SQL Server Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
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 Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 44 45
Rank change year-on-year +19 +1 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2,670 2,603 5,137
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.90% 6.41% 7.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.01% 25.87% 24.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,423 2,149 3,758
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £33,600
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -0.90% +2.78% +8.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence 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 database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,850 10,063 21,148
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.22% 24.80% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,228 6,908 11,090
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,208 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SQL Server trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
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 Server.

SQL Server salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

SQL Server salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
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
1 131 (4.91%) IIS
2 108 (4.04%) SharePoint
3 89 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.57%) CMS
5 41 (1.54%) Apache
6 32 (1.20%) Umbraco
7 21 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.37%) EPiServer
8 10 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.30%) Kentico
10 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.26%) SAS
10 7 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.26%) WordPress
11 6 (0.22%) DNN
11 6 (0.22%) Drupal
11 6 (0.22%) Immediacy CMS
11 6 (0.22%) Sitefinity
12 4 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 65 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.11%) S-PLUS
5 3 (0.11%) SPSS
6 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 69 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (1.54%) Endur
3 16 (0.60%) PlanetPress Connect
4 13 (0.49%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.34%) Sage X3
5 9 (0.34%) SAP Business One
6 8 (0.30%) Elite 3E
7 7 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
9 3 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 3 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.075%) Magento
10 2 (0.075%) MIS ActiveH
10 2 (0.075%) nopCommerce
10 2 (0.075%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.075%) Sage 50
10 2 (0.075%) SAP FI-GL
10 2 (0.075%) Shopify
11 1 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,724 (64.57%) Azure
2 480 (17.98%) Power Platform
3 445 (16.67%) AWS
4 248 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
5 120 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
6 100 (3.75%) SaaS
7 89 (3.33%) GCP
8 88 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 79 (2.96%) Snowflake
10 50 (1.87%) Entra ID
10 50 (1.87%) GitHub
11 48 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 48 (1.80%) Matillion
12 47 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.76%) Serverless
13 46 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 45 (1.69%) PowerApps
15 39 (1.46%) Power Automate
16 38 (1.42%) Google Play
17 27 (1.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 134 (5.02%) Internet
2 89 (3.33%) Broadband
2 89 (3.33%) DNS
3 77 (2.88%) Firewall
4 49 (1.84%) SAN
5 41 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.20%) DHCP
7 23 (0.86%) SSL
8 22 (0.82%) HTTP
8 22 (0.82%) VoIP
9 21 (0.79%) WAN
10 19 (0.71%) LAN
11 17 (0.64%) Network Security
11 17 (0.64%) VPN
12 16 (0.60%) Hyperconnected
13 15 (0.56%) Mobile Broadband
14 12 (0.45%) BIG-IP
15 10 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.34%) Multicast
17 8 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (16.74%) Power BI
2 330 (12.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 304 (11.39%) Data Warehouse
4 291 (10.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 282 (10.56%) MongoDB
6 261 (9.78%) Elasticsearch
7 198 (7.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 195 (7.30%) Relational Database
9 128 (4.79%) MySQL
10 115 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
11 98 (3.67%) Data Lake
12 95 (3.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 57 (2.13%) RDBMS
14 55 (2.06%) DB2
15 51 (1.91%) Tableau
16 40 (1.50%) NoSQL
17 35 (1.31%) Oracle Database
18 32 (1.20%) Star Schema
19 31 (1.16%) BigQuery
20 22 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 170 (6.37%) Git
2 113 (4.23%) Visual Studio
3 81 (3.03%) JIRA
4 53 (1.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 46 (1.72%) GitLab
6 38 (1.42%) NUnit
7 35 (1.31%) Jasmine
8 33 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 28 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
10 21 (0.79%) Jenkins
11 17 (0.64%) Postman
11 17 (0.64%) TeamCity
11 17 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
12 13 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (0.49%) Selenium
13 12 (0.45%) MSTest
14 11 (0.41%) Moq
15 10 (0.37%) SpecFlow
16 7 (0.26%) Mercurial
16 7 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 630 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 507 (18.99%) Finance
3 201 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (6.97%) Retail
5 130 (4.87%) Public Sector
6 125 (4.68%) Marketing
7 112 (4.19%) Games
8 101 (3.78%) Law
9 92 (3.45%) Legal
10 73 (2.73%) Advertising
11 56 (2.10%) Banking
12 46 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (1.35%) Music Industry
14 28 (1.05%) Telecoms
15 25 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 23 (0.86%) Back Office
17 22 (0.82%) Financial Institution
18 15 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (0.56%) Local Government
19 14 (0.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,435 (53.75%) Developer
2 891 (33.37%) .NET Developer
3 421 (15.77%) C# Developer
4 313 (11.72%) C# .NET Developer
5 296 (11.09%) Senior
6 215 (8.05%) Lead
7 181 (6.78%) DBA
8 168 (6.29%) Analyst
9 165 (6.18%) Software Developer
10 150 (5.62%) Consultant
11 137 (5.13%) Senior Developer
12 136 (5.09%) SQL DBA
13 133 (4.98%) Data Engineer
14 100 (3.75%) Support Engineer
15 94 (3.52%) Business Intelligence Consultant
16 93 (3.48%) Software Engineer
17 88 (3.30%) Administrator
18 78 (2.92%) Support Analyst
19 66 (2.47%) SQL Developer
20 65 (2.43%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,430 (53.56%) .NET
2 994 (37.23%) ASP.NET
3 893 (33.45%) .NET Core
4 796 (29.81%) ASP.NET MVC
5 754 (28.24%) AngularJS
6 637 (23.86%) Entity Framework
7 616 (23.07%) HTML
8 597 (22.36%) ASP.NET Web API
9 584 (21.87%) .NET Framework
10 405 (15.17%) CSS
11 384 (14.38%) HTML5
12 370 (13.86%) React
13 311 (11.65%) Vue
14 263 (9.85%) Node.js
15 247 (9.25%) RESTful
16 205 (7.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 198 (7.42%) Blazor
18 195 (7.30%) CSS3
19 192 (7.19%) LINQ
20 169 (6.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 185 (6.93%) Greenfield Project
2 124 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
3 109 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 77 (2.88%) Mobile App
5 76 (2.85%) Management Information System
6 56 (2.10%) Replication
7 49 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 47 (1.76%) Public Cloud
9 41 (1.54%) Swaptions
10 39 (1.46%) Social Media
10 39 (1.46%) Social Network
11 38 (1.42%) iPhone
12 33 (1.24%) BBC
13 30 (1.12%) Cloud Native
13 30 (1.12%) Driving Licence
14 29 (1.09%) Clustering
14 29 (1.09%) Life Science
15 28 (1.05%) Product Ownership
16 25 (0.94%) Digital TV
17 24 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 356 (13.33%) Windows
2 159 (5.96%) Windows Server
3 155 (5.81%) Linux
4 86 (3.22%) VMS
5 48 (1.80%) Android
5 48 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 44 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 43 (1.61%) Unix
8 39 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.94%) AIX
11 24 (0.90%) zOS
12 16 (0.60%) CentOS
12 16 (0.60%) Solaris
13 14 (0.52%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.22%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.19%) Debian
16 5 (0.19%) Windows Mobile
16 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,142 (42.77%) Agile
2 906 (33.93%) MVC
3 836 (31.31%) Full Stack Development
4 653 (24.46%) Microservices
5 509 (19.06%) Business Intelligence
6 476 (17.83%) TDD
7 418 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
8 407 (15.24%) DevOps
9 393 (14.72%) BDD
10 390 (14.61%) ETL
11 379 (14.19%) Scrum
12 264 (9.89%) Kanban
13 232 (8.69%) OO
14 219 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence
15 204 (7.64%) Roadmaps
16 203 (7.60%) CI/CD
17 202 (7.57%) Data Science
18 185 (6.93%) Data Modelling
19 179 (6.70%) Multithreading
20 178 (6.67%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,440 (53.93%) C#
2 1,352 (50.64%) SQL
3 1,033 (38.69%) JavaScript
4 445 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 330 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 198 (7.42%) Python
7 145 (5.43%) Java
8 125 (4.68%) PowerShell
9 117 (4.38%) VB
10 113 (4.23%) VB.NET
11 47 (1.76%) PL/SQL
12 44 (1.65%) C++
13 39 (1.46%) PHP
14 30 (1.12%) C
14 30 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 29 (1.09%) VB6
16 26 (0.97%) XAML
17 25 (0.94%) Bash
18 20 (0.75%) XPath
19 15 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 311 (11.65%) Degree
2 138 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 87 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (2.28%) Security Cleared
5 49 (1.84%) Azure Certification
6 33 (1.24%) SC Cleared
7 30 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 24 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.30%) HND
11 8 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.26%) ISEB
12 7 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
14 5 (0.19%) HNC
15 4 (0.15%) CISM
15 4 (0.15%) CISSP
16 3 (0.11%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (4.16%) QA
2 91 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.42%) SLA
4 12 (0.45%) GDPR
5 11 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.19%) NIST
8 5 (0.19%) WCAG
9 4 (0.15%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.11%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.037%) HL7
12 1 (0.037%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 168 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 101 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
3 85 (3.18%) Docker
4 56 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 52 (1.95%) Hyper-V
6 23 (0.86%) vSphere
7 12 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) XenApp
10 2 (0.075%) NFS
11 1 (0.037%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.037%) Firmware
11 1 (0.037%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 74 (2.77%) Terraform
2 73 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 23 (0.86%) Ansible
4 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.67%) Grafana
6 17 (0.64%) Nagios
7 13 (0.49%) SCCM
8 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 9 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
10 8 (0.30%) MIIS
10 8 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.26%) Foglight
12 6 (0.22%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.15%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.15%) Kibana
13 4 (0.15%) PaperCut
13 4 (0.15%) WSUS
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 1,680 (62.92%) Microsoft
2 218 (8.16%) Oracle
3 130 (4.87%) Google
4 87 (3.26%) VMware
5 82 (3.07%) Facebook
6 57 (2.13%) Databricks
7 49 (1.84%) Sybase
8 45 (1.69%) TIBCO
9 44 (1.65%) IBM
10 43 (1.61%) Apple
11 41 (1.54%) OpenLink
12 35 (1.31%) Cisco
13 33 (1.24%) Sony
13 33 (1.24%) Yahoo!
14 32 (1.20%) Veeam
15 26 (0.97%) F5
16 23 (0.86%) SAP
17 21 (0.79%) iManage
17 21 (0.79%) YouTube
18 19 (0.71%) Aderant