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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,656 5,819 13,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.49% 16.92% 19.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.59% 34.11% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,816 4,094 6,602
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
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 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,140
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.81% +5.03%

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 9,474 17,061 40,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.15% 49.60% 60.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,597 12,637 18,873
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 £128,750 £120,000 £116,250
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 9 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 9 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 +3 687 £70,000 -3.45% 128
South London -22 73 £60,000 +8.68% 11
West London -59 36 £64,000 +28.00% 31
East London +2 25 £57,500 +6.98% 21
North London -7 8 £70,000 +33.33% 3
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
1 136 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 114 (3.12%) Apache
2 114 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (2.84%) SharePoint
4 81 (2.22%) SAS
5 68 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 51 (1.39%) IIS
7 43 (1.18%) CMS
8 25 (0.68%) Confluence
9 15 (0.41%) Drupal
10 13 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
11 11 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
13 9 (0.25%) Apache Pig
14 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 6 (0.16%) Jupyter
17 5 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
18 4 (0.11%) Site Server
18 4 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 277 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.44%) SPSS
6 13 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.055%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.055%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 74 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.98%) Aladdin
3 26 (0.71%) thinkFolio
4 23 (0.63%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.55%) Elite 3E
6 18 (0.49%) NEC Housing
7 16 (0.44%) Fidessa
8 11 (0.30%) Relativity
9 9 (0.25%) Sage X3
9 9 (0.25%) SAP Business One
10 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
11 7 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
11 7 (0.19%) Endur
12 6 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.16%) Primavera
13 5 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
13 5 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,235 (33.78%) Azure
2 838 (22.92%) AWS
3 663 (18.13%) Power Platform
4 319 (8.73%) GCP
5 231 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
6 175 (4.79%) Serverless
7 174 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 131 (3.58%) Snowflake
9 123 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 116 (3.17%) SaaS
11 112 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
12 93 (2.54%) GitHub
13 87 (2.38%) PowerApps
14 79 (2.16%) Amazon S3
14 79 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
15 76 (2.08%) Power Automate
16 75 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
17 55 (1.50%) Azure Functions
17 55 (1.50%) PaaS
18 54 (1.48%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.22%) Firewall
2 53 (1.45%) DNS
3 48 (1.31%) VPN
4 39 (1.07%) Internet
5 32 (0.88%) DHCP
6 30 (0.82%) Network Security
6 30 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 26 (0.71%) WAN
8 25 (0.68%) SAN
9 19 (0.52%) HTTP
10 16 (0.44%) FIX Connectivity
10 16 (0.44%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.44%) VLAN
11 11 (0.30%) BGP
11 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (0.30%) MPLS
11 11 (0.30%) Wireless
12 10 (0.27%) LAN
13 9 (0.25%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (0.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 636 (17.40%) SQL Server
2 599 (16.38%) Power BI
3 391 (10.69%) Tableau
4 376 (10.28%) Data Warehouse
5 253 (6.92%) NoSQL
6 223 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
7 214 (5.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 187 (5.11%) Relational Database
9 171 (4.68%) Data Lake
10 169 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 166 (4.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 142 (3.88%) MongoDB
13 139 (3.80%) Big Data
14 110 (3.01%) MySQL
15 91 (2.49%) Data Mining
16 80 (2.19%) Hadoop
17 74 (2.02%) BigQuery
18 68 (1.86%) Oracle Database
19 62 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
20 57 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 349 (9.55%) Git
2 145 (3.97%) JIRA
3 91 (2.49%) Visual Studio
4 87 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 67 (1.83%) GitLab
6 41 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 41 (1.12%) TeamCity
7 33 (0.90%) NUnit
8 27 (0.74%) SpecFlow
9 23 (0.63%) Moq
9 23 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
10 22 (0.60%) Eclipse
10 22 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
11 20 (0.55%) Postman
12 17 (0.46%) Cucumber
12 17 (0.46%) JUnit
12 17 (0.46%) Sourcetree
13 16 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.41%) Selenium
15 14 (0.38%) git-flow
General
1 1,165 (31.87%) Finance
2 1,028 (28.12%) Social Skills
3 661 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
4 338 (9.25%) Banking
5 307 (8.40%) Front Office
6 219 (5.99%) Retail
7 187 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 177 (4.84%) Marketing
9 163 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
10 144 (3.94%) Law
11 142 (3.88%) Back Office
12 111 (3.04%) Legal
13 78 (2.13%) Public Sector
14 54 (1.48%) Games
15 47 (1.29%) Investment Banking
16 39 (1.07%) Retail Banking
17 35 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.93%) Health Technology
19 32 (0.88%) Advertising
20 31 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 977 (26.72%) Senior
2 936 (25.60%) Analyst
3 912 (24.95%) Developer
4 378 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 320 (8.75%) Lead
6 311 (8.51%) Data Analyst
7 286 (7.82%) Senior Developer
8 219 (5.99%) Senior Analyst
9 212 (5.80%) Software Engineer
10 199 (5.44%) Full Stack Developer
11 192 (5.25%) Applications Support
12 190 (5.20%) .NET Developer
13 185 (5.06%) Support Analyst
14 132 (3.61%) Business Analyst
15 129 (3.53%) Financial Analyst
16 128 (3.50%) Data Scientist
17 126 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
18 117 (3.20%) Architect
19 114 (3.12%) Applications Support Analyst
20 109 (2.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 591 (16.17%) .NET
2 293 (8.01%) React
3 269 (7.36%) AngularJS
4 262 (7.17%) HTML
5 247 (6.76%) CSS
6 224 (6.13%) REST
7 208 (5.69%) ASP.NET
8 163 (4.46%) Web Services
9 155 (4.24%) .NET Framework
10 152 (4.16%) PySpark
11 150 (4.10%) .NET Core
12 147 (4.02%) XML
13 137 (3.75%) JSON
14 126 (3.45%) Kafka
15 111 (3.04%) RESTful
16 107 (2.93%) jQuery
17 102 (2.79%) Pandas
18 101 (2.76%) Spring
19 93 (2.54%) SOAP
20 91 (2.49%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 244 (6.67%) Hedge funds
2 165 (4.51%) Fixed Income
3 162 (4.43%) Derivative
4 155 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 154 (4.21%) Equities
6 153 (4.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 139 (3.80%) Algorithms
8 122 (3.34%) Onboarding
9 118 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
10 110 (3.01%) Management Information System
11 96 (2.63%) Data Structures
12 81 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
13 59 (1.61%) Client/Server
14 46 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
14 46 (1.26%) Reinsurance
15 42 (1.15%) Cloud Native
16 37 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
16 37 (1.01%) Public Cloud
17 32 (0.88%) Data Centre
17 32 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 333 (9.11%) Windows
2 268 (7.33%) Linux
3 123 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 107 (2.93%) Unix
5 43 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.74%) CentOS
7 24 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.63%) Android
8 23 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.33%) Solaris
10 12 (0.33%) SUSE
10 12 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.33%) zOS
11 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.19%) VMS
13 7 (0.19%) Windows 7
14 6 (0.16%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (22.26%) Agile
2 804 (21.99%) Analytics
3 677 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
4 665 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
5 523 (14.31%) ETL
5 523 (14.31%) Visualisation
6 494 (13.51%) DevOps
7 454 (12.42%) Data Modelling
8 447 (12.23%) Data Science
9 406 (11.11%) Data Analysis
10 389 (10.64%) Computer Science
11 387 (10.59%) Software Engineering
12 374 (10.23%) Machine Learning
13 365 (9.98%) Full Stack Development
14 350 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
15 326 (8.92%) Mentoring
16 313 (8.56%) Artificial Intelligence
17 308 (8.42%) CI/CD
17 308 (8.42%) Mathematics
18 307 (8.40%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1,517 (41.49%) Python
2 707 (19.34%) C#
3 512 (14.00%) JavaScript
4 337 (9.22%) Java
5 320 (8.75%) T-SQL
6 199 (5.44%) TypeScript
7 191 (5.22%) R
8 165 (4.51%) PowerShell
9 121 (3.31%) PL/SQL
10 83 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 71 (1.94%) VBA
12 55 (1.50%) Bash
13 54 (1.48%) Scala
14 52 (1.42%) C++
15 49 (1.34%) C
16 44 (1.20%) PHP
17 43 (1.18%) XPath
18 24 (0.66%) Ruby
19 23 (0.63%) MATLAB
19 23 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 898 (24.56%) Degree
2 175 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 148 (4.05%) DBS Check
3 148 (4.05%) Master's Degree
4 90 (2.46%) Security Cleared
5 72 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 65 (1.78%) SC Cleared
7 47 (1.29%) PhD
8 42 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 34 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
11 22 (0.60%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.57%) MCSE
13 17 (0.46%) MCSA
14 15 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 14 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.38%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 9 (0.25%) CISA
17 9 (0.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 128 (3.50%) QA
3 47 (1.29%) SLA
4 32 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 23 (0.63%) GDPR
6 15 (0.41%) PMO
7 9 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.19%) COBIT
8 7 (0.19%) IFRS
8 7 (0.19%) SOC 1
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) ITGC
9 6 (0.16%) MiFID
10 5 (0.14%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.11%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.082%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.082%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 199 (5.44%) Docker
2 152 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.55%) vSphere
6 18 (0.49%) HDFS
7 13 (0.36%) vCloud
8 10 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (0.22%) Firmware
10 8 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
11 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
12 5 (0.14%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.11%) XenApp
14 3 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.055%) IAG
15 2 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 214 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 180 (4.92%) Terraform
3 37 (1.01%) Ansible
4 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.68%) Grafana
6 23 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 16 (0.44%) SCCM
8 12 (0.33%) WSUS
9 11 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.27%) logstash
11 9 (0.25%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.25%) SCOM
12 8 (0.22%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.19%) Control-M
13 7 (0.19%) Istio
14 6 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
14 6 (0.16%) Stealthwatch
15 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 693 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 388 (10.61%) Databricks
3 300 (8.21%) Oracle
4 158 (4.32%) Google
5 81 (2.22%) Bloomberg
6 63 (1.72%) VMware
7 61 (1.67%) SAP
8 47 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 42 (1.15%) Cisco
10 41 (1.12%) Alteryx
11 38 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 35 (0.96%) F5
13 33 (0.90%) IBM
14 30 (0.82%) ION Trading
15 24 (0.66%) Juniper
15 24 (0.66%) Murex
15 24 (0.66%) Sage
16 23 (0.63%) Adobe
16 23 (0.63%) HP
16 23 (0.63%) Veeam