Senior SQL Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior SQL Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior SQL Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 562 620
Rank change year-on-year +189 +58 +181
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 24 30 53
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.089% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.092% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23 26 39
10th Percentile - £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £62,323
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £74,750 £75,000 £81,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £69,412
% change year-on-year +3.85% -6.36% +15.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Senior SQL Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior SQL Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior SQL Developer.

Senior SQL Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior SQL Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Senior SQL Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (58.33%) HTML
3 13 (54.17%) PL/SQL
3 13 (54.17%) Oracle
3 13 (54.17%) OLTP
4 12 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 12 (50.00%) SOAP
4 12 (50.00%) XML
4 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
6 10 (41.67%) Azure
7 9 (37.50%) Wealth Management
7 9 (37.50%) T-SQL
7 9 (37.50%) Finance
8 8 (33.33%) Migration
8 8 (33.33%) VMware
8 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (33.33%) Back Office
8 8 (33.33%) Workflow
8 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
8 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (33.33%) Refactoring
8 8 (33.33%) Statistics
8 8 (33.33%) Degree
8 8 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (33.33%) SaaS
8 8 (33.33%) SQL CLR
8 8 (33.33%) High Availability

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
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 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 8 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) OLTP
2 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
3 8 (33.33%) Data Hub
3 8 (33.33%) Metadata
3 8 (33.33%) Power BI
3 8 (33.33%) SQL CLR
3 8 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 8 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.17%) Tableau
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Back Office
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (58.33%) HTML
2 12 (50.00%) SOAP
2 12 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (8.33%) CSS
3 2 (8.33%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 9 (37.50%) Wealth Management
3 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 8 (33.33%) Fintech
3 8 (33.33%) High Availability
3 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (33.33%) Migration
3 8 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 8 (33.33%) Statistics
3 8 (33.33%) Workflow
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.17%) Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (4.17%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) SQL
2 13 (54.17%) PL/SQL
3 9 (37.50%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Oracle
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) VMware