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

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 44 47
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 -21
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2,661 2,493 5,164
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.71% 6.41% 7.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.70% 25.86% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,401 2,047 3,730
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,582 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +5.87% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,198 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.36% +0.36% +10.00%

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 7,895 9,640 22,061
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.86% 24.77% 30.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,253 6,682 11,090
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,000 £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 30 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
1 133 (5.00%) IIS
2 103 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 90 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 47 (1.77%) CMS
5 42 (1.58%) Apache
6 32 (1.20%) Umbraco
7 21 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
9 10 (0.38%) EPiServer
10 8 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 8 (0.30%) Kentico
11 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 7 (0.26%) SAS
11 7 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.26%) WordPress
12 6 (0.23%) DNN
12 6 (0.23%) Drupal
12 6 (0.23%) Immediacy CMS
12 6 (0.23%) Sitefinity
13 4 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 68 (2.56%) 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 62 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (1.43%) Endur
3 13 (0.49%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.45%) PlanetPress Connect
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%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 2 (0.075%) BusinessWorks
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%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.038%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.038%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 1,731 (65.05%) Azure
2 468 (17.59%) Power Platform
3 446 (16.76%) AWS
4 250 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
5 119 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 97 (3.65%) SaaS
7 89 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 84 (3.16%) GCP
9 78 (2.93%) Snowflake
10 49 (1.84%) Entra ID
11 48 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 48 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
11 48 (1.80%) GitHub
11 48 (1.80%) Matillion
12 46 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 46 (1.73%) Serverless
13 44 (1.65%) PowerApps
14 38 (1.43%) Google Play
14 38 (1.43%) Power Automate
15 25 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 135 (5.07%) Internet
2 90 (3.38%) DNS
3 89 (3.34%) Broadband
4 77 (2.89%) Firewall
5 48 (1.80%) 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 10 (0.38%) BIG-IP
16 9 (0.34%) Multicast
16 9 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (16.50%) Power BI
2 327 (12.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 295 (11.09%) Data Warehouse
4 291 (10.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 282 (10.60%) MongoDB
6 261 (9.81%) Elasticsearch
7 198 (7.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 192 (7.22%) Relational Database
9 130 (4.89%) MySQL
10 115 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
11 97 (3.65%) Data Lake
12 94 (3.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 55 (2.07%) DB2
14 53 (1.99%) RDBMS
15 52 (1.95%) Tableau
16 40 (1.50%) NoSQL
17 32 (1.20%) Star Schema
18 31 (1.16%) BigQuery
19 30 (1.13%) Oracle Database
20 20 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 168 (6.31%) Git
2 117 (4.40%) Visual Studio
3 73 (2.74%) JIRA
4 48 (1.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 46 (1.73%) GitLab
6 38 (1.43%) NUnit
7 35 (1.32%) Jasmine
8 34 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
9 28 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
10 17 (0.64%) Jenkins
10 17 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
11 15 (0.56%) Selenium
12 14 (0.53%) Postman
13 13 (0.49%) MSTest
14 12 (0.45%) Moq
15 11 (0.41%) SpecFlow
16 9 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
17 7 (0.26%) Mercurial
18 6 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 624 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 506 (19.02%) Finance
3 203 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (7.03%) Retail
5 133 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 125 (4.70%) Marketing
7 110 (4.13%) Games
8 99 (3.72%) Law
9 90 (3.38%) Legal
10 73 (2.74%) Advertising
11 51 (1.92%) Banking
12 42 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (1.35%) Music Industry
14 27 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 25 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 23 (0.86%) Back Office
17 22 (0.83%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (0.53%) Aerospace
19 14 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,446 (54.34%) Developer
2 898 (33.75%) .NET Developer
3 430 (16.16%) C# Developer
4 323 (12.14%) C# .NET Developer
5 300 (11.27%) Senior
6 212 (7.97%) Lead
7 179 (6.73%) DBA
8 170 (6.39%) Software Developer
9 160 (6.01%) Analyst
10 148 (5.56%) Consultant
11 142 (5.34%) Senior Developer
12 134 (5.04%) Data Engineer
12 134 (5.04%) SQL DBA
13 97 (3.65%) Support Engineer
14 96 (3.61%) Software Engineer
15 94 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Consultant
16 86 (3.23%) Administrator
17 74 (2.78%) Support Analyst
18 72 (2.71%) SQL Developer
19 64 (2.41%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,441 (54.15%) .NET
2 993 (37.32%) ASP.NET
3 896 (33.67%) .NET Core
4 794 (29.84%) ASP.NET MVC
5 764 (28.71%) AngularJS
6 640 (24.05%) Entity Framework
7 621 (23.34%) HTML
8 596 (22.40%) ASP.NET Web API
9 592 (22.25%) .NET Framework
10 411 (15.45%) CSS
11 386 (14.51%) HTML5
12 374 (14.05%) React
13 308 (11.57%) Vue
14 260 (9.77%) Node.js
15 248 (9.32%) RESTful
16 206 (7.74%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 200 (7.52%) Blazor
18 196 (7.37%) CSS3
19 193 (7.25%) LINQ
20 165 (6.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 187 (7.03%) Greenfield Project
2 125 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
3 104 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
4 76 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 75 (2.82%) Mobile App
6 54 (2.03%) Replication
7 49 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 48 (1.80%) Public Cloud
9 39 (1.47%) Social Media
9 39 (1.47%) Social Network
10 38 (1.43%) iPhone
10 38 (1.43%) Swaptions
11 33 (1.24%) BBC
12 30 (1.13%) Cloud Native
13 29 (1.09%) Life Science
13 29 (1.09%) Product Ownership
14 28 (1.05%) Clustering
14 28 (1.05%) Driving Licence
15 26 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (0.94%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 354 (13.30%) Windows
2 160 (6.01%) Windows Server
3 156 (5.86%) Linux
4 86 (3.23%) VMS
5 49 (1.84%) Android
5 49 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 45 (1.69%) Windows 10
7 44 (1.65%) Unix
8 38 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.94%) AIX
11 24 (0.90%) zOS
12 17 (0.64%) Solaris
13 16 (0.60%) CentOS
14 15 (0.56%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 6 (0.23%) Debian
16 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.19%) Windows Mobile
17 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,151 (43.25%) Agile
2 903 (33.93%) MVC
3 846 (31.79%) Full Stack Development
4 651 (24.46%) Microservices
5 501 (18.83%) Business Intelligence
6 479 (18.00%) TDD
7 426 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
8 401 (15.07%) DevOps
9 394 (14.81%) BDD
10 386 (14.51%) ETL
11 385 (14.47%) Scrum
12 268 (10.07%) Kanban
13 234 (8.79%) OO
14 215 (8.08%) Artificial Intelligence
15 204 (7.67%) CI/CD
16 200 (7.52%) Data Science
16 200 (7.52%) Roadmaps
17 183 (6.88%) Data Modelling
18 182 (6.84%) Analytics
19 179 (6.73%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1,455 (54.68%) C#
2 1,361 (51.15%) SQL
3 1,043 (39.20%) JavaScript
4 439 (16.50%) T-SQL
5 331 (12.44%) TypeScript
6 197 (7.40%) Python
7 146 (5.49%) Java
8 126 (4.74%) PowerShell
9 114 (4.28%) VB
10 111 (4.17%) VB.NET
11 47 (1.77%) C++
12 44 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 41 (1.54%) PHP
14 30 (1.13%) C
15 29 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 29 (1.09%) VB6
16 26 (0.98%) XAML
17 23 (0.86%) Bash
18 19 (0.71%) XPath
19 17 (0.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 313 (11.76%) Degree
2 136 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 86 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 63 (2.37%) Security Cleared
5 45 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 36 (1.35%) SC Cleared
7 30 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 25 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 13 (0.49%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.30%) HND
12 8 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.26%) ISEB
13 7 (0.26%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.19%) 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
1 113 (4.25%) QA
2 90 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.43%) SLA
4 13 (0.49%) GDPR
5 11 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 (0.038%) HL7
12 1 (0.038%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 166 (6.24%) Active Directory
2 101 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
3 84 (3.16%) Docker
4 59 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 52 (1.95%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.90%) 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 72 (2.71%) Kubernetes
1 72 (2.71%) Terraform
2 23 (0.86%) Ansible
3 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.68%) Nagios
4 16 (0.60%) Grafana
5 14 (0.53%) SCCM
6 11 (0.41%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.30%) MIIS
8 8 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.26%) Foglight
10 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.19%) Backup Exec
11 5 (0.19%) PaperCut
12 4 (0.15%) Kibana
13 3 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,680 (63.13%) Microsoft
2 209 (7.85%) Oracle
3 127 (4.77%) Google
4 87 (3.27%) 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 40 (1.50%) TIBCO
11 38 (1.43%) OpenLink
12 36 (1.35%) Cisco
13 33 (1.24%) Sony
13 33 (1.24%) Veeam
13 33 (1.24%) Yahoo!
14 24 (0.90%) F5
15 21 (0.79%) SAP
15 21 (0.79%) YouTube
16 19 (0.71%) DevExpress
16 19 (0.71%) NEC