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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 43 45
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2,663 2,621 5,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.91% 6.40% 7.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.23% 25.88% 24.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,167 3,721
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,996
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.79% +4.97% +6.70%

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 7,780 10,129 20,678
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.10% 24.72% 29.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,206 6,948 11,045
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,438 £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 £75,000 £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 14 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 (4.92%) IIS
2 111 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 86 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.61%) CMS
5 41 (1.54%) Apache
6 33 (1.24%) Umbraco
7 21 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.38%) EPiServer
8 10 (0.38%) Kentico
8 10 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.26%) SAS
9 7 (0.26%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.26%) WordPress
10 6 (0.23%) DNN
10 6 (0.23%) Drupal
10 6 (0.23%) Immediacy CMS
10 6 (0.23%) Sitefinity
11 4 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 63 (2.37%) 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%) SPSS
6 2 (0.075%) InDesign
6 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.075%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.075%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 72 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.46%) Endur
3 18 (0.68%) 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 (0.038%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,717 (64.48%) Azure
2 479 (17.99%) Power Platform
3 442 (16.60%) AWS
4 247 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
5 124 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
6 100 (3.76%) SaaS
7 88 (3.30%) GCP
8 86 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 78 (2.93%) Snowflake
10 51 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 51 (1.92%) GitHub
11 49 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 49 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
12 48 (1.80%) Matillion
13 47 (1.76%) Serverless
14 45 (1.69%) PowerApps
15 44 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 39 (1.46%) Power Automate
17 38 (1.43%) Google Play
18 31 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (4.96%) Internet
2 90 (3.38%) DNS
3 88 (3.30%) Broadband
4 78 (2.93%) Firewall
5 48 (1.80%) SAN
6 40 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 34 (1.28%) DHCP
8 23 (0.86%) HTTP
8 23 (0.86%) SSL
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 14 (0.53%) Mobile Broadband
15 12 (0.45%) BIG-IP
16 10 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (0.34%) Multicast
18 7 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 443 (16.64%) Power BI
2 328 (12.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 307 (11.53%) Data Warehouse
4 290 (10.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 282 (10.59%) MongoDB
6 260 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
7 196 (7.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 195 (7.32%) Relational Database
9 131 (4.92%) MySQL
10 116 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
11 97 (3.64%) Data Lake
12 95 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 56 (2.10%) RDBMS
14 55 (2.07%) DB2
15 51 (1.92%) Tableau
16 39 (1.46%) NoSQL
17 34 (1.28%) Oracle Database
18 32 (1.20%) Star Schema
19 31 (1.16%) BigQuery
20 22 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 167 (6.27%) Git
2 112 (4.21%) Visual Studio
3 84 (3.15%) JIRA
4 55 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 46 (1.73%) GitLab
6 38 (1.43%) NUnit
7 35 (1.31%) Jasmine
8 33 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 28 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
10 20 (0.75%) Jenkins
11 17 (0.64%) Postman
11 17 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
12 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
13 13 (0.49%) Selenium
14 12 (0.45%) MSTest
15 11 (0.41%) Moq
16 10 (0.38%) SpecFlow
17 7 (0.26%) Mercurial
17 7 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 629 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 504 (18.93%) Finance
3 201 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (7.02%) Retail
5 130 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 125 (4.69%) Marketing
7 108 (4.06%) Games
8 101 (3.79%) Law
9 94 (3.53%) Legal
10 75 (2.82%) Advertising
11 57 (2.14%) Banking
12 46 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (1.35%) Music Industry
14 27 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 25 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 23 (0.86%) Back Office
16 23 (0.86%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (0.56%) Local Government
18 14 (0.53%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,427 (53.59%) Developer
2 885 (33.23%) .NET Developer
3 416 (15.62%) C# Developer
4 309 (11.60%) C# .NET Developer
5 291 (10.93%) Senior
6 213 (8.00%) Lead
7 180 (6.76%) DBA
8 169 (6.35%) Analyst
9 160 (6.01%) Software Developer
10 150 (5.63%) Consultant
11 135 (5.07%) SQL DBA
12 134 (5.03%) Senior Developer
13 130 (4.88%) Data Engineer
14 100 (3.76%) Support Engineer
15 94 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Consultant
16 92 (3.45%) Software Engineer
17 89 (3.34%) Administrator
18 80 (3.00%) Support Analyst
19 67 (2.52%) Applications Support
19 67 (2.52%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,424 (53.47%) .NET
2 991 (37.21%) ASP.NET
3 889 (33.38%) .NET Core
4 792 (29.74%) ASP.NET MVC
5 747 (28.05%) AngularJS
6 632 (23.73%) Entity Framework
7 616 (23.13%) HTML
8 591 (22.19%) ASP.NET Web API
9 580 (21.78%) .NET Framework
10 404 (15.17%) CSS
11 381 (14.31%) HTML5
12 365 (13.71%) React
13 308 (11.57%) Vue
14 262 (9.84%) Node.js
15 245 (9.20%) RESTful
16 204 (7.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 196 (7.36%) Blazor
18 193 (7.25%) CSS3
19 191 (7.17%) LINQ
20 170 (6.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.87%) Greenfield Project
2 124 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
3 109 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
4 76 (2.85%) Management Information System
4 76 (2.85%) Mobile App
5 55 (2.07%) Replication
6 49 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 48 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 39 (1.46%) Social Media
8 39 (1.46%) Swaptions
9 38 (1.43%) iPhone
9 38 (1.43%) Social Network
10 33 (1.24%) BBC
11 30 (1.13%) Clustering
11 30 (1.13%) Driving Licence
12 29 (1.09%) Cloud Native
12 29 (1.09%) Life Science
12 29 (1.09%) Product Ownership
13 25 (0.94%) Digital TV
14 24 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 359 (13.48%) Windows
2 161 (6.05%) Windows Server
3 154 (5.78%) Linux
4 86 (3.23%) VMS
5 48 (1.80%) Android
6 46 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 44 (1.65%) Windows 10
8 43 (1.61%) Unix
9 38 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 29 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
11 25 (0.94%) AIX
12 24 (0.90%) zOS
13 16 (0.60%) CentOS
13 16 (0.60%) Solaris
14 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.19%) Debian
16 5 (0.19%) Windows Mobile
16 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,136 (42.66%) Agile
2 905 (33.98%) MVC
3 827 (31.06%) Full Stack Development
4 649 (24.37%) Microservices
5 508 (19.08%) Business Intelligence
6 470 (17.65%) TDD
7 420 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
8 402 (15.10%) DevOps
9 391 (14.68%) ETL
10 390 (14.65%) BDD
11 374 (14.04%) Scrum
12 261 (9.80%) Kanban
13 233 (8.75%) OO
14 221 (8.30%) Artificial Intelligence
15 202 (7.59%) Data Science
15 202 (7.59%) Roadmaps
16 196 (7.36%) CI/CD
17 182 (6.83%) Data Modelling
18 178 (6.68%) Multithreading
19 177 (6.65%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,432 (53.77%) C#
2 1,346 (50.54%) SQL
3 1,031 (38.72%) JavaScript
4 444 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 328 (12.32%) TypeScript
6 195 (7.32%) Python
7 142 (5.33%) Java
8 128 (4.81%) PowerShell
9 115 (4.32%) VB
10 114 (4.28%) VB.NET
11 47 (1.76%) PL/SQL
12 43 (1.61%) C++
13 40 (1.50%) 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 20 (0.75%) XPath
19 16 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 310 (11.64%) Degree
2 138 (5.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 87 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 62 (2.33%) Security Cleared
5 49 (1.84%) 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%) CTC Cleared
12 7 (0.26%) ISEB
12 7 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.19%) HNC
14 4 (0.15%) CISM
14 4 (0.15%) CISSP
15 3 (0.11%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (4.17%) QA
2 91 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.43%) SLA
4 12 (0.45%) GDPR
4 12 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.23%) 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%) HL7
10 2 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.038%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 170 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 100 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
3 84 (3.15%) Docker
4 59 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 51 (1.92%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.83%) vSphere
7 11 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) XenApp
10 1 (0.038%) Firmware
10 1 (0.038%) NFS
10 1 (0.038%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 74 (2.78%) Terraform
2 72 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 23 (0.86%) Ansible
4 20 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.68%) Grafana
6 17 (0.64%) Nagios
7 14 (0.53%) SCCM
8 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
9 9 (0.34%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.30%) MIIS
10 8 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.26%) Foglight
12 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.19%) WSUS
13 4 (0.15%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.15%) Kibana
13 4 (0.15%) PaperCut
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 1,679 (63.05%) Microsoft
2 216 (8.11%) Oracle
3 126 (4.73%) Google
4 89 (3.34%) VMware
5 82 (3.08%) Facebook
6 58 (2.18%) Databricks
7 47 (1.76%) Sybase
8 44 (1.65%) IBM
9 43 (1.61%) Apple
9 43 (1.61%) TIBCO
10 39 (1.46%) OpenLink
11 34 (1.28%) Cisco
11 34 (1.28%) Veeam
12 33 (1.24%) Sony
12 33 (1.24%) Yahoo!
13 25 (0.94%) F5
14 23 (0.86%) SAP
15 21 (0.79%) iManage
15 21 (0.79%) YouTube
16 19 (0.71%) Aderant