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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 9 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 2,233 4,866 8,007
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.57% 14.38% 18.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.39% 35.32% 38.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,704 4,071 5,387
10th Percentile £32,650 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,725 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -2.86% +7.62%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +8.23%

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 6,136 13,776 20,916
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.05% 40.72% 49.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,866 11,415 15,392
10th Percentile £41,250 £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 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £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 4 May 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 92 (4.12%) Confluence
2 75 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 61 (2.73%) Apache
4 59 (2.64%) SharePoint
5 52 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
6 35 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (1.16%) IIS
8 20 (0.90%) SAS
9 16 (0.72%) CMS
10 9 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.22%) nginx
12 4 (0.18%) Moodle
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) ColdFusion
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.090%) OpenEdge
14 2 (0.090%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.090%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.090%) WebSphere Application Server
14 2 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 133 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (5.19%) Chatbot
3 34 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 27 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.31%) Trello
6 6 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.090%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.045%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.045%) Simulink
9 1 (0.045%) Sketch
9 1 (0.045%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.045%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 54 (2.42%) Aladdin
2 32 (1.43%) thinkFolio
3 22 (0.99%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 20 (0.90%) Sage 200
6 18 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
7 17 (0.76%) Sage 50
8 16 (0.72%) NEC Housing
9 11 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
9 11 (0.49%) JDE OneWorld
10 7 (0.31%) Infor M3
11 6 (0.27%) Endur
11 6 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite
11 6 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
12 4 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
12 4 (0.18%) Q-Pulse
12 4 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.13%) SAP MDG
13 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 843 (37.75%) Azure
2 443 (19.84%) AWS
3 391 (17.51%) Power Platform
4 232 (10.39%) GCP
5 188 (8.42%) SaaS
6 148 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (6.31%) GitHub
8 92 (4.12%) Snowflake
9 81 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 73 (3.27%) Serverless
11 72 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
12 69 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
13 58 (2.60%) Power Automate
14 53 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 52 (2.33%) PowerApps
16 47 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
17 46 (2.06%) Amazon S3
18 44 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
19 43 (1.93%) dbt
20 39 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.70%) Firewall
2 33 (1.48%) DNS
3 21 (0.94%) DHCP
4 18 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 15 (0.67%) SAN
6 14 (0.63%) HTTP
6 14 (0.63%) VPN
7 12 (0.54%) LAN
7 12 (0.54%) WAN
8 11 (0.49%) Internet
8 11 (0.49%) VLAN
9 10 (0.45%) Multicast
10 9 (0.40%) ADSL
11 7 (0.31%) NAS
11 7 (0.31%) SSL
11 7 (0.31%) VoIP
11 7 (0.31%) VSAN
12 6 (0.27%) Bluetooth
12 6 (0.27%) Broadband
13 5 (0.22%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 469 (21.00%) SQL Server
2 356 (15.94%) Power BI
3 202 (9.05%) Data Warehouse
4 195 (8.73%) Tableau
5 154 (6.90%) NoSQL
6 139 (6.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 122 (5.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 117 (5.24%) Relational Database
9 113 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
10 98 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 96 (4.30%) Big Data
12 72 (3.22%) Data Lake
13 67 (3.00%) MySQL
14 63 (2.82%) MongoDB
15 43 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
16 40 (1.79%) Oracle Database
17 35 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
17 35 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
17 35 (1.57%) DB2
18 34 (1.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 258 (11.55%) Git
2 174 (7.79%) JIRA
3 112 (5.02%) Selenium
4 109 (4.88%) GitLab
5 108 (4.84%) Maven
6 104 (4.66%) SonarQube
7 101 (4.52%) Bitbucket
7 101 (4.52%) Visual Studio
8 97 (4.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 86 (3.85%) Cucumber
10 69 (3.09%) Jenkins
11 45 (2.02%) JUnit
12 37 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
13 34 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
14 27 (1.21%) Mockito
15 26 (1.16%) Eclipse
16 24 (1.07%) MSBuild
16 24 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
17 23 (1.03%) IntelliJ
17 23 (1.03%) Postman
General
1 791 (35.42%) Finance
2 659 (29.51%) Social Skills
3 376 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 331 (14.82%) Banking
5 191 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 170 (7.61%) Retail
7 105 (4.70%) Law
8 101 (4.52%) Front Office
9 81 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
10 78 (3.49%) Manufacturing
11 69 (3.09%) Marketing
12 67 (3.00%) Public Sector
13 58 (2.60%) Legal
14 55 (2.46%) Back Office
15 54 (2.42%) Investment Banking
16 48 (2.15%) Games
17 29 (1.30%) Billing
17 29 (1.30%) Local Government
18 27 (1.21%) Police
19 22 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 623 (27.90%) Developer
2 474 (21.23%) Analyst
3 442 (19.79%) Senior
4 297 (13.30%) Software Engineer
5 185 (8.28%) Data Engineer
6 164 (7.34%) Data Analyst
7 149 (6.67%) Lead
8 143 (6.40%) Senior Developer
9 113 (5.06%) .NET Developer
10 109 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
11 108 (4.84%) Trainer
12 102 (4.57%) Architect
13 94 (4.21%) Applications Support
14 82 (3.67%) Support Analyst
15 81 (3.63%) Software Developer
16 77 (3.45%) Business Analyst
17 70 (3.13%) C# Developer
17 70 (3.13%) SQL Developer
18 60 (2.69%) Applications Support Analyst
19 59 (2.64%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 422 (18.90%) .NET
1 422 (18.90%) HTML
2 283 (12.67%) CSS
3 245 (10.97%) React
4 160 (7.17%) Kafka
5 152 (6.81%) REST
6 148 (6.63%) ASP.NET
7 147 (6.58%) .NET Framework
7 147 (6.58%) AngularJS
8 131 (5.87%) .NET Core
9 128 (5.73%) Spring
10 119 (5.33%) Spring Boot
11 115 (5.15%) RESTful
12 112 (5.02%) Hibernate
13 111 (4.97%) JPA
13 111 (4.97%) XML
14 92 (4.12%) JSON
15 89 (3.99%) Redux
16 86 (3.85%) Web Services
17 85 (3.81%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 164 (7.34%) Product Ownership
2 108 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
3 95 (4.25%) Algorithms
4 84 (3.76%) Derivative
4 84 (3.76%) Hedge funds
5 81 (3.63%) Management Information System
6 75 (3.36%) Fixed Income
7 65 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
8 64 (2.87%) Onboarding
9 62 (2.78%) Cloud Native
10 45 (2.02%) Data Structures
11 44 (1.97%) Credit Risk
11 44 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
12 34 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 32 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 30 (1.34%) Mobile App
15 27 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
16 25 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
16 25 (1.12%) NHS
16 25 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 241 (10.79%) Linux
2 187 (8.37%) Windows
3 90 (4.03%) Unix
4 39 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.45%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.40%) Android
8 9 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.31%) Rocky
10 5 (0.22%) Solaris
10 5 (0.22%) VMS
10 5 (0.22%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.13%) AIX
11 3 (0.13%) CentOS
11 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (29.29%) Agile
2 568 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
3 463 (20.73%) Analytics
4 422 (18.90%) Business Intelligence
5 419 (18.76%) DevOps
6 402 (18.00%) Software Engineering
7 317 (14.20%) CI/CD
8 304 (13.61%) Microservices
9 299 (13.39%) Visualisation
10 276 (12.36%) Mentoring
11 250 (11.20%) ETL
12 218 (9.76%) Full-Stack Development
13 215 (9.63%) Data Modelling
13 215 (9.63%) Test Automation
14 214 (9.58%) Artificial Intelligence
15 202 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 196 (8.78%) Migration
17 194 (8.69%) Computer Science
18 191 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
19 188 (8.42%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 755 (33.81%) Python
2 598 (26.78%) C#
3 564 (25.26%) JavaScript
4 323 (14.46%) Java
5 162 (7.25%) T-SQL
6 158 (7.08%) C++
7 139 (6.22%) TypeScript
8 118 (5.28%) PL/SQL
8 118 (5.28%) PowerShell
9 62 (2.78%) PHP
10 55 (2.46%) R
11 48 (2.15%) Bash
12 46 (2.06%) VB.NET
13 43 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 40 (1.79%) C
15 28 (1.25%) VBA
16 27 (1.21%) Shell Script
17 26 (1.16%) Go
18 16 (0.72%) Scala
19 9 (0.40%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 520 (23.29%) Degree
2 125 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 112 (5.02%) DBS Check
4 68 (3.05%) Master's Degree
5 66 (2.96%) Security Cleared
6 34 (1.52%) PhD
7 33 (1.48%) SC Cleared
8 31 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 30 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.94%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
12 15 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.67%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.54%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.49%) MCP
15 10 (0.45%) MCSA
15 10 (0.45%) MCSE
16 7 (0.31%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 7 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (8.20%) QA
2 149 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 91 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 64 (2.87%) GDPR
5 23 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.81%) ISO 9001
7 14 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.54%) SLA
9 8 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.36%) IFRS
9 8 (0.36%) IFRS 9
9 8 (0.36%) NIST
10 7 (0.31%) Basel II
10 7 (0.31%) Basel III
10 7 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
10 7 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.27%) GxP
12 5 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 287 (12.85%) Docker
2 44 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.63%) HDFS
6 7 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.27%) vSphere
8 3 (0.13%) Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.090%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.090%) KVM
9 2 (0.090%) NFS
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.090%) SRDF
9 2 (0.090%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.090%) Xen
10 1 (0.045%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.045%) LXC
Systems Management
1 228 (10.21%) Kubernetes
2 79 (3.54%) Terraform
3 16 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (0.63%) Istio
5 13 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.54%) Ansible
6 12 (0.54%) Grafana
7 11 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
8 7 (0.31%) Nagios
8 7 (0.31%) PaperCut
9 6 (0.27%) Argo
9 6 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.27%) SCCM
10 5 (0.22%) CA Endevor
10 5 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.22%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (0.18%) SCOM
12 3 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 423 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 192 (8.60%) Oracle
3 146 (6.54%) Databricks
4 117 (5.24%) PayPal
5 89 (3.99%) Google
6 82 (3.67%) Solace
7 53 (2.37%) BISAM
8 49 (2.19%) SAP
9 47 (2.10%) ServiceNow
10 46 (2.06%) VMware
11 40 (1.79%) IBM
12 39 (1.75%) Charles River
13 38 (1.70%) Salesforce
14 33 (1.48%) SimCorp
15 32 (1.43%) Calypso
16 23 (1.03%) Red Hat
17 21 (0.94%) Sage
18 20 (0.90%) Adobe
19 16 (0.72%) NEC
19 16 (0.72%) SolarWinds