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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,960 7,509 13,828
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.44% 18.88% 18.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.50% 38.44% 31.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,031 5,053 8,078
10th Percentile £36,250 £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 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +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 13,970 19,535 43,459
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.66% 49.12% 59.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,467 14,311 24,024
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,047 £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 £79,500 £85,000 £81,250
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 28 May 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
1 126 (2.54%) IIS
2 125 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 73 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 68 (1.37%) Apache
6 66 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
7 54 (1.09%) SAS
8 47 (0.95%) CMS
9 35 (0.71%) Confluence
10 15 (0.30%) Drupal
11 13 (0.26%) nginx
12 12 (0.24%) WordPress
13 11 (0.22%) Umbraco
14 7 (0.14%) Luigi
14 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.10%) JBoss
15 5 (0.10%) NServiceBus
16 4 (0.081%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 269 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.36%) Simulink
5 17 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.30%) SPSS
7 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.040%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.020%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 52 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.32%) SAP Business One
2 16 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
3 13 (0.26%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.24%) Elite 3E
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
7 7 (0.14%) Siebel CRM
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%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.060%) MIS ActiveH
11 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,910 (38.51%) Azure
2 1,043 (21.03%) Power Platform
3 983 (19.82%) AWS
4 314 (6.33%) GCP
5 309 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
6 203 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 195 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
8 186 (3.75%) SaaS
9 182 (3.67%) Snowflake
10 174 (3.51%) Serverless
11 132 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 119 (2.40%) Entra ID
12 119 (2.40%) GitHub
13 109 (2.20%) PowerApps
14 98 (1.98%) Power Automate
15 84 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 80 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
16 80 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
17 70 (1.41%) dbt
18 61 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (1.92%) Internet
2 81 (1.63%) Broadband
3 66 (1.33%) Firewall
4 63 (1.27%) DNS
5 46 (0.93%) TCP/IP
6 37 (0.75%) DHCP
7 35 (0.71%) HTTP
7 35 (0.71%) Network Security
8 32 (0.65%) 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%) BIG-IP
13 11 (0.22%) LAN
14 10 (0.20%) FTP
14 10 (0.20%) MQTT
14 10 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
15 9 (0.18%) Multicast
16 7 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,357 (27.36%) SQL Server
2 990 (19.96%) Power BI
3 536 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
4 446 (8.99%) Tableau
5 418 (8.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 365 (7.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 324 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
8 279 (5.63%) Relational Database
9 255 (5.14%) MySQL
10 245 (4.94%) NoSQL
11 233 (4.70%) Data Lake
12 227 (4.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 182 (3.67%) Oracle Database
14 161 (3.25%) BigQuery
15 137 (2.76%) MongoDB
16 110 (2.22%) Big Data
17 94 (1.90%) Oracle Database 11g
18 82 (1.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 78 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
20 64 (1.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 470 (9.48%) Git
2 145 (2.92%) JIRA
3 122 (2.46%) Visual Studio
4 114 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 99 (2.00%) GitLab
6 52 (1.05%) Postman
7 47 (0.95%) Selenium
8 38 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 32 (0.65%) Maven
10 31 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 30 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
12 29 (0.58%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.56%) Jasmine
13 28 (0.56%) JMeter
13 28 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
14 27 (0.54%) Cucumber
15 24 (0.48%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
17 22 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
18 21 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 1,494 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 1,195 (24.09%) Finance
3 668 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (8.33%) Retail
5 342 (6.90%) Banking
6 293 (5.91%) Public Sector
7 217 (4.38%) Legal
8 203 (4.09%) Law
9 193 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
10 189 (3.81%) Marketing
11 186 (3.75%) Front Office
12 139 (2.80%) Back Office
13 117 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 101 (2.04%) Manufacturing
15 90 (1.81%) Games
16 75 (1.51%) Advertising
17 61 (1.23%) Telecoms
18 55 (1.11%) Tech for Good
19 52 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
20 41 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,591 (32.08%) Developer
2 1,163 (23.45%) Senior
3 947 (19.09%) Analyst
4 471 (9.50%) Lead
5 438 (8.83%) .NET Developer
6 408 (8.23%) Data Engineer
7 382 (7.70%) Senior Developer
8 378 (7.62%) Software Engineer
9 349 (7.04%) Data Analyst
10 269 (5.42%) Senior Analyst
11 218 (4.40%) C# Developer
12 217 (4.38%) Software Developer
13 216 (4.35%) Consultant
14 199 (4.01%) DBA
15 185 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
16 177 (3.57%) Applications Support
17 143 (2.88%) Support Analyst
18 141 (2.84%) Senior Data Analyst
19 140 (2.82%) SQL DBA
20 138 (2.78%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,174 (23.67%) .NET
2 621 (12.52%) HTML
3 519 (10.46%) CSS
4 510 (10.28%) ASP.NET
5 415 (8.37%) .NET Core
6 348 (7.02%) React
7 347 (7.00%) AngularJS
8 302 (6.09%) REST
9 270 (5.44%) ASP.NET MVC
10 262 (5.28%) Entity Framework
11 254 (5.12%) HTML5
12 248 (5.00%) .NET Framework
13 242 (4.88%) Blazor
14 202 (4.07%) Web Services
15 195 (3.93%) JSON
16 194 (3.91%) CSS3
17 177 (3.57%) RESTful
18 169 (3.41%) XML
19 159 (3.21%) Vue
20 142 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 182 (3.67%) Management Information System
2 171 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 165 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 152 (3.06%) Hedge funds
5 138 (2.78%) Derivative
6 131 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 130 (2.62%) Algorithms
8 123 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 102 (2.06%) Client/Server
10 100 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 95 (1.92%) Fixed Income
12 94 (1.90%) Equities
13 83 (1.67%) Public Cloud
14 81 (1.63%) Cloud Native
15 77 (1.55%) Onboarding
16 61 (1.23%) NHS
17 56 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
18 47 (0.95%) Mobile App
19 45 (0.91%) IoT
19 45 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 418 (8.43%) Windows
2 294 (5.93%) Linux
3 121 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.92%) Unix
5 81 (1.63%) VMS
6 62 (1.25%) Windows 10
7 35 (0.71%) Android
8 28 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 28 (0.56%) Windows 7
8 28 (0.56%) Windows 8
9 27 (0.54%) Ubuntu
10 23 (0.46%) CentOS
11 19 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (0.26%) Apple iOS
13 13 (0.26%) zOS
14 12 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
15 10 (0.20%) AIX
16 8 (0.16%) Solaris
17 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,395 (28.13%) Agile
2 1,072 (21.61%) Business Intelligence
3 950 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
4 920 (18.55%) Analytics
5 675 (13.61%) DevOps
6 653 (13.17%) Software Engineering
7 649 (13.08%) ETL
8 618 (12.46%) Visualisation
9 560 (11.29%) Mentoring
10 511 (10.30%) Full Stack Development
11 491 (9.90%) Data Science
12 485 (9.78%) Artificial Intelligence
13 482 (9.72%) Data Analysis
14 429 (8.65%) Machine Learning
15 420 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
16 416 (8.39%) Data Modelling
17 387 (7.80%) TDD
18 385 (7.76%) CI/CD
18 385 (7.76%) MVC
19 375 (7.56%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,280 (25.81%) Python
2 1,266 (25.52%) C#
3 928 (18.71%) JavaScript
4 570 (11.49%) T-SQL
5 454 (9.15%) Java
6 260 (5.24%) TypeScript
7 235 (4.74%) PL/SQL
8 194 (3.91%) PowerShell
9 129 (2.60%) PHP
10 128 (2.58%) R
11 105 (2.12%) VB.NET
12 95 (1.92%) C++
13 88 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 70 (1.41%) VB
14 70 (1.41%) VBA
15 52 (1.05%) C
15 52 (1.05%) Groovy
16 50 (1.01%) Bash
17 49 (0.99%) Kotlin
18 42 (0.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 886 (17.86%) Degree
2 304 (6.13%) DBS Check
3 205 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 172 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 157 (3.17%) Security Cleared
6 125 (2.52%) Master's Degree
7 122 (2.46%) SC Cleared
8 55 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 41 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 27 (0.54%) PhD
11 22 (0.44%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
13 20 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.38%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.28%) CISSP
16 13 (0.26%) CISA
17 12 (0.24%) CIPD
17 12 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
18 10 (0.20%) GIAC
18 10 (0.20%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 145 (2.92%) QA
3 61 (1.23%) SLA
4 58 (1.17%) GDPR
5 43 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 34 (0.69%) 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 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.081%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.081%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.060%) CRD IV
14 3 (0.060%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 265 (5.34%) Docker
2 255 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 91 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 80 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 79 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 51 (1.03%) RACF
7 30 (0.60%) XenApp
7 30 (0.60%) XenDesktop
8 28 (0.56%) VirtualBox
9 12 (0.24%) Firmware
9 12 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
9 12 (0.24%) vSphere
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 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.040%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.020%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 248 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 206 (4.15%) Terraform
3 76 (1.53%) Ansible
4 34 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 32 (0.65%) Grafana
6 18 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.34%) SCOM
8 14 (0.28%) Puppet
9 12 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.22%) WSUS
11 9 (0.18%) logstash
11 9 (0.18%) SCCM
12 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
16 4 (0.081%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1,321 (26.63%) Microsoft
2 429 (8.65%) Databricks
3 411 (8.29%) Oracle
4 206 (4.15%) Google
5 100 (2.02%) VMware
6 95 (1.92%) SAP
7 78 (1.57%) IBM
8 50 (1.01%) CyberArk
9 34 (0.69%) Citrix
10 33 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 32 (0.65%) F5
12 29 (0.58%) Alteryx
13 26 (0.52%) Sage
14 25 (0.50%) Facebook
14 25 (0.50%) IFS
15 23 (0.46%) Adobe
16 20 (0.40%) Aderant
17 19 (0.38%) Murex
17 19 (0.38%) NEC
18 18 (0.36%) Teradata