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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10,147 14,541 24,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.42% 16.80% 17.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.21% 39.02% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,006 8,818 14,149
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,018 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
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 28,024 37,268 74,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.54% 43.05% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 22,545 24,192 38,932
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 28 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 28 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 3,714 £70,000 - 1,228
North of England -4 2,022 £50,000 -3.85% 478
South East -4 1,691 £50,000 -9.09% 294
Midlands -3 1,397 £47,500 -5.00% 312
North West -2 1,136 £52,500 +1.94% 273
West Midlands -5 823 £49,750 -0.50% 182
South West -10 733 £50,000 - 196
Yorkshire -7 626 £47,000 -10.05% 163
East Midlands -2 564 £45,000 -10.00% 130
East of England -10 510 £47,500 -9.52% 139
North East -1 262 £50,000 -4.76% 49
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
1 350 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 273 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 213 (2.10%) IIS
4 175 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 171 (1.69%) Apache
6 152 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
7 139 (1.37%) SAS
8 125 (1.23%) CMS
9 113 (1.11%) Confluence
10 29 (0.29%) Umbraco
11 27 (0.27%) Drupal
12 24 (0.24%) WordPress
13 22 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 20 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 19 (0.19%) WebLogic
16 15 (0.15%) nginx
17 14 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
17 14 (0.14%) WebSphere
18 13 (0.13%) OpenStack
19 11 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 679 (6.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 367 (3.62%) 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
1 141 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
3 35 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 35 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 34 (0.34%) SDL Web 8
5 26 (0.26%) thinkFolio
6 25 (0.25%) Elite 3E
6 25 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 25 (0.25%) SAP Business One
7 22 (0.22%) Shopify
8 21 (0.21%) NEC Housing
9 19 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
9 19 (0.19%) Sage 200
10 18 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
11 17 (0.17%) Fidessa
12 16 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
13 15 (0.15%) Sage X3
14 14 (0.14%) Magento
15 13 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
16 11 (0.11%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 3,680 (36.27%) Azure
2 1,939 (19.11%) Power Platform
3 1,682 (16.58%) AWS
4 691 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
5 602 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
6 566 (5.58%) GCP
7 452 (4.45%) Serverless
8 362 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 337 (3.32%) SaaS
10 279 (2.75%) Snowflake
11 249 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 238 (2.35%) IBM Cloud
13 214 (2.11%) Azure Functions
14 213 (2.10%) GitHub
15 212 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
16 209 (2.06%) PowerApps
17 204 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
18 191 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
19 187 (1.84%) Entra ID
20 183 (1.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 305 (3.01%) Firewall
2 195 (1.92%) DNS
3 144 (1.42%) WAN
4 115 (1.13%) VPN
5 114 (1.12%) DHCP
6 111 (1.09%) Internet
7 108 (1.06%) LAN
8 103 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 92 (0.91%) SAN
10 70 (0.69%) Broadband
11 69 (0.68%) Network Security
12 68 (0.67%) HTTP
13 59 (0.58%) VLAN
14 55 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
15 50 (0.49%) SSL
16 34 (0.34%) Wireless
17 30 (0.30%) SD-WAN
18 28 (0.28%) FTP
19 26 (0.26%) VoIP
19 26 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,364 (23.30%) SQL Server
2 1,821 (17.95%) Power BI
3 956 (9.42%) Data Warehouse
4 810 (7.98%) NoSQL
5 754 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
6 748 (7.37%) Tableau
7 642 (6.33%) Relational Database
8 620 (6.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 557 (5.49%) MongoDB
10 538 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 466 (4.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 443 (4.37%) MySQL
13 432 (4.26%) Data Lake
14 299 (2.95%) DB2
15 256 (2.52%) Big Data
16 233 (2.30%) Oracle Database
17 218 (2.15%) BigQuery
18 169 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 135 (1.33%) Data Mining
20 134 (1.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 908 (8.95%) Git
2 384 (3.78%) JIRA
3 345 (3.40%) Visual Studio
4 218 (2.15%) Jenkins
5 168 (1.66%) GitLab
6 104 (1.02%) Selenium
7 92 (0.91%) TeamCity
8 90 (0.89%) Postman
9 86 (0.85%) NUnit
10 78 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 72 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
12 56 (0.55%) Moq
13 51 (0.50%) JUnit
14 50 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
15 48 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 47 (0.46%) Cucumber
17 45 (0.44%) Cypress.io
18 44 (0.43%) Eclipse
19 39 (0.38%) SoapUI
20 38 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,739 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 2,259 (22.26%) Finance
3 1,489 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 697 (6.87%) Retail
5 590 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 509 (5.02%) Banking
7 445 (4.39%) Marketing
8 420 (4.14%) Law
9 396 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 366 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 340 (3.35%) Legal
12 328 (3.23%) Front Office
13 279 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
14 189 (1.86%) Back Office
15 173 (1.70%) Games
16 167 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
17 107 (1.05%) Telecoms
18 99 (0.98%) Aerospace
19 98 (0.97%) Advertising
20 93 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,093 (30.48%) Developer
2 1,980 (19.51%) Senior
3 1,946 (19.18%) Analyst
4 817 (8.05%) Lead
5 770 (7.59%) Data Engineer
6 691 (6.81%) .NET Developer
7 664 (6.54%) Senior Developer
8 609 (6.00%) Data Analyst
9 581 (5.73%) Software Engineer
10 475 (4.68%) Software Developer
11 471 (4.64%) Full Stack Developer
12 446 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
13 423 (4.17%) C# Developer
14 393 (3.87%) Applications Support
15 324 (3.19%) Consultant
16 320 (3.15%) Support Analyst
17 304 (3.00%) Support Engineer
18 301 (2.97%) DBA
19 295 (2.91%) Architect
20 275 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,436 (24.01%) .NET
2 1,348 (13.28%) HTML
3 1,178 (11.61%) CSS
4 1,043 (10.28%) ASP.NET
5 911 (8.98%) React
6 873 (8.60%) AngularJS
7 784 (7.73%) REST
8 649 (6.40%) .NET Core
9 641 (6.32%) Web Services
10 529 (5.21%) jQuery
11 510 (5.03%) .NET Framework
12 468 (4.61%) Vue
13 422 (4.16%) XML
14 416 (4.10%) Entity Framework
15 396 (3.90%) Node.js
16 382 (3.76%) JSON
17 357 (3.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 356 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
19 340 (3.35%) HTML5
20 337 (3.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 498 (4.91%) Data Structures
2 445 (4.39%) Algorithms
3 335 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 334 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
5 278 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 271 (2.67%) Hedge funds
7 265 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 248 (2.44%) Blockchain
9 233 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
10 198 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 185 (1.82%) Fixed Income
12 174 (1.71%) Derivative
13 168 (1.66%) Equities
14 162 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 152 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
16 150 (1.48%) Public Cloud
17 130 (1.28%) Mobile App
18 120 (1.18%) Client/Server
19 117 (1.15%) e-Learning
20 107 (1.05%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1,263 (12.45%) Windows
2 988 (9.74%) Linux
3 385 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 310 (3.06%) Android
5 274 (2.70%) Apple iOS
6 205 (2.02%) Unix
7 157 (1.55%) Windows 10
8 95 (0.94%) CentOS
8 95 (0.94%) VMS
9 79 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 78 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
11 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
12 67 (0.66%) Windows 7
13 56 (0.55%) Ubuntu
14 44 (0.43%) Windows 8
15 35 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 31 (0.31%) Solaris
17 24 (0.24%) AIX
18 21 (0.21%) SUSE
19 19 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,549 (25.12%) Agile
2 2,024 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
3 1,995 (19.66%) Business Intelligence
4 1,572 (15.49%) Analytics
5 1,394 (13.74%) DevOps
6 1,150 (11.33%) ETL
7 1,145 (11.28%) Full Stack Development
8 1,108 (10.92%) Visualisation
9 1,104 (10.88%) Software Engineering
10 979 (9.65%) Mentoring
11 960 (9.46%) Artificial Intelligence
12 936 (9.22%) Computer Science
13 910 (8.97%) Data Modelling
14 874 (8.61%) MVC
15 843 (8.31%) Data Analysis
16 823 (8.11%) Data Science
17 771 (7.60%) Machine Learning
18 693 (6.83%) Data Pipeline
19 683 (6.73%) CI/CD
20 679 (6.69%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,660 (26.21%) Python
2 2,587 (25.50%) C#
3 1,969 (19.40%) JavaScript
4 1,053 (10.38%) Java
5 973 (9.59%) T-SQL
6 519 (5.11%) TypeScript
7 458 (4.51%) PowerShell
8 299 (2.95%) PL/SQL
9 289 (2.85%) R
10 232 (2.29%) PHP
11 200 (1.97%) C++
12 184 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 175 (1.72%) VB
13 175 (1.72%) VBA
14 165 (1.63%) VB.NET
15 140 (1.38%) Bash
16 133 (1.31%) C
17 117 (1.15%) Scala
18 75 (0.74%) Kotlin
19 71 (0.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,979 (19.50%) Degree
2 489 (4.82%) Security Cleared
3 483 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 362 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 351 (3.46%) DBS Check
6 279 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 246 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 123 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 117 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 69 (0.68%) PhD
11 52 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 41 (0.40%) MCSE
12 41 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
13 35 (0.34%) AWS Certification
14 32 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
15 30 (0.30%) MBA
16 29 (0.29%) MCSA
17 28 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
18 25 (0.25%) ISTQB
18 25 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 342 (3.37%) QA
3 160 (1.58%) SLA
4 121 (1.19%) GDPR
5 106 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 52 (0.51%) 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%) MiFID
13 8 (0.079%) PSD2
14 7 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.069%) IFRS
14 7 (0.069%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.069%) ITGC
14 7 (0.069%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.069%) SOC 1
System Software
1 594 (5.85%) Active Directory
2 491 (4.84%) Docker
3 251 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 174 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 108 (1.06%) 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%) VMware NSX
14 15 (0.15%) HDFS
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
1 427 (4.21%) Kubernetes
2 312 (3.07%) Terraform
3 131 (1.29%) Ansible
4 47 (0.46%) Grafana
4 47 (0.46%) SCCM
5 46 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (0.34%) SCOM
7 34 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 31 (0.31%) Prometheus
9 29 (0.29%) WSUS
10 25 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 24 (0.24%) Data Guard
12 22 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
13 20 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
14 18 (0.18%) Backup Exec
14 18 (0.18%) NetBackup
15 15 (0.15%) Puppet
16 14 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
16 14 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
17 12 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 2,627 (25.89%) Microsoft
2 848 (8.36%) Oracle
3 661 (6.51%) Databricks
4 373 (3.68%) Google
5 350 (3.45%) IBM
6 336 (3.31%) VMware
7 306 (3.02%) Red Hat
8 210 (2.07%) SAP
9 145 (1.43%) Citrix
10 101 (1.00%) Cisco
11 94 (0.93%) Veeam
12 91 (0.90%) Bloomberg
13 88 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 79 (0.78%) Alteryx
15 78 (0.77%) F5
15 78 (0.77%) Informatica
16 66 (0.65%) Sage
17 52 (0.51%) Adobe
18 46 (0.45%) CyberArk
19 42 (0.41%) ServiceNow