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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,885 7,644 13,046
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.44% 18.90% 18.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.38% 38.41% 31.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,039 5,139 7,955
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 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +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 13,808 19,903 41,450
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.82% 49.21% 59.05%
Number of salaries quoted 11,388 14,641 23,824
10th Percentile £38,694 £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 £79,313 £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 17 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
1 127 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 126 (2.58%) IIS
3 85 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 77 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 65 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 64 (1.31%) Apache
7 54 (1.11%) SAS
8 46 (0.94%) CMS
9 34 (0.70%) Confluence
10 15 (0.31%) Drupal
11 13 (0.27%) nginx
11 13 (0.27%) WordPress
12 11 (0.23%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.16%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
14 5 (0.10%) JBoss
14 5 (0.10%) Luigi
14 5 (0.10%) NServiceBus
15 4 (0.082%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.082%) EPiServer
Applications
1 263 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.33%) Simulink
6 15 (0.31%) SPSS
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 (0.020%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.020%) 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 (0.061%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,894 (38.77%) Azure
2 1,034 (21.17%) Power Platform
3 968 (19.82%) AWS
4 320 (6.55%) GCP
5 301 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
6 201 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 198 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
8 187 (3.83%) SaaS
9 182 (3.73%) Snowflake
10 177 (3.62%) Serverless
11 128 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 121 (2.48%) GitHub
13 108 (2.21%) PowerApps
14 98 (2.01%) Power Automate
15 84 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
16 82 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 82 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
17 70 (1.43%) Entra ID
18 67 (1.37%) dbt
19 61 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.92%) Internet
2 80 (1.64%) Broadband
3 69 (1.41%) Firewall
4 63 (1.29%) DNS
5 48 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.74%) DHCP
6 36 (0.74%) HTTP
7 35 (0.72%) Network Security
8 34 (0.70%) VPN
9 28 (0.57%) SSL
10 16 (0.33%) SAN
11 14 (0.29%) Modbus
12 13 (0.27%) WAN
13 12 (0.25%) BIG-IP
13 12 (0.25%) LAN
14 11 (0.23%) FTP
15 10 (0.20%) MQTT
15 10 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.18%) Multicast
17 7 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,352 (27.68%) SQL Server
2 979 (20.04%) Power BI
3 539 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
4 433 (8.86%) Tableau
5 418 (8.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 371 (7.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 324 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
8 276 (5.65%) Relational Database
9 260 (5.32%) MySQL
10 253 (5.18%) NoSQL
11 235 (4.81%) Data Lake
12 228 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 184 (3.77%) Oracle Database
14 165 (3.38%) BigQuery
15 137 (2.80%) MongoDB
16 109 (2.23%) Big Data
17 94 (1.92%) Oracle Database 11g
18 82 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 76 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
20 63 (1.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 459 (9.40%) Git
2 145 (2.97%) JIRA
3 124 (2.54%) Visual Studio
4 114 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 98 (2.01%) GitLab
6 55 (1.13%) Postman
7 46 (0.94%) Selenium
8 37 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 36 (0.74%) Maven
10 32 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
11 31 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 28 (0.57%) Jasmine
12 28 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
12 28 (0.57%) TeamCity
13 26 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 26 (0.53%) JMeter
14 25 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
15 24 (0.49%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
17 19 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,469 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 1,152 (23.58%) Finance
3 664 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (8.33%) Retail
5 300 (6.14%) Banking
6 297 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 205 (4.20%) Law
8 190 (3.89%) Marketing
9 186 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
10 185 (3.79%) Front Office
11 164 (3.36%) Legal
12 144 (2.95%) Back Office
13 115 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 99 (2.03%) Manufacturing
15 94 (1.92%) Games
16 75 (1.54%) Advertising
17 64 (1.31%) Telecoms
18 54 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
19 53 (1.08%) Tech for Good
20 40 (0.82%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,593 (32.61%) Developer
2 1,099 (22.50%) Senior
3 878 (17.97%) Analyst
4 466 (9.54%) Lead
5 438 (8.97%) .NET Developer
6 409 (8.37%) Data Engineer
7 385 (7.88%) Senior Developer
8 372 (7.62%) Software Engineer
9 330 (6.76%) Data Analyst
10 216 (4.42%) Software Developer
11 210 (4.30%) C# Developer
12 205 (4.20%) Consultant
13 204 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
14 202 (4.14%) DBA
15 184 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
16 176 (3.60%) Applications Support
17 143 (2.93%) SQL DBA
17 143 (2.93%) Support Analyst
18 138 (2.82%) SQL Developer
19 129 (2.64%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,163 (23.81%) .NET
2 621 (12.71%) HTML
3 516 (10.56%) CSS
4 512 (10.48%) ASP.NET
5 416 (8.52%) .NET Core
6 345 (7.06%) React
7 344 (7.04%) AngularJS
8 308 (6.31%) REST
9 272 (5.57%) ASP.NET MVC
10 259 (5.30%) Entity Framework
11 253 (5.18%) HTML5
12 245 (5.02%) .NET Framework
13 242 (4.95%) Blazor
14 205 (4.20%) Web Services
15 198 (4.05%) JSON
16 191 (3.91%) CSS3
17 178 (3.64%) RESTful
18 167 (3.42%) XML
19 160 (3.28%) Vue
20 147 (3.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 173 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
2 162 (3.32%) Data Structures
3 153 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 137 (2.80%) Derivative
5 133 (2.72%) Algorithms
6 130 (2.66%) Management Information System
7 127 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 125 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
9 102 (2.09%) Client/Server
10 94 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 89 (1.82%) Equities
11 89 (1.82%) Fixed Income
12 87 (1.78%) Public Cloud
13 82 (1.68%) Cloud Native
14 74 (1.51%) Onboarding
15 58 (1.19%) NHS
16 54 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
17 49 (1.00%) Mobile App
18 47 (0.96%) IoT
19 45 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 424 (8.68%) Windows
2 301 (6.16%) Linux
3 123 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.90%) Unix
5 81 (1.66%) VMS
6 65 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 36 (0.74%) Android
8 29 (0.59%) Windows 7
9 28 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (0.57%) Windows 8
10 25 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 21 (0.43%) CentOS
11 21 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 18 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (0.33%) Apple iOS
14 14 (0.29%) zOS
15 12 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
16 10 (0.20%) AIX
17 8 (0.16%) Solaris
18 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,339 (27.41%) Agile
2 1,072 (21.94%) Business Intelligence
3 931 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
4 908 (18.59%) Analytics
5 677 (13.86%) DevOps
6 667 (13.65%) ETL
7 638 (13.06%) Software Engineering
8 608 (12.45%) Visualisation
9 561 (11.48%) Mentoring
10 510 (10.44%) Full Stack Development
11 494 (10.11%) Data Science
12 486 (9.95%) Artificial Intelligence
13 474 (9.70%) Data Analysis
14 425 (8.70%) Machine Learning
15 419 (8.58%) Data Modelling
16 413 (8.45%) Data Pipeline
17 390 (7.98%) MVC
18 386 (7.90%) TDD
19 380 (7.78%) CI/CD
20 371 (7.59%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,270 (26.00%) Python
2 1,253 (25.65%) C#
3 919 (18.81%) JavaScript
4 573 (11.73%) T-SQL
5 469 (9.60%) Java
6 258 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 233 (4.77%) PL/SQL
8 145 (2.97%) PowerShell
9 130 (2.66%) PHP
10 128 (2.62%) R
11 106 (2.17%) VB.NET
12 92 (1.88%) C++
13 86 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 71 (1.45%) VB
15 67 (1.37%) VBA
16 55 (1.13%) Bash
17 52 (1.06%) C
18 51 (1.04%) Groovy
19 49 (1.00%) Kotlin
20 42 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 869 (17.79%) Degree
2 295 (6.04%) DBS Check
3 191 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 168 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 156 (3.19%) Security Cleared
6 125 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 121 (2.48%) SC Cleared
8 50 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 41 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 27 (0.55%) PhD
11 22 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
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 (0.20%) GIAC
17 10 (0.20%) HND
17 10 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (5.04%) Data Quality
2 148 (3.03%) QA
3 59 (1.21%) SLA
4 58 (1.19%) GDPR
5 42 (0.86%) 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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.12%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 5 (0.10%) IFRS
13 4 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.082%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.082%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.061%) CRD IV
14 3 (0.061%) HL7
System Software
1 267 (5.47%) Docker
2 204 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 93 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 82 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 79 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 30 (0.61%) XenApp
6 30 (0.61%) 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
1 259 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 209 (4.28%) Terraform
3 74 (1.51%) 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 13 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.23%) WSUS
11 9 (0.18%) logstash
11 9 (0.18%) SCCM
11 9 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.14%) Data Guard
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
15 4 (0.082%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 1,265 (25.90%) Microsoft
2 418 (8.56%) Databricks
3 409 (8.37%) Oracle
4 207 (4.24%) Google
5 104 (2.13%) VMware
6 96 (1.97%) SAP
7 83 (1.70%) IBM
8 35 (0.72%) Citrix
9 34 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 33 (0.68%) F5
11 29 (0.59%) Alteryx
12 26 (0.53%) Sage
13 25 (0.51%) IFS
14 24 (0.49%) Facebook
15 22 (0.45%) Adobe
16 19 (0.39%) Aderant
16 19 (0.39%) NEC
17 18 (0.37%) Teradata
18 17 (0.35%) Murex
18 17 (0.35%) Talend