SQL Jobs with Work from Home Options

SQL (Structured Query Language)
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,885 7,803 12,723
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.45% 18.96% 18.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.39% 38.56% 31.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,065 5,220 7,942
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,725 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,191 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.62% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,191 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +4.76%

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 permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,803 20,236 40,502
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.84% 49.17% 58.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,421 14,902 23,779
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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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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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.

SQL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

SQL salary 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
1 129 (2.64%) IIS
1 129 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 85 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 79 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 67 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 61 (1.25%) Apache
6 54 (1.11%) SAS
7 48 (0.98%) CMS
8 34 (0.70%) Confluence
9 15 (0.31%) Drupal
10 13 (0.27%) Umbraco
10 13 (0.27%) WordPress
11 12 (0.25%) nginx
12 8 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.10%) JBoss
13 5 (0.10%) Luigi
13 5 (0.10%) NServiceBus
14 4 (0.082%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.082%) EPiServer
Applications
1 268 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 131 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.31%) SPSS
7 14 (0.29%) Simulink
8 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.041%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.020%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 59 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 16 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
3 13 (0.27%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.18%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
7 7 (0.14%) Relativity
7 7 (0.14%) Shopify
7 7 (0.14%) thinkFolio
8 6 (0.12%) Primavera
8 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.082%) BusinessWorks
10 4 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.061%) Infor M3
11 3 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,894 (38.77%) Azure
2 1,030 (21.08%) Power Platform
3 961 (19.67%) AWS
4 321 (6.57%) GCP
5 304 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
6 205 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
7 200 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 192 (3.93%) SaaS
9 182 (3.73%) Snowflake
10 181 (3.71%) Serverless
11 125 (2.56%) GitHub
12 123 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 108 (2.21%) PowerApps
14 98 (2.01%) Power Automate
15 87 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
16 84 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
17 80 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 71 (1.45%) Entra ID
19 63 (1.29%) Amazon S3
19 63 (1.29%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.92%) Internet
2 80 (1.64%) Broadband
3 73 (1.49%) Firewall
4 68 (1.39%) DNS
5 49 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 38 (0.78%) DHCP
7 37 (0.76%) HTTP
7 37 (0.76%) VPN
8 34 (0.70%) Network Security
9 28 (0.57%) SSL
10 17 (0.35%) SAN
11 15 (0.31%) Modbus
12 13 (0.27%) BIG-IP
12 13 (0.27%) WAN
13 12 (0.25%) LAN
14 11 (0.23%) FTP
15 10 (0.20%) MQTT
15 10 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
16 9 (0.18%) Multicast
17 7 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,356 (27.76%) SQL Server
2 973 (19.92%) Power BI
3 539 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
4 417 (8.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 414 (8.47%) Tableau
6 373 (7.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 326 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
8 279 (5.71%) Relational Database
9 261 (5.34%) MySQL
10 244 (4.99%) NoSQL
11 230 (4.71%) Data Lake
12 227 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 188 (3.85%) Oracle Database
14 165 (3.38%) BigQuery
15 137 (2.80%) MongoDB
16 107 (2.19%) Big Data
17 95 (1.94%) Oracle Database 11g
18 83 (1.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 77 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
20 63 (1.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 438 (8.97%) Git
2 149 (3.05%) JIRA
3 128 (2.62%) Visual Studio
4 115 (2.35%) Jenkins
5 98 (2.01%) GitLab
6 54 (1.11%) Postman
7 49 (1.00%) Selenium
8 37 (0.76%) Maven
8 37 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 34 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
10 32 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 29 (0.59%) JMeter
12 28 (0.57%) Jasmine
12 28 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
13 27 (0.55%) Cucumber
13 27 (0.55%) TeamCity
14 26 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
15 24 (0.49%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
17 20 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,434 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 1,146 (23.46%) Finance
3 646 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 399 (8.17%) Retail
5 299 (6.12%) Banking
6 297 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 209 (4.28%) Law
8 190 (3.89%) Marketing
9 181 (3.71%) Front Office
10 177 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
11 162 (3.32%) Legal
12 143 (2.93%) Back Office
13 116 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 100 (2.05%) Manufacturing
15 94 (1.92%) Games
16 73 (1.49%) Advertising
17 63 (1.29%) Telecoms
18 56 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
19 55 (1.13%) Tech for Good
20 41 (0.84%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,599 (32.73%) Developer
2 1,087 (22.25%) Senior
3 866 (17.73%) Analyst
4 465 (9.52%) Lead
5 440 (9.01%) .NET Developer
6 410 (8.39%) Data Engineer
7 386 (7.90%) Senior Developer
8 371 (7.59%) Software Engineer
9 319 (6.53%) Data Analyst
10 215 (4.40%) Software Developer
11 214 (4.38%) C# Developer
12 203 (4.16%) DBA
13 200 (4.09%) Consultant
14 193 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
15 185 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
16 177 (3.62%) Applications Support
17 144 (2.95%) Support Analyst
18 143 (2.93%) SQL DBA
19 136 (2.78%) SQL Developer
20 125 (2.56%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,178 (24.11%) .NET
2 629 (12.88%) HTML
3 522 (10.69%) CSS
4 519 (10.62%) ASP.NET
5 426 (8.72%) .NET Core
6 347 (7.10%) AngularJS
6 347 (7.10%) React
7 309 (6.33%) REST
8 277 (5.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 259 (5.30%) Entity Framework
10 254 (5.20%) HTML5
11 253 (5.18%) .NET Framework
12 242 (4.95%) Blazor
13 210 (4.30%) Web Services
14 202 (4.14%) JSON
15 191 (3.91%) CSS3
16 183 (3.75%) RESTful
17 171 (3.50%) XML
18 162 (3.32%) Vue
19 149 (3.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 173 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
2 160 (3.28%) Data Structures
3 148 (3.03%) Hedge funds
4 133 (2.72%) Derivative
5 127 (2.60%) Algorithms
6 126 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 126 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 123 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
8 101 (2.07%) Client/Server
9 91 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 88 (1.80%) Public Cloud
11 85 (1.74%) Equities
11 85 (1.74%) Fixed Income
12 81 (1.66%) Cloud Native
13 72 (1.47%) Onboarding
14 55 (1.13%) NHS
15 52 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
16 50 (1.02%) IoT
17 48 (0.98%) Mobile App
18 44 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 428 (8.76%) Windows
2 300 (6.14%) Linux
3 127 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 91 (1.86%) Unix
5 81 (1.66%) VMS
6 68 (1.39%) Windows 10
7 34 (0.70%) Android
8 31 (0.63%) Windows 7
9 30 (0.61%) Windows 8
10 27 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 23 (0.47%) Ubuntu
11 23 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
12 19 (0.39%) CentOS
13 18 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
14 16 (0.33%) Apple iOS
15 15 (0.31%) zOS
16 12 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
17 11 (0.23%) AIX
18 8 (0.16%) Solaris
19 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,351 (27.66%) Agile
2 1,079 (22.09%) Business Intelligence
3 905 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
4 892 (18.26%) Analytics
5 684 (14.00%) DevOps
6 673 (13.78%) ETL
7 633 (12.96%) Software Engineering
8 584 (11.95%) Visualisation
9 560 (11.46%) Mentoring
10 506 (10.36%) Full Stack Development
11 488 (9.99%) Data Science
12 482 (9.87%) Artificial Intelligence
13 459 (9.40%) Data Analysis
14 422 (8.64%) Data Modelling
15 419 (8.58%) Machine Learning
16 399 (8.17%) MVC
17 398 (8.15%) Data Pipeline
18 388 (7.94%) CI/CD
18 388 (7.94%) TDD
19 362 (7.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,265 (25.90%) C#
2 1,250 (25.59%) Python
3 923 (18.89%) JavaScript
4 577 (11.81%) T-SQL
5 469 (9.60%) Java
6 266 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 240 (4.91%) PL/SQL
8 144 (2.95%) PowerShell
9 133 (2.72%) PHP
10 128 (2.62%) R
11 107 (2.19%) VB.NET
12 90 (1.84%) C++
13 81 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 71 (1.45%) VB
15 64 (1.31%) VBA
16 54 (1.11%) Bash
17 53 (1.08%) C
18 50 (1.02%) Groovy
19 45 (0.92%) Kotlin
19 45 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 841 (17.22%) Degree
2 275 (5.63%) DBS Check
3 181 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 169 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 159 (3.25%) Security Cleared
6 123 (2.52%) SC Cleared
7 120 (2.46%) Master's Degree
8 49 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 41 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 27 (0.55%) PhD
11 21 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 20 (0.41%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.39%) PMI Certification
14 16 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.29%) CISSP
16 13 (0.27%) CISA
17 11 (0.23%) CIPD
18 10 (0.20%) GIAC
18 10 (0.20%) HND
19 9 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (5.04%) Data Quality
2 151 (3.09%) QA
3 57 (1.17%) SLA
4 56 (1.15%) GDPR
5 40 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 36 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.31%) PMO
8 13 (0.27%) COBIT
8 13 (0.27%) ITGC
9 9 (0.18%) NIST
10 8 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.14%) SOC 1
12 6 (0.12%) Web Application Security Consortium
13 5 (0.10%) IFRS
14 4 (0.082%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.082%) HL7
14 4 (0.082%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.082%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.061%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.061%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 269 (5.51%) Docker
2 208 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 92 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 88 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 32 (0.66%) XenApp
6 32 (0.66%) XenDesktop
7 30 (0.61%) VirtualBox
8 12 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
8 12 (0.25%) vSphere
9 11 (0.23%) Firmware
10 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
10 9 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.061%) RACF
13 3 (0.061%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.041%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 264 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 206 (4.22%) Terraform
3 71 (1.45%) Ansible
4 35 (0.72%) Grafana
5 34 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 18 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.37%) SCOM
7 14 (0.29%) Puppet
8 13 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 13 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.23%) SCCM
9 11 (0.23%) WSUS
10 9 (0.18%) logstash
10 9 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.14%) Data Guard
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.082%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.082%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,274 (26.08%) Microsoft
2 418 (8.56%) Oracle
3 401 (8.21%) Databricks
4 205 (4.20%) Google
5 110 (2.25%) VMware
6 96 (1.97%) SAP
7 85 (1.74%) IBM
8 38 (0.78%) Citrix
9 36 (0.74%) Salesforce
10 34 (0.70%) F5
11 30 (0.61%) Alteryx
12 26 (0.53%) IFS
13 25 (0.51%) Sage
14 23 (0.47%) Facebook
15 22 (0.45%) Adobe
16 19 (0.39%) Aderant
17 18 (0.37%) NEC
17 18 (0.37%) Talend
17 18 (0.37%) Teradata
18 16 (0.33%) Murex