SQL Jobs in the UK excluding London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,069 10,033 11,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.27% 17.01% 15.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.89% 42.52% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,634 5,426 7,924
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,484 23,598 32,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.40% 40.02% 45.82%
Number of salaries quoted 16,339 13,287 21,008
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,563
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
North of England -4 2,015 £50,000 -3.85% 466
South East -3 1,678 £50,000 -9.09% 499
Scotland +2 1,491 £55,000 -8.33% 107
Midlands -3 1,360 £47,500 -5.00% 362
North West -3 1,140 £52,500 +0.96% 253
West Midlands -4 801 £50,000 - 234
South West -9 739 £50,000 - 206
Yorkshire -7 621 £47,500 -9.52% 168
East Midlands +1 549 £45,000 -10.00% 128
East of England -8 515 £47,500 -9.52% 155
North East -1 256 £50,000 -4.76% 50
Wales -1 214 £45,000 +12.50% 52
Northern Ireland -22 57 £55,500 +11.00% 26
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £45,000 -
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 473 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 268 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 209 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 179 (2.22%) IIS
5 153 (1.90%) Apache
6 115 (1.43%) FileNet
7 96 (1.19%) Confluence
8 74 (0.92%) CMS
9 63 (0.78%) SAS
10 57 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
11 49 (0.61%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.55%) Oracle Service Bus
13 34 (0.42%) WebSphere
14 32 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
15 29 (0.36%) Umbraco
16 22 (0.27%) WordPress
17 21 (0.26%) GemFire
18 17 (0.21%) Captiva
18 17 (0.21%) Tomcat
19 12 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 478 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 299 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 40 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.20%) Simulink
7 13 (0.16%) Trello
8 11 (0.14%) SPSS
9 9 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.025%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 79 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.51%) Siebel CRM
4 34 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.25%) Shopify
6 19 (0.24%) Sage 200
7 15 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 15 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 13 (0.16%) Magento
9 12 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 12 (0.15%) Epicor Tropos
9 12 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
10 11 (0.14%) Endur
11 8 (0.099%) Dynamics GP
11 8 (0.099%) HFM
11 8 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
12 7 (0.087%) Hyperion Planning
12 7 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
12 7 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,681 (33.23%) Azure
2 1,439 (17.83%) AWS
3 1,370 (16.98%) Power Platform
4 528 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
5 494 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 342 (4.24%) Serverless
7 336 (4.16%) GCP
8 262 (3.25%) SaaS
9 233 (2.89%) IBM Cloud
10 201 (2.49%) GitHub
11 188 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 164 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
13 154 (1.91%) Azure Functions
14 153 (1.90%) Amazon S3
15 151 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
16 150 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
16 150 (1.86%) Snowflake
17 136 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
18 135 (1.67%) Azure API Management
18 135 (1.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 242 (3.00%) Firewall
2 137 (1.70%) DNS
2 137 (1.70%) WAN
3 103 (1.28%) LAN
4 95 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 82 (1.02%) DHCP
6 80 (0.99%) Internet
7 78 (0.97%) Broadband
8 75 (0.93%) VPN
9 68 (0.84%) SAN
10 62 (0.77%) HTTP
11 54 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
12 49 (0.61%) SSL
13 46 (0.57%) VLAN
14 41 (0.51%) Network Security
15 31 (0.38%) MQTT
16 29 (0.36%) Wireless
17 27 (0.33%) WLAN
18 26 (0.32%) VoIP
19 22 (0.27%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,856 (23.00%) SQL Server
2 1,306 (16.19%) Power BI
3 1,248 (15.47%) NoSQL
4 627 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
5 599 (7.42%) Relational Database
6 583 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
7 517 (6.41%) MongoDB
8 501 (6.21%) Big Data
9 443 (5.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 417 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 380 (4.71%) MySQL
12 377 (4.67%) Tableau
13 312 (3.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 302 (3.74%) DB2
15 275 (3.41%) Data Lake
16 273 (3.38%) Hadoop
17 239 (2.96%) Oracle Database
18 231 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
19 145 (1.80%) BigQuery
20 131 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 680 (8.43%) Git
2 319 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 310 (3.84%) JIRA
4 281 (3.48%) Visual Studio
5 170 (2.11%) JUnit
6 127 (1.57%) Selenium
7 114 (1.41%) GitLab
8 91 (1.13%) Bitbucket Server
9 78 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 77 (0.95%) Jasmine
11 73 (0.90%) Postman
12 68 (0.84%) Cucumber
13 64 (0.79%) Maven
14 63 (0.78%) Mockito
15 59 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
16 48 (0.59%) NUnit
16 48 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
17 46 (0.57%) TeamCity
18 43 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
19 39 (0.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,265 (28.07%) Finance
2 1,837 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 1,333 (16.52%) Law
4 1,310 (16.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 937 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
6 785 (9.73%) Marketing
7 609 (7.55%) Legal
8 555 (6.88%) Public Sector
9 477 (5.91%) Retail
10 353 (4.37%) Manufacturing
11 308 (3.82%) Banking
12 187 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
13 162 (2.01%) Financial Institution
14 146 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
15 143 (1.77%) Games
16 121 (1.50%) Investment Banking
17 98 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
18 93 (1.15%) Telecoms
19 85 (1.05%) Aerospace
20 79 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,388 (29.59%) Developer
2 1,341 (16.62%) Software Engineer
3 1,158 (14.35%) Senior
4 1,031 (12.78%) Analyst
5 824 (10.21%) Lead
6 522 (6.47%) Java Engineer
7 513 (6.36%) Data Engineer
8 506 (6.27%) Java Software Engineer
9 501 (6.21%) .NET Developer
10 453 (5.61%) Software Developer
11 427 (5.29%) Senior Developer
12 365 (4.52%) Full Stack Engineer
13 341 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
14 303 (3.76%) C# Developer
15 299 (3.71%) DBA
16 293 (3.63%) Full Stack Developer
17 291 (3.61%) Big Data Engineer
17 291 (3.61%) Big Data Software Engineer
18 287 (3.56%) Data Analyst
19 270 (3.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,937 (24.01%) .NET
2 1,259 (15.60%) HTML
3 1,096 (13.58%) CSS
4 892 (11.05%) React
5 848 (10.51%) AngularJS
6 838 (10.39%) ASP.NET
7 693 (8.59%) REST
8 567 (7.03%) Web Services
9 551 (6.83%) .NET Core
10 499 (6.18%) Spring
11 489 (6.06%) jQuery
12 409 (5.07%) Vue
13 396 (4.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 394 (4.88%) Node.js
15 386 (4.78%) Kafka
16 383 (4.75%) .NET Framework
17 348 (4.31%) JSON
18 347 (4.30%) Entity Framework
19 339 (4.20%) XML
20 299 (3.71%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 689 (8.54%) Algorithms
2 447 (5.54%) Cloud Native
3 442 (5.48%) Data Structures
4 261 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 250 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 232 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 229 (2.84%) Blockchain
8 209 (2.59%) Public Cloud
9 160 (1.98%) Product Ownership
10 158 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 138 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
12 128 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 118 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 116 (1.44%) e-Learning
15 107 (1.33%) Clustering
16 104 (1.29%) Replication
17 77 (0.95%) Data Centre
17 77 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
18 71 (0.88%) NHS
19 69 (0.86%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1,004 (12.44%) Windows
2 912 (11.30%) Linux
3 300 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 297 (3.68%) Unix
5 290 (3.59%) Android
6 257 (3.19%) Apple iOS
7 118 (1.46%) Windows 10
8 99 (1.23%) VMS
9 69 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
10 67 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
11 66 (0.82%) CentOS
12 64 (0.79%) Windows 7
13 58 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
14 48 (0.59%) Solaris
15 45 (0.56%) Windows 8
16 30 (0.37%) Ubuntu
17 26 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 21 (0.26%) AIX
19 19 (0.24%) Debian
20 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,875 (35.63%) Agile
2 1,884 (23.35%) Software Engineering
3 1,663 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
4 1,422 (17.62%) Business Intelligence
5 1,310 (16.23%) CI/CD
6 1,305 (16.17%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,270 (15.74%) SDLC
8 1,069 (13.25%) DevOps
9 1,051 (13.03%) Full Stack Development
10 1,008 (12.49%) Machine Learning
11 998 (12.37%) Visualisation
12 847 (10.50%) Analytics
13 770 (9.54%) Mentoring
14 768 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 768 (9.52%) Operational Stability
15 763 (9.46%) MVC
16 750 (9.29%) ETL
17 702 (8.70%) Computer Science
18 640 (7.93%) Decision-Making
19 613 (7.60%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,020 (25.03%) C#
2 1,735 (21.50%) Java
3 1,678 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 1,601 (19.84%) Python
5 723 (8.96%) T-SQL
6 435 (5.39%) TypeScript
7 434 (5.38%) PL/SQL
8 330 (4.09%) Scala
9 262 (3.25%) PowerShell
10 197 (2.44%) PHP
11 178 (2.21%) C++
12 170 (2.11%) VB
13 151 (1.87%) VB.NET
14 108 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 106 (1.31%) R
16 100 (1.24%) Bash
17 97 (1.20%) VBA
18 91 (1.13%) C
19 74 (0.92%) Groovy
20 60 (0.74%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,208 (14.97%) Degree
2 450 (5.58%) Security Cleared
3 349 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 342 (4.24%) SC Cleared
5 230 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 189 (2.34%) DBS Check
7 130 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 81 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 76 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 38 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 36 (0.45%) PhD
12 29 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (0.32%) ISTQB
14 25 (0.31%) MCSE
15 22 (0.27%) CISA
15 22 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.27%) MBA
16 21 (0.26%) OCP
16 21 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
17 20 (0.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (3.40%) Data Quality
2 257 (3.19%) QA
3 161 (2.00%) SLA
4 114 (1.41%) GDPR
5 87 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 45 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.41%) PMO
8 22 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.15%) ITGC
11 9 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.11%) NIST
12 8 (0.099%) PSD2
13 6 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.074%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.062%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.062%) TickIT
15 4 (0.050%) COBIT
15 4 (0.050%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.050%) WCAG
System Software
1 434 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 379 (4.70%) Docker
3 224 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 156 (1.93%) Hyper-V
5 116 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 102 (1.26%) HDFS
7 49 (0.61%) XenApp
8 48 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
9 46 (0.57%) VirtualBox
10 45 (0.56%) XenDesktop
11 30 (0.37%) VMware NSX
12 27 (0.33%) Firmware
13 23 (0.29%) vSphere
14 16 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
15 12 (0.15%) RACF
16 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
16 9 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 7 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 5 (0.062%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 503 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 280 (3.47%) Terraform
3 106 (1.31%) Ansible
4 79 (0.98%) Grafana
5 54 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 47 (0.58%) Data Guard
7 46 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 38 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 34 (0.42%) SCCM
10 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 26 (0.32%) Kibana
11 26 (0.32%) SCOM
12 22 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
13 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
14 17 (0.21%) WSUS
15 13 (0.16%) Backup Exec
15 13 (0.16%) NetBackup
15 13 (0.16%) Puppet
16 12 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2,043 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 1,023 (12.68%) Oracle
3 424 (5.25%) Databricks
4 352 (4.36%) IBM
5 317 (3.93%) VMware
6 273 (3.38%) Google
7 263 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 184 (2.28%) SAP
9 146 (1.81%) Informatica
10 130 (1.61%) Citrix
11 73 (0.90%) Cloudera
12 71 (0.88%) Veeam
13 65 (0.81%) Cisco
14 64 (0.79%) Splunk
15 61 (0.76%) Remedy
16 58 (0.72%) Dynatrace
17 57 (0.71%) Alteryx
18 54 (0.67%) Sage
19 44 (0.55%) F5
19 44 (0.55%) Sun