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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 197 164
Rank change year-on-year -54 -33 +39
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 126 262 559
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.62% 2.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.94% 3.71% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 70 152 506
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,125 £41,375
25th Percentile £37,984 £43,750 £47,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £56,875 £67,813 £64,750
90th Percentile £71,000 £82,375 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,642 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.79% -2.47% -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 4,291 7,063 12,412
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.18% 43.76% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 4,423 10,749
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
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 1 February 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 6 (4.76%) IIS
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.79%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (5.56%) Dynamics NAV
1 7 (5.56%) Magento
1 7 (5.56%) Shopify
2 2 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 79 (62.70%) Azure
2 52 (41.27%) Entra ID
3 46 (36.51%) Google Workspace
4 18 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (7.94%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (7.14%) GitHub
7 9 (7.14%) PowerApps
8 7 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (5.56%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.76%) SaaS
10 5 (3.97%) GCP
10 5 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.17%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.79%) Datadog
13 1 (0.79%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 46 (36.51%) Broadband
2 1 (0.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (40.48%) SQL Server
2 22 (17.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 21 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (13.49%) Power BI
5 13 (10.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (10.32%) Data Lake
6 10 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (6.35%) Metadata
8 7 (5.56%) MySQL
8 7 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.38%) OLAP
11 2 (1.59%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.59%) Tableau
12 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (7.94%) JIRA
2 2 (1.59%) Git
3 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 46 (36.51%) Organisational Skills
3 27 (21.43%) Games
4 20 (15.87%) Finance
5 17 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.35%) Back Office
7 6 (4.76%) Law
8 4 (3.17%) Billing
8 4 (3.17%) Legal
9 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (30.16%) Developer
2 35 (27.78%) Senior
3 19 (15.08%) IAM Developer
4 16 (12.70%) Analyst
5 15 (11.90%) Senior Developer
6 13 (10.32%) DBA
7 12 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (8.73%) SQL DBA
8 11 (8.73%) SQL Developer
9 10 (7.94%) Data Engineer
9 10 (7.94%) Support Analyst
10 7 (5.56%) IT Support
11 6 (4.76%) Administrator
11 6 (4.76%) Architect
11 6 (4.76%) IT Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Senior Architect
11 6 (4.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (49.21%) REST
2 56 (44.44%) SOAP
3 47 (37.30%) OAuth
3 47 (37.30%) OpenID
4 46 (36.51%) GraphQL
4 46 (36.51%) LDAP
4 46 (36.51%) SAML
5 13 (10.32%) .NET
6 10 (7.94%) JSON
6 10 (7.94%) XML
7 9 (7.14%) Middleware
8 7 (5.56%) .NET Framework
9 5 (3.97%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.97%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.97%) WinForms
10 2 (1.59%) Mongoose
10 2 (1.59%) Symfony
11 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.79%) Blazor
11 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 46 (36.51%) Cyber Threat
1 46 (36.51%) Cyberattack
2 11 (8.73%) Data Structures
3 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.17%) Clustering
5 4 (3.17%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.38%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.14%) Windows
2 5 (3.97%) Linux
3 4 (3.17%) VMS
4 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.27%) Mentoring
2 47 (37.30%) Roadmaps
3 46 (36.51%) Cybersecurity
3 46 (36.51%) Identity Access Management
3 46 (36.51%) Programme Delivery
3 46 (36.51%) Regulatory Compliance
4 24 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (18.25%) Analytics
5 23 (18.25%) Change Control
6 21 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (16.67%) ETL
7 19 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (13.49%) Agile
9 17 (13.49%) DevOps
10 16 (12.70%) Data Modelling
11 15 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (11.90%) ERP
12 14 (11.11%) Data Management
13 13 (10.32%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 99 (78.57%) SQL
2 55 (43.65%) PowerShell
3 46 (36.51%) Bash
4 17 (13.49%) C#
4 17 (13.49%) Python
5 5 (3.97%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.59%) PHP
8 1 (0.79%) Bicep
8 1 (0.79%) C++
8 1 (0.79%) Scala
8 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (9.52%) Degree
2 7 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.17%) ACCA
3 4 (3.17%) CIMA
3 4 (3.17%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (36.51%) NCSC
1 46 (36.51%) NIST
2 25 (19.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (19.05%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.38%) GDPR
5 2 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 51 (40.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) Databricks
3 9 (7.14%) Oracle
4 7 (5.56%) ConnectWise
4 7 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.56%) WooCommerce
5 6 (4.76%) Sage
6 5 (3.97%) Google
6 5 (3.97%) Xamarin
6 5 (3.97%) Zoho
7 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.79%) Concur
8 1 (0.79%) Foundry
8 1 (0.79%) Informatica
8 1 (0.79%) Lotus
8 1 (0.79%) RedGate
8 1 (0.79%) Talend