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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12,167 16,820 28,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.29% 16.76% 17.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.74% 38.79% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 8,839 10,019 15,742
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,098 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +7.45% +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 33,118 43,362 86,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.44% 43.21% 54.03%
Number of salaries quoted 24,897 27,723 43,724
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,779
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.21% +5.56%

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 14 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 14 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 10,050 £55,000 -8.33% 2,696
UK excluding London -4 8,053 £50,000 -4.76% 1,618
Work from Home -2 4,854 £57,500 -2.54% 1,491
London 0 3,672 £70,000 - 1,178
North of England -4 2,015 £50,000 -3.85% 417
South East -3 1,673 £50,000 -9.09% 314
Scotland +2 1,496 £55,000 -8.33% 105
Midlands -3 1,349 £47,500 -5.00% 362
North West -3 1,144 £52,500 +1.87% 226
West Midlands -4 799 £50,000 - 222
South West -10 733 £50,000 - 206
Yorkshire -6 620 £47,500 -9.52% 152
East Midlands -1 541 £45,000 -6.25% 140
East of England -9 517 £47,500 -9.52% 162
North East -1 253 £50,000 -4.76% 44
Wales +2 213 £45,000 +12.50% 52
Northern Ireland -22 57 £55,000 +10.00% 23
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
1 622 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 402 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 277 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 275 (2.26%) Apache
5 249 (2.05%) IIS
6 178 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 154 (1.27%) SAS
8 129 (1.06%) CMS
9 126 (1.04%) FileNet
10 122 (1.00%) Confluence
11 50 (0.41%) WebLogic
12 48 (0.39%) WebSphere
13 44 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
14 33 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
15 31 (0.25%) Umbraco
16 28 (0.23%) Captiva
16 28 (0.23%) Tomcat
17 27 (0.22%) Drupal
18 26 (0.21%) WordPress
19 21 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 786 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 420 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 70 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.23%) SPSS
7 21 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.14%) Trello
9 14 (0.12%) Simulink
10 9 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
11 7 (0.058%) 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
1 165 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 40 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
4 36 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 29 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 27 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
7 26 (0.21%) thinkFolio
8 25 (0.21%) SAP Business One
9 24 (0.20%) Elite 3E
10 22 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 22 (0.18%) NetSuite
11 21 (0.17%) Shopify
12 20 (0.16%) Sage 200
12 20 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
13 18 (0.15%) Endur
14 16 (0.13%) Fidessa
15 15 (0.12%) Sage X3
15 15 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
16 14 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 4,102 (33.71%) Azure
2 2,371 (19.49%) AWS
3 2,119 (17.42%) Power Platform
4 788 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
5 698 (5.74%) GCP
6 657 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
7 543 (4.46%) Serverless
8 411 (3.38%) SaaS
9 387 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 309 (2.54%) GitHub
11 287 (2.36%) Snowflake
12 253 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 243 (2.00%) IBM Cloud
14 241 (1.98%) PowerApps
15 237 (1.95%) Amazon S3
16 232 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
17 226 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
18 221 (1.82%) Azure Functions
19 218 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
20 201 (1.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 333 (2.74%) Firewall
2 197 (1.62%) DNS
3 169 (1.39%) WAN
4 128 (1.05%) VPN
5 127 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 123 (1.01%) Internet
7 116 (0.95%) DHCP
8 115 (0.95%) LAN
9 90 (0.74%) SAN
10 83 (0.68%) HTTP
11 80 (0.66%) Broadband
12 73 (0.60%) Network Security
13 63 (0.52%) VLAN
14 58 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
15 51 (0.42%) SSL
16 41 (0.34%) Wireless
17 32 (0.26%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.25%) MQTT
19 29 (0.24%) FTP
19 29 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,595 (21.33%) SQL Server
2 1,978 (16.26%) Power BI
3 1,526 (12.54%) NoSQL
4 1,060 (8.71%) Data Warehouse
5 838 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
6 813 (6.68%) Relational Database
7 811 (6.67%) Tableau
8 679 (5.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 666 (5.47%) Big Data
10 663 (5.45%) MongoDB
11 613 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 506 (4.16%) MySQL
13 495 (4.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 489 (4.02%) Data Lake
15 357 (2.93%) Hadoop
16 330 (2.71%) DB2
17 329 (2.70%) Oracle Database
18 263 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
19 228 (1.87%) BigQuery
20 177 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,050 (8.63%) Git
2 468 (3.85%) JIRA
3 417 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 380 (3.12%) Visual Studio
5 188 (1.55%) JUnit
6 184 (1.51%) GitLab
7 148 (1.22%) Selenium
8 107 (0.88%) Postman
9 94 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
10 90 (0.74%) TeamCity
11 88 (0.72%) NUnit
11 88 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 85 (0.70%) Cucumber
13 84 (0.69%) Cypress.io
14 78 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
15 77 (0.63%) Jasmine
16 75 (0.62%) Maven
17 65 (0.53%) Mockito
18 63 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
19 50 (0.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,499 (28.76%) Finance
2 2,999 (24.65%) Social Skills
3 1,662 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 1,515 (12.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,486 (12.21%) Law
6 993 (8.16%) Marketing
7 732 (6.02%) Legal
8 726 (5.97%) Retail
9 657 (5.40%) Banking
10 648 (5.33%) Public Sector
11 397 (3.26%) Manufacturing
12 313 (2.57%) Front Office
13 285 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 217 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
15 207 (1.70%) Games
16 203 (1.67%) Back Office
17 201 (1.65%) Financial Institution
18 178 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
19 167 (1.37%) Investment Banking
20 126 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,454 (28.39%) Developer
2 2,217 (18.22%) Senior
3 2,017 (16.58%) Analyst
4 1,573 (12.93%) Software Engineer
5 1,175 (9.66%) Lead
6 952 (7.82%) Data Engineer
7 742 (6.10%) Senior Developer
8 703 (5.78%) .NET Developer
9 623 (5.12%) Data Analyst
10 541 (4.45%) Java Engineer
11 523 (4.30%) Java Software Engineer
12 521 (4.28%) Software Developer
13 496 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
14 454 (3.73%) Applications Support
15 440 (3.62%) C# Developer
16 419 (3.44%) Full Stack Engineer
17 393 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
18 384 (3.16%) Support Analyst
19 362 (2.98%) Consultant
19 362 (2.98%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,639 (21.69%) .NET
2 1,551 (12.75%) HTML
3 1,372 (11.28%) CSS
4 1,213 (9.97%) React
5 1,139 (9.36%) AngularJS
6 1,079 (8.87%) ASP.NET
7 939 (7.72%) REST
8 744 (6.11%) Web Services
9 729 (5.99%) .NET Core
10 609 (5.01%) jQuery
11 600 (4.93%) Spring
12 560 (4.60%) .NET Framework
13 512 (4.21%) Kafka
14 511 (4.20%) JSON
15 510 (4.19%) Vue
16 489 (4.02%) XML
17 479 (3.94%) Node.js
18 432 (3.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 427 (3.51%) Entity Framework
20 402 (3.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 836 (6.87%) Algorithms
2 544 (4.47%) Data Structures
3 498 (4.09%) Cloud Native
4 372 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 359 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 334 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 293 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 273 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 266 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
10 262 (2.15%) Hedge funds
11 249 (2.05%) Blockchain
12 247 (2.03%) Public Cloud
13 177 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 170 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
14 170 (1.40%) Fixed Income
15 166 (1.36%) Derivative
16 156 (1.28%) Equities
17 141 (1.16%) Replication
18 137 (1.13%) Mobile App
19 130 (1.07%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,357 (11.15%) Windows
2 1,218 (10.01%) Linux
3 421 (3.46%) Unix
4 420 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 313 (2.57%) Android
6 282 (2.32%) Apple iOS
7 158 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 106 (0.87%) VMS
9 89 (0.73%) CentOS
10 76 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 76 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 72 (0.59%) Windows 7
12 70 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
13 62 (0.51%) Solaris
14 55 (0.45%) Ubuntu
15 45 (0.37%) Windows 8
16 36 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 24 (0.20%) AIX
18 23 (0.19%) SUSE
19 21 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,796 (31.20%) Agile
2 2,427 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
3 2,316 (19.04%) Software Engineering
4 2,214 (18.20%) Business Intelligence
5 1,734 (14.25%) Analytics
6 1,697 (13.95%) CI/CD
7 1,667 (13.70%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,653 (13.59%) DevOps
9 1,560 (12.82%) Visualisation
10 1,432 (11.77%) Machine Learning
11 1,431 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
12 1,416 (11.64%) SDLC
13 1,324 (10.88%) ETL
14 1,132 (9.30%) Computer Science
15 1,130 (9.29%) Mentoring
16 1,084 (8.91%) Data Modelling
17 971 (7.98%) Data Analysis
18 952 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
19 931 (7.65%) Decision-Making
20 901 (7.41%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3,226 (26.51%) Python
2 2,832 (23.28%) C#
3 2,245 (18.45%) JavaScript
4 2,137 (17.56%) Java
5 1,089 (8.95%) T-SQL
6 656 (5.39%) TypeScript
7 579 (4.76%) PL/SQL
8 452 (3.71%) PowerShell
9 405 (3.33%) Scala
10 314 (2.58%) R
11 251 (2.06%) PHP
12 235 (1.93%) C++
13 188 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 188 (1.55%) VB
14 177 (1.45%) VBA
15 165 (1.36%) VB.NET
16 154 (1.27%) Bash
17 143 (1.18%) C
18 81 (0.67%) Groovy
19 75 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,203 (18.11%) Degree
2 558 (4.59%) Security Cleared
3 540 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 423 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 344 (2.83%) DBS Check
6 303 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 290 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 120 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 118 (0.97%) DV Cleared
10 82 (0.67%) PhD
11 53 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 46 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
13 45 (0.37%) MCSE
14 42 (0.35%) AWS Certification
15 32 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
16 31 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
16 31 (0.25%) ISTQB
16 31 (0.25%) MBA
17 30 (0.25%) CISA
17 30 (0.25%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 542 (4.45%) Data Quality
2 403 (3.31%) QA
3 211 (1.73%) SLA
4 153 (1.26%) GDPR
5 133 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 55 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (0.38%) 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 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.066%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.066%) IFRS
13 8 (0.066%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.066%) PSD2
14 7 (0.058%) GMP
14 7 (0.058%) MiFID
14 7 (0.058%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 606 (4.98%) Docker
2 590 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 283 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 182 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 120 (0.99%) HDFS
7 57 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
8 53 (0.44%) XenApp
9 46 (0.38%) VirtualBox
9 46 (0.38%) XenDesktop
10 44 (0.36%) vSphere
11 35 (0.29%) Firmware
12 34 (0.28%) VMware NSX
13 23 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
14 16 (0.13%) 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
1 756 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 476 (3.91%) Terraform
3 147 (1.21%) Ansible
4 107 (0.88%) Grafana
5 55 (0.45%) Data Guard
5 55 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 55 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 51 (0.42%) SCCM
7 47 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 45 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 37 (0.30%) 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 22 (0.18%) HAProxy
13 22 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
14 21 (0.17%) Zipkin
15 18 (0.15%) Backup Exec
15 18 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,806 (23.06%) Microsoft
2 1,373 (11.28%) Oracle
3 859 (7.06%) Databricks
4 447 (3.67%) Google
5 398 (3.27%) IBM
6 390 (3.21%) VMware
7 299 (2.46%) Red Hat
8 272 (2.24%) SAP
9 166 (1.36%) Informatica
10 151 (1.24%) Citrix
11 106 (0.87%) Cisco
12 103 (0.85%) Alteryx
13 98 (0.81%) Veeam
14 89 (0.73%) Salesforce
15 88 (0.72%) Cloudera
16 87 (0.72%) Splunk
17 84 (0.69%) Bloomberg
18 79 (0.65%) F5
19 77 (0.63%) Sage
20 69 (0.57%) Remedy