SQL Jobs in the South West

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 22 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 733 922 1,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.62% 13.73% 16.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.05% 36.19% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 566 614 933
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,702 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,024 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,314 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +6.67%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,048 2,548 4,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 31.70% 37.95% 50.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,401 1,628 2,785
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £65,750 £71,194 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the South West

SQL
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SQL in the South West

SQL
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the South West over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the South West

SQL
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the South West 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
Bristol -11 271 £55,000 - 71
Gloucestershire -8 145 £50,000 -9.09% 30
Wiltshire -10 82 £35,000 -28.21% 31
Somerset -4 72 £52,500 +7.69% 31
Devon -1 71 £37,242 +35.43% 17
Dorset -20 68 £52,500 +23.53% 12
Cornwall -7 8 £40,000 - 1
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 33 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.32%) Apache
2 17 (2.32%) Confluence
2 17 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.64%) SAS
5 10 (1.36%) IIS
6 7 (0.95%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.82%) Luigi
7 6 (0.82%) NServiceBus
8 5 (0.68%) CMS
8 5 (0.68%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.41%) GlassFish
10 3 (0.41%) JBoss
10 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.41%) nginx
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.41%) WildFly
Applications
1 43 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.95%) Oracle Smart View
6 6 (0.82%) Trello
7 2 (0.27%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.95%) HFM
1 7 (0.95%) Hyperion Planning
2 5 (0.68%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.55%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.55%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.55%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.14%) iTrent
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 218 (29.74%) Azure
2 161 (21.96%) Power Platform
3 96 (13.10%) AWS
4 49 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (6.41%) GCP
6 29 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.41%) PowerApps
8 24 (3.27%) Snowflake
9 19 (2.59%) GitHub
10 15 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (2.05%) Entra ID
10 15 (2.05%) Serverless
11 13 (1.77%) Power Automate
12 12 (1.64%) Firebase
13 11 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.36%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 7 (0.95%) Amazon EMR
16 7 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (0.95%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.27%) SAN
2 19 (2.59%) LAN
3 17 (2.32%) DNS
4 15 (2.05%) WAN
5 11 (1.50%) Broadband
6 10 (1.36%) Internet
6 10 (1.36%) Network Security
7 8 (1.09%) Firewall
8 6 (0.82%) DHCP
8 6 (0.82%) HTTP
8 6 (0.82%) SSL
8 6 (0.82%) Wireless
9 5 (0.68%) AMQP
9 5 (0.68%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.68%) VPN
10 3 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.41%) Skype
10 3 (0.41%) VoIP
10 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (25.10%) SQL Server
2 150 (20.46%) Power BI
3 79 (10.78%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (8.19%) Relational Database
5 55 (7.50%) Tableau
6 52 (7.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 49 (6.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 49 (6.68%) MongoDB
8 40 (5.46%) NoSQL
9 37 (5.05%) Big Data
10 30 (4.09%) MySQL
10 30 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (3.96%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 19 (2.59%) BigQuery
13 16 (2.18%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.91%) Oracle Database
15 12 (1.64%) Power Query
16 11 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 59 (8.05%) Git
2 38 (5.18%) JIRA
3 19 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.18%) Subversion
5 15 (2.05%) Visual Studio
6 14 (1.91%) Postman
7 13 (1.77%) Selenium
8 10 (1.36%) GitLab
8 10 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.95%) Eclipse
9 7 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.82%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.68%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.68%) LabVIEW
11 5 (0.68%) Maven
11 5 (0.68%) NetBeans
12 4 (0.55%) Gradle
12 4 (0.55%) Mocha
12 4 (0.55%) Toad
General
1 255 (34.79%) Social Skills
2 195 (26.60%) Finance
3 111 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.09%) Marketing
5 46 (6.28%) Retail
6 38 (5.18%) Public Sector
7 34 (4.64%) Banking
8 30 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (3.68%) Law
10 25 (3.41%) Legal
11 22 (3.00%) Fire and Rescue
12 21 (2.86%) Manufacturing
13 20 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (2.32%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.09%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.95%) Advertising
17 7 (0.95%) Electronics
18 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 215 (29.33%) Developer
2 128 (17.46%) Analyst
3 103 (14.05%) Senior
4 67 (9.14%) DBA
5 60 (8.19%) Lead
6 58 (7.91%) Data Engineer
7 57 (7.78%) Data Analyst
8 56 (7.64%) Software Developer
9 52 (7.09%) Administrator
10 50 (6.82%) .NET Developer
11 42 (5.73%) Software Engineer
11 42 (5.73%) Support Engineer
12 36 (4.91%) Senior Developer
13 31 (4.23%) DV Cleared DBA
14 29 (3.96%) Consultant
15 26 (3.55%) SQL DBA
16 25 (3.41%) Data Scientist
17 24 (3.27%) C# Developer
18 23 (3.14%) Applications Developer
19 22 (3.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (18.42%) .NET
2 106 (14.46%) HTML
3 88 (12.01%) CSS
4 78 (10.64%) React
5 56 (7.64%) ASP.NET
6 48 (6.55%) AngularJS
7 40 (5.46%) .NET Core
8 39 (5.32%) Entity Framework
8 39 (5.32%) REST
9 34 (4.64%) Blazor
10 32 (4.37%) .NET Framework
10 32 (4.37%) ASP.NET MVC
11 30 (4.09%) HTML5
12 29 (3.96%) Pandas
13 26 (3.55%) RESTful
14 23 (3.14%) jQuery
15 19 (2.59%) CSS3
15 19 (2.59%) Vue
16 18 (2.46%) Spring
17 17 (2.32%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.68%) Data Structures
2 21 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (2.73%) Replication
4 14 (1.91%) Clustering
5 13 (1.77%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 12 (1.64%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.36%) Reinsurance
8 8 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.09%) AS400
8 8 (1.09%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.09%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.95%) Digital TV
9 7 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.82%) CCTV
10 6 (0.82%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 111 (15.14%) Windows
2 104 (14.19%) Linux
3 39 (5.32%) Windows Server 2012
4 38 (5.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 36 (4.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 34 (4.64%) CentOS
7 29 (3.96%) Windows Server
8 19 (2.59%) Unix
9 17 (2.32%) Android
10 15 (2.05%) AIX
10 15 (2.05%) Apple iOS
11 11 (1.50%) VMS
12 9 (1.23%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.55%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.41%) Solaris
15 2 (0.27%) Windows 2000
15 2 (0.27%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.27%) Windows XP
16 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (29.60%) Agile
2 164 (22.37%) Business Intelligence
3 143 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 126 (17.19%) Analytics
5 111 (15.14%) DevOps
6 98 (13.37%) Mentoring
7 86 (11.73%) Software Engineering
7 86 (11.73%) Visualisation
8 83 (11.32%) Computer Science
9 82 (11.19%) Machine Learning
10 78 (10.64%) Data Science
11 77 (10.50%) User Experience
12 76 (10.37%) Full Stack Development
13 73 (9.96%) Artificial Intelligence
14 70 (9.55%) ETL
15 61 (8.32%) Data Analysis
15 61 (8.32%) MVC
16 55 (7.50%) Data Modelling
17 54 (7.37%) Actionable Insight
17 54 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 169 (23.06%) Python
2 157 (21.42%) JavaScript
3 149 (20.33%) C#
4 134 (18.28%) Java
5 70 (9.55%) T-SQL
6 54 (7.37%) PowerShell
7 51 (6.96%) TypeScript
8 49 (6.68%) Bash
9 28 (3.82%) PHP
10 24 (3.27%) Scala
11 22 (3.00%) C
12 20 (2.73%) PL/SQL
13 19 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 18 (2.46%) VBA
15 16 (2.18%) C++
15 16 (2.18%) R
15 16 (2.18%) VB
16 14 (1.91%) Go
17 13 (1.77%) VB.NET
18 10 (1.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 144 (19.65%) Degree
2 95 (12.96%) Security Cleared
3 55 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 54 (7.37%) DV Cleared
5 45 (6.14%) SC Cleared
6 29 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.73%) DBS Check
8 17 (2.32%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.23%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.82%) IIBA
11 6 (0.82%) SANS
12 5 (0.68%) CISA
12 5 (0.68%) CISSP
12 5 (0.68%) CRISC
12 5 (0.68%) MCSE
12 5 (0.68%) PMP
12 5 (0.68%) RHCE
12 5 (0.68%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.64%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.46%) SLA
3 17 (2.32%) QA
4 6 (0.82%) NIST
5 5 (0.68%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.68%) TickIT
6 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.14%) GDPR
8 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 58 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 44 (6.00%) Docker
3 31 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.32%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.68%) RACF
6 5 (0.68%) vSphere
7 4 (0.55%) XenApp
8 3 (0.41%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.27%) Firmware
9 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.14%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.64%) Backup Exec
2 12 (1.64%) NetBackup
2 12 (1.64%) SCCM
3 10 (1.36%) Terraform
4 6 (0.82%) Ansible
4 6 (0.82%) Grafana
4 6 (0.82%) Opsgenie
4 6 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.68%) Rancher
5 5 (0.68%) WSUS
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Statspack
6 3 (0.41%) SCOM
6 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.27%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.14%) Plesk
Vendors
1 253 (34.52%) Microsoft
2 130 (17.74%) Oracle
3 38 (5.18%) Red Hat
4 37 (5.05%) Google
5 34 (4.64%) VMware
6 27 (3.68%) Databricks
7 26 (3.55%) IBM
8 18 (2.46%) SAP
9 16 (2.18%) Citrix
10 12 (1.64%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.64%) Hitachi
10 12 (1.64%) NetApp
10 12 (1.64%) Snow
10 12 (1.64%) Veritas
11 11 (1.50%) AppDynamics
12 10 (1.36%) Teradata
13 9 (1.23%) Xamarin
14 7 (0.95%) Hyperion
15 6 (0.82%) Apple
15 6 (0.82%) SolarWinds