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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,967 7,435 13,799
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.42% 18.76% 18.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.50% 38.25% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,027 5,023 8,029
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 £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 13,990 19,436 43,385
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.63% 49.04% 59.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,462 14,246 23,896
10th Percentile £38,582 £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 £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 29 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
2 124 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 73 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 67 (1.35%) Apache
6 65 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
7 48 (0.97%) SAS
8 47 (0.95%) CMS
9 35 (0.70%) 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%) EPiServer
16 4 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 270 (5.44%) 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 50 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.32%) SAP Business One
3 14 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
4 13 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 12 (0.24%) Elite 3E
6 9 (0.18%) Sage X3
7 8 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.16%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.14%) Aladdin
8 7 (0.14%) Relativity
8 7 (0.14%) Shopify
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.12%) Primavera
9 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
9 6 (0.12%) thinkFolio
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.060%) Infor M3
12 3 (0.060%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 1,914 (38.53%) Azure
2 1,043 (21.00%) Power Platform
3 983 (19.79%) AWS
4 310 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
5 300 (6.04%) GCP
6 205 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 197 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
8 187 (3.76%) SaaS
9 182 (3.66%) Snowflake
10 174 (3.50%) Serverless
11 134 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 120 (2.42%) GitHub
13 118 (2.38%) Entra ID
14 109 (2.19%) PowerApps
15 97 (1.95%) Power Automate
16 85 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 79 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
17 79 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
18 69 (1.39%) dbt
19 60 (1.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (1.91%) Internet
2 81 (1.63%) Broadband
3 66 (1.33%) Firewall
4 63 (1.27%) DNS
5 46 (0.93%) TCP/IP
6 37 (0.74%) 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%) 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 1,361 (27.40%) SQL Server
2 990 (19.93%) Power BI
3 536 (10.79%) Data Warehouse
4 447 (9.00%) Tableau
5 419 (8.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 365 (7.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 327 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
8 279 (5.62%) Relational Database
9 257 (5.17%) MySQL
10 243 (4.89%) NoSQL
11 235 (4.73%) Data Lake
12 227 (4.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 185 (3.72%) Oracle Database
14 161 (3.24%) BigQuery
15 139 (2.80%) MongoDB
16 110 (2.21%) Big Data
17 94 (1.89%) Oracle Database 11g
18 82 (1.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 78 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
20 64 (1.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 473 (9.52%) Git
2 145 (2.92%) JIRA
3 123 (2.48%) Visual Studio
4 113 (2.28%) Jenkins
5 99 (1.99%) GitLab
6 52 (1.05%) Postman
7 46 (0.93%) Selenium
8 38 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 31 (0.62%) Maven
9 31 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 30 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
11 29 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 28 (0.56%) Jasmine
12 28 (0.56%) JMeter
12 28 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
13 27 (0.54%) Cucumber
14 24 (0.48%) Eclipse
15 23 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
16 21 (0.42%) SpecFlow
16 21 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 1,502 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 1,182 (23.80%) Finance
3 665 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (8.19%) Retail
5 325 (6.54%) Banking
6 297 (5.98%) Public Sector
7 219 (4.41%) Legal
8 202 (4.07%) Law
9 189 (3.81%) Marketing
9 189 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
10 185 (3.72%) Front Office
11 140 (2.82%) Back Office
12 120 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 100 (2.01%) Manufacturing
14 90 (1.81%) Games
15 76 (1.53%) Advertising
16 60 (1.21%) Telecoms
17 55 (1.11%) Tech for Good
18 52 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
19 40 (0.81%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,598 (32.17%) Developer
2 1,165 (23.45%) Senior
3 947 (19.07%) Analyst
4 470 (9.46%) Lead
5 440 (8.86%) .NET Developer
6 410 (8.25%) Data Engineer
7 386 (7.77%) Senior Developer
8 379 (7.63%) Software Engineer
9 350 (7.05%) Data Analyst
10 264 (5.32%) Senior Analyst
11 221 (4.45%) C# Developer
12 218 (4.39%) Consultant
13 217 (4.37%) Software Developer
14 199 (4.01%) DBA
15 186 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
16 178 (3.58%) Applications Support
17 143 (2.88%) Support Analyst
18 141 (2.84%) Senior Data Analyst
18 141 (2.84%) SQL Developer
19 140 (2.82%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,174 (23.64%) .NET
2 624 (12.56%) HTML
3 520 (10.47%) CSS
4 512 (10.31%) ASP.NET
5 415 (8.36%) .NET Core
6 351 (7.07%) React
7 349 (7.03%) AngularJS
8 302 (6.08%) REST
9 271 (5.46%) ASP.NET MVC
10 261 (5.25%) Entity Framework
11 254 (5.11%) HTML5
12 249 (5.01%) .NET Framework
13 242 (4.87%) Blazor
14 203 (4.09%) Web Services
15 195 (3.93%) JSON
16 194 (3.91%) CSS3
17 177 (3.56%) RESTful
18 168 (3.38%) XML
19 160 (3.22%) Vue
20 142 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 181 (3.64%) Management Information System
2 171 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
3 165 (3.32%) Data Structures
4 152 (3.06%) Hedge funds
5 139 (2.80%) Derivative
6 132 (2.66%) Algorithms
7 131 (2.64%) Product Ownership
8 123 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 102 (2.05%) Client/Server
10 100 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 95 (1.91%) Fixed Income
12 94 (1.89%) Equities
13 79 (1.59%) Cloud Native
14 78 (1.57%) Onboarding
14 78 (1.57%) Public Cloud
15 61 (1.23%) NHS
16 56 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
17 47 (0.95%) Mobile App
18 45 (0.91%) IoT
19 44 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 412 (8.29%) Windows
2 290 (5.84%) Linux
3 121 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 95 (1.91%) Unix
5 81 (1.63%) VMS
6 62 (1.25%) Windows 10
7 36 (0.72%) 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 14 (0.28%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.26%) zOS
15 12 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
16 10 (0.20%) AIX
17 7 (0.14%) Solaris
18 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,381 (27.80%) Agile
2 1,074 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
3 958 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
4 913 (18.38%) Analytics
5 672 (13.53%) DevOps
6 657 (13.23%) Software Engineering
7 650 (13.09%) ETL
8 619 (12.46%) Visualisation
9 550 (11.07%) Mentoring
10 513 (10.33%) Full Stack Development
11 494 (9.95%) Data Science
12 487 (9.80%) Data Analysis
13 480 (9.66%) Artificial Intelligence
14 428 (8.62%) Machine Learning
15 422 (8.50%) Data Pipeline
16 420 (8.46%) Data Modelling
17 389 (7.83%) CI/CD
18 386 (7.77%) MVC
18 386 (7.77%) TDD
19 369 (7.43%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,277 (25.71%) Python
2 1,267 (25.51%) C#
3 928 (18.68%) JavaScript
4 569 (11.46%) T-SQL
5 451 (9.08%) Java
6 259 (5.21%) TypeScript
7 237 (4.77%) PL/SQL
8 195 (3.93%) PowerShell
9 130 (2.62%) PHP
10 128 (2.58%) R
11 105 (2.11%) VB.NET
12 95 (1.91%) C++
13 88 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 72 (1.45%) VBA
15 70 (1.41%) VB
16 52 (1.05%) C
17 49 (0.99%) Bash
17 49 (0.99%) Kotlin
18 47 (0.95%) Groovy
19 42 (0.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 891 (17.94%) Degree
2 304 (6.12%) DBS Check
3 212 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 174 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 158 (3.18%) Security Cleared
6 126 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 122 (2.46%) SC Cleared
8 57 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 41 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 28 (0.56%) 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
1 259 (5.21%) Data Quality
2 143 (2.88%) QA
3 63 (1.27%) SLA
4 59 (1.19%) GDPR
5 43 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 34 (0.68%) 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%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.060%) HL7
System Software
1 264 (5.32%) Docker
2 256 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 91 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 81 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 81 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 51 (1.03%) RACF
6 32 (0.64%) XenApp
6 32 (0.64%) XenDesktop
7 28 (0.56%) VirtualBox
8 14 (0.28%) vSphere
9 12 (0.24%) Firmware
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 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.040%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.020%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.020%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 248 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 201 (4.05%) Terraform
3 71 (1.43%) 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 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.22%) WSUS
11 10 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.18%) logstash
12 9 (0.18%) SCCM
13 7 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
16 4 (0.081%) Oracle Statspack
16 4 (0.081%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,322 (26.62%) Microsoft
2 433 (8.72%) Databricks
3 416 (8.38%) Oracle
4 197 (3.97%) Google
5 101 (2.03%) VMware
6 95 (1.91%) SAP
7 73 (1.47%) IBM
8 50 (1.01%) CyberArk
9 36 (0.72%) Citrix
10 33 (0.66%) Salesforce
11 32 (0.64%) 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