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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 42 43
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 -16
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2,670 2,676 5,006
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.91% 6.45% 7.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.42% 26.07% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,432 2,200 3,675
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,849
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 £68,500
90th Percentile £78,625 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +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 7,756 10,266 20,218
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.97% 24.75% 29.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6,207 7,033 10,984
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 £78,318
90th Percentile £95,280 £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 9 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
1 131 (4.91%) IIS
2 113 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 81 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.61%) CMS
5 41 (1.54%) Apache
6 33 (1.24%) Umbraco
7 21 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.37%) EPiServer
8 10 (0.37%) Kentico
8 10 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.26%) SAS
9 7 (0.26%) Tomcat
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%) JBoss
Applications
1 64 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.11%) SPSS
6 2 (0.075%) InDesign
6 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.075%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.075%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.075%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.24%) Endur
3 20 (0.75%) PlanetPress Connect
4 14 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.34%) Sage X3
5 9 (0.34%) SAP Business One
6 8 (0.30%) Elite 3E
7 7 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
9 3 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 3 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.075%) Magento
10 2 (0.075%) MIS ActiveH
10 2 (0.075%) nopCommerce
10 2 (0.075%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.075%) Sage 50
10 2 (0.075%) SAP FI-GL
10 2 (0.075%) Shopify
11 1 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,724 (64.57%) Azure
2 483 (18.09%) Power Platform
3 446 (16.70%) AWS
4 252 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
5 124 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (3.86%) SaaS
7 91 (3.41%) GCP
8 87 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 78 (2.92%) Snowflake
10 52 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 52 (1.95%) GitHub
11 51 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
12 50 (1.87%) Entra ID
13 49 (1.84%) Serverless
14 48 (1.80%) Matillion
15 45 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 45 (1.69%) PowerApps
16 39 (1.46%) Power Automate
17 38 (1.42%) Google Play
18 31 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (4.94%) Internet
2 91 (3.41%) DNS
3 88 (3.30%) Broadband
4 78 (2.92%) Firewall
5 49 (1.84%) SAN
6 40 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 34 (1.27%) DHCP
8 24 (0.90%) HTTP
9 23 (0.86%) SSL
10 22 (0.82%) VoIP
11 20 (0.75%) WAN
12 18 (0.67%) LAN
13 17 (0.64%) Network Security
14 16 (0.60%) Hyperconnected
14 16 (0.60%) VPN
15 14 (0.52%) Mobile Broadband
16 13 (0.49%) BIG-IP
17 10 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
18 9 (0.34%) Multicast
19 7 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 446 (16.70%) Power BI
2 330 (12.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 309 (11.57%) Data Warehouse
4 292 (10.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 282 (10.56%) MongoDB
6 259 (9.70%) Elasticsearch
7 196 (7.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 190 (7.12%) Relational Database
9 129 (4.83%) MySQL
10 115 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
11 97 (3.63%) Data Lake
11 97 (3.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 55 (2.06%) DB2
13 51 (1.91%) Tableau
14 50 (1.87%) RDBMS
15 38 (1.42%) NoSQL
16 33 (1.24%) Oracle Database
17 32 (1.20%) Star Schema
18 31 (1.16%) BigQuery
19 23 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 165 (6.18%) Git
2 111 (4.16%) Visual Studio
3 87 (3.26%) JIRA
4 57 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 46 (1.72%) GitLab
6 38 (1.42%) NUnit
7 35 (1.31%) Jasmine
8 33 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 28 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
10 20 (0.75%) Jenkins
11 17 (0.64%) Postman
11 17 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
12 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
13 13 (0.49%) Selenium
14 12 (0.45%) MSTest
15 11 (0.41%) Moq
16 10 (0.37%) SpecFlow
17 7 (0.26%) Mercurial
17 7 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 630 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 505 (18.91%) Finance
3 198 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (7.04%) Retail
5 129 (4.83%) Public Sector
6 121 (4.53%) Marketing
7 102 (3.82%) Games
7 102 (3.82%) Law
8 94 (3.52%) Legal
9 75 (2.81%) Advertising
10 57 (2.13%) Banking
11 47 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (1.35%) Music Industry
13 27 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 26 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 23 (0.86%) Financial Institution
16 21 (0.79%) Back Office
17 15 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.56%) Local Government
18 14 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,431 (53.60%) Developer
2 884 (33.11%) .NET Developer
3 418 (15.66%) C# Developer
4 308 (11.54%) C# .NET Developer
5 287 (10.75%) Senior
6 216 (8.09%) Lead
7 180 (6.74%) DBA
8 173 (6.48%) Analyst
9 164 (6.14%) Software Developer
10 150 (5.62%) Consultant
11 135 (5.06%) SQL DBA
12 134 (5.02%) Senior Developer
13 130 (4.87%) Data Engineer
14 102 (3.82%) Support Engineer
15 94 (3.52%) Business Intelligence Consultant
16 91 (3.41%) Software Engineer
17 90 (3.37%) Administrator
18 82 (3.07%) Support Analyst
19 71 (2.66%) Applications Support
20 65 (2.43%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,427 (53.45%) .NET
2 996 (37.30%) ASP.NET
3 893 (33.45%) .NET Core
4 796 (29.81%) ASP.NET MVC
5 747 (27.98%) AngularJS
6 630 (23.60%) Entity Framework
7 617 (23.11%) HTML
8 591 (22.13%) ASP.NET Web API
9 581 (21.76%) .NET Framework
10 405 (15.17%) CSS
11 381 (14.27%) HTML5
12 363 (13.60%) React
13 307 (11.50%) Vue
14 261 (9.78%) Node.js
15 245 (9.18%) RESTful
16 204 (7.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 196 (7.34%) Blazor
18 193 (7.23%) CSS3
19 191 (7.15%) LINQ
20 169 (6.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 185 (6.93%) Greenfield Project
2 124 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
3 108 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 78 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 77 (2.88%) Mobile App
6 53 (1.99%) Replication
7 49 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 48 (1.80%) Public Cloud
9 39 (1.46%) Social Media
10 38 (1.42%) iPhone
10 38 (1.42%) Social Network
11 33 (1.24%) BBC
11 33 (1.24%) Swaptions
12 30 (1.12%) Driving Licence
12 30 (1.12%) Product Ownership
13 29 (1.09%) Cloud Native
13 29 (1.09%) Life Science
14 28 (1.05%) Clustering
15 25 (0.94%) Digital TV
16 24 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 360 (13.48%) Windows
2 162 (6.07%) Windows Server
3 156 (5.84%) Linux
4 86 (3.22%) VMS
5 47 (1.76%) Android
6 44 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 42 (1.57%) Unix
7 42 (1.57%) Windows 10
8 39 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.94%) AIX
11 24 (0.90%) 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 1,138 (42.62%) Agile
2 910 (34.08%) MVC
3 828 (31.01%) Full Stack Development
4 651 (24.38%) Microservices
5 512 (19.18%) Business Intelligence
6 471 (17.64%) TDD
7 417 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
8 410 (15.36%) DevOps
9 395 (14.79%) ETL
10 389 (14.57%) BDD
11 372 (13.93%) Scrum
12 259 (9.70%) Kanban
13 233 (8.73%) OO
14 222 (8.31%) Artificial Intelligence
15 203 (7.60%) CI/CD
16 201 (7.53%) Data Science
17 196 (7.34%) Roadmaps
18 178 (6.67%) Multithreading
19 177 (6.63%) Analytics
20 176 (6.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,435 (53.75%) C#
2 1,354 (50.71%) SQL
3 1,031 (38.61%) JavaScript
4 446 (16.70%) T-SQL
5 329 (12.32%) TypeScript
6 197 (7.38%) Python
7 135 (5.06%) Java
8 127 (4.76%) PowerShell
9 114 (4.27%) VB.NET
10 109 (4.08%) VB
11 48 (1.80%) PL/SQL
12 42 (1.57%) C++
13 40 (1.50%) PHP
14 30 (1.12%) C
14 30 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 29 (1.09%) VB6
16 26 (0.97%) XAML
17 25 (0.94%) Bash
18 20 (0.75%) XPath
19 16 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 311 (11.65%) Degree
2 138 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 87 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (2.28%) Security Cleared
5 50 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 32 (1.20%) 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
13 7 (0.26%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.19%) HNC
15 4 (0.15%) CISM
15 4 (0.15%) CISSP
16 3 (0.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (4.19%) QA
2 90 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 37 (1.39%) SLA
4 12 (0.45%) GDPR
5 11 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
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
1 169 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 100 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 85 (3.18%) Docker
4 58 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 51 (1.91%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.79%) 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 76 (2.85%) Terraform
2 74 (2.77%) Kubernetes
3 22 (0.82%) Ansible
4 21 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.71%) Grafana
6 17 (0.64%) 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%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.30%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.26%) Foglight
10 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.19%) WSUS
12 4 (0.15%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.15%) Kibana
13 3 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 1,681 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 210 (7.87%) Oracle
3 126 (4.72%) Google
4 89 (3.33%) VMware
5 82 (3.07%) Facebook
6 59 (2.21%) Databricks
7 44 (1.65%) IBM
8 43 (1.61%) Apple
9 41 (1.54%) Sybase
10 37 (1.39%) TIBCO
11 34 (1.27%) Cisco
12 33 (1.24%) OpenLink
12 33 (1.24%) Sony
12 33 (1.24%) Veeam
12 33 (1.24%) Yahoo!
13 26 (0.97%) F5
14 24 (0.90%) SAP
15 22 (0.82%) iManage
16 21 (0.79%) YouTube
17 20 (0.75%) Aderant