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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10,192 14,445 24,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.39% 16.72% 17.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.20% 38.91% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,021 8,776 14,069
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,465 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,763 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.97% +6.72% +6.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +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 28,151 37,128 74,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.46% 42.98% 53.53%
Number of salaries quoted 22,592 24,107 38,708
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 29 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 29 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 3,735 £70,000 - 1,226
North of England -4 2,026 £50,000 -3.85% 477
South East -3 1,693 £50,000 -9.09% 290
Midlands -3 1,411 £47,500 -5.00% 302
North West -2 1,139 £52,500 +1.94% 272
West Midlands -5 827 £50,000 - 178
South West -10 735 £50,000 - 195
Yorkshire -7 627 £46,750 -10.95% 164
East Midlands -2 573 £45,000 -10.00% 124
East of England -10 513 £47,500 -9.52% 137
North East -1 262 £50,000 -4.76% 48
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 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 272 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 213 (2.09%) IIS
4 175 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 170 (1.67%) Apache
6 150 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 135 (1.32%) SAS
8 126 (1.24%) CMS
9 113 (1.11%) Confluence
10 29 (0.28%) Umbraco
11 27 (0.26%) 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
18 13 (0.13%) WebSphere
19 12 (0.12%) OpenStack
20 11 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 680 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 368 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.27%) SPSS
7 25 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 18 (0.18%) Simulink
9 17 (0.17%) Trello
10 9 (0.088%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
12 7 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
13 6 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
14 3 (0.029%) 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 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
3 35 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 35 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 35 (0.34%) SDL Web 8
4 26 (0.26%) thinkFolio
5 25 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 25 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 25 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 21 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 21 (0.21%) Shopify
7 19 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 19 (0.19%) Sage 200
8 18 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 17 (0.17%) Fidessa
10 16 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
11 15 (0.15%) Sage X3
12 14 (0.14%) Magento
13 13 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
14 11 (0.11%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 3,690 (36.20%) Azure
2 1,948 (19.11%) Power Platform
3 1,683 (16.51%) AWS
4 692 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
5 605 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
6 554 (5.44%) GCP
7 449 (4.41%) Serverless
8 363 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 338 (3.32%) SaaS
10 280 (2.75%) Snowflake
11 253 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 238 (2.34%) IBM Cloud
13 214 (2.10%) Azure Functions
14 213 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
15 212 (2.08%) GitHub
16 211 (2.07%) PowerApps
17 203 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
18 191 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
19 189 (1.85%) Entra ID
20 181 (1.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 304 (2.98%) Firewall
2 195 (1.91%) DNS
3 145 (1.42%) WAN
4 114 (1.12%) DHCP
4 114 (1.12%) VPN
5 112 (1.10%) Internet
6 109 (1.07%) LAN
7 105 (1.03%) TCP/IP
8 92 (0.90%) SAN
9 70 (0.69%) Broadband
10 69 (0.68%) Network Security
11 68 (0.67%) HTTP
12 59 (0.58%) VLAN
13 56 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
14 50 (0.49%) SSL
15 33 (0.32%) Wireless
16 30 (0.29%) SD-WAN
17 28 (0.27%) FTP
18 27 (0.26%) VoIP
19 26 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,374 (23.29%) SQL Server
2 1,829 (17.95%) Power BI
3 964 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
4 809 (7.94%) NoSQL
5 756 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
6 751 (7.37%) Tableau
7 643 (6.31%) Relational Database
8 621 (6.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 559 (5.48%) MongoDB
10 542 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 470 (4.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 447 (4.39%) MySQL
13 435 (4.27%) Data Lake
14 299 (2.93%) DB2
15 257 (2.52%) Big Data
16 235 (2.31%) Oracle Database
17 220 (2.16%) BigQuery
18 170 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 135 (1.32%) Hadoop
20 134 (1.31%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 915 (8.98%) Git
2 383 (3.76%) JIRA
3 347 (3.40%) Visual Studio
4 215 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 168 (1.65%) GitLab
6 103 (1.01%) Selenium
7 93 (0.91%) TeamCity
8 89 (0.87%) Postman
9 87 (0.85%) NUnit
10 78 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 72 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
12 57 (0.56%) Moq
13 51 (0.50%) JUnit
13 51 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
14 49 (0.48%) SpecFlow
15 47 (0.46%) Cucumber
16 45 (0.44%) Cypress.io
17 44 (0.43%) Eclipse
18 39 (0.38%) SoapUI
19 38 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,749 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 2,257 (22.14%) Finance
3 1,488 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
4 696 (6.83%) Retail
5 590 (5.79%) Public Sector
6 502 (4.93%) Banking
7 445 (4.37%) Marketing
8 418 (4.10%) Law
9 401 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 367 (3.60%) Manufacturing
11 345 (3.39%) Legal
12 326 (3.20%) Front Office
13 276 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
14 190 (1.86%) Back Office
15 173 (1.70%) Games
16 168 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
17 104 (1.02%) Telecoms
18 100 (0.98%) Advertising
19 99 (0.97%) Aerospace
20 92 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,108 (30.49%) Developer
2 1,987 (19.50%) Senior
3 1,955 (19.18%) Analyst
4 823 (8.07%) Lead
5 773 (7.58%) Data Engineer
6 696 (6.83%) .NET Developer
7 668 (6.55%) Senior Developer
8 614 (6.02%) Data Analyst
9 582 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 475 (4.66%) Software Developer
11 474 (4.65%) Full Stack Developer
12 446 (4.38%) Senior Analyst
13 431 (4.23%) C# Developer
14 397 (3.90%) Applications Support
15 325 (3.19%) Consultant
16 318 (3.12%) Support Analyst
17 305 (2.99%) Support Engineer
18 300 (2.94%) DBA
19 294 (2.88%) Architect
20 274 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,442 (23.96%) .NET
2 1,352 (13.27%) HTML
3 1,179 (11.57%) CSS
4 1,046 (10.26%) ASP.NET
5 916 (8.99%) React
6 874 (8.58%) AngularJS
7 786 (7.71%) REST
8 649 (6.37%) .NET Core
9 641 (6.29%) Web Services
10 532 (5.22%) jQuery
11 512 (5.02%) .NET Framework
12 470 (4.61%) Vue
13 422 (4.14%) XML
14 415 (4.07%) Entity Framework
15 397 (3.90%) Node.js
16 380 (3.73%) JSON
17 357 (3.50%) ASP.NET MVC
17 357 (3.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 339 (3.33%) HTML5
19 336 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 499 (4.90%) Data Structures
2 447 (4.39%) Algorithms
3 335 (3.29%) Management Information System
4 332 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 279 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 271 (2.66%) Hedge funds
7 265 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 248 (2.43%) Blockchain
9 235 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
10 200 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 185 (1.82%) Fixed Income
12 175 (1.72%) Derivative
13 170 (1.67%) Equities
14 163 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 151 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
16 147 (1.44%) Public Cloud
17 131 (1.29%) Mobile App
18 120 (1.18%) Client/Server
19 118 (1.16%) e-Learning
20 106 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1,261 (12.37%) Windows
2 988 (9.69%) Linux
3 384 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 312 (3.06%) Android
5 275 (2.70%) Apple iOS
6 204 (2.00%) Unix
7 157 (1.54%) Windows 10
8 95 (0.93%) CentOS
8 95 (0.93%) VMS
9 78 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
11 67 (0.66%) Windows 7
12 57 (0.56%) Ubuntu
13 44 (0.43%) Windows 8
14 35 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 31 (0.30%) Solaris
16 24 (0.24%) AIX
17 21 (0.21%) SUSE
18 19 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,544 (24.96%) Agile
2 2,039 (20.01%) Problem-Solving
3 2,001 (19.63%) Business Intelligence
4 1,568 (15.38%) Analytics
5 1,391 (13.65%) DevOps
6 1,153 (11.31%) Full Stack Development
7 1,149 (11.27%) ETL
8 1,114 (10.93%) Visualisation
9 1,111 (10.90%) Software Engineering
10 978 (9.60%) Mentoring
11 961 (9.43%) Artificial Intelligence
12 940 (9.22%) Computer Science
13 918 (9.01%) Data Modelling
14 877 (8.60%) MVC
15 852 (8.36%) Data Analysis
16 826 (8.10%) Data Science
17 774 (7.59%) Machine Learning
18 698 (6.85%) Data Pipeline
19 688 (6.75%) CI/CD
20 679 (6.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,661 (26.11%) Python
2 2,595 (25.46%) C#
3 1,970 (19.33%) JavaScript
4 1,054 (10.34%) Java
5 975 (9.57%) T-SQL
6 519 (5.09%) TypeScript
7 456 (4.47%) PowerShell
8 304 (2.98%) PL/SQL
9 288 (2.83%) R
10 234 (2.30%) PHP
11 202 (1.98%) C++
12 185 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 179 (1.76%) VBA
14 177 (1.74%) VB
15 165 (1.62%) VB.NET
16 140 (1.37%) Bash
17 133 (1.30%) C
18 114 (1.12%) Scala
19 75 (0.74%) Kotlin
20 71 (0.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,986 (19.49%) Degree
2 488 (4.79%) Security Cleared
3 487 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 360 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 351 (3.44%) DBS Check
6 280 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 249 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 123 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 117 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 71 (0.70%) 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 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
15 31 (0.30%) MBA
16 29 (0.28%) MCSA
17 28 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
18 27 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 25 (0.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 528 (5.18%) Data Quality
2 341 (3.35%) QA
3 162 (1.59%) SLA
4 121 (1.19%) GDPR
5 106 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 53 (0.52%) 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 (0.098%) NIST
13 9 (0.088%) MiFID
14 8 (0.078%) PSD2
15 7 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.069%) IFRS
15 7 (0.069%) ITGC
15 7 (0.069%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.069%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.069%) SOC 1
System Software
1 597 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 492 (4.83%) Docker
3 253 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 175 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 111 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 54 (0.53%) XenApp
7 47 (0.46%) XenDesktop
8 46 (0.45%) RACF
9 45 (0.44%) VirtualBox
10 44 (0.43%) vSphere
11 29 (0.28%) Firmware
12 26 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
13 21 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
14 17 (0.17%) VMware NSX
15 15 (0.15%) HDFS
15 15 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
16 13 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
17 11 (0.11%) vCloud
18 10 (0.098%) Terminal Services
19 9 (0.088%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 427 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 309 (3.03%) Terraform
3 126 (1.24%) Ansible
4 48 (0.47%) SCCM
5 47 (0.46%) Grafana
5 47 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (0.34%) SCOM
7 31 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 31 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 30 (0.29%) WSUS
9 24 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (0.24%) Data Guard
10 22 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
11 19 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (0.18%) Backup Exec
12 18 (0.18%) NetBackup
13 15 (0.15%) Puppet
14 14 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
15 13 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
16 12 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 2,635 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 855 (8.39%) Oracle
3 664 (6.51%) Databricks
4 369 (3.62%) Google
5 346 (3.39%) IBM
6 340 (3.34%) VMware
7 306 (3.00%) Red Hat
8 206 (2.02%) SAP
9 147 (1.44%) Citrix
10 104 (1.02%) Cisco
11 96 (0.94%) Veeam
12 92 (0.90%) Bloomberg
13 89 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 80 (0.78%) Informatica
15 78 (0.77%) F5
16 77 (0.76%) Alteryx
17 66 (0.65%) Sage
18 53 (0.52%) Adobe
19 46 (0.45%) CyberArk
20 41 (0.40%) ServiceNow