SQL Jobs in the Thames Valley

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 623 761 1,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.30% 12.43% 15.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.18% 31.25% 34.93%
Number of salaries quoted 516 475 797
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,936 2,435 3,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.91% 39.78% 45.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 1,423 1,910
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,875 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £71,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

SQL
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

SQL
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the Thames Valley

SQL
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire -1 317 £62,500 +4.17% 48
Buckinghamshire -6 171 £47,500 -9.52% 47
Oxfordshire +5 135 £42,500 - 23
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 51 (8.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (7.70%) SharePoint
3 23 (3.69%) IIS
4 15 (2.41%) Oracle Service Bus
4 15 (2.41%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.61%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.96%) Confluence
7 5 (0.80%) JBoss
7 5 (0.80%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.48%) CMS
8 3 (0.48%) Drupal
8 3 (0.48%) IBM Domino
8 3 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.48%) WinCC
8 3 (0.48%) WordPress
9 2 (0.32%) SAS
10 1 (0.16%) Apache
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 59 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (2.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (1.12%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.96%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.32%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 197 (31.62%) Azure
2 115 (18.46%) Power Platform
3 77 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (10.43%) AWS
5 31 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.49%) SaaS
7 25 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (3.53%) Serverless
9 18 (2.89%) OneDrive
10 17 (2.73%) PowerApps
11 15 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (2.25%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.93%) iTunes
14 10 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (1.61%) PaaS
14 10 (1.61%) WhatsApp
15 8 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 7 (1.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 79 (12.68%) Firewall
2 35 (5.62%) DNS
3 25 (4.01%) DHCP
4 20 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (2.89%) SSL
6 15 (2.41%) Network Security
6 15 (2.41%) SNMP
7 11 (1.77%) Internet
8 10 (1.61%) VPN
9 7 (1.12%) TCP/IP
9 7 (1.12%) Wireless
10 4 (0.64%) Broadband
10 4 (0.64%) VLAN
11 3 (0.48%) BGP
11 3 (0.48%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.48%) Intranet
11 3 (0.48%) WAN
12 2 (0.32%) LAN
13 1 (0.16%) FTP
13 1 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (22.31%) SQL Server
2 109 (17.50%) Power BI
3 66 (10.59%) NoSQL
4 45 (7.22%) Oracle Database
4 45 (7.22%) Relational Database
5 44 (7.06%) MySQL
6 38 (6.10%) Data Lake
7 33 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (4.01%) Oracle Database 11g
11 22 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (3.05%) Power Query
13 18 (2.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 15 (2.41%) Oracle Database 10g
14 15 (2.41%) VLDB
15 14 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (2.25%) OLTP
16 13 (2.09%) Tableau
17 11 (1.77%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 64 (10.27%) Git
2 41 (6.58%) Selenium
3 39 (6.26%) Visual Studio
4 31 (4.98%) JIRA
5 28 (4.49%) SoapUI
6 24 (3.85%) Cypress.io
7 22 (3.53%) Jenkins
8 18 (2.89%) NUnit
9 12 (1.93%) WebDriver
10 11 (1.77%) GitLab
11 9 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (1.28%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.28%) Gradle
13 7 (1.12%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.12%) JMeter
14 6 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (0.96%) Serenity BDD
15 5 (0.80%) Oracle APEX
16 4 (0.64%) Postman
16 4 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 166 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 69 (11.08%) Finance
3 54 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (5.62%) Law
5 33 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (4.98%) Retail
7 29 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 15 (2.41%) Legal
8 15 (2.41%) Marketing
9 14 (2.25%) Health Technology
10 13 (2.09%) Banking
10 13 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.61%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.44%) Back Office
14 8 (1.28%) Local Government
15 7 (1.12%) Games
15 7 (1.12%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.12%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 194 (31.14%) Developer
2 98 (15.73%) Senior
3 85 (13.64%) Support Engineer
4 83 (13.32%) Analyst
5 71 (11.40%) Senior Developer
6 60 (9.63%) IT Support
7 59 (9.47%) Applications Support
8 58 (9.31%) IT Engineer
9 51 (8.19%) IT Support Engineer
10 50 (8.03%) Lead
11 41 (6.58%) Support Analyst
12 36 (5.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 35 (5.62%) Applications Support Analyst
13 35 (5.62%) Software Engineer
14 33 (5.30%) 3rd Line Support
14 33 (5.30%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 30 (4.82%) .NET Developer
16 28 (4.49%) Systems Engineer
17 27 (4.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 24 (3.85%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (26.48%) .NET
2 68 (10.91%) HTML
2 68 (10.91%) React
3 59 (9.47%) XML
4 55 (8.83%) CSS
5 41 (6.58%) JSON
6 40 (6.42%) .NET Core
6 40 (6.42%) AngularJS
7 33 (5.30%) Web Services
8 30 (4.82%) ASP.NET
9 29 (4.65%) REST
10 27 (4.33%) SOAP
11 26 (4.17%) Spring Boot
12 23 (3.69%) Jest
12 23 (3.69%) Spring
13 20 (3.21%) Blazor
14 17 (2.73%) .NET Framework
14 17 (2.73%) Kafka
14 17 (2.73%) Node.js
15 14 (2.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.01%) Management Information System
1 25 (4.01%) Replication
2 23 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.25%) CMDB
4 12 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.77%) Driving Licence
5 11 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.44%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.28%) PropTech
9 7 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.64%) Clustering
11 4 (0.64%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (0.64%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 82 (13.16%) Windows
2 69 (11.08%) Linux
3 39 (6.26%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.01%) Unix
5 15 (2.41%) Solaris
6 13 (2.09%) VMS
7 5 (0.80%) Android
8 4 (0.64%) AIX
8 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (29.21%) Agile
2 110 (17.66%) Business Intelligence
3 96 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (13.64%) Software Engineering
5 74 (11.88%) Artificial Intelligence
6 72 (11.56%) DevOps
7 58 (9.31%) Performance Tuning
8 47 (7.54%) Machine Learning
8 47 (7.54%) Project Management
9 44 (7.06%) Scrum
10 42 (6.74%) ETL
11 41 (6.58%) Full Stack Development
12 40 (6.42%) Computer Science
12 40 (6.42%) Microservices
12 40 (6.42%) Test Automation
13 39 (6.26%) TDD
14 38 (6.10%) Customer Service
15 36 (5.78%) Mentoring
15 36 (5.78%) Software Testing
16 35 (5.62%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 157 (25.20%) C#
2 126 (20.22%) JavaScript
3 74 (11.88%) Java
4 73 (11.72%) Python
5 68 (10.91%) PL/SQL
6 59 (9.47%) T-SQL
7 53 (8.51%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.89%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.57%) C++
10 14 (2.25%) VB.NET
11 11 (1.77%) R
12 9 (1.44%) Fortran
12 9 (1.44%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.28%) Bash
13 8 (1.28%) Ruby
13 8 (1.28%) Scala
14 7 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.12%) PHP
14 7 (1.12%) XAML
15 5 (0.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 137 (21.99%) Degree
2 71 (11.40%) Security Cleared
3 60 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.28%) CCNA
10 8 (1.28%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.80%) HNC
11 5 (0.80%) HND
12 4 (0.64%) OCP
12 4 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.32%) MCITP
14 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.16%) MBA
14 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.94%) QA
2 18 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.57%) SLA
4 5 (0.80%) GDPR
5 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 77 (12.36%) Active Directory
2 67 (10.75%) Docker
3 41 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.89%) Hyper-V
5 16 (2.57%) Oracle RAC
6 11 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.21%) Ansible
2 20 (3.21%) Oracle RMAN
3 15 (2.41%) Data Guard
4 14 (2.25%) SCOM
4 14 (2.25%) Terraform
5 3 (0.48%) SCCM
5 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.48%) Wonderware InTouch
6 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.16%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 204 (32.74%) Microsoft
2 68 (10.91%) Oracle
3 54 (8.67%) VMware
4 42 (6.74%) Citrix
5 36 (5.78%) Veeam
6 26 (4.17%) Cisco
7 16 (2.57%) Remedy
7 16 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.41%) Databricks
8 15 (2.41%) Sun
9 14 (2.25%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.61%) WSO2
11 9 (1.44%) Google
11 9 (1.44%) SAP
12 8 (1.28%) Sage
13 7 (1.12%) Draytek
14 5 (0.80%) Adaptive Insights
14 5 (0.80%) Anaplan
14 5 (0.80%) Apple
14 5 (0.80%) Jedox