SQL Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 2,322 5,041 6,717
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.97% 14.18% 17.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.76% 35.20% 37.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,613 4,034 4,949
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,075 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,725 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.40% +8.23%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £89,852
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7,087 14,320 17,924
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.53% 40.28% 47.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,421 11,596 13,795
10th Percentile £39,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing SQL over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

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
1 186 (8.01%) Confluence
2 69 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 62 (2.67%) Apache
4 60 (2.58%) SharePoint
5 47 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 35 (1.51%) IIS
8 22 (0.95%) CMS
9 16 (0.69%) SAS
10 13 (0.56%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.30%) Moodle
11 7 (0.30%) nginx
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.13%) ColdFusion
14 3 (0.13%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.086%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.086%) Skype for Business
15 2 (0.086%) WebLogic
15 2 (0.086%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 146 (6.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (5.00%) Chatbot
3 38 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.30%) Trello
6 6 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.043%) Sketch
7 1 (0.043%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.043%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 56 (2.41%) Aladdin
2 40 (1.72%) NetSuite
3 39 (1.68%) thinkFolio
4 31 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 28 (1.21%) Sage 200
6 24 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
7 16 (0.69%) Sage CRM
8 15 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
9 12 (0.52%) Sage 50
10 11 (0.47%) JDE OneWorld
11 9 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
12 7 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
12 7 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
12 7 (0.30%) Infor M3
12 7 (0.30%) Q-Pulse
13 5 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
13 5 (0.22%) Elite 3E
14 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
14 4 (0.17%) ResourceLink
14 4 (0.17%) Sage 1000
Cloud Services
1 1,004 (43.24%) Azure
2 608 (26.18%) AWS
3 448 (19.29%) Power Platform
4 306 (13.18%) GCP
5 163 (7.02%) SaaS
6 149 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (5.17%) GitHub
8 90 (3.88%) Snowflake
9 89 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 84 (3.62%) Power Automate
11 77 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
12 61 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
13 60 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 59 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 59 (2.54%) PowerApps
15 55 (2.37%) Serverless
16 43 (1.85%) dbt
17 40 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
18 39 (1.68%) PaaS
19 38 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.24%) Firewall
2 45 (1.94%) DNS
3 24 (1.03%) VPN
3 24 (1.03%) WAN
4 19 (0.82%) DHCP
5 17 (0.73%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.69%) SSL
7 15 (0.65%) SAN
8 14 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.43%) Multicast
9 10 (0.43%) VLAN
10 9 (0.39%) DMARC
11 8 (0.34%) HTTP
11 8 (0.34%) Internet
12 7 (0.30%) ADSL
12 7 (0.30%) Broadband
12 7 (0.30%) NAS
13 6 (0.26%) LAN
13 6 (0.26%) SSH
14 5 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 607 (26.14%) SQL Server
2 419 (18.04%) Power BI
3 181 (7.80%) Data Warehouse
4 161 (6.93%) Tableau
5 122 (5.25%) NoSQL
5 122 (5.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 119 (5.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 118 (5.08%) Relational Database
8 98 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 97 (4.18%) MySQL
10 91 (3.92%) Big Data
11 90 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
12 82 (3.53%) Data Lake
12 82 (3.53%) MongoDB
13 52 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
14 38 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 38 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
15 35 (1.51%) Metadata
16 32 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
16 32 (1.38%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 327 (14.08%) JIRA
2 267 (11.50%) Selenium
3 266 (11.46%) Maven
4 265 (11.41%) GitLab
5 264 (11.37%) SonarQube
6 260 (11.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 258 (11.11%) Bitbucket
8 252 (10.85%) Cucumber
9 225 (9.69%) Git
10 82 (3.53%) Visual Studio
11 48 (2.07%) Jenkins
12 36 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
13 31 (1.34%) JUnit
14 30 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
15 22 (0.95%) MSBuild
15 22 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 18 (0.78%) Mockito
16 18 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
17 17 (0.73%) Postman
18 14 (0.60%) Eclipse
General
1 890 (38.33%) Finance
2 610 (26.27%) Social Skills
3 435 (18.73%) Banking
4 363 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 354 (15.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (10.59%) Retail
7 123 (5.30%) Investment Banking
8 100 (4.31%) Front Office
8 100 (4.31%) Manufacturing
9 91 (3.92%) Corporate Banking
10 90 (3.88%) Law
11 67 (2.89%) Marketing
12 63 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (2.15%) Back Office
14 46 (1.98%) Public Sector
15 34 (1.46%) Games
16 28 (1.21%) Advertising
16 28 (1.21%) Legal
17 26 (1.12%) Billing
18 22 (0.95%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 627 (27.00%) Developer
2 483 (20.80%) Analyst
3 440 (18.95%) Software Engineer
4 391 (16.84%) Senior
5 169 (7.28%) Data Engineer
6 155 (6.68%) Data Analyst
7 144 (6.20%) Lead
8 128 (5.51%) Senior Developer
9 110 (4.74%) Architect
9 110 (4.74%) Trainer
10 106 (4.57%) .NET Developer
11 96 (4.13%) Business Analyst
12 88 (3.79%) SQL Developer
13 86 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
14 84 (3.62%) Software Developer
15 80 (3.45%) Support Analyst
16 74 (3.19%) Applications Support
17 69 (2.97%) C# Developer
18 55 (2.37%) Business Manager
19 52 (2.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 591 (25.45%) HTML
2 422 (18.17%) CSS
3 392 (16.88%) .NET
4 390 (16.80%) React
5 312 (13.44%) Kafka
6 286 (12.32%) Spring
7 280 (12.06%) Spring Boot
8 269 (11.58%) JPA
9 255 (10.98%) Redux
10 213 (9.17%) REST
11 197 (8.48%) Hibernate
12 169 (7.28%) RESTful
13 152 (6.55%) ASP.NET
14 142 (6.12%) HTML5
15 127 (5.47%) .NET Framework
16 126 (5.43%) AngularJS
17 125 (5.38%) .NET Core
18 115 (4.95%) CSS3
19 107 (4.61%) XML
20 94 (4.05%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 315 (13.57%) Product Ownership
2 273 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 93 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 86 (3.70%) Derivative
4 86 (3.70%) Hedge funds
5 85 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 78 (3.36%) Fixed Income
7 69 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 61 (2.63%) Cloud Native
9 53 (2.28%) Data Structures
10 51 (2.20%) Algorithms
11 38 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
12 37 (1.59%) Data Centre
13 33 (1.42%) NHS
14 32 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 29 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
16 24 (1.03%) Equities
16 24 (1.03%) Virtual Team
17 23 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
17 23 (0.99%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 173 (7.45%) Linux
2 159 (6.85%) Windows
3 75 (3.23%) Unix
4 44 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.30%) Rocky
8 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.26%) Android
9 6 (0.26%) Solaris
10 5 (0.22%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.17%) VMS
12 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 3 (0.13%) CentOS
12 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.086%) Debian
13 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (34.07%) Agile
2 540 (23.26%) DevOps
3 536 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 524 (22.57%) Software Engineering
5 474 (20.41%) CI/CD
6 472 (20.33%) Business Intelligence
7 442 (19.04%) Microservices
8 410 (17.66%) Analytics
9 378 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 349 (15.03%) Test Automation
11 330 (14.21%) Mentoring
12 329 (14.17%) Containerisation
13 326 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 317 (13.65%) SDLC
15 309 (13.31%) Performance Optimisation
16 285 (12.27%) Front End Development
17 270 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
18 264 (11.37%) Visualisation
19 252 (10.85%) Migration
20 248 (10.68%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 747 (32.17%) JavaScript
2 746 (32.13%) Python
3 604 (26.01%) C#
4 523 (22.52%) Java
5 235 (10.12%) TypeScript
6 205 (8.83%) C++
7 142 (6.12%) T-SQL
8 119 (5.12%) PowerShell
9 116 (5.00%) PHP
10 96 (4.13%) R
11 84 (3.62%) PL/SQL
12 74 (3.19%) C
13 58 (2.50%) Ruby
14 52 (2.24%) MATLAB
15 51 (2.20%) Rust
16 49 (2.11%) Dart
16 49 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 48 (2.07%) VBA
18 38 (1.64%) VB.NET
19 36 (1.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 532 (22.91%) Degree
2 166 (7.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (3.53%) DBS Check
4 57 (2.45%) Security Cleared
5 50 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 33 (1.42%) SC Cleared
8 28 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (0.95%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.69%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (0.60%) PhD
12 11 (0.47%) MCSE
13 10 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.43%) DV Cleared
14 9 (0.39%) MCP
15 8 (0.34%) MCSA
16 7 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (0.26%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (14.25%) QA
2 142 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 131 (5.64%) Accessibility
4 79 (3.40%) GDPR
5 30 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.69%) ISO 9001
6 16 (0.69%) NIST
7 12 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 12 (0.52%) SLA
8 11 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.26%) GxP
12 5 (0.22%) IFRS
12 5 (0.22%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.17%) Basel II
13 4 (0.17%) COREP
13 4 (0.17%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.17%) ITGC
System Software
1 420 (18.09%) Docker
2 40 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (1.51%) Active Directory
4 23 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.47%) HDFS
7 5 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.086%) KVM
8 2 (0.086%) NFS
8 2 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.086%) SRDF
8 2 (0.086%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.086%) vSphere
8 2 (0.086%) Xen
9 1 (0.043%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.043%) Samba
9 1 (0.043%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.043%) Varnish
9 1 (0.043%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 375 (16.15%) Kubernetes
2 81 (3.49%) Terraform
3 35 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
6 12 (0.52%) Grafana
6 12 (0.52%) Istio
6 12 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.39%) Ansible
8 7 (0.30%) Nagios
8 7 (0.30%) PaperCut
9 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.22%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.17%) Argo
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (0.17%) SCCM
11 2 (0.086%) Puppet
11 2 (0.086%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.086%) SCOM
Vendors
1 448 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 247 (10.64%) Solace
3 169 (7.28%) Oracle
4 140 (6.03%) Databricks
5 118 (5.08%) PayPal
6 92 (3.96%) Google
7 56 (2.41%) SAP
8 55 (2.37%) BISAM
9 46 (1.98%) Charles River
9 46 (1.98%) VMware
10 40 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 40 (1.72%) SimCorp
11 39 (1.68%) Calypso
12 38 (1.64%) Sage
13 33 (1.42%) IBM
14 31 (1.34%) ServiceNow
15 25 (1.08%) Facebook
16 20 (0.86%) Informatica
17 19 (0.82%) Adobe
18 18 (0.78%) Meraki