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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 43 43
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 -17
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2,718 2,849 4,952
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.04% 6.45% 7.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 35.13% 26.46% 25.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,474 2,338 3,734
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% +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 7,738 10,768 19,351
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.88% 24.40% 29.35%
Number of salaries quoted 6,236 7,383 11,191
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,000 £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 £74,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £92,500
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 18 April 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
1 132 (4.86%) IIS
2 121 (4.45%) SharePoint
3 88 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.55%) CMS
5 41 (1.51%) Apache
6 35 (1.29%) Umbraco
7 20 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.37%) EPiServer
9 10 (0.37%) Kentico
9 10 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.26%) Confluence
10 7 (0.26%) SAS
10 7 (0.26%) WordPress
11 6 (0.22%) DNN
11 6 (0.22%) Drupal
11 6 (0.22%) Immediacy CMS
11 6 (0.22%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 68 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.29%) InDesign
3 8 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.29%) Photoshop
4 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.15%) SPSS
6 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.074%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 85 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.43%) Endur
3 26 (0.96%) PlanetPress Connect
4 16 (0.59%) NEC Housing
5 11 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.33%) Sage X3
6 9 (0.33%) SAP Business One
7 8 (0.29%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.26%) BusinessWorks
8 7 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 3 (0.11%) Shopify
11 2 (0.074%) Magento
11 2 (0.074%) MIS ActiveH
11 2 (0.074%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.074%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.074%) Sage 50
11 2 (0.074%) SAP FI-GL
12 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,724 (63.43%) Azure
2 486 (17.88%) Power Platform
3 451 (16.59%) AWS
4 259 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
5 125 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
6 108 (3.97%) SaaS
7 93 (3.42%) GCP
8 81 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 78 (2.87%) Snowflake
10 57 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 56 (2.06%) Entra ID
11 56 (2.06%) Serverless
12 55 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
13 53 (1.95%) GitHub
14 48 (1.77%) Matillion
15 46 (1.69%) PowerApps
16 41 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 40 (1.47%) Power Automate
18 37 (1.36%) Google Play
19 34 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 128 (4.71%) Internet
2 87 (3.20%) Broadband
2 87 (3.20%) DNS
3 82 (3.02%) Firewall
4 46 (1.69%) SAN
5 35 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 27 (0.99%) DHCP
6 27 (0.99%) SSL
7 26 (0.96%) LAN
7 26 (0.96%) VoIP
7 26 (0.96%) WAN
8 24 (0.88%) HTTP
9 23 (0.85%) Network Security
10 16 (0.59%) BIG-IP
10 16 (0.59%) Hyperconnected
10 16 (0.59%) VPN
11 13 (0.48%) Mobile Broadband
12 10 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
13 9 (0.33%) Multicast
14 6 (0.22%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (16.48%) Power BI
2 335 (12.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 317 (11.66%) Data Warehouse
4 291 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 278 (10.23%) MongoDB
6 255 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
7 197 (7.25%) Relational Database
7 197 (7.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 132 (4.86%) MySQL
9 121 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
10 95 (3.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 94 (3.46%) Data Lake
12 56 (2.06%) RDBMS
13 51 (1.88%) DB2
14 49 (1.80%) Tableau
15 38 (1.40%) NoSQL
16 35 (1.29%) Oracle Database
17 32 (1.18%) Star Schema
18 29 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
19 28 (1.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 162 (5.96%) Git
2 107 (3.94%) Visual Studio
3 104 (3.83%) JIRA
4 65 (2.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 47 (1.73%) GitLab
6 39 (1.43%) NUnit
7 35 (1.29%) Jasmine
8 34 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 28 (1.03%) Karma Test Runner
10 23 (0.85%) Jenkins
11 20 (0.74%) Postman
12 16 (0.59%) TeamCity
12 16 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
13 13 (0.48%) Selenium
14 12 (0.44%) MSTest
15 11 (0.40%) Moq
16 9 (0.33%) SpecFlow
17 7 (0.26%) Subversion
18 6 (0.22%) Mercurial
General
1 632 (23.25%) Social Skills
2 510 (18.76%) Finance
3 204 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (7.06%) Retail
5 133 (4.89%) Marketing
6 127 (4.67%) Public Sector
7 112 (4.12%) Games
8 109 (4.01%) Law
9 101 (3.72%) Legal
10 79 (2.91%) Advertising
11 59 (2.17%) Banking
12 49 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (1.25%) Music Industry
14 26 (0.96%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.88%) Telecoms
16 18 (0.66%) Back Office
16 18 (0.66%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1,448 (53.27%) Developer
2 878 (32.30%) .NET Developer
3 417 (15.34%) C# Developer
4 303 (11.15%) C# .NET Developer
5 297 (10.93%) Senior
6 214 (7.87%) Lead
7 185 (6.81%) DBA
8 184 (6.77%) Analyst
9 168 (6.18%) Software Developer
10 148 (5.45%) Consultant
11 141 (5.19%) Senior Developer
12 135 (4.97%) SQL DBA
13 121 (4.45%) Data Engineer
14 104 (3.83%) Support Engineer
15 97 (3.57%) Administrator
16 94 (3.46%) Business Intelligence Consultant
17 92 (3.38%) Software Engineer
18 90 (3.31%) Support Analyst
19 82 (3.02%) Applications Support
20 73 (2.69%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,434 (52.76%) .NET
2 992 (36.50%) ASP.NET
3 898 (33.04%) .NET Core
4 792 (29.14%) ASP.NET MVC
5 742 (27.30%) AngularJS
6 621 (22.85%) HTML
7 618 (22.74%) Entity Framework
8 583 (21.45%) ASP.NET Web API
9 577 (21.23%) .NET Framework
10 408 (15.01%) CSS
11 376 (13.83%) HTML5
12 363 (13.36%) React
13 302 (11.11%) Vue
14 263 (9.68%) Node.js
15 244 (8.98%) RESTful
16 205 (7.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 193 (7.10%) Blazor
18 189 (6.95%) LINQ
19 187 (6.88%) CSS3
20 176 (6.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 186 (6.84%) Greenfield Project
2 125 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
3 105 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
4 77 (2.83%) Management Information System
4 77 (2.83%) Mobile App
5 51 (1.88%) Replication
6 49 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 49 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 40 (1.47%) Social Media
8 39 (1.43%) Swaptions
9 38 (1.40%) Social Network
10 37 (1.36%) iPhone
11 33 (1.21%) BBC
12 30 (1.10%) Cloud Native
12 30 (1.10%) Clustering
13 29 (1.07%) Driving Licence
14 28 (1.03%) Life Science
15 27 (0.99%) Product Ownership
16 25 (0.92%) Digital TV
16 25 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 359 (13.21%) Windows
2 164 (6.03%) Windows Server
3 147 (5.41%) Linux
4 86 (3.16%) VMS
5 46 (1.69%) Android
6 42 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 41 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 40 (1.47%) Unix
8 40 (1.47%) Windows 10
9 31 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.92%) AIX
11 18 (0.66%) zOS
12 13 (0.48%) CentOS
13 12 (0.44%) Solaris
14 11 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.22%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.18%) Debian
16 5 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.18%) Windows Mobile
16 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,142 (42.02%) Agile
2 909 (33.44%) MVC
3 826 (30.39%) Full Stack Development
4 643 (23.66%) Microservices
5 510 (18.76%) Business Intelligence
6 461 (16.96%) TDD
7 429 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
8 424 (15.60%) DevOps
9 393 (14.46%) ETL
10 381 (14.02%) BDD
11 363 (13.36%) Scrum
12 248 (9.12%) Kanban
13 233 (8.57%) OO
14 217 (7.98%) Artificial Intelligence
15 207 (7.62%) Data Science
16 205 (7.54%) CI/CD
17 204 (7.51%) Roadmaps
18 178 (6.55%) Data Modelling
19 177 (6.51%) Software Engineering
20 174 (6.40%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1,436 (52.83%) C#
2 1,361 (50.07%) SQL
3 1,038 (38.19%) JavaScript
4 459 (16.89%) T-SQL
5 330 (12.14%) TypeScript
6 197 (7.25%) Python
7 135 (4.97%) Java
8 123 (4.53%) PowerShell
9 115 (4.23%) VB.NET
10 113 (4.16%) VB
11 51 (1.88%) PL/SQL
12 41 (1.51%) PHP
13 40 (1.47%) C++
14 31 (1.14%) C
15 29 (1.07%) VB6
16 28 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 26 (0.96%) Bash
17 26 (0.96%) XAML
18 21 (0.77%) XPath
19 13 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 316 (11.63%) Degree
2 139 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 84 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (2.10%) Security Cleared
5 56 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 33 (1.21%) SC Cleared
7 30 (1.10%) DBS Check
8 22 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 10 (0.37%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.29%) HND
13 8 (0.29%) ISEB
14 7 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
15 6 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.22%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.18%) HNC
17 3 (0.11%) CIPD
17 3 (0.11%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (4.16%) QA
2 88 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 33 (1.21%) SLA
4 11 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (0.40%) GDPR
4 11 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.18%) WCAG
7 4 (0.15%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.11%) NIST
9 2 (0.074%) HL7
9 2 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.074%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.037%) PMO
System Software
1 171 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 101 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
3 84 (3.09%) Docker
4 57 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 47 (1.73%) Hyper-V
6 23 (0.85%) vSphere
7 9 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.11%) XenApp
10 1 (0.037%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 84 (3.09%) Terraform
2 76 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 24 (0.88%) Ansible
4 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.70%) Grafana
6 17 (0.63%) Nagios
7 15 (0.55%) SCCM
8 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
10 8 (0.29%) MIIS
10 8 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.26%) Foglight
11 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.18%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.18%) WSUS
13 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.15%) Kibana
14 3 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.11%) Nessus
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 1,700 (62.55%) Microsoft
2 220 (8.09%) Oracle
3 124 (4.56%) Google
4 88 (3.24%) VMware
5 82 (3.02%) Facebook
6 51 (1.88%) Databricks
7 46 (1.69%) Sybase
7 46 (1.69%) TIBCO
8 43 (1.58%) Apple
9 42 (1.55%) IBM
10 39 (1.43%) OpenLink
11 33 (1.21%) Sony
11 33 (1.21%) Yahoo!
12 32 (1.18%) Veeam
13 30 (1.10%) Cisco
14 26 (0.96%) FNZ
15 25 (0.92%) F5
15 25 (0.92%) SAP
16 22 (0.81%) iManage
17 21 (0.77%) YouTube