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 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 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,114 9,608 11,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.88% 16.56% 15.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.49% 41.86% 34.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,614 5,361 7,892
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 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +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 22,861 22,951 33,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.66% 39.56% 45.53%
Number of salaries quoted 16,543 13,080 21,036
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,194 £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 29 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 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
North of England -4 2,026 £50,000 -3.85% 475
South East -3 1,693 £50,000 -9.09% 288
Scotland +4 1,465 £55,000 -8.33% 109
Midlands -3 1,411 £47,500 -5.00% 302
North West -2 1,139 £52,500 +1.94% 271
West Midlands -5 827 £50,000 - 178
South West -10 735 £50,000 - 195
Yorkshire -7 627 £46,750 -10.95% 163
East Midlands -2 573 £45,000 -10.00% 124
East of England -10 513 £47,500 -9.52% 136
North East -1 262 £50,000 -4.76% 48
Wales +2 214 £45,000 +12.50% 40
Northern Ireland -18 58 £55,500 +11.00% 28
Channel Islands 0 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 (5.72%) Apache Spark
2 260 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 207 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 179 (2.21%) IIS
5 153 (1.89%) Apache
6 104 (1.28%) FileNet
7 95 (1.17%) Confluence
8 75 (0.92%) CMS
9 63 (0.78%) SAS
10 57 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
11 49 (0.60%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.54%) Oracle Service Bus
13 32 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
14 29 (0.36%) Umbraco
15 23 (0.28%) 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
1 474 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 295 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 40 (0.49%) 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 80 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.51%) Siebel CRM
4 34 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 19 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 19 (0.23%) Shopify
6 17 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 15 (0.18%) SAP Business One
8 13 (0.16%) Magento
8 13 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 11 (0.14%) Endur
10 11 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
11 9 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
12 8 (0.099%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.099%) HFM
12 8 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
13 7 (0.086%) Hyperion Planning
13 7 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
13 7 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,671 (32.92%) Azure
2 1,418 (17.48%) AWS
3 1,375 (16.95%) Power Platform
4 515 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
5 500 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
6 333 (4.10%) Serverless
7 306 (3.77%) GCP
8 269 (3.32%) SaaS
9 230 (2.83%) IBM Cloud
10 191 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 190 (2.34%) GitHub
12 161 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
13 152 (1.87%) Azure Functions
14 151 (1.86%) Amazon S3
15 150 (1.85%) Entra ID
15 150 (1.85%) Snowflake
16 149 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
16 149 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
17 137 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
17 137 (1.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 239 (2.95%) Firewall
2 141 (1.74%) DNS
3 135 (1.66%) WAN
4 101 (1.24%) LAN
5 100 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 84 (1.04%) DHCP
7 79 (0.97%) Broadband
8 78 (0.96%) Internet
9 72 (0.89%) SAN
9 72 (0.89%) VPN
10 63 (0.78%) HTTP
11 54 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
12 48 (0.59%) SSL
13 45 (0.55%) VLAN
14 43 (0.53%) Network Security
15 32 (0.39%) MQTT
16 28 (0.35%) VoIP
17 26 (0.32%) Wireless
17 26 (0.32%) WLAN
18 22 (0.27%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,848 (22.78%) SQL Server
2 1,311 (16.16%) Power BI
3 1,243 (15.32%) NoSQL
4 626 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
5 596 (7.35%) Relational Database
6 586 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
7 519 (6.40%) MongoDB
8 492 (6.06%) Big Data
9 445 (5.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 418 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 373 (4.60%) MySQL
12 369 (4.55%) Tableau
13 314 (3.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 299 (3.68%) DB2
15 277 (3.41%) Hadoop
16 274 (3.38%) Data Lake
17 238 (2.93%) Oracle Database
18 227 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
19 142 (1.75%) BigQuery
20 132 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 693 (8.54%) Git
2 304 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 296 (3.65%) JIRA
4 277 (3.41%) Visual Studio
5 168 (2.07%) JUnit
6 122 (1.50%) 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 (0.76%) Mockito
13 61 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
14 60 (0.74%) Cucumber
15 59 (0.73%) Maven
16 49 (0.60%) NUnit
17 47 (0.58%) TeamCity
18 43 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
19 39 (0.48%) JMeter
19 39 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 2,256 (27.80%) Finance
2 1,849 (22.79%) Social Skills
3 1,309 (16.13%) Law
4 1,290 (15.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 948 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
6 769 (9.48%) Marketing
7 643 (7.92%) Legal
8 551 (6.79%) Public Sector
9 464 (5.72%) Retail
10 359 (4.42%) Manufacturing
11 306 (3.77%) Banking
12 183 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
13 158 (1.95%) Financial Institution
14 145 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
15 141 (1.74%) Games
16 118 (1.45%) Investment Banking
17 93 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
18 90 (1.11%) Telecoms
19 86 (1.06%) Aerospace
20 78 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,413 (29.74%) Developer
2 1,315 (16.21%) Software Engineer
3 1,201 (14.80%) Senior
4 1,057 (13.03%) Analyst
5 831 (10.24%) Lead
6 511 (6.30%) Data Engineer
7 510 (6.29%) .NET Developer
8 509 (6.27%) Java Engineer
9 496 (6.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 451 (5.56%) Software Developer
11 439 (5.41%) Senior Developer
12 362 (4.46%) Full Stack Engineer
13 334 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
14 313 (3.86%) C# Developer
15 299 (3.68%) DBA
16 291 (3.59%) Full Stack Developer
17 289 (3.56%) Data Analyst
18 285 (3.51%) Big Data Engineer
18 285 (3.51%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 275 (3.39%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,957 (24.12%) .NET
2 1,268 (15.63%) HTML
3 1,106 (13.63%) CSS
4 896 (11.04%) React
5 855 (10.54%) AngularJS
6 845 (10.41%) ASP.NET
7 681 (8.39%) REST
8 559 (6.89%) Web Services
9 557 (6.86%) .NET Core
10 491 (6.05%) jQuery
11 481 (5.93%) Spring
12 413 (5.09%) Vue
13 401 (4.94%) Node.js
14 397 (4.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 390 (4.81%) .NET Framework
16 387 (4.77%) Kafka
17 351 (4.33%) Entity Framework
18 340 (4.19%) JSON
19 335 (4.13%) XML
20 299 (3.68%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 686 (8.45%) Algorithms
2 447 (5.51%) Data Structures
3 439 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 263 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 260 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
6 249 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 229 (2.82%) Blockchain
8 198 (2.44%) Public Cloud
9 156 (1.92%) Product Ownership
10 155 (1.91%) Onboarding
11 135 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
12 125 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 117 (1.44%) e-Learning
14 115 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 107 (1.32%) Clustering
16 103 (1.27%) Replication
17 76 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
18 75 (0.92%) Data Centre
19 74 (0.91%) NHS
20 72 (0.89%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 997 (12.29%) Windows
2 890 (10.97%) Linux
3 296 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 292 (3.60%) Android
5 279 (3.44%) Unix
6 255 (3.14%) Apple iOS
7 117 (1.44%) Windows 10
8 100 (1.23%) VMS
9 72 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 69 (0.85%) CentOS
10 69 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
11 63 (0.78%) Windows 7
12 62 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
13 48 (0.59%) Solaris
14 44 (0.54%) Windows 8
15 33 (0.41%) Ubuntu
16 26 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 21 (0.26%) AIX
18 19 (0.23%) Debian
19 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,862 (35.27%) Agile
2 1,874 (23.10%) Software Engineering
3 1,673 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
4 1,421 (17.51%) Business Intelligence
5 1,306 (16.10%) CI/CD
6 1,295 (15.96%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,260 (15.53%) SDLC
8 1,058 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
9 1,048 (12.92%) DevOps
10 997 (12.29%) Machine Learning
11 994 (12.25%) Visualisation
12 846 (10.43%) Analytics
13 770 (9.49%) Mentoring
14 764 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 759 (9.35%) MVC
16 751 (9.26%) Operational Stability
17 741 (9.13%) ETL
18 734 (9.05%) Computer Science
19 635 (7.83%) Decision-Making
20 609 (7.51%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2,037 (25.10%) C#
2 1,693 (20.87%) Java
3 1,684 (20.75%) JavaScript
4 1,605 (19.78%) Python
5 717 (8.84%) T-SQL
6 438 (5.40%) TypeScript
7 435 (5.36%) PL/SQL
8 325 (4.01%) Scala
9 298 (3.67%) PowerShell
10 194 (2.39%) PHP
11 176 (2.17%) C++
12 172 (2.12%) VB
13 154 (1.90%) VB.NET
14 115 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 110 (1.36%) R
16 99 (1.22%) Bash
16 99 (1.22%) VBA
17 90 (1.11%) C
18 68 (0.84%) Groovy
19 63 (0.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,226 (15.11%) Degree
2 461 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 372 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 345 (4.25%) SC Cleared
5 232 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 191 (2.35%) DBS Check
7 134 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 82 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 78 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 40 (0.49%) PhD
11 38 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 30 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (0.33%) ISTQB
14 24 (0.30%) MCSE
15 22 (0.27%) CISA
15 22 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.27%) MBA
16 20 (0.25%) OCP
16 20 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
17 19 (0.23%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 261 (3.22%) QA
3 164 (2.02%) SLA
4 104 (1.28%) GDPR
5 84 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 44 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.39%) 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
1 469 (5.78%) Active Directory
2 367 (4.52%) Docker
3 224 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 158 (1.95%) Hyper-V
5 117 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 100 (1.23%) HDFS
7 50 (0.62%) XenApp
8 47 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
9 46 (0.57%) XenDesktop
10 45 (0.55%) RACF
10 45 (0.55%) VirtualBox
11 30 (0.37%) VMware NSX
12 27 (0.33%) Firmware
13 26 (0.32%) 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
1 491 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 274 (3.38%) Terraform
3 98 (1.21%) Ansible
4 79 (0.97%) Grafana
5 53 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
6 47 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 46 (0.57%) Data Guard
8 35 (0.43%) SCCM
9 34 (0.42%) Progress Chef
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 18 (0.22%) WSUS
15 14 (0.17%) Puppet
16 13 (0.16%) Backup Exec
16 13 (0.16%) NetBackup
17 11 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2,085 (25.70%) Microsoft
2 1,012 (12.47%) Oracle
3 421 (5.19%) Databricks
4 331 (4.08%) IBM
5 317 (3.91%) VMware
6 267 (3.29%) Red Hat
7 265 (3.27%) Google
8 171 (2.11%) SAP
9 146 (1.80%) Informatica
10 128 (1.58%) Citrix
11 76 (0.94%) Veeam
12 71 (0.88%) Cloudera
13 69 (0.85%) Cisco
14 66 (0.81%) Splunk
15 61 (0.75%) Remedy
16 56 (0.69%) Dynatrace
17 54 (0.67%) Alteryx
17 54 (0.67%) Sage
18 45 (0.55%) Sun
19 44 (0.54%) CyberArk