SQL Jobs in London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,746 5,329 14,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.50% 16.70% 19.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.79% 34.22% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,831 3,867 6,680
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,611
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £91,991 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,300 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +4.43% +8.57%

All Programming Languages
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,656 15,575 44,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.97% 48.80% 60.83%
Number of salaries quoted 7,588 11,900 18,834
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in London

SQL
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in London.

Salary trend for SQL in London

SQL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in London

SQL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +3 719 £70,000 -3.45% 117
South London -29 62 £60,000 +9.09% 11
West London -49 37 £64,500 +22.86% 26
East London +3 21 £57,500 +6.98% 8
North London 0 10 £70,000 +33.33% 1
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 128 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 124 (3.31%) Apache
3 108 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 106 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
5 83 (2.22%) SAS
6 64 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 54 (1.44%) CMS
8 51 (1.36%) IIS
9 30 (0.80%) Confluence
10 15 (0.40%) Drupal
11 13 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
12 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
12 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.19%) Apache Pig
13 7 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
15 4 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
15 4 (0.11%) WordPress
16 3 (0.080%) nginx
Applications
1 284 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.48%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.45%) SPSS
6 7 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) Trello
8 3 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.053%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.053%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 63 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 32 (0.85%) SDL Web 8
4 25 (0.67%) thinkFolio
5 21 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 17 (0.45%) Fidessa
7 15 (0.40%) NEC Housing
8 11 (0.29%) Relativity
9 9 (0.24%) Sage X3
9 9 (0.24%) SAP Business One
10 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
11 7 (0.19%) Endur
11 7 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
12 6 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.16%) Primavera
13 5 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,260 (33.64%) Azure
2 861 (22.98%) AWS
3 703 (18.77%) Power Platform
4 308 (8.22%) GCP
5 219 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
6 178 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 171 (4.56%) Serverless
8 136 (3.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 135 (3.60%) Snowflake
10 106 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
11 105 (2.80%) SaaS
12 88 (2.35%) PowerApps
13 82 (2.19%) GitHub
14 78 (2.08%) Power Automate
15 74 (1.98%) Amazon S3
15 74 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
16 70 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
17 64 (1.71%) dbt
18 56 (1.49%) Azure Functions
19 51 (1.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (2.03%) Firewall
2 54 (1.44%) DNS
3 40 (1.07%) VPN
4 39 (1.04%) Internet
5 32 (0.85%) DHCP
6 28 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 26 (0.69%) Network Security
8 23 (0.61%) WAN
9 21 (0.56%) HTTP
10 20 (0.53%) SAN
11 17 (0.45%) FIX Connectivity
12 13 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.35%) VLAN
13 11 (0.29%) BGP
13 11 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.29%) MPLS
14 10 (0.27%) LAN
15 9 (0.24%) FTP
15 9 (0.24%) Wireless
16 6 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 663 (17.70%) SQL Server
2 644 (17.19%) Power BI
3 427 (11.40%) Tableau
4 390 (10.41%) Data Warehouse
5 255 (6.81%) NoSQL
6 223 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
7 218 (5.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 194 (5.18%) Relational Database
9 189 (5.05%) Data Lake
10 178 (4.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 167 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 145 (3.87%) Big Data
13 144 (3.84%) MongoDB
14 109 (2.91%) MySQL
15 85 (2.27%) Data Mining
16 78 (2.08%) Oracle Database
17 76 (2.03%) BigQuery
18 74 (1.98%) Hadoop
19 63 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 59 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 386 (10.30%) Git
2 149 (3.98%) JIRA
3 100 (2.67%) Visual Studio
4 81 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 75 (2.00%) GitLab
6 47 (1.25%) TeamCity
7 42 (1.12%) NUnit
8 37 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 34 (0.91%) SpecFlow
10 32 (0.85%) Moq
11 28 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
12 26 (0.69%) Eclipse
13 23 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
14 22 (0.59%) Sourcetree
15 19 (0.51%) git-flow
16 18 (0.48%) Cucumber
16 18 (0.48%) Postman
16 18 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
17 15 (0.40%) JUnit
17 15 (0.40%) PowerBuilder
General
1 1,192 (31.82%) Finance
2 1,082 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 676 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
4 355 (9.48%) Banking
5 327 (8.73%) Front Office
6 246 (6.57%) Retail
7 202 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 186 (4.97%) Marketing
9 184 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
10 147 (3.92%) Back Office
10 147 (3.92%) Law
11 126 (3.36%) Legal
12 72 (1.92%) Public Sector
13 58 (1.55%) Investment Banking
14 51 (1.36%) Games
15 40 (1.07%) Retail Banking
16 34 (0.91%) Advertising
17 33 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 33 (0.88%) Manufacturing
18 31 (0.83%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,035 (27.63%) Senior
2 1,003 (26.78%) Analyst
3 925 (24.69%) Developer
4 384 (10.25%) Data Engineer
5 354 (9.45%) Data Analyst
6 324 (8.65%) Lead
7 297 (7.93%) Senior Developer
8 262 (6.99%) Senior Analyst
9 215 (5.74%) Software Engineer
10 202 (5.39%) Full Stack Developer
11 198 (5.29%) .NET Developer
12 191 (5.10%) Applications Support
13 181 (4.83%) Support Analyst
14 142 (3.79%) Financial Analyst
15 134 (3.58%) Business Analyst
16 133 (3.55%) Senior Data Analyst
17 127 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
18 125 (3.34%) Data Scientist
19 122 (3.26%) Python Engineer
20 121 (3.23%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 593 (15.83%) .NET
2 302 (8.06%) React
3 269 (7.18%) HTML
4 264 (7.05%) AngularJS
5 257 (6.86%) CSS
6 230 (6.14%) REST
7 216 (5.77%) ASP.NET
8 166 (4.43%) PySpark
9 164 (4.38%) Web Services
10 162 (4.32%) .NET Framework
11 150 (4.00%) XML
12 144 (3.84%) .NET Core
13 131 (3.50%) JSON
14 123 (3.28%) jQuery
15 120 (3.20%) Kafka
16 112 (2.99%) RESTful
17 102 (2.72%) SOAP
18 99 (2.64%) Pandas
19 94 (2.51%) Redux
20 93 (2.48%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 263 (7.02%) Hedge funds
2 188 (5.02%) Fixed Income
3 177 (4.73%) Derivative
4 174 (4.64%) Equities
5 171 (4.56%) Product Ownership
6 167 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 149 (3.98%) Algorithms
8 134 (3.58%) Onboarding
9 123 (3.28%) Management Information System
10 121 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
11 90 (2.40%) Data Structures
12 79 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
13 56 (1.49%) Client/Server
14 49 (1.31%) Reinsurance
15 43 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
16 42 (1.12%) Cloud Native
17 41 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
18 33 (0.88%) IoT
19 32 (0.85%) Legacy Code
19 32 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 327 (8.73%) Windows
2 269 (7.18%) Linux
3 116 (3.10%) Unix
3 116 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 41 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.75%) CentOS
6 24 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 22 (0.59%) Android
7 22 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (0.35%) Solaris
10 12 (0.32%) zOS
11 11 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.24%) SUSE
12 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.19%) VMS
13 7 (0.19%) Windows 7
13 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (22.42%) Agile
2 837 (22.34%) Analytics
3 725 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
4 693 (18.50%) Business Intelligence
5 557 (14.87%) Visualisation
6 498 (13.29%) ETL
7 475 (12.68%) DevOps
8 450 (12.01%) Data Modelling
9 442 (11.80%) Data Science
10 430 (11.48%) Data Analysis
11 400 (10.68%) Computer Science
12 388 (10.36%) Software Engineering
13 383 (10.22%) Data Pipeline
14 376 (10.04%) Machine Learning
15 369 (9.85%) Full Stack Development
16 342 (9.13%) Mathematics
17 330 (8.81%) Statistics
18 325 (8.68%) Mentoring
19 322 (8.60%) Artificial Intelligence
20 309 (8.25%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,556 (41.54%) Python
2 692 (18.47%) C#
3 512 (13.67%) JavaScript
4 339 (9.05%) Java
5 326 (8.70%) T-SQL
6 201 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 188 (5.02%) R
8 175 (4.67%) PowerShell
9 111 (2.96%) PL/SQL
10 90 (2.40%) VBA
11 83 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 54 (1.44%) Bash
13 53 (1.41%) Scala
14 51 (1.36%) C++
15 50 (1.33%) C
16 46 (1.23%) XPath
17 45 (1.20%) PHP
18 26 (0.69%) Perl
19 25 (0.67%) Ruby
20 24 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 942 (25.15%) Degree
2 180 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 176 (4.70%) DBS Check
4 158 (4.22%) Master's Degree
5 85 (2.27%) Security Cleared
6 70 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 61 (1.63%) SC Cleared
8 45 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 44 (1.17%) PhD
10 38 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 27 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
12 18 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.48%) MCSE
13 15 (0.40%) MCSA
14 14 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.37%) PMI Certification
15 12 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 10 (0.27%) MBA
16 10 (0.27%) MCP
17 8 (0.21%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (6.94%) Data Quality
2 122 (3.26%) QA
3 48 (1.28%) SLA
4 37 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 23 (0.61%) GDPR
6 11 (0.29%) PMO
7 9 (0.24%) MiFID
8 8 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.19%) COBIT
9 7 (0.19%) SOC 1
10 6 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.16%) GMP
10 6 (0.16%) IFRS
10 6 (0.16%) ITGC
11 5 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.11%) EMIR
12 4 (0.11%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 189 (5.05%) Docker
2 136 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.43%) vSphere
6 15 (0.40%) HDFS
7 10 (0.27%) vCloud
8 9 (0.24%) Firmware
8 9 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
10 6 (0.16%) RACF
10 6 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.13%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.11%) XenApp
13 3 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.053%) IAG
14 2 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 203 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 171 (4.56%) Terraform
3 41 (1.09%) Ansible
4 26 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.59%) Grafana
6 17 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (0.40%) SCCM
8 12 (0.32%) Control-M
9 11 (0.29%) WSUS
10 10 (0.27%) logstash
10 10 (0.27%) SCOM
10 10 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.24%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.21%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.21%) Istio
13 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
14 5 (0.13%) Backup Exec
14 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.13%) Kibana
14 5 (0.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 692 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 428 (11.43%) Databricks
3 302 (8.06%) Oracle
4 155 (4.14%) Google
5 92 (2.46%) Bloomberg
6 57 (1.52%) SAP
7 51 (1.36%) VMware
8 48 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 39 (1.04%) Alteryx
9 39 (1.04%) Red Hat
10 36 (0.96%) Cisco
11 35 (0.93%) F5
12 31 (0.83%) ION Trading
13 29 (0.77%) Murex
14 28 (0.75%) Adobe
14 28 (0.75%) IBM
15 25 (0.67%) Juniper
15 25 (0.67%) Veeam
16 24 (0.64%) Sage
17 23 (0.61%) Trayport