SQL Jobs in the City of London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 617 842 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 18.35% 17.76% 18.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.37% 34.10% 35.31%
Number of salaries quoted 471 762 1,184
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £103,750
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -

All Programming Languages
City of 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 City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,567 2,469 3,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 46.61% 52.08% 53.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,292 2,241 3,341
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,750 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £79,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.33% +3.45%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the City of London

SQL
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for SQL in the City of London

SQL
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the City of London

SQL
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the City of London region over the 6 months to 1 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 Bridge +22 1 £72,500 +34.88%
SQL
Central London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 21 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.08%) CMS
3 11 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.78%) SAS
4 10 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.46%) IIS
6 8 (1.30%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.97%) Apache
7 6 (0.97%) Confluence
7 6 (0.97%) Drupal
8 5 (0.81%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.32%) Moodle
11 1 (0.16%) Documentum
11 1 (0.16%) Site Server
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Tornado
11 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 65 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.30%) Photoshop
4 7 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.49%) SPSS
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.11%) Aladdin
1 13 (2.11%) thinkFolio
2 12 (1.94%) SDL Web 8
3 7 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.65%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.65%) Relativity
5 2 (0.32%) Endur
5 2 (0.32%) Farmplan
5 2 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.32%) KEYPrime
5 2 (0.32%) MIS ActiveH
5 2 (0.32%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.32%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 2 (0.32%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.16%) Finacle
6 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 236 (38.25%) Azure
2 122 (19.77%) Power Platform
3 112 (18.15%) AWS
4 47 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (6.00%) GCP
6 28 (4.54%) SaaS
7 26 (4.21%) Serverless
8 25 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (3.08%) Snowflake
11 15 (2.43%) PowerApps
12 14 (2.27%) Google Sheets
13 13 (2.11%) Amazon S3
13 13 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (2.11%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.78%) Azure API Management
14 11 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (1.78%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.62%) GitHub
15 10 (1.62%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.05%) Internet
2 14 (2.27%) HTTP
3 9 (1.46%) DNS
4 7 (1.13%) Firewall
4 7 (1.13%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.13%) WAN
5 4 (0.65%) Network Security
5 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.49%) PSTN
6 3 (0.49%) VPN
7 2 (0.32%) SAN
7 2 (0.32%) SNA
7 2 (0.32%) SSL
8 1 (0.16%) DHCP
8 1 (0.16%) LAN
8 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (23.99%) SQL Server
2 114 (18.48%) Power BI
3 76 (12.32%) Tableau
4 56 (9.08%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 30 (4.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 26 (4.21%) MySQL
7 26 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (3.24%) NoSQL
10 16 (2.59%) Data Lake
11 14 (2.27%) Oracle Database
12 13 (2.11%) GIS
13 11 (1.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 10 (1.62%) Data Mining
15 9 (1.46%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.30%) Metadata
16 8 (1.30%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (11.99%) Git
2 24 (3.89%) Visual Studio
3 22 (3.57%) JIRA
4 20 (3.24%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.92%) SpecFlow
6 17 (2.76%) GitLab
7 14 (2.27%) NUnit
8 12 (1.94%) Jenkins
8 12 (1.94%) Moq
9 11 (1.78%) Eclipse
10 9 (1.46%) git-flow
11 8 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (1.30%) Postman
11 8 (1.30%) Sourcetree
12 7 (1.13%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.97%) Katalon Studio
14 4 (0.65%) MLflow
15 3 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
15 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
16 2 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 199 (32.25%) Social Skills
2 156 (25.28%) Finance
3 125 (20.26%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (7.29%) Retail
5 30 (4.86%) Marketing
5 30 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
6 26 (4.21%) Law
7 22 (3.57%) Front Office
8 21 (3.40%) Banking
8 21 (3.40%) Legal
9 16 (2.59%) Back Office
10 13 (2.11%) Advertising
11 11 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.30%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.13%) Games
14 6 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.81%) Public Sector
16 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 173 (28.04%) Senior
2 151 (24.47%) Analyst
3 142 (23.01%) Developer
4 83 (13.45%) Lead
5 60 (9.72%) Senior Developer
6 54 (8.75%) Data Engineer
7 49 (7.94%) Data Analyst
8 39 (6.32%) Senior Analyst
9 38 (6.16%) Applications Support
10 35 (5.67%) Support Analyst
11 31 (5.02%) Data Scientist
11 31 (5.02%) Full Stack Developer
11 31 (5.02%) Software Developer
12 29 (4.70%) C# Developer
12 29 (4.70%) Software Engineer
13 24 (3.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 24 (3.89%) Systems Analyst
14 23 (3.73%) .NET Developer
14 23 (3.73%) Senior Software Developer
15 22 (3.57%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (18.80%) .NET
2 80 (12.97%) HTML
3 76 (12.32%) CSS
4 47 (7.62%) REST
5 45 (7.29%) React
6 43 (6.97%) .NET Framework
7 37 (6.00%) ASP.NET
8 33 (5.35%) Web Services
9 32 (5.19%) PySpark
10 30 (4.86%) AngularJS
11 29 (4.70%) Pandas
11 29 (4.70%) RESTful
12 25 (4.05%) HTML5
13 24 (3.89%) XML
14 23 (3.73%) jQuery
15 21 (3.40%) Entity Framework
15 21 (3.40%) WPF
16 20 (3.24%) SOAP
17 18 (2.92%) TensorFlow
18 17 (2.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (4.05%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.73%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.08%) Fixed Income
6 18 (2.92%) Reinsurance
7 15 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.94%) Legacy Code
8 12 (1.94%) Life Science
9 11 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.78%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.13%) Clustering
11 7 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.13%) Equities
12 6 (0.97%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (11.67%) Windows
2 34 (5.51%) Windows Server
3 33 (5.35%) Linux
4 14 (2.27%) Unix
5 9 (1.46%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.49%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
2 118 (19.12%) Analytics
3 115 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
4 103 (16.69%) Agile
4 103 (16.69%) Visualisation
5 99 (16.05%) DevOps
6 83 (13.45%) Computer Science
6 83 (13.45%) Data Science
7 82 (13.29%) ETL
8 81 (13.13%) Data Analysis
9 67 (10.86%) Data Modelling
9 67 (10.86%) Decision-Making
10 66 (10.70%) Actionable Insight
11 57 (9.24%) Full Stack Development
12 56 (9.08%) Data Visualisation
12 56 (9.08%) Statistics
13 53 (8.59%) Data Pipeline
14 50 (8.10%) Mathematics
14 50 (8.10%) Scrum
15 49 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 193 (31.28%) Python
2 124 (20.10%) C#
3 95 (15.40%) JavaScript
4 65 (10.53%) T-SQL
5 28 (4.54%) Java
6 25 (4.05%) PowerShell
7 22 (3.57%) PHP
8 21 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 19 (3.08%) R
10 16 (2.59%) PL/SQL
11 15 (2.43%) C++
11 15 (2.43%) TypeScript
11 15 (2.43%) XPath
12 14 (2.27%) VBA
13 8 (1.30%) C
14 4 (0.65%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.65%) Scala
15 3 (0.49%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 169 (27.39%) Degree
2 33 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (5.02%) DBS Check
4 28 (4.54%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.97%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.97%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.81%) PMI Certification
6 5 (0.81%) PMP
7 4 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.49%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.49%) PhD
9 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.32%) CFA
9 2 (0.32%) ISEB
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.13%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.83%) QA
3 14 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.62%) SLA
5 2 (0.32%) COBIT
5 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (4.21%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.62%) Docker
4 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.32%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) XenApp
6 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (5.19%) Terraform
2 29 (4.70%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (0.65%) SCCM
4 3 (0.49%) Backup Exec
5 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.32%) Foglight
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.32%) SCOM
6 1 (0.16%) cPanel
6 1 (0.16%) Kibana
6 1 (0.16%) logstash
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 126 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.72%) Databricks
3 44 (7.13%) Oracle
4 37 (6.00%) Google
5 27 (4.38%) Bloomberg
6 13 (2.11%) Charles River
7 12 (1.94%) Adobe
7 12 (1.94%) VMware
8 11 (1.78%) Guidewire
9 10 (1.62%) Aderant
10 8 (1.30%) Cognizant
11 7 (1.13%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.13%) Cisco
11 7 (1.13%) Citrix
12 6 (0.97%) FFastFill
12 6 (0.97%) HP
12 6 (0.97%) Informatica
12 6 (0.97%) Refinitiv
12 6 (0.97%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.65%) Atlassian