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 remote or hybrid work requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 42 47
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -17
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,502 2,124 5,581
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.38% 6.47% 7.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.56% 27.23% 24.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,271 1,847 3,702
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,898 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,877 7,799 23,130
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.04% 23.76% 29.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,479 6,085 11,274
10th Percentile £38,084 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +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 26 July 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
1 111 (7.39%) IIS
2 85 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 67 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (2.00%) Apache
5 27 (1.80%) CMS
6 16 (1.07%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.53%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.33%) SAS
10 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.27%) JBoss
11 4 (0.27%) Kentico
11 4 (0.27%) nginx
12 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.20%) Confluence
12 3 (0.20%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.13%) DNN
Applications
1 45 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.20%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.067%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 36 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.60%) Endur
3 8 (0.53%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.47%) Sage X3
4 7 (0.47%) SAP Business One
5 6 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.33%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
7 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.067%) Front Arena
8 1 (0.067%) Magento
8 1 (0.067%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.067%) nopCommerce
8 1 (0.067%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 1 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.067%) Scribe Insight
8 1 (0.067%) Shopify
8 1 (0.067%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 899 (59.85%) Azure
2 250 (16.64%) Power Platform
3 219 (14.58%) AWS
4 192 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
5 95 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (3.99%) SaaS
7 50 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 50 (3.33%) GCP
8 47 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 46 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
10 43 (2.86%) PowerApps
11 42 (2.80%) Power Automate
12 37 (2.46%) Serverless
13 32 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 28 (1.86%) Snowflake
15 26 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 20 (1.33%) GitHub
17 19 (1.26%) PaaS
18 18 (1.20%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.73%) Firewall
2 55 (3.66%) DNS
3 49 (3.26%) Broadband
4 44 (2.93%) Internet
4 44 (2.93%) TCP/IP
5 32 (2.13%) SAN
6 20 (1.33%) DHCP
6 20 (1.33%) SSL
7 19 (1.26%) VoIP
8 16 (1.07%) LAN
8 16 (1.07%) VPN
9 13 (0.87%) Network Security
9 13 (0.87%) WAN
10 8 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.53%) Wireless
11 7 (0.47%) Mobile Broadband
11 7 (0.47%) VLAN
12 6 (0.40%) iSCSI
12 6 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (0.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (14.91%) Power BI
2 156 (10.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 141 (9.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 139 (9.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 110 (7.32%) MongoDB
5 110 (7.32%) Relational Database
6 99 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
7 93 (6.19%) MySQL
8 91 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
9 69 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
10 61 (4.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 40 (2.66%) DB2
11 40 (2.66%) Tableau
12 38 (2.53%) RDBMS
13 36 (2.40%) Data Lake
14 33 (2.20%) NoSQL
15 19 (1.26%) Oracle Database
16 16 (1.07%) Power Query
17 15 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
18 13 (0.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 140 (9.32%) Git
2 68 (4.53%) Visual Studio
3 35 (2.33%) Jasmine
3 35 (2.33%) JIRA
4 28 (1.86%) Karma Test Runner
5 27 (1.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 18 (1.20%) NUnit
7 17 (1.13%) Selenium
8 16 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
8 16 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 13 (0.87%) GitLab
10 12 (0.80%) Moq
11 11 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
11 11 (0.73%) SpecFlow
12 9 (0.60%) Jenkins
13 8 (0.53%) Postman
13 8 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.47%) MSTest
15 6 (0.40%) SoapUI
16 5 (0.33%) Mercurial
General
1 353 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 268 (17.84%) Finance
3 139 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (4.53%) Marketing
4 68 (4.53%) Retail
5 59 (3.93%) Games
6 58 (3.86%) Law
7 53 (3.53%) Legal
8 33 (2.20%) Banking
9 30 (2.00%) Public Sector
10 25 (1.66%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.60%) Advertising
12 22 (1.46%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.26%) Music Industry
13 19 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.20%) Back Office
14 18 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.53%) Billing
15 8 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 795 (52.93%) Developer
2 362 (24.10%) .NET Developer
3 244 (16.25%) C# Developer
4 203 (13.52%) Senior
5 147 (9.79%) C# .NET Developer
6 146 (9.72%) Software Developer
7 137 (9.12%) Lead
8 104 (6.92%) DBA
9 94 (6.26%) Senior Developer
10 91 (6.06%) Analyst
11 82 (5.46%) SQL DBA
12 73 (4.86%) Full Stack Developer
13 65 (4.33%) Support Engineer
14 64 (4.26%) Data Engineer
15 63 (4.19%) SQL Developer
16 61 (4.06%) Software Engineer
17 60 (3.99%) C# Software Developer
18 54 (3.60%) Administrator
19 49 (3.26%) Lead Developer
20 48 (3.20%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (51.66%) .NET
2 411 (27.36%) ASP.NET
3 357 (23.77%) AngularJS
4 356 (23.70%) HTML
5 355 (23.64%) .NET Core
6 280 (18.64%) .NET Framework
7 274 (18.24%) CSS
8 269 (17.91%) ASP.NET MVC
9 249 (16.58%) Entity Framework
10 202 (13.45%) React
11 194 (12.92%) ASP.NET Web API
12 141 (9.39%) HTML5
13 129 (8.59%) REST
14 125 (8.32%) Vue
15 116 (7.72%) Web Services
16 97 (6.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 94 (6.26%) RESTful
18 89 (5.93%) Node.js
19 76 (5.06%) Blazor
20 72 (4.79%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 59 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
1 59 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
2 58 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 41 (2.73%) Public Cloud
5 37 (2.46%) Replication
6 36 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 24 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 24 (1.60%) Swaptions
8 21 (1.40%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.33%) Cyberattack
9 20 (1.33%) Data Fabric
10 19 (1.26%) Life Science
11 18 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.07%) Clustering
13 15 (1.00%) Driving Licence
14 14 (0.93%) Housing Association
15 12 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
16 11 (0.73%) iPhone
17 10 (0.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 261 (17.38%) Windows
2 142 (9.45%) Linux
3 122 (8.12%) Windows Server
4 54 (3.60%) VMS
5 39 (2.60%) Unix
6 31 (2.06%) Windows 10
7 26 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (1.66%) AIX
9 24 (1.60%) zOS
10 20 (1.33%) Android
11 18 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (1.13%) Solaris
12 17 (1.13%) Ubuntu
13 12 (0.80%) CentOS
13 12 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
14 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.40%) Debian
16 3 (0.20%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (35.02%) Agile
2 352 (23.44%) Full Stack Development
3 344 (22.90%) MVC
4 294 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 291 (19.37%) DevOps
6 237 (15.78%) Business Intelligence
6 237 (15.78%) Microservices
7 189 (12.58%) Scrum
8 164 (10.92%) TDD
9 156 (10.39%) ETL
10 140 (9.32%) CI/CD
11 134 (8.92%) Customer Service
12 131 (8.72%) Software Engineering
13 115 (7.66%) BDD
14 111 (7.39%) Computer Science
15 108 (7.19%) Mentoring
16 106 (7.06%) Analytics
17 103 (6.86%) OO
18 100 (6.66%) Disaster Recovery
19 97 (6.46%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 808 (53.79%) SQL
2 791 (52.66%) C#
3 505 (33.62%) JavaScript
4 280 (18.64%) T-SQL
5 148 (9.85%) TypeScript
6 119 (7.92%) PowerShell
7 113 (7.52%) Python
8 109 (7.26%) Java
9 91 (6.06%) VB
9 91 (6.06%) VB.NET
10 39 (2.60%) C++
11 32 (2.13%) PHP
12 29 (1.93%) VB6
13 27 (1.80%) Bicep
13 27 (1.80%) C
14 25 (1.66%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 23 (1.53%) XAML
16 18 (1.20%) Bash
17 11 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 213 (14.18%) Degree
2 76 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 67 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 46 (3.06%) Security Cleared
5 28 (1.86%) SC Cleared
6 26 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.07%) DBS Check
7 16 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.80%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.47%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.33%) CISSP
10 5 (0.33%) HND
10 5 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.27%) CISM
11 4 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.13%) ACCA
13 2 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.99%) QA
2 43 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 32 (2.13%) SLA
4 17 (1.13%) GDPR
5 12 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.40%) WCAG
8 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.33%) NIST
9 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.20%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.067%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.067%) HL7
12 1 (0.067%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.067%) PMO
System Software
1 111 (7.39%) Active Directory
2 75 (4.99%) Docker
3 56 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
4 54 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 44 (2.93%) Hyper-V
6 20 (1.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.47%) Firmware
10 6 (0.40%) NFS
11 4 (0.27%) pfSense
11 4 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.20%) XenApp
13 1 (0.067%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.067%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 56 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 37 (2.46%) Terraform
3 14 (0.93%) Ansible
4 13 (0.87%) Nagios
5 12 (0.80%) Grafana
6 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.60%) SCCM
9 8 (0.53%) MIIS
10 7 (0.47%) PaperCut
10 7 (0.47%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.33%) Backup Exec
12 5 (0.33%) Foglight
12 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
14 3 (0.20%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.20%) Oracle Statspack
15 2 (0.13%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 771 (51.33%) Microsoft
2 151 (10.05%) Oracle
3 69 (4.59%) VMware
4 61 (4.06%) Google
5 41 (2.73%) Databricks
6 31 (2.06%) Sybase
7 29 (1.93%) Cisco
8 28 (1.86%) IBM
9 24 (1.60%) OpenLink
9 24 (1.60%) TIBCO
9 24 (1.60%) Veeam
10 21 (1.40%) Facebook
11 20 (1.33%) BT
12 17 (1.13%) F5
13 15 (1.00%) Citrix
14 14 (0.93%) Salesforce
14 14 (0.93%) SAP
15 11 (0.73%) NEC
15 11 (0.73%) Splunk
16 10 (0.67%) Sage