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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 226 177
Rank change year-on-year -50 -49 +3
Permanent jobs citing T-SQL 99 262 422
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 1.34% 1.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.36% 3.21% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 80 149 390
10th Percentile £37,375 £36,738 £41,125
25th Percentile £40,938 £41,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,000 £82,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -

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 4,195 8,158 10,202
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.63% 41.72% 47.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,265 5,174 8,600
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,700 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £113,979 £100,000
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 18 November 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 (7.07%) IIS
2 6 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.02%) HCL Notes
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.01%) Apache
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.01%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 17 (17.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Sage 1000
2 2 (2.02%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.02%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (50.51%) Azure
2 20 (20.20%) Power Platform
3 15 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (13.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (9.09%) GitHub
6 8 (8.08%) Entra ID
7 7 (7.07%) AWS
7 7 (7.07%) GCP
7 7 (7.07%) PowerApps
8 6 (6.06%) Google Workspace
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (5.05%) SaaS
10 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.04%) Snowflake
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (3.03%) Power Automate
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (51.52%) SQL Server
2 30 (30.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 26 (26.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 20 (20.20%) Power BI
5 16 (16.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (15.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 14 (14.14%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (10.10%) Data Lake
9 7 (7.07%) Metadata
9 7 (7.07%) MySQL
9 7 (7.07%) Relational Database
10 6 (6.06%) OLAP
11 5 (5.05%) MongoDB
11 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (5.05%) RDBMS
12 3 (3.03%) Data Mining
12 3 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
12 3 (3.03%) Redis
12 3 (3.03%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) JIRA
3 5 (5.05%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.01%) Postman
General
1 35 (35.35%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.27%) Finance
3 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.10%) Manufacturing
5 8 (8.08%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Games
6 5 (5.05%) Law
7 4 (4.04%) Advertising
7 4 (4.04%) Billing
8 3 (3.03%) Automotive
8 3 (3.03%) Back Office
8 3 (3.03%) Legal
8 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.03%) Social Housing
8 3 (3.03%) Swedish Language
9 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (44.44%) Developer
2 21 (21.21%) Senior
3 19 (19.19%) SQL Developer
4 18 (18.18%) DBA
5 16 (16.16%) SQL DBA
6 14 (14.14%) Analyst
7 13 (13.13%) Senior Developer
8 11 (11.11%) Data Engineer
9 10 (10.10%) Administrator
10 9 (9.09%) IT Support
11 7 (7.07%) Software Engineer
12 6 (6.06%) Analyst Developer
12 6 (6.06%) Integration Developer
12 6 (6.06%) IT Engineer
12 6 (6.06%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (6.06%) Support Engineer
13 5 (5.05%) Consultant
13 5 (5.05%) IAM Developer
13 5 (5.05%) Software Support Engineer
13 5 (5.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.22%) .NET
2 15 (15.15%) REST
3 12 (12.12%) .NET Framework
3 12 (12.12%) ASP.NET
4 10 (10.10%) CSS
5 9 (9.09%) HTML
5 9 (9.09%) SOAP
6 8 (8.08%) Entity Framework
7 6 (6.06%) GraphQL
7 6 (6.06%) JSON
7 6 (6.06%) LDAP
7 6 (6.06%) OAuth
7 6 (6.06%) OpenID
7 6 (6.06%) SAML
7 6 (6.06%) XML
8 5 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (5.05%) Web Services
8 5 (5.05%) WinForms
9 4 (4.04%) .NET Core
9 4 (4.04%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (6.06%) Cyberattack
3 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.05%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.04%) Clustering
4 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.03%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.03%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.01%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.01%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.08%) Windows
2 3 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.34%) ETL
2 33 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (29.29%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (26.26%) DevOps
5 20 (20.20%) Agile
6 19 (19.19%) Analytics
7 13 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (12.12%) Data Engineering
8 12 (12.12%) Data Integration
8 12 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (12.12%) ERP
9 11 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.11%) SDLC
10 10 (10.10%) CI/CD
10 10 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (9.09%) Data Management
11 9 (9.09%) Data Modelling
11 9 (9.09%) Machine Learning
11 9 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (91.92%) SQL
2 24 (24.24%) C#
3 10 (10.10%) Python
4 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.07%) PL/SQL
6 6 (6.06%) Bash
7 5 (5.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (4.04%) VB.NET
9 3 (3.03%) VBA
10 2 (2.02%) C++
10 2 (2.02%) PHP
10 2 (2.02%) X++
11 1 (1.01%) Bicep
11 1 (1.01%) R
11 1 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (11.11%) Degree
2 8 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.06%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.04%) ACCA
4 4 (4.04%) CIMA
5 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.06%) NCSC
2 6 (6.06%) NIST
3 3 (3.03%) QA
4 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.02%) GDPR
5 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (8.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.04%) Docker
3 3 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.09%) Sage
3 7 (7.07%) Databricks
3 7 (7.07%) Oracle
4 6 (6.06%) Google
5 5 (5.05%) Informatica
5 5 (5.05%) RedGate
5 5 (5.05%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.05%) Talend
5 5 (5.05%) Xamarin
5 5 (5.05%) Zoho
6 4 (4.04%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.04%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.04%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.03%) VMware
8 2 (2.02%) Lotus
9 1 (1.01%) Concur
9 1 (1.01%) DocuSign