SQL Jobs with Work from Home Options

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,997 6,904 14,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.36% 17.91% 18.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.50% 37.21% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,037 5,020 8,045
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,725 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,191 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.62% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,076 18,556 44,337
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.45% 48.15% 59.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11,515 14,138 23,931
10th Percentile £38,638 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL.

SQL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

SQL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 125 (2.50%) IIS
2 123 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 72 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 71 (1.42%) Apache
6 65 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
7 48 (0.96%) SAS
8 46 (0.92%) CMS
9 36 (0.72%) Confluence
10 15 (0.30%) Drupal
11 13 (0.26%) nginx
11 13 (0.26%) Umbraco
12 12 (0.24%) WordPress
13 7 (0.14%) Luigi
13 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
14 5 (0.10%) JBoss
14 5 (0.10%) NServiceBus
15 4 (0.080%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 275 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 125 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.40%) Simulink
4 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.30%) SPSS
7 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.040%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 49 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.32%) SAP Business One
3 14 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
4 12 (0.24%) Elite 3E
4 12 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.18%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.16%) Shopify
7 7 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.14%) Relativity
8 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.12%) Primavera
8 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.12%) thinkFolio
9 5 (0.10%) Siebel CRM
10 4 (0.080%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.060%) Infor M3
11 3 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,929 (38.60%) Azure
2 1,053 (21.07%) Power Platform
3 995 (19.91%) AWS
4 314 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
5 301 (6.02%) GCP
6 206 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 198 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
8 194 (3.88%) SaaS
9 182 (3.64%) Snowflake
10 175 (3.50%) Serverless
11 133 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 121 (2.42%) GitHub
13 117 (2.34%) Entra ID
14 110 (2.20%) PowerApps
15 97 (1.94%) Power Automate
16 85 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 81 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
18 79 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
19 72 (1.44%) dbt
20 60 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (1.90%) Internet
2 81 (1.62%) Broadband
3 67 (1.34%) Firewall
4 62 (1.24%) DNS
5 46 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.72%) DHCP
7 35 (0.70%) HTTP
7 35 (0.70%) Network Security
8 32 (0.64%) VPN
9 28 (0.56%) SSL
10 18 (0.36%) SAN
11 14 (0.28%) Modbus
12 12 (0.24%) WAN
13 11 (0.22%) LAN
14 10 (0.20%) BIG-IP
14 10 (0.20%) FTP
14 10 (0.20%) MQTT
15 9 (0.18%) Multicast
15 9 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,364 (27.30%) SQL Server
2 1,000 (20.01%) Power BI
3 536 (10.73%) Data Warehouse
4 453 (9.07%) Tableau
5 421 (8.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 364 (7.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 330 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
8 280 (5.60%) Relational Database
9 260 (5.20%) MySQL
10 252 (5.04%) NoSQL
11 240 (4.80%) Data Lake
12 225 (4.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 185 (3.70%) Oracle Database
14 161 (3.22%) BigQuery
15 142 (2.84%) MongoDB
16 113 (2.26%) Big Data
17 94 (1.88%) Oracle Database 11g
18 82 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 78 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
20 64 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 476 (9.53%) Git
2 146 (2.92%) JIRA
3 122 (2.44%) Visual Studio
4 112 (2.24%) Jenkins
5 99 (1.98%) GitLab
6 52 (1.04%) Postman
7 45 (0.90%) Selenium
8 38 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 31 (0.62%) Maven
10 30 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 29 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 28 (0.56%) Jasmine
12 28 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
12 28 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
13 27 (0.54%) Cucumber
13 27 (0.54%) JMeter
14 24 (0.48%) Eclipse
15 23 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
16 21 (0.42%) SpecFlow
16 21 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 1,510 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 1,188 (23.77%) Finance
3 669 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 411 (8.22%) Retail
5 327 (6.54%) Banking
6 297 (5.94%) Public Sector
7 217 (4.34%) Legal
8 198 (3.96%) Law
9 190 (3.80%) Marketing
10 188 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
11 187 (3.74%) Front Office
12 138 (2.76%) Back Office
13 121 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 102 (2.04%) Manufacturing
15 90 (1.80%) Games
16 77 (1.54%) Advertising
17 60 (1.20%) Telecoms
18 55 (1.10%) Tech for Good
19 51 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
20 43 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,610 (32.22%) Developer
2 1,169 (23.39%) Senior
3 948 (18.97%) Analyst
4 468 (9.37%) Lead
5 448 (8.97%) .NET Developer
6 407 (8.14%) Data Engineer
7 391 (7.82%) Senior Developer
8 386 (7.72%) Software Engineer
9 351 (7.02%) Data Analyst
10 265 (5.30%) Senior Analyst
11 225 (4.50%) Consultant
12 224 (4.48%) C# Developer
13 221 (4.42%) Software Developer
14 201 (4.02%) DBA
15 186 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
16 178 (3.56%) Applications Support
17 143 (2.86%) SQL Developer
18 141 (2.82%) Senior Data Analyst
18 141 (2.82%) Support Analyst
19 139 (2.78%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,188 (23.77%) .NET
2 628 (12.57%) HTML
3 523 (10.47%) CSS
4 512 (10.25%) ASP.NET
5 419 (8.39%) .NET Core
6 360 (7.20%) React
7 352 (7.04%) AngularJS
8 299 (5.98%) REST
9 270 (5.40%) ASP.NET MVC
10 261 (5.22%) Entity Framework
11 253 (5.06%) .NET Framework
11 253 (5.06%) HTML5
12 242 (4.84%) Blazor
13 205 (4.10%) Web Services
14 195 (3.90%) JSON
15 194 (3.88%) CSS3
16 178 (3.56%) RESTful
17 167 (3.34%) XML
18 163 (3.26%) Vue
19 143 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 181 (3.62%) Management Information System
2 173 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
3 167 (3.34%) Data Structures
4 154 (3.08%) Hedge funds
5 141 (2.82%) Derivative
6 133 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 132 (2.64%) Algorithms
8 123 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 104 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 102 (2.04%) Client/Server
11 99 (1.98%) Fixed Income
12 98 (1.96%) Equities
13 84 (1.68%) Onboarding
14 80 (1.60%) Cloud Native
15 78 (1.56%) Public Cloud
16 61 (1.22%) NHS
17 57 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
18 48 (0.96%) Mobile App
19 46 (0.92%) Replication
20 44 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 413 (8.26%) Windows
2 296 (5.92%) Linux
3 122 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 96 (1.92%) Unix
5 81 (1.62%) VMS
6 62 (1.24%) Windows 10
7 39 (0.78%) Android
8 32 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 30 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (0.54%) Windows 7
10 27 (0.54%) Windows 8
11 25 (0.50%) CentOS
12 20 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (0.30%) Apple iOS
15 13 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
15 13 (0.26%) zOS
16 10 (0.20%) AIX
17 8 (0.16%) Solaris
18 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,390 (27.82%) Agile
2 1,074 (21.49%) Business Intelligence
3 968 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
4 925 (18.51%) Analytics
5 675 (13.51%) DevOps
6 670 (13.41%) Software Engineering
7 647 (12.95%) ETL
8 619 (12.39%) Visualisation
9 549 (10.99%) Mentoring
10 522 (10.45%) Full Stack Development
11 493 (9.87%) Data Science
12 490 (9.81%) Data Analysis
13 481 (9.63%) Artificial Intelligence
14 431 (8.63%) Machine Learning
15 423 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
16 418 (8.37%) Data Modelling
17 393 (7.86%) CI/CD
18 390 (7.80%) MVC
19 383 (7.66%) TDD
20 366 (7.32%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,288 (25.78%) Python
2 1,286 (25.74%) C#
3 941 (18.83%) JavaScript
4 571 (11.43%) T-SQL
5 453 (9.07%) Java
6 259 (5.18%) TypeScript
7 234 (4.68%) PL/SQL
8 197 (3.94%) PowerShell
9 130 (2.60%) PHP
10 128 (2.56%) R
11 106 (2.12%) VB.NET
12 100 (2.00%) C++
13 88 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 73 (1.46%) VBA
15 71 (1.42%) VB
16 53 (1.06%) C
17 52 (1.04%) Kotlin
18 50 (1.00%) Bash
19 47 (0.94%) Groovy
20 42 (0.84%) Go
Qualifications
1 906 (18.13%) Degree
2 304 (6.08%) DBS Check
3 222 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 176 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 158 (3.16%) Security Cleared
6 127 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 121 (2.42%) SC Cleared
8 58 (1.16%) Azure Certification
9 42 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 29 (0.58%) PhD
11 22 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
12 21 (0.42%) AWS Certification
13 20 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.38%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.28%) CISSP
16 13 (0.26%) CISA
16 13 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.24%) CIPD
18 10 (0.20%) GIAC
18 10 (0.20%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (5.24%) Data Quality
2 142 (2.84%) QA
3 64 (1.28%) SLA
4 60 (1.20%) GDPR
5 44 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 33 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.30%) PMO
8 13 (0.26%) COBIT
8 13 (0.26%) ITGC
9 9 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.18%) NIST
10 7 (0.14%) SOC 1
11 6 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.12%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 5 (0.10%) IFRS
13 4 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.080%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.080%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.060%) HL7
14 3 (0.060%) MiFID
System Software
1 269 (5.38%) Docker
2 252 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 91 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 80 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 80 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 51 (1.02%) RACF
6 31 (0.62%) XenApp
6 31 (0.62%) XenDesktop
7 27 (0.54%) VirtualBox
8 13 (0.26%) Firmware
8 13 (0.26%) vSphere
9 12 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
10 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.040%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.020%) vCloud
14 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 250 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 207 (4.14%) Terraform
3 72 (1.44%) Ansible
4 32 (0.64%) Grafana
5 29 (0.58%) Progress Chef
6 18 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.34%) SCOM
8 14 (0.28%) Puppet
9 13 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.20%) WSUS
11 9 (0.18%) logstash
11 9 (0.18%) SCCM
12 8 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
16 4 (0.080%) NetBackup
16 4 (0.080%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,332 (26.66%) Microsoft
2 434 (8.69%) Databricks
3 418 (8.37%) Oracle
4 198 (3.96%) Google
5 100 (2.00%) VMware
6 94 (1.88%) SAP
7 73 (1.46%) IBM
8 50 (1.00%) CyberArk
9 35 (0.70%) Citrix
10 33 (0.66%) Salesforce
11 31 (0.62%) F5
12 29 (0.58%) Alteryx
13 26 (0.52%) Facebook
13 26 (0.52%) Sage
14 25 (0.50%) IFS
15 23 (0.46%) Adobe
16 20 (0.40%) Aderant
16 20 (0.40%) Xilinx
17 19 (0.38%) Murex
18 18 (0.36%) Informatica