SQL Jobs with Work from Home Options

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 5,018 6,748 14,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.16% 17.93% 18.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.20% 37.49% 31.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,032 4,966 8,080
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,725 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +8.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,866 £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 falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,257 17,999 44,779
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.23% 47.82% 59.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11,583 13,855 24,036
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 £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 June 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
1 125 (2.49%) IIS
2 118 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 98 (1.95%) Apache
4 89 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 84 (1.67%) Apache Spark
6 69 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 49 (0.98%) SAS
8 47 (0.94%) CMS
9 38 (0.76%) Confluence
10 15 (0.30%) Drupal
11 14 (0.28%) Umbraco
12 13 (0.26%) nginx
13 12 (0.24%) WordPress
14 7 (0.14%) Luigi
15 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.100%) BizTalk Server
16 5 (0.100%) JBoss
17 4 (0.080%) ArcGIS
17 4 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
17 4 (0.080%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 273 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.44%) Simulink
4 17 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.30%) SPSS
6 14 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.080%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.040%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 47 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.32%) SAP Business One
3 14 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
4 12 (0.24%) Elite 3E
5 11 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.18%) Sage X3
6 9 (0.18%) Shopify
7 8 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.14%) Relativity
9 6 (0.12%) Aladdin
9 6 (0.12%) Primavera
10 5 (0.100%) thinkFolio
11 4 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.080%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.060%) MIS ActiveH
12 3 (0.060%) PeopleSoft HCM
12 3 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,948 (38.82%) Azure
2 1,052 (20.96%) Power Platform
3 1,007 (20.07%) AWS
4 317 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
5 310 (6.18%) GCP
6 208 (4.15%) Snowflake
7 206 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 198 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
9 192 (3.83%) SaaS
10 170 (3.39%) Serverless
11 142 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 118 (2.35%) GitHub
13 113 (2.25%) Entra ID
14 109 (2.17%) PowerApps
15 99 (1.97%) dbt
16 96 (1.91%) Power Automate
17 87 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 79 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
19 75 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
20 59 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (1.89%) Internet
2 81 (1.61%) Broadband
3 65 (1.30%) Firewall
4 60 (1.20%) DNS
5 46 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.72%) DHCP
7 34 (0.68%) HTTP
7 34 (0.68%) Network Security
8 31 (0.62%) VPN
9 28 (0.56%) SSL
10 17 (0.34%) SAN
11 14 (0.28%) Modbus
12 12 (0.24%) WAN
13 11 (0.22%) LAN
14 10 (0.20%) FTP
15 9 (0.18%) MQTT
15 9 (0.18%) Multicast
16 8 (0.16%) BIG-IP
16 8 (0.16%) Remote Desktop
17 7 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,362 (27.14%) SQL Server
2 999 (19.91%) Power BI
3 533 (10.62%) Data Warehouse
4 458 (9.13%) Tableau
5 424 (8.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 356 (7.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 313 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
8 289 (5.76%) Relational Database
9 275 (5.48%) Data Lake
10 257 (5.12%) MySQL
11 252 (5.02%) NoSQL
12 218 (4.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 170 (3.39%) Oracle Database
14 160 (3.19%) BigQuery
15 139 (2.77%) MongoDB
16 113 (2.25%) Big Data
17 81 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 80 (1.59%) Oracle Database 11g
19 78 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
20 63 (1.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 477 (9.51%) Git
2 148 (2.95%) JIRA
3 118 (2.35%) Visual Studio
4 107 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 100 (1.99%) GitLab
6 51 (1.02%) Postman
7 43 (0.86%) Selenium
8 39 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 30 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 28 (0.56%) Jasmine
10 28 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
10 28 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 27 (0.54%) JMeter
11 27 (0.54%) Maven
11 27 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
12 25 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 24 (0.48%) Eclipse
14 23 (0.46%) Vagrant
15 21 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
15 21 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 1,515 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 1,198 (23.87%) Finance
3 671 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (8.11%) Retail
5 333 (6.64%) Banking
6 294 (5.86%) Public Sector
7 220 (4.38%) Legal
8 208 (4.15%) Front Office
9 194 (3.87%) Law
10 191 (3.81%) Marketing
11 179 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
12 133 (2.65%) Back Office
13 128 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 100 (1.99%) Manufacturing
15 91 (1.81%) Games
16 77 (1.53%) Advertising
17 69 (1.38%) Investment Banking
18 59 (1.18%) Telecoms
19 55 (1.10%) Tech for Good
20 49 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,630 (32.48%) Developer
2 1,159 (23.10%) Senior
3 937 (18.67%) Analyst
4 483 (9.63%) Lead
5 458 (9.13%) .NET Developer
6 414 (8.25%) Data Engineer
7 405 (8.07%) Software Engineer
8 376 (7.49%) Senior Developer
9 354 (7.05%) Data Analyst
10 266 (5.30%) Senior Analyst
11 246 (4.90%) Software Developer
12 237 (4.72%) Consultant
13 236 (4.70%) C# Developer
14 201 (4.01%) DBA
15 193 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
16 168 (3.35%) Applications Support
17 148 (2.95%) SQL Developer
18 141 (2.81%) Senior Data Analyst
19 140 (2.79%) SQL DBA
20 131 (2.61%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,207 (24.05%) .NET
2 645 (12.85%) HTML
3 536 (10.68%) CSS
4 514 (10.24%) ASP.NET
5 423 (8.43%) .NET Core
6 370 (7.37%) React
7 354 (7.05%) AngularJS
8 291 (5.80%) REST
9 270 (5.38%) ASP.NET MVC
10 261 (5.20%) Entity Framework
11 256 (5.10%) .NET Framework
12 252 (5.02%) HTML5
13 243 (4.84%) Blazor
14 207 (4.13%) Web Services
15 194 (3.87%) CSS3
16 190 (3.79%) JSON
17 177 (3.53%) RESTful
18 176 (3.51%) PySpark
19 170 (3.39%) Vue
20 163 (3.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 180 (3.59%) Management Information System
2 177 (3.53%) Hedge funds
3 172 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
4 166 (3.31%) Data Structures
4 166 (3.31%) Derivative
5 136 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 134 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 132 (2.63%) Algorithms
8 129 (2.57%) Fixed Income
9 127 (2.53%) Equities
10 121 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
11 102 (2.03%) Client/Server
12 94 (1.87%) Onboarding
13 74 (1.47%) Cloud Native
14 68 (1.36%) Public Cloud
15 65 (1.30%) NHS
16 58 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
17 48 (0.96%) Mobile App
18 46 (0.92%) Replication
19 45 (0.90%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 405 (8.07%) Windows
2 283 (5.64%) Linux
3 122 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 91 (1.81%) Unix
5 81 (1.61%) VMS
6 60 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 41 (0.82%) Android
8 33 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 32 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (0.54%) CentOS
11 25 (0.50%) Windows 7
11 25 (0.50%) Windows 8
12 20 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (0.30%) Apple iOS
15 13 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
16 12 (0.24%) zOS
17 10 (0.20%) AIX
18 6 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
19 5 (0.100%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,396 (27.82%) Agile
2 1,060 (21.12%) Business Intelligence
3 986 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
4 931 (18.55%) Analytics
5 707 (14.09%) Software Engineering
6 665 (13.25%) DevOps
7 635 (12.65%) ETL
8 618 (12.32%) Visualisation
9 535 (10.66%) Full Stack Development
10 534 (10.64%) Mentoring
11 490 (9.76%) Data Science
12 488 (9.72%) Data Analysis
13 462 (9.21%) Artificial Intelligence
14 427 (8.51%) Machine Learning
15 425 (8.47%) Data Modelling
15 425 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
16 398 (7.93%) MVC
17 390 (7.77%) CI/CD
18 378 (7.53%) Computer Science
18 378 (7.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,333 (26.56%) Python
2 1,310 (26.11%) C#
3 990 (19.73%) JavaScript
4 560 (11.16%) T-SQL
5 467 (9.31%) Java
6 283 (5.64%) TypeScript
7 219 (4.36%) PL/SQL
8 201 (4.01%) PowerShell
9 138 (2.75%) PHP
10 131 (2.61%) R
11 110 (2.19%) VB.NET
12 103 (2.05%) C++
13 91 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 75 (1.49%) VBA
15 72 (1.43%) VB
16 56 (1.12%) Kotlin
17 55 (1.10%) C
18 48 (0.96%) Bash
18 48 (0.96%) Go
19 40 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 914 (18.21%) Degree
2 304 (6.06%) DBS Check
3 235 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 174 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 155 (3.09%) Security Cleared
6 127 (2.53%) Master's Degree
7 118 (2.35%) SC Cleared
8 57 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 41 (0.82%) DV Cleared
10 29 (0.58%) PhD
11 22 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
12 20 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.40%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.28%) CISSP
14 13 (0.26%) CISA
14 13 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.24%) CIPD
16 10 (0.20%) GIAC
17 9 (0.18%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 140 (2.79%) QA
3 62 (1.24%) SLA
4 60 (1.20%) GDPR
5 47 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 33 (0.66%) 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 6 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.12%) SOC 1
10 6 (0.12%) Web Application Security Consortium
11 5 (0.100%) IFRS
12 4 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.080%) EMIR
12 4 (0.080%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.080%) MiFID
12 4 (0.080%) Solvency II
System Software
1 262 (5.22%) Docker
2 246 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 91 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 77 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 76 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 50 (1.00%) RACF
7 29 (0.58%) XenApp
7 29 (0.58%) XenDesktop
8 25 (0.50%) VirtualBox
9 13 (0.26%) Firmware
9 13 (0.26%) vSphere
10 12 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
11 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
12 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.14%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.040%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.020%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 239 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 197 (3.93%) Terraform
3 65 (1.30%) Ansible
4 31 (0.62%) Grafana
5 22 (0.44%) Progress Chef
6 18 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.32%) SCOM
8 14 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.28%) Puppet
9 10 (0.20%) WSUS
10 9 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.18%) logstash
11 8 (0.16%) SCCM
12 6 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (0.100%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.100%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.080%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.080%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.080%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,337 (26.64%) Microsoft
2 443 (8.83%) Databricks
3 401 (7.99%) Oracle
4 191 (3.81%) Google
5 96 (1.91%) VMware
6 93 (1.85%) SAP
7 63 (1.26%) IBM
8 50 (1.00%) CyberArk
9 33 (0.66%) Bloomberg
9 33 (0.66%) Citrix
9 33 (0.66%) Salesforce
10 30 (0.60%) Alteryx
11 29 (0.58%) F5
12 27 (0.54%) Facebook
13 26 (0.52%) Reuters
13 26 (0.52%) Sage
14 24 (0.48%) IFS
15 23 (0.46%) Informatica
16 22 (0.44%) Xilinx
17 21 (0.42%) Adobe