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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 43 44
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2,702 2,797 4,977
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.98% 6.44% 7.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.95% 26.25% 25.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,456 2,292 3,719
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 £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 7,730 10,654 19,613
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.84% 24.53% 29.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,219 7,309 11,076
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 £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 25 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
1 131 (4.85%) IIS
2 119 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 88 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.55%) CMS
5 41 (1.52%) Apache
6 33 (1.22%) Umbraco
7 20 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.48%) 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 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.26%) InDesign
4 7 (0.26%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) SPSS
7 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.074%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 83 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.44%) Endur
3 24 (0.89%) PlanetPress Connect
4 16 (0.59%) NEC Housing
5 10 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.33%) Sage X3
6 9 (0.33%) SAP Business One
7 8 (0.30%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
10 4 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
11 3 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
11 3 (0.11%) Shopify
12 2 (0.074%) Magento
12 2 (0.074%) MIS ActiveH
12 2 (0.074%) nopCommerce
12 2 (0.074%) Sage 200
12 2 (0.074%) Sage 50
12 2 (0.074%) SAP FI-GL
13 1 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,720 (63.66%) Azure
2 490 (18.13%) Power Platform
3 451 (16.69%) AWS
4 257 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
5 124 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
6 105 (3.89%) SaaS
7 98 (3.63%) GCP
8 83 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
9 78 (2.89%) Snowflake
10 55 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 55 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
11 54 (2.00%) Serverless
12 53 (1.96%) Entra ID
12 53 (1.96%) GitHub
13 48 (1.78%) Matillion
14 47 (1.74%) PowerApps
15 42 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 40 (1.48%) Power Automate
17 37 (1.37%) Google Play
18 32 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 129 (4.77%) Internet
2 89 (3.29%) DNS
3 87 (3.22%) Broadband
4 79 (2.92%) Firewall
5 47 (1.74%) SAN
6 38 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 29 (1.07%) DHCP
8 27 (1.00%) SSL
9 24 (0.89%) HTTP
9 24 (0.89%) VoIP
9 24 (0.89%) WAN
10 23 (0.85%) LAN
11 21 (0.78%) Network Security
12 16 (0.59%) BIG-IP
12 16 (0.59%) Hyperconnected
13 15 (0.56%) VPN
14 13 (0.48%) Mobile Broadband
15 10 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.33%) Multicast
17 7 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (16.73%) Power BI
2 337 (12.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 311 (11.51%) Data Warehouse
4 291 (10.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 279 (10.33%) MongoDB
6 255 (9.44%) Elasticsearch
7 197 (7.29%) Relational Database
7 197 (7.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 132 (4.89%) MySQL
9 119 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
10 96 (3.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 95 (3.52%) Data Lake
12 55 (2.04%) RDBMS
13 54 (2.00%) DB2
14 49 (1.81%) Tableau
15 38 (1.41%) NoSQL
16 33 (1.22%) Oracle Database
17 32 (1.18%) Star Schema
18 31 (1.15%) BigQuery
19 26 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 164 (6.07%) Git
2 108 (4.00%) Visual Studio
3 103 (3.81%) JIRA
4 62 (2.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 46 (1.70%) GitLab
6 39 (1.44%) NUnit
7 35 (1.30%) Jasmine
8 34 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 28 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
10 23 (0.85%) Jenkins
11 19 (0.70%) Postman
12 17 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
13 16 (0.59%) TeamCity
14 13 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (0.48%) Selenium
15 12 (0.44%) MSTest
16 11 (0.41%) Moq
17 10 (0.37%) SpecFlow
18 7 (0.26%) Mercurial
18 7 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 637 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 516 (19.10%) Finance
3 204 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (7.03%) Retail
5 132 (4.89%) Marketing
6 128 (4.74%) Public Sector
7 109 (4.03%) Games
8 107 (3.96%) Law
9 99 (3.66%) Legal
10 78 (2.89%) Advertising
11 65 (2.41%) Banking
12 49 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (1.26%) Music Industry
14 26 (0.96%) Manufacturing
15 25 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 24 (0.89%) Financial Institution
17 20 (0.74%) Back Office
18 17 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
19 16 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,431 (52.96%) Developer
2 874 (32.35%) .NET Developer
3 415 (15.36%) C# Developer
4 303 (11.21%) C# .NET Developer
5 294 (10.88%) Senior
6 219 (8.11%) Lead
7 184 (6.81%) DBA
8 181 (6.70%) Analyst
9 164 (6.07%) Software Developer
10 149 (5.51%) Consultant
11 137 (5.07%) Senior Developer
11 137 (5.07%) SQL DBA
12 123 (4.55%) Data Engineer
13 106 (3.92%) Support Engineer
14 94 (3.48%) Administrator
14 94 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 92 (3.40%) Software Engineer
16 88 (3.26%) Support Analyst
17 79 (2.92%) Applications Support
18 69 (2.55%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,424 (52.70%) .NET
2 987 (36.53%) ASP.NET
3 889 (32.90%) .NET Core
4 788 (29.16%) ASP.NET MVC
5 739 (27.35%) AngularJS
6 619 (22.91%) Entity Framework
7 614 (22.72%) HTML
8 584 (21.61%) ASP.NET Web API
9 577 (21.35%) .NET Framework
10 401 (14.84%) CSS
11 375 (13.88%) HTML5
12 362 (13.40%) React
13 304 (11.25%) Vue
14 260 (9.62%) Node.js
15 244 (9.03%) RESTful
16 202 (7.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 191 (7.07%) Blazor
18 190 (7.03%) LINQ
19 188 (6.96%) CSS3
20 172 (6.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 185 (6.85%) Greenfield Project
2 123 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 106 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 78 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 77 (2.85%) Mobile App
6 53 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 51 (1.89%) Replication
8 49 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 40 (1.48%) Social Media
10 39 (1.44%) Swaptions
11 38 (1.41%) Social Network
12 37 (1.37%) iPhone
13 33 (1.22%) BBC
14 30 (1.11%) Cloud Native
14 30 (1.11%) Clustering
15 29 (1.07%) Driving Licence
16 28 (1.04%) Life Science
16 28 (1.04%) Product Ownership
17 25 (0.93%) Digital TV
18 24 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 366 (13.55%) Windows
2 163 (6.03%) Windows Server
3 157 (5.81%) Linux
4 86 (3.18%) VMS
5 46 (1.70%) Android
5 46 (1.70%) Unix
6 41 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 40 (1.48%) Windows 10
7 40 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 30 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 25 (0.93%) AIX
10 24 (0.89%) zOS
11 16 (0.59%) CentOS
11 16 (0.59%) Solaris
12 14 (0.52%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.22%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.19%) Debian
14 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.19%) Windows Mobile
14 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,144 (42.34%) Agile
2 905 (33.49%) MVC
3 820 (30.35%) Full Stack Development
4 645 (23.87%) Microservices
5 511 (18.91%) Business Intelligence
6 460 (17.02%) TDD
7 426 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
8 421 (15.58%) DevOps
9 397 (14.69%) ETL
10 382 (14.14%) BDD
11 364 (13.47%) Scrum
12 250 (9.25%) Kanban
13 232 (8.59%) OO
14 218 (8.07%) Artificial Intelligence
15 205 (7.59%) Data Science
16 204 (7.55%) CI/CD
17 203 (7.51%) Roadmaps
18 177 (6.55%) Data Modelling
19 174 (6.44%) Multithreading
20 172 (6.37%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,424 (52.70%) C#
2 1,360 (50.33%) SQL
3 1,030 (38.12%) JavaScript
4 454 (16.80%) T-SQL
5 327 (12.10%) TypeScript
6 196 (7.25%) Python
7 139 (5.14%) Java
8 125 (4.63%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.18%) VB
10 112 (4.15%) VB.NET
11 51 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 41 (1.52%) C++
12 41 (1.52%) PHP
13 31 (1.15%) C
14 29 (1.07%) VB6
15 28 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 26 (0.96%) Bash
16 26 (0.96%) XAML
17 21 (0.78%) XPath
18 14 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 315 (11.66%) Degree
2 138 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 86 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 56 (2.07%) Security Cleared
5 54 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 30 (1.11%) DBS Check
6 30 (1.11%) SC Cleared
7 23 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 13 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 12 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 10 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.30%) HND
12 8 (0.30%) ISEB
13 7 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
14 6 (0.22%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.19%) HNC
15 5 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.15%) CISM
16 4 (0.15%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (4.26%) QA
2 89 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 34 (1.26%) SLA
4 12 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.41%) GDPR
6 10 (0.37%) 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 2 (0.074%) HL7
10 2 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.074%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.037%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.037%) PMO
System Software
1 170 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 101 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
3 85 (3.15%) Docker
4 58 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 48 (1.78%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.81%) vSphere
7 9 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.11%) XenApp
10 1 (0.037%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 80 (2.96%) Terraform
2 76 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 23 (0.85%) Ansible
4 21 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.70%) Grafana
6 17 (0.63%) Nagios
7 15 (0.56%) SCCM
8 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
10 8 (0.30%) MIIS
10 8 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.26%) Foglight
11 7 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.22%) Prometheus
13 5 (0.19%) WSUS
14 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.15%) Kibana
15 3 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
15 3 (0.11%) Oracle Statspack
16 2 (0.074%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 1,685 (62.36%) Microsoft
2 219 (8.11%) Oracle
3 124 (4.59%) Google
4 89 (3.29%) VMware
5 82 (3.03%) Facebook
6 54 (2.00%) Databricks
7 47 (1.74%) Sybase
8 45 (1.67%) TIBCO
9 44 (1.63%) IBM
10 43 (1.59%) Apple
11 39 (1.44%) OpenLink
12 33 (1.22%) Sony
12 33 (1.22%) Yahoo!
13 32 (1.18%) Veeam
14 31 (1.15%) Cisco
15 28 (1.04%) F5
16 24 (0.89%) FNZ
16 24 (0.89%) SAP
17 22 (0.81%) iManage
18 21 (0.78%) YouTube