SQL Jobs in London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 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 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,735 5,503 14,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.58% 16.79% 19.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.90% 33.99% 32.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,831 3,889 6,652
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,999
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £91,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,763 £56,000
% change year-on-year -7.97% +6.72% +6.67%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,601 16,192 43,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.05% 49.40% 60.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7,564 12,057 18,819
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £115,000
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 London

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in London

SQL
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in London.

Salary trend for SQL in London

SQL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in London

SQL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the London 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
Central London +3 716 £70,000 -3.45% 123
South London -27 63 £60,000 +9.09% 12
West London -50 37 £64,500 +22.86% 33
East London +4 21 £57,500 +9.52% 20
North London -2 10 £70,000 +33.33% 2
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 129 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 120 (3.21%) Apache
3 109 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 106 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
5 81 (2.17%) SAS
6 65 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 52 (1.39%) CMS
7 52 (1.39%) IIS
8 30 (0.80%) Confluence
9 15 (0.40%) Drupal
10 13 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
11 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
11 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.19%) Apache Pig
13 7 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
15 4 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
15 4 (0.11%) WordPress
16 3 (0.080%) Luigi
Applications
1 285 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.46%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.46%) SPSS
6 7 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) Trello
8 3 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.054%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 65 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 31 (0.83%) SDL Web 8
4 26 (0.70%) thinkFolio
5 21 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 17 (0.46%) Fidessa
7 16 (0.43%) NEC Housing
8 11 (0.29%) Relativity
9 9 (0.24%) Sage X3
9 9 (0.24%) SAP Business One
10 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
11 7 (0.19%) Endur
11 7 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
12 6 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.16%) Primavera
13 5 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
13 5 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,254 (33.57%) Azure
2 852 (22.81%) AWS
3 699 (18.71%) Power Platform
4 306 (8.19%) GCP
5 219 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
6 176 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 171 (4.58%) Serverless
8 134 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 134 (3.59%) Snowflake
9 106 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
9 106 (2.84%) SaaS
10 88 (2.36%) PowerApps
11 82 (2.20%) GitHub
12 78 (2.09%) Power Automate
13 74 (1.98%) Amazon S3
13 74 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
14 70 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
15 60 (1.61%) dbt
16 55 (1.47%) Azure Functions
17 51 (1.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.06%) Firewall
2 55 (1.47%) DNS
3 42 (1.12%) VPN
4 39 (1.04%) Internet
5 33 (0.88%) DHCP
6 29 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 28 (0.75%) Network Security
8 24 (0.64%) WAN
9 21 (0.56%) HTTP
9 21 (0.56%) SAN
10 17 (0.46%) FIX Connectivity
11 14 (0.37%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.37%) VLAN
12 11 (0.29%) BGP
12 11 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
12 11 (0.29%) MPLS
13 10 (0.27%) LAN
14 9 (0.24%) FTP
14 9 (0.24%) Wireless
15 7 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 660 (17.67%) SQL Server
2 637 (17.05%) Power BI
3 424 (11.35%) Tableau
4 389 (10.41%) Data Warehouse
5 255 (6.83%) NoSQL
6 225 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
7 219 (5.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 194 (5.19%) Relational Database
9 185 (4.95%) Data Lake
10 181 (4.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 166 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 144 (3.86%) MongoDB
13 142 (3.80%) Big Data
14 109 (2.92%) MySQL
15 85 (2.28%) Data Mining
16 78 (2.09%) Oracle Database
17 77 (2.06%) BigQuery
18 74 (1.98%) Hadoop
19 64 (1.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 58 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 387 (10.36%) Git
2 146 (3.91%) JIRA
3 100 (2.68%) Visual Studio
4 82 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 75 (2.01%) GitLab
6 46 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 40 (1.07%) NUnit
8 38 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 33 (0.88%) SpecFlow
10 31 (0.83%) Moq
11 27 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
12 26 (0.70%) Eclipse
13 23 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
14 21 (0.56%) Sourcetree
15 18 (0.48%) Cucumber
15 18 (0.48%) git-flow
15 18 (0.48%) Postman
15 18 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
16 15 (0.40%) JUnit
16 15 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 1,187 (31.78%) Finance
2 1,077 (28.84%) Social Skills
3 671 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 351 (9.40%) Banking
5 326 (8.73%) Front Office
6 244 (6.53%) Retail
7 202 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 186 (4.98%) Marketing
9 185 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
10 148 (3.96%) Back Office
11 146 (3.91%) Law
12 126 (3.37%) Legal
13 73 (1.95%) Public Sector
14 53 (1.42%) Investment Banking
15 51 (1.37%) Games
16 41 (1.10%) Retail Banking
17 34 (0.91%) Advertising
18 33 (0.88%) Financial Institution
19 32 (0.86%) Manufacturing
20 31 (0.83%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,034 (27.68%) Senior
2 999 (26.75%) Analyst
3 919 (24.61%) Developer
4 383 (10.25%) Data Engineer
5 351 (9.40%) Data Analyst
6 320 (8.57%) Lead
7 295 (7.90%) Senior Developer
8 260 (6.96%) Senior Analyst
9 214 (5.73%) Software Engineer
10 201 (5.38%) Full Stack Developer
11 194 (5.19%) .NET Developer
12 191 (5.11%) Applications Support
13 183 (4.90%) Support Analyst
14 140 (3.75%) Financial Analyst
15 133 (3.56%) Senior Data Analyst
16 132 (3.53%) Business Analyst
17 126 (3.37%) Data Scientist
18 125 (3.35%) Senior Data Engineer
19 119 (3.19%) C# Developer
19 119 (3.19%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 592 (15.85%) .NET
2 299 (8.01%) React
3 266 (7.12%) HTML
4 265 (7.10%) AngularJS
5 255 (6.83%) CSS
6 233 (6.24%) REST
7 215 (5.76%) ASP.NET
8 166 (4.44%) Web Services
9 165 (4.42%) PySpark
10 159 (4.26%) .NET Framework
11 150 (4.02%) XML
12 143 (3.83%) .NET Core
13 132 (3.53%) JSON
14 121 (3.24%) jQuery
15 120 (3.21%) Kafka
16 111 (2.97%) RESTful
17 102 (2.73%) SOAP
18 100 (2.68%) Pandas
19 94 (2.52%) Redux
19 94 (2.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 262 (7.01%) Hedge funds
2 184 (4.93%) Fixed Income
3 175 (4.69%) Derivative
4 170 (4.55%) Equities
5 168 (4.50%) Product Ownership
6 163 (4.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 150 (4.02%) Algorithms
8 132 (3.53%) Onboarding
9 123 (3.29%) Management Information System
10 121 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
11 90 (2.41%) Data Structures
12 79 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
13 57 (1.53%) Client/Server
14 49 (1.31%) Reinsurance
15 45 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
16 42 (1.12%) Cloud Native
17 41 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
18 33 (0.88%) IoT
18 33 (0.88%) Public Cloud
19 31 (0.83%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 327 (8.76%) Windows
2 267 (7.15%) Linux
3 117 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 114 (3.05%) Unix
5 40 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 28 (0.75%) CentOS
7 24 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.56%) Android
8 21 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (0.35%) Solaris
11 12 (0.32%) zOS
12 11 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.27%) SUSE
14 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
15 7 (0.19%) VMS
15 7 (0.19%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.080%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (22.36%) Agile
2 833 (22.30%) Analytics
3 713 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
4 690 (18.47%) Business Intelligence
5 555 (14.86%) Visualisation
6 497 (13.31%) ETL
7 473 (12.66%) DevOps
8 448 (11.99%) Data Modelling
9 441 (11.81%) Data Science
10 429 (11.49%) Data Analysis
11 396 (10.60%) Computer Science
12 386 (10.33%) Software Engineering
13 382 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
14 377 (10.09%) Machine Learning
15 367 (9.83%) Full Stack Development
16 340 (9.10%) Mathematics
17 330 (8.84%) Statistics
18 324 (8.67%) Mentoring
19 320 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
20 309 (8.27%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,549 (41.47%) Python
2 691 (18.50%) C#
3 512 (13.71%) JavaScript
4 339 (9.08%) Java
5 325 (8.70%) T-SQL
6 201 (5.38%) TypeScript
7 188 (5.03%) R
8 175 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 113 (3.03%) PL/SQL
10 87 (2.33%) VBA
11 83 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 53 (1.42%) Scala
13 52 (1.39%) Bash
14 51 (1.37%) C++
15 50 (1.34%) C
16 45 (1.20%) PHP
16 45 (1.20%) XPath
17 26 (0.70%) Perl
18 25 (0.67%) Ruby
19 24 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 940 (25.17%) Degree
2 176 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 176 (4.71%) DBS Check
3 158 (4.23%) Master's Degree
4 86 (2.30%) Security Cleared
5 69 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 62 (1.66%) SC Cleared
7 45 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 44 (1.18%) PhD
9 36 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
11 19 (0.51%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.51%) MCSE
12 16 (0.43%) MCSA
13 14 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.37%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 10 (0.27%) MBA
16 9 (0.24%) MCP
16 9 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (6.88%) Data Quality
2 123 (3.29%) QA
3 49 (1.31%) SLA
4 37 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 23 (0.62%) GDPR
6 11 (0.29%) PMO
7 9 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.24%) MiFID
8 7 (0.19%) COBIT
8 7 (0.19%) SOC 1
9 6 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) IFRS
9 6 (0.16%) ITGC
10 5 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.11%) EMIR
11 4 (0.11%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 188 (5.03%) Docker
2 139 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.48%) vSphere
6 15 (0.40%) HDFS
7 11 (0.29%) vCloud
8 9 (0.24%) Firmware
8 9 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
10 6 (0.16%) RACF
10 6 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.13%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.11%) XenApp
13 3 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.054%) IAG
14 2 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 204 (5.46%) Kubernetes
2 172 (4.61%) Terraform
3 41 (1.10%) Ansible
4 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.59%) Grafana
6 18 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (0.40%) SCCM
8 12 (0.32%) WSUS
9 11 (0.29%) Control-M
10 10 (0.27%) logstash
10 10 (0.27%) SCOM
10 10 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.24%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.21%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.21%) Istio
13 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
14 5 (0.13%) Backup Exec
14 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.13%) Kibana
14 5 (0.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 692 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 427 (11.43%) Databricks
3 301 (8.06%) Oracle
4 156 (4.18%) Google
5 92 (2.46%) Bloomberg
6 57 (1.53%) SAP
7 53 (1.42%) VMware
8 48 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 39 (1.04%) Alteryx
9 39 (1.04%) Red Hat
10 38 (1.02%) Cisco
11 35 (0.94%) F5
12 31 (0.83%) ION Trading
13 28 (0.75%) IBM
13 28 (0.75%) Murex
14 27 (0.72%) Adobe
14 27 (0.72%) Veeam
15 25 (0.67%) Juniper
16 24 (0.64%) Sage
17 23 (0.62%) Trayport