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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,704 5,653 13,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.68% 16.94% 19.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.96% 34.10% 32.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 3,971 6,609
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
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 £91,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,140
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.81% +5.03%

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 9,508 16,577 42,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.24% 49.68% 60.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,546 12,332 18,864
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 22 May 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 22 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
Central London +3 706 £70,000 -3.45% 133
South London -25 66 £61,250 +11.36% 16
West London -58 37 £64,000 +28.00% 30
East London +3 22 £57,500 +6.98% 21
North London -5 8 £70,000 +33.33% 3
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
1 134 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 119 (3.21%) Apache
3 110 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 107 (2.89%) SharePoint
5 83 (2.24%) SAS
6 66 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 52 (1.40%) IIS
8 49 (1.32%) CMS
9 28 (0.76%) Confluence
10 15 (0.40%) Drupal
11 12 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
12 11 (0.30%) Tomcat
13 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
14 8 (0.22%) Apache Pig
14 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.19%) Jupyter
16 6 (0.16%) WebSphere
17 5 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
18 4 (0.11%) WordPress
19 3 (0.081%) nginx
Applications
1 287 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.46%) SPSS
6 15 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.054%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 68 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 29 (0.78%) SDL Web 8
4 26 (0.70%) thinkFolio
5 21 (0.57%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.43%) Fidessa
6 16 (0.43%) NEC Housing
7 11 (0.30%) Relativity
8 9 (0.24%) Sage X3
8 9 (0.24%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
10 7 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
10 7 (0.19%) Endur
11 6 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.16%) Primavera
12 5 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
12 5 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
12 5 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
12 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,250 (33.75%) Azure
2 850 (22.95%) AWS
3 684 (18.47%) Power Platform
4 314 (8.48%) GCP
5 218 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
6 175 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 172 (4.64%) Serverless
8 131 (3.54%) Snowflake
9 129 (3.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 111 (3.00%) SaaS
11 107 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
12 88 (2.38%) PowerApps
13 86 (2.32%) GitHub
14 77 (2.08%) Power Automate
15 76 (2.05%) Amazon S3
15 76 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
16 71 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
17 56 (1.51%) dbt
18 54 (1.46%) PaaS
19 53 (1.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.08%) Firewall
2 54 (1.46%) DNS
3 45 (1.21%) VPN
4 39 (1.05%) Internet
5 32 (0.86%) DHCP
6 29 (0.78%) Network Security
6 29 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.67%) WAN
8 22 (0.59%) SAN
9 21 (0.57%) HTTP
10 16 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
11 15 (0.40%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.40%) VLAN
12 11 (0.30%) BGP
12 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
12 11 (0.30%) MPLS
13 10 (0.27%) LAN
14 9 (0.24%) FTP
14 9 (0.24%) Wireless
15 8 (0.22%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 652 (17.60%) SQL Server
2 621 (16.77%) Power BI
3 418 (11.29%) Tableau
4 382 (10.31%) Data Warehouse
5 259 (6.99%) NoSQL
6 224 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
7 223 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 187 (5.05%) Relational Database
9 180 (4.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 178 (4.81%) Data Lake
11 170 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 145 (3.91%) MongoDB
13 140 (3.78%) Big Data
14 111 (3.00%) MySQL
15 88 (2.38%) Data Mining
16 78 (2.11%) Hadoop
17 76 (2.05%) BigQuery
17 76 (2.05%) Oracle Database
18 65 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 57 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 382 (10.31%) Git
2 144 (3.89%) JIRA
3 97 (2.62%) Visual Studio
4 84 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 73 (1.97%) GitLab
6 45 (1.21%) TeamCity
7 40 (1.08%) NUnit
8 38 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 30 (0.81%) SpecFlow
10 29 (0.78%) Moq
11 25 (0.67%) Eclipse
11 25 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
12 23 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
13 19 (0.51%) Postman
13 19 (0.51%) Sourcetree
14 17 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
15 16 (0.43%) Cucumber
15 16 (0.43%) git-flow
16 15 (0.40%) JUnit
16 15 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 1,181 (31.88%) Finance
2 1,066 (28.78%) Social Skills
3 676 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 346 (9.34%) Banking
5 322 (8.69%) Front Office
6 243 (6.56%) Retail
7 197 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 185 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
9 184 (4.97%) Marketing
10 151 (4.08%) Back Office
11 147 (3.97%) Law
12 118 (3.19%) Legal
13 75 (2.02%) Public Sector
14 53 (1.43%) Games
15 48 (1.30%) Investment Banking
16 41 (1.11%) Retail Banking
17 33 (0.89%) Advertising
17 33 (0.89%) Financial Institution
17 33 (0.89%) Health Technology
18 32 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,018 (27.48%) Senior
2 975 (26.32%) Analyst
3 916 (24.73%) Developer
4 387 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 337 (9.10%) Data Analyst
6 315 (8.50%) Lead
7 288 (7.78%) Senior Developer
8 250 (6.75%) Senior Analyst
9 215 (5.80%) Software Engineer
10 201 (5.43%) Full Stack Developer
11 192 (5.18%) Applications Support
12 191 (5.16%) .NET Developer
13 183 (4.94%) Support Analyst
14 135 (3.64%) Financial Analyst
15 132 (3.56%) Data Scientist
16 129 (3.48%) Senior Data Analyst
17 128 (3.46%) Business Analyst
18 126 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
19 116 (3.13%) Python Engineer
20 113 (3.05%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 594 (16.04%) .NET
2 298 (8.05%) React
3 268 (7.24%) AngularJS
4 263 (7.10%) HTML
5 250 (6.75%) CSS
6 232 (6.26%) REST
7 215 (5.80%) ASP.NET
8 165 (4.45%) Web Services
9 164 (4.43%) PySpark
10 160 (4.32%) .NET Framework
11 146 (3.94%) XML
12 145 (3.91%) .NET Core
13 134 (3.62%) JSON
14 121 (3.27%) Kafka
15 113 (3.05%) jQuery
16 111 (3.00%) RESTful
17 104 (2.81%) Pandas
18 102 (2.75%) SOAP
19 97 (2.62%) Spring
20 93 (2.51%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 258 (6.97%) Hedge funds
2 176 (4.75%) Fixed Income
3 173 (4.67%) Derivative
4 162 (4.37%) Equities
5 161 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 158 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 148 (4.00%) Algorithms
8 130 (3.51%) Onboarding
9 121 (3.27%) Management Information System
10 120 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
11 92 (2.48%) Data Structures
12 80 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
13 58 (1.57%) Client/Server
14 50 (1.35%) Reinsurance
15 46 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
16 41 (1.11%) Cloud Native
17 39 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
18 35 (0.94%) Public Cloud
19 32 (0.86%) IoT
20 31 (0.84%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 331 (8.94%) Windows
2 266 (7.18%) Linux
3 121 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 112 (3.02%) Unix
5 41 (1.11%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.73%) CentOS
7 24 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.59%) Android
8 22 (0.59%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.32%) Solaris
10 12 (0.32%) zOS
11 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (0.30%) SUSE
12 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.19%) VMS
14 7 (0.19%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (22.38%) Analytics
2 822 (22.19%) Agile
3 703 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
4 685 (18.49%) Business Intelligence
5 546 (14.74%) Visualisation
6 511 (13.80%) ETL
7 476 (12.85%) DevOps
8 441 (11.91%) Data Modelling
9 440 (11.88%) Data Science
10 423 (11.42%) Data Analysis
11 396 (10.69%) Computer Science
12 384 (10.37%) Software Engineering
13 378 (10.21%) Machine Learning
14 377 (10.18%) Data Pipeline
15 366 (9.88%) Full Stack Development
16 341 (9.21%) Mathematics
17 336 (9.07%) Statistics
18 326 (8.80%) Mentoring
19 318 (8.59%) Artificial Intelligence
20 310 (8.37%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,548 (41.79%) Python
2 700 (18.90%) C#
3 514 (13.88%) JavaScript
4 339 (9.15%) Java
5 328 (8.86%) T-SQL
6 201 (5.43%) TypeScript
7 192 (5.18%) R
8 177 (4.78%) PowerShell
9 113 (3.05%) PL/SQL
10 82 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 79 (2.13%) VBA
12 55 (1.48%) Scala
13 53 (1.43%) Bash
14 51 (1.38%) C++
15 49 (1.32%) C
16 45 (1.21%) XPath
17 44 (1.19%) PHP
18 25 (0.67%) Ruby
19 23 (0.62%) Perl
19 23 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 939 (25.35%) Degree
2 176 (4.75%) DBS Check
3 175 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 153 (4.13%) Master's Degree
5 84 (2.27%) Security Cleared
6 71 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (1.62%) SC Cleared
8 45 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 45 (1.21%) PhD
9 38 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 25 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
11 21 (0.57%) MCSE
12 20 (0.54%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.46%) MCSA
14 14 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.38%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 9 (0.24%) MBA
15 9 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 8 (0.22%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 123 (3.32%) QA
3 47 (1.27%) SLA
4 36 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 24 (0.65%) GDPR
6 12 (0.32%) PMO
7 10 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.19%) COBIT
8 7 (0.19%) IFRS
8 7 (0.19%) MiFID
8 7 (0.19%) SOC 1
9 6 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) ITGC
10 5 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.13%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.11%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.081%) EMIR
12 3 (0.081%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 192 (5.18%) Docker
2 145 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.51%) vSphere
6 17 (0.46%) HDFS
7 12 (0.32%) vCloud
8 9 (0.24%) Firmware
8 9 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
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%) RACF
12 4 (0.11%) XenApp
13 3 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.054%) IAG
Systems Management
1 208 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 179 (4.83%) Terraform
3 41 (1.11%) Ansible
4 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.62%) Grafana
6 22 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (0.40%) SCCM
8 12 (0.32%) WSUS
9 11 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.27%) Control-M
10 10 (0.27%) logstash
10 10 (0.27%) SCOM
11 9 (0.24%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.22%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.19%) Istio
14 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
15 5 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
15 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.13%) Kibana
15 5 (0.13%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 698 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 427 (11.53%) Databricks
3 301 (8.13%) Oracle
4 156 (4.21%) Google
5 88 (2.38%) Bloomberg
6 60 (1.62%) SAP
7 56 (1.51%) VMware
8 47 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 41 (1.11%) Alteryx
10 39 (1.05%) Cisco
11 38 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 35 (0.94%) F5
13 31 (0.84%) IBM
14 30 (0.81%) ION Trading
15 27 (0.73%) Murex
15 27 (0.73%) Veeam
16 26 (0.70%) Juniper
17 25 (0.67%) Adobe
18 24 (0.65%) Sage
18 24 (0.65%) ServiceNow