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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,863 7,982 12,528
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.39% 18.83% 18.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.37% 38.32% 31.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,064 5,368 8,022
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,098 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +7.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,191 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +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 13,749 20,831 39,905
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.69% 49.14% 58.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11,389 15,324 24,010
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 5 May 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
1 135 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 128 (2.63%) IIS
3 84 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 83 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 65 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
6 60 (1.23%) Apache
7 53 (1.09%) SAS
8 50 (1.03%) CMS
9 35 (0.72%) Confluence
10 15 (0.31%) Drupal
11 14 (0.29%) Umbraco
12 13 (0.27%) WordPress
13 12 (0.25%) nginx
14 10 (0.21%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.10%) JBoss
15 5 (0.10%) NServiceBus
16 4 (0.082%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.082%) EPiServer
16 4 (0.082%) WebLogic
Applications
1 271 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.31%) SPSS
6 12 (0.25%) Simulink
7 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.041%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.021%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 61 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
3 16 (0.33%) SAP Business One
4 14 (0.29%) NEC Housing
5 12 (0.25%) Elite 3E
6 9 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.19%) Sage X3
7 8 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.16%) Shopify
7 8 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
8 7 (0.14%) Relativity
8 7 (0.14%) thinkFolio
9 6 (0.12%) Primavera
9 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.10%) BusinessWorks
10 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.062%) Infor M3
12 3 (0.062%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,876 (38.58%) Azure
2 1,025 (21.08%) Power Platform
3 960 (19.74%) AWS
4 326 (6.70%) GCP
5 301 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
6 207 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
7 195 (4.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 193 (3.97%) SaaS
9 184 (3.78%) Serverless
10 183 (3.76%) Snowflake
11 126 (2.59%) GitHub
12 119 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 109 (2.24%) PowerApps
14 98 (2.02%) Power Automate
15 88 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
16 87 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
17 76 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 70 (1.44%) Entra ID
19 63 (1.30%) Amazon S3
19 63 (1.30%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.93%) Internet
2 80 (1.65%) Broadband
3 75 (1.54%) Firewall
4 70 (1.44%) DNS
5 49 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 39 (0.80%) DHCP
7 38 (0.78%) HTTP
8 36 (0.74%) VPN
9 34 (0.70%) Network Security
10 28 (0.58%) SSL
11 19 (0.39%) SAN
12 15 (0.31%) Modbus
13 14 (0.29%) BIG-IP
14 12 (0.25%) FTP
14 12 (0.25%) LAN
14 12 (0.25%) WAN
15 10 (0.21%) MQTT
15 10 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.19%) Multicast
17 7 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,357 (27.90%) SQL Server
2 967 (19.88%) Power BI
3 534 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
4 407 (8.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 393 (8.08%) Tableau
6 380 (7.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 341 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
8 277 (5.70%) Relational Database
9 261 (5.37%) MySQL
10 245 (5.04%) NoSQL
11 230 (4.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 223 (4.59%) Data Lake
13 200 (4.11%) Oracle Database
14 169 (3.48%) BigQuery
15 136 (2.80%) MongoDB
16 110 (2.26%) Oracle Database 11g
17 103 (2.12%) Big Data
18 83 (1.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 77 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
20 61 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 417 (8.57%) Git
2 154 (3.17%) JIRA
3 127 (2.61%) Visual Studio
4 120 (2.47%) Jenkins
5 98 (2.02%) GitLab
6 58 (1.19%) Postman
7 52 (1.07%) Selenium
8 39 (0.80%) Maven
9 36 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
9 36 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
10 32 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 31 (0.64%) JMeter
12 28 (0.58%) Jasmine
12 28 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
13 27 (0.56%) Cucumber
13 27 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
13 27 (0.56%) TeamCity
14 24 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
15 23 (0.47%) Eclipse
16 20 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,399 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 1,134 (23.32%) Finance
3 626 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 387 (7.96%) Retail
5 303 (6.23%) Banking
6 295 (6.07%) Public Sector
7 208 (4.28%) Law
8 189 (3.89%) Marketing
9 178 (3.66%) Front Office
10 166 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
11 159 (3.27%) Legal
12 140 (2.88%) Back Office
13 111 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 99 (2.04%) Manufacturing
15 94 (1.93%) Games
16 70 (1.44%) Advertising
17 62 (1.27%) Telecoms
18 56 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
19 54 (1.11%) Tech for Good
20 41 (0.84%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,623 (33.37%) Developer
2 1,075 (22.11%) Senior
3 843 (17.33%) Analyst
4 468 (9.62%) Lead
5 442 (9.09%) .NET Developer
6 409 (8.41%) Senior Developer
7 401 (8.25%) Data Engineer
8 359 (7.38%) Software Engineer
9 298 (6.13%) Data Analyst
10 213 (4.38%) Software Developer
11 211 (4.34%) C# Developer
12 203 (4.17%) DBA
13 199 (4.09%) Consultant
14 179 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
15 176 (3.62%) Applications Support
16 174 (3.58%) Senior Analyst
17 144 (2.96%) Support Analyst
18 143 (2.94%) SQL DBA
19 135 (2.78%) SQL Developer
20 129 (2.65%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,175 (24.16%) .NET
2 630 (12.95%) HTML
3 523 (10.75%) CSS
4 519 (10.67%) ASP.NET
5 421 (8.66%) .NET Core
6 347 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 344 (7.07%) React
8 311 (6.40%) REST
9 274 (5.63%) ASP.NET MVC
10 256 (5.26%) Entity Framework
11 251 (5.16%) .NET Framework
12 250 (5.14%) HTML5
13 238 (4.89%) Blazor
14 210 (4.32%) Web Services
15 201 (4.13%) JSON
16 187 (3.85%) CSS3
17 184 (3.78%) RESTful
18 172 (3.54%) XML
19 163 (3.35%) Vue
20 153 (3.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 176 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
2 160 (3.29%) Data Structures
3 146 (3.00%) Hedge funds
4 130 (2.67%) Derivative
5 125 (2.57%) Management Information System
6 122 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 121 (2.49%) Algorithms
7 121 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 101 (2.08%) Client/Server
9 89 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 86 (1.77%) Public Cloud
11 83 (1.71%) Fixed Income
12 81 (1.67%) Equities
13 79 (1.62%) Cloud Native
14 71 (1.46%) Onboarding
15 54 (1.11%) NHS
16 52 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
16 52 (1.07%) IoT
17 49 (1.01%) Mobile App
18 42 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 428 (8.80%) Windows
2 299 (6.15%) Linux
3 133 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 87 (1.79%) Unix
5 80 (1.65%) VMS
6 69 (1.42%) Windows 10
7 33 (0.68%) Windows 7
8 32 (0.66%) Android
8 32 (0.66%) Windows 8
9 26 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 17 (0.35%) CentOS
11 17 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 16 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 15 (0.31%) zOS
14 11 (0.23%) AIX
15 9 (0.19%) Solaris
16 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,359 (27.95%) Agile
2 1,076 (22.13%) Business Intelligence
3 885 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
4 863 (17.75%) Analytics
5 687 (14.13%) DevOps
6 678 (13.94%) ETL
7 620 (12.75%) Software Engineering
8 560 (11.52%) Visualisation
9 555 (11.41%) Mentoring
10 504 (10.36%) Full Stack Development
11 491 (10.10%) Artificial Intelligence
12 483 (9.93%) Data Science
13 439 (9.03%) Data Analysis
14 418 (8.60%) Data Modelling
15 409 (8.41%) Machine Learning
16 401 (8.25%) MVC
17 393 (8.08%) CI/CD
18 381 (7.83%) Data Pipeline
19 380 (7.81%) TDD
20 370 (7.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,257 (25.85%) C#
2 1,222 (25.13%) Python
3 919 (18.90%) JavaScript
4 588 (12.09%) T-SQL
5 467 (9.60%) Java
6 268 (5.51%) TypeScript
7 258 (5.31%) PL/SQL
8 145 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 137 (2.82%) PHP
10 127 (2.61%) R
11 106 (2.18%) VB.NET
12 86 (1.77%) C++
13 79 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 71 (1.46%) VB
15 61 (1.25%) VBA
16 53 (1.09%) Bash
16 53 (1.09%) C
17 50 (1.03%) Groovy
18 46 (0.95%) Scala
19 42 (0.86%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 810 (16.66%) Degree
2 252 (5.18%) DBS Check
3 174 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 163 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 161 (3.31%) Security Cleared
6 125 (2.57%) SC Cleared
7 113 (2.32%) Master's Degree
8 44 (0.90%) DV Cleared
9 42 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 25 (0.51%) PhD
11 20 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
12 19 (0.39%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.39%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.33%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.29%) CISA
14 14 (0.29%) CISSP
15 11 (0.23%) CIPD
16 10 (0.21%) GIAC
16 10 (0.21%) HND
16 10 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 158 (3.25%) QA
3 55 (1.13%) SLA
4 54 (1.11%) GDPR
5 42 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 34 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.33%) PMO
8 14 (0.29%) ITGC
9 13 (0.27%) COBIT
10 8 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.16%) NIST
11 7 (0.14%) SOC 1
12 6 (0.12%) Web Application Security Consortium
13 5 (0.10%) IFRS
14 4 (0.082%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.082%) HL7
14 4 (0.082%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.082%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.062%) CRD IV
15 3 (0.062%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 268 (5.51%) Docker
2 211 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 92 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 90 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 84 (1.73%) 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 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.082%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.062%) RACF
13 3 (0.062%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 262 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 205 (4.22%) Terraform
3 67 (1.38%) Ansible
4 35 (0.72%) Grafana
5 34 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 17 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.35%) SCOM
7 16 (0.33%) SCCM
8 14 (0.29%) Puppet
9 13 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.23%) WSUS
12 9 (0.19%) logstash
13 8 (0.16%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
13 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
15 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
16 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,264 (25.99%) Microsoft
2 432 (8.88%) Oracle
3 369 (7.59%) Databricks
4 205 (4.22%) Google
5 113 (2.32%) VMware
6 96 (1.97%) SAP
7 86 (1.77%) IBM
8 38 (0.78%) Citrix
9 36 (0.74%) Salesforce
10 35 (0.72%) F5
11 31 (0.64%) Alteryx
12 26 (0.53%) Sage
13 25 (0.51%) IFS
14 23 (0.47%) Facebook
15 22 (0.45%) Adobe
16 18 (0.37%) NEC
16 18 (0.37%) Talend
16 18 (0.37%) Teradata
17 17 (0.35%) Aderant
18 15 (0.31%) Murex