Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 24 July 2021

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 24 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
24 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 5 9 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,578 902 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.06% 16.56% 14.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.40% 26.37% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,806 795 1,094
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,374
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £78,375
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%

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.

All Programming Languages
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,705 3,420 4,652
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.05% 62.79% 57.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,988 3,044 4,249
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

SQL
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

SQL
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

SQL
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 24 July 2021.

SQL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 24 July 2021, SQL job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for SQL.

1 1,749 (38.20%) Agile Software Development
2 1,628 (35.56%) Azure
3 1,431 (31.26%) C#
4 1,327 (28.99%) JavaScript
5 1,322 (28.88%) .NET
6 1,066 (23.29%) SQL Server
7 1,048 (22.89%) Microsoft
8 1,040 (22.72%) DevOps
9 951 (20.77%) AWS
10 888 (19.40%) Java
11 821 (17.93%) Python
12 806 (17.61%) Finance
13 793 (17.32%) Business Intelligence
14 777 (16.97%) Social Skills
15 746 (16.30%) Software Engineering
16 713 (15.57%) React
17 646 (14.11%) Microservices
18 633 (13.83%) HTML
19 627 (13.70%) Git (software)
20 614 (13.41%) Docker
21 604 (13.19%) AngularJS
22 580 (12.67%) NoSQL
23 561 (12.25%) Analytics
24 560 (12.23%) Scrum
25 547 (11.95%) Power Platform
26 541 (11.82%) Oracle
27 532 (11.62%) Degree
28 531 (11.60%) CSS
29 529 (11.56%) T-SQL
30 525 (11.47%) Power BI

SQL
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 154 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 143 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 128 (2.80%) IIS
4 121 (2.64%) CMS
5 116 (2.53%) Apache
6 86 (1.88%) SAS
7 80 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 64 (1.40%) Confluence
9 62 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
10 47 (1.03%) EPiServer
11 46 (1.00%) Umbraco
12 42 (0.92%) WordPress
13 38 (0.83%) Tomcat
14 32 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
15 31 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
16 28 (0.61%) Headless CMS
17 25 (0.55%) Kentico
17 25 (0.55%) MS Exchange
18 20 (0.44%) WebLogic
19 19 (0.42%) nginx
Applications
1 198 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
6 7 (0.15%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.13%) InDesign
8 4 (0.087%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.066%) InVision
9 3 (0.066%) Sketch
9 3 (0.066%) Weka
10 2 (0.044%) Figma
10 2 (0.044%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.022%) PrintSoft PReS
11 1 (0.022%) SPSS
11 1 (0.022%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 62 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.72%) Adobe Campaign
3 24 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 16 (0.35%) Magento
4 16 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
5 13 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.28%) Shopify
6 10 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.22%) Sentinel
7 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
8 6 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.087%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.066%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.066%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.066%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.066%) SDL Web 8
11 3 (0.066%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,628 (35.56%) Azure
2 951 (20.77%) AWS
3 547 (11.95%) Power Platform
4 336 (7.34%) GCP
5 289 (6.31%) SaaS
6 243 (5.31%) Serverless
7 153 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 139 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
9 131 (2.86%) Amazon S3
10 130 (2.84%) PaaS
11 123 (2.69%) GitHub
12 107 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
13 94 (2.05%) IaaS
14 93 (2.03%) Snowflake
15 82 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
16 81 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
17 74 (1.62%) Azure Active Directory
17 74 (1.62%) Azure Functions
18 73 (1.59%) PowerApps
19 66 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.33%) DNS
2 49 (1.07%) Firewall
3 38 (0.83%) DHCP
4 37 (0.81%) HTTP
5 34 (0.74%) SMS
6 26 (0.57%) SAN
7 20 (0.44%) FTP
7 20 (0.44%) Internet
8 19 (0.42%) LAN
8 19 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 19 (0.42%) WAN
9 18 (0.39%) SSL
10 15 (0.33%) VPN
11 12 (0.26%) Network Security
11 12 (0.26%) SSH
12 11 (0.24%) VLAN
13 10 (0.22%) Wireless
14 7 (0.15%) Intranet
15 5 (0.11%) IPv4
15 5 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,066 (23.29%) SQL Server
2 580 (12.67%) NoSQL
3 525 (11.47%) Power BI
4 463 (10.11%) Data Warehouse
5 350 (7.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 322 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
7 319 (6.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 284 (6.20%) Relational Database
9 265 (5.79%) MySQL
10 242 (5.29%) Big Data
11 239 (5.22%) Tableau
12 212 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
13 210 (4.59%) MongoDB
14 187 (4.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 148 (3.23%) Data Lake
16 140 (3.06%) Amazon DynamoDB
17 114 (2.49%) Hadoop
18 110 (2.40%) Redis
19 105 (2.29%) Oracle Database
20 93 (2.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 627 (13.70%) Git (software)
2 327 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 199 (4.35%) Visual Studio
4 172 (3.76%) JIRA
5 119 (2.60%) Maven
6 118 (2.58%) JUnit
7 115 (2.51%) Selenium
8 100 (2.18%) Team Foundation Server
9 83 (1.81%) Octopus Deploy
10 81 (1.77%) TeamCity
11 48 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 48 (1.05%) Visual Studio Team System
12 45 (0.98%) NUnit
13 43 (0.94%) WebDriver
14 40 (0.87%) SpecFlow
15 38 (0.83%) Postman
16 37 (0.81%) webpack
17 36 (0.79%) Bitbucket
17 36 (0.79%) Gradle
18 34 (0.74%) Cypress.io
General
1 806 (17.61%) Finance
2 777 (16.97%) Social Skills
3 407 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 247 (5.40%) Marketing
5 206 (4.50%) Retail
6 134 (2.93%) Banking
7 112 (2.45%) Games
8 99 (2.16%) Law
9 73 (1.59%) Public Sector
10 67 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 62 (1.35%) Legal
12 53 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 52 (1.14%) Front Office
13 52 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 36 (0.79%) Back Office
16 33 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 24 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
18 23 (0.50%) French Language
19 22 (0.48%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,298 (50.20%) Developer
2 501 (10.94%) C# Developer
3 485 (10.59%) Analyst
4 477 (10.42%) .NET Developer
5 400 (8.74%) Senior Developer
6 381 (8.32%) Software Developer
7 284 (6.20%) Full Stack Developer
7 284 (6.20%) Java Developer
8 270 (5.90%) Software Engineer
9 259 (5.66%) Data Engineer
10 247 (5.40%) C# .NET Developer
11 242 (5.29%) SQL Developer
12 221 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
13 180 (3.93%) JavaScript Developer
14 167 (3.65%) C# Software Developer
15 159 (3.47%) Architect
15 159 (3.47%) PHP Developer
16 150 (3.28%) Consultant
17 147 (3.21%) Data Analyst
17 147 (3.21%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,322 (28.88%) .NET
2 713 (15.57%) React
3 633 (13.83%) HTML
4 604 (13.19%) AngularJS
5 531 (11.60%) CSS
6 516 (11.27%) .NET Core
7 457 (9.98%) ASP.NET
8 389 (8.50%) Web Services
9 379 (8.28%) REST
10 331 (7.23%) RESTful
11 320 (6.99%) Spring
12 236 (5.16%) Node.js
13 232 (5.07%) .NET Framework
14 229 (5.00%) XML
15 228 (4.98%) Vue.js
16 211 (4.61%) Spring Boot
17 208 (4.54%) jQuery
18 206 (4.50%) Kafka
19 198 (4.33%) JSON
20 171 (3.74%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 293 (6.40%) Greenfield Project
2 148 (3.23%) User Experience
3 133 (2.91%) Mobile App
4 116 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
5 95 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 88 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 83 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 78 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 74 (1.62%) Data Structures
10 57 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 53 (1.16%) Management Information System
12 50 (1.09%) Hedge funds
13 48 (1.05%) Equities
14 45 (0.98%) Derivative
15 44 (0.96%) Data Centre
16 42 (0.92%) Fixed Income
16 42 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 38 (0.83%) NHS
18 37 (0.81%) Cloud Native
19 33 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 470 (10.27%) Windows
2 429 (9.37%) Linux
3 156 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.38%) Unix
5 83 (1.81%) Android
6 74 (1.62%) Apple iOS
7 36 (0.79%) Windows 10
8 33 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 26 (0.57%) Ubuntu
9 26 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (0.33%) Windows 7
12 14 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (0.13%) CentOS
14 6 (0.13%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.11%) VMS
15 5 (0.11%) zOS
16 4 (0.087%) AIX
17 3 (0.066%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,749 (38.20%) Agile Software Development
2 1,040 (22.72%) DevOps
3 793 (17.32%) Business Intelligence
4 746 (16.30%) Software Engineering
5 646 (14.11%) Microservices
6 561 (12.25%) Analytics
7 560 (12.23%) Scrum
8 520 (11.36%) MVC
9 483 (10.55%) ETL
10 446 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
11 374 (8.17%) TDD
12 371 (8.10%) Data Modelling
13 355 (7.75%) Computer Science
14 342 (7.47%) Test Automation
15 334 (7.30%) Mentoring
16 314 (6.86%) Migration
17 313 (6.84%) Fintech
18 289 (6.31%) Visualisation
19 285 (6.23%) Data Science
20 271 (5.92%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,431 (31.26%) C#
2 1,327 (28.99%) JavaScript
3 888 (19.40%) Java
4 821 (17.93%) Python
5 529 (11.56%) T-SQL
6 355 (7.75%) TypeScript
7 271 (5.92%) PHP
8 230 (5.02%) PowerShell
9 193 (4.22%) PL/SQL
10 147 (3.21%) Scala
11 134 (2.93%) R
12 124 (2.71%) C++
13 111 (2.42%) Go
14 97 (2.12%) C
15 95 (2.08%) Java 8
16 85 (1.86%) Ruby
17 84 (1.83%) Bash Shell
18 60 (1.31%) Kotlin
19 55 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
19 55 (1.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 532 (11.62%) Degree
2 222 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 118 (2.58%) Security Cleared
4 104 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 56 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 49 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
7 26 (0.57%) PhD
8 21 (0.46%) MCSE
9 20 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 20 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (0.42%) CCNA
11 13 (0.28%) ISEB
12 12 (0.26%) HND
13 9 (0.20%) MCSA
14 8 (0.17%) CISA
14 8 (0.17%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.15%) CISSP
15 7 (0.15%) HNC
15 7 (0.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (5.85%) QA
2 137 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 58 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 54 (1.18%) GDPR
5 44 (0.96%) SLA
6 21 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 17 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.28%) GRC
8 13 (0.28%) Solvency II
9 12 (0.26%) CDISC
10 7 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
11 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.087%) COBIT
12 4 (0.087%) HL7
12 4 (0.087%) WCAG
13 3 (0.066%) EMIR
13 3 (0.066%) ISO 15022
13 3 (0.066%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.066%) MiFID
13 3 (0.066%) NIST
System Software
1 614 (13.41%) Docker
2 173 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.31%) HDFS
8 7 (0.15%) VirtualBox
9 5 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.087%) Snort
10 4 (0.087%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.066%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.066%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.044%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.044%) Firmware
12 2 (0.044%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.044%) XenApp
13 1 (0.022%) NFS
Systems Management
1 467 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 277 (6.05%) Terraform
3 140 (3.06%) Ansible
4 51 (1.11%) Puppet
5 43 (0.94%) Opscode Chef
6 38 (0.83%) SCCM
7 30 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (0.50%) Packer
9 23 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 23 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.33%) Grafana
11 14 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (0.26%) Kustomize
13 10 (0.22%) Argo
14 9 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
15 8 (0.17%) HP Fortify
15 8 (0.17%) WSUS
16 6 (0.13%) FlexNet
Vendors
1 1,048 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 541 (11.82%) Oracle
3 257 (5.61%) Google
4 109 (2.38%) Databricks
5 107 (2.34%) SAP
6 98 (2.14%) VMware
7 96 (2.10%) EnterpriseDB
8 76 (1.66%) Salesforce.com
9 56 (1.22%) Adobe
10 44 (0.96%) IBM
11 38 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 38 (0.83%) Informatica
12 35 (0.76%) Sitecore
13 30 (0.66%) Alteryx
14 29 (0.63%) Xamarin
15 26 (0.57%) JDA
16 25 (0.55%) JD Edwards
16 25 (0.55%) Red Hat
17 24 (0.52%) Qubit
18 23 (0.50%) Talend