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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,884 7,858 12,703
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.42% 18.90% 18.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.37% 38.40% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,062 5,271 7,982
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,098 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +7.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,191 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +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 13,808 20,465 40,492
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.78% 49.22% 58.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,416 15,044 23,932
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £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 £78,750 £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 8 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
1 130 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 129 (2.64%) IIS
3 86 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 78 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 66 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
6 62 (1.27%) Apache
7 54 (1.11%) SAS
8 50 (1.02%) CMS
9 35 (0.72%) Confluence
10 15 (0.31%) Drupal
11 14 (0.29%) Umbraco
12 13 (0.27%) WordPress
13 12 (0.25%) nginx
14 9 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.10%) JBoss
15 5 (0.10%) NServiceBus
16 4 (0.082%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.082%) EPiServer
16 4 (0.082%) Luigi
Applications
1 269 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 131 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.31%) SPSS
7 12 (0.25%) Simulink
8 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.041%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.020%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 60 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 16 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
3 14 (0.29%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.18%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.16%) Shopify
6 8 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
7 7 (0.14%) Relativity
7 7 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.14%) thinkFolio
8 6 (0.12%) Primavera
9 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.082%) BusinessWorks
10 4 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.061%) MIS ActiveH
11 3 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,886 (38.62%) Azure
2 1,026 (21.01%) Power Platform
3 964 (19.74%) AWS
4 322 (6.59%) GCP
5 302 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
6 203 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
7 199 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 193 (3.95%) SaaS
9 182 (3.73%) Serverless
9 182 (3.73%) Snowflake
10 125 (2.56%) GitHub
11 123 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 108 (2.21%) PowerApps
13 98 (2.01%) Power Automate
14 87 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
14 87 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
15 79 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 70 (1.43%) Entra ID
17 63 (1.29%) Amazon S3
17 63 (1.29%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.92%) Internet
2 80 (1.64%) Broadband
3 73 (1.49%) Firewall
4 68 (1.39%) DNS
5 49 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 38 (0.78%) DHCP
6 38 (0.78%) HTTP
7 36 (0.74%) VPN
8 34 (0.70%) Network Security
9 28 (0.57%) SSL
10 17 (0.35%) SAN
11 15 (0.31%) Modbus
12 14 (0.29%) BIG-IP
13 12 (0.25%) LAN
13 12 (0.25%) WAN
14 11 (0.23%) FTP
15 10 (0.20%) MQTT
15 10 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.18%) Multicast
17 7 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,355 (27.74%) SQL Server
2 968 (19.82%) Power BI
3 537 (11.00%) Data Warehouse
4 418 (8.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 407 (8.33%) Tableau
6 373 (7.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 339 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
8 280 (5.73%) Relational Database
9 262 (5.36%) MySQL
10 241 (4.93%) NoSQL
11 229 (4.69%) Data Lake
12 225 (4.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 202 (4.14%) Oracle Database
14 167 (3.42%) BigQuery
15 138 (2.83%) MongoDB
16 110 (2.25%) Oracle Database 11g
17 107 (2.19%) Big Data
18 83 (1.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 77 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
20 63 (1.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 432 (8.85%) Git
2 148 (3.03%) JIRA
3 129 (2.64%) Visual Studio
4 116 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 98 (2.01%) GitLab
6 54 (1.11%) Postman
7 50 (1.02%) Selenium
8 37 (0.76%) Maven
8 37 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 35 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
10 32 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 30 (0.61%) JMeter
12 28 (0.57%) Jasmine
12 28 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
13 27 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
13 27 (0.55%) TeamCity
14 26 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 23 (0.47%) Eclipse
15 23 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
16 21 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,420 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 1,140 (23.34%) Finance
3 642 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 394 (8.07%) Retail
5 302 (6.18%) Banking
6 296 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 209 (4.28%) Law
8 192 (3.93%) Marketing
9 178 (3.64%) Front Office
10 175 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
11 160 (3.28%) Legal
12 140 (2.87%) Back Office
13 115 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 100 (2.05%) Manufacturing
15 93 (1.90%) Games
16 72 (1.47%) Advertising
17 63 (1.29%) Telecoms
18 57 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
19 55 (1.13%) Tech for Good
20 41 (0.84%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,615 (33.07%) Developer
2 1,092 (22.36%) Senior
3 859 (17.59%) Analyst
4 467 (9.56%) Lead
5 442 (9.05%) .NET Developer
6 405 (8.29%) Data Engineer
7 403 (8.25%) Senior Developer
8 367 (7.51%) Software Engineer
9 314 (6.43%) Data Analyst
10 212 (4.34%) Software Developer
11 211 (4.32%) C# Developer
12 204 (4.18%) DBA
13 201 (4.12%) Consultant
14 186 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
15 183 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
16 174 (3.56%) Applications Support
17 144 (2.95%) SQL DBA
18 143 (2.93%) Support Analyst
19 135 (2.76%) SQL Developer
20 129 (2.64%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,179 (24.14%) .NET
2 633 (12.96%) HTML
3 527 (10.79%) CSS
4 521 (10.67%) ASP.NET
5 427 (8.74%) .NET Core
6 347 (7.10%) AngularJS
6 347 (7.10%) React
7 309 (6.33%) REST
8 277 (5.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 260 (5.32%) Entity Framework
10 255 (5.22%) HTML5
11 253 (5.18%) .NET Framework
12 242 (4.95%) Blazor
13 211 (4.32%) Web Services
14 201 (4.12%) JSON
15 191 (3.91%) CSS3
16 184 (3.77%) RESTful
17 170 (3.48%) XML
18 162 (3.32%) Vue
19 149 (3.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 175 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
2 162 (3.32%) Data Structures
3 146 (2.99%) Hedge funds
4 130 (2.66%) Derivative
5 127 (2.60%) Algorithms
6 126 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 123 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
7 123 (2.52%) Product Ownership
8 101 (2.07%) Client/Server
9 88 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 88 (1.80%) Public Cloud
10 83 (1.70%) Equities
10 83 (1.70%) Fixed Income
11 79 (1.62%) Cloud Native
12 72 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 54 (1.11%) NHS
14 53 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
15 50 (1.02%) IoT
16 47 (0.96%) Mobile App
17 43 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 423 (8.66%) Windows
2 298 (6.10%) Linux
3 126 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 87 (1.78%) Unix
5 81 (1.66%) VMS
6 66 (1.35%) Windows 10
7 32 (0.66%) Android
8 31 (0.63%) Windows 7
9 30 (0.61%) Windows 8
10 26 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 21 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 21 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (0.35%) CentOS
13 16 (0.33%) Apple iOS
13 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (0.31%) zOS
15 12 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
16 11 (0.23%) AIX
17 9 (0.18%) Solaris
18 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,357 (27.78%) Agile
2 1,077 (22.05%) Business Intelligence
3 901 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
4 885 (18.12%) Analytics
5 683 (13.98%) DevOps
6 673 (13.78%) ETL
7 629 (12.88%) Software Engineering
8 580 (11.88%) Visualisation
9 557 (11.40%) Mentoring
10 507 (10.38%) Full Stack Development
11 493 (10.09%) Artificial Intelligence
12 490 (10.03%) Data Science
13 454 (9.30%) Data Analysis
14 423 (8.66%) Data Modelling
15 417 (8.54%) Machine Learning
16 400 (8.19%) MVC
17 392 (8.03%) Data Pipeline
18 387 (7.92%) CI/CD
19 386 (7.90%) TDD
20 373 (7.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,263 (25.86%) C#
2 1,237 (25.33%) Python
3 922 (18.88%) JavaScript
4 577 (11.81%) T-SQL
5 465 (9.52%) Java
6 267 (5.47%) TypeScript
7 257 (5.26%) PL/SQL
8 141 (2.89%) PowerShell
9 136 (2.78%) PHP
10 128 (2.62%) R
11 107 (2.19%) VB.NET
12 86 (1.76%) C++
13 82 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 71 (1.45%) VB
15 63 (1.29%) VBA
16 53 (1.09%) Bash
16 53 (1.09%) C
17 50 (1.02%) Groovy
18 45 (0.92%) Scala
19 42 (0.86%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 832 (17.04%) Degree
2 269 (5.51%) DBS Check
3 178 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 169 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 157 (3.21%) Security Cleared
6 121 (2.48%) SC Cleared
7 120 (2.46%) Master's Degree
8 47 (0.96%) Azure Certification
9 41 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 27 (0.55%) PhD
11 21 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 20 (0.41%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.39%) PMI Certification
14 16 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.29%) CISSP
16 13 (0.27%) CISA
17 11 (0.23%) CIPD
18 10 (0.20%) GIAC
18 10 (0.20%) HND
18 10 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 152 (3.11%) QA
3 57 (1.17%) SLA
4 56 (1.15%) GDPR
5 39 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 35 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.31%) PMO
8 13 (0.27%) COBIT
8 13 (0.27%) ITGC
9 8 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.16%) NIST
10 7 (0.14%) SOC 1
11 6 (0.12%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 5 (0.10%) IFRS
13 4 (0.082%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.082%) HL7
13 4 (0.082%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.082%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.061%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.061%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 269 (5.51%) Docker
2 207 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 92 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 87 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 32 (0.66%) XenApp
6 32 (0.66%) XenDesktop
7 30 (0.61%) VirtualBox
8 12 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
9 11 (0.23%) vSphere
10 10 (0.20%) Firmware
11 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
11 9 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
13 7 (0.14%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.061%) RACF
15 3 (0.061%) Time Sharing Option
16 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.020%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 263 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 204 (4.18%) Terraform
3 69 (1.41%) Ansible
4 34 (0.70%) Grafana
4 34 (0.70%) Progress Chef
5 17 (0.35%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.35%) SCOM
6 14 (0.29%) Puppet
7 13 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.25%) SCCM
9 11 (0.23%) WSUS
10 9 (0.18%) logstash
11 8 (0.16%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.082%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,267 (25.94%) Microsoft
2 430 (8.80%) Oracle
3 392 (8.03%) Databricks
4 207 (4.24%) Google
5 109 (2.23%) VMware
6 96 (1.97%) SAP
7 86 (1.76%) IBM
8 38 (0.78%) Citrix
9 37 (0.76%) Salesforce
10 35 (0.72%) F5
11 31 (0.63%) Alteryx
12 25 (0.51%) IFS
12 25 (0.51%) Sage
13 23 (0.47%) Facebook
14 22 (0.45%) Adobe
15 18 (0.37%) NEC
15 18 (0.37%) Talend
15 18 (0.37%) Teradata
16 17 (0.35%) Aderant
17 15 (0.31%) Murex