SQL Jobs in the South East

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,682 1,998 3,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.00% 13.81% 16.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.75% 34.53% 33.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,334 1,445 2,397
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,805
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +5.71%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,983 5,787 9,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.63% 39.99% 49.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,019 3,808 6,370
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £85,000
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 the South East

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the South East

SQL
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the South East.

Salary trend for SQL in the South East

SQL
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the South East

SQL
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the South East 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
Thames Valley -2 605 £50,000 -9.09% 99
Hampshire -1 432 £47,500 -9.52% 79
Berkshire -1 316 £62,500 +4.17% 49
Surrey -2 283 £50,000 -13.04% 46
Buckinghamshire -8 156 £47,500 -9.52% 30
Kent +5 152 £54,500 +3.81% 26
Oxfordshire +6 133 £42,500 - 20
East Sussex -7 111 £55,000 - 16
West Sussex -11 68 £52,500 -8.70% 11
Sussex - 14 £60,000 - 1
Middlesex -14 7 £65,000 -16.13% 1
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 110 (6.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 46 (2.73%) IIS
4 31 (1.84%) CMS
5 15 (0.89%) WebLogic
6 14 (0.83%) Oracle Service Bus
7 11 (0.65%) Apache
8 10 (0.59%) Confluence
8 10 (0.59%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.54%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.48%) WordPress
11 6 (0.36%) JBoss
11 6 (0.36%) SAS
12 5 (0.30%) Drupal
12 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.24%) ColdFusion
14 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.18%) WinCC
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 109 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.83%) Simulink
5 12 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.30%) SPSS
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.059%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 40 (2.38%) Siebel CRM
2 34 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.36%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.30%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
9 4 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) Magento
11 2 (0.12%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.12%) SAP WM
11 2 (0.12%) Shopify
11 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
12 1 (0.059%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 649 (38.59%) Azure
2 269 (15.99%) Power Platform
3 187 (11.12%) AWS
4 176 (10.46%) Microsoft 365
5 146 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (7.85%) Serverless
7 84 (4.99%) Azure Functions
8 80 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 77 (4.58%) IBM Cloud
10 75 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 74 (4.40%) Azure API Management
12 71 (4.22%) SaaS
13 35 (2.08%) GitHub
14 34 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
15 33 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (1.84%) Snowflake
17 30 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 28 (1.66%) OneDrive
19 26 (1.55%) PowerApps
20 24 (1.43%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.65%) Firewall
2 43 (2.56%) DNS
3 30 (1.78%) DHCP
4 29 (1.72%) Internet
5 21 (1.25%) HTTP
5 21 (1.25%) SSL
5 21 (1.25%) VPN
5 21 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (1.01%) Network Security
7 16 (0.95%) Broadband
8 15 (0.89%) SNMP
9 14 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.83%) Wireless
10 12 (0.71%) VLAN
11 10 (0.59%) FTP
12 9 (0.54%) VoIP
13 8 (0.48%) Intranet
14 7 (0.42%) WAN
15 6 (0.36%) LAN
15 6 (0.36%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 348 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 262 (15.58%) Power BI
3 204 (12.13%) NoSQL
4 164 (9.75%) Relational Database
5 154 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
6 118 (7.02%) MongoDB
7 96 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 95 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
9 84 (4.99%) DB2
10 83 (4.93%) Data Lake
11 81 (4.82%) MySQL
12 72 (4.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 54 (3.21%) Oracle Database
14 48 (2.85%) Tableau
15 47 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 34 (2.02%) Oracle BI EE
17 32 (1.90%) Siebel EIM
18 29 (1.72%) Hadoop
19 26 (1.55%) Oracle Database 11g
20 25 (1.49%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 156 (9.27%) Git
2 91 (5.41%) Visual Studio
3 76 (4.52%) JIRA
4 60 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 56 (3.33%) Selenium
6 33 (1.96%) Postman
7 32 (1.90%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.78%) SoapUI
9 26 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
10 25 (1.49%) NUnit
11 24 (1.43%) Ant
12 23 (1.37%) GitLab
13 20 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
14 19 (1.13%) JMeter
15 15 (0.89%) Vagrant
15 15 (0.89%) WebDriver
16 12 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
17 11 (0.65%) Cucumber
18 10 (0.59%) Bitbucket
18 10 (0.59%) Eclipse
General
1 413 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 253 (15.04%) Finance
3 195 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.53%) Retail
6 66 (3.92%) Manufacturing
7 64 (3.80%) Marketing
8 58 (3.45%) Aerospace
9 54 (3.21%) Legal
10 46 (2.73%) Law
11 41 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 40 (2.38%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
14 28 (1.66%) Games
15 21 (1.25%) Billing
16 16 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.89%) Health Technology
18 13 (0.77%) Banking
19 12 (0.71%) Back Office
19 12 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 620 (36.86%) Developer
2 228 (13.56%) Senior
3 162 (9.63%) Analyst
4 145 (8.62%) .NET Developer
5 144 (8.56%) Senior Developer
6 118 (7.02%) Full Stack Developer
7 106 (6.30%) Support Engineer
8 99 (5.89%) Lead
9 98 (5.83%) Software Engineer
10 86 (5.11%) IT Support
11 82 (4.88%) Azure Developer
12 77 (4.58%) Software Developer
13 73 (4.34%) Applications Support
14 71 (4.22%) IT Engineer
15 64 (3.80%) Consultant
16 63 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
17 59 (3.51%) Architect
18 58 (3.45%) C# Developer
19 51 (3.03%) 3rd Line Support
19 51 (3.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (30.74%) .NET
2 323 (19.20%) HTML
3 282 (16.77%) CSS
4 209 (12.43%) React
5 205 (12.19%) ASP.NET
6 172 (10.23%) AngularJS
7 156 (9.27%) Web Services
8 152 (9.04%) REST
9 136 (8.09%) .NET Core
9 136 (8.09%) Node.js
10 113 (6.72%) XML
11 111 (6.60%) jQuery
12 108 (6.42%) HTML5
13 100 (5.95%) Vue
14 99 (5.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 98 (5.83%) Blazor
16 85 (5.05%) JSON
17 83 (4.93%) Entity Framework
18 81 (4.82%) ASP.NET Core
19 79 (4.70%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 109 (6.48%) Data Structures
2 91 (5.41%) Algorithms
3 79 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (4.52%) Blockchain
5 60 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 48 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
8 31 (1.84%) Replication
9 30 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (1.66%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.01%) Driving Licence
13 16 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (0.89%) Mobile App
15 14 (0.83%) Data Centre
16 13 (0.77%) CMDB
17 12 (0.71%) Clustering
17 12 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
18 11 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 310 (18.43%) Windows
2 251 (14.92%) Linux
3 102 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 99 (5.89%) Android
5 80 (4.76%) Apple iOS
6 56 (3.33%) Windows 10
7 49 (2.91%) Windows 7
8 45 (2.68%) Windows 8
9 31 (1.84%) VMS
10 29 (1.72%) Unix
11 17 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (1.01%) Ubuntu
12 16 (0.95%) CentOS
13 14 (0.83%) Solaris
14 6 (0.36%) AIX
15 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (26.75%) Agile
2 310 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
3 292 (17.36%) Business Intelligence
4 270 (16.05%) DevOps
5 229 (13.61%) Full Stack Development
6 208 (12.37%) Artificial Intelligence
7 203 (12.07%) MVC
8 185 (11.00%) Software Engineering
9 164 (9.75%) Test Automation
10 155 (9.22%) Computer Science
11 147 (8.74%) ETL
12 128 (7.61%) Analytics
13 125 (7.43%) User Experience
14 124 (7.37%) Actionable Insight
14 124 (7.37%) Scrum
15 121 (7.19%) OOP
16 120 (7.13%) Machine Learning
17 118 (7.02%) Collaborative Working
17 118 (7.02%) OO
18 117 (6.96%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 473 (28.12%) C#
2 459 (27.29%) JavaScript
3 309 (18.37%) Python
4 297 (17.66%) Java
5 135 (8.03%) T-SQL
6 89 (5.29%) TypeScript
7 77 (4.58%) PL/SQL
8 71 (4.22%) C++
9 50 (2.97%) PowerShell
10 40 (2.38%) Kotlin
10 40 (2.38%) PHP
11 30 (1.78%) R
11 30 (1.78%) VB.NET
12 20 (1.19%) VBA
13 19 (1.13%) RPG
14 18 (1.07%) Ruby
14 18 (1.07%) VB
15 17 (1.01%) Go
16 16 (0.95%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 302 (17.95%) Degree
2 235 (13.97%) Security Cleared
3 214 (12.72%) SC Cleared
4 92 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.56%) DBS Check
6 34 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.01%) MBA
10 13 (0.77%) PhD
11 11 (0.65%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.30%) HNC
14 5 (0.30%) HND
14 5 (0.30%) MCSE
14 5 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.24%) MCSA
15 4 (0.24%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (4.99%) QA
2 54 (3.21%) GDPR
3 41 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 24 (1.43%) SLA
5 18 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.24%) COBIT
9 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.18%) NIST
10 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.059%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.059%) GRC
12 1 (0.059%) IFRS
12 1 (0.059%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.059%) MISRA
12 1 (0.059%) PMO
System Software
1 153 (9.10%) Active Directory
2 93 (5.53%) Docker
2 93 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (4.28%) Hyper-V
4 48 (2.85%) VirtualBox
5 45 (2.68%) XenApp
5 45 (2.68%) XenDesktop
6 27 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
8 7 (0.42%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 101 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.27%) Ansible
3 38 (2.26%) Terraform
4 19 (1.13%) Oracle RMAN
5 16 (0.95%) SCOM
6 15 (0.89%) Data Guard
7 6 (0.36%) SCCM
8 5 (0.30%) Puppet
9 4 (0.24%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.18%) Wonderware InTouch
10 3 (0.18%) WSUS
11 2 (0.12%) Grafana
11 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.12%) Podman
12 1 (0.059%) Kibana
12 1 (0.059%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.059%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.059%) systemd
Vendors
1 450 (26.75%) Microsoft
2 154 (9.16%) Oracle
3 116 (6.90%) VMware
4 96 (5.71%) Citrix
5 80 (4.76%) IBM
6 79 (4.70%) Red Hat
7 53 (3.15%) Databricks
8 48 (2.85%) SAP
9 40 (2.38%) Siebel
9 40 (2.38%) Veeam
10 28 (1.66%) Google
11 27 (1.61%) Sage
12 26 (1.55%) Cisco
13 20 (1.19%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.07%) Remedy
15 14 (0.83%) Sun
15 14 (0.83%) Xilinx
16 13 (0.77%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.77%) Epicor
17 10 (0.59%) Adobe