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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 1,706 2,759 5,376
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.63% 11.56% 12.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.85% 31.64% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 2,053 3,984
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £636 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £736
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £540
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.31% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 29 41
10th Percentile £22.61 £22.36 £18.62
25th Percentile £24.00 £35.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.26% +64.29% +34.62%
75th Percentile £42.88 £70.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £58.05 £85.00 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £53.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.93% +53.57% +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 5,040 8,719 16,856
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.35% 36.53% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,630 6,429 12,573
10th Percentile £350 £384 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 190 183
10th Percentile £30.00 £27.07 £20.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
% change year-on-year - +21.65% +14.80%

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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 June 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 June 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 44 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 34 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (1.99%) SAS
3 33 (1.93%) Apache
4 29 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 25 (1.47%) Confluence
6 20 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.82%) IIS
8 13 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.41%) CMS
10 6 (0.35%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.29%) JBoss
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (7.09%) Chatbot
2 70 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.059%) Elementor
8 1 (0.059%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.059%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.94%) Dynamics GP
3 15 (0.88%) Endur
3 15 (0.88%) NEC Housing
4 13 (0.76%) Elite 3E
4 13 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 9 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.41%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
8 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 459 (26.91%) Azure
2 261 (15.30%) AWS
3 231 (13.54%) Power Platform
4 135 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (4.45%) GCP
6 74 (4.34%) Serverless
7 70 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 69 (4.04%) GitHub
9 49 (2.87%) Snowflake
10 43 (2.52%) Amazon S3
11 39 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 38 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
13 35 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
13 35 (2.05%) PowerApps
14 34 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
15 31 (1.82%) dbt
16 30 (1.76%) Azure Functions
17 27 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 25 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.64%) HTTP
2 9 (0.53%) Firewall
3 8 (0.47%) Internet
3 8 (0.47%) SAN
3 8 (0.47%) VPN
4 7 (0.41%) DNS
4 7 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.29%) DHCP
5 5 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
6 4 (0.23%) Network Security
6 4 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.18%) BGP
7 3 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.18%) IOS XR
7 3 (0.18%) LAN
7 3 (0.18%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.18%) WAN
8 2 (0.12%) FTP
8 2 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (17.53%) SQL Server
2 201 (11.78%) Power BI
3 164 (9.61%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (5.28%) Oracle Database
6 87 (5.10%) Relational Database
7 83 (4.87%) NoSQL
8 70 (4.10%) Data Lake
8 70 (4.10%) Tableau
9 65 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 64 (3.75%) Big Data
11 59 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 49 (2.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 47 (2.75%) BigQuery
14 46 (2.70%) MySQL
15 35 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
16 34 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
16 34 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
17 32 (1.88%) MongoDB
18 30 (1.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 88 (5.16%) Git
2 85 (4.98%) JIRA
3 45 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 23 (1.35%) Selenium
5 23 (1.35%) TeamCity
6 21 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 21 (1.23%) GitLab
7 20 (1.17%) Oracle APEX
8 14 (0.82%) Postman
9 13 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 13 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.59%) JMeter
10 10 (0.59%) Maven
10 10 (0.59%) SpecFlow
11 8 (0.47%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.47%) Subversion
11 8 (0.47%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.41%) NUnit
General
1 420 (24.62%) Finance
2 365 (21.40%) Social Skills
3 176 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (9.55%) Banking
5 118 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 114 (6.68%) Front Office
7 53 (3.11%) Retail
8 41 (2.40%) Marketing
9 40 (2.34%) Back Office
9 40 (2.34%) Investment Banking
10 27 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.23%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.94%) Legal
15 13 (0.76%) Billing
15 13 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.70%) Electronics
16 12 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 608 (35.64%) Developer
2 279 (16.35%) Analyst
3 177 (10.38%) Senior
4 163 (9.55%) Data Engineer
5 154 (9.03%) Software Developer
6 101 (5.92%) Data Analyst
7 95 (5.57%) Consultant
8 92 (5.39%) Architect
9 86 (5.04%) Business Analyst
10 83 (4.87%) SQL Developer
11 65 (3.81%) DBA
12 59 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
13 53 (3.11%) Lead
14 51 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 50 (2.93%) Financial Analyst
15 50 (2.93%) Java Developer
15 50 (2.93%) Senior Developer
16 46 (2.70%) C# Developer
17 41 (2.40%) SQL Analyst
18 40 (2.34%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (12.60%) HTML
2 175 (10.26%) .NET
3 79 (4.63%) XML
4 77 (4.51%) REST
5 55 (3.22%) CSS
6 53 (3.11%) React
7 49 (2.87%) SOAP
7 49 (2.87%) Web Services
8 48 (2.81%) JSON
9 47 (2.75%) PySpark
10 46 (2.70%) AngularJS
11 43 (2.52%) RESTful
12 41 (2.40%) .NET Framework
13 31 (1.82%) Kafka
14 30 (1.76%) ASP.NET
14 30 (1.76%) Spring
15 27 (1.58%) Node.js
16 25 (1.47%) Spring Boot
17 23 (1.35%) .NET Core
17 23 (1.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.81%) Derivative
2 56 (3.28%) Hedge funds
2 56 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 49 (2.87%) Management Information System
4 45 (2.64%) Equities
5 41 (2.40%) Fixed Income
6 40 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 40 (2.34%) Replication
7 37 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.76%) Data Centre
11 29 (1.70%) Onboarding
12 25 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 24 (1.41%) Algorithms
14 19 (1.11%) Clustering
15 17 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.76%) Housing Association
18 12 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 143 (8.38%) Windows
2 72 (4.22%) Unix
3 66 (3.87%) Linux
4 50 (2.93%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (0.59%) VMS
7 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.41%) Android
8 7 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.23%) AIX
10 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.23%) Solaris
11 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (20.05%) Agile
2 268 (15.71%) Business Intelligence
3 255 (14.95%) Analytics
4 248 (14.54%) DevOps
5 246 (14.42%) Software Engineering
6 228 (13.36%) Data Modelling
7 206 (12.08%) Migration
8 201 (11.78%) ETL
9 196 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
10 183 (10.73%) Artificial Intelligence
11 153 (8.97%) CI/CD
12 142 (8.32%) Code Quality
13 125 (7.33%) Data Analysis
14 121 (7.09%) Conversational UI
15 111 (6.51%) Visualisation
16 103 (6.04%) Computer Science
17 92 (5.39%) Scrum
18 88 (5.16%) Data Migration
18 88 (5.16%) Test Automation
19 87 (5.10%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 526 (30.83%) Python
2 375 (21.98%) C#
3 293 (17.17%) JavaScript
4 200 (11.72%) Java
5 143 (8.38%) PL/SQL
6 99 (5.80%) PowerShell
7 65 (3.81%) T-SQL
8 51 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 36 (2.11%) C++
10 34 (1.99%) R
11 30 (1.76%) Bash
12 27 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (1.11%) PHP
13 19 (1.11%) Scala
14 18 (1.06%) C
15 17 (1.00%) Perl
15 17 (1.00%) VB
16 15 (0.88%) VB.NET
16 15 (0.88%) VBA
17 13 (0.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 277 (16.24%) Degree
2 144 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 117 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 45 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.29%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.64%) PhD
9 10 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (0.59%) MCSE
10 7 (0.41%) CISSP
10 7 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.29%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.29%) ISEB
12 5 (0.29%) MCSA
12 5 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 68 (3.99%) QA
3 16 (0.94%) GDPR
4 15 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 13 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (0.70%) MiFID
7 9 (0.53%) EMIR
7 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.47%) CDISC
8 8 (0.47%) SLA
9 6 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
9 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.23%) GxP
10 4 (0.23%) IFRS
11 3 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.12%) GRC
12 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.12%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (4.34%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.22%) Docker
3 17 (1.00%) IAG
4 16 (0.94%) ACF2
4 16 (0.94%) RACF
5 13 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.18%) HDFS
7 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.18%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.059%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.059%) XenApp
9 1 (0.059%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 67 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.34%) Terraform
3 32 (1.88%) Ansible
4 23 (1.35%) Grafana
5 8 (0.47%) PingFederate
6 7 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.35%) SCOM
8 5 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.23%) BladeLogic
9 4 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.18%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.18%) Puppet
10 3 (0.18%) SCCM
10 3 (0.18%) WSUS
11 2 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 2 (0.12%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 274 (16.06%) Oracle
2 268 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 121 (7.09%) PayPal
4 95 (5.57%) Databricks
5 56 (3.28%) SAP
6 47 (2.75%) Google
7 38 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 26 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.47%) VMware
10 19 (1.11%) Splunk
10 19 (1.11%) Sybase
11 17 (1.00%) Informatica
11 17 (1.00%) NEC
12 12 (0.70%) Avaloq
12 12 (0.70%) Bloomberg
13 11 (0.64%) Cisco
13 11 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.64%) OpenLink
14 10 (0.59%) Citrix
14 10 (0.59%) IBM