SQL Job Trends in Basingstoke

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 32 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 -22 +18
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10 24 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 3.06% 3.89% 14.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.08% 18.32% 43.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9 21 23
10th Percentile £44,250 £45,000 £38,100
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +17.39% -17.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £65,125
90th Percentile £82,250 £75,000 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Basingstoke

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 71 131 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 21.71% 21.23% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 67 108 72
10th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £49,375 £49,375 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £75,000 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +36.99% -0.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £87,500 £70,650
Hampshire median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -1.82%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

SQL job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

SQL
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Basingstoke

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
1 1 (10.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) ArcSight Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Development
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (10.00%) Flask
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (40.00%) ITSM
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) AI
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Terminal Server
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
1 5 (50.00%) SCOM
2 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) McAfee
2 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper