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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10,101 15,278 23,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.76% 17.01% 17.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.56% 39.32% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8,081 9,081 14,089
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,362 £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 £59,191 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +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 27,630 38,859 71,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.17% 43.25% 53.44%
Number of salaries quoted 22,466 25,007 38,919
10th Percentile £35,475 £39,750 £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 11 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 11 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 0 3,682 £70,000 - 1,129
North of England -4 2,022 £50,000 -3.85% 412
South East -3 1,682 £50,000 -9.09% 301
Midlands -3 1,357 £47,500 -5.00% 361
North West -3 1,146 £52,500 +1.94% 224
West Midlands -4 802 £50,000 - 223
South West -10 741 £50,000 - 207
Yorkshire -6 623 £47,500 -9.52% 148
East Midlands 0 546 £45,000 -7.91% 138
East of England -9 520 £47,500 -9.52% 166
North East 0 255 £50,000 -4.76% 42
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
1 361 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 281 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 225 (2.23%) IIS
4 182 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 164 (1.62%) Apache
6 159 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
7 133 (1.32%) SAS
8 119 (1.18%) CMS
9 104 (1.03%) Confluence
10 30 (0.30%) Umbraco
10 30 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 28 (0.28%) Drupal
12 25 (0.25%) WordPress
13 23 (0.23%) Tomcat
14 20 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 19 (0.19%) WebLogic
16 18 (0.18%) Captiva
16 18 (0.18%) FileNet
17 16 (0.16%) nginx
18 14 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 679 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 377 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 27 (0.27%) SPSS
6 21 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 17 (0.17%) Trello
8 14 (0.14%) Simulink
9 9 (0.089%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
11 7 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.020%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.020%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.020%) InDesign
13 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.010%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 151 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
3 36 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 35 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 27 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
6 26 (0.26%) thinkFolio
7 25 (0.25%) SAP Business One
8 24 (0.24%) Elite 3E
9 22 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 21 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 21 (0.21%) Shopify
11 20 (0.20%) Sage 200
12 19 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
13 18 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
14 16 (0.16%) Fidessa
14 16 (0.16%) Sage X3
15 15 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
16 14 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
16 14 (0.14%) Magento
16 14 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3,704 (36.67%) Azure
2 1,925 (19.06%) Power Platform
3 1,694 (16.77%) AWS
4 705 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 630 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
6 606 (6.00%) GCP
7 466 (4.61%) Serverless
8 368 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 346 (3.43%) SaaS
10 280 (2.77%) Snowflake
11 239 (2.37%) IBM Cloud
12 237 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 236 (2.34%) GitHub
14 220 (2.18%) Azure Service Bus
15 217 (2.15%) Azure Functions
16 210 (2.08%) PowerApps
17 209 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
18 196 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
19 186 (1.84%) Power Automate
20 169 (1.67%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 318 (3.15%) Firewall
2 195 (1.93%) DNS
3 157 (1.55%) WAN
4 127 (1.26%) VPN
5 116 (1.15%) DHCP
6 114 (1.13%) Internet
7 113 (1.12%) LAN
8 107 (1.06%) TCP/IP
9 92 (0.91%) SAN
10 71 (0.70%) Network Security
11 70 (0.69%) HTTP
12 69 (0.68%) Broadband
13 63 (0.62%) VLAN
14 56 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
15 51 (0.50%) SSL
16 38 (0.38%) Wireless
17 32 (0.32%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.30%) VoIP
19 29 (0.29%) FTP
20 27 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,379 (23.55%) SQL Server
2 1,803 (17.85%) Power BI
3 955 (9.45%) Data Warehouse
4 809 (8.01%) NoSQL
5 753 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
6 732 (7.25%) Tableau
7 646 (6.40%) Relational Database
8 618 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 550 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 548 (5.43%) MongoDB
11 464 (4.59%) MySQL
12 462 (4.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 430 (4.26%) Data Lake
14 302 (2.99%) DB2
15 253 (2.50%) Big Data
16 235 (2.33%) Oracle Database
17 221 (2.19%) BigQuery
18 164 (1.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 140 (1.39%) Data Mining
20 132 (1.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 861 (8.52%) Git
2 394 (3.90%) JIRA
3 342 (3.39%) Visual Studio
4 233 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 156 (1.54%) GitLab
6 114 (1.13%) Selenium
7 94 (0.93%) Postman
8 89 (0.88%) TeamCity
9 80 (0.79%) NUnit
9 80 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 65 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
11 55 (0.54%) Cucumber
12 54 (0.53%) JUnit
13 52 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 48 (0.48%) Moq
15 47 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
16 44 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
17 43 (0.43%) SoapUI
17 43 (0.43%) SpecFlow
17 43 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,686 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 2,222 (22.00%) Finance
3 1,471 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 691 (6.84%) Retail
5 603 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 477 (4.72%) Banking
7 440 (4.36%) Marketing
8 420 (4.16%) Law
9 390 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 364 (3.60%) Manufacturing
11 310 (3.07%) Front Office
12 290 (2.87%) Legal
13 260 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 187 (1.85%) Back Office
15 181 (1.79%) Games
16 171 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
17 111 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 98 (0.97%) Aerospace
19 97 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
20 96 (0.95%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3,096 (30.65%) Developer
2 1,895 (18.76%) Senior
3 1,865 (18.46%) Analyst
4 817 (8.09%) Lead
5 787 (7.79%) Data Engineer
6 682 (6.75%) .NET Developer
7 652 (6.45%) Senior Developer
8 585 (5.79%) Software Engineer
9 579 (5.73%) Data Analyst
10 480 (4.75%) Software Developer
11 475 (4.70%) Full Stack Developer
12 411 (4.07%) C# Developer
13 398 (3.94%) Applications Support
14 368 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
15 336 (3.33%) Support Analyst
16 316 (3.13%) Consultant
17 303 (3.00%) DBA
18 296 (2.93%) Support Engineer
19 290 (2.87%) Architect
20 271 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,429 (24.05%) .NET
2 1,343 (13.30%) HTML
3 1,160 (11.48%) CSS
4 1,039 (10.29%) ASP.NET
5 912 (9.03%) React
6 868 (8.59%) AngularJS
7 787 (7.79%) REST
8 653 (6.46%) Web Services
9 652 (6.45%) .NET Core
10 516 (5.11%) jQuery
11 502 (4.97%) .NET Framework
12 468 (4.63%) Vue
13 420 (4.16%) XML
14 403 (3.99%) Entity Framework
15 394 (3.90%) JSON
16 382 (3.78%) Node.js
17 355 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
18 352 (3.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 344 (3.41%) RESTful
20 341 (3.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 503 (4.98%) Data Structures
2 433 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 339 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
4 287 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 270 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 266 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 254 (2.51%) Hedge funds
8 248 (2.46%) Blockchain
9 231 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
10 192 (1.90%) Onboarding
11 168 (1.66%) Fixed Income
12 165 (1.63%) Derivative
13 159 (1.57%) Public Cloud
14 156 (1.54%) Equities
14 156 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 151 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
16 131 (1.30%) Mobile App
17 120 (1.19%) Client/Server
18 117 (1.16%) e-Learning
19 113 (1.12%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1,268 (12.55%) Windows
2 1,011 (10.01%) Linux
3 389 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 311 (3.08%) Android
5 279 (2.76%) Apple iOS
6 221 (2.19%) Unix
7 162 (1.60%) Windows 10
8 94 (0.93%) VMS
9 85 (0.84%) CentOS
10 78 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
11 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
12 71 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
13 70 (0.69%) Windows 7
14 53 (0.52%) Ubuntu
15 47 (0.47%) Windows 8
16 32 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 30 (0.30%) Solaris
18 25 (0.25%) AIX
19 23 (0.23%) SUSE
20 19 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,520 (24.95%) Agile
2 2,015 (19.95%) Business Intelligence
3 1,983 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
4 1,549 (15.34%) Analytics
5 1,432 (14.18%) DevOps
6 1,194 (11.82%) ETL
7 1,135 (11.24%) Full Stack Development
8 1,098 (10.87%) Software Engineering
9 1,084 (10.73%) Visualisation
10 972 (9.62%) Mentoring
11 959 (9.49%) Artificial Intelligence
12 925 (9.16%) Data Modelling
13 899 (8.90%) Computer Science
14 884 (8.75%) MVC
15 830 (8.22%) Data Science
16 826 (8.18%) Data Analysis
17 778 (7.70%) Machine Learning
18 701 (6.94%) CI/CD
19 680 (6.73%) Data Pipeline
20 654 (6.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,629 (26.03%) Python
2 2,605 (25.79%) C#
3 1,974 (19.54%) JavaScript
4 1,071 (10.60%) Java
5 980 (9.70%) T-SQL
6 524 (5.19%) TypeScript
7 412 (4.08%) PowerShell
8 313 (3.10%) PL/SQL
9 290 (2.87%) R
10 240 (2.38%) PHP
11 197 (1.95%) C++
12 176 (1.74%) VB
13 172 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 163 (1.61%) VBA
15 161 (1.59%) VB.NET
16 137 (1.36%) Bash
17 132 (1.31%) C
18 121 (1.20%) Scala
19 66 (0.65%) Go
20 65 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,921 (19.02%) Degree
2 469 (4.64%) Security Cleared
3 464 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 349 (3.46%) SC Cleared
5 323 (3.20%) DBS Check
6 280 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 232 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 117 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 114 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 72 (0.71%) PhD
11 51 (0.50%) PMI Certification
12 44 (0.44%) MCSE
13 39 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
14 38 (0.38%) AWS Certification
15 31 (0.31%) MCSA
16 30 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
16 30 (0.30%) MBA
17 29 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
17 29 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 25 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 498 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 349 (3.46%) QA
3 154 (1.52%) SLA
4 135 (1.34%) GDPR
5 105 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 55 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.18%) PMO
9 13 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.079%) PSD2
13 7 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.069%) GMP
13 7 (0.069%) ITGC
13 7 (0.069%) MiFID
System Software
1 571 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 521 (5.16%) Docker
3 267 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 180 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 109 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 55 (0.54%) XenApp
7 48 (0.48%) VirtualBox
7 48 (0.48%) XenDesktop
8 44 (0.44%) vSphere
9 28 (0.28%) Firmware
9 28 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
10 23 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 20 (0.20%) VMware NSX
12 18 (0.18%) HDFS
13 17 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
14 13 (0.13%) vCloud
14 13 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
15 10 (0.099%) Terminal Services
16 9 (0.089%) Forefront TMG
16 9 (0.089%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 451 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 316 (3.13%) Terraform
3 123 (1.22%) Ansible
4 51 (0.50%) SCCM
5 50 (0.50%) Grafana
6 49 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 38 (0.38%) SCOM
8 33 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 31 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 29 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 27 (0.27%) WSUS
12 26 (0.26%) Data Guard
13 24 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
14 23 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
15 18 (0.18%) Backup Exec
16 16 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
16 16 (0.16%) NetBackup
17 14 (0.14%) Puppet
18 12 (0.12%) logstash
19 11 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2,597 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 874 (8.65%) Oracle
3 637 (6.31%) Databricks
4 374 (3.70%) Google
5 369 (3.65%) IBM
6 357 (3.53%) VMware
7 300 (2.97%) Red Hat
8 226 (2.24%) SAP
9 153 (1.51%) Citrix
10 105 (1.04%) Cisco
11 91 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 91 (0.90%) Veeam
12 82 (0.81%) Alteryx
13 81 (0.80%) Bloomberg
14 80 (0.79%) F5
15 77 (0.76%) Informatica
16 67 (0.66%) Sage
17 55 (0.54%) ServiceNow
18 47 (0.47%) Adobe
19 45 (0.45%) HP