SQL Developer
UK

The median SQL Developer salary in the UK is £54,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 628 531 526
Rank change year-on-year -97 -5 -204
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 270 524 993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.50% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.55% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 238 473 862
10th Percentile £34,325 £36,900 £36,800
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,875 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -63 257 £55,000 -7.60% 70
UK excluding London -77 173 £50,000 - 48
Work from Home -71 135 £60,000 +0.80% 50
London -17 75 £65,000 -10.34% 29
North of England +24 59 £47,500 -5.00% 12
Midlands +11 39 £48,750 -2.50% 20
North West -3 39 £45,000 -7.69% 7
South East -21 39 £55,000 - 6
East Midlands +1 21 £55,000 +4.76% 9
East of England +5 20 £32,500 -45.83% 2
Yorkshire +83 19 £55,000 -12.00% 5
West Midlands +14 18 £45,000 -10.00% 11
South West -15 7 £55,000 +18.28% 1
Scotland -60 7 £54,000 +13.68% 4
Wales +14 2 £36,250 -36.96% 3
North East -4 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 SQL Developer in the job title.

1 267 (98.89%) SQL
2 132 (48.89%) SQL Server
3 108 (40.00%) C#
4 98 (36.30%) Azure
5 91 (33.70%) .NET
6 83 (30.74%) T-SQL
7 81 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
8 74 (27.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 64 (23.70%) Power BI
9 64 (23.70%) Power Platform
10 63 (23.33%) Microsoft
11 57 (21.11%) ETL
12 56 (20.74%) Agile
13 48 (17.78%) Social Skills
14 44 (16.30%) Data Warehouse
15 41 (15.19%) Finance
16 34 (12.59%) AngularJS
17 33 (12.22%) ERP
18 32 (11.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 32 (11.85%) Full Stack Development
19 31 (11.48%) ASP.NET
20 30 (11.11%) JavaScript
21 29 (10.74%) .NET Framework
21 29 (10.74%) .NET Core
22 28 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
22 28 (10.37%) Data Modelling
23 27 (10.00%) Back Office
24 26 (9.63%) Java
24 26 (9.63%) Analytics
24 26 (9.63%) Performance Tuning

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 4 (1.48%) Apache
1 4 (1.48%) Tomcat
2 2 (0.74%) IIS
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.85%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 98 (36.30%) Azure
2 64 (23.70%) Power Platform
3 22 (8.15%) AWS
4 13 (4.81%) SaaS
5 11 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.48%) GCP
8 3 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.11%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.74%) dbt
9 2 (0.74%) Fivetran
10 1 (0.37%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.37%) Heroku
10 1 (0.37%) IaaS
10 1 (0.37%) PaaS
10 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.37%) Serverless
10 1 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.85%) Network Security
2 3 (1.11%) FTP
3 1 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (48.89%) SQL Server
2 74 (27.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 64 (23.70%) Power BI
4 44 (16.30%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (11.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (7.04%) NoSQL
7 18 (6.67%) Data Lake
7 18 (6.67%) Relational Database
8 17 (6.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (5.93%) OLTP
10 12 (4.44%) Tableau
11 11 (4.07%) MS Access
12 10 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.59%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.59%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.85%) OLAP
15 4 (1.48%) Crystal Reports
15 4 (1.48%) Redis
16 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (8.15%) Visual Studio
2 18 (6.67%) Git
3 13 (4.81%) JIRA
4 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.48%) Maven
4 4 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.37%) GCC
6 1 (0.37%) GDB
General
1 48 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.19%) Finance
3 27 (10.00%) Back Office
4 24 (8.89%) Law
5 14 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.19%) Legal
6 13 (4.81%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.07%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.70%) Retail
9 9 (3.33%) Banking
9 9 (3.33%) Billing
10 7 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.85%) Games
12 5 (1.85%) Marketing
13 4 (1.48%) Automotive
13 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.11%) Front Office
15 2 (0.74%) Electronics
15 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (33.70%) .NET
2 34 (12.59%) AngularJS
3 31 (11.48%) ASP.NET
4 29 (10.74%) .NET Core
4 29 (10.74%) .NET Framework
5 23 (8.52%) HTML
6 18 (6.67%) CSS
7 17 (6.30%) ASP.NET Web API
8 16 (5.93%) Entity Framework
9 15 (5.56%) Web Services
10 14 (5.19%) ASP.NET MVC
11 11 (4.07%) WPF
12 10 (3.70%) React
13 9 (3.33%) Node.js
14 8 (2.96%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (2.96%) jQuery
14 8 (2.96%) XML
15 7 (2.59%) Angular 2
15 7 (2.59%) GraphQL
15 7 (2.59%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.96%) Client/Server
4 8 (2.96%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.85%) Replication
8 4 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.74%) Molecular Biology
11 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.37%) Mobile Computing
11 1 (0.37%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.96%) Windows
2 3 (1.11%) Linux
2 3 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (21.11%) ETL
3 56 (20.74%) Agile
4 33 (12.22%) ERP
5 32 (11.85%) Full Stack Development
6 28 (10.37%) Data Modelling
6 28 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (9.63%) Analytics
7 26 (9.63%) Performance Tuning
8 25 (9.26%) DevOps
8 25 (9.26%) MVC
9 20 (7.41%) ETL Development
10 17 (6.30%) Mentoring
11 16 (5.93%) CRM
11 16 (5.93%) Decision-Making
11 16 (5.93%) Software Engineering
12 14 (5.19%) SDLC
13 13 (4.81%) Data Engineering
13 13 (4.81%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (4.81%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 267 (98.89%) SQL
2 108 (40.00%) C#
3 83 (30.74%) T-SQL
4 30 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.63%) Java
6 22 (8.15%) PL/SQL
7 17 (6.30%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.44%) Python
9 9 (3.33%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.85%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.11%) VB
13 1 (0.37%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) PHP
13 1 (0.37%) R
13 1 (0.37%) Scala
13 1 (0.37%) SOQL
13 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (5.19%) DBS Check
2 11 (4.07%) Degree
3 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.11%) MCSD
5 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.74%) PhD
6 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.37%) HNC
6 1 (0.37%) HND
6 1 (0.37%) MCSA
6 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.81%) QA
3 3 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.59%) Docker
2 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 63 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.78%) Oracle
3 3 (1.11%) VMware
4 2 (0.74%) Google
4 2 (0.74%) SAP
5 1 (0.37%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.37%) Intapp
5 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.37%) Salesforce