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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,875 7,686 12,986
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.45% 18.89% 18.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.35% 38.42% 31.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,038 5,156 7,936
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,098 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.93% +7.45% +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 13,791 20,006 41,338
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.88% 49.16% 59.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 14,704 23,824
10th Percentile £38,500 £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 15 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
1 128 (2.63%) IIS
2 127 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 85 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 75 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 67 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
6 61 (1.25%) Apache
7 54 (1.11%) SAS
8 48 (0.98%) CMS
9 33 (0.68%) Confluence
10 15 (0.31%) Drupal
11 13 (0.27%) nginx
11 13 (0.27%) Umbraco
11 13 (0.27%) WordPress
12 8 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.10%) JBoss
13 5 (0.10%) Luigi
13 5 (0.10%) NServiceBus
14 4 (0.082%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.082%) EPiServer
Applications
1 262 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.31%) SPSS
7 14 (0.29%) Simulink
8 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.041%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.021%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.021%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 58 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 16 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
3 13 (0.27%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.18%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.16%) Shopify
6 8 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
7 7 (0.14%) Relativity
7 7 (0.14%) thinkFolio
8 6 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.12%) Primavera
8 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.082%) BusinessWorks
9 4 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.062%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,880 (38.56%) Azure
2 1,028 (21.09%) Power Platform
3 965 (19.79%) AWS
4 321 (6.58%) GCP
5 297 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
6 199 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 197 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
8 188 (3.86%) SaaS
9 181 (3.71%) Snowflake
10 177 (3.63%) Serverless
11 125 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 121 (2.48%) GitHub
13 108 (2.22%) PowerApps
14 98 (2.01%) Power Automate
15 85 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
16 83 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
17 80 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 67 (1.37%) Entra ID
19 63 (1.29%) dbt
20 61 (1.25%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.93%) Internet
2 80 (1.64%) Broadband
3 69 (1.42%) Firewall
4 63 (1.29%) DNS
5 49 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 37 (0.76%) HTTP
7 36 (0.74%) DHCP
8 34 (0.70%) Network Security
8 34 (0.70%) VPN
9 28 (0.57%) SSL
10 16 (0.33%) SAN
11 15 (0.31%) Modbus
12 13 (0.27%) WAN
13 12 (0.25%) BIG-IP
13 12 (0.25%) LAN
14 11 (0.23%) FTP
15 10 (0.21%) MQTT
15 10 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.18%) Multicast
17 6 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,348 (27.65%) SQL Server
2 972 (19.94%) Power BI
3 539 (11.06%) Data Warehouse
4 431 (8.84%) Tableau
5 416 (8.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 370 (7.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 322 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
8 274 (5.62%) Relational Database
9 259 (5.31%) MySQL
10 246 (5.05%) NoSQL
11 231 (4.74%) Data Lake
12 224 (4.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 186 (3.82%) Oracle Database
14 166 (3.41%) BigQuery
15 137 (2.81%) MongoDB
16 107 (2.19%) Big Data
17 95 (1.95%) Oracle Database 11g
18 82 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 76 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
20 62 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 456 (9.35%) Git
2 146 (2.99%) JIRA
3 127 (2.61%) Visual Studio
4 112 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 97 (1.99%) GitLab
6 55 (1.13%) Postman
7 47 (0.96%) Selenium
8 37 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 36 (0.74%) Maven
10 34 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
11 31 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 28 (0.57%) Jasmine
12 28 (0.57%) JMeter
12 28 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
13 27 (0.55%) TeamCity
14 26 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 26 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
15 24 (0.49%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
17 20 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,458 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 1,142 (23.43%) Finance
3 662 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 408 (8.37%) Retail
5 297 (6.09%) Banking
6 295 (6.05%) Public Sector
7 206 (4.23%) Law
8 190 (3.90%) Marketing
9 188 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
10 180 (3.69%) Front Office
11 164 (3.36%) Legal
12 144 (2.95%) Back Office
13 115 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 99 (2.03%) Manufacturing
15 94 (1.93%) Games
16 73 (1.50%) Advertising
17 64 (1.31%) Telecoms
18 55 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
19 53 (1.09%) Tech for Good
20 40 (0.82%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,587 (32.55%) Developer
2 1,099 (22.54%) Senior
3 880 (18.05%) Analyst
4 463 (9.50%) Lead
5 437 (8.96%) .NET Developer
6 412 (8.45%) Data Engineer
7 384 (7.88%) Senior Developer
8 369 (7.57%) Software Engineer
9 335 (6.87%) Data Analyst
10 214 (4.39%) Software Developer
11 208 (4.27%) C# Developer
12 206 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
13 204 (4.18%) DBA
14 202 (4.14%) Consultant
15 184 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
16 175 (3.59%) Applications Support
17 145 (2.97%) SQL DBA
18 142 (2.91%) Support Analyst
19 138 (2.83%) SQL Developer
20 131 (2.69%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,163 (23.86%) .NET
2 625 (12.82%) HTML
3 518 (10.63%) CSS
4 512 (10.50%) ASP.NET
5 415 (8.51%) .NET Core
6 345 (7.08%) React
7 344 (7.06%) AngularJS
8 307 (6.30%) REST
9 272 (5.58%) ASP.NET MVC
10 259 (5.31%) Entity Framework
11 254 (5.21%) HTML5
12 246 (5.05%) .NET Framework
13 242 (4.96%) Blazor
14 205 (4.21%) Web Services
15 199 (4.08%) JSON
16 191 (3.92%) CSS3
17 181 (3.71%) RESTful
18 169 (3.47%) XML
19 160 (3.28%) Vue
20 149 (3.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 172 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
2 163 (3.34%) Data Structures
3 148 (3.04%) Hedge funds
4 133 (2.73%) Algorithms
4 133 (2.73%) Derivative
5 126 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 124 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
7 122 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 102 (2.09%) Client/Server
9 90 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 87 (1.78%) Public Cloud
11 85 (1.74%) Equities
11 85 (1.74%) Fixed Income
12 81 (1.66%) Cloud Native
13 73 (1.50%) Onboarding
14 56 (1.15%) NHS
15 53 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
16 48 (0.98%) IoT
16 48 (0.98%) Mobile App
17 44 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 420 (8.62%) Windows
2 299 (6.13%) Linux
3 121 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 90 (1.85%) Unix
5 81 (1.66%) VMS
6 65 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 35 (0.72%) Android
8 29 (0.59%) Windows 7
9 28 (0.57%) Windows 8
10 27 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 23 (0.47%) Ubuntu
12 20 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
13 19 (0.39%) CentOS
14 17 (0.35%) Apple iOS
14 17 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
15 14 (0.29%) zOS
16 12 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.21%) AIX
18 8 (0.16%) Solaris
19 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,338 (27.45%) Agile
2 1,073 (22.01%) Business Intelligence
3 922 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
4 907 (18.61%) Analytics
5 670 (13.74%) DevOps
6 669 (13.72%) ETL
7 630 (12.92%) Software Engineering
8 605 (12.41%) Visualisation
9 560 (11.49%) Mentoring
10 505 (10.36%) Full Stack Development
11 495 (10.15%) Data Science
12 485 (9.95%) Artificial Intelligence
13 476 (9.76%) Data Analysis
14 423 (8.68%) Machine Learning
15 422 (8.66%) Data Modelling
16 413 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
17 390 (8.00%) MVC
18 385 (7.90%) TDD
19 377 (7.73%) CI/CD
20 371 (7.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,263 (25.91%) Python
2 1,253 (25.70%) C#
3 922 (18.91%) JavaScript
4 572 (11.73%) T-SQL
5 466 (9.56%) Java
6 260 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 236 (4.84%) PL/SQL
8 142 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 132 (2.71%) PHP
10 127 (2.61%) R
11 106 (2.17%) VB.NET
12 90 (1.85%) C++
13 82 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 71 (1.46%) VB
15 66 (1.35%) VBA
16 53 (1.09%) Bash
17 52 (1.07%) C
18 50 (1.03%) Groovy
19 47 (0.96%) Kotlin
20 43 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 859 (17.62%) Degree
2 295 (6.05%) DBS Check
3 181 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 169 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 157 (3.22%) Security Cleared
6 125 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 122 (2.50%) SC Cleared
8 49 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 41 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 27 (0.55%) PhD
11 21 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 20 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 17 (0.35%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.29%) CISSP
15 13 (0.27%) CISA
16 12 (0.25%) CIPD
17 10 (0.21%) GIAC
17 10 (0.21%) HND
17 10 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 150 (3.08%) QA
3 58 (1.19%) SLA
4 56 (1.15%) GDPR
5 41 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 36 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.31%) PMO
8 13 (0.27%) COBIT
8 13 (0.27%) ITGC
9 9 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.18%) NIST
10 7 (0.14%) SOC 1
11 6 (0.12%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 5 (0.10%) IFRS
13 4 (0.082%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.082%) HL7
13 4 (0.082%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.082%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.062%) CRD IV
14 3 (0.062%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 266 (5.46%) Docker
2 200 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 92 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 82 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 78 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 30 (0.62%) XenApp
6 30 (0.62%) XenDesktop
7 28 (0.57%) VirtualBox
8 12 (0.25%) Firmware
8 12 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
10 7 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.14%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.041%) RACF
12 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.041%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.041%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 258 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 204 (4.18%) Terraform
3 70 (1.44%) Ansible
4 34 (0.70%) Grafana
4 34 (0.70%) Progress Chef
5 18 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.35%) SCOM
7 14 (0.29%) Puppet
8 12 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.23%) WSUS
10 9 (0.18%) logstash
10 9 (0.18%) SCCM
10 9 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.14%) Data Guard
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (0.082%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,259 (25.83%) Microsoft
2 418 (8.57%) Databricks
3 412 (8.45%) Oracle
4 208 (4.27%) Google
5 104 (2.13%) VMware
6 96 (1.97%) SAP
7 84 (1.72%) IBM
8 35 (0.72%) Citrix
9 34 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 33 (0.68%) F5
11 29 (0.59%) Alteryx
12 25 (0.51%) IFS
12 25 (0.51%) Sage
13 23 (0.47%) Facebook
14 22 (0.45%) Adobe
15 19 (0.39%) Aderant
16 18 (0.37%) NEC
16 18 (0.37%) Talend
16 18 (0.37%) Teradata
17 16 (0.33%) Murex