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

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,072 10,017 11,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.25% 17.02% 15.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.85% 42.52% 34.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,615 5,426 7,983
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £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 £63,375 £65,297 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £76,385 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +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 22,513 23,557 33,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.38% 40.02% 45.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16,333 13,277 21,191
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,263
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 21 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 21 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 2,015 £50,000 -3.85% 450
South East -3 1,678 £50,000 -9.09% 300
Scotland 0 1,491 £55,000 -8.33% 122
Midlands -3 1,361 £47,500 -5.00% 352
North West -3 1,137 £52,500 +1.87% 249
West Midlands -5 799 £50,000 - 215
South West -10 742 £50,000 - 192
Yorkshire -7 623 £47,500 -9.52% 160
East Midlands 0 552 £45,000 -10.00% 137
East of England -9 514 £47,500 -9.52% 143
North East -1 257 £50,000 -4.76% 47
Wales -1 213 £45,000 +12.50% 50
Northern Ireland -20 57 £55,000 +10.00% 28
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £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
1 473 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 264 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 207 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 179 (2.22%) IIS
5 154 (1.91%) Apache
6 115 (1.42%) FileNet
7 94 (1.16%) Confluence
8 74 (0.92%) CMS
9 63 (0.78%) SAS
10 59 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
11 49 (0.61%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.55%) Oracle Service Bus
13 34 (0.42%) WebSphere
14 32 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
15 29 (0.36%) Umbraco
16 22 (0.27%) WordPress
17 21 (0.26%) GemFire
18 17 (0.21%) Captiva
18 17 (0.21%) Tomcat
19 12 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 475 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 298 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 39 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.20%) Simulink
7 13 (0.16%) Trello
8 11 (0.14%) SPSS
9 9 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.087%) 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 78 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.51%) Siebel CRM
4 34 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.25%) Shopify
6 19 (0.24%) Sage 200
7 16 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.19%) SAP Business One
9 13 (0.16%) Magento
10 12 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 12 (0.15%) Epicor Tropos
10 12 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 12 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
11 11 (0.14%) Endur
12 8 (0.099%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.099%) HFM
12 8 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
13 7 (0.087%) Hyperion Planning
13 7 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
13 7 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,667 (33.04%) Azure
2 1,436 (17.79%) AWS
3 1,366 (16.92%) Power Platform
4 522 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
5 493 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
6 340 (4.21%) Serverless
7 335 (4.15%) GCP
8 261 (3.23%) SaaS
9 232 (2.87%) IBM Cloud
10 203 (2.51%) GitHub
11 185 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 161 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
13 153 (1.90%) Amazon S3
13 153 (1.90%) Azure Functions
14 152 (1.88%) Snowflake
15 150 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
16 148 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
17 138 (1.71%) Entra ID
18 134 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
19 133 (1.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 239 (2.96%) Firewall
2 137 (1.70%) DNS
2 137 (1.70%) WAN
3 103 (1.28%) LAN
4 95 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 82 (1.02%) DHCP
6 79 (0.98%) Internet
7 78 (0.97%) Broadband
8 75 (0.93%) VPN
9 68 (0.84%) SAN
10 61 (0.76%) HTTP
11 54 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
12 48 (0.59%) SSL
13 46 (0.57%) VLAN
14 41 (0.51%) Network Security
15 31 (0.38%) MQTT
16 29 (0.36%) Wireless
17 27 (0.33%) WLAN
18 26 (0.32%) VoIP
19 23 (0.28%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,845 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 1,304 (16.15%) Power BI
3 1,249 (15.47%) NoSQL
4 625 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
5 599 (7.42%) Relational Database
6 584 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
7 519 (6.43%) MongoDB
8 501 (6.21%) Big Data
9 443 (5.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 413 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 375 (4.65%) MySQL
12 374 (4.63%) Tableau
13 312 (3.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 301 (3.73%) DB2
15 276 (3.42%) Hadoop
16 272 (3.37%) Data Lake
17 239 (2.96%) Oracle Database
18 235 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
19 145 (1.80%) BigQuery
20 132 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 689 (8.54%) Git
2 319 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 306 (3.79%) JIRA
4 277 (3.43%) Visual Studio
5 170 (2.11%) JUnit
6 130 (1.61%) Selenium
7 113 (1.40%) GitLab
8 91 (1.13%) Bitbucket Server
9 79 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 77 (0.95%) Jasmine
11 71 (0.88%) Postman
12 68 (0.84%) Cucumber
13 64 (0.79%) Maven
14 63 (0.78%) Mockito
15 59 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
16 49 (0.61%) NUnit
17 47 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
18 46 (0.57%) TeamCity
19 43 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
20 39 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 2,282 (28.27%) Finance
2 1,831 (22.68%) Social Skills
3 1,328 (16.45%) Law
4 1,308 (16.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 941 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
6 784 (9.71%) Marketing
7 631 (7.82%) Legal
8 554 (6.86%) Public Sector
9 473 (5.86%) Retail
10 353 (4.37%) Manufacturing
11 329 (4.08%) Banking
12 186 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
13 163 (2.02%) Financial Institution
14 145 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
15 143 (1.77%) Games
16 120 (1.49%) Investment Banking
17 98 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
18 93 (1.15%) Telecoms
19 85 (1.05%) Aerospace
20 79 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,379 (29.47%) Developer
2 1,336 (16.55%) Software Engineer
3 1,177 (14.58%) Senior
4 1,053 (13.05%) Analyst
5 825 (10.22%) Lead
6 523 (6.48%) Java Engineer
7 513 (6.36%) Data Engineer
8 507 (6.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 501 (6.21%) .NET Developer
10 449 (5.56%) Software Developer
11 429 (5.31%) Senior Developer
12 366 (4.53%) Full Stack Engineer
13 341 (4.22%) Lead Software Engineer
14 304 (3.77%) C# Developer
15 297 (3.68%) DBA
16 292 (3.62%) Full Stack Developer
17 291 (3.61%) Big Data Engineer
17 291 (3.61%) Big Data Software Engineer
18 287 (3.56%) Data Analyst
19 269 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,926 (23.86%) .NET
2 1,254 (15.54%) HTML
3 1,094 (13.55%) CSS
4 890 (11.03%) React
5 848 (10.51%) AngularJS
6 834 (10.33%) ASP.NET
7 692 (8.57%) REST
8 567 (7.02%) Web Services
9 548 (6.79%) .NET Core
10 499 (6.18%) Spring
11 489 (6.06%) jQuery
12 407 (5.04%) Vue
13 396 (4.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 395 (4.89%) Node.js
15 387 (4.79%) Kafka
16 382 (4.73%) .NET Framework
17 347 (4.30%) JSON
18 346 (4.29%) Entity Framework
19 340 (4.21%) XML
20 297 (3.68%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 689 (8.54%) Algorithms
2 448 (5.55%) Cloud Native
3 445 (5.51%) Data Structures
4 260 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
5 253 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 249 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 229 (2.84%) Blockchain
8 207 (2.56%) Public Cloud
9 159 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 158 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 137 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
12 126 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
13 117 (1.45%) Mobile App
14 116 (1.44%) e-Learning
15 107 (1.33%) Clustering
16 103 (1.28%) Replication
17 77 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
18 76 (0.94%) Data Centre
19 70 (0.87%) NHS
20 69 (0.85%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,002 (12.41%) Windows
2 906 (11.22%) Linux
3 299 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 296 (3.67%) Unix
5 290 (3.59%) Android
6 257 (3.18%) Apple iOS
7 118 (1.46%) Windows 10
8 99 (1.23%) VMS
9 69 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 67 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
11 66 (0.82%) CentOS
12 64 (0.79%) Windows 7
13 57 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
14 48 (0.59%) Solaris
15 45 (0.56%) Windows 8
16 30 (0.37%) Ubuntu
17 25 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 21 (0.26%) AIX
19 19 (0.24%) Debian
20 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,893 (35.84%) Agile
2 1,883 (23.33%) Software Engineering
3 1,665 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
4 1,417 (17.55%) Business Intelligence
5 1,312 (16.25%) CI/CD
6 1,305 (16.17%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,267 (15.70%) SDLC
8 1,063 (13.17%) DevOps
9 1,050 (13.01%) Full Stack Development
10 1,008 (12.49%) Machine Learning
11 995 (12.33%) Visualisation
12 844 (10.46%) Analytics
13 769 (9.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 769 (9.53%) Mentoring
14 768 (9.51%) Operational Stability
15 759 (9.40%) MVC
16 745 (9.23%) ETL
17 707 (8.76%) Computer Science
18 641 (7.94%) Decision-Making
19 612 (7.58%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,006 (24.85%) C#
2 1,735 (21.49%) Java
3 1,677 (20.78%) JavaScript
4 1,606 (19.90%) Python
5 721 (8.93%) T-SQL
6 436 (5.40%) TypeScript
7 433 (5.36%) PL/SQL
8 330 (4.09%) Scala
9 284 (3.52%) PowerShell
10 194 (2.40%) PHP
11 174 (2.16%) C++
12 169 (2.09%) VB
13 151 (1.87%) VB.NET
14 110 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 108 (1.34%) R
16 98 (1.21%) Bash
17 95 (1.18%) VBA
18 89 (1.10%) C
19 73 (0.90%) Groovy
20 62 (0.77%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,209 (14.98%) Degree
2 451 (5.59%) Security Cleared
3 354 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 344 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 229 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 189 (2.34%) DBS Check
7 129 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 80 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 76 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 38 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 36 (0.45%) PhD
12 29 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (0.32%) ISTQB
14 25 (0.31%) MCSE
15 22 (0.27%) CISA
15 22 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.27%) MBA
16 21 (0.26%) OCP
16 21 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
17 20 (0.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (3.42%) Data Quality
2 260 (3.22%) QA
3 161 (1.99%) SLA
4 114 (1.41%) GDPR
5 86 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 45 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.41%) PMO
8 22 (0.27%) 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
14 5 (0.062%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.062%) TickIT
15 4 (0.050%) COBIT
15 4 (0.050%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.050%) WCAG
System Software
1 455 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 375 (4.65%) Docker
3 222 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 156 (1.93%) Hyper-V
5 116 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 102 (1.26%) HDFS
7 49 (0.61%) XenApp
8 48 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
9 46 (0.57%) VirtualBox
10 45 (0.56%) XenDesktop
11 32 (0.40%) RACF
12 30 (0.37%) VMware NSX
13 27 (0.33%) Firmware
14 23 (0.28%) vSphere
15 15 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
16 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
16 9 (0.11%) VMware Server
17 7 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 5 (0.062%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 502 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 279 (3.46%) Terraform
3 106 (1.31%) Ansible
4 79 (0.98%) Grafana
5 54 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 47 (0.58%) Data Guard
7 46 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 39 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 34 (0.42%) SCCM
10 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 27 (0.33%) Kibana
11 26 (0.32%) SCOM
12 22 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
13 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
14 17 (0.21%) WSUS
15 14 (0.17%) Puppet
16 13 (0.16%) Backup Exec
16 13 (0.16%) NetBackup
17 12 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2,058 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 1,021 (12.65%) Oracle
3 424 (5.25%) Databricks
4 349 (4.32%) IBM
5 316 (3.91%) VMware
6 273 (3.38%) Google
7 264 (3.27%) Red Hat
8 184 (2.28%) SAP
9 146 (1.81%) Informatica
10 128 (1.59%) Citrix
11 73 (0.90%) Cloudera
12 70 (0.87%) Veeam
13 66 (0.82%) Splunk
14 65 (0.81%) Cisco
15 61 (0.76%) Remedy
16 58 (0.72%) Dynatrace
17 56 (0.69%) Alteryx
18 54 (0.67%) Sage
19 44 (0.55%) Sun
20 43 (0.53%) F5