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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 220 153
Rank change year-on-year -48 -67 +81
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 133 182 652
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 1.41% 2.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.90% 3.09% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 67 142 559
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £39,719 £44,313 £48,019
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% -2.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £56,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.54% +3.18% -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 4,587 5,882 13,201
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.23% 45.51% 42.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,346 4,562 11,444
10th Percentile £39,594 £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 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 29 March 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 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.26%) IIS
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
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 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 96 (72.18%) Azure
2 66 (49.62%) Entra ID
3 56 (42.11%) Google Workspace
4 21 (15.79%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (9.02%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (7.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (6.02%) GitHub
7 8 (6.02%) SaaS
8 7 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (5.26%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.51%) PowerApps
10 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.01%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.26%) GCP
13 2 (1.50%) AWS
13 2 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 56 (42.11%) 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 (41.35%) SQL Server
2 21 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 19 (14.29%) Power BI
3 19 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (12.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (9.02%) Data Lake
6 10 (7.52%) MySQL
7 9 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (6.02%) Metadata
9 7 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.50%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.50%) Tableau
12 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.75%) OLAP
12 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (9.02%) JIRA
2 2 (1.50%) Git
2 2 (1.50%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 56 (42.11%) Organisational Skills
3 32 (24.06%) Games
4 21 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.77%) Finance
6 10 (7.52%) Back Office
7 6 (4.51%) Law
8 3 (2.26%) Legal
9 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (30.83%) Developer
2 37 (27.82%) Senior
3 22 (16.54%) Analyst
4 21 (15.79%) IAM Developer
5 16 (12.03%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (11.28%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.77%) SQL Developer
8 12 (9.02%) DBA
8 12 (9.02%) Support Analyst
9 11 (8.27%) Data Engineer
10 10 (7.52%) Data Analyst
10 10 (7.52%) SQL DBA
11 9 (6.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 9 (6.77%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 9 (6.77%) SQL Analyst
11 9 (6.77%) SQL Data Analyst
12 8 (6.02%) Senior Architect
12 8 (6.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 8 (6.02%) SSRS Analyst
12 8 (6.02%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (54.14%) REST
2 66 (49.62%) SOAP
3 57 (42.86%) OAuth
3 57 (42.86%) OpenID
4 56 (42.11%) GraphQL
4 56 (42.11%) LDAP
4 56 (42.11%) SAML
5 14 (10.53%) .NET
5 14 (10.53%) JSON
5 14 (10.53%) XML
6 9 (6.77%) Middleware
7 7 (5.26%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.51%) .NET Framework
9 5 (3.76%) Entity Framework
10 4 (3.01%) WinForms
11 3 (2.26%) WPF
12 2 (1.50%) Kafka
12 2 (1.50%) PySpark
13 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
13 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 56 (42.11%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (42.11%) Cyberattack
2 14 (10.53%) Data Structures
3 8 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.02%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.76%) Clustering
4 5 (3.76%) Replication
5 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.01%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.26%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.50%) 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 (6.02%) Windows
2 4 (3.01%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) VMS
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (46.62%) Mentoring
2 56 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (42.11%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (42.11%) Programme Delivery
2 56 (42.11%) Regulatory Compliance
2 56 (42.11%) Roadmaps
3 28 (21.05%) Change Control
4 25 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (18.05%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (17.29%) Analytics
7 22 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (16.54%) Data Modelling
8 16 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (12.03%) ETL
9 15 (11.28%) Agile
9 15 (11.28%) Data Engineering
9 15 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (10.53%) CI/CD
10 14 (10.53%) Data Management
10 14 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 102 (76.69%) SQL
2 70 (52.63%) PowerShell
3 56 (42.11%) Bash
4 21 (15.79%) Python
5 18 (13.53%) C#
6 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.75%) Bicep
7 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.75%) Delphi
7 1 (0.75%) Java
7 1 (0.75%) Scala
7 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (9.02%) Degree
2 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.01%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.26%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (42.11%) NCSC
1 56 (42.11%) NIST
2 35 (26.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (21.05%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.01%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (48.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.50%) 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 (27.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.02%) Databricks
3 9 (6.77%) ConnectWise
3 9 (6.77%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.77%) WooCommerce
4 5 (3.76%) Oracle
5 3 (2.26%) Google
5 3 (2.26%) Sage
5 3 (2.26%) Xamarin
5 3 (2.26%) Zoho
6 2 (1.50%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.75%) Cognos
7 1 (0.75%) Foundry
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds