SQL Jobs in the UK excluding London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,084 9,910 11,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.04% 16.98% 15.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.67% 42.50% 34.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,613 5,391 7,879
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £76,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,664 23,315 33,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.96% 39.95% 45.56%
Number of salaries quoted 16,452 13,156 20,982
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -4 2,018 £50,000 -3.85% 498
South East -4 1,683 £50,000 -9.09% 797
Scotland +2 1,492 £55,000 -8.33% 133
Midlands -3 1,384 £47,500 -5.00% 347
North West -3 1,136 £52,000 +0.97% 278
West Midlands -4 817 £50,000 - 203
South West -10 733 £50,000 - 206
Yorkshire -7 623 £47,500 -9.52% 170
East Midlands -2 557 £45,000 -10.00% 140
East of England -8 508 £47,500 -9.52% 176
North East -1 261 £50,000 -4.76% 58
Wales +1 210 £45,000 +12.50% 46
Northern Ireland -21 57 £55,500 +11.00% 31
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 473 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 262 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 205 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 178 (2.20%) IIS
5 154 (1.90%) Apache
6 110 (1.36%) FileNet
7 94 (1.16%) Confluence
8 74 (0.92%) CMS
9 66 (0.82%) SAS
10 58 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
11 49 (0.61%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.54%) Oracle Service Bus
13 32 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
14 29 (0.36%) Umbraco
14 29 (0.36%) WebSphere
15 22 (0.27%) WordPress
16 21 (0.26%) GemFire
17 17 (0.21%) Tomcat
18 12 (0.15%) Captiva
18 12 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 475 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 294 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 38 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (0.22%) Simulink
7 13 (0.16%) Trello
8 11 (0.14%) SPSS
9 9 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
12 6 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
14 3 (0.037%) Adobe XD
15 2 (0.025%) LaTeX
16 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
16 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 79 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.51%) Siebel CRM
4 34 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.25%) Shopify
6 19 (0.24%) Sage 200
7 16 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.19%) SAP Business One
9 13 (0.16%) Magento
10 12 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 12 (0.15%) Epicor Tropos
10 12 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 12 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
11 11 (0.14%) Endur
12 8 (0.099%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.099%) HFM
12 8 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
13 7 (0.087%) Hyperion Planning
13 7 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
13 7 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,659 (32.89%) Azure
2 1,427 (17.65%) AWS
3 1,371 (16.96%) Power Platform
4 517 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 495 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 339 (4.19%) Serverless
7 326 (4.03%) GCP
8 263 (3.25%) SaaS
9 231 (2.86%) IBM Cloud
10 196 (2.42%) GitHub
11 191 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 161 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
13 153 (1.89%) Azure Functions
14 152 (1.88%) Amazon S3
15 150 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 150 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
15 150 (1.86%) Snowflake
16 148 (1.83%) Entra ID
17 135 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
18 134 (1.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 238 (2.94%) Firewall
2 138 (1.71%) DNS
3 135 (1.67%) WAN
4 101 (1.25%) LAN
5 96 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 81 (1.00%) DHCP
7 78 (0.96%) Broadband
8 77 (0.95%) Internet
9 72 (0.89%) VPN
10 69 (0.85%) SAN
11 62 (0.77%) HTTP
12 53 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (0.59%) SSL
14 45 (0.56%) VLAN
15 42 (0.52%) Network Security
16 31 (0.38%) MQTT
17 28 (0.35%) Wireless
18 26 (0.32%) VoIP
18 26 (0.32%) WLAN
19 23 (0.28%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,842 (22.79%) SQL Server
2 1,308 (16.18%) Power BI
3 1,253 (15.50%) NoSQL
4 627 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
5 599 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 586 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
7 516 (6.38%) MongoDB
8 501 (6.20%) Big Data
9 443 (5.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 415 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 372 (4.60%) MySQL
12 371 (4.59%) Tableau
13 312 (3.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 300 (3.71%) DB2
15 278 (3.44%) Hadoop
16 274 (3.39%) Data Lake
17 236 (2.92%) Oracle Database
18 229 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
19 143 (1.77%) BigQuery
20 132 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 689 (8.52%) Git
2 311 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 302 (3.74%) JIRA
4 276 (3.41%) Visual Studio
5 169 (2.09%) JUnit
6 121 (1.50%) Selenium
7 115 (1.42%) GitLab
8 91 (1.13%) Bitbucket Server
9 77 (0.95%) Jasmine
10 71 (0.88%) Cypress.io
11 69 (0.85%) Postman
12 62 (0.77%) Maven
12 62 (0.77%) Mockito
13 61 (0.75%) Cucumber
14 59 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
15 49 (0.61%) NUnit
16 45 (0.56%) TeamCity
17 43 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 42 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
19 38 (0.47%) SoapUI
General
1 2,293 (28.36%) Finance
2 1,825 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 1,330 (16.45%) Law
4 1,307 (16.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 942 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
6 783 (9.69%) Marketing
7 644 (7.97%) Legal
8 551 (6.82%) Public Sector
9 470 (5.81%) Retail
10 356 (4.40%) Manufacturing
11 331 (4.09%) Banking
12 186 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
13 163 (2.02%) Financial Institution
14 144 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
15 140 (1.73%) Games
16 120 (1.48%) Investment Banking
17 98 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
18 92 (1.14%) Telecoms
19 86 (1.06%) Aerospace
20 78 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,388 (29.54%) Developer
2 1,329 (16.44%) Software Engineer
3 1,195 (14.78%) Senior
4 1,056 (13.06%) Analyst
5 829 (10.25%) Lead
6 518 (6.41%) Java Engineer
7 510 (6.31%) Data Engineer
8 505 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
9 500 (6.19%) .NET Developer
10 450 (5.57%) Software Developer
11 433 (5.36%) Senior Developer
12 367 (4.54%) Full Stack Engineer
13 340 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
14 304 (3.76%) C# Developer
15 298 (3.69%) DBA
16 291 (3.60%) Big Data Engineer
16 291 (3.60%) Big Data Software Engineer
17 289 (3.57%) Data Analyst
17 289 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
18 272 (3.36%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,937 (23.96%) .NET
2 1,260 (15.59%) HTML
3 1,098 (13.58%) CSS
4 890 (11.01%) React
5 851 (10.53%) AngularJS
6 839 (10.38%) ASP.NET
7 689 (8.52%) REST
8 562 (6.95%) Web Services
9 550 (6.80%) .NET Core
10 496 (6.14%) Spring
11 489 (6.05%) jQuery
12 409 (5.06%) Vue
13 398 (4.92%) Node.js
14 396 (4.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 387 (4.79%) Kafka
16 386 (4.77%) .NET Framework
17 349 (4.32%) Entity Framework
18 346 (4.28%) JSON
19 339 (4.19%) XML
20 301 (3.72%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 690 (8.54%) Algorithms
2 449 (5.55%) Cloud Native
3 445 (5.50%) Data Structures
4 265 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 260 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
6 249 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 229 (2.83%) Blockchain
8 205 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 157 (1.94%) Onboarding
9 157 (1.94%) Product Ownership
10 136 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
11 127 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 118 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 116 (1.43%) e-Learning
14 107 (1.32%) Clustering
15 103 (1.27%) Replication
16 78 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
17 74 (0.92%) NHS
18 73 (0.90%) Data Centre
19 70 (0.87%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 995 (12.31%) Windows
2 899 (11.12%) Linux
3 295 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 291 (3.60%) Android
5 289 (3.57%) Unix
6 255 (3.15%) Apple iOS
7 117 (1.45%) Windows 10
8 100 (1.24%) VMS
9 72 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 69 (0.85%) CentOS
11 68 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
12 63 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 59 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
14 48 (0.59%) Solaris
15 44 (0.54%) Windows 8
16 32 (0.40%) Ubuntu
17 27 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 21 (0.26%) AIX
19 19 (0.24%) Debian
20 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,892 (35.77%) Agile
2 1,882 (23.28%) Software Engineering
3 1,657 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1,414 (17.49%) Business Intelligence
5 1,314 (16.25%) CI/CD
6 1,304 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,272 (15.73%) SDLC
8 1,054 (13.04%) DevOps
9 1,050 (12.99%) Full Stack Development
10 1,007 (12.46%) Machine Learning
11 997 (12.33%) Visualisation
12 850 (10.51%) Analytics
13 772 (9.55%) Mentoring
14 768 (9.50%) Operational Stability
15 767 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 760 (9.40%) MVC
17 744 (9.20%) ETL
18 719 (8.89%) Computer Science
19 640 (7.92%) Decision-Making
20 612 (7.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,019 (24.98%) C#
2 1,719 (21.26%) Java
3 1,673 (20.70%) JavaScript
4 1,604 (19.84%) Python
5 714 (8.83%) T-SQL
6 436 (5.39%) TypeScript
7 431 (5.33%) PL/SQL
8 330 (4.08%) Scala
9 297 (3.67%) PowerShell
10 192 (2.38%) PHP
11 173 (2.14%) C++
12 171 (2.12%) VB
13 151 (1.87%) VB.NET
14 113 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 109 (1.35%) R
16 99 (1.22%) Bash
17 98 (1.21%) VBA
18 90 (1.11%) C
19 73 (0.90%) Groovy
20 62 (0.77%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,207 (14.93%) Degree
2 457 (5.65%) Security Cleared
3 361 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 344 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 229 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 189 (2.34%) DBS Check
7 129 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 80 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 77 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 38 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 37 (0.46%) PhD
12 30 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (0.32%) ISTQB
14 24 (0.30%) MCSE
15 22 (0.27%) CISA
15 22 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.27%) MBA
16 20 (0.25%) AWS Certification
16 20 (0.25%) OCP
16 20 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (3.46%) Data Quality
2 259 (3.20%) QA
3 161 (1.99%) SLA
4 110 (1.36%) GDPR
5 86 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 44 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.41%) PMO
8 21 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.15%) ITGC
11 9 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.11%) NIST
12 8 (0.099%) PSD2
13 6 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.074%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.062%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.062%) TickIT
15 4 (0.049%) COBIT
15 4 (0.049%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.049%) WCAG
System Software
1 462 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 367 (4.54%) Docker
3 221 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 156 (1.93%) Hyper-V
5 115 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 102 (1.26%) HDFS
7 48 (0.59%) XenApp
8 47 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
9 45 (0.56%) RACF
9 45 (0.56%) VirtualBox
10 44 (0.54%) XenDesktop
11 30 (0.37%) VMware NSX
12 27 (0.33%) Firmware
13 24 (0.30%) vSphere
14 16 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
15 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 9 (0.11%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.062%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 495 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 280 (3.46%) Terraform
3 108 (1.34%) Ansible
4 80 (0.99%) Grafana
5 53 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
6 47 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 46 (0.57%) Data Guard
8 39 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 33 (0.41%) SCCM
10 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 27 (0.33%) Kibana
11 24 (0.30%) SCOM
12 22 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
13 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
14 17 (0.21%) WSUS
15 14 (0.17%) Puppet
16 13 (0.16%) Backup Exec
16 13 (0.16%) NetBackup
17 12 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2,073 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 1,016 (12.57%) Oracle
3 424 (5.24%) Databricks
4 343 (4.24%) IBM
5 312 (3.86%) VMware
6 272 (3.36%) Google
7 266 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 180 (2.23%) SAP
9 146 (1.81%) Informatica
10 127 (1.57%) Citrix
11 73 (0.90%) Cloudera
12 72 (0.89%) Veeam
13 66 (0.82%) Cisco
13 66 (0.82%) Splunk
14 61 (0.75%) Remedy
15 57 (0.71%) Dynatrace
16 56 (0.69%) Alteryx
17 54 (0.67%) Sage
18 44 (0.54%) CyberArk
18 44 (0.54%) Sun