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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 7 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,677 10,669 9,138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.42% 19.77% 18.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.97% 38.37% 31.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,991 6,958 7,311
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,306 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,125 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +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 10,222 27,803 29,171
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 45.65% 51.53% 57.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,078 19,734 22,215
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%

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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 7 December 2023.

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
1 112 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 76 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (1.77%) Apache
3 65 (1.77%) Confluence
4 55 (1.50%) IIS
5 46 (1.25%) SAS
6 45 (1.22%) Apache Spark
7 42 (1.14%) CMS
8 25 (0.68%) Umbraco
9 24 (0.65%) Tomcat
10 17 (0.46%) WordPress
11 15 (0.41%) MS Exchange
11 15 (0.41%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.35%) NServiceBus
12 13 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
13 12 (0.33%) Jetty
14 11 (0.30%) WebLogic
15 8 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
16 7 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
16 7 (0.19%) Joomla!
Applications
1 192 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.082%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.082%) SPSS
7 1 (0.027%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.027%) Trello
Business Applications
1 105 (2.86%) Hyperion Planning
2 70 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.44%) Siebel CRM
4 11 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
6 9 (0.24%) Elite 3E
7 8 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
7 8 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 5 (0.14%) JDE OneWorld
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.14%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.082%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.082%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.082%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,266 (34.43%) Azure
2 764 (20.78%) AWS
3 610 (16.59%) Power Platform
4 313 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
5 287 (7.81%) GCP
6 234 (6.36%) SaaS
7 170 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
8 146 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 128 (3.48%) Serverless
10 113 (3.07%) GitHub
11 95 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
12 92 (2.50%) Snowflake
13 91 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 85 (2.31%) Entra ID
15 81 (2.20%) PaaS
16 64 (1.74%) dbt
17 62 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
18 60 (1.63%) PowerApps
19 57 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
20 55 (1.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.20%) DNS
2 74 (2.01%) Firewall
3 39 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 32 (0.87%) Internet
4 32 (0.87%) VPN
5 31 (0.84%) DHCP
6 23 (0.63%) SAN
7 20 (0.54%) HTTP
7 20 (0.54%) SMTP
8 19 (0.52%) NAS
8 19 (0.52%) VoIP
9 17 (0.46%) VLAN
10 15 (0.41%) WAN
11 12 (0.33%) Network Security
12 10 (0.27%) LAN
12 10 (0.27%) Skype
13 9 (0.24%) AMQP
13 9 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
13 9 (0.24%) SSL
14 7 (0.19%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 813 (22.11%) SQL Server
2 574 (15.61%) Power BI
3 354 (9.63%) Data Warehouse
4 274 (7.45%) NoSQL
5 245 (6.66%) PostgreSQL
6 243 (6.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 192 (5.22%) MySQL
8 190 (5.17%) Relational Database
9 188 (5.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 177 (4.81%) Oracle Database
11 165 (4.49%) Data Lake
12 145 (3.94%) Tableau
13 138 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 126 (3.43%) MongoDB
15 112 (3.05%) Oracle Database 11g
16 89 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 81 (2.20%) Big Data
18 66 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
19 56 (1.52%) RDBMS
20 53 (1.44%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 328 (8.92%) Git
2 157 (4.27%) JIRA
3 156 (4.24%) Jenkins
4 101 (2.75%) Visual Studio
5 83 (2.26%) Maven
6 73 (1.99%) Selenium
7 63 (1.71%) Cucumber
8 47 (1.28%) Oracle APEX
9 46 (1.25%) Postman
10 36 (0.98%) IntelliJ
11 34 (0.92%) SoapUI
12 32 (0.87%) GitLab
13 30 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
14 29 (0.79%) Cypress.io
14 29 (0.79%) SonarQube
14 29 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 26 (0.71%) JUnit
16 25 (0.68%) Bitbucket
16 25 (0.68%) JMeter
17 22 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,047 (28.47%) Finance
2 785 (21.35%) Social Skills
3 459 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
4 372 (10.12%) Banking
5 208 (5.66%) Retail
6 152 (4.13%) Marketing
7 138 (3.75%) Law
8 124 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (2.91%) Public Sector
10 90 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 89 (2.42%) Legal
12 83 (2.26%) Front Office
13 61 (1.66%) Manufacturing
14 53 (1.44%) Back Office
15 41 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
16 36 (0.98%) Financial Institution
17 35 (0.95%) Retail Banking
18 33 (0.90%) Electronics
18 33 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
19 31 (0.84%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,203 (32.72%) Developer
2 783 (21.29%) Senior
3 556 (15.12%) Analyst
4 399 (10.85%) Data Engineer
5 303 (8.24%) Senior Developer
6 301 (8.19%) Lead
7 290 (7.89%) Software Engineer
8 262 (7.13%) .NET Developer
9 189 (5.14%) Software Developer
10 177 (4.81%) Data Analyst
11 159 (4.32%) Applications Support
12 158 (4.30%) Consultant
13 155 (4.22%) C# Developer
14 149 (4.05%) Full Stack Developer
15 139 (3.78%) DBA
16 134 (3.64%) SQL Developer
17 120 (3.26%) Administrator
18 116 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
19 112 (3.05%) Java Developer
20 111 (3.02%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 823 (22.38%) .NET
2 417 (11.34%) HTML
3 397 (10.80%) CSS
4 298 (8.10%) React
5 277 (7.53%) .NET Core
6 264 (7.18%) AngularJS
7 263 (7.15%) .NET Framework
8 261 (7.10%) ASP.NET
9 231 (6.28%) REST
10 199 (5.41%) Web Services
11 180 (4.90%) XML
12 179 (4.87%) JSON
13 147 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
14 123 (3.35%) jQuery
15 120 (3.26%) Spring
16 119 (3.24%) Entity Framework
17 116 (3.15%) SOAP
18 111 (3.02%) RESTful
19 106 (2.88%) ASP.NET MVC
20 101 (2.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 141 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
2 114 (3.10%) Product Ownership
2 114 (3.10%) Replication
3 88 (2.39%) Data Structures
4 77 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
5 72 (1.96%) Algorithms
6 70 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 55 (1.50%) Mobile App
9 51 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 51 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 49 (1.33%) Cloud Native
11 45 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 40 (1.09%) Derivative
12 40 (1.09%) Hedge funds
13 38 (1.03%) Clustering
13 38 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (0.87%) Credit Risk
14 32 (0.87%) Equities
15 31 (0.84%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 355 (9.65%) Windows
2 229 (6.23%) Linux
3 183 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.96%) Unix
5 57 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 44 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 41 (1.12%) Mac OS
8 22 (0.60%) Android
9 19 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 19 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (0.38%) Mac OS X
11 14 (0.38%) Windows 7
12 12 (0.33%) AIX
12 12 (0.33%) Solaris
13 11 (0.30%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.24%) Debian
15 5 (0.14%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,141 (31.03%) Agile
2 673 (18.30%) DevOps
3 645 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
4 552 (15.01%) Analytics
4 552 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
5 470 (12.78%) Software Engineering
6 447 (12.16%) ETL
7 403 (10.96%) CI/CD
8 343 (9.33%) Migration
9 322 (8.76%) Data Modelling
9 322 (8.76%) Full Stack Development
10 315 (8.57%) Mentoring
10 315 (8.57%) Visualisation
11 313 (8.51%) Actionable Insight
12 290 (7.89%) Scrum
13 277 (7.53%) Microservices
14 257 (6.99%) Data Analysis
14 257 (6.99%) MVC
15 242 (6.58%) Data Pipeline
16 218 (5.93%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 894 (24.31%) C#
2 853 (23.20%) Python
3 721 (19.61%) JavaScript
4 460 (12.51%) Java
5 377 (10.25%) T-SQL
6 294 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 276 (7.51%) PL/SQL
8 202 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 102 (2.77%) PHP
10 88 (2.39%) Bash
11 86 (2.34%) C++
11 86 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 80 (2.18%) R
13 65 (1.77%) Scala
14 55 (1.50%) Ruby
14 55 (1.50%) VB.NET
15 45 (1.22%) Shell Script
16 36 (0.98%) Go
17 27 (0.73%) VBA
18 26 (0.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 462 (12.56%) Degree
2 250 (6.80%) Security Cleared
3 199 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 136 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 52 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 47 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 43 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 25 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 20 (0.54%) MCSE
11 18 (0.49%) MCSA
12 16 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 9 (0.24%) PhD
14 8 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
15 7 (0.19%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (4.54%) Data Quality
1 167 (4.54%) QA
2 51 (1.39%) SLA
3 45 (1.22%) GDPR
4 24 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 14 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.24%) NCSC
8 7 (0.19%) HL7
8 7 (0.19%) NIST
9 6 (0.16%) Basel III
9 6 (0.16%) ISO 22301
9 6 (0.16%) MiFID
9 6 (0.16%) PMO
10 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.14%) IFRS
10 5 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 5 (0.14%) ITGC
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 297 (8.08%) Docker
2 183 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.38%) vSphere
7 12 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
8 11 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.14%) Firmware
10 5 (0.14%) VirtualBox
10 5 (0.14%) XenApp
10 5 (0.14%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.082%) NFS
11 3 (0.082%) RACF
11 3 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.054%) HDFS
13 1 (0.027%) KVM
Systems Management
1 260 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 151 (4.11%) Terraform
3 60 (1.63%) Ansible
4 39 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.95%) SCCM
6 21 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
7 20 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 18 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
8 18 (0.49%) Puppet
9 12 (0.33%) Data Guard
9 12 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.27%) Grafana
10 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 9 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
11 9 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.19%) Functional Safety
13 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 7 (0.19%) Nagios
14 6 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 762 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 500 (13.60%) Oracle
3 148 (4.03%) Google
4 121 (3.29%) Databricks
5 111 (3.02%) Hyperion
6 109 (2.96%) VMware
7 41 (1.12%) SAP
8 39 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 37 (1.01%) IBM
10 36 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 32 (0.87%) Teradata
12 30 (0.82%) Splunk
13 28 (0.76%) Alteryx
14 25 (0.68%) Cisco
15 21 (0.57%) HP
16 17 (0.46%) Xamarin
17 16 (0.44%) Citrix
17 16 (0.44%) Remedy
17 16 (0.44%) Siebel
18 15 (0.41%) Sun