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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12,198 16,710 28,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.30% 16.76% 17.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.77% 38.76% 32.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8,847 9,954 15,640
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 33,170 43,111 86,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.44% 43.24% 54.06%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 27,518 43,441
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 £53,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.77% +6.00%

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 15 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 15 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 10,080 £55,000 -8.33% 2,600
UK excluding London -4 8,069 £50,000 -4.76% 1,566
Work from Home -2 4,875 £57,500 -2.54% 1,459
London 0 3,687 £70,000 - 1,130
North of England -4 2,015 £50,000 -3.85% 412
South East -3 1,678 £50,000 -9.09% 306
Scotland +1 1,496 £55,000 -8.33% 95
Midlands -3 1,355 £47,500 -5.00% 349
North West -3 1,142 £52,500 +1.80% 226
West Midlands -3 799 £50,000 - 218
South West -10 736 £50,000 - 203
Yorkshire -6 620 £47,500 -9.52% 146
East Midlands -1 546 £45,000 -6.25% 131
East of England -8 517 £47,500 -9.52% 145
North East -1 255 £50,000 -4.76% 45
Wales +2 213 £45,000 +12.50% 50
Northern Ireland -20 58 £55,000 +10.00% 25
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
1 623 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 401 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 279 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 275 (2.25%) Apache
5 249 (2.04%) IIS
6 177 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
7 154 (1.26%) SAS
8 131 (1.07%) CMS
9 126 (1.03%) FileNet
10 123 (1.01%) 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
1 789 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 421 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 70 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.23%) SPSS
7 22 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.14%) Trello
9 14 (0.11%) Simulink
10 9 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
11 7 (0.057%) 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
1 164 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
4 40 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 36 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 29 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 29 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
7 27 (0.22%) thinkFolio
8 25 (0.20%) SAP Business One
9 24 (0.20%) Elite 3E
10 23 (0.19%) NetSuite
11 22 (0.18%) Shopify
12 21 (0.17%) NEC Housing
13 20 (0.16%) Sage 200
13 20 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
14 18 (0.15%) Endur
15 16 (0.13%) Fidessa
16 15 (0.12%) Sage X3
16 15 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
17 14 (0.11%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4,107 (33.67%) Azure
2 2,381 (19.52%) AWS
3 2,128 (17.45%) Power Platform
4 786 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
5 699 (5.73%) GCP
6 653 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
7 541 (4.44%) Serverless
8 410 (3.36%) SaaS
9 389 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 308 (2.53%) GitHub
11 287 (2.35%) Snowflake
12 256 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 243 (1.99%) IBM Cloud
14 240 (1.97%) PowerApps
15 235 (1.93%) Amazon S3
16 233 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
17 226 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
18 220 (1.80%) Azure Functions
19 218 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
20 201 (1.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 332 (2.72%) Firewall
2 195 (1.60%) DNS
3 169 (1.39%) WAN
4 128 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 127 (1.04%) VPN
6 124 (1.02%) Internet
7 115 (0.94%) DHCP
7 115 (0.94%) LAN
8 90 (0.74%) SAN
9 84 (0.69%) HTTP
10 80 (0.66%) Broadband
11 72 (0.59%) Network Security
12 62 (0.51%) VLAN
13 58 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
14 51 (0.42%) SSL
15 39 (0.32%) Wireless
16 32 (0.26%) SD-WAN
17 31 (0.25%) MQTT
18 29 (0.24%) FTP
18 29 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,602 (21.33%) SQL Server
2 1,988 (16.30%) Power BI
3 1,527 (12.52%) NoSQL
4 1,064 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
5 838 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
6 824 (6.76%) Tableau
7 811 (6.65%) Relational Database
8 678 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 665 (5.45%) Big Data
10 664 (5.44%) MongoDB
11 616 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 506 (4.15%) MySQL
13 495 (4.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 492 (4.03%) Data Lake
15 357 (2.93%) Hadoop
16 330 (2.71%) DB2
17 329 (2.70%) Oracle Database
18 261 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
19 227 (1.86%) BigQuery
20 178 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,064 (8.72%) Git
2 476 (3.90%) JIRA
3 415 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 384 (3.15%) Visual Studio
5 187 (1.53%) JUnit
6 186 (1.52%) GitLab
7 146 (1.20%) Selenium
8 108 (0.89%) Postman
9 94 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
10 91 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 90 (0.74%) NUnit
12 88 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 85 (0.70%) Cucumber
14 83 (0.68%) Cypress.io
15 80 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
16 77 (0.63%) Jasmine
17 75 (0.61%) Maven
18 64 (0.52%) Mockito
19 63 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
20 50 (0.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,499 (28.69%) Finance
2 3,026 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 1,680 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 1,518 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,486 (12.18%) Law
6 997 (8.17%) Marketing
7 734 (6.02%) Legal
8 730 (5.98%) Retail
9 656 (5.38%) Banking
10 644 (5.28%) Public Sector
11 396 (3.25%) Manufacturing
12 315 (2.58%) Front Office
13 292 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
14 218 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
15 207 (1.70%) Games
16 203 (1.66%) Back Office
17 199 (1.63%) Financial Institution
18 180 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
19 167 (1.37%) Investment Banking
20 126 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,461 (28.37%) Developer
2 2,235 (18.32%) Senior
3 2,028 (16.63%) Analyst
4 1,576 (12.92%) Software Engineer
5 1,173 (9.62%) Lead
6 957 (7.85%) Data Engineer
7 743 (6.09%) Senior Developer
8 704 (5.77%) .NET Developer
9 633 (5.19%) Data Analyst
10 541 (4.44%) Java Engineer
11 523 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
12 521 (4.27%) Software Developer
13 499 (4.09%) Full Stack Developer
14 452 (3.71%) Applications Support
15 441 (3.62%) C# Developer
16 419 (3.43%) Full Stack Engineer
17 401 (3.29%) Senior Analyst
18 382 (3.13%) Support Analyst
19 365 (2.99%) DBA
20 363 (2.98%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,643 (21.67%) .NET
2 1,556 (12.76%) HTML
3 1,377 (11.29%) CSS
4 1,214 (9.95%) React
5 1,141 (9.35%) AngularJS
6 1,082 (8.87%) ASP.NET
7 939 (7.70%) REST
8 747 (6.12%) Web Services
9 726 (5.95%) .NET Core
10 612 (5.02%) jQuery
11 599 (4.91%) Spring
12 564 (4.62%) .NET Framework
13 512 (4.20%) JSON
13 512 (4.20%) Kafka
14 508 (4.16%) Vue
15 492 (4.03%) XML
16 481 (3.94%) Node.js
17 433 (3.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 431 (3.53%) Entity Framework
19 405 (3.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 842 (6.90%) Algorithms
2 545 (4.47%) Data Structures
3 498 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 374 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 362 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 332 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 295 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 273 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 269 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 262 (2.15%) Hedge funds
11 249 (2.04%) Blockchain
12 245 (2.01%) Public Cloud
13 178 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 170 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
14 170 (1.39%) Fixed Income
15 166 (1.36%) Derivative
16 157 (1.29%) Equities
17 140 (1.15%) Replication
18 139 (1.14%) Mobile App
19 130 (1.07%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,362 (11.17%) Windows
2 1,221 (10.01%) Linux
3 422 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 421 (3.45%) Unix
5 313 (2.57%) Android
6 282 (2.31%) Apple iOS
7 161 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 106 (0.87%) VMS
9 90 (0.74%) CentOS
10 77 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 77 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 73 (0.60%) Windows 7
12 72 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
13 62 (0.51%) Solaris
14 54 (0.44%) Ubuntu
15 45 (0.37%) Windows 8
16 36 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 24 (0.20%) AIX
18 22 (0.18%) SUSE
19 21 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,800 (31.15%) Agile
2 2,445 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
3 2,317 (18.99%) Software Engineering
4 2,219 (18.19%) Business Intelligence
5 1,743 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1,696 (13.90%) CI/CD
7 1,670 (13.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,654 (13.56%) DevOps
9 1,577 (12.93%) Visualisation
10 1,439 (11.80%) Full Stack Development
11 1,432 (11.74%) Machine Learning
12 1,417 (11.62%) SDLC
13 1,326 (10.87%) ETL
14 1,139 (9.34%) Computer Science
15 1,134 (9.30%) Mentoring
16 1,088 (8.92%) Data Modelling
17 979 (8.03%) Data Analysis
18 952 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
19 939 (7.70%) Decision-Making
20 902 (7.39%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3,245 (26.60%) Python
2 2,836 (23.25%) C#
3 2,249 (18.44%) JavaScript
4 2,142 (17.56%) Java
5 1,088 (8.92%) T-SQL
6 652 (5.35%) TypeScript
7 580 (4.75%) PL/SQL
8 452 (3.71%) PowerShell
9 405 (3.32%) Scala
10 314 (2.57%) R
11 251 (2.06%) PHP
12 241 (1.98%) C++
13 190 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 188 (1.54%) VB
15 178 (1.46%) VBA
16 164 (1.34%) VB.NET
17 156 (1.28%) Bash
18 144 (1.18%) C
19 81 (0.66%) Groovy
20 75 (0.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,225 (18.24%) Degree
2 562 (4.61%) Security Cleared
3 542 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 425 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 358 (2.93%) DBS Check
6 305 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 296 (2.43%) Master's Degree
8 120 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 119 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 83 (0.68%) PhD
11 53 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 46 (0.38%) MCSE
12 46 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
13 41 (0.34%) AWS Certification
14 32 (0.26%) ISTQB
14 32 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 31 (0.25%) MBA
16 30 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
16 30 (0.25%) CISA
16 30 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 543 (4.45%) Data Quality
2 408 (3.34%) QA
3 211 (1.73%) SLA
4 154 (1.26%) GDPR
5 134 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 55 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (0.38%) PMO
8 26 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (0.15%) ITGC
11 17 (0.14%) COBIT
12 16 (0.13%) NIST
13 14 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.066%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.066%) IFRS
14 8 (0.066%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.066%) PSD2
15 7 (0.057%) GMP
15 7 (0.057%) MiFID
15 7 (0.057%) SOC 1
System Software
1 601 (4.93%) Docker
2 589 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 281 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 182 (1.49%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 120 (0.98%) HDFS
7 57 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
8 53 (0.43%) XenApp
9 46 (0.38%) VirtualBox
9 46 (0.38%) XenDesktop
10 43 (0.35%) vSphere
11 36 (0.30%) Firmware
12 34 (0.28%) VMware NSX
13 23 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
14 15 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 13 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
16 12 (0.098%) vCloud
17 10 (0.082%) Terminal Services
18 9 (0.074%) Forefront TMG
18 9 (0.074%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 751 (6.16%) Kubernetes
2 476 (3.90%) 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 49 (0.40%) SCCM
7 46 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 45 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 37 (0.30%) SCOM
10 31 (0.25%) Kibana
11 29 (0.24%) WSUS
12 28 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 27 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 22 (0.18%) HAProxy
14 22 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
15 21 (0.17%) Zipkin
16 18 (0.15%) Backup Exec
16 18 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,809 (23.03%) Microsoft
2 1,376 (11.28%) Oracle
3 871 (7.14%) Databricks
4 449 (3.68%) Google
5 398 (3.26%) IBM
6 388 (3.18%) VMware
7 300 (2.46%) Red Hat
8 272 (2.23%) SAP
9 167 (1.37%) Informatica
10 151 (1.24%) Citrix
11 106 (0.87%) Cisco
12 102 (0.84%) Alteryx
13 97 (0.80%) Veeam
14 89 (0.73%) Salesforce
15 88 (0.72%) Cloudera
16 87 (0.71%) Splunk
17 84 (0.69%) Bloomberg
18 79 (0.65%) F5
19 77 (0.63%) Sage
20 69 (0.57%) Remedy