SQL Jobs in the Thames Valley

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 606 671 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.28% 11.90% 16.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.76% 30.40% 35.72%
Number of salaries quoted 489 463 787
10th Percentile £34,950 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.60%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,970 2,207 3,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.92% 39.15% 45.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,569 1,346 1,907
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +10.60%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +10.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

SQL
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

SQL
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the Thames Valley

SQL
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Berkshire -5 301 £62,500 +4.17% 45
Buckinghamshire -8 164 £47,500 -5.00% 28
Oxfordshire +13 141 £42,500 -10.53% 20
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 46 (7.59%) SharePoint
2 38 (6.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.14%) IIS
4 14 (2.31%) Oracle Service Bus
4 14 (2.31%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.16%) Confluence
6 6 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.83%) JBoss
7 5 (0.83%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.66%) CMS
8 4 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.50%) Drupal
9 3 (0.50%) WinCC
9 3 (0.50%) WordPress
10 2 (0.33%) SAS
11 1 (0.17%) Apache
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.17%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (1.16%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.83%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.33%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.17%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 194 (32.01%) Azure
2 114 (18.81%) Power Platform
3 72 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (8.91%) AWS
5 32 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (4.79%) SaaS
7 25 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (3.47%) PowerApps
9 18 (2.97%) OneDrive
10 14 (2.31%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.15%) Serverless
12 12 (1.98%) iTunes
13 11 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.65%) PaaS
14 10 (1.65%) WhatsApp
15 9 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (1.32%) GCP
17 7 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (11.88%) Firewall
2 27 (4.46%) DNS
3 20 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
4 18 (2.97%) DHCP
4 18 (2.97%) SSL
5 15 (2.48%) Network Security
6 12 (1.98%) Internet
7 11 (1.82%) SNMP
8 7 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.16%) VPN
9 5 (0.83%) Broadband
10 3 (0.50%) BGP
10 3 (0.50%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.50%) VLAN
10 3 (0.50%) Wireless
11 2 (0.33%) LAN
11 2 (0.33%) WAN
12 1 (0.17%) DMZ
12 1 (0.17%) FTP
12 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (22.44%) SQL Server
2 101 (16.67%) Power BI
3 58 (9.57%) NoSQL
4 41 (6.77%) Oracle Database
5 37 (6.11%) MySQL
5 37 (6.11%) Relational Database
6 36 (5.94%) Data Lake
7 29 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (3.80%) Oracle Database 11g
10 22 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (2.64%) Power Query
13 15 (2.48%) OLTP
14 14 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (2.31%) Oracle Database 10g
14 14 (2.31%) VLDB
15 13 (2.15%) Tableau
16 9 (1.49%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 57 (9.41%) Git
2 47 (7.76%) Visual Studio
3 40 (6.60%) Selenium
4 28 (4.62%) JIRA
5 26 (4.29%) SoapUI
6 25 (4.13%) Cypress.io
7 20 (3.30%) GitLab
8 19 (3.14%) NUnit
9 12 (1.98%) WebDriver
10 11 (1.82%) Jenkins
10 11 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (1.32%) Gradle
12 5 (0.83%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.66%) JMeter
13 4 (0.66%) Postman
13 4 (0.66%) PowerBuilder
13 4 (0.66%) Subversion
14 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket Server
14 3 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
General
1 162 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 66 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (9.90%) Finance
4 31 (5.12%) Law
4 31 (5.12%) Retail
5 27 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (3.63%) Public Sector
7 14 (2.31%) Legal
8 13 (2.15%) Health Technology
8 13 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.98%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.82%) Marketing
11 10 (1.65%) Back Office
12 9 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.49%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.32%) Banking
14 7 (1.16%) Billing
14 7 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 178 (29.37%) Developer
2 98 (16.17%) Senior
3 77 (12.71%) Analyst
4 74 (12.21%) Support Engineer
5 71 (11.72%) Senior Developer
6 56 (9.24%) IT Engineer
7 55 (9.08%) Lead
8 54 (8.91%) IT Support
9 49 (8.09%) Applications Support
9 49 (8.09%) IT Support Engineer
10 37 (6.11%) Software Engineer
11 36 (5.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 33 (5.45%) .NET Developer
12 33 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support
12 33 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 33 (5.45%) Support Analyst
13 31 (5.12%) Applications Support Analyst
13 31 (5.12%) Consultant
14 27 (4.46%) Architect
15 24 (3.96%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (27.56%) .NET
2 71 (11.72%) HTML
3 66 (10.89%) React
4 55 (9.08%) CSS
5 53 (8.75%) XML
6 45 (7.43%) .NET Core
7 32 (5.28%) JSON
8 31 (5.12%) AngularJS
9 27 (4.46%) ASP.NET
10 26 (4.29%) Web Services
11 24 (3.96%) Jest
12 22 (3.63%) SOAP
13 21 (3.47%) REST
14 17 (2.81%) .NET Framework
14 17 (2.81%) Blazor
14 17 (2.81%) Kafka
15 16 (2.64%) Spring Boot
16 15 (2.48%) Spring
17 12 (1.98%) RESTful
18 10 (1.65%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.13%) Replication
2 18 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.31%) Management Information System
4 11 (1.82%) Driving Licence
5 10 (1.65%) CMDB
5 10 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.65%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.49%) Client/Server
7 8 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.32%) PropTech
8 7 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.83%) NHS
10 5 (0.83%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.66%) Chip and PIN
11 4 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 70 (11.55%) Windows
2 58 (9.57%) Linux
3 34 (5.61%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.63%) Unix
5 14 (2.31%) Solaris
6 13 (2.15%) VMS
7 4 (0.66%) AIX
8 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.33%) Android
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (28.05%) Agile
2 113 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (17.00%) Business Intelligence
4 87 (14.36%) Software Engineering
5 71 (11.72%) Artificial Intelligence
6 56 (9.24%) DevOps
7 50 (8.25%) Computer Science
7 50 (8.25%) Performance Tuning
8 45 (7.43%) Machine Learning
8 45 (7.43%) Project Management
9 43 (7.10%) Customer Service
9 43 (7.10%) Software Testing
10 41 (6.77%) Full Stack Development
11 38 (6.27%) Mentoring
12 37 (6.11%) ETL
13 35 (5.78%) Test Automation
14 32 (5.28%) Actionable Insight
14 32 (5.28%) Microservices
14 32 (5.28%) Unit Testing
15 31 (5.12%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 168 (27.72%) C#
2 114 (18.81%) JavaScript
3 76 (12.54%) Python
4 70 (11.55%) PL/SQL
5 59 (9.74%) Java
6 54 (8.91%) T-SQL
7 53 (8.75%) TypeScript
8 23 (3.80%) C++
9 18 (2.97%) VB.NET
10 17 (2.81%) Fortran
11 14 (2.31%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.65%) R
13 8 (1.32%) Scala
14 7 (1.16%) PHP
15 6 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.99%) XAML
16 5 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.83%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.83%) VB
16 5 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 137 (22.61%) Degree
2 61 (10.07%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.31%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.83%) HNC
8 5 (0.83%) HND
8 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.66%) OCP
9 4 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.50%) PhD
11 2 (0.33%) MCITP
12 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.17%) MCSA
12 1 (0.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.11%) QA
2 20 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.64%) SLA
4 5 (0.83%) GDPR
5 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (10.23%) Active Directory
2 60 (9.90%) Docker
3 38 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.31%) Oracle RAC
5 12 (1.98%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.97%) Oracle RMAN
3 14 (2.31%) Data Guard
4 12 (1.98%) Terraform
5 11 (1.82%) Ansible
6 10 (1.65%) SCOM
7 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.50%) Wonderware InTouch
8 2 (0.33%) SCCM
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 206 (33.99%) Microsoft
2 77 (12.71%) Oracle
3 49 (8.09%) VMware
4 43 (7.10%) Citrix
5 35 (5.78%) Veeam
6 17 (2.81%) Cisco
7 15 (2.48%) Remedy
8 14 (2.31%) Sun
9 13 (2.15%) Databricks
9 13 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.65%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.65%) Google
11 8 (1.32%) SAP
12 7 (1.16%) Draytek
12 7 (1.16%) Sage
13 6 (0.99%) WSO2
14 5 (0.83%) Adaptive Insights
14 5 (0.83%) Anaplan
14 5 (0.83%) Jedox
14 5 (0.83%) Tagetik