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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 1,698 2,792 5,368
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.60% 11.52% 12.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.97% 31.53% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 2,082 3,978
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £415 £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 £744 £749 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.47% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 29 41
10th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £24.00 £35.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £57.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -38.26% +50.70% +46.75%
75th Percentile £42.88 £70.25 £62.15
90th Percentile £58.05 £85.00 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +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 4,999 8,854 16,837
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.14% 36.52% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,538 12,568
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.33% +8.26%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £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 137 184 183
10th Percentile £27.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.19 £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 £62.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

SQL
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

SQL
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

SQL
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 2 June 2024.

SQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SQL
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

SQL
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 2 June 2024.

SQL hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SQL
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 42 (2.47%) Apache Spark
2 33 (1.94%) SAS
3 31 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 25 (1.47%) Apache
6 23 (1.35%) Confluence
7 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.82%) IIS
9 13 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.41%) CMS
11 6 (0.35%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.29%) JBoss
12 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
14 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
14 3 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (7.13%) Chatbot
2 71 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.059%) Elementor
7 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.059%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (0.94%) Dynamics GP
2 15 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.88%) Endur
3 13 (0.77%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.77%) NEC Housing
4 12 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.59%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
10 5 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.24%) Academy Housing
11 4 (0.24%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 451 (26.56%) Azure
2 250 (14.72%) AWS
3 225 (13.25%) Power Platform
4 135 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (4.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 71 (4.18%) GCP
6 71 (4.18%) Serverless
7 69 (4.06%) GitHub
8 45 (2.65%) Snowflake
9 40 (2.36%) Amazon S3
9 40 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 33 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (1.94%) PowerApps
12 32 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
13 29 (1.71%) Azure Functions
13 29 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 27 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 25 (1.47%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.59%) HTTP
2 8 (0.47%) Firewall
2 8 (0.47%) Internet
2 8 (0.47%) SAN
2 8 (0.47%) VPN
3 7 (0.41%) DNS
4 6 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.29%) DHCP
5 5 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
6 4 (0.24%) Network Security
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
7 3 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.12%) SSL
8 2 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 197 (11.60%) Power BI
3 168 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
5 91 (5.36%) Oracle Database
6 86 (5.06%) Relational Database
7 82 (4.83%) NoSQL
8 66 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 66 (3.89%) Tableau
9 65 (3.83%) Data Lake
10 60 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 59 (3.47%) Big Data
12 47 (2.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 46 (2.71%) BigQuery
14 43 (2.53%) MySQL
15 35 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
16 33 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
17 32 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
18 30 (1.77%) Metadata
19 29 (1.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 89 (5.24%) Git
2 83 (4.89%) JIRA
3 46 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 29 (1.71%) Visual Studio
5 23 (1.35%) TeamCity
6 22 (1.30%) Selenium
7 21 (1.24%) GitLab
8 20 (1.18%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.12%) Oracle APEX
10 14 (0.82%) Postman
11 13 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 13 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.71%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.59%) JMeter
13 10 (0.59%) Maven
13 10 (0.59%) 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 (24.79%) Finance
2 364 (21.44%) Social Skills
3 173 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (9.54%) Banking
5 117 (6.89%) Public Sector
6 111 (6.54%) Front Office
7 51 (3.00%) Retail
8 44 (2.59%) Back Office
9 41 (2.41%) Marketing
10 35 (2.06%) Investment Banking
11 26 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.41%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.30%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.24%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.88%) Legal
17 13 (0.77%) Billing
17 13 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.71%) Electronics
18 12 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 607 (35.75%) Developer
2 278 (16.37%) Analyst
3 172 (10.13%) Senior
4 167 (9.84%) Data Engineer
5 153 (9.01%) Software Developer
6 104 (6.12%) Data Analyst
7 95 (5.59%) Consultant
8 87 (5.12%) Architect
9 85 (5.01%) SQL Developer
10 83 (4.89%) Business Analyst
11 64 (3.77%) DBA
12 62 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
13 53 (3.12%) Lead
14 52 (3.06%) C# Developer
15 51 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 51 (3.00%) Financial Analyst
16 48 (2.83%) Java Developer
17 45 (2.65%) Senior Developer
18 43 (2.53%) SQL Analyst
19 40 (2.36%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (12.19%) HTML
2 172 (10.13%) .NET
3 76 (4.48%) REST
4 74 (4.36%) XML
5 54 (3.18%) CSS
6 53 (3.12%) React
7 49 (2.89%) Web Services
8 48 (2.83%) SOAP
9 45 (2.65%) AngularJS
9 45 (2.65%) JSON
9 45 (2.65%) PySpark
10 44 (2.59%) RESTful
11 40 (2.36%) .NET Framework
12 31 (1.83%) Kafka
13 28 (1.65%) Spring
14 27 (1.59%) ASP.NET
14 27 (1.59%) Node.js
15 25 (1.47%) .NET Core
15 25 (1.47%) Spring Boot
16 23 (1.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.77%) Derivative
2 54 (3.18%) Hedge funds
3 52 (3.06%) Product Ownership
4 47 (2.77%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.24%) Equities
5 38 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.24%) Replication
6 34 (2.00%) Fixed Income
6 34 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.71%) Onboarding
10 25 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 22 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.12%) Clustering
13 17 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.71%) NHS
16 11 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 138 (8.13%) Windows
2 68 (4.00%) Unix
3 64 (3.77%) Linux
4 49 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.77%) VMS
6 12 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.29%) Android
9 5 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.24%) AIX
10 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.24%) Solaris
11 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.18%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (19.26%) Agile
2 270 (15.90%) Business Intelligence
3 249 (14.66%) Analytics
3 249 (14.66%) DevOps
4 242 (14.25%) Software Engineering
5 225 (13.25%) Data Modelling
6 205 (12.07%) ETL
7 203 (11.96%) Migration
8 197 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
9 179 (10.54%) Artificial Intelligence
10 153 (9.01%) CI/CD
11 143 (8.42%) Code Quality
12 126 (7.42%) Data Analysis
13 121 (7.13%) Conversational UI
14 112 (6.60%) Visualisation
15 100 (5.89%) Computer Science
16 88 (5.18%) Data Migration
16 88 (5.18%) Test Automation
17 86 (5.06%) Scrum
18 84 (4.95%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 522 (30.74%) Python
2 379 (22.32%) C#
3 286 (16.84%) JavaScript
4 194 (11.43%) Java
5 142 (8.36%) PL/SQL
6 99 (5.83%) PowerShell
7 64 (3.77%) T-SQL
8 47 (2.77%) TypeScript
9 35 (2.06%) C++
10 33 (1.94%) R
11 30 (1.77%) Bash
12 28 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (1.12%) PHP
14 18 (1.06%) C
14 18 (1.06%) Scala
15 16 (0.94%) Perl
15 16 (0.94%) VB
16 14 (0.82%) VBA
17 13 (0.77%) Go
18 11 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 270 (15.90%) Degree
2 144 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 118 (6.95%) SC Cleared
4 43 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (0.65%) PhD
9 10 (0.59%) MCSE
10 7 (0.41%) CISSP
10 7 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.29%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.29%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.29%) ISEB
11 5 (0.29%) MCSA
11 5 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.24%) SANS
12 4 (0.24%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 70 (4.12%) QA
3 16 (0.94%) GDPR
4 15 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.71%) MiFID
5 12 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (0.53%) EMIR
6 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.47%) CDISC
8 7 (0.41%) SLA
9 6 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
10 5 (0.29%) IFRS
11 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.24%) GxP
11 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.12%) GRC
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 73 (4.30%) Active Directory
1 73 (4.30%) Docker
2 17 (1.00%) IAG
3 16 (0.94%) ACF2
3 16 (0.94%) RACF
4 13 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.18%) VirtualBox
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.059%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.059%) XenApp
8 1 (0.059%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 67 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.36%) Terraform
3 30 (1.77%) Ansible
4 20 (1.18%) 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 (0.24%) BladeLogic
9 4 (0.24%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.18%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
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%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 272 (16.02%) Oracle
2 261 (15.37%) Microsoft
3 121 (7.13%) PayPal
4 95 (5.59%) Databricks
5 58 (3.42%) SAP
6 46 (2.71%) Google
7 34 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.30%) VMware
10 19 (1.12%) Splunk
10 19 (1.12%) Sybase
11 17 (1.00%) Informatica
12 15 (0.88%) NEC
13 12 (0.71%) Avaloq
14 11 (0.65%) Cisco
14 11 (0.65%) OpenLink
15 10 (0.59%) Citrix
15 10 (0.59%) HP
15 10 (0.59%) IBM
15 10 (0.59%) Northgate