SQL Jobs with Work from Home Options

SQL (Structured Query Language)
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,836 8,123 12,218
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.33% 18.83% 18.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.20% 38.23% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,065 5,484 7,983
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,191 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.62% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

SQL is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,739 21,246 39,163
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.72% 49.24% 58.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,385 15,601 23,937
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

SQL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

SQL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 138 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 129 (2.67%) IIS
3 81 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 81 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 66 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 62 (1.28%) Apache
6 52 (1.08%) CMS
6 52 (1.08%) SAS
7 35 (0.72%) Confluence
8 15 (0.31%) Drupal
8 15 (0.31%) Umbraco
9 13 (0.27%) WordPress
10 12 (0.25%) nginx
11 11 (0.23%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
12 5 (0.10%) JBoss
12 5 (0.10%) NServiceBus
13 4 (0.083%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.083%) EPiServer
13 4 (0.083%) WebLogic
Applications
1 270 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.33%) SPSS
7 10 (0.21%) Simulink
8 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.041%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.021%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.021%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 63 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
3 16 (0.33%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.33%) SAP Business One
4 12 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.19%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.17%) Shopify
6 8 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
7 7 (0.14%) Relativity
7 7 (0.14%) thinkFolio
8 6 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
8 6 (0.12%) Primavera
8 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.083%) MIS ActiveH
10 4 (0.083%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.062%) Infor M3
11 3 (0.062%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1,867 (38.61%) Azure
2 1,025 (21.20%) Power Platform
3 941 (19.46%) AWS
4 331 (6.84%) GCP
5 302 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
6 208 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
7 196 (4.05%) SaaS
8 192 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 188 (3.89%) Serverless
10 184 (3.80%) Snowflake
11 132 (2.73%) GitHub
12 116 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 109 (2.25%) PowerApps
14 98 (2.03%) Power Automate
15 92 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
16 88 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
17 74 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 69 (1.43%) Entra ID
19 66 (1.36%) dbt
20 64 (1.32%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.94%) Internet
2 80 (1.65%) Broadband
3 77 (1.59%) Firewall
4 69 (1.43%) DNS
5 48 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 39 (0.81%) VPN
7 38 (0.79%) DHCP
7 38 (0.79%) HTTP
8 34 (0.70%) Network Security
9 28 (0.58%) SSL
10 16 (0.33%) SAN
11 15 (0.31%) BIG-IP
11 15 (0.31%) Modbus
12 12 (0.25%) FTP
12 12 (0.25%) LAN
12 12 (0.25%) WAN
13 10 (0.21%) MQTT
13 10 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
14 9 (0.19%) Multicast
15 8 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,355 (28.02%) SQL Server
2 964 (19.93%) Power BI
3 524 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
4 404 (8.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 380 (7.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 365 (7.55%) Tableau
7 342 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
8 276 (5.71%) Relational Database
9 263 (5.44%) MySQL
10 241 (4.98%) NoSQL
11 226 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 218 (4.51%) Data Lake
13 198 (4.09%) Oracle Database
14 173 (3.58%) BigQuery
15 134 (2.77%) MongoDB
16 110 (2.27%) Oracle Database 11g
17 101 (2.09%) Big Data
18 83 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 76 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
20 62 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 396 (8.19%) Git
2 158 (3.27%) JIRA
3 126 (2.61%) Visual Studio
4 123 (2.54%) Jenkins
5 97 (2.01%) GitLab
6 58 (1.20%) Postman
7 54 (1.12%) Selenium
8 42 (0.87%) Maven
9 38 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
10 37 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 32 (0.66%) JMeter
11 32 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 28 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 28 (0.58%) IBM UrbanCode
12 28 (0.58%) Jasmine
12 28 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
13 27 (0.56%) TeamCity
14 24 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
15 23 (0.48%) Eclipse
16 20 (0.41%) NUnit
General
1 1,380 (28.54%) Social Skills
2 1,126 (23.28%) Finance
3 620 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (7.67%) Retail
5 303 (6.27%) Banking
6 296 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 207 (4.28%) Law
8 189 (3.91%) Marketing
9 178 (3.68%) Front Office
10 162 (3.35%) Legal
11 151 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
12 137 (2.83%) Back Office
13 111 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 98 (2.03%) Manufacturing
15 95 (1.96%) Games
16 70 (1.45%) Advertising
17 62 (1.28%) Telecoms
18 56 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
19 54 (1.12%) Tech for Good
20 41 (0.85%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,618 (33.46%) Developer
2 1,051 (21.73%) Senior
3 832 (17.20%) Analyst
4 464 (9.59%) Lead
5 446 (9.22%) .NET Developer
6 412 (8.52%) Senior Developer
7 393 (8.13%) Data Engineer
8 357 (7.38%) Software Engineer
9 285 (5.89%) Data Analyst
10 211 (4.36%) Software Developer
11 209 (4.32%) C# Developer
12 205 (4.24%) DBA
13 195 (4.03%) Consultant
14 178 (3.68%) Applications Support
15 176 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
16 160 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
17 149 (3.08%) Support Analyst
18 144 (2.98%) SQL DBA
19 132 (2.73%) SQL Developer
20 128 (2.65%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,174 (24.28%) .NET
2 634 (13.11%) HTML
3 528 (10.92%) CSS
4 517 (10.69%) ASP.NET
5 419 (8.66%) .NET Core
6 354 (7.32%) AngularJS
7 347 (7.18%) React
8 309 (6.39%) REST
9 270 (5.58%) ASP.NET MVC
10 256 (5.29%) Entity Framework
11 250 (5.17%) .NET Framework
11 250 (5.17%) HTML5
12 240 (4.96%) Blazor
13 212 (4.38%) Web Services
14 199 (4.11%) JSON
15 187 (3.87%) RESTful
16 185 (3.83%) CSS3
17 172 (3.56%) XML
18 168 (3.47%) Vue
19 155 (3.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 176 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
2 156 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 144 (2.98%) Hedge funds
4 128 (2.65%) Derivative
5 127 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 124 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 123 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
8 116 (2.40%) Algorithms
9 101 (2.09%) Client/Server
10 88 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 88 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 81 (1.67%) Fixed Income
12 79 (1.63%) Equities
13 78 (1.61%) Cloud Native
14 71 (1.47%) Onboarding
15 54 (1.12%) IoT
16 52 (1.08%) NHS
17 50 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
17 50 (1.03%) Mobile App
18 40 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 428 (8.85%) Windows
2 298 (6.16%) Linux
3 132 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 88 (1.82%) Unix
5 79 (1.63%) VMS
6 67 (1.39%) Windows 10
7 33 (0.68%) Windows 7
8 32 (0.66%) Windows 8
9 31 (0.64%) Android
10 26 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 23 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 18 (0.37%) Apple iOS
12 18 (0.37%) Ubuntu
13 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
14 15 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (0.31%) zOS
15 14 (0.29%) CentOS
16 11 (0.23%) AIX
17 9 (0.19%) Solaris
18 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,354 (28.00%) Agile
2 1,072 (22.17%) Business Intelligence
3 874 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
4 841 (17.39%) Analytics
5 692 (14.31%) DevOps
6 676 (13.98%) ETL
7 609 (12.59%) Software Engineering
8 552 (11.41%) Mentoring
9 534 (11.04%) Visualisation
10 510 (10.55%) Full Stack Development
11 481 (9.95%) Artificial Intelligence
12 477 (9.86%) Data Science
13 427 (8.83%) Data Analysis
14 410 (8.48%) Data Modelling
15 402 (8.31%) MVC
16 398 (8.23%) CI/CD
16 398 (8.23%) Machine Learning
17 376 (7.78%) TDD
18 368 (7.61%) Migration
19 357 (7.38%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1,255 (25.95%) C#
2 1,199 (24.79%) Python
3 928 (19.19%) JavaScript
4 589 (12.18%) T-SQL
5 466 (9.64%) Java
6 272 (5.62%) TypeScript
7 256 (5.29%) PL/SQL
8 142 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 138 (2.85%) PHP
10 127 (2.63%) R
11 103 (2.13%) VB.NET
12 83 (1.72%) C++
13 76 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 70 (1.45%) VB
15 59 (1.22%) VBA
16 56 (1.16%) Bash
17 53 (1.10%) C
18 50 (1.03%) Groovy
19 49 (1.01%) Scala
20 39 (0.81%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 781 (16.15%) Degree
2 226 (4.67%) DBS Check
3 171 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 162 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 153 (3.16%) Security Cleared
6 118 (2.44%) SC Cleared
7 107 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 42 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 42 (0.87%) DV Cleared
9 25 (0.52%) PhD
10 19 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
10 19 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 18 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.33%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.31%) CISA
14 14 (0.29%) CISSP
15 11 (0.23%) CIPD
15 11 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 10 (0.21%) GIAC
16 10 (0.21%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 161 (3.33%) QA
3 54 (1.12%) GDPR
3 54 (1.12%) SLA
4 42 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 35 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.37%) PMO
7 15 (0.31%) ITGC
8 13 (0.27%) COBIT
9 8 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.17%) NIST
10 7 (0.14%) SOC 1
11 6 (0.12%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 5 (0.10%) IFRS
13 4 (0.083%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.083%) HL7
13 4 (0.083%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.083%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.083%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.062%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 274 (5.67%) Docker
2 211 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 92 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 88 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 81 (1.67%) Hyper-V
6 32 (0.66%) VirtualBox
6 32 (0.66%) XenApp
6 32 (0.66%) XenDesktop
7 12 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
7 12 (0.25%) vSphere
8 10 (0.21%) Firmware
9 9 (0.19%) Forefront TMG
9 9 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.083%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.062%) RACF
13 3 (0.062%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 262 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 204 (4.22%) Terraform
3 64 (1.32%) Ansible
4 36 (0.74%) Grafana
5 34 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 18 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.35%) SCCM
7 17 (0.35%) SCOM
8 14 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.29%) Puppet
9 12 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.23%) WSUS
11 9 (0.19%) logstash
12 8 (0.17%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
12 8 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,261 (26.08%) Microsoft
2 429 (8.87%) Oracle
3 340 (7.03%) Databricks
4 205 (4.24%) Google
5 111 (2.30%) VMware
6 97 (2.01%) SAP
7 87 (1.80%) IBM
8 38 (0.79%) Citrix
9 36 (0.74%) F5
10 35 (0.72%) Salesforce
11 32 (0.66%) Alteryx
12 27 (0.56%) Sage
13 25 (0.52%) IFS
14 23 (0.48%) Facebook
15 22 (0.45%) Adobe
16 19 (0.39%) NEC
17 18 (0.37%) Talend
17 18 (0.37%) Teradata
18 17 (0.35%) Aderant
19 15 (0.31%) Murex