SQL Jobs in Central London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 689 892 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 18.18% 17.26% 18.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.73% 34.51% 35.47%
Number of salaries quoted 507 804 1,313
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,350
25th Percentile £53,125 £55,750 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £105,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

All Programming Languages
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,651 2,585 4,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 43.56% 50.01% 52.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 2,339 3,665
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,073 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,250 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Central London

SQL
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for SQL in Central London

SQL
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in Central London

SQL
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
City of London +3 629 £70,000 -6.67% 111
City of Westminster +15 35 £75,000 -5.92% 5
West End of London +8 26 £112,500 +66.67% 7
Camden -4 8 £55,000 -18.52% 2
Lambeth +7 4 £45,000 -
Kensington and Chelsea +5 3 £50,000 -
Southwark +9 2 £63,750 +32.16% 1
SQL
London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 20 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.76%) CMS
3 12 (1.74%) SAS
4 11 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.31%) IIS
7 8 (1.16%) Apache Spark
8 7 (1.02%) Apache
9 6 (0.87%) Drupal
10 5 (0.73%) Confluence
10 5 (0.73%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.44%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.29%) Moodle
13 1 (0.15%) Documentum
13 1 (0.15%) Site Server
13 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.15%) Tornado
13 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 70 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.16%) Photoshop
4 7 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.44%) SPSS
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.76%) Aladdin
1 19 (2.76%) thinkFolio
2 12 (1.74%) SDL Web 8
3 8 (1.16%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.58%) Relativity
6 2 (0.29%) Endur
6 2 (0.29%) Farmplan
6 2 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.29%) KEYPrime
6 2 (0.29%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.29%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.29%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 2 (0.29%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.15%) Finacle
7 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 250 (36.28%) Azure
2 135 (19.59%) Power Platform
3 134 (19.45%) AWS
4 47 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (5.22%) GCP
6 32 (4.64%) SaaS
7 26 (3.77%) Serverless
8 24 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (3.05%) Snowflake
11 17 (2.47%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (2.03%) Google Sheets
14 13 (1.89%) Entra ID
14 13 (1.89%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.74%) Azure API Management
16 11 (1.60%) GitHub
17 10 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
17 10 (1.45%) PaaS
17 10 (1.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.63%) Internet
2 14 (2.03%) HTTP
3 11 (1.60%) DNS
4 8 (1.16%) Firewall
4 8 (1.16%) SD-WAN
4 8 (1.16%) WAN
5 4 (0.58%) Network Security
5 4 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.44%) PSTN
7 2 (0.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.29%) SNA
7 2 (0.29%) SSL
7 2 (0.29%) VPN
8 1 (0.15%) DHCP
8 1 (0.15%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.15%) LAN
8 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (23.37%) SQL Server
2 127 (18.43%) Power BI
3 117 (16.98%) Tableau
4 65 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (6.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 40 (5.81%) Relational Database
7 36 (5.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 28 (4.06%) MySQL
9 27 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (3.05%) NoSQL
12 19 (2.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 17 (2.47%) Data Lake
13 17 (2.47%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.89%) GIS
15 12 (1.74%) Data Mining
15 12 (1.74%) MongoDB
16 10 (1.45%) RDBMS
17 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (1.16%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 108 (15.67%) Git
2 27 (3.92%) Visual Studio
3 25 (3.63%) JIRA
4 21 (3.05%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.61%) GitLab
5 18 (2.61%) SpecFlow
6 16 (2.32%) NUnit
7 13 (1.89%) Eclipse
8 12 (1.74%) Jenkins
8 12 (1.74%) Moq
9 9 (1.31%) git-flow
10 8 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (1.16%) Postman
10 8 (1.16%) Sourcetree
11 7 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.02%) Katalon Studio
11 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.58%) MLflow
13 3 (0.44%) MSTest
13 3 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 244 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 174 (25.25%) Finance
3 151 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.43%) Retail
5 50 (7.26%) Presentation Skills
6 30 (4.35%) Marketing
7 28 (4.06%) Front Office
7 28 (4.06%) Law
8 24 (3.48%) Legal
9 21 (3.05%) Banking
10 16 (2.32%) Back Office
11 12 (1.74%) Advertising
11 12 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.16%) Games
13 8 (1.16%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.02%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.73%) Public Sector
17 4 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 205 (29.75%) Senior
2 181 (26.27%) Analyst
3 147 (21.34%) Developer
4 95 (13.79%) Lead
5 69 (10.01%) Data Analyst
6 62 (9.00%) Senior Developer
7 57 (8.27%) Data Engineer
8 51 (7.40%) Senior Analyst
9 45 (6.53%) Applications Support
10 44 (6.39%) Data Scientist
11 38 (5.52%) Support Analyst
12 35 (5.08%) Full Stack Developer
13 31 (4.50%) C# Developer
13 31 (4.50%) Senior Data Analyst
13 31 (4.50%) Senior Data Scientist
14 30 (4.35%) Software Developer
14 30 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
15 29 (4.21%) Software Engineer
16 26 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 25 (3.63%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (17.71%) .NET
2 82 (11.90%) HTML
3 78 (11.32%) CSS
4 47 (6.82%) PySpark
4 47 (6.82%) React
5 45 (6.53%) .NET Framework
5 45 (6.53%) REST
6 42 (6.10%) Pandas
7 39 (5.66%) ASP.NET
8 33 (4.79%) AngularJS
8 33 (4.79%) Web Services
9 32 (4.64%) TensorFlow
10 30 (4.35%) RESTful
11 29 (4.21%) scikit-learn
12 25 (3.63%) HTML5
13 24 (3.48%) jQuery
14 23 (3.34%) XML
15 22 (3.19%) Entity Framework
16 21 (3.05%) WPF
17 19 (2.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.22%) Algorithms
2 35 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
3 26 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.76%) Fixed Income
5 17 (2.47%) Reinsurance
6 15 (2.18%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.74%) Legacy Code
8 12 (1.74%) Life Science
9 11 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.45%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.16%) Clustering
11 8 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.02%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
12 7 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.02%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 74 (10.74%) Windows
2 35 (5.08%) Windows Server
3 34 (4.93%) Linux
4 12 (1.74%) Unix
5 9 (1.31%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.44%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.15%) AIX
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (22.21%) Visualisation
2 146 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
3 140 (20.32%) Analytics
4 135 (19.59%) Business Intelligence
5 109 (15.82%) Agile
6 103 (14.95%) Data Analysis
6 103 (14.95%) Data Science
7 102 (14.80%) Actionable Insight
8 99 (14.37%) DevOps
9 89 (12.92%) Computer Science
9 89 (12.92%) Statistics
10 88 (12.77%) ETL
11 85 (12.34%) Mathematics
12 82 (11.90%) Decision-Making
13 72 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
14 69 (10.01%) Data Visualisation
15 67 (9.72%) Data Modelling
16 66 (9.58%) Storytelling
17 65 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
18 64 (9.29%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 237 (34.40%) Python
2 128 (18.58%) C#
3 99 (14.37%) JavaScript
4 80 (11.61%) T-SQL
5 28 (4.06%) PowerShell
5 28 (4.06%) R
6 27 (3.92%) Java
7 22 (3.19%) PHP
8 21 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (2.18%) PL/SQL
9 15 (2.18%) TypeScript
9 15 (2.18%) XPath
10 14 (2.03%) VBA
11 13 (1.89%) C++
12 8 (1.16%) C
13 5 (0.73%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.73%) Scala
14 3 (0.44%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 204 (29.61%) Degree
2 63 (9.14%) DBS Check
3 42 (6.10%) Master's Degree
4 37 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.87%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.87%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.73%) PMI Certification
6 5 (0.73%) PMP
7 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.44%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.44%) PhD
9 2 (0.29%) CFA
9 2 (0.29%) ISEB
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.22%) QA
3 14 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.45%) SLA
5 6 (0.87%) SOC 1
6 2 (0.29%) COBIT
6 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.74%) Docker
3 11 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.29%) vSphere
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) XenApp
5 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (4.93%) Terraform
2 30 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (0.58%) SCCM
4 3 (0.44%) Backup Exec
5 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.29%) Ansible
5 2 (0.29%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.29%) Foglight
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.29%) SCOM
6 1 (0.15%) cPanel
6 1 (0.15%) Kibana
6 1 (0.15%) logstash
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 134 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 93 (13.50%) Databricks
3 49 (7.11%) Oracle
4 36 (5.22%) Google
5 27 (3.92%) Bloomberg
6 19 (2.76%) Charles River
7 16 (2.32%) Aderant
8 12 (1.74%) Adobe
8 12 (1.74%) Guidewire
9 11 (1.60%) VMware
10 8 (1.16%) Cognizant
11 7 (1.02%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.02%) Cisco
12 6 (0.87%) Citrix
12 6 (0.87%) FFastFill
12 6 (0.87%) Refinitiv
13 5 (0.73%) HP
13 5 (0.73%) Informatica
13 5 (0.73%) SolarWinds
13 5 (0.73%) Veeam