SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12,234 17,300 27,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.41% 16.67% 17.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.77% 38.55% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 8,922 10,343 15,940
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £74,000
90th Percentile £91,991 £92,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,269 44,878 84,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 43.24% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 25,012 28,616 44,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK

SQL
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL in the UK

SQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK

SQL
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England -2 10,101 £55,000 -8.33% 2,608
UK excluding London -4 8,157 £50,000 -4.76% 1,619
Work from Home -2 4,866 £57,500 -2.86% 1,444
London -1 3,625 £70,000 - 1,117
North of England -4 2,026 £50,000 -4.76% 385
South East -3 1,694 £50,000 -9.09% 306
Scotland +3 1,508 £55,000 -12.00% 131
Midlands -2 1,383 £47,500 -5.00% 369
North West -3 1,148 £52,500 +0.96% 213
West Midlands -4 807 £50,000 - 216
South West -10 748 £50,000 - 207
Yorkshire -6 625 £47,500 -9.52% 127
East Midlands 0 569 £45,000 -10.00% 153
East of England -6 527 £47,500 -9.52% 177
North East 0 255 £50,000 - 48
Wales -2 213 £45,000 +12.50% 49
Northern Ireland -16 62 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Isle of Man - 3 £45,000 -
Channel Islands -2 2 - - 1

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 624 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 412 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 305 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 273 (2.23%) Apache
5 260 (2.13%) IIS
6 176 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
7 148 (1.21%) SAS
8 132 (1.08%) CMS
9 126 (1.03%) FileNet
10 119 (0.97%) Confluence
11 51 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 47 (0.38%) WebSphere
13 45 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
14 32 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
14 32 (0.26%) Umbraco
15 30 (0.25%) Tomcat
16 28 (0.23%) Captiva
16 28 (0.23%) Drupal
17 26 (0.21%) WordPress
18 22 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 787 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 423 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 70 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.21%) SPSS
7 21 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.14%) Trello
9 12 (0.098%) Simulink
10 9 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
11 7 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.016%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.016%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.016%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.016%) InDesign
13 2 (0.016%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.008%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.008%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 177 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 39 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
5 36 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 30 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 27 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
8 25 (0.20%) SAP Business One
8 25 (0.20%) thinkFolio
9 24 (0.20%) Elite 3E
9 24 (0.20%) NEC Housing
10 22 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 22 (0.18%) Shopify
11 21 (0.17%) Sage 200
11 21 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
12 18 (0.15%) Endur
13 16 (0.13%) Sage X3
14 15 (0.12%) Fidessa
14 15 (0.12%) Magento
15 14 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 4,128 (33.74%) Azure
2 2,360 (19.29%) AWS
3 2,136 (17.46%) Power Platform
4 808 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
5 704 (5.75%) GCP
6 674 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
7 554 (4.53%) Serverless
8 420 (3.43%) SaaS
9 397 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 308 (2.52%) GitHub
11 290 (2.37%) Snowflake
12 249 (2.04%) PowerApps
13 247 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 243 (1.99%) IBM Cloud
15 240 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
16 233 (1.90%) Amazon S3
17 232 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
18 227 (1.86%) Azure Functions
18 227 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
19 204 (1.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 346 (2.83%) Firewall
2 201 (1.64%) WAN
3 198 (1.62%) DNS
4 139 (1.14%) LAN
5 134 (1.10%) VPN
6 126 (1.03%) Internet
7 124 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 119 (0.97%) DHCP
9 98 (0.80%) SAN
10 84 (0.69%) HTTP
11 80 (0.65%) Broadband
12 75 (0.61%) Network Security
13 67 (0.55%) VLAN
14 59 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
15 51 (0.42%) SSL
16 42 (0.34%) Wireless
17 34 (0.28%) VoIP
18 32 (0.26%) SD-WAN
19 30 (0.25%) MQTT
20 29 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,651 (21.67%) SQL Server
2 1,991 (16.27%) Power BI
3 1,524 (12.46%) NoSQL
4 1,054 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
5 847 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
6 819 (6.69%) Relational Database
7 784 (6.41%) Tableau
8 689 (5.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 674 (5.51%) MongoDB
10 656 (5.36%) Big Data
11 614 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 515 (4.21%) MySQL
13 495 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 485 (3.96%) Data Lake
15 357 (2.92%) Hadoop
16 342 (2.80%) Oracle Database
17 333 (2.72%) DB2
18 266 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
19 233 (1.90%) BigQuery
20 178 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,016 (8.30%) Git
2 471 (3.85%) JIRA
3 425 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 380 (3.11%) Visual Studio
5 190 (1.55%) JUnit
6 183 (1.50%) GitLab
7 150 (1.23%) Selenium
8 111 (0.91%) Postman
9 96 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
10 92 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 89 (0.73%) NUnit
11 89 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 86 (0.70%) Cucumber
13 81 (0.66%) Cypress.io
14 79 (0.65%) Maven
15 78 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
16 77 (0.63%) Jasmine
17 66 (0.54%) Mockito
18 61 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
19 56 (0.46%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,479 (28.44%) Finance
2 2,962 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 1,636 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 1,521 (12.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,485 (12.14%) Law
6 999 (8.17%) Marketing
7 733 (5.99%) Legal
8 713 (5.83%) Retail
9 661 (5.40%) Banking
10 654 (5.35%) Public Sector
11 393 (3.21%) Manufacturing
12 294 (2.40%) Front Office
13 268 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
14 209 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 208 (1.70%) Games
16 204 (1.67%) Financial Institution
17 198 (1.62%) Back Office
18 179 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
19 172 (1.41%) Investment Banking
20 125 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,531 (28.86%) Developer
2 2,206 (18.03%) Senior
3 1,985 (16.23%) Analyst
4 1,552 (12.69%) Software Engineer
5 1,187 (9.70%) Lead
6 951 (7.77%) Data Engineer
7 765 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 715 (5.84%) .NET Developer
9 597 (4.88%) Data Analyst
10 544 (4.45%) Software Developer
11 538 (4.40%) Java Engineer
12 521 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
13 503 (4.11%) Full Stack Developer
14 447 (3.65%) Applications Support
15 441 (3.60%) C# Developer
16 419 (3.42%) Full Stack Engineer
17 384 (3.14%) Support Analyst
18 366 (2.99%) Consultant
18 366 (2.99%) DBA
19 364 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,651 (21.67%) .NET
2 1,586 (12.96%) HTML
3 1,404 (11.48%) CSS
4 1,235 (10.09%) React
5 1,159 (9.47%) AngularJS
6 1,086 (8.88%) ASP.NET
7 943 (7.71%) REST
8 746 (6.10%) Web Services
9 728 (5.95%) .NET Core
10 611 (4.99%) jQuery
11 604 (4.94%) Spring
12 564 (4.61%) .NET Framework
13 517 (4.23%) XML
14 516 (4.22%) JSON
15 514 (4.20%) Kafka
15 514 (4.20%) Vue
16 497 (4.06%) Node.js
17 429 (3.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 427 (3.49%) Entity Framework
19 405 (3.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 830 (6.78%) Algorithms
2 548 (4.48%) Data Structures
3 495 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 379 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 378 (3.09%) Management Information System
6 325 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 280 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 273 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 263 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
10 251 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 248 (2.03%) Blockchain
12 245 (2.00%) Hedge funds
13 178 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 172 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
15 160 (1.31%) Derivative
15 160 (1.31%) Fixed Income
16 146 (1.19%) Equities
17 142 (1.16%) Replication
18 140 (1.14%) Clustering
18 140 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,374 (11.23%) Windows
2 1,216 (9.94%) Linux
3 438 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 418 (3.42%) Unix
5 311 (2.54%) Android
6 282 (2.31%) Apple iOS
7 163 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 104 (0.85%) VMS
9 87 (0.71%) CentOS
10 83 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
11 79 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
12 78 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
13 76 (0.62%) Windows 7
14 62 (0.51%) Solaris
15 52 (0.43%) Ubuntu
16 49 (0.40%) Windows 8
17 36 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 25 (0.20%) AIX
19 24 (0.20%) SUSE
20 21 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,819 (31.22%) Agile
2 2,397 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
3 2,288 (18.70%) Software Engineering
4 2,231 (18.24%) Business Intelligence
5 1,728 (14.12%) CI/CD
6 1,713 (14.00%) Analytics
7 1,702 (13.91%) DevOps
8 1,671 (13.66%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,531 (12.51%) Visualisation
10 1,450 (11.85%) Full Stack Development
11 1,428 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 1,424 (11.64%) SDLC
13 1,352 (11.05%) ETL
14 1,144 (9.35%) Mentoring
15 1,116 (9.12%) Computer Science
16 1,086 (8.88%) Data Modelling
17 952 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
18 940 (7.68%) Data Analysis
19 919 (7.51%) Decision-Making
20 914 (7.47%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3,209 (26.23%) Python
2 2,855 (23.34%) C#
3 2,275 (18.60%) JavaScript
4 2,125 (17.37%) Java
5 1,110 (9.07%) T-SQL
6 660 (5.39%) TypeScript
7 600 (4.90%) PL/SQL
8 470 (3.84%) PowerShell
9 410 (3.35%) Scala
10 307 (2.51%) R
11 285 (2.33%) PHP
12 234 (1.91%) C++
13 211 (1.72%) VB
14 188 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 172 (1.41%) VBA
16 168 (1.37%) Bash
17 162 (1.32%) VB.NET
18 144 (1.18%) C
19 80 (0.65%) Groovy
20 73 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,185 (17.86%) Degree
2 556 (4.54%) Security Cleared
3 541 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 419 (3.42%) SC Cleared
5 310 (2.53%) DBS Check
6 302 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 277 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 120 (0.98%) DV Cleared
9 114 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 78 (0.64%) PhD
11 52 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 47 (0.38%) MCSE
13 44 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 42 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
15 41 (0.34%) AWS Certification
16 35 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
17 34 (0.28%) CCNA
18 32 (0.26%) CISA
19 31 (0.25%) ISTQB
19 31 (0.25%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 532 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 408 (3.33%) QA
3 208 (1.70%) SLA
4 153 (1.25%) GDPR
5 137 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 53 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 52 (0.43%) PMO
8 26 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 19 (0.16%) ITGC
10 17 (0.14%) COBIT
11 15 (0.12%) NIST
12 13 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.074%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.065%) IFRS
14 8 (0.065%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.065%) PSD2
15 7 (0.057%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.057%) SOC 1
System Software
1 626 (5.12%) Active Directory
2 616 (5.04%) Docker
3 300 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 190 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 126 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 120 (0.98%) HDFS
7 60 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
8 55 (0.45%) XenApp
9 50 (0.41%) VirtualBox
10 48 (0.39%) XenDesktop
11 46 (0.38%) vSphere
12 43 (0.35%) VMware NSX
13 35 (0.29%) Firmware
14 23 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
15 17 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
16 14 (0.11%) vCloud
17 13 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
18 11 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
19 10 (0.082%) Terminal Services
20 9 (0.074%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 759 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 480 (3.92%) Terraform
3 142 (1.16%) Ansible
4 109 (0.89%) Grafana
5 59 (0.48%) SCCM
6 58 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
7 57 (0.47%) Data Guard
8 55 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 51 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 38 (0.31%) SCOM
12 31 (0.25%) Kibana
13 28 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 27 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 27 (0.22%) WSUS
15 23 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
16 22 (0.18%) HAProxy
17 21 (0.17%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
19 18 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,848 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 1,389 (11.35%) Oracle
3 826 (6.75%) Databricks
4 445 (3.64%) Google
5 413 (3.38%) VMware
6 402 (3.29%) IBM
7 300 (2.45%) Red Hat
8 272 (2.22%) SAP
9 166 (1.36%) Informatica
10 156 (1.28%) Citrix
11 123 (1.01%) Cisco
12 105 (0.86%) Alteryx
13 95 (0.78%) Veeam
14 91 (0.74%) Splunk
15 90 (0.74%) Salesforce
16 88 (0.72%) Cloudera
17 81 (0.66%) F5
18 80 (0.65%) Sage
19 74 (0.60%) Bloomberg
20 70 (0.57%) Remedy