SQL Jobs in England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10,124 14,947 24,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.59% 17.07% 17.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.43% 39.40% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,012 8,880 14,065
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +5.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,789 37,936 73,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.80% 43.31% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 22,451 24,446 38,801
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,945 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in England

SQL
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SQL in England

SQL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in England

SQL
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London -1 3,710 £70,000 - 1,143
North of England -4 2,018 £50,000 -3.85% 455
South East -4 1,678 £50,000 -9.09% 287
Midlands -3 1,384 £47,500 -5.00% 338
North West -3 1,139 £52,500 +2.94% 251
West Midlands -4 818 £50,000 - 203
South West -10 740 £50,000 - 184
Yorkshire -7 621 £47,500 -9.52% 167
East Midlands -1 556 £45,000 -9.76% 135
East of England -9 509 £47,500 -9.52% 129
North East -1 260 £50,000 -4.76% 45
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 353 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 273 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 213 (2.10%) IIS
4 180 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 170 (1.68%) Apache
6 154 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
7 136 (1.34%) SAS
8 123 (1.21%) CMS
9 110 (1.09%) Confluence
10 29 (0.29%) Umbraco
11 27 (0.27%) Drupal
12 24 (0.24%) WordPress
13 23 (0.23%) Tomcat
14 20 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 20 (0.20%) WebSphere
15 19 (0.19%) WebLogic
16 15 (0.15%) nginx
17 14 (0.14%) OpenStack
17 14 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
18 11 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 681 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 369 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.28%) SPSS
7 23 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.17%) Trello
9 16 (0.16%) Simulink
10 9 (0.089%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
12 7 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
13 6 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
14 3 (0.030%) Adobe XD
15 2 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 2 (0.020%) FileZilla
15 2 (0.020%) InDesign
15 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
16 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
16 1 (0.010%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 144 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
3 35 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 35 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 33 (0.33%) SDL Web 8
5 26 (0.26%) thinkFolio
6 25 (0.25%) Elite 3E
6 25 (0.25%) SAP Business One
7 24 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 22 (0.22%) Shopify
9 21 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 19 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
10 19 (0.19%) Sage 200
11 18 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
12 17 (0.17%) Fidessa
13 15 (0.15%) Sage X3
13 15 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
14 14 (0.14%) Magento
15 13 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
16 12 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 3,678 (36.33%) Azure
2 1,936 (19.12%) Power Platform
3 1,689 (16.68%) AWS
4 685 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
5 607 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
6 578 (5.71%) GCP
7 455 (4.49%) Serverless
8 362 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
9 335 (3.31%) SaaS
10 281 (2.78%) Snowflake
11 243 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 238 (2.35%) IBM Cloud
13 220 (2.17%) GitHub
14 213 (2.10%) Azure Functions
15 211 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
16 206 (2.03%) PowerApps
17 203 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
18 192 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
19 189 (1.87%) Entra ID
20 182 (1.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 302 (2.98%) Firewall
2 194 (1.92%) DNS
3 146 (1.44%) WAN
4 115 (1.14%) VPN
5 113 (1.12%) DHCP
6 110 (1.09%) Internet
6 110 (1.09%) LAN
7 103 (1.02%) TCP/IP
8 88 (0.87%) SAN
9 69 (0.68%) Broadband
10 68 (0.67%) HTTP
10 68 (0.67%) Network Security
11 60 (0.59%) VLAN
12 56 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
13 50 (0.49%) SSL
14 34 (0.34%) Wireless
15 30 (0.30%) SD-WAN
16 29 (0.29%) FTP
17 26 (0.26%) VoIP
17 26 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,364 (23.35%) SQL Server
2 1,819 (17.97%) Power BI
3 956 (9.44%) Data Warehouse
4 815 (8.05%) NoSQL
5 754 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
6 753 (7.44%) Tableau
7 636 (6.28%) Relational Database
8 626 (6.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 558 (5.51%) MongoDB
10 543 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 468 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 448 (4.43%) MySQL
13 433 (4.28%) Data Lake
14 299 (2.95%) DB2
15 255 (2.52%) Big Data
16 233 (2.30%) Oracle Database
17 220 (2.17%) BigQuery
18 169 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 136 (1.34%) Data Mining
19 136 (1.34%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 905 (8.94%) Git
2 387 (3.82%) JIRA
3 344 (3.40%) Visual Studio
4 227 (2.24%) Jenkins
5 166 (1.64%) GitLab
6 107 (1.06%) Selenium
7 91 (0.90%) Postman
8 90 (0.89%) TeamCity
9 88 (0.87%) NUnit
10 78 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 71 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
12 54 (0.53%) Moq
13 53 (0.52%) Cucumber
14 52 (0.51%) JUnit
15 49 (0.48%) Cypress.io
16 48 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
17 45 (0.44%) SpecFlow
18 43 (0.42%) Eclipse
19 39 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
20 38 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 2,715 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 2,260 (22.32%) Finance
3 1,487 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 698 (6.89%) Retail
5 595 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 513 (5.07%) Banking
7 444 (4.39%) Marketing
8 420 (4.15%) Law
9 398 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 366 (3.62%) Manufacturing
11 333 (3.29%) Legal
12 322 (3.18%) Front Office
13 280 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
14 189 (1.87%) Back Office
15 177 (1.75%) Games
16 167 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
17 110 (1.09%) Telecoms
18 99 (0.98%) Aerospace
19 97 (0.96%) Advertising
20 92 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,092 (30.54%) Developer
2 1,969 (19.45%) Senior
3 1,934 (19.10%) Analyst
4 812 (8.02%) Lead
5 779 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 685 (6.77%) .NET Developer
7 660 (6.52%) Senior Developer
8 600 (5.93%) Data Analyst
9 580 (5.73%) Software Engineer
10 480 (4.74%) Software Developer
11 479 (4.73%) Full Stack Developer
12 435 (4.30%) Senior Analyst
13 419 (4.14%) C# Developer
14 395 (3.90%) Applications Support
15 325 (3.21%) Support Analyst
16 319 (3.15%) Consultant
17 301 (2.97%) Support Engineer
18 300 (2.96%) DBA
19 291 (2.87%) Architect
20 275 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,428 (23.98%) .NET
2 1,343 (13.27%) HTML
3 1,172 (11.58%) CSS
4 1,039 (10.26%) ASP.NET
5 911 (9.00%) React
6 873 (8.62%) AngularJS
7 790 (7.80%) REST
8 645 (6.37%) .NET Core
8 645 (6.37%) Web Services
9 525 (5.19%) jQuery
10 508 (5.02%) .NET Framework
11 469 (4.63%) Vue
12 422 (4.17%) XML
13 411 (4.06%) Entity Framework
14 394 (3.89%) Node.js
15 389 (3.84%) JSON
16 359 (3.55%) ASP.NET MVC
17 357 (3.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 336 (3.32%) HTML5
18 336 (3.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 498 (4.92%) Data Structures
2 446 (4.41%) Algorithms
3 335 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
4 333 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 274 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 265 (2.62%) Hedge funds
6 265 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 248 (2.45%) Blockchain
8 234 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
9 201 (1.99%) Onboarding
10 179 (1.77%) Fixed Income
11 171 (1.69%) Derivative
12 164 (1.62%) Equities
13 159 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 153 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
15 150 (1.48%) Public Cloud
16 133 (1.31%) Mobile App
17 120 (1.19%) Client/Server
18 117 (1.16%) e-Learning
19 107 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1,263 (12.48%) Windows
2 992 (9.80%) Linux
3 385 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 311 (3.07%) Android
5 277 (2.74%) Apple iOS
6 210 (2.07%) Unix
7 158 (1.56%) Windows 10
8 95 (0.94%) VMS
9 92 (0.91%) CentOS
10 79 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
12 74 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
13 67 (0.66%) Windows 7
14 54 (0.53%) Ubuntu
15 44 (0.43%) Windows 8
16 33 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 31 (0.31%) Solaris
18 24 (0.24%) AIX
19 21 (0.21%) SUSE
20 19 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,545 (25.14%) Agile
2 2,016 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
3 1,999 (19.75%) Business Intelligence
4 1,568 (15.49%) Analytics
5 1,399 (13.82%) DevOps
6 1,167 (11.53%) ETL
7 1,144 (11.30%) Full Stack Development
8 1,105 (10.91%) Visualisation
9 1,095 (10.82%) Software Engineering
10 977 (9.65%) Mentoring
11 957 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence
12 926 (9.15%) Computer Science
13 912 (9.01%) Data Modelling
14 878 (8.67%) MVC
15 840 (8.30%) Data Analysis
16 821 (8.11%) Data Science
17 772 (7.63%) Machine Learning
18 698 (6.89%) Data Pipeline
19 682 (6.74%) CI/CD
20 673 (6.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,657 (26.24%) Python
2 2,588 (25.56%) C#
3 1,975 (19.51%) JavaScript
4 1,068 (10.55%) Java
5 979 (9.67%) T-SQL
6 518 (5.12%) TypeScript
7 455 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 303 (2.99%) PL/SQL
9 290 (2.86%) R
10 231 (2.28%) PHP
11 202 (2.00%) C++
12 180 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 175 (1.73%) VB
14 170 (1.68%) VBA
15 162 (1.60%) VB.NET
16 141 (1.39%) Bash
17 132 (1.30%) C
18 116 (1.15%) Scala
19 72 (0.71%) Kotlin
20 69 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,965 (19.41%) Degree
2 480 (4.74%) Security Cleared
3 476 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 356 (3.52%) SC Cleared
5 350 (3.46%) DBS Check
6 277 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 241 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 123 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 115 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 70 (0.69%) PhD
11 52 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 41 (0.40%) MCSE
13 40 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
14 36 (0.36%) AWS Certification
15 33 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
16 30 (0.30%) MBA
17 28 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
18 27 (0.27%) MCSA
19 25 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
19 25 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 508 (5.02%) Data Quality
2 344 (3.40%) QA
3 156 (1.54%) SLA
4 126 (1.24%) GDPR
5 106 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 53 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 15 (0.15%) PMO
10 11 (0.11%) COBIT
11 10 (0.099%) NIST
12 8 (0.079%) IFRS
12 8 (0.079%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.079%) MiFID
12 8 (0.079%) PSD2
13 7 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.069%) ITGC
13 7 (0.069%) SOC 1
14 6 (0.059%) GMP
System Software
1 595 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 504 (4.98%) Docker
3 251 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 176 (1.74%) Hyper-V
5 109 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 52 (0.51%) XenApp
7 45 (0.44%) VirtualBox
7 45 (0.44%) XenDesktop
8 44 (0.43%) RACF
9 42 (0.41%) vSphere
10 29 (0.29%) Firmware
11 26 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
12 21 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
13 17 (0.17%) HDFS
13 17 (0.17%) VMware NSX
14 15 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
15 13 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
16 11 (0.11%) vCloud
17 10 (0.099%) Terminal Services
18 9 (0.089%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 438 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 315 (3.11%) Terraform
3 130 (1.28%) Ansible
4 48 (0.47%) Grafana
5 46 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 46 (0.45%) SCCM
6 34 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 34 (0.34%) SCOM
7 31 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.29%) WSUS
9 28 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 24 (0.24%) Data Guard
11 22 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
12 20 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
13 18 (0.18%) Backup Exec
14 17 (0.17%) NetBackup
15 15 (0.15%) Puppet
16 14 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
17 13 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
18 12 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 2,623 (25.91%) Microsoft
2 854 (8.44%) Oracle
3 665 (6.57%) Databricks
4 371 (3.66%) Google
5 355 (3.51%) IBM
6 337 (3.33%) VMware
7 305 (3.01%) Red Hat
8 218 (2.15%) SAP
9 146 (1.44%) Citrix
10 101 (1.00%) Cisco
11 92 (0.91%) Veeam
12 89 (0.88%) Bloomberg
13 87 (0.86%) Salesforce
14 80 (0.79%) Alteryx
15 79 (0.78%) Informatica
16 78 (0.77%) F5
17 66 (0.65%) Sage
18 51 (0.50%) Adobe
19 45 (0.44%) ServiceNow
20 44 (0.43%) CyberArk