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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 1,712 2,763 5,414
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.64% 11.53% 12.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.02% 31.59% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 2,053 4,008
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £746 £748 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +8.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 28 40
10th Percentile £22.61 £22.34 £20.54
25th Percentile £24.00 £35.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £61.75 £36.58
Median % change year-on-year -42.51% +68.82% +39.34%
75th Percentile £42.88 £70.56 £58.69
90th Percentile £58.05 £85.00 £67.18
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +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 5,032 8,747 16,940
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.20% 36.51% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 6,448 12,632
10th Percentile £350 £386 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 133 186 184
10th Percentile £30.00 £32.88 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year - +20.19% +15.56%

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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 7 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 7 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 (2.57%) Apache Spark
2 34 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (1.99%) SAS
3 33 (1.93%) Apache
4 29 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 25 (1.46%) 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%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
13 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (7.07%) Chatbot
2 70 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.058%) Elementor
8 1 (0.058%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.058%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.93%) 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 10 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
8 7 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.41%) Teamcenter
9 6 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
9 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 461 (26.93%) Azure
2 260 (15.19%) AWS
3 231 (13.49%) Power Platform
4 138 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (4.44%) GCP
6 74 (4.32%) Serverless
7 71 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 69 (4.03%) GitHub
9 50 (2.92%) Snowflake
10 43 (2.51%) Amazon S3
11 39 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 38 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 35 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
13 35 (2.04%) PowerApps
14 34 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
15 31 (1.81%) dbt
16 30 (1.75%) Azure Functions
17 27 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 26 (1.52%) 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%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (17.64%) SQL Server
2 201 (11.74%) Power BI
3 166 (9.70%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (5.37%) Oracle Database
6 86 (5.02%) Relational Database
7 83 (4.85%) NoSQL
8 70 (4.09%) Data Lake
8 70 (4.09%) Tableau
9 66 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 64 (3.74%) Big Data
11 61 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 49 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 47 (2.75%) BigQuery
14 46 (2.69%) MySQL
15 35 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
16 34 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
16 34 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
17 32 (1.87%) MongoDB
18 30 (1.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 89 (5.20%) Git
2 85 (4.96%) JIRA
3 45 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.87%) Visual Studio
5 23 (1.34%) TeamCity
6 22 (1.29%) Selenium
7 21 (1.23%) Cypress.io
7 21 (1.23%) GitLab
8 20 (1.17%) Oracle APEX
9 14 (0.82%) Postman
10 13 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 13 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (0.64%) SpecFlow
12 10 (0.58%) JMeter
12 10 (0.58%) Maven
13 9 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
14 8 (0.47%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.47%) Subversion
14 8 (0.47%) WebDriver
15 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 421 (24.59%) Finance
2 369 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 177 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (9.52%) Banking
5 118 (6.89%) Public Sector
6 114 (6.66%) Front Office
7 53 (3.10%) Retail
8 41 (2.39%) Marketing
9 40 (2.34%) Back Office
9 40 (2.34%) Investment Banking
10 26 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.23%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.93%) 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
1 611 (35.69%) Developer
2 279 (16.30%) Analyst
3 176 (10.28%) Senior
4 164 (9.58%) Data Engineer
5 154 (9.00%) Software Developer
6 101 (5.90%) Data Analyst
7 98 (5.72%) Consultant
8 91 (5.32%) Architect
9 86 (5.02%) Business Analyst
10 84 (4.91%) SQL Developer
11 65 (3.80%) DBA
12 59 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
13 53 (3.10%) Lead
14 51 (2.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 50 (2.92%) Financial Analyst
15 50 (2.92%) Java Developer
15 50 (2.92%) Senior Developer
16 49 (2.86%) C# Developer
17 41 (2.39%) SQL Analyst
18 39 (2.28%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (12.56%) HTML
2 176 (10.28%) .NET
3 79 (4.61%) XML
4 76 (4.44%) REST
5 55 (3.21%) CSS
6 53 (3.10%) React
7 49 (2.86%) SOAP
7 49 (2.86%) Web Services
8 48 (2.80%) JSON
9 47 (2.75%) AngularJS
9 47 (2.75%) PySpark
10 43 (2.51%) .NET Framework
10 43 (2.51%) RESTful
11 31 (1.81%) Kafka
12 30 (1.75%) ASP.NET
12 30 (1.75%) Spring
13 27 (1.58%) Node.js
14 25 (1.46%) Spring Boot
15 24 (1.40%) .NET Core
16 23 (1.34%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.85%) Derivative
2 57 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.27%) Hedge funds
4 48 (2.80%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.63%) Equities
6 41 (2.39%) Fixed Income
7 40 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 40 (2.34%) Replication
8 38 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.75%) Data Centre
12 29 (1.69%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 25 (1.46%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.11%) Clustering
15 17 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.76%) Housing Association
18 12 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 143 (8.35%) Windows
2 72 (4.21%) Unix
3 68 (3.97%) Linux
4 50 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.70%) VMS
5 12 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (0.41%) Android
7 7 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.23%) AIX
9 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.23%) Solaris
10 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (20.09%) Agile
2 270 (15.77%) Business Intelligence
3 254 (14.84%) Analytics
4 251 (14.66%) DevOps
5 245 (14.31%) Software Engineering
6 228 (13.32%) Data Modelling
7 209 (12.21%) Migration
8 202 (11.80%) ETL
9 197 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
10 183 (10.69%) Artificial Intelligence
11 153 (8.94%) CI/CD
12 142 (8.29%) Code Quality
13 125 (7.30%) Data Analysis
14 121 (7.07%) Conversational UI
15 111 (6.48%) Visualisation
16 103 (6.02%) Computer Science
17 92 (5.37%) Scrum
18 89 (5.20%) Data Migration
19 88 (5.14%) Test Automation
20 87 (5.08%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 527 (30.78%) Python
2 377 (22.02%) C#
3 294 (17.17%) JavaScript
4 200 (11.68%) Java
5 143 (8.35%) PL/SQL
6 99 (5.78%) PowerShell
7 66 (3.86%) T-SQL
8 52 (3.04%) TypeScript
9 36 (2.10%) C++
10 34 (1.99%) R
11 30 (1.75%) Bash
12 27 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (1.11%) PHP
13 19 (1.11%) Scala
14 18 (1.05%) C
15 17 (0.99%) Perl
15 17 (0.99%) VB
16 15 (0.88%) VB.NET
16 15 (0.88%) VBA
17 13 (0.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 276 (16.12%) Degree
2 144 (8.41%) Security Cleared
3 117 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 45 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.29%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 17 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (0.64%) PhD
9 10 (0.58%) 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 92 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 70 (4.09%) QA
3 16 (0.93%) 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 5 (0.29%) IFRS
11 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.23%) GxP
12 3 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.12%) GRC
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 74 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.21%) Docker
3 17 (0.99%) IAG
4 16 (0.93%) ACF2
4 16 (0.93%) 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 (0.058%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.058%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.058%) XenApp
9 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 67 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.33%) Terraform
3 32 (1.87%) Ansible
4 23 (1.34%) 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%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.12%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.12%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 276 (16.12%) Oracle
2 269 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 121 (7.07%) PayPal
4 94 (5.49%) Databricks
5 57 (3.33%) SAP
6 47 (2.75%) Google
7 38 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 26 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.46%) VMware
10 19 (1.11%) Splunk
10 19 (1.11%) Sybase
11 17 (0.99%) Informatica
11 17 (0.99%) 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 (0.58%) Alteryx
14 10 (0.58%) IBM