SQL Developer Jobs in Central London

SQL Developer
London > Central London

The median SQL Developer salary in Central London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 181 204
Rank change year-on-year +29 +23 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 8 7 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.32% 0.19% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.19% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 38
10th Percentile £54,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -28.81% +22.92%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,125 £85,813
90th Percentile £72,250 £87,500 £92,900
London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -10.34% +20.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,305 3,595 5,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 95.16% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,829 4,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in Central London

SQL Developer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for SQL Developer in Central London

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in Central London

SQL Developer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +32 7 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Camden - 1 - -
SQL Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the Central London region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
3 6 (75.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (62.50%) Power BI
4 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (62.50%) .NET
4 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (62.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (37.50%) Wealth Management
6 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
6 3 (37.50%) Finance
6 3 (37.50%) Cognos
7 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (25.00%) Migration
7 2 (25.00%) VMware
7 2 (25.00%) Back Office
7 2 (25.00%) Workflow
7 2 (25.00%) Agile
7 2 (25.00%) C#
7 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (25.00%) SQL CLR
7 2 (25.00%) High Availability
7 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
7 2 (25.00%) SaaS
7 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (25.00%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Datadog
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) Power BI
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (25.00%) Data Hub
5 2 (25.00%) Metadata
5 2 (25.00%) SQL CLR
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Back Office
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Wealth Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (25.00%) Fintech
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (25.00%) Statistics
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cognos
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware