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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 40 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 11 16 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 3.29% 2.88% 4.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.19% 13.11% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 23
10th Percentile £45,750 £48,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,625 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -13.21%
75th Percentile £78,000 £74,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £75,000 £65,250
Hampshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -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 64 122 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 19.16% 21.94% 22.61%
Number of salaries quoted 61 111 106
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +50.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 - £65,250
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -

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

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Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Basingstoke

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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 2 (18.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Pinecone
2 1 (9.09%) Star Schema
2 1 (9.09%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Billing
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) ITSM Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
3 1 (9.09%) ArcSight Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Development
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Software Development
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
1 1 (9.09%) Flask
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Android
3 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ITSM
2 5 (45.45%) Service Management
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) ITIL
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) eTOM
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
3 1 (9.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) Degree
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
1 4 (36.36%) SCOM
1 4 (36.36%) vCenter Server
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) McAfee
1 4 (36.36%) SolarWinds
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) BMC
3 2 (18.18%) Remedy
3 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) ArcSight
4 1 (9.09%) Databricks