SQL Jobs in Central London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 665 935 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 17.64% 17.52% 18.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.01% 34.76% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 506 848 1,333
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £105,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

All Programming Languages
Central London

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,662 2,690 4,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 44.10% 50.41% 52.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 2,443 3,731
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Central London

SQL
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for SQL in Central London

SQL
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in Central London

SQL
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 within the Central London region 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
City of London +2 611 £72,500 -3.33% 122
City of Westminster +15 29 £75,000 -5.92% 4
West End of London +10 20 £112,500 +66.67% 5
Camden -2 8 £55,000 -18.52%
Kensington and Chelsea +8 4 £53,750 - 1
Lambeth +6 4 £45,000 -
Southwark +7 2 £63,750 +32.16% 2
SQL
London

SQL
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 21 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.86%) CMS
3 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.65%) SAS
5 10 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.35%) IIS
7 8 (1.20%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.90%) Apache
8 6 (0.90%) Confluence
8 6 (0.90%) Drupal
9 5 (0.75%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.30%) Moodle
12 1 (0.15%) Documentum
12 1 (0.15%) Site Server
12 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.15%) Tornado
12 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 68 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 7 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.45%) SPSS
7 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.86%) Aladdin
1 19 (2.86%) thinkFolio
2 12 (1.80%) SDL Web 8
3 8 (1.20%) Elite 3E
4 7 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.60%) Relativity
6 2 (0.30%) Endur
6 2 (0.30%) Farmplan
6 2 (0.30%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.30%) KEYPrime
6 2 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.30%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 2 (0.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.15%) Finacle
7 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 247 (37.14%) Azure
2 133 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 124 (18.65%) AWS
4 50 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (5.86%) GCP
6 31 (4.66%) SaaS
7 26 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (3.91%) Serverless
8 24 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (3.01%) Snowflake
10 16 (2.41%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.26%) PowerApps
12 14 (2.11%) Google Sheets
13 13 (1.95%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (1.80%) WhatsApp
15 11 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (1.65%) Power Automate
16 10 (1.50%) Azure API Management
16 10 (1.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.91%) Internet
2 14 (2.11%) HTTP
3 8 (1.20%) DNS
4 6 (0.90%) Firewall
4 6 (0.90%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.90%) WAN
5 4 (0.60%) Network Security
5 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.60%) VPN
6 3 (0.45%) PSTN
7 2 (0.30%) SAN
7 2 (0.30%) SNA
7 2 (0.30%) SSL
8 1 (0.15%) DHCP
8 1 (0.15%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.15%) LAN
8 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (23.46%) SQL Server
2 125 (18.80%) Power BI
3 96 (14.44%) Tableau
4 62 (9.32%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (6.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 38 (5.71%) Relational Database
7 31 (4.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 27 (4.06%) MySQL
9 26 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (3.31%) NoSQL
12 17 (2.56%) Data Lake
13 16 (2.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 13 (1.95%) GIS
14 13 (1.95%) Oracle Database
15 12 (1.80%) MongoDB
16 10 (1.50%) Data Mining
17 9 (1.35%) BigQuery
18 8 (1.20%) Metadata
18 8 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 88 (13.23%) Git
2 28 (4.21%) Visual Studio
3 22 (3.31%) JIRA
4 20 (3.01%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.71%) SpecFlow
6 16 (2.41%) GitLab
6 16 (2.41%) NUnit
7 13 (1.95%) Jenkins
8 12 (1.80%) Moq
9 11 (1.65%) Eclipse
10 9 (1.35%) git-flow
11 8 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (1.20%) Postman
11 8 (1.20%) Sourcetree
12 7 (1.05%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.75%) Katalon Studio
14 4 (0.60%) MLflow
15 3 (0.45%) MSTest
15 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 220 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 174 (26.17%) Finance
3 141 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (8.12%) Retail
5 39 (5.86%) Presentation Skills
6 30 (4.51%) Marketing
7 28 (4.21%) Law
8 27 (4.06%) Front Office
9 26 (3.91%) Legal
10 21 (3.16%) Banking
11 16 (2.41%) Back Office
12 13 (1.95%) Advertising
13 11 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.20%) Games
15 8 (1.20%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 5 (0.75%) Public Sector
19 4 (0.60%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 187 (28.12%) Senior
2 170 (25.56%) Analyst
3 149 (22.41%) Developer
4 92 (13.83%) Lead
5 61 (9.17%) Data Analyst
5 61 (9.17%) Senior Developer
6 54 (8.12%) Data Engineer
7 45 (6.77%) Senior Analyst
8 42 (6.32%) Applications Support
9 37 (5.56%) Support Analyst
10 36 (5.41%) Data Scientist
11 32 (4.81%) Full Stack Developer
12 31 (4.66%) Software Developer
13 30 (4.51%) Software Engineer
14 29 (4.36%) C# Developer
14 29 (4.36%) Systems Analyst
15 27 (4.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 24 (3.61%) .NET Developer
17 23 (3.46%) Senior Software Developer
18 22 (3.31%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (18.05%) .NET
2 81 (12.18%) HTML
3 77 (11.58%) CSS
4 48 (7.22%) React
4 48 (7.22%) REST
5 42 (6.32%) .NET Framework
6 37 (5.56%) PySpark
7 36 (5.41%) ASP.NET
8 34 (5.11%) Pandas
9 33 (4.96%) Web Services
10 31 (4.66%) AngularJS
11 29 (4.36%) RESTful
12 25 (3.76%) HTML5
12 25 (3.76%) XML
13 23 (3.46%) TensorFlow
14 22 (3.31%) jQuery
15 21 (3.16%) WPF
16 20 (3.01%) Entity Framework
16 20 (3.01%) scikit-learn
16 20 (3.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (4.21%) Algorithms
3 27 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (3.76%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.71%) Fixed Income
5 18 (2.71%) Reinsurance
6 15 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.80%) Legacy Code
8 11 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (1.65%) Life Science
8 11 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.50%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.20%) Clustering
10 8 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.20%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.05%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.05%) Equities
12 6 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.90%) Replication
13 5 (0.75%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 72 (10.83%) Windows
2 35 (5.26%) Linux
3 33 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.26%) Unix
5 9 (1.35%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.45%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.15%) AIX
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
1 135 (20.30%) Visualisation
2 131 (19.70%) Business Intelligence
3 126 (18.95%) Analytics
4 107 (16.09%) Agile
5 102 (15.34%) DevOps
6 95 (14.29%) Data Analysis
7 92 (13.83%) Data Science
8 87 (13.08%) Computer Science
8 87 (13.08%) ETL
9 82 (12.33%) Actionable Insight
10 74 (11.13%) Decision-Making
11 70 (10.53%) Statistics
12 67 (10.08%) Data Visualisation
13 66 (9.92%) Data Modelling
13 66 (9.92%) Mathematics
14 61 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
15 59 (8.87%) Full Stack Development
16 56 (8.42%) Artificial Intelligence
17 51 (7.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 218 (32.78%) Python
2 130 (19.55%) C#
3 100 (15.04%) JavaScript
4 76 (11.43%) T-SQL
5 33 (4.96%) Java
6 25 (3.76%) PowerShell
6 25 (3.76%) R
7 22 (3.31%) PHP
8 21 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (2.41%) TypeScript
10 15 (2.26%) C++
10 15 (2.26%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.26%) XPath
11 14 (2.11%) VBA
12 8 (1.20%) C
13 5 (0.75%) Scala
14 4 (0.60%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.45%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 186 (27.97%) Degree
2 45 (6.77%) DBS Check
3 36 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (4.81%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.90%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.90%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.75%) PMI Certification
6 5 (0.75%) PMP
7 4 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.45%) PhD
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.30%) CFA
9 2 (0.30%) ISEB
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.41%) QA
3 14 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.50%) SLA
5 6 (0.90%) SOC 1
6 2 (0.30%) COBIT
6 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.80%) Docker
4 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.30%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) XenApp
6 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (4.81%) Terraform
2 31 (4.66%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (0.60%) SCCM
4 3 (0.45%) Backup Exec
5 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.30%) Ansible
5 2 (0.30%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.30%) Foglight
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.30%) SCOM
6 1 (0.15%) cPanel
6 1 (0.15%) Kibana
6 1 (0.15%) logstash
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 130 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 75 (11.28%) Databricks
3 45 (6.77%) Oracle
4 38 (5.71%) Google
5 26 (3.91%) Bloomberg
6 19 (2.86%) Charles River
7 16 (2.41%) Aderant
8 13 (1.95%) VMware
9 12 (1.80%) Adobe
10 11 (1.65%) Guidewire
11 8 (1.20%) Citrix
11 8 (1.20%) Cognizant
12 7 (1.05%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.05%) Cisco
12 7 (1.05%) HP
12 7 (1.05%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.90%) FFastFill
13 6 (0.90%) Informatica
13 6 (0.90%) Refinitiv
14 5 (0.75%) Intapp