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 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 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,691 1,966 3,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.71% 13.95% 16.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.50% 34.77% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,326 1,403 2,399
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
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 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%

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 5,048 5,655 9,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.99% 40.12% 48.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,033 3,705 6,349
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £33,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £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 28 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 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
Thames Valley -2 604 £50,000 -9.09% 89
Hampshire -1 438 £47,500 -8.28% 59
Berkshire -3 308 £62,500 +4.17% 33
Surrey -1 293 £50,000 -13.04% 52
Buckinghamshire -11 160 £47,500 -9.52% 33
Kent +2 151 £55,000 +4.76% 29
Oxfordshire +6 136 £42,500 -5.56% 23
East Sussex -5 107 £53,000 -1.40% 25
West Sussex -11 69 £52,500 -8.70% 8
Sussex - 13 £60,000 - 2
Middlesex -14 7 £65,000 -16.13% 6
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
1 106 (6.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 40 (2.37%) IIS
4 28 (1.66%) CMS
5 15 (0.89%) WebLogic
6 14 (0.83%) Oracle Service Bus
7 11 (0.65%) Apache
7 11 (0.65%) Confluence
8 9 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.47%) WordPress
10 7 (0.41%) JBoss
11 6 (0.35%) SAS
11 6 (0.35%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.30%) Drupal
12 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.24%) ColdFusion
13 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.18%) WinCC
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 109 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 18 (1.06%) Simulink
4 12 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.30%) SPSS
7 4 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.059%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 41 (2.42%) Siebel CRM
2 32 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
6 8 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.30%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
9 4 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
9 4 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
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%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.12%) SAP WM
11 2 (0.12%) Shopify
12 1 (0.059%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 658 (38.91%) Azure
2 278 (16.44%) Power Platform
3 198 (11.71%) AWS
4 171 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
5 146 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
6 126 (7.45%) Serverless
7 84 (4.97%) Azure Functions
8 80 (4.73%) Azure Service Bus
9 76 (4.49%) IBM Cloud
10 75 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 74 (4.38%) Azure API Management
12 72 (4.26%) SaaS
13 37 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 36 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
15 33 (1.95%) GitHub
16 32 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (1.77%) Snowflake
18 28 (1.66%) OneDrive
18 28 (1.66%) PowerApps
19 23 (1.36%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.32%) Firewall
2 40 (2.37%) DNS
3 27 (1.60%) DHCP
3 27 (1.60%) Internet
4 21 (1.24%) SSL
4 21 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (1.12%) HTTP
6 18 (1.06%) VPN
7 17 (1.01%) Broadband
7 17 (1.01%) Network Security
8 14 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.71%) SNMP
9 12 (0.71%) VLAN
9 12 (0.71%) Wireless
10 10 (0.59%) FTP
11 8 (0.47%) VoIP
12 6 (0.35%) Intranet
12 6 (0.35%) LAN
12 6 (0.35%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 269 (15.91%) Power BI
3 213 (12.60%) NoSQL
4 162 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
5 159 (9.40%) Relational Database
6 127 (7.51%) MongoDB
7 100 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
8 97 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 84 (4.97%) DB2
10 82 (4.85%) Data Lake
11 76 (4.49%) MySQL
12 70 (4.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 52 (3.08%) Oracle Database
13 52 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 47 (2.78%) Tableau
15 39 (2.31%) Hadoop
16 36 (2.13%) Oracle BI EE
17 34 (2.01%) Siebel EIM
18 26 (1.54%) Oracle Database 11g
19 25 (1.48%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 158 (9.34%) Git
2 92 (5.44%) Visual Studio
3 76 (4.49%) JIRA
4 56 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 55 (3.25%) Selenium
6 32 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 30 (1.77%) Postman
7 30 (1.77%) SoapUI
8 28 (1.66%) GitLab
9 25 (1.48%) NUnit
10 23 (1.36%) Ant
11 21 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 21 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
12 19 (1.12%) Vagrant
13 18 (1.06%) JMeter
14 13 (0.77%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.65%) Cucumber
16 10 (0.59%) Eclipse
16 10 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
17 9 (0.53%) Gradle
General
1 407 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 255 (15.08%) Finance
3 195 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.38%) Retail
6 65 (3.84%) Manufacturing
7 62 (3.67%) Marketing
8 60 (3.55%) Aerospace
9 56 (3.31%) Legal
10 46 (2.72%) Law
11 41 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 40 (2.37%) Telecoms
13 33 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (1.54%) Games
15 22 (1.30%) Billing
16 16 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.83%) Health Technology
18 13 (0.77%) Back Office
18 13 (0.77%) Banking
19 11 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 616 (36.43%) Developer
2 231 (13.66%) Senior
3 161 (9.52%) Analyst
4 145 (8.57%) .NET Developer
4 145 (8.57%) Senior Developer
5 115 (6.80%) Full Stack Developer
6 104 (6.15%) Lead
6 104 (6.15%) Support Engineer
7 103 (6.09%) Software Engineer
8 82 (4.85%) Azure Developer
9 81 (4.79%) IT Support
10 75 (4.44%) Software Developer
11 72 (4.26%) Architect
12 71 (4.20%) Applications Support
12 71 (4.20%) IT Engineer
13 65 (3.84%) Consultant
14 63 (3.73%) IT Support Engineer
15 60 (3.55%) C# Developer
16 50 (2.96%) 3rd Line Support
17 48 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (30.34%) .NET
2 326 (19.28%) HTML
3 289 (17.09%) CSS
4 204 (12.06%) ASP.NET
4 204 (12.06%) React
5 171 (10.11%) AngularJS
6 154 (9.11%) Web Services
7 145 (8.57%) REST
8 144 (8.52%) Node.js
9 137 (8.10%) .NET Core
10 112 (6.62%) XML
11 110 (6.51%) jQuery
12 107 (6.33%) HTML5
13 98 (5.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 98 (5.80%) Vue
14 94 (5.56%) Blazor
15 83 (4.91%) Entity Framework
16 82 (4.85%) JSON
17 81 (4.79%) ASP.NET Core
18 79 (4.67%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 108 (6.39%) Data Structures
2 92 (5.44%) Algorithms
3 79 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (4.49%) Blockchain
5 56 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 49 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (1.83%) Replication
10 28 (1.66%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.12%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.01%) Driving Licence
13 16 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (0.95%) NHS
14 14 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (0.83%) Mobile App
15 13 (0.77%) Data Centre
16 12 (0.71%) Clustering
16 12 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
17 11 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 300 (17.74%) Windows
2 250 (14.78%) Linux
3 101 (5.97%) Android
4 97 (5.74%) Windows Server
5 79 (4.67%) Apple iOS
6 53 (3.13%) Windows 10
7 46 (2.72%) Windows 7
8 42 (2.48%) Windows 8
9 31 (1.83%) VMS
10 28 (1.66%) Unix
11 20 (1.18%) CentOS
11 20 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 20 (1.18%) Ubuntu
12 14 (0.83%) Solaris
13 6 (0.35%) AIX
14 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (26.91%) Agile
2 314 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
3 286 (16.91%) Business Intelligence
4 276 (16.32%) DevOps
5 230 (13.60%) Full Stack Development
6 209 (12.36%) Artificial Intelligence
7 201 (11.89%) MVC
7 201 (11.89%) Software Engineering
8 171 (10.11%) Computer Science
9 166 (9.82%) Test Automation
10 147 (8.69%) ETL
11 126 (7.45%) Analytics
12 125 (7.39%) Scrum
13 123 (7.27%) Collaborative Working
14 121 (7.16%) Actionable Insight
14 121 (7.16%) User Experience
15 119 (7.04%) OOP
16 118 (6.98%) OO
17 117 (6.92%) Machine Learning
18 116 (6.86%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 470 (27.79%) C#
2 452 (26.73%) JavaScript
3 328 (19.40%) Python
4 315 (18.63%) Java
5 134 (7.92%) T-SQL
6 89 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 79 (4.67%) C++
8 78 (4.61%) PL/SQL
9 51 (3.02%) Kotlin
9 51 (3.02%) PowerShell
10 36 (2.13%) PHP
11 31 (1.83%) R
12 30 (1.77%) VB.NET
13 21 (1.24%) VBA
14 19 (1.12%) RPG
15 18 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 18 (1.06%) Go
15 18 (1.06%) VB
16 16 (0.95%) Fortran
16 16 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 317 (18.75%) Degree
2 254 (15.02%) Security Cleared
3 229 (13.54%) SC Cleared
4 100 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.42%) DBS Check
6 33 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (1.66%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 17 (1.01%) MBA
11 13 (0.77%) PhD
12 10 (0.59%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.53%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.30%) HNC
15 5 (0.30%) HND
15 5 (0.30%) MCSE
15 5 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.24%) MCSA
16 4 (0.24%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.14%) QA
2 52 (3.08%) GDPR
3 43 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.48%) SLA
5 18 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.41%) 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%) PMO
System Software
1 145 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 91 (5.38%) Docker
3 89 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (4.02%) Hyper-V
5 45 (2.66%) VirtualBox
6 42 (2.48%) XenApp
6 42 (2.48%) XenDesktop
7 27 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (0.41%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 101 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.37%) Ansible
3 42 (2.48%) Terraform
4 19 (1.12%) Oracle RMAN
5 15 (0.89%) Data Guard
6 14 (0.83%) SCOM
7 5 (0.30%) Puppet
7 5 (0.30%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.18%) Grafana
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) Wonderware InTouch
9 3 (0.18%) WSUS
10 2 (0.12%) Kibana
10 2 (0.12%) Podman
11 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.059%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.059%) systemd
Vendors
1 448 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 160 (9.46%) Oracle
3 111 (6.56%) VMware
4 93 (5.50%) Citrix
5 79 (4.67%) IBM
5 79 (4.67%) Red Hat
6 49 (2.90%) Databricks
7 47 (2.78%) SAP
8 41 (2.42%) Siebel
9 39 (2.31%) Veeam
10 31 (1.83%) Google
11 26 (1.54%) Sage
12 25 (1.48%) Cisco
13 18 (1.06%) Remedy
13 18 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.06%) Xilinx
14 14 (0.83%) Sun
15 13 (0.77%) Epicor
16 11 (0.65%) Dynatrace
17 10 (0.59%) Adobe