SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12,223 16,906 27,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.76% 17.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.81% 38.78% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 8,901 10,074 15,676
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,191 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,203 43,593 84,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.21% 53.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,989 27,864 43,488
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,925 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK

SQL
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL in the UK

SQL
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK

SQL
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK 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
England -2 10,101 £55,000 -8.33% 2,618
UK excluding London -4 8,094 £50,000 -4.76% 1,608
Work from Home -2 4,885 £57,500 -2.86% 1,422
London 0 3,682 £70,000 - 1,130
North of England -4 2,022 £50,000 -3.85% 413
South East -3 1,682 £50,000 -9.09% 302
Scotland +2 1,502 £55,000 -9.47% 114
Midlands -3 1,357 £47,500 -5.00% 359
North West -3 1,146 £52,500 +1.94% 225
West Midlands -4 802 £50,000 - 223
South West -10 741 £50,000 - 207
Yorkshire -6 623 £47,500 -9.52% 149
East Midlands 0 546 £45,000 -7.91% 136
East of England -9 520 £47,500 -9.52% 165
North East 0 255 £50,000 -4.76% 41
Wales -1 213 £45,000 +12.50% 50
Northern Ireland -20 58 £55,000 +10.00% 22
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 2 £45,000 -

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 623 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 406 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 283 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 276 (2.26%) Apache
5 257 (2.10%) IIS
6 180 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 153 (1.25%) SAS
8 130 (1.06%) CMS
9 126 (1.03%) FileNet
10 122 (1.00%) Confluence
11 50 (0.41%) WebLogic
12 48 (0.39%) WebSphere
13 44 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
14 32 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
15 31 (0.25%) Umbraco
16 28 (0.23%) Captiva
16 28 (0.23%) Drupal
16 28 (0.23%) Tomcat
17 26 (0.21%) WordPress
18 21 (0.17%) GemFire
Applications
1 790 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 423 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 69 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.22%) SPSS
7 21 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.14%) Trello
9 14 (0.11%) Simulink
10 9 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
11 7 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.016%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.016%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.016%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.016%) InDesign
13 2 (0.016%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.008%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.008%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 169 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 40 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
4 36 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 29 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 27 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
7 26 (0.21%) thinkFolio
8 25 (0.20%) SAP Business One
9 24 (0.20%) Elite 3E
10 22 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 22 (0.18%) NetSuite
11 21 (0.17%) Sage 200
11 21 (0.17%) Shopify
12 20 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
13 18 (0.15%) Endur
14 16 (0.13%) Fidessa
14 16 (0.13%) Sage X3
15 15 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
16 14 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 4,137 (33.85%) Azure
2 2,376 (19.44%) AWS
3 2,132 (17.44%) Power Platform
4 801 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
5 703 (5.75%) GCP
6 665 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
7 545 (4.46%) Serverless
8 417 (3.41%) SaaS
9 398 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 312 (2.55%) GitHub
11 290 (2.37%) Snowflake
12 255 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 243 (1.99%) IBM Cloud
13 243 (1.99%) PowerApps
14 234 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
15 233 (1.91%) Amazon S3
16 229 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
17 223 (1.82%) Azure Functions
18 221 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
19 203 (1.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 340 (2.78%) Firewall
2 198 (1.62%) DNS
3 176 (1.44%) WAN
4 131 (1.07%) VPN
5 127 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 125 (1.02%) Internet
7 117 (0.96%) DHCP
8 115 (0.94%) LAN
9 93 (0.76%) SAN
10 84 (0.69%) HTTP
11 80 (0.65%) Broadband
12 73 (0.60%) Network Security
13 64 (0.52%) VLAN
14 59 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
15 51 (0.42%) SSL
16 42 (0.34%) Wireless
17 32 (0.26%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.25%) MQTT
18 30 (0.25%) VoIP
19 29 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,626 (21.48%) SQL Server
2 1,991 (16.29%) Power BI
3 1,527 (12.49%) NoSQL
4 1,065 (8.71%) Data Warehouse
5 840 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
6 821 (6.72%) Relational Database
7 808 (6.61%) Tableau
8 681 (5.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 664 (5.43%) Big Data
10 663 (5.42%) MongoDB
11 621 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 513 (4.20%) MySQL
13 499 (4.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 494 (4.04%) Data Lake
15 357 (2.92%) Hadoop
16 331 (2.71%) DB2
16 331 (2.71%) Oracle Database
17 265 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
18 226 (1.85%) BigQuery
19 180 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,042 (8.52%) Git
2 473 (3.87%) JIRA
3 420 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 381 (3.12%) Visual Studio
5 189 (1.55%) JUnit
6 185 (1.51%) GitLab
7 149 (1.22%) Selenium
8 107 (0.88%) Postman
9 95 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
10 92 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 91 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 88 (0.72%) NUnit
13 86 (0.70%) Cucumber
14 84 (0.69%) Cypress.io
15 78 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
16 77 (0.63%) Jasmine
17 76 (0.62%) Maven
18 65 (0.53%) Mockito
19 63 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
20 51 (0.42%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,500 (28.63%) Finance
2 2,999 (24.54%) Social Skills
3 1,666 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1,517 (12.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,488 (12.17%) Law
6 995 (8.14%) Marketing
7 733 (6.00%) Legal
8 725 (5.93%) Retail
9 661 (5.41%) Banking
10 649 (5.31%) Public Sector
11 397 (3.25%) Manufacturing
12 310 (2.54%) Front Office
13 280 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
14 215 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
15 208 (1.70%) Games
16 202 (1.65%) Financial Institution
17 201 (1.64%) Back Office
18 179 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
19 169 (1.38%) Investment Banking
20 125 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,474 (28.42%) Developer
2 2,223 (18.19%) Senior
3 2,014 (16.48%) Analyst
4 1,576 (12.89%) Software Engineer
5 1,180 (9.65%) Lead
6 957 (7.83%) Data Engineer
7 743 (6.08%) Senior Developer
8 704 (5.76%) .NET Developer
9 620 (5.07%) Data Analyst
10 540 (4.42%) Java Engineer
11 523 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
12 522 (4.27%) Software Developer
13 500 (4.09%) Full Stack Developer
14 457 (3.74%) Applications Support
15 443 (3.62%) C# Developer
16 419 (3.43%) Full Stack Engineer
17 388 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
18 385 (3.15%) Support Analyst
19 367 (3.00%) DBA
20 366 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,653 (21.70%) .NET
2 1,561 (12.77%) HTML
3 1,379 (11.28%) CSS
4 1,218 (9.96%) React
5 1,140 (9.33%) AngularJS
6 1,086 (8.88%) ASP.NET
7 942 (7.71%) REST
8 751 (6.14%) Web Services
9 735 (6.01%) .NET Core
10 610 (4.99%) jQuery
11 601 (4.92%) Spring
12 567 (4.64%) .NET Framework
13 515 (4.21%) JSON
14 514 (4.21%) Kafka
15 511 (4.18%) Vue
16 492 (4.03%) XML
17 479 (3.92%) Node.js
18 431 (3.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 429 (3.51%) Entity Framework
20 406 (3.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 835 (6.83%) Algorithms
2 548 (4.48%) Data Structures
3 498 (4.07%) Cloud Native
4 375 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 361 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 334 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 289 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 273 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 265 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
10 258 (2.11%) Hedge funds
11 253 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 249 (2.04%) Blockchain
13 179 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 170 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
15 168 (1.37%) Fixed Income
16 165 (1.35%) Derivative
17 156 (1.28%) Equities
18 142 (1.16%) Replication
19 138 (1.13%) Mobile App
20 137 (1.12%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,367 (11.18%) Windows
2 1,221 (9.99%) Linux
3 427 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 423 (3.46%) Unix
5 313 (2.56%) Android
6 281 (2.30%) Apple iOS
7 162 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 106 (0.87%) VMS
9 89 (0.73%) CentOS
10 79 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 78 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
12 74 (0.61%) Windows 7
13 71 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
14 62 (0.51%) Solaris
15 55 (0.45%) Ubuntu
16 47 (0.38%) Windows 8
17 37 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 25 (0.20%) AIX
19 23 (0.19%) SUSE
20 21 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,816 (31.22%) Agile
2 2,428 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2,319 (18.97%) Software Engineering
4 2,233 (18.27%) Business Intelligence
5 1,737 (14.21%) Analytics
6 1,715 (14.03%) CI/CD
7 1,671 (13.67%) DevOps
8 1,665 (13.62%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,559 (12.75%) Visualisation
10 1,436 (11.75%) Full Stack Development
10 1,436 (11.75%) Machine Learning
11 1,419 (11.61%) SDLC
12 1,336 (10.93%) ETL
13 1,142 (9.34%) Mentoring
14 1,127 (9.22%) Computer Science
15 1,091 (8.93%) Data Modelling
16 963 (7.88%) Data Analysis
17 951 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
18 927 (7.58%) Decision-Making
19 908 (7.43%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3,223 (26.37%) Python
2 2,849 (23.31%) C#
3 2,251 (18.42%) JavaScript
4 2,142 (17.52%) Java
5 1,096 (8.97%) T-SQL
6 661 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 585 (4.79%) PL/SQL
8 454 (3.71%) PowerShell
9 408 (3.34%) Scala
10 314 (2.57%) R
11 255 (2.09%) PHP
12 238 (1.95%) C++
13 189 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 187 (1.53%) VB
15 177 (1.45%) VBA
16 164 (1.34%) VB.NET
17 154 (1.26%) Bash
18 144 (1.18%) C
19 81 (0.66%) Groovy
20 74 (0.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,194 (17.95%) Degree
2 562 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 542 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 422 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 338 (2.77%) DBS Check
6 306 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 287 (2.35%) Master's Degree
8 120 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 117 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 82 (0.67%) PhD
11 52 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 46 (0.38%) MCSE
13 45 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
14 42 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 31 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 31 (0.25%) ISTQB
15 31 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 31 (0.25%) MBA
15 31 (0.25%) MCSA
16 30 (0.25%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 541 (4.43%) Data Quality
2 406 (3.32%) QA
3 210 (1.72%) SLA
4 155 (1.27%) GDPR
5 134 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 55 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (0.40%) PMO
8 26 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 18 (0.15%) ITGC
10 17 (0.14%) COBIT
11 16 (0.13%) NIST
12 14 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.065%) IFRS
13 8 (0.065%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.065%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.065%) PSD2
14 7 (0.057%) GMP
14 7 (0.057%) MiFID
System Software
1 611 (5.00%) Docker
2 601 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 290 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 184 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 126 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 120 (0.98%) HDFS
7 58 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
8 55 (0.45%) XenApp
9 48 (0.39%) VirtualBox
9 48 (0.39%) XenDesktop
10 44 (0.36%) vSphere
11 39 (0.32%) VMware NSX
12 35 (0.29%) Firmware
13 23 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
14 17 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
15 13 (0.11%) vCloud
15 13 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
16 10 (0.082%) Terminal Services
17 9 (0.074%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.074%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 761 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 480 (3.93%) Terraform
3 146 (1.19%) Ansible
4 109 (0.89%) Grafana
5 56 (0.46%) Data Guard
5 56 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
5 56 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.43%) SCCM
7 49 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 45 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.31%) SCOM
10 31 (0.25%) Kibana
11 29 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 27 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
12 27 (0.22%) WSUS
13 23 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
14 22 (0.18%) HAProxy
15 21 (0.17%) Zipkin
16 18 (0.15%) Backup Exec
16 18 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,834 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 1,385 (11.33%) Oracle
3 859 (7.03%) Databricks
4 446 (3.65%) Google
5 402 (3.29%) VMware
6 399 (3.26%) IBM
7 300 (2.45%) Red Hat
8 270 (2.21%) SAP
9 165 (1.35%) Informatica
10 154 (1.26%) Citrix
11 108 (0.88%) Cisco
12 103 (0.84%) Alteryx
13 98 (0.80%) Veeam
14 92 (0.75%) Salesforce
15 89 (0.73%) Splunk
16 88 (0.72%) Cloudera
17 81 (0.66%) Bloomberg
18 80 (0.65%) F5
19 79 (0.65%) Sage
20 69 (0.56%) Remedy