SQL Server Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
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 Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 41 44
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2,682 2,742 5,047
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.94% 6.47% 7.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.75% 26.22% 25.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,441 2,255 3,741
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,996
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,952 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.70% +6.57% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence 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 database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,719 10,459 20,050
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.85% 24.66% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,198 7,185 11,127
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SQL Server trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
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 Server.

SQL Server salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

SQL Server salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
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
1 129 (4.81%) IIS
2 115 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 84 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.57%) CMS
5 41 (1.53%) Apache
6 33 (1.23%) Umbraco
7 21 (0.78%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.37%) EPiServer
8 10 (0.37%) Kentico
8 10 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
8 10 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.26%) SAS
9 7 (0.26%) WordPress
10 6 (0.22%) DNN
10 6 (0.22%) Drupal
10 6 (0.22%) Immediacy CMS
10 6 (0.22%) Sitefinity
11 4 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 67 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.19%) InDesign
5 5 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.11%) SPSS
7 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.075%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.075%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 78 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.34%) Endur
3 22 (0.82%) PlanetPress Connect
4 14 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 10 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.34%) Sage X3
6 9 (0.34%) SAP Business One
7 8 (0.30%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
10 3 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 3 (0.11%) Shopify
10 3 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
11 2 (0.075%) Magento
11 2 (0.075%) MIS ActiveH
11 2 (0.075%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.075%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.075%) Sage 50
11 2 (0.075%) SAP FI-GL
12 1 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,716 (63.98%) Azure
2 488 (18.20%) Power Platform
3 446 (16.63%) AWS
4 251 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
5 122 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 105 (3.91%) SaaS
7 96 (3.58%) GCP
8 84 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 78 (2.91%) Snowflake
10 53 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 53 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
10 53 (1.98%) GitHub
11 52 (1.94%) Entra ID
12 51 (1.90%) Serverless
13 48 (1.79%) Matillion
14 46 (1.72%) PowerApps
15 43 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 40 (1.49%) Power Automate
17 38 (1.42%) Google Play
18 31 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 131 (4.88%) Internet
2 92 (3.43%) DNS
3 87 (3.24%) Broadband
4 80 (2.98%) Firewall
5 50 (1.86%) SAN
6 41 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 33 (1.23%) DHCP
8 25 (0.93%) SSL
9 24 (0.89%) HTTP
10 23 (0.86%) VoIP
11 21 (0.78%) WAN
12 20 (0.75%) LAN
12 20 (0.75%) Network Security
13 16 (0.60%) Hyperconnected
13 16 (0.60%) VPN
14 14 (0.52%) BIG-IP
15 13 (0.48%) Mobile Broadband
16 10 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (0.34%) Multicast
18 7 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 451 (16.82%) Power BI
2 334 (12.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 310 (11.56%) Data Warehouse
4 290 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 279 (10.40%) MongoDB
6 255 (9.51%) Elasticsearch
7 200 (7.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 192 (7.16%) Relational Database
9 131 (4.88%) MySQL
10 119 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
11 96 (3.58%) Data Lake
11 96 (3.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 55 (2.05%) DB2
13 53 (1.98%) RDBMS
14 51 (1.90%) Tableau
15 39 (1.45%) NoSQL
16 33 (1.23%) Oracle Database
17 32 (1.19%) Star Schema
18 31 (1.16%) BigQuery
19 24 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 162 (6.04%) Git
2 111 (4.14%) Visual Studio
3 95 (3.54%) JIRA
4 59 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 46 (1.72%) GitLab
6 39 (1.45%) NUnit
7 35 (1.30%) Jasmine
8 33 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 28 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
10 22 (0.82%) Jenkins
11 19 (0.71%) Postman
12 17 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
13 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
14 13 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (0.48%) Selenium
15 12 (0.45%) MSTest
16 11 (0.41%) Moq
17 10 (0.37%) SpecFlow
18 7 (0.26%) Mercurial
18 7 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 635 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 509 (18.98%) Finance
3 198 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (7.08%) Retail
5 129 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 128 (4.77%) Marketing
7 105 (3.91%) Games
8 104 (3.88%) Law
9 96 (3.58%) Legal
10 76 (2.83%) Advertising
11 61 (2.27%) Banking
12 48 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (1.27%) Music Industry
14 26 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 26 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 23 (0.86%) Financial Institution
16 21 (0.78%) Back Office
17 17 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,430 (53.32%) Developer
2 872 (32.51%) .NET Developer
3 416 (15.51%) C# Developer
4 304 (11.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 289 (10.78%) Senior
6 219 (8.17%) Lead
7 180 (6.71%) DBA
8 176 (6.56%) Analyst
9 165 (6.15%) Software Developer
10 150 (5.59%) Consultant
11 136 (5.07%) Senior Developer
12 135 (5.03%) SQL DBA
13 128 (4.77%) Data Engineer
14 104 (3.88%) Support Engineer
15 94 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Consultant
16 91 (3.39%) Administrator
16 91 (3.39%) Software Engineer
17 84 (3.13%) Support Analyst
18 75 (2.80%) Applications Support
19 68 (2.54%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,416 (52.80%) .NET
2 988 (36.84%) ASP.NET
3 888 (33.11%) .NET Core
4 788 (29.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 739 (27.55%) AngularJS
6 621 (23.15%) Entity Framework
7 616 (22.97%) HTML
8 585 (21.81%) ASP.NET Web API
9 576 (21.48%) .NET Framework
10 403 (15.03%) CSS
11 375 (13.98%) HTML5
12 359 (13.39%) React
13 303 (11.30%) Vue
14 260 (9.69%) Node.js
15 242 (9.02%) RESTful
16 204 (7.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 191 (7.12%) Blazor
18 190 (7.08%) LINQ
19 189 (7.05%) CSS3
20 169 (6.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
2 124 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
3 108 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
4 80 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 79 (2.95%) Mobile App
6 53 (1.98%) Replication
7 50 (1.86%) Public Cloud
8 49 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 39 (1.45%) Social Media
10 38 (1.42%) iPhone
10 38 (1.42%) Social Network
11 36 (1.34%) Swaptions
12 33 (1.23%) BBC
13 30 (1.12%) Driving Licence
14 29 (1.08%) Cloud Native
14 29 (1.08%) Life Science
14 29 (1.08%) Product Ownership
15 28 (1.04%) Clustering
16 25 (0.93%) Digital TV
17 24 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 363 (13.53%) Windows
2 164 (6.11%) Windows Server
3 158 (5.89%) Linux
4 86 (3.21%) VMS
5 47 (1.75%) Android
6 43 (1.60%) Unix
6 43 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 42 (1.57%) Windows 10
8 40 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.93%) AIX
11 24 (0.89%) zOS
12 16 (0.60%) CentOS
12 16 (0.60%) Solaris
13 14 (0.52%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (0.22%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.19%) Debian
15 5 (0.19%) Windows Mobile
15 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,139 (42.47%) Agile
2 903 (33.67%) MVC
3 818 (30.50%) Full Stack Development
4 644 (24.01%) Microservices
5 514 (19.16%) Business Intelligence
6 461 (17.19%) TDD
7 419 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
8 413 (15.40%) DevOps
9 396 (14.77%) ETL
10 381 (14.21%) BDD
11 366 (13.65%) Scrum
12 254 (9.47%) Kanban
13 230 (8.58%) OO
14 222 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
15 205 (7.64%) Data Science
16 202 (7.53%) CI/CD
17 198 (7.38%) Roadmaps
18 177 (6.60%) Data Modelling
19 175 (6.52%) Analytics
20 174 (6.49%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1,420 (52.95%) C#
2 1,357 (50.60%) SQL
3 1,026 (38.26%) JavaScript
4 452 (16.85%) T-SQL
5 326 (12.16%) TypeScript
6 198 (7.38%) Python
7 137 (5.11%) Java
8 127 (4.74%) PowerShell
9 115 (4.29%) VB.NET
10 112 (4.18%) VB
11 49 (1.83%) PL/SQL
12 41 (1.53%) C++
12 41 (1.53%) PHP
13 30 (1.12%) C
13 30 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 29 (1.08%) VB6
15 26 (0.97%) XAML
16 25 (0.93%) Bash
17 20 (0.75%) XPath
18 16 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 312 (11.63%) Degree
2 138 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 87 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (2.27%) Security Cleared
5 51 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 32 (1.19%) SC Cleared
7 30 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 23 (0.86%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 8 (0.30%) HND
13 7 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
13 7 (0.26%) ISEB
14 6 (0.22%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.19%) HNC
16 4 (0.15%) CISM
16 4 (0.15%) CISSP
16 4 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (4.18%) QA
2 89 (3.32%) Data Quality
3 36 (1.34%) SLA
4 12 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.41%) GDPR
6 9 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.19%) WCAG
9 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.15%) NIST
9 4 (0.15%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.11%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.075%) HL7
11 2 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.075%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 171 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 100 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
3 85 (3.17%) Docker
4 58 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 52 (1.94%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.78%) vSphere
7 10 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.11%) XenApp
10 1 (0.037%) NFS
10 1 (0.037%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 78 (2.91%) Terraform
2 75 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 22 (0.82%) Ansible
4 21 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.71%) Grafana
6 17 (0.63%) Nagios
7 15 (0.56%) SCCM
8 9 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
8 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
9 8 (0.30%) MIIS
9 8 (0.30%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.26%) Foglight
10 7 (0.26%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.19%) WSUS
12 4 (0.15%) Kibana
13 3 (0.11%) Backup Exec
13 3 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 1,676 (62.49%) Microsoft
2 215 (8.02%) Oracle
3 125 (4.66%) Google
4 90 (3.36%) VMware
5 82 (3.06%) Facebook
6 57 (2.13%) Databricks
7 44 (1.64%) IBM
7 44 (1.64%) Sybase
8 43 (1.60%) Apple
9 41 (1.53%) TIBCO
10 36 (1.34%) OpenLink
11 33 (1.23%) Cisco
11 33 (1.23%) Sony
11 33 (1.23%) Veeam
11 33 (1.23%) Yahoo!
12 27 (1.01%) F5
13 24 (0.89%) SAP
14 22 (0.82%) FNZ
14 22 (0.82%) iManage
15 21 (0.78%) YouTube