SQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 1,734 2,755 5,345
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.74% 11.54% 12.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.13% 31.63% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 2,050 3,965
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £637 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £736
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -0.94% -1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 29 41
10th Percentile £22.61 £22.36 £18.62
25th Percentile £24.00 £35.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.26% +64.29% +32.08%
75th Percentile £42.88 £70.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £58.05 £85.00 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £53.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.93% +53.57% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,081 8,710 16,774
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.41% 36.50% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,664 6,426 12,522
10th Percentile £355 £383 £381
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 186 183
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.93 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £51.38
% change year-on-year +2.97% +18.15% +14.80%

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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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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

SQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

SQL hourly rate 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 48 (2.77%) Apache Spark
2 38 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.13%) Apache
4 34 (1.96%) SAS
5 29 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 26 (1.50%) Confluence
7 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.81%) IIS
8 14 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.40%) CMS
10 6 (0.35%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.29%) JBoss
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
13 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (6.98%) Chatbot
2 72 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.10%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.058%) Elementor
8 1 (0.058%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.058%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.92%) Dynamics GP
2 16 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
3 15 (0.87%) Endur
3 15 (0.87%) NEC Housing
4 13 (0.75%) Elite 3E
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 9 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.40%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
9 5 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 466 (26.87%) Azure
2 277 (15.97%) AWS
3 238 (13.73%) Power Platform
4 136 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (4.67%) GCP
6 76 (4.38%) Serverless
7 70 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 69 (3.98%) GitHub
9 54 (3.11%) Snowflake
10 46 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 39 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 37 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
13 36 (2.08%) dbt
14 35 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
14 35 (2.02%) PowerApps
15 34 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
16 30 (1.73%) Azure Functions
17 27 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 26 (1.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.63%) HTTP
2 9 (0.52%) Firewall
3 8 (0.46%) Internet
3 8 (0.46%) SAN
4 7 (0.40%) DNS
4 7 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.40%) VPN
5 6 (0.35%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.29%) DHCP
7 4 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
7 4 (0.23%) Network Security
7 4 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.17%) BGP
8 3 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.17%) DAB
8 3 (0.17%) IOS XR
8 3 (0.17%) LAN
8 3 (0.17%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.17%) WAN
9 2 (0.12%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (17.30%) SQL Server
2 208 (12.00%) Power BI
3 170 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (5.31%) Oracle Database
6 91 (5.25%) Relational Database
7 85 (4.90%) NoSQL
8 77 (4.44%) Tableau
9 75 (4.33%) Data Lake
10 66 (3.81%) Big Data
11 65 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 62 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 49 (2.83%) MySQL
13 49 (2.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 47 (2.71%) BigQuery
15 38 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
16 37 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
17 33 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
18 32 (1.85%) MongoDB
19 30 (1.73%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 91 (5.25%) Git
2 87 (5.02%) JIRA
3 47 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.79%) Visual Studio
5 23 (1.33%) Selenium
5 23 (1.33%) TeamCity
6 21 (1.21%) Cypress.io
6 21 (1.21%) GitLab
7 20 (1.15%) Oracle APEX
8 14 (0.81%) Postman
8 14 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 14 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.58%) Maven
9 10 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (0.58%) SpecFlow
10 9 (0.52%) JMeter
11 8 (0.46%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.46%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.40%) CircleCI
General
1 426 (24.57%) Finance
2 374 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 178 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (9.63%) Banking
5 117 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 116 (6.69%) Front Office
7 52 (3.00%) Retail
8 43 (2.48%) Investment Banking
9 41 (2.36%) Marketing
10 38 (2.19%) Back Office
11 30 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.21%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.21%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.98%) Legal
16 13 (0.75%) Billing
16 13 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.69%) Local Government
18 11 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 611 (35.24%) Developer
2 283 (16.32%) Analyst
3 178 (10.27%) Senior
4 167 (9.63%) Data Engineer
5 156 (9.00%) Software Developer
6 104 (6.00%) Data Analyst
7 101 (5.82%) Consultant
8 97 (5.59%) Architect
9 87 (5.02%) Business Analyst
10 83 (4.79%) SQL Developer
11 63 (3.63%) DBA
12 59 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
13 54 (3.11%) Lead
14 52 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 52 (3.00%) Java Developer
15 50 (2.88%) Financial Analyst
16 49 (2.83%) Senior Developer
17 46 (2.65%) C# Developer
18 42 (2.42%) Software Engineer
19 41 (2.36%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (12.34%) HTML
2 174 (10.03%) .NET
3 80 (4.61%) XML
4 77 (4.44%) REST
5 57 (3.29%) CSS
6 53 (3.06%) PySpark
7 52 (3.00%) React
8 49 (2.83%) AngularJS
8 49 (2.83%) SOAP
8 49 (2.83%) Web Services
9 47 (2.71%) JSON
10 44 (2.54%) RESTful
11 42 (2.42%) .NET Framework
12 32 (1.85%) Kafka
13 31 (1.79%) Spring
14 30 (1.73%) ASP.NET
15 28 (1.61%) Spring Boot
16 26 (1.50%) Node.js
17 23 (1.33%) .NET Core
17 23 (1.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.84%) Derivative
2 58 (3.34%) Hedge funds
3 56 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.83%) Equities
4 49 (2.83%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.60%) Fixed Income
6 44 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 40 (2.31%) Replication
8 38 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.73%) Data Centre
12 29 (1.67%) Onboarding
13 26 (1.50%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.38%) Algorithms
15 19 (1.10%) Clustering
16 17 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
17 15 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
18 13 (0.75%) Housing Association
19 11 (0.63%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 139 (8.02%) Windows
2 75 (4.33%) Unix
3 63 (3.63%) Linux
4 49 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (0.58%) VMS
7 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.40%) Android
8 7 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.29%) Solaris
11 4 (0.23%) AIX
11 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.12%) CentOS
13 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.058%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (20.53%) Agile
2 280 (16.15%) Business Intelligence
3 263 (15.17%) Analytics
4 253 (14.59%) DevOps
5 250 (14.42%) Software Engineering
6 235 (13.55%) Data Modelling
7 214 (12.34%) Migration
8 205 (11.82%) ETL
8 205 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
9 184 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence
10 153 (8.82%) CI/CD
11 142 (8.19%) Code Quality
12 131 (7.55%) Data Analysis
13 121 (6.98%) Conversational UI
14 113 (6.52%) Visualisation
15 106 (6.11%) Computer Science
16 99 (5.71%) Scrum
17 93 (5.36%) Data Science
18 90 (5.19%) Data Migration
19 89 (5.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 540 (31.14%) Python
2 372 (21.45%) C#
3 298 (17.19%) JavaScript
4 203 (11.71%) Java
5 148 (8.54%) PL/SQL
6 98 (5.65%) PowerShell
7 64 (3.69%) T-SQL
8 54 (3.11%) TypeScript
9 35 (2.02%) C++
9 35 (2.02%) R
10 31 (1.79%) Bash
11 26 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 20 (1.15%) Scala
13 19 (1.10%) PHP
14 18 (1.04%) C
14 18 (1.04%) VB
15 17 (0.98%) Perl
16 16 (0.92%) VBA
17 15 (0.87%) VB.NET
18 13 (0.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 282 (16.26%) Degree
2 146 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 117 (6.75%) SC Cleared
4 47 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 17 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 17 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.63%) PhD
9 10 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (0.58%) MCSE
10 9 (0.52%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.52%) PMP
11 7 (0.40%) CISSP
11 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.29%) ISEB
13 5 (0.29%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 67 (3.86%) QA
3 15 (0.87%) GDPR
4 14 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 13 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (0.69%) MiFID
7 9 (0.52%) EMIR
7 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.46%) CDISC
8 8 (0.46%) SLA
9 6 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
9 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.23%) GxP
10 4 (0.23%) IFRS
11 3 (0.17%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.12%) GRC
12 2 (0.12%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.12%) NIST
12 2 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (4.27%) Docker
2 73 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.98%) IAG
4 16 (0.92%) ACF2
4 16 (0.92%) RACF
5 13 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.17%) HDFS
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.17%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.058%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.058%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.058%) XenApp
9 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 69 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.34%) Terraform
3 33 (1.90%) Ansible
4 23 (1.33%) Grafana
5 9 (0.52%) PingFederate
6 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.35%) SCOM
8 5 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.23%) BladeLogic
9 4 (0.23%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.23%) Puppet
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.17%) SCCM
10 3 (0.17%) WSUS
11 2 (0.12%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 277 (15.97%) Oracle
2 269 (15.51%) Microsoft
3 121 (6.98%) PayPal
4 99 (5.71%) Databricks
5 55 (3.17%) SAP
6 47 (2.71%) Google
7 42 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.44%) VMware
10 19 (1.10%) Splunk
10 19 (1.10%) Sybase
11 17 (0.98%) Informatica
11 17 (0.98%) NEC
12 16 (0.92%) Bloomberg
13 12 (0.69%) Avaloq
14 11 (0.63%) Cisco
14 11 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.63%) OpenLink
15 10 (0.58%) Alteryx
15 10 (0.58%) IFS