SQL Developer
UK

The median SQL Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 637 541 526
Rank change year-on-year -96 -15 -202
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 273 517 992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.50% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.54% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 240 469 858
10th Percentile £34,775 £36,750 £37,425
25th Percentile £42,375 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £87,750 £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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
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%

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 3 May 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 3 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 -74 258 £55,000 -7.60% 74
UK excluding London -58 177 £50,000 - 54
Work from Home -60 137 £60,000 +4.35% 56
London -25 75 £65,000 -10.34% 27
North of England +26 61 £47,500 -5.00% 10
North West -7 40 £45,000 -2.17% 6
South East -36 40 £55,000 - 6
Midlands +17 39 £48,750 -2.50% 28
East Midlands +11 21 £55,000 +10.00% 13
Yorkshire +70 20 £55,000 -12.00% 4
East of England +8 20 £32,500 -45.83% 2
West Midlands +4 18 £45,000 -10.00% 15
Scotland -58 8 £54,000 +20.00% 4
South West -34 7 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Wales +8 2 £36,250 -36.96% 3
North East -6 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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.

1 270 (98.90%) SQL
2 132 (48.35%) SQL Server
3 112 (41.03%) C#
4 100 (36.63%) Azure
5 93 (34.07%) .NET
6 83 (30.40%) T-SQL
6 83 (30.40%) Business Intelligence
7 72 (26.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 67 (24.54%) Microsoft
9 64 (23.44%) Power BI
9 64 (23.44%) Power Platform
10 59 (21.61%) Agile
11 57 (20.88%) ETL
12 46 (16.85%) Social Skills
13 44 (16.12%) Data Warehouse
14 40 (14.65%) Finance
15 36 (13.19%) AngularJS
16 33 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
16 33 (12.09%) ERP
17 32 (11.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 31 (11.36%) JavaScript
18 31 (11.36%) ASP.NET
19 30 (10.99%) .NET Core
20 29 (10.62%) Data Modelling
20 29 (10.62%) .NET Framework
21 28 (10.26%) Back Office
21 28 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
22 26 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
22 26 (9.52%) Java
23 25 (9.16%) MVC

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 (1.47%) Apache
1 4 (1.47%) Tomcat
2 2 (0.73%) IIS
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.83%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 100 (36.63%) Azure
2 64 (23.44%) Power Platform
3 23 (8.42%) AWS
4 13 (4.76%) SaaS
5 11 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.83%) GCP
8 3 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.10%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.73%) dbt
9 2 (0.73%) 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 (1.83%) Network Security
2 3 (1.10%) FTP
3 1 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (48.35%) SQL Server
2 72 (26.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 64 (23.44%) Power BI
4 44 (16.12%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (11.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (7.33%) NoSQL
7 19 (6.96%) Data Lake
8 18 (6.59%) Relational Database
9 17 (6.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 16 (5.86%) OLTP
11 14 (5.13%) Tableau
12 11 (4.03%) MS Access
13 8 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (2.56%) MongoDB
15 6 (2.20%) RDBMS
16 5 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (1.83%) OLAP
17 4 (1.47%) Crystal Reports
17 4 (1.47%) Redis
18 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (7.33%) Visual Studio
2 16 (5.86%) Git
3 11 (4.03%) JIRA
4 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.47%) Maven
4 4 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.37%) GCC
6 1 (0.37%) GDB
6 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 46 (16.85%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.65%) Finance
3 28 (10.26%) Back Office
4 25 (9.16%) Law
5 14 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.13%) Legal
6 13 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.40%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.66%) Billing
8 10 (3.66%) Retail
9 9 (3.30%) Banking
10 8 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.83%) Marketing
13 4 (1.47%) Automotive
13 4 (1.47%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.47%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.10%) Front Office
14 3 (1.10%) Games
15 2 (0.73%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (34.07%) .NET
2 36 (13.19%) AngularJS
3 31 (11.36%) ASP.NET
4 30 (10.99%) .NET Core
5 29 (10.62%) .NET Framework
6 23 (8.42%) HTML
7 18 (6.59%) CSS
8 17 (6.23%) ASP.NET Web API
9 16 (5.86%) Entity Framework
10 15 (5.49%) Web Services
11 14 (5.13%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (4.03%) WPF
13 10 (3.66%) React
14 9 (3.30%) Node.js
15 8 (2.93%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (2.93%) jQuery
15 8 (2.93%) XML
16 7 (2.56%) Angular 2
16 7 (2.56%) GraphQL
16 7 (2.56%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (3.30%) Data Structures
2 9 (3.30%) Hedge funds
2 9 (3.30%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.93%) Client/Server
4 7 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.20%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.83%) Replication
6 5 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.73%) Molecular Biology
9 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.37%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.37%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.93%) Windows
2 5 (1.83%) Linux
3 3 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (30.40%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (21.61%) Agile
3 57 (20.88%) ETL
4 33 (12.09%) ERP
4 33 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
5 29 (10.62%) Data Modelling
6 28 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
8 25 (9.16%) MVC
9 24 (8.79%) Analytics
9 24 (8.79%) DevOps
10 20 (7.33%) ETL Development
11 17 (6.23%) CRM
11 17 (6.23%) Mentoring
12 16 (5.86%) Decision-Making
12 16 (5.86%) Software Engineering
13 14 (5.13%) Data Engineering
13 14 (5.13%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (5.13%) SDLC
14 13 (4.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 270 (98.90%) SQL
2 112 (41.03%) C#
3 83 (30.40%) T-SQL
4 31 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.52%) Java
6 22 (8.06%) PL/SQL
7 17 (6.23%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.76%) Python
9 10 (3.66%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.83%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.47%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.10%) VB
13 2 (0.73%) C++
14 1 (0.37%) PHP
14 1 (0.37%) R
14 1 (0.37%) Scala
14 1 (0.37%) SOQL
14 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (5.13%) DBS Check
2 11 (4.03%) Degree
3 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.10%) MCSD
5 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.73%) PhD
5 2 (0.73%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.73%) Security Cleared
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 20 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.03%) QA
3 3 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 67 (24.54%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.69%) Oracle
3 3 (1.10%) VMware
4 2 (0.73%) Google
4 2 (0.73%) SAP
5 1 (0.37%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.37%) Intapp
5 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.37%) Salesforce