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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 45 45
Rank change year-on-year +20 0 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2,659 2,556 5,142
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.83% 6.37% 7.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.90% 25.73% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,414 2,103 3,738
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 £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,198 £54,100
% change year-on-year -0.36% +2.03% +8.20%

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 7,844 9,932 21,407
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.10% 24.77% 29.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,240 6,807 11,069
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,170 £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 £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 23 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 (4.93%) IIS
2 107 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 88 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.62%) CMS
5 41 (1.54%) Apache
6 32 (1.20%) Umbraco
7 21 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.38%) EPiServer
8 10 (0.38%) 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 (0.23%) DNN
11 6 (0.23%) Drupal
11 6 (0.23%) Immediacy CMS
11 6 (0.23%) Sitefinity
12 4 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 65 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.23%) 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 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 68 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (1.43%) 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 3 (0.11%) BusinessWorks
8 3 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 3 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.075%) Magento
9 2 (0.075%) MIS ActiveH
9 2 (0.075%) nopCommerce
9 2 (0.075%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.075%) Sage 50
9 2 (0.075%) Shopify
10 1 (0.038%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.038%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 1,725 (64.87%) Azure
2 474 (17.83%) Power Platform
3 443 (16.66%) AWS
4 250 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
5 120 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 98 (3.69%) SaaS
7 89 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 87 (3.27%) GCP
9 78 (2.93%) Snowflake
10 50 (1.88%) Entra ID
11 49 (1.84%) GitHub
12 48 (1.81%) Matillion
13 47 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 47 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
14 46 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 46 (1.73%) Serverless
15 44 (1.65%) PowerApps
16 38 (1.43%) Google Play
16 38 (1.43%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 134 (5.04%) Internet
2 91 (3.42%) DNS
3 89 (3.35%) Broadband
4 76 (2.86%) Firewall
5 48 (1.81%) SAN
6 41 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 34 (1.28%) DHCP
8 23 (0.86%) SSL
9 22 (0.83%) HTTP
9 22 (0.83%) VoIP
10 21 (0.79%) WAN
11 19 (0.71%) LAN
12 17 (0.64%) Network Security
13 16 (0.60%) Hyperconnected
13 16 (0.60%) VPN
14 15 (0.56%) Mobile Broadband
15 11 (0.41%) BIG-IP
16 10 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (0.34%) Multicast
18 8 (0.30%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 443 (16.66%) Power BI
2 328 (12.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 302 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
4 291 (10.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 282 (10.61%) MongoDB
6 261 (9.82%) Elasticsearch
7 197 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 192 (7.22%) Relational Database
9 129 (4.85%) MySQL
10 114 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
11 97 (3.65%) Data Lake
12 94 (3.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 55 (2.07%) DB2
14 54 (2.03%) RDBMS
15 50 (1.88%) Tableau
16 40 (1.50%) NoSQL
17 32 (1.20%) Oracle Database
17 32 (1.20%) Star Schema
18 31 (1.17%) BigQuery
19 20 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 168 (6.32%) Git
2 113 (4.25%) Visual Studio
3 80 (3.01%) JIRA
4 53 (1.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 46 (1.73%) GitLab
6 38 (1.43%) NUnit
7 35 (1.32%) Jasmine
8 33 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 28 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
10 19 (0.71%) Jenkins
11 17 (0.64%) TeamCity
11 17 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
12 14 (0.53%) Postman
13 13 (0.49%) Selenium
14 12 (0.45%) MSTest
15 11 (0.41%) Moq
15 11 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
16 10 (0.38%) SpecFlow
17 7 (0.26%) Mercurial
18 6 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 623 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 506 (19.03%) Finance
3 202 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (6.96%) Retail
5 130 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 123 (4.63%) Marketing
7 110 (4.14%) Games
8 101 (3.80%) Law
9 91 (3.42%) Legal
10 73 (2.75%) Advertising
11 53 (1.99%) Banking
12 44 (1.65%) 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 (0.83%) Financial Institution
18 15 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (0.56%) Local Government
19 14 (0.53%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,431 (53.82%) Developer
2 893 (33.58%) .NET Developer
3 424 (15.95%) C# Developer
4 317 (11.92%) C# .NET Developer
5 295 (11.09%) Senior
6 211 (7.94%) Lead
7 181 (6.81%) DBA
8 165 (6.21%) Analyst
9 164 (6.17%) Software Developer
10 149 (5.60%) Consultant
11 136 (5.11%) Senior Developer
12 135 (5.08%) SQL DBA
13 133 (5.00%) Data Engineer
14 99 (3.72%) Support Engineer
15 95 (3.57%) Software Engineer
16 94 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Consultant
17 88 (3.31%) Administrator
18 78 (2.93%) Support Analyst
19 66 (2.48%) SQL Developer
20 65 (2.44%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,432 (53.85%) .NET
2 994 (37.38%) ASP.NET
3 888 (33.40%) .NET Core
4 796 (29.94%) ASP.NET MVC
5 757 (28.47%) AngularJS
6 639 (24.03%) Entity Framework
7 616 (23.17%) HTML
8 598 (22.49%) ASP.NET Web API
9 588 (22.11%) .NET Framework
10 406 (15.27%) CSS
11 384 (14.44%) HTML5
12 372 (13.99%) React
13 311 (11.70%) Vue
14 263 (9.89%) Node.js
15 247 (9.29%) RESTful
16 205 (7.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 198 (7.45%) Blazor
18 196 (7.37%) CSS3
19 192 (7.22%) LINQ
20 167 (6.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 186 (7.00%) Greenfield Project
2 125 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
3 108 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
4 76 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 76 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 56 (2.11%) Replication
6 49 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 47 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 39 (1.47%) Social Media
8 39 (1.47%) Social Network
9 38 (1.43%) iPhone
9 38 (1.43%) Swaptions
10 33 (1.24%) BBC
11 30 (1.13%) Cloud Native
12 29 (1.09%) Clustering
12 29 (1.09%) Driving Licence
12 29 (1.09%) Life Science
13 28 (1.05%) Product Ownership
14 25 (0.94%) Digital TV
14 25 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 355 (13.35%) Windows
2 160 (6.02%) Windows Server
3 154 (5.79%) Linux
4 86 (3.23%) VMS
5 48 (1.81%) Android
5 48 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 44 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 43 (1.62%) Unix
8 39 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.94%) AIX
11 24 (0.90%) zOS
12 16 (0.60%) CentOS
12 16 (0.60%) Solaris
13 15 (0.56%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.23%) Debian
15 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.19%) Windows Mobile
16 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,142 (42.95%) Agile
2 905 (34.04%) MVC
3 838 (31.52%) Full Stack Development
4 650 (24.45%) Microservices
5 505 (18.99%) Business Intelligence
6 477 (17.94%) TDD
7 419 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
8 404 (15.19%) DevOps
9 393 (14.78%) BDD
10 387 (14.55%) ETL
11 379 (14.25%) Scrum
12 265 (9.97%) Kanban
13 232 (8.73%) OO
14 218 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence
15 202 (7.60%) CI/CD
15 202 (7.60%) Roadmaps
16 200 (7.52%) Data Science
17 182 (6.84%) Data Modelling
18 179 (6.73%) Multithreading
19 178 (6.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,443 (54.27%) C#
2 1,351 (50.81%) SQL
3 1,035 (38.92%) JavaScript
4 444 (16.70%) T-SQL
5 331 (12.45%) TypeScript
6 197 (7.41%) Python
7 143 (5.38%) Java
8 126 (4.74%) PowerShell
9 114 (4.29%) VB
10 111 (4.17%) VB.NET
11 47 (1.77%) PL/SQL
12 45 (1.69%) C++
13 39 (1.47%) PHP
14 30 (1.13%) C
14 30 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 29 (1.09%) VB6
16 26 (0.98%) XAML
17 24 (0.90%) Bash
18 19 (0.71%) XPath
19 15 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 313 (11.77%) Degree
2 137 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 88 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (2.29%) Security Cleared
5 46 (1.73%) Azure Certification
6 33 (1.24%) SC Cleared
7 30 (1.13%) 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 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
14 5 (0.19%) HNC
15 4 (0.15%) CISM
15 4 (0.15%) CISSP
16 3 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (4.14%) QA
2 91 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.43%) SLA
4 12 (0.45%) GDPR
5 10 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (0.19%) NIST
7 5 (0.19%) WCAG
8 4 (0.15%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.11%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.038%) HL7
11 1 (0.038%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 169 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 101 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
3 86 (3.23%) Docker
4 58 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 52 (1.96%) Hyper-V
6 25 (0.94%) vSphere
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.11%) NFS
9 3 (0.11%) XenApp
10 2 (0.075%) Firmware
10 2 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.038%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.038%) pfSense
11 1 (0.038%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 73 (2.75%) Kubernetes
1 73 (2.75%) Terraform
2 23 (0.86%) Ansible
3 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (0.68%) Nagios
5 17 (0.64%) Grafana
6 14 (0.53%) SCCM
7 11 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
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 (0.23%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.19%) Backup Exec
14 4 (0.15%) Kibana
14 4 (0.15%) PaperCut
14 4 (0.15%) WSUS
15 3 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 1,681 (63.22%) Microsoft
2 211 (7.94%) Oracle
3 128 (4.81%) Google
4 89 (3.35%) VMware
5 82 (3.08%) Facebook
6 57 (2.14%) Databricks
7 46 (1.73%) Sybase
8 44 (1.65%) IBM
9 43 (1.62%) Apple
10 41 (1.54%) TIBCO
11 38 (1.43%) OpenLink
12 36 (1.35%) Cisco
13 33 (1.24%) Sony
13 33 (1.24%) Yahoo!
14 32 (1.20%) Veeam
15 25 (0.94%) F5
16 22 (0.83%) SAP
17 21 (0.79%) YouTube
18 20 (0.75%) iManage
19 19 (0.71%) Aderant