SQL Jobs in the UK excluding London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,101 10,236 11,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.42% 16.99% 15.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.98% 42.39% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,678 5,523 7,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,120 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,191 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,515 24,145 32,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.73% 40.07% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,386 13,576 21,262
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,244
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK excluding 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
North of England -4 2,023 £50,000 -4.76% 406
South East -3 1,671 £50,000 -9.09% 313
Scotland +3 1,505 £55,000 -8.33% 121
Midlands -4 1,355 £47,500 -5.00% 364
North West -3 1,147 £52,500 +0.96% 223
West Midlands -4 800 £50,000 - 212
South West -10 747 £50,000 - 202
Yorkshire -6 623 £47,500 -9.52% 147
East Midlands -1 546 £45,000 -10.00% 152
East of England -6 526 £47,500 -9.52% 176
North East -1 255 £50,000 -2.44% 38
Wales -2 211 £45,000 +12.50% 49
Northern Ireland -18 61 £55,000 +10.00% 27
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 3 £45,000 -
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 474 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 275 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 211 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 194 (2.39%) IIS
5 156 (1.93%) Apache
6 120 (1.48%) FileNet
7 92 (1.14%) Confluence
8 79 (0.98%) CMS
9 62 (0.77%) SAS
10 58 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
11 49 (0.60%) WebLogic
12 45 (0.56%) Oracle Service Bus
13 38 (0.47%) WebSphere
14 32 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
14 32 (0.40%) Umbraco
15 22 (0.27%) Captiva
15 22 (0.27%) WordPress
16 21 (0.26%) GemFire
17 18 (0.22%) Tomcat
18 13 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 486 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 304 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 41 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.16%) Trello
7 12 (0.15%) Simulink
8 11 (0.14%) SPSS
9 9 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.086%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.025%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 80 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (0.49%) Siebel CRM
4 35 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.25%) Sage 200
5 20 (0.25%) Shopify
6 15 (0.19%) SAP Business One
7 14 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
7 14 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.16%) Magento
9 12 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 12 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
10 11 (0.14%) Endur
10 11 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.099%) Dynamics GP
11 8 (0.099%) HFM
11 8 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
12 7 (0.086%) Hyperion Planning
12 7 (0.086%) Sage X3
12 7 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,693 (33.24%) Azure
2 1,459 (18.01%) AWS
3 1,375 (16.97%) Power Platform
4 535 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
5 499 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
6 351 (4.33%) Serverless
7 349 (4.31%) GCP
8 267 (3.30%) SaaS
9 233 (2.88%) IBM Cloud
10 206 (2.54%) GitHub
11 188 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 165 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
13 155 (1.91%) Amazon S3
13 155 (1.91%) Azure Functions
13 155 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
14 153 (1.89%) Snowflake
15 151 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
16 137 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
17 136 (1.68%) Azure API Management
17 136 (1.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 251 (3.10%) Firewall
2 150 (1.85%) WAN
3 139 (1.72%) DNS
4 105 (1.30%) LAN
5 97 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 85 (1.05%) DHCP
7 82 (1.01%) Internet
8 78 (0.96%) Broadband
9 77 (0.95%) VPN
10 69 (0.85%) SAN
11 63 (0.78%) HTTP
12 53 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
13 49 (0.60%) SSL
14 47 (0.58%) VLAN
15 41 (0.51%) Network Security
16 31 (0.38%) VoIP
16 31 (0.38%) Wireless
17 30 (0.37%) MQTT
18 27 (0.33%) WLAN
19 20 (0.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,885 (23.27%) SQL Server
2 1,309 (16.16%) Power BI
3 1,247 (15.39%) NoSQL
4 622 (7.68%) Data Warehouse
5 607 (7.49%) Relational Database
6 595 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
7 516 (6.37%) MongoDB
8 503 (6.21%) Big Data
9 448 (5.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 423 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 392 (4.84%) MySQL
12 380 (4.69%) Tableau
13 316 (3.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 304 (3.75%) DB2
15 274 (3.38%) Data Lake
16 272 (3.36%) Hadoop
17 256 (3.16%) Oracle Database
18 234 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
19 148 (1.83%) BigQuery
20 138 (1.70%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 678 (8.37%) Git
2 323 (3.99%) Jenkins
3 311 (3.84%) JIRA
4 284 (3.51%) Visual Studio
5 171 (2.11%) JUnit
6 130 (1.60%) Selenium
7 114 (1.41%) GitLab
8 92 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 80 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 77 (0.95%) Jasmine
11 70 (0.86%) Postman
12 69 (0.85%) Cucumber
13 64 (0.79%) Maven
13 64 (0.79%) Mockito
14 60 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
15 53 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
16 48 (0.59%) NUnit
16 48 (0.59%) TeamCity
17 41 (0.51%) Bitbucket
17 41 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,262 (27.92%) Finance
2 1,812 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 1,338 (16.52%) Law
4 1,313 (16.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 928 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
6 785 (9.69%) Marketing
7 600 (7.41%) Legal
8 556 (6.86%) Public Sector
9 487 (6.01%) Retail
10 355 (4.38%) Manufacturing
11 310 (3.83%) Banking
12 187 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
13 163 (2.01%) Financial Institution
14 146 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
15 145 (1.79%) Games
16 122 (1.51%) Investment Banking
17 100 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
18 92 (1.14%) Telecoms
19 87 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
20 84 (1.04%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,408 (29.72%) Developer
2 1,341 (16.55%) Software Engineer
3 1,164 (14.37%) Senior
4 1,033 (12.75%) Analyst
5 831 (10.26%) Lead
6 522 (6.44%) Data Engineer
7 521 (6.43%) Java Engineer
8 506 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
9 505 (6.23%) .NET Developer
10 448 (5.53%) Software Developer
11 443 (5.47%) Senior Developer
12 367 (4.53%) Full Stack Engineer
13 341 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
14 304 (3.75%) DBA
15 302 (3.73%) C# Developer
16 294 (3.63%) Full Stack Developer
17 293 (3.62%) Data Analyst
18 291 (3.59%) Big Data Engineer
18 291 (3.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 261 (3.22%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,946 (24.02%) .NET
2 1,271 (15.69%) HTML
3 1,103 (13.62%) CSS
4 902 (11.13%) React
5 850 (10.49%) AngularJS
6 848 (10.47%) ASP.NET
7 699 (8.63%) REST
8 569 (7.02%) Web Services
9 555 (6.85%) .NET Core
10 503 (6.21%) Spring
11 489 (6.04%) jQuery
12 411 (5.07%) Vue
13 395 (4.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 390 (4.81%) .NET Framework
15 389 (4.80%) Node.js
16 383 (4.73%) Kafka
17 348 (4.30%) Entity Framework
18 345 (4.26%) JSON
19 337 (4.16%) XML
20 303 (3.74%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 688 (8.49%) Algorithms
2 447 (5.52%) Data Structures
3 446 (5.51%) Cloud Native
4 262 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 250 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 229 (2.83%) Blockchain
7 227 (2.80%) Management Information System
8 215 (2.65%) Public Cloud
9 159 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 158 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 135 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 129 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 116 (1.43%) Clustering
13 116 (1.43%) e-Learning
14 115 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 102 (1.26%) Replication
16 82 (1.01%) Data Centre
17 78 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
18 72 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
19 69 (0.85%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,008 (12.44%) Windows
2 919 (11.34%) Linux
3 303 (3.74%) Unix
4 300 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 287 (3.54%) Android
6 257 (3.17%) Apple iOS
7 118 (1.46%) Windows 10
8 99 (1.22%) VMS
9 71 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
10 69 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
11 66 (0.81%) Windows 7
12 62 (0.77%) CentOS
13 58 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
14 49 (0.60%) Solaris
15 47 (0.58%) Windows 8
16 27 (0.33%) Ubuntu
17 25 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 22 (0.27%) AIX
19 19 (0.23%) Debian
20 13 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,890 (35.67%) Agile
2 1,878 (23.18%) Software Engineering
3 1,659 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
4 1,432 (17.68%) Business Intelligence
5 1,322 (16.32%) CI/CD
6 1,314 (16.22%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,272 (15.70%) SDLC
8 1,076 (13.28%) DevOps
9 1,046 (12.91%) Full Stack Development
10 1,012 (12.49%) Machine Learning
11 993 (12.26%) Visualisation
12 847 (10.46%) Analytics
13 772 (9.53%) Mentoring
13 772 (9.53%) MVC
14 769 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 767 (9.47%) Operational Stability
16 756 (9.33%) ETL
17 682 (8.42%) Computer Science
18 638 (7.88%) Decision-Making
19 625 (7.72%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,028 (25.03%) C#
2 1,734 (21.40%) Java
3 1,686 (20.81%) JavaScript
4 1,591 (19.64%) Python
5 730 (9.01%) T-SQL
6 447 (5.52%) PL/SQL
7 446 (5.51%) TypeScript
8 334 (4.12%) Scala
9 255 (3.15%) PowerShell
10 203 (2.51%) PHP
11 169 (2.09%) C++
11 169 (2.09%) VB
12 150 (1.85%) VB.NET
13 106 (1.31%) R
14 100 (1.23%) VBA
15 98 (1.21%) Bash
15 98 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 92 (1.14%) C
17 74 (0.91%) Groovy
18 60 (0.74%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,182 (14.59%) Degree
2 443 (5.47%) Security Cleared
3 341 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 331 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 229 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 186 (2.30%) DBS Check
7 124 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 78 (0.96%) Azure Certification
9 77 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 37 (0.46%) PMI Certification
11 34 (0.42%) PhD
12 28 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
13 25 (0.31%) ISTQB
13 25 (0.31%) MCSE
14 22 (0.27%) CISA
14 22 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.27%) OCP
14 22 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
15 21 (0.26%) MBA
16 20 (0.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 252 (3.11%) QA
3 161 (1.99%) SLA
4 120 (1.48%) GDPR
5 88 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 45 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.41%) PMO
8 21 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.15%) ITGC
11 9 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.11%) NIST
12 8 (0.099%) PSD2
13 6 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.074%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.074%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.062%) TickIT
15 4 (0.049%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.049%) HL7
15 4 (0.049%) WCAG
System Software
1 427 (5.27%) Active Directory
2 387 (4.78%) Docker
3 232 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 156 (1.93%) Hyper-V
5 115 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 102 (1.26%) HDFS
7 51 (0.63%) XenApp
8 50 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
9 48 (0.59%) VirtualBox
10 47 (0.58%) XenDesktop
11 38 (0.47%) VMware NSX
12 26 (0.32%) Firmware
13 23 (0.28%) vSphere
14 16 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
15 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 9 (0.11%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.062%) Terminal Services
18 4 (0.049%) RACF
Systems Management
1 508 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 277 (3.42%) Terraform
3 102 (1.26%) Ansible
4 79 (0.98%) Grafana
5 55 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
6 49 (0.60%) Data Guard
7 46 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 38 (0.47%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.47%) SCCM
9 28 (0.35%) SCOM
10 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 26 (0.32%) Kibana
12 23 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
13 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
14 15 (0.19%) WSUS
15 13 (0.16%) Backup Exec
15 13 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
15 13 (0.16%) NetBackup
15 13 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,036 (25.13%) Microsoft
2 1,043 (12.87%) Oracle
3 426 (5.26%) Databricks
4 360 (4.44%) IBM
5 332 (4.10%) VMware
6 274 (3.38%) Google
7 264 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 188 (2.32%) SAP
9 141 (1.74%) Informatica
10 132 (1.63%) Citrix
11 73 (0.90%) Cloudera
12 72 (0.89%) Veeam
13 66 (0.81%) Cisco
13 66 (0.81%) Splunk
14 64 (0.79%) Remedy
15 60 (0.74%) Dynatrace
16 59 (0.73%) Alteryx
17 55 (0.68%) Sage
18 46 (0.57%) F5
19 45 (0.56%) Sun