Senior SQL Developer
UK

The median Senior SQL Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 859 913 1145
Rank change year-on-year +54 +232 -340
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 51 66 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.064% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.070% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 47 52 78
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,750 £44,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £59,719 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,823 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +14.71% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £72,188
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,350 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +22.73% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL Developer in the UK

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior SQL Developer.

Salary trend for Senior SQL Developer in the UK

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior SQL Developer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior SQL Developer in the UK

Senior SQL Developer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior SQL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +85 47 £67,500 -1.92% 14
UK excluding London -2 38 £63,000 -6.67% 14
Work from Home +57 30 £67,500 -3.57% 14
South East +26 17 £67,500 - 1
London +94 10 £87,500 +12.90% 1
Midlands +22 10 £60,000 +9.09% 12
East Midlands -7 7 £60,000 -7.69% 6
East of England +14 5 £50,000 -25.93%
Scotland - 4 £54,000 - 1
West Midlands +27 3 £62,500 +13.64% 6
North of England +46 1 £72,500 -6.45%
North West +16 1 £72,500 +39.09%
South West - 1 £60,000 -

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Senior SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 49 (96.08%) SQL
2 24 (47.06%) C#
3 22 (43.14%) .NET
4 20 (39.22%) SQL Server
5 18 (35.29%) Azure
6 16 (31.37%) T-SQL
7 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
9 11 (21.57%) Oracle
9 11 (21.57%) HTML
9 11 (21.57%) PL/SQL
9 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
10 10 (19.61%) MVC
10 10 (19.61%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (19.61%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (17.65%) OLTP
12 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
12 8 (15.69%) Agile
12 8 (15.69%) AWS
12 8 (15.69%) NoSQL
12 8 (15.69%) AngularJS
12 8 (15.69%) Full Stack Development
12 8 (15.69%) .NET Core
13 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
13 7 (13.73%) Power BI
13 7 (13.73%) Power Platform
13 7 (13.73%) Software Testing
13 7 (13.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (13.73%) SOAP
13 7 (13.73%) XML

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Azure
2 8 (15.69%) AWS
3 7 (13.73%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.88%) SaaS
5 2 (3.92%) dbt
5 2 (3.92%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (39.22%) SQL Server
2 10 (19.61%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (17.65%) OLTP
4 8 (15.69%) NoSQL
5 7 (13.73%) Power BI
5 7 (13.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (7.84%) MongoDB
6 4 (7.84%) Redis
7 2 (3.92%) OLAP
7 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Back Office
2 6 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Retail
3 4 (7.84%) Finance
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.96%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (43.14%) .NET
2 11 (21.57%) HTML
3 8 (15.69%) .NET Core
3 8 (15.69%) AngularJS
4 7 (13.73%) SOAP
4 7 (13.73%) XML
5 6 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 6 (11.76%) React
6 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (7.84%) CSS
6 4 (7.84%) GraphQL
6 4 (7.84%) HTML5
6 4 (7.84%) Kafka
6 4 (7.84%) React Native
6 4 (7.84%) XSL
7 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.92%) Entity Framework
7 2 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (3.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
1 4 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Management Information System
1 4 (7.84%) Replication
2 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.92%) Molecular Biology
4 1 (1.96%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (19.61%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (19.61%) MVC
3 8 (15.69%) Agile
3 8 (15.69%) Full Stack Development
4 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
4 7 (13.73%) Software Testing
5 6 (11.76%) Data Modelling
6 5 (9.80%) ETL
7 4 (7.84%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.84%) Data Integration
7 4 (7.84%) E-Commerce
7 4 (7.84%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (7.84%) Release Management
7 4 (7.84%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (7.84%) SDLC
7 4 (7.84%) Web Development
8 3 (5.88%) Data Engineering
8 3 (5.88%) Facilities Management
8 3 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (96.08%) SQL
2 24 (47.06%) C#
3 16 (31.37%) T-SQL
4 11 (21.57%) PL/SQL
5 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
6 6 (11.76%) Java
7 4 (7.84%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.92%) Python
8 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) SLA
2 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.57%) Oracle