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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10,126 14,814 24,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.51% 17.03% 17.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.33% 39.36% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8,009 8,837 14,054
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 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +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 27,872 37,636 73,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.67% 43.26% 53.48%
Number of salaries quoted 22,501 24,284 38,706
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £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 25 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 25 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 3,716 £70,000 - 1,675
North of England -4 2,018 £50,000 -3.85% 501
South East -4 1,683 £50,000 -9.09% 793
Midlands -3 1,384 £47,500 -5.00% 341
North West -3 1,136 £52,000 +0.97% 278
West Midlands -4 817 £50,000 - 200
South West -10 733 £50,000 - 202
Yorkshire -7 623 £47,500 -9.52% 170
East Midlands -2 557 £45,000 -10.00% 137
East of England -8 508 £47,500 -9.52% 177
North East -1 261 £50,000 -4.76% 61
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
1 352 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 271 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 213 (2.10%) IIS
4 181 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 172 (1.70%) Apache
6 154 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
7 138 (1.36%) SAS
8 124 (1.22%) CMS
9 111 (1.10%) 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
1 682 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 369 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.28%) SPSS
7 24 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 18 (0.18%) Simulink
9 17 (0.17%) Trello
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
1 143 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
3 35 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 35 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 34 (0.34%) 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 3,673 (36.27%) Azure
2 1,940 (19.16%) Power Platform
3 1,686 (16.65%) AWS
4 687 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
5 606 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
6 578 (5.71%) GCP
7 455 (4.49%) Serverless
8 363 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
9 337 (3.33%) SaaS
10 279 (2.76%) Snowflake
11 247 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 238 (2.35%) IBM Cloud
13 219 (2.16%) GitHub
14 213 (2.10%) Azure Functions
15 211 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
16 208 (2.05%) PowerApps
17 203 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
18 193 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
19 189 (1.87%) Entra ID
20 182 (1.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 303 (2.99%) Firewall
2 194 (1.92%) DNS
3 145 (1.43%) WAN
4 114 (1.13%) VPN
5 112 (1.11%) DHCP
6 110 (1.09%) Internet
7 109 (1.08%) LAN
8 103 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 89 (0.88%) SAN
10 69 (0.68%) Broadband
10 69 (0.68%) Network Security
11 68 (0.67%) HTTP
12 59 (0.58%) VLAN
13 55 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
14 50 (0.49%) SSL
15 34 (0.34%) Wireless
16 30 (0.30%) SD-WAN
17 28 (0.28%) FTP
18 26 (0.26%) VoIP
18 26 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,365 (23.36%) SQL Server
2 1,822 (17.99%) Power BI
3 955 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
4 816 (8.06%) NoSQL
5 754 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
6 752 (7.43%) Tableau
7 636 (6.28%) Relational Database
8 623 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 552 (5.45%) MongoDB
10 544 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 466 (4.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 446 (4.40%) MySQL
13 434 (4.29%) Data Lake
14 299 (2.95%) DB2
15 257 (2.54%) Big Data
16 233 (2.30%) Oracle Database
17 221 (2.18%) BigQuery
18 168 (1.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 137 (1.35%) Hadoop
20 135 (1.33%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 907 (8.96%) Git
2 390 (3.85%) JIRA
3 344 (3.40%) Visual Studio
4 221 (2.18%) Jenkins
5 167 (1.65%) GitLab
6 101 (1.00%) Selenium
7 91 (0.90%) Postman
7 91 (0.90%) TeamCity
8 86 (0.85%) NUnit
9 78 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 71 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 55 (0.54%) Moq
12 52 (0.51%) JUnit
13 49 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
14 47 (0.46%) Cucumber
15 46 (0.45%) SpecFlow
16 43 (0.42%) Cypress.io
16 43 (0.42%) Eclipse
17 39 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
18 38 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 2,716 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 2,265 (22.37%) Finance
3 1,488 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 700 (6.91%) Retail
5 592 (5.85%) Public Sector
6 515 (5.09%) Banking
7 445 (4.39%) Marketing
8 419 (4.14%) Law
9 394 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 366 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 335 (3.31%) Legal
12 324 (3.20%) Front Office
13 279 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
14 189 (1.87%) Back Office
15 174 (1.72%) Games
16 167 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
17 109 (1.08%) Telecoms
18 99 (0.98%) Aerospace
19 97 (0.96%) Advertising
20 92 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,087 (30.49%) Developer
2 1,971 (19.46%) Senior
3 1,942 (19.18%) Analyst
4 812 (8.02%) Lead
5 777 (7.67%) Data Engineer
6 684 (6.75%) .NET Developer
7 659 (6.51%) Senior Developer
8 604 (5.96%) Data Analyst
9 577 (5.70%) Software Engineer
10 478 (4.72%) Software Developer
11 473 (4.67%) Full Stack Developer
12 442 (4.37%) Senior Analyst
13 419 (4.14%) C# Developer
14 396 (3.91%) Applications Support
15 325 (3.21%) Support Analyst
16 320 (3.16%) Consultant
17 301 (2.97%) Support Engineer
18 299 (2.95%) DBA
19 292 (2.88%) Architect
20 278 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,426 (23.96%) .NET
2 1,342 (13.25%) HTML
3 1,170 (11.55%) CSS
4 1,040 (10.27%) ASP.NET
5 906 (8.95%) React
6 867 (8.56%) AngularJS
7 788 (7.78%) REST
8 645 (6.37%) .NET Core
9 644 (6.36%) Web Services
10 525 (5.18%) jQuery
11 509 (5.03%) .NET Framework
12 465 (4.59%) Vue
13 422 (4.17%) XML
14 413 (4.08%) Entity Framework
15 393 (3.88%) Node.js
16 388 (3.83%) JSON
17 360 (3.56%) ASP.NET MVC
18 356 (3.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 337 (3.33%) HTML5
20 336 (3.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 498 (4.92%) Data Structures
2 445 (4.39%) Algorithms
3 336 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 334 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 276 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 267 (2.64%) Hedge funds
7 265 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 248 (2.45%) Blockchain
9 235 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
10 200 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 181 (1.79%) Fixed Income
12 173 (1.71%) Derivative
13 166 (1.64%) Equities
14 161 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 153 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
16 150 (1.48%) Public Cloud
17 133 (1.31%) Mobile App
18 120 (1.19%) Client/Server
19 117 (1.16%) e-Learning
20 107 (1.06%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1,259 (12.43%) Windows
2 992 (9.80%) Linux
3 384 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 312 (3.08%) Android
5 276 (2.73%) Apple iOS
6 211 (2.08%) Unix
7 158 (1.56%) Windows 10
8 95 (0.94%) VMS
9 94 (0.93%) 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 56 (0.55%) Ubuntu
15 44 (0.43%) Windows 8
16 35 (0.35%) 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 2,548 (25.16%) Agile
2 2,017 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
3 1,992 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1,572 (15.52%) Analytics
5 1,395 (13.78%) DevOps
6 1,161 (11.47%) ETL
7 1,139 (11.25%) Full Stack Development
8 1,106 (10.92%) Visualisation
9 1,098 (10.84%) Software Engineering
10 974 (9.62%) Mentoring
11 959 (9.47%) Artificial Intelligence
12 932 (9.20%) Computer Science
13 907 (8.96%) Data Modelling
14 879 (8.68%) MVC
15 844 (8.33%) Data Analysis
16 823 (8.13%) Data Science
17 772 (7.62%) Machine Learning
18 694 (6.85%) Data Pipeline
19 681 (6.73%) CI/CD
20 675 (6.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,657 (26.24%) Python
2 2,585 (25.53%) C#
3 1,964 (19.40%) JavaScript
4 1,060 (10.47%) Java
5 977 (9.65%) T-SQL
6 517 (5.11%) TypeScript
7 455 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 302 (2.98%) PL/SQL
9 290 (2.86%) R
10 231 (2.28%) PHP
11 199 (1.97%) C++
12 183 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 176 (1.74%) VB
14 173 (1.71%) VBA
15 163 (1.61%) VB.NET
16 141 (1.39%) Bash
17 132 (1.30%) C
18 116 (1.15%) Scala
19 74 (0.73%) Kotlin
20 69 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,973 (19.48%) Degree
2 482 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 480 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 357 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 350 (3.46%) DBS Check
6 277 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 240 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 122 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 116 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 70 (0.69%) PhD
11 52 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 41 (0.40%) MCSE
12 41 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
13 36 (0.36%) AWS Certification
14 33 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
15 30 (0.30%) MBA
16 28 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
17 27 (0.27%) MCSA
18 25 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
18 25 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 513 (5.07%) Data Quality
2 342 (3.38%) QA
3 157 (1.55%) SLA
4 126 (1.24%) GDPR
5 107 (1.06%) 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
10 14 (0.14%) PMO
11 11 (0.11%) COBIT
12 10 (0.099%) NIST
13 8 (0.079%) IFRS
13 8 (0.079%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.079%) MiFID
13 8 (0.079%) PSD2
14 7 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.069%) ITGC
14 7 (0.069%) SOC 1
15 6 (0.059%) GMP
System Software
1 593 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 495 (4.89%) Docker
3 250 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 175 (1.73%) Hyper-V
5 108 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 52 (0.51%) XenApp
7 46 (0.45%) RACF
8 45 (0.44%) VirtualBox
8 45 (0.44%) XenDesktop
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%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 433 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 318 (3.14%) Terraform
3 132 (1.30%) 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 27 (0.27%) 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
13 18 (0.18%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.15%) Puppet
15 14 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
15 14 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
16 12 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 2,626 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 855 (8.44%) Oracle
3 665 (6.57%) Databricks
4 371 (3.66%) Google
5 355 (3.51%) IBM
6 335 (3.31%) VMware
7 305 (3.01%) Red Hat
8 217 (2.14%) SAP
9 145 (1.43%) Citrix
10 101 (1.00%) Cisco
11 92 (0.91%) Veeam
12 89 (0.88%) Bloomberg
13 86 (0.85%) Salesforce
14 80 (0.79%) Alteryx
15 78 (0.77%) F5
15 78 (0.77%) Informatica
16 66 (0.65%) Sage
17 51 (0.50%) Adobe
18 46 (0.45%) CyberArk
18 46 (0.45%) ServiceNow