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 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 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,094 9,672 11,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.94% 16.65% 15.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.54% 41.99% 34.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,618 5,380 7,939
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £62,500 £65,266 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 22,775 23,032 33,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.78% 39.65% 45.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,521 13,122 21,146
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 28 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 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
North of England -4 2,022 £50,000 -3.85% 478
South East -4 1,691 £50,000 -9.09% 294
Scotland +3 1,471 £55,000 -8.33% 107
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
Wales +3 213 £45,000 +12.50% 40
Northern Ireland -20 58 £55,500 +11.00% 28
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86%
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
1 464 (5.73%) Apache Spark
2 261 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 207 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 179 (2.21%) IIS
5 153 (1.89%) Apache
6 105 (1.30%) FileNet
7 95 (1.17%) Confluence
8 75 (0.93%) CMS
9 67 (0.83%) SAS
10 57 (0.70%) 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
15 24 (0.30%) WebSphere
16 22 (0.27%) WordPress
17 21 (0.26%) GemFire
18 17 (0.21%) Tomcat
19 12 (0.15%) Drupal
19 12 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 473 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 295 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 39 (0.48%) 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 (0.086%) 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 (0.23%) Sage 200
7 17 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.19%) SAP Business One
9 13 (0.16%) Magento
9 13 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
10 12 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 12 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
11 11 (0.14%) Endur
12 9 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
13 8 (0.099%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.099%) HFM
13 8 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
14 7 (0.086%) Hyperion Planning
14 7 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
14 7 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,670 (32.99%) Azure
2 1,420 (17.54%) AWS
3 1,373 (16.96%) Power Platform
4 514 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
5 500 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
6 337 (4.16%) Serverless
7 321 (3.97%) GCP
8 267 (3.30%) SaaS
9 230 (2.84%) IBM Cloud
10 191 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 190 (2.35%) GitHub
12 161 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
13 153 (1.89%) Azure Functions
14 151 (1.87%) Amazon S3
15 150 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
15 150 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
16 149 (1.84%) Snowflake
17 147 (1.82%) Entra ID
18 136 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
19 135 (1.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 240 (2.97%) Firewall
2 141 (1.74%) DNS
3 134 (1.66%) WAN
4 100 (1.24%) LAN
5 98 (1.21%) TCP/IP
6 84 (1.04%) DHCP
7 79 (0.98%) Broadband
8 77 (0.95%) Internet
9 73 (0.90%) VPN
10 72 (0.89%) SAN
11 63 (0.78%) HTTP
12 53 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (0.59%) SSL
14 45 (0.56%) VLAN
15 43 (0.53%) Network Security
16 32 (0.40%) MQTT
17 27 (0.33%) VoIP
17 27 (0.33%) Wireless
18 26 (0.32%) WLAN
19 22 (0.27%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,839 (22.72%) SQL Server
2 1,310 (16.18%) Power BI
3 1,246 (15.39%) NoSQL
4 626 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
5 595 (7.35%) Relational Database
6 584 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
7 518 (6.40%) MongoDB
8 492 (6.08%) Big Data
9 441 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 415 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 370 (4.57%) MySQL
12 369 (4.56%) Tableau
13 311 (3.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 299 (3.69%) DB2
15 276 (3.41%) Hadoop
16 273 (3.37%) Data Lake
17 235 (2.90%) Oracle Database
18 227 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
19 142 (1.75%) BigQuery
20 132 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 688 (8.50%) Git
2 307 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 298 (3.68%) JIRA
4 276 (3.41%) Visual Studio
5 168 (2.08%) JUnit
6 123 (1.52%) Selenium
7 115 (1.42%) GitLab
8 90 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
9 77 (0.95%) Jasmine
10 73 (0.90%) Cypress.io
11 68 (0.84%) Postman
12 62 (0.77%) Mockito
13 61 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
14 60 (0.74%) Cucumber
14 60 (0.74%) Maven
15 49 (0.61%) NUnit
16 47 (0.58%) TeamCity
17 43 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 39 (0.48%) JMeter
18 39 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 2,264 (27.97%) Finance
2 1,843 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 1,310 (16.18%) Law
4 1,291 (15.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 948 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
6 770 (9.51%) Marketing
7 641 (7.92%) Legal
8 549 (6.78%) Public Sector
9 466 (5.76%) Retail
10 356 (4.40%) Manufacturing
11 320 (3.95%) Banking
12 183 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
13 158 (1.95%) Financial Institution
14 144 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
15 141 (1.74%) Games
16 118 (1.46%) Investment Banking
17 98 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
18 91 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 86 (1.06%) Aerospace
20 79 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,398 (29.63%) Developer
2 1,314 (16.23%) Software Engineer
3 1,202 (14.85%) Senior
4 1,055 (13.03%) Analyst
5 828 (10.23%) Lead
6 510 (6.30%) Data Engineer
6 510 (6.30%) Java Engineer
7 507 (6.26%) .NET Developer
8 497 (6.14%) Java Software Engineer
9 450 (5.56%) Software Developer
10 436 (5.39%) Senior Developer
11 363 (4.48%) Full Stack Engineer
12 334 (4.13%) Lead Software Engineer
13 308 (3.81%) C# Developer
14 299 (3.69%) DBA
15 291 (3.60%) Data Analyst
16 289 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
17 285 (3.52%) Big Data Engineer
17 285 (3.52%) Big Data Software Engineer
18 276 (3.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,955 (24.15%) .NET
2 1,267 (15.65%) HTML
3 1,106 (13.66%) CSS
4 893 (11.03%) React
5 855 (10.56%) AngularJS
6 845 (10.44%) ASP.NET
7 683 (8.44%) REST
8 561 (6.93%) Web Services
9 557 (6.88%) .NET Core
10 490 (6.05%) jQuery
11 486 (6.00%) Spring
12 412 (5.09%) Vue
13 401 (4.95%) Node.js
14 397 (4.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 390 (4.82%) .NET Framework
16 387 (4.78%) Kafka
17 352 (4.35%) Entity Framework
18 343 (4.24%) JSON
19 337 (4.16%) XML
20 300 (3.71%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 686 (8.48%) Algorithms
2 447 (5.52%) Data Structures
3 442 (5.46%) Cloud Native
4 262 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 261 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
6 249 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 229 (2.83%) Blockchain
8 203 (2.51%) Public Cloud
9 155 (1.91%) Onboarding
9 155 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 135 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
11 126 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
12 116 (1.43%) e-Learning
13 115 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 108 (1.33%) Clustering
15 103 (1.27%) Replication
16 76 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
17 74 (0.91%) NHS
18 73 (0.90%) Data Centre
19 72 (0.89%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1,001 (12.37%) Windows
2 892 (11.02%) Linux
3 297 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 291 (3.60%) Android
5 280 (3.46%) Unix
6 255 (3.15%) Apple iOS
7 117 (1.45%) Windows 10
8 100 (1.24%) VMS
9 73 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
10 70 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
11 69 (0.85%) CentOS
12 63 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 62 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
14 48 (0.59%) Solaris
15 44 (0.54%) Windows 8
16 32 (0.40%) Ubuntu
17 26 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 21 (0.26%) AIX
19 19 (0.23%) Debian
20 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,876 (35.53%) Agile
2 1,870 (23.10%) Software Engineering
3 1,663 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
4 1,416 (17.49%) Business Intelligence
5 1,301 (16.07%) CI/CD
6 1,298 (16.04%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,257 (15.53%) SDLC
8 1,054 (13.02%) DevOps
8 1,054 (13.02%) Full Stack Development
9 999 (12.34%) Machine Learning
10 994 (12.28%) Visualisation
11 851 (10.51%) Analytics
12 774 (9.56%) Mentoring
13 761 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 759 (9.38%) MVC
15 752 (9.29%) Operational Stability
16 740 (9.14%) ETL
17 728 (8.99%) Computer Science
18 640 (7.91%) Decision-Making
19 607 (7.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2,032 (25.11%) C#
2 1,696 (20.95%) Java
3 1,685 (20.82%) JavaScript
4 1,607 (19.85%) Python
5 714 (8.82%) T-SQL
6 438 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 426 (5.26%) PL/SQL
8 325 (4.02%) Scala
9 301 (3.72%) PowerShell
10 192 (2.37%) PHP
11 174 (2.15%) C++
12 171 (2.11%) VB
13 154 (1.90%) VB.NET
14 115 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 110 (1.36%) R
16 99 (1.22%) Bash
17 98 (1.21%) VBA
18 90 (1.11%) C
19 73 (0.90%) Groovy
20 63 (0.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,216 (15.02%) Degree
2 461 (5.70%) Security Cleared
3 366 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 346 (4.27%) SC Cleared
5 231 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 191 (2.36%) DBS Check
7 132 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 81 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 78 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 38 (0.47%) PhD
10 38 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 30 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
12 27 (0.33%) ISTQB
13 24 (0.30%) MCSE
14 22 (0.27%) CISA
14 22 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.27%) MBA
15 20 (0.25%) OCP
15 20 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
16 19 (0.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 262 (3.24%) QA
3 161 (1.99%) SLA
4 105 (1.30%) GDPR
5 84 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 43 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.40%) 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%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.062%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.062%) TickIT
15 4 (0.049%) COBIT
15 4 (0.049%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.049%) WCAG
System Software
1 464 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 369 (4.56%) Docker
3 223 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 157 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 114 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 100 (1.24%) 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 17 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
15 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 9 (0.11%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.062%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 493 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 279 (3.45%) Terraform
3 105 (1.30%) Ansible
4 79 (0.98%) Grafana
5 53 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
6 47 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 46 (0.57%) Data Guard
8 39 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 34 (0.42%) SCCM
10 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 27 (0.33%) Kibana
11 25 (0.31%) 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 2,081 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 1,005 (12.42%) Oracle
3 420 (5.19%) Databricks
4 337 (4.16%) IBM
5 314 (3.88%) VMware
6 273 (3.37%) Google
7 267 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 173 (2.14%) SAP
9 146 (1.80%) Informatica
10 127 (1.57%) Citrix
11 74 (0.91%) Veeam
12 71 (0.88%) Cloudera
13 66 (0.82%) Cisco
13 66 (0.82%) Splunk
14 61 (0.75%) Remedy
15 56 (0.69%) Dynatrace
16 55 (0.68%) Alteryx
17 54 (0.67%) Sage
18 44 (0.54%) CyberArk
18 44 (0.54%) Sun