SQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 1,729 3,032 5,338
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.47% 12.08% 12.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.25% 32.34% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 2,252 3,928
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £429 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% -2.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £525
% change year-on-year - +2.38% +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 37 50
10th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 £20.68
25th Percentile £25.69 £36.00 £21.81
Median hourly rate £40.25 £57.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +19.79% +84.62%
75th Percentile £52.69 £71.50 £59.38
90th Percentile £63.00 £85.00 £67.18
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.50% +42.86% +29.63%

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 contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,048 9,374 16,677
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.49% 37.36% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 6,862 12,375
10th Percentile £350 £390 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 203 185
10th Percentile £34.38 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.38 £82.00 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

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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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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL.

SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

SQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL.

SQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

SQL hourly rate 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 41 (2.37%) Apache Spark
2 30 (1.74%) SAS
2 30 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.45%) Confluence
5 19 (1.10%) Apache
5 19 (1.10%) IIS
6 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
9 6 (0.35%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
12 3 (0.17%) MTS
12 3 (0.17%) nginx
12 3 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 121 (7.00%) Chatbot
2 74 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.058%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
2 15 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.87%) Endur
3 12 (0.69%) Elite 3E
4 11 (0.64%) NEC Housing
4 11 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.40%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
9 5 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.23%) Academy Housing
10 4 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 4 (0.23%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 451 (26.08%) Azure
2 248 (14.34%) AWS
3 236 (13.65%) Power Platform
4 145 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 74 (4.28%) GCP
7 71 (4.11%) Serverless
8 60 (3.47%) GitHub
9 42 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 38 (2.20%) Snowflake
11 37 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 36 (2.08%) PowerApps
13 34 (1.97%) Amazon S3
14 33 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 32 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (1.85%) Azure Functions
16 31 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
17 30 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
18 28 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
19 25 (1.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.81%) Firewall
2 10 (0.58%) HTTP
2 10 (0.58%) Internet
3 8 (0.46%) Network Security
3 8 (0.46%) SAN
3 8 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.46%) VPN
4 7 (0.40%) DNS
5 6 (0.35%) SSL
6 5 (0.29%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
8 3 (0.17%) BGP
8 3 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.17%) IOS XR
8 3 (0.17%) LAN
8 3 (0.17%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.17%) WAN
9 2 (0.12%) DHCP
9 2 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (17.99%) SQL Server
2 208 (12.03%) Power BI
3 170 (9.83%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
5 95 (5.49%) Oracle Database
6 86 (4.97%) NoSQL
6 86 (4.97%) Relational Database
7 72 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 68 (3.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 60 (3.47%) Data Lake
10 58 (3.35%) Tableau
11 52 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 51 (2.95%) Big Data
13 43 (2.49%) MySQL
14 41 (2.37%) BigQuery
15 36 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
16 33 (1.91%) Metadata
17 32 (1.85%) MongoDB
18 30 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
19 27 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 89 (5.15%) Git
2 86 (4.97%) JIRA
3 43 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.97%) Visual Studio
5 23 (1.33%) Selenium
6 21 (1.21%) GitLab
6 21 (1.21%) TeamCity
7 18 (1.04%) Cypress.io
7 18 (1.04%) Oracle APEX
8 16 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 14 (0.81%) Postman
10 13 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.69%) Maven
11 12 (0.69%) SpecFlow
12 10 (0.58%) JMeter
12 10 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (0.46%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.46%) Subversion
13 8 (0.46%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.40%) CircleCI
General
1 438 (25.33%) Finance
2 374 (21.63%) Social Skills
3 177 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (9.72%) Banking
5 122 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 116 (6.71%) Front Office
7 52 (3.01%) Back Office
8 51 (2.95%) Marketing
9 48 (2.78%) Retail
10 35 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 28 (1.62%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.93%) Electronics
16 15 (0.87%) Legal
17 14 (0.81%) Billing
18 13 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 623 (36.03%) Developer
2 274 (15.85%) Analyst
3 174 (10.06%) Senior
4 161 (9.31%) Data Engineer
5 158 (9.14%) Software Developer
6 110 (6.36%) Data Analyst
7 96 (5.55%) Consultant
8 92 (5.32%) SQL Developer
9 84 (4.86%) Architect
10 83 (4.80%) Business Analyst
11 72 (4.16%) DBA
12 67 (3.88%) Lead
13 63 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
14 55 (3.18%) C# Developer
15 49 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 49 (2.83%) Financial Analyst
15 49 (2.83%) Java Developer
16 46 (2.66%) Senior Developer
17 45 (2.60%) SQL DBA
18 43 (2.49%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (11.74%) HTML
2 176 (10.18%) .NET
3 82 (4.74%) REST
4 79 (4.57%) XML
5 54 (3.12%) React
6 53 (3.07%) JSON
7 52 (3.01%) Web Services
8 51 (2.95%) CSS
9 49 (2.83%) SOAP
10 47 (2.72%) AngularJS
11 44 (2.54%) RESTful
12 42 (2.43%) PySpark
13 38 (2.20%) .NET Framework
14 29 (1.68%) ASP.NET
14 29 (1.68%) Spring
15 28 (1.62%) Node.js
16 26 (1.50%) LDAP
17 25 (1.45%) Kafka
18 24 (1.39%) .NET Core
18 24 (1.39%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.68%) Derivative
2 57 (3.30%) Hedge funds
3 46 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.14%) Replication
6 34 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (1.79%) Equities
8 29 (1.68%) Data Centre
8 29 (1.68%) Fixed Income
9 28 (1.62%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.50%) Onboarding
11 25 (1.45%) Algorithms
11 25 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 20 (1.16%) Clustering
13 18 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.04%) NHS
14 16 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 136 (7.87%) Windows
2 79 (4.57%) Linux
3 67 (3.88%) Unix
4 46 (2.66%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.10%) VMS
6 12 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.35%) OpenVMS
7 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.29%) Android
9 4 (0.23%) AIX
9 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.23%) Solaris
10 3 (0.17%) CentOS
10 3 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (19.32%) Agile
2 289 (16.71%) Business Intelligence
3 264 (15.27%) DevOps
4 243 (14.05%) Analytics
5 242 (14.00%) Software Engineering
6 237 (13.71%) Data Modelling
7 207 (11.97%) ETL
8 205 (11.86%) Migration
9 197 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
10 179 (10.35%) Artificial Intelligence
11 168 (9.72%) CI/CD
12 141 (8.16%) Code Quality
13 137 (7.92%) Data Analysis
14 126 (7.29%) Visualisation
15 121 (7.00%) Conversational UI
16 94 (5.44%) Computer Science
17 92 (5.32%) Data Migration
18 90 (5.21%) Scrum
19 89 (5.15%) Data Engineering
19 89 (5.15%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 539 (31.17%) Python
2 401 (23.19%) C#
3 277 (16.02%) JavaScript
4 202 (11.68%) Java
5 140 (8.10%) PL/SQL
6 107 (6.19%) PowerShell
7 67 (3.88%) T-SQL
8 50 (2.89%) TypeScript
9 40 (2.31%) R
10 34 (1.97%) C++
10 34 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 31 (1.79%) Scala
12 30 (1.74%) Bash
13 17 (0.98%) PHP
14 16 (0.93%) VBA
15 15 (0.87%) Perl
16 14 (0.81%) C
16 14 (0.81%) VB
16 14 (0.81%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 265 (15.33%) Degree
2 156 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 127 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 40 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 21 (1.21%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 13 (0.75%) PhD
8 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.52%) CISSP
11 8 (0.46%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.35%) ISEB
12 6 (0.35%) MCSE
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.29%) SANS
14 4 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.23%) SAP Certification
15 3 (0.17%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.63%) QA
3 17 (0.98%) GDPR
4 14 (0.81%) MiFID
5 13 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.52%) EMIR
7 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.46%) CDISC
9 7 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
9 7 (0.40%) IFRS
10 5 (0.29%) GxP
11 4 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.23%) SLA
12 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.17%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.17%) GRC
12 3 (0.17%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 76 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.88%) Docker
3 17 (0.98%) IAG
4 16 (0.93%) ACF2
4 16 (0.93%) RACF
5 14 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.17%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.058%) HDFS
9 1 (0.058%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.058%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.058%) XenApp
9 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.24%) Terraform
3 35 (2.02%) Ansible
4 22 (1.27%) Grafana
5 9 (0.52%) PingFederate
5 9 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.40%) SCCM
7 5 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (0.29%) SCOM
8 4 (0.23%) BladeLogic
8 4 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.17%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.17%) Puppet
10 2 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.12%) Kibana
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 284 (16.43%) Oracle
2 258 (14.92%) Microsoft
3 121 (7.00%) PayPal
4 99 (5.73%) Databricks
5 66 (3.82%) SAP
6 40 (2.31%) Google
7 32 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.16%) Sybase
10 19 (1.10%) Splunk
11 18 (1.04%) Informatica
11 18 (1.04%) VMware
12 14 (0.81%) IBM
13 12 (0.69%) Avaloq
13 12 (0.69%) NEC
14 11 (0.64%) Cisco
15 10 (0.58%) HP
15 10 (0.58%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.58%) OpenLink
16 9 (0.52%) Ping Identity