SQL Jobs with Work from Home 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 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 9 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,728 5,421 15,439
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.34% 16.52% 19.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.83% 35.72% 33.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,850 4,546 8,360
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,561 £46,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.19% +7.62%

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 10,703 15,175 45,514
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.31% 46.24% 57.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,410 12,366 24,728
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,500 £38,443
25th Percentile £46,923 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,918 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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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 26 July 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
1 150 (4.02%) Apache
2 119 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
3 111 (2.98%) SharePoint
4 106 (2.84%) IIS
5 59 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 39 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
7 33 (0.89%) SAS
8 31 (0.83%) CMS
9 30 (0.80%) Confluence
10 15 (0.40%) Umbraco
11 14 (0.38%) nginx
12 11 (0.30%) Tuxedo
13 8 (0.21%) WordPress
14 7 (0.19%) Luigi
15 5 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.13%) Drupal
15 5 (0.13%) JBoss
15 5 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
16 4 (0.11%) Tomcat
16 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 208 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (0.86%) Simulink
4 13 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.19%) SPSS
7 6 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.080%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.027%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.027%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 31 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
3 15 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 14 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 12 (0.32%) Elite 3E
5 12 (0.32%) SAP Business One
6 10 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.19%) Sage X3
8 7 (0.19%) Shopify
9 6 (0.16%) Aladdin
9 6 (0.16%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.16%) Sage 50
10 5 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.13%) Relativity
11 4 (0.11%) Eagle PACE
11 4 (0.11%) Endur
11 4 (0.11%) Findur
11 4 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,393 (37.37%) Azure
2 863 (23.15%) AWS
3 713 (19.13%) Power Platform
4 265 (7.11%) GCP
5 259 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 166 (4.45%) Snowflake
8 158 (4.24%) dbt
9 150 (4.02%) SaaS
10 141 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
11 138 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 104 (2.79%) Serverless
13 100 (2.68%) GitHub
14 95 (2.55%) Entra ID
15 88 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
16 84 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
17 79 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
18 74 (1.98%) PowerApps
19 66 (1.77%) Power Automate
20 61 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 58 (1.56%) Firewall
2 50 (1.34%) DNS
3 46 (1.23%) Broadband
4 34 (0.91%) Internet
5 33 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 28 (0.75%) Network Security
7 27 (0.72%) SSL
8 25 (0.67%) DHCP
9 24 (0.64%) SAN
10 23 (0.62%) VPN
11 17 (0.46%) LAN
12 16 (0.43%) WAN
13 13 (0.35%) HTTP
14 9 (0.24%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.24%) VLAN
14 9 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.21%) FTP
16 6 (0.16%) NAS
16 6 (0.16%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (0.16%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 808 (21.67%) SQL Server
2 681 (18.27%) Power BI
3 428 (11.48%) Tableau
4 319 (8.56%) Data Warehouse
5 265 (7.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 256 (6.87%) Data Lake
7 220 (5.90%) Relational Database
8 209 (5.61%) NoSQL
9 197 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
10 190 (5.10%) MySQL
11 165 (4.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 146 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 108 (2.90%) Apache Arrow
13 108 (2.90%) Dremio
14 102 (2.74%) MongoDB
15 99 (2.66%) Big Data
16 98 (2.63%) Oracle Database
17 84 (2.25%) BigQuery
18 77 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
19 72 (1.93%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 424 (11.37%) Git
2 100 (2.68%) JIRA
3 85 (2.28%) Visual Studio
4 61 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 41 (1.10%) GitLab
6 38 (1.02%) Selenium
7 33 (0.89%) Vagrant
8 32 (0.86%) Postman
9 30 (0.80%) JMeter
10 28 (0.75%) Jasmine
10 28 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
11 27 (0.72%) Maven
11 27 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
12 26 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
13 24 (0.64%) Subversion
14 22 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
15 19 (0.51%) TeamCity
16 18 (0.48%) Cucumber
16 18 (0.48%) SpecFlow
16 18 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,102 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 938 (25.16%) Finance
3 558 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 302 (8.10%) Retail
5 292 (7.83%) Banking
6 215 (5.77%) Front Office
7 200 (5.36%) Public Sector
8 192 (5.15%) Legal
9 162 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
10 150 (4.02%) Law
11 149 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 134 (3.59%) Investment Banking
13 118 (3.17%) Marketing
14 86 (2.31%) Manufacturing
15 72 (1.93%) Back Office
16 43 (1.15%) Games
16 43 (1.15%) Telecoms
17 38 (1.02%) Local Government
18 35 (0.94%) Advertising
19 29 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,136 (30.47%) Developer
2 886 (23.77%) Senior
3 702 (18.83%) Analyst
4 372 (9.98%) Lead
5 367 (9.84%) Software Engineer
6 309 (8.29%) Data Engineer
7 297 (7.97%) Data Analyst
8 295 (7.91%) .NET Developer
9 238 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
10 227 (6.09%) Senior Developer
11 217 (5.82%) Software Developer
12 178 (4.77%) C# Developer
13 156 (4.18%) Senior Software Engineer
14 141 (3.78%) Applications Support
15 138 (3.70%) Consultant
16 131 (3.51%) Architect
16 131 (3.51%) Senior Data Analyst
17 124 (3.33%) DBA
18 112 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
19 111 (2.98%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 847 (22.72%) .NET
2 469 (12.58%) HTML
3 370 (9.92%) CSS
4 300 (8.05%) React
5 289 (7.75%) ASP.NET
6 254 (6.81%) AngularJS
7 235 (6.30%) REST
8 231 (6.20%) .NET Core
9 228 (6.12%) PySpark
10 215 (5.77%) .NET Framework
11 165 (4.43%) Web Services
12 143 (3.84%) XML
13 142 (3.81%) JSON
14 141 (3.78%) Pandas
15 127 (3.41%) RESTful
16 126 (3.38%) Vue
17 124 (3.33%) Entity Framework
18 118 (3.17%) SOAP
19 114 (3.06%) HTML5
20 112 (3.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 173 (4.64%) Derivative
1 173 (4.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 171 (4.59%) Equities
3 169 (4.53%) Hedge funds
4 168 (4.51%) Fixed Income
5 136 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 118 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 106 (2.84%) Algorithms
8 88 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 79 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
9 79 (2.12%) Onboarding
10 78 (2.09%) Data Structures
11 64 (1.72%) Cloud Native
12 54 (1.45%) Public Cloud
13 53 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 53 (1.42%) NHS
14 40 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
15 35 (0.94%) Mobile App
16 32 (0.86%) Replication
17 31 (0.83%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 332 (8.91%) Windows
2 262 (7.03%) Linux
3 96 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 80 (2.15%) Unix
5 56 (1.50%) Android
6 47 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.26%) VMS
7 42 (1.13%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.99%) Windows 10
9 34 (0.91%) CentOS
10 19 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (0.43%) Apple iOS
12 13 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (0.32%) zOS
14 11 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
15 9 (0.24%) Windows 7
16 8 (0.21%) AIX
16 8 (0.21%) Mac OS
16 8 (0.21%) Windows 8
17 5 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 999 (26.80%) Agile
2 790 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
3 713 (19.13%) Analytics
4 675 (18.11%) Business Intelligence
5 627 (16.82%) Software Engineering
6 502 (13.47%) DevOps
7 485 (13.01%) Visualisation
8 417 (11.19%) Data Analysis
9 410 (11.00%) Mentoring
10 366 (9.82%) ETL
11 320 (8.58%) Computer Science
12 318 (8.53%) Full Stack Development
13 311 (8.34%) Coaching
14 310 (8.32%) Data Pipeline
15 307 (8.23%) CI/CD
16 285 (7.64%) Actionable Insight
17 264 (7.08%) Data Modelling
18 259 (6.95%) Data Science
19 257 (6.89%) Machine Learning
20 253 (6.79%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1,096 (29.40%) Python
2 894 (23.98%) C#
3 769 (20.63%) JavaScript
4 405 (10.86%) Java
5 375 (10.06%) T-SQL
6 250 (6.71%) TypeScript
7 199 (5.34%) PowerShell
8 143 (3.84%) PL/SQL
9 104 (2.79%) VB.NET
10 103 (2.76%) PHP
11 94 (2.52%) C++
12 92 (2.47%) R
13 74 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 60 (1.61%) VB
15 57 (1.53%) VBA
16 55 (1.48%) Kotlin
17 53 (1.42%) Bash
18 46 (1.23%) Go
19 42 (1.13%) C
20 33 (0.89%) VB6
Qualifications
1 748 (20.06%) Degree
2 269 (7.22%) DBS Check
3 236 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 188 (5.04%) Security Cleared
5 140 (3.76%) SC Cleared
6 118 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 48 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 25 (0.67%) DV Cleared
10 17 (0.46%) CISA
10 17 (0.46%) ISTQB
11 16 (0.43%) PhD
12 15 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
12 15 (0.40%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.24%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.24%) CISSP
14 9 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.21%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 131 (3.51%) QA
3 52 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 48 (1.29%) SLA
5 43 (1.15%) GDPR
6 23 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (0.46%) ITGC
7 17 (0.46%) PMO
8 9 (0.24%) COBIT
9 6 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.13%) IFRS
10 5 (0.13%) NIST
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.11%) EMIR
11 4 (0.11%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.11%) MiFID
11 4 (0.11%) WCAG
12 3 (0.080%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.080%) SOC 1
12 3 (0.080%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 199 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 187 (5.02%) Docker
3 60 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 60 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.34%) RACF
6 15 (0.40%) vSphere
7 12 (0.32%) Firmware
7 12 (0.32%) XenApp
7 12 (0.32%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 6 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
9 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.054%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.054%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.027%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.027%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 158 (4.24%) Terraform
2 145 (3.89%) Kubernetes
3 63 (1.69%) Ansible
4 23 (0.62%) Grafana
5 15 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.35%) SCOM
7 7 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
7 7 (0.19%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.19%) SCCM
8 6 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.16%) logstash
8 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 6 (0.16%) WSUS
9 5 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.13%) Puppet
9 5 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 854 (22.91%) Microsoft
2 417 (11.19%) Databricks
3 314 (8.42%) Oracle
4 149 (4.00%) Google
5 77 (2.07%) SAP
6 72 (1.93%) Bloomberg
7 70 (1.88%) VMware
8 65 (1.74%) Reuters
9 50 (1.34%) CyberArk
10 35 (0.94%) Informatica
11 34 (0.91%) Sage
12 32 (0.86%) Xilinx
13 31 (0.83%) IBM
14 24 (0.64%) Salesforce
15 23 (0.62%) IFS
16 21 (0.56%) NEC
17 20 (0.54%) Citrix
18 19 (0.51%) Murex
19 17 (0.46%) F5
20 16 (0.43%) ServiceNow