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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,935 7,539 13,449
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.50% 18.88% 18.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.56% 38.37% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,020 5,084 8,001
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £34,723
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 £71,330
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +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 13,879 19,650 42,570
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.78% 49.22% 59.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11,417 14,419 23,906
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,066 £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 £80,000 £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 24 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
1 126 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 125 (2.53%) IIS
3 85 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 73 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 69 (1.40%) Apache
6 66 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
7 54 (1.09%) SAS
8 46 (0.93%) CMS
9 33 (0.67%) Confluence
10 15 (0.30%) Drupal
11 13 (0.26%) nginx
12 12 (0.24%) WordPress
13 11 (0.22%) Umbraco
14 8 (0.16%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.14%) Luigi
16 5 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
16 5 (0.10%) JBoss
16 5 (0.10%) NServiceBus
17 4 (0.081%) ArcGIS
17 4 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 265 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.32%) Simulink
6 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.30%) SPSS
7 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.041%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.020%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 54 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.32%) SAP Business One
2 16 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
3 13 (0.26%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.24%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.18%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.16%) Shopify
7 7 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.14%) Relativity
7 7 (0.14%) Siebel CRM
8 6 (0.12%) Primavera
8 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.12%) thinkFolio
9 5 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.061%) Infor M3
11 3 (0.061%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 1,893 (38.36%) Azure
2 1,042 (21.11%) Power Platform
3 984 (19.94%) AWS
4 321 (6.50%) GCP
5 303 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
6 203 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 195 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
8 186 (3.77%) SaaS
9 183 (3.71%) Snowflake
10 176 (3.57%) Serverless
11 129 (2.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 118 (2.39%) Entra ID
12 118 (2.39%) GitHub
13 109 (2.21%) PowerApps
14 98 (1.99%) Power Automate
15 83 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 82 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
16 82 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
17 70 (1.42%) dbt
18 61 (1.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.90%) Internet
2 80 (1.62%) Broadband
3 66 (1.34%) Firewall
4 63 (1.28%) DNS
5 46 (0.93%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.73%) DHCP
7 35 (0.71%) HTTP
7 35 (0.71%) Network Security
8 32 (0.65%) VPN
9 28 (0.57%) SSL
10 16 (0.32%) SAN
11 14 (0.28%) Modbus
12 12 (0.24%) WAN
13 11 (0.22%) BIG-IP
13 11 (0.22%) LAN
14 10 (0.20%) FTP
14 10 (0.20%) MQTT
14 10 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
15 9 (0.18%) Multicast
16 7 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,352 (27.40%) SQL Server
2 989 (20.04%) Power BI
3 537 (10.88%) Data Warehouse
4 446 (9.04%) Tableau
5 418 (8.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 367 (7.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 322 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
8 274 (5.55%) Relational Database
9 255 (5.17%) MySQL
10 250 (5.07%) NoSQL
11 234 (4.74%) Data Lake
12 227 (4.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 182 (3.69%) Oracle Database
14 163 (3.30%) BigQuery
15 137 (2.78%) MongoDB
16 111 (2.25%) Big Data
17 94 (1.90%) Oracle Database 11g
18 82 (1.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 79 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
20 64 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 467 (9.46%) Git
2 143 (2.90%) JIRA
3 119 (2.41%) Visual Studio
4 115 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 98 (1.99%) GitLab
6 52 (1.05%) Postman
7 45 (0.91%) Selenium
8 37 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
9 34 (0.69%) Maven
10 31 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 30 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
12 28 (0.57%) Jasmine
12 28 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
12 28 (0.57%) TeamCity
13 26 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 26 (0.53%) JMeter
14 24 (0.49%) Eclipse
14 24 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
15 23 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
16 19 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 1,480 (29.99%) Social Skills
2 1,199 (24.30%) Finance
3 665 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 414 (8.39%) Retail
5 346 (7.01%) Banking
6 292 (5.92%) Public Sector
7 214 (4.34%) Legal
8 202 (4.09%) Law
9 193 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
10 189 (3.83%) Marketing
11 186 (3.77%) Front Office
12 141 (2.86%) Back Office
13 116 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 101 (2.05%) Manufacturing
15 91 (1.84%) Games
16 75 (1.52%) Advertising
17 62 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 54 (1.09%) Tech for Good
19 52 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
20 40 (0.81%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,587 (32.16%) Developer
2 1,160 (23.51%) Senior
3 943 (19.11%) Analyst
4 466 (9.44%) Lead
5 433 (8.77%) .NET Developer
6 409 (8.29%) Data Engineer
7 381 (7.72%) Senior Developer
8 370 (7.50%) Software Engineer
9 345 (6.99%) Data Analyst
10 266 (5.39%) Senior Analyst
11 217 (4.40%) Software Developer
12 215 (4.36%) C# Developer
13 212 (4.30%) Consultant
14 200 (4.05%) DBA
15 183 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
16 177 (3.59%) Applications Support
17 144 (2.92%) Support Analyst
18 141 (2.86%) SQL DBA
19 139 (2.82%) Senior Data Analyst
20 134 (2.72%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,162 (23.55%) .NET
2 618 (12.52%) HTML
3 516 (10.46%) CSS
4 508 (10.29%) ASP.NET
5 410 (8.31%) .NET Core
6 346 (7.01%) React
7 344 (6.97%) AngularJS
8 306 (6.20%) REST
9 273 (5.53%) ASP.NET MVC
10 261 (5.29%) Entity Framework
11 251 (5.09%) HTML5
12 248 (5.03%) .NET Framework
13 242 (4.90%) Blazor
14 202 (4.09%) Web Services
15 198 (4.01%) JSON
16 192 (3.89%) CSS3
17 176 (3.57%) RESTful
18 168 (3.40%) XML
19 158 (3.20%) Vue
20 145 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 181 (3.67%) Management Information System
2 171 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
3 164 (3.32%) Data Structures
4 152 (3.08%) Hedge funds
5 137 (2.78%) Derivative
6 131 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 129 (2.61%) Product Ownership
8 123 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
9 102 (2.07%) Client/Server
10 98 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 93 (1.88%) Fixed Income
12 92 (1.86%) Equities
13 84 (1.70%) Public Cloud
14 81 (1.64%) Cloud Native
15 76 (1.54%) Onboarding
16 61 (1.24%) NHS
17 56 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
18 48 (0.97%) Mobile App
19 45 (0.91%) Replication
20 44 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 415 (8.41%) Windows
2 292 (5.92%) Linux
3 120 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 94 (1.90%) Unix
5 81 (1.64%) VMS
6 63 (1.28%) Windows 10
7 35 (0.71%) Android
8 28 (0.57%) Windows 7
8 28 (0.57%) Windows 8
9 27 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 25 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 21 (0.43%) CentOS
12 20 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
13 17 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (0.30%) Apple iOS
15 13 (0.26%) zOS
16 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.20%) AIX
18 8 (0.16%) Solaris
19 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,388 (28.13%) Agile
2 1,068 (21.64%) Business Intelligence
3 943 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
4 922 (18.68%) Analytics
5 671 (13.60%) DevOps
6 654 (13.25%) ETL
7 643 (13.03%) Software Engineering
8 615 (12.46%) Visualisation
9 559 (11.33%) Mentoring
10 506 (10.25%) Full Stack Development
11 494 (10.01%) Data Science
12 481 (9.75%) Artificial Intelligence
12 481 (9.75%) Data Analysis
13 425 (8.61%) Machine Learning
14 422 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
15 416 (8.43%) Data Modelling
16 387 (7.84%) MVC
17 386 (7.82%) TDD
18 383 (7.76%) CI/CD
19 374 (7.58%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,280 (25.94%) Python
2 1,250 (25.33%) C#
3 920 (18.64%) JavaScript
4 574 (11.63%) T-SQL
5 460 (9.32%) Java
6 260 (5.27%) TypeScript
7 235 (4.76%) PL/SQL
8 193 (3.91%) PowerShell
9 128 (2.59%) PHP
9 128 (2.59%) R
10 105 (2.13%) VB.NET
11 91 (1.84%) C++
12 88 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 70 (1.42%) VB
14 68 (1.38%) VBA
15 52 (1.05%) Bash
15 52 (1.05%) Groovy
16 51 (1.03%) C
17 49 (0.99%) Kotlin
18 41 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 882 (17.87%) Degree
2 303 (6.14%) DBS Check
3 203 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 170 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 151 (3.06%) Security Cleared
6 124 (2.51%) Master's Degree
7 116 (2.35%) SC Cleared
8 53 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 41 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 27 (0.55%) PhD
11 22 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
13 20 (0.41%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.34%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.28%) CISSP
16 13 (0.26%) CISA
17 12 (0.24%) CIPD
17 12 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
18 10 (0.20%) GIAC
18 10 (0.20%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 144 (2.92%) QA
3 60 (1.22%) SLA
4 58 (1.18%) GDPR
5 42 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 34 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.30%) PMO
8 13 (0.26%) COBIT
8 13 (0.26%) ITGC
9 9 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.18%) NIST
10 7 (0.14%) SOC 1
11 6 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.12%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 5 (0.10%) IFRS
13 4 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.081%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.081%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.061%) CRD IV
14 3 (0.061%) HL7
System Software
1 264 (5.35%) Docker
2 252 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 91 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 79 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 78 (1.58%) Hyper-V
6 51 (1.03%) RACF
7 30 (0.61%) XenApp
7 30 (0.61%) XenDesktop
8 28 (0.57%) VirtualBox
9 12 (0.24%) Firmware
9 12 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
9 12 (0.24%) vSphere
10 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.020%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 256 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 206 (4.17%) Terraform
3 74 (1.50%) Ansible
4 34 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 33 (0.67%) Grafana
6 18 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.32%) SCOM
8 14 (0.28%) Puppet
9 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.22%) WSUS
11 9 (0.18%) logstash
12 8 (0.16%) SCCM
12 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 5 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
16 4 (0.081%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,311 (26.57%) Microsoft
2 431 (8.73%) Databricks
3 409 (8.29%) Oracle
4 207 (4.19%) Google
5 99 (2.01%) VMware
6 95 (1.93%) SAP
7 80 (1.62%) IBM
8 50 (1.01%) CyberArk
9 34 (0.69%) Citrix
10 33 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 32 (0.65%) F5
12 29 (0.59%) Alteryx
13 26 (0.53%) Sage
14 25 (0.51%) Facebook
14 25 (0.51%) IFS
15 23 (0.47%) Adobe
16 20 (0.41%) Aderant
17 19 (0.39%) Murex
17 19 (0.39%) NEC
18 18 (0.36%) Teradata