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 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 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,128 8,890 11,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.70% 15.72% 15.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.31% 40.46% 34.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,619 5,347 7,875
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,500 £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 £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +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 23,016 21,974 33,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.29% 38.86% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,658 12,979 20,973
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 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 1 June 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 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
North of England -4 2,060 £50,000 -3.85% 476
South East -3 1,682 £50,000 -9.09% 275
Scotland +4 1,445 £55,000 -8.33% 114
Midlands -3 1,418 £47,500 -5.00% 272
North West -3 1,154 £52,000 - 265
West Midlands -5 834 £50,000 - 165
South West -7 740 £50,000 - 181
Yorkshire -7 641 £47,000 -9.62% 161
East Midlands 0 573 £44,500 -11.00% 107
East of England -6 511 £47,500 -9.52% 112
North East +5 267 £50,000 -4.76% 55
Wales +4 214 £45,000 +12.50% 35
Northern Ireland -16 60 £55,500 +11.00% 23
Channel Islands 0 3 £67,500 +92.86%
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
1 457 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 259 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 207 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 175 (2.15%) IIS
5 151 (1.86%) Apache
6 104 (1.28%) FileNet
7 96 (1.18%) Confluence
8 75 (0.92%) CMS
9 66 (0.81%) SAS
10 56 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
11 50 (0.62%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.54%) Oracle Service Bus
13 32 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
14 31 (0.38%) Umbraco
15 23 (0.28%) WebSphere
16 22 (0.27%) WordPress
17 21 (0.26%) GemFire
18 17 (0.21%) Tomcat
19 12 (0.15%) Drupal
19 12 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 479 (5.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 295 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 40 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.23%) Simulink
7 13 (0.16%) Trello
8 11 (0.14%) SPSS
9 8 (0.098%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.098%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
11 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.037%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.025%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 79 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.50%) Siebel CRM
4 33 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.25%) Shopify
6 19 (0.23%) Sage 200
7 17 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.18%) SAP Business One
9 13 (0.16%) Magento
9 13 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
10 12 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
11 11 (0.14%) Endur
11 11 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
12 9 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
13 8 (0.098%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.098%) Oracle Applications
13 8 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
13 8 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
14 7 (0.086%) HFM
14 7 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,667 (32.81%) Azure
2 1,406 (17.30%) AWS
3 1,383 (17.02%) Power Platform
4 517 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
5 500 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 329 (4.05%) Serverless
7 306 (3.76%) GCP
8 277 (3.41%) SaaS
9 230 (2.83%) IBM Cloud
10 192 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 189 (2.33%) GitHub
12 160 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
13 151 (1.86%) Amazon S3
13 151 (1.86%) Azure Functions
13 151 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
14 150 (1.85%) Entra ID
14 150 (1.85%) Snowflake
15 146 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
16 137 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
16 137 (1.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 237 (2.92%) Firewall
2 140 (1.72%) DNS
3 131 (1.61%) WAN
4 101 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 100 (1.23%) LAN
6 83 (1.02%) DHCP
7 79 (0.97%) Broadband
8 78 (0.96%) Internet
9 73 (0.90%) SAN
10 71 (0.87%) VPN
11 64 (0.79%) HTTP
12 54 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (0.59%) SSL
14 45 (0.55%) VLAN
15 43 (0.53%) Network Security
16 33 (0.41%) MQTT
17 28 (0.34%) VoIP
18 26 (0.32%) Wireless
19 25 (0.31%) WLAN
20 21 (0.26%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,853 (22.80%) SQL Server
2 1,318 (16.22%) Power BI
3 1,231 (15.15%) NoSQL
4 630 (7.75%) Data Warehouse
5 591 (7.27%) Relational Database
6 587 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
7 519 (6.39%) MongoDB
8 482 (5.93%) Big Data
9 445 (5.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 419 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 377 (4.64%) MySQL
12 369 (4.54%) Tableau
13 314 (3.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 298 (3.67%) DB2
15 273 (3.36%) Data Lake
16 272 (3.35%) Hadoop
17 240 (2.95%) Oracle Database
18 226 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
19 142 (1.75%) BigQuery
20 132 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 693 (8.53%) Git
2 300 (3.69%) Jenkins
2 300 (3.69%) JIRA
3 274 (3.37%) Visual Studio
4 168 (2.07%) JUnit
5 120 (1.48%) Selenium
6 116 (1.43%) GitLab
7 89 (1.09%) Bitbucket Server
8 77 (0.95%) Jasmine
9 73 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 68 (0.84%) Postman
11 62 (0.76%) Mockito
12 61 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
13 60 (0.74%) Cucumber
14 59 (0.73%) Maven
15 49 (0.60%) NUnit
16 47 (0.58%) TeamCity
17 41 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 39 (0.48%) SoapUI
19 37 (0.46%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,239 (27.55%) Finance
2 1,856 (22.83%) Social Skills
3 1,281 (15.76%) Law
4 1,269 (15.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 952 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
6 754 (9.28%) Marketing
7 641 (7.89%) Legal
8 554 (6.82%) Public Sector
9 466 (5.73%) Retail
10 364 (4.48%) Manufacturing
11 302 (3.72%) Banking
12 180 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
13 153 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 143 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
15 142 (1.75%) Games
16 115 (1.41%) Investment Banking
17 92 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
18 90 (1.11%) Telecoms
19 87 (1.07%) Aerospace
20 76 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,430 (29.90%) Developer
2 1,301 (16.01%) Software Engineer
3 1,206 (14.84%) Senior
4 1,061 (13.05%) Analyst
5 826 (10.16%) Lead
6 518 (6.37%) .NET Developer
7 504 (6.20%) Data Engineer
8 502 (6.18%) Java Engineer
9 489 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
10 457 (5.62%) Software Developer
11 443 (5.45%) Senior Developer
12 357 (4.39%) Full Stack Engineer
13 328 (4.04%) Lead Software Engineer
14 313 (3.85%) C# Developer
15 305 (3.75%) DBA
16 292 (3.59%) Data Analyst
17 289 (3.56%) Full Stack Developer
18 279 (3.43%) Big Data Engineer
18 279 (3.43%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 277 (3.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,973 (24.27%) .NET
2 1,271 (15.64%) HTML
3 1,104 (13.58%) CSS
4 893 (10.99%) React
5 854 (10.51%) AngularJS
6 849 (10.45%) ASP.NET
7 680 (8.37%) REST
8 562 (6.91%) Web Services
9 561 (6.90%) .NET Core
10 489 (6.02%) jQuery
11 472 (5.81%) Spring
12 413 (5.08%) Vue
13 399 (4.91%) Node.js
14 396 (4.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 391 (4.81%) .NET Framework
16 387 (4.76%) Kafka
17 350 (4.31%) Entity Framework
18 339 (4.17%) JSON
19 335 (4.12%) XML
20 300 (3.69%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 679 (8.35%) Algorithms
2 449 (5.52%) Data Structures
3 434 (5.34%) Cloud Native
4 263 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 261 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
6 249 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 229 (2.82%) Blockchain
8 193 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 157 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 154 (1.89%) Product Ownership
11 135 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
12 127 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
13 117 (1.44%) e-Learning
13 117 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 106 (1.30%) Replication
15 104 (1.28%) Clustering
16 74 (0.91%) Data Centre
16 74 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
16 74 (0.91%) NHS
17 73 (0.90%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 996 (12.25%) Windows
2 892 (10.97%) Linux
3 297 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 291 (3.58%) Android
5 279 (3.43%) Unix
6 254 (3.13%) Apple iOS
7 117 (1.44%) Windows 10
8 100 (1.23%) VMS
9 72 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 70 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
11 69 (0.85%) CentOS
12 63 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
13 62 (0.76%) Windows 7
14 49 (0.60%) Solaris
15 43 (0.53%) Windows 8
16 36 (0.44%) Ubuntu
17 26 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 21 (0.26%) AIX
19 19 (0.23%) Debian
20 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,846 (35.01%) Agile
2 1,864 (22.93%) Software Engineering
3 1,678 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
4 1,423 (17.51%) Business Intelligence
5 1,283 (15.78%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1,283 (15.78%) CI/CD
6 1,242 (15.28%) SDLC
7 1,059 (13.03%) Full Stack Development
8 1,044 (12.84%) DevOps
9 986 (12.13%) Machine Learning
10 984 (12.11%) Visualisation
11 849 (10.45%) Analytics
12 772 (9.50%) Mentoring
13 765 (9.41%) MVC
14 755 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 743 (9.14%) Computer Science
16 740 (9.10%) ETL
17 734 (9.03%) Operational Stability
18 627 (7.71%) Decision-Making
19 606 (7.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2,052 (25.25%) C#
2 1,684 (20.72%) JavaScript
3 1,674 (20.60%) Java
4 1,607 (19.77%) Python
5 716 (8.81%) T-SQL
6 432 (5.31%) PL/SQL
7 430 (5.29%) TypeScript
8 320 (3.94%) Scala
9 295 (3.63%) PowerShell
10 195 (2.40%) PHP
11 181 (2.23%) C++
12 173 (2.13%) VB
13 160 (1.97%) VB.NET
14 116 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 111 (1.37%) R
16 102 (1.25%) VBA
17 99 (1.22%) Bash
18 92 (1.13%) C
19 68 (0.84%) Groovy
20 62 (0.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,242 (15.28%) Degree
2 456 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 377 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 337 (4.15%) SC Cleared
5 235 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 192 (2.36%) DBS Check
7 137 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 81 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 79 (0.97%) DV Cleared
10 42 (0.52%) PhD
11 38 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 31 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (0.33%) ISTQB
14 25 (0.31%) MCSE
15 22 (0.27%) CISA
15 22 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.27%) MBA
16 20 (0.25%) OCP
16 20 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
17 19 (0.23%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 263 (3.24%) QA
3 165 (2.03%) SLA
4 105 (1.29%) GDPR
5 84 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 45 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (0.38%) PMO
8 21 (0.26%) 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 (0.098%) PSD2
13 6 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.074%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.074%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.062%) TickIT
15 4 (0.049%) COBIT
15 4 (0.049%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.049%) WCAG
System Software
1 468 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 364 (4.48%) Docker
3 222 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 156 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 117 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 98 (1.21%) HDFS
7 49 (0.60%) XenApp
8 47 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
9 45 (0.55%) RACF
9 45 (0.55%) XenDesktop
10 44 (0.54%) VirtualBox
11 28 (0.34%) Firmware
11 28 (0.34%) VMware NSX
12 26 (0.32%) vSphere
13 17 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
14 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
14 9 (0.11%) VMware Server
15 7 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 5 (0.062%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 485 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 275 (3.38%) Terraform
3 96 (1.18%) Ansible
4 79 (0.97%) Grafana
5 54 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
6 48 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 46 (0.57%) Data Guard
8 35 (0.43%) SCCM
9 34 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 27 (0.33%) Kibana
11 24 (0.30%) SCOM
12 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
12 21 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
13 18 (0.22%) WSUS
14 14 (0.17%) Puppet
15 13 (0.16%) Backup Exec
15 13 (0.16%) NetBackup
16 11 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2,086 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 1,013 (12.46%) Oracle
3 416 (5.12%) Databricks
4 331 (4.07%) IBM
5 314 (3.86%) VMware
6 269 (3.31%) Red Hat
7 268 (3.30%) Google
8 173 (2.13%) SAP
9 147 (1.81%) Informatica
10 127 (1.56%) Citrix
11 76 (0.94%) Veeam
12 70 (0.86%) Cisco
13 69 (0.85%) Cloudera
14 65 (0.80%) Splunk
15 61 (0.75%) Remedy
16 54 (0.66%) Dynatrace
16 54 (0.66%) Sage
17 53 (0.65%) Alteryx
18 45 (0.55%) Sun
19 44 (0.54%) CyberArk