ConnectWise
3 9 (6.72%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.72%) WooCommerce
4 5 (3.73%) Oracle
5 3 (2.24%) Google
5 3 (2.24%) Sage
5 3 (2.24%) Xamarin
5 3 (2.24%) Zoho
6 2 (1.49%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.75%) Cognos
7 1 (0.75%) Foundry
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds