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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 681 911 1,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 17.95% 17.35% 18.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.00% 34.73% 35.73%
Number of salaries quoted 510 823 1,333
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,350
25th Percentile £52,813 £55,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -
75th Percentile £88,438 £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 1,661 2,623 4,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 43.79% 49.96% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,352 2,376 3,707
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,180 £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 £97,500 £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 6 May 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 6 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
City of London +2 623 £70,000 -6.67% 121
City of Westminster +16 31 £75,000 -5.92% 4
West End of London +10 24 £112,500 +66.67% 6
Camden -5 8 £55,000 -18.52%
Lambeth +7 4 £45,000 -
Kensington and Chelsea +5 3 £50,000 -
Southwark +10 2 £63,750 +32.16% 1
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 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.79%) CMS
3 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.62%) SAS
4 10 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.32%) IIS
6 8 (1.17%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.88%) Apache
7 6 (0.88%) Confluence
7 6 (0.88%) Drupal
8 5 (0.73%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.44%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.29%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) Documentum
11 1 (0.15%) Site Server
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) Tornado
11 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 70 (10.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.17%) Photoshop
4 7 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.44%) SPSS
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.79%) Aladdin
1 19 (2.79%) thinkFolio
2 12 (1.76%) SDL Web 8
3 8 (1.17%) Elite 3E
4 7 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.59%) Relativity
6 2 (0.29%) Endur
6 2 (0.29%) Farmplan
6 2 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.29%) KEYPrime
6 2 (0.29%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.29%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.29%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 2 (0.29%) 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
1 252 (37.00%) Azure
2 136 (19.97%) Power Platform
3 129 (18.94%) AWS
4 50 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (5.43%) GCP
6 32 (4.70%) SaaS
7 26 (3.82%) Serverless
8 25 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (2.94%) Snowflake
10 16 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.20%) PowerApps
12 14 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (2.06%) Google Sheets
13 13 (1.91%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.62%) Azure API Management
14 11 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (1.62%) Power Automate
14 11 (1.62%) WhatsApp
15 10 (1.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.67%) Internet
2 14 (2.06%) HTTP
3 10 (1.47%) DNS
4 7 (1.03%) Firewall
4 7 (1.03%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.03%) WAN
5 4 (0.59%) Network Security
5 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.44%) PSTN
6 3 (0.44%) VPN
7 2 (0.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.29%) SNA
7 2 (0.29%) 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
1 162 (23.79%) SQL Server
2 128 (18.80%) Power BI
3 108 (15.86%) Tableau
4 62 (9.10%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (6.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 40 (5.87%) Relational Database
7 35 (5.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 28 (4.11%) MySQL
8 28 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (3.23%) NoSQL
11 18 (2.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 17 (2.50%) Data Lake
13 16 (2.35%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.91%) GIS
14 13 (1.91%) MongoDB
15 10 (1.47%) Data Mining
15 10 (1.47%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.32%) BigQuery
17 8 (1.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 98 (14.39%) Git
2 28 (4.11%) Visual Studio
3 24 (3.52%) JIRA
4 21 (3.08%) TeamCity
5 18 (2.64%) SpecFlow
6 17 (2.50%) GitLab
7 16 (2.35%) NUnit
8 13 (1.91%) Jenkins
9 12 (1.76%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.76%) Moq
10 9 (1.32%) git-flow
11 8 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (1.17%) Postman
11 8 (1.17%) Sourcetree
12 7 (1.03%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.88%) Katalon Studio
14 4 (0.59%) MLflow
15 3 (0.44%) MSTest
15 3 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 234 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 173 (25.40%) Finance
3 145 (21.29%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.96%) Retail
5 45 (6.61%) Presentation Skills
6 30 (4.41%) Marketing
7 28 (4.11%) Front Office
7 28 (4.11%) Law
8 25 (3.67%) Legal
9 21 (3.08%) Banking
10 16 (2.35%) Back Office
11 12 (1.76%) Advertising
11 12 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.17%) Games
13 8 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.03%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.88%) Public Sector
16 4 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 197 (28.93%) Senior
2 178 (26.14%) Analyst
3 148 (21.73%) Developer
4 96 (14.10%) Lead
5 66 (9.69%) Data Analyst
6 62 (9.10%) Senior Developer
7 55 (8.08%) Data Engineer
8 48 (7.05%) Senior Analyst
9 44 (6.46%) Applications Support
10 40 (5.87%) Data Scientist
11 37 (5.43%) Support Analyst
12 34 (4.99%) Full Stack Developer
13 31 (4.55%) C# Developer
14 30 (4.41%) Software Developer
14 30 (4.41%) Software Engineer
14 30 (4.41%) Systems Analyst
15 27 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 27 (3.96%) Senior Data Analyst
15 27 (3.96%) Senior Data Scientist
16 25 (3.67%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (17.91%) .NET
2 81 (11.89%) HTML
3 77 (11.31%) CSS
4 47 (6.90%) React
5 45 (6.61%) REST
6 44 (6.46%) .NET Framework
7 43 (6.31%) PySpark
8 38 (5.58%) ASP.NET
8 38 (5.58%) Pandas
9 33 (4.85%) Web Services
10 32 (4.70%) AngularJS
11 29 (4.26%) RESTful
12 28 (4.11%) TensorFlow
13 25 (3.67%) HTML5
13 25 (3.67%) scikit-learn
13 25 (3.67%) XML
14 23 (3.38%) jQuery
15 21 (3.08%) Entity Framework
15 21 (3.08%) WPF
16 19 (2.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
2 33 (4.85%) Algorithms
3 27 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (3.67%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.79%) Fixed Income
6 17 (2.50%) Reinsurance
7 15 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.76%) Legacy Code
8 12 (1.76%) Life Science
9 11 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.47%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.17%) Clustering
11 8 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.03%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.03%) Equities
12 7 (1.03%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 74 (10.87%) Windows
2 36 (5.29%) Linux
3 35 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.06%) Unix
5 9 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.44%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.15%) AIX
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (21.15%) Visualisation
2 139 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
3 134 (19.68%) Analytics
3 134 (19.68%) Business Intelligence
4 109 (16.01%) Agile
5 102 (14.98%) DevOps
6 99 (14.54%) Data Analysis
7 97 (14.24%) Data Science
8 94 (13.80%) Actionable Insight
9 86 (12.63%) Computer Science
9 86 (12.63%) ETL
10 80 (11.75%) Decision-Making
10 80 (11.75%) Statistics
11 77 (11.31%) Mathematics
12 68 (9.99%) Data Visualisation
13 67 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
14 65 (9.54%) Data Modelling
15 61 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence
15 61 (8.96%) Full Stack Development
16 58 (8.52%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 226 (33.19%) Python
2 130 (19.09%) C#
3 99 (14.54%) JavaScript
4 81 (11.89%) T-SQL
5 29 (4.26%) Java
6 27 (3.96%) PowerShell
7 25 (3.67%) R
8 22 (3.23%) PHP
9 21 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (2.20%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 15 (2.20%) XPath
11 14 (2.06%) C++
11 14 (2.06%) VBA
12 8 (1.17%) C
13 5 (0.73%) Scala
14 4 (0.59%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.44%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 195 (28.63%) Degree
2 55 (8.08%) DBS Check
3 38 (5.58%) Master's Degree
4 35 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.03%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.03%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.73%) PMI Certification
6 5 (0.73%) PMP
7 4 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.44%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.44%) PhD
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.29%) CFA
9 2 (0.29%) ISEB
9 2 (0.29%) 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 44 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.29%) QA
3 14 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.47%) SLA
5 6 (0.88%) SOC 1
6 2 (0.29%) COBIT
6 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.91%) Docker
3 12 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.29%) vSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) XenApp
6 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (4.85%) Terraform
2 30 (4.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (0.59%) SCCM
4 3 (0.44%) Backup Exec
5 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.29%) Ansible
5 2 (0.29%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.29%) Foglight
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.29%) 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
1 135 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 85 (12.48%) Databricks
3 48 (7.05%) Oracle
4 37 (5.43%) Google
5 27 (3.96%) Bloomberg
6 19 (2.79%) Charles River
7 16 (2.35%) Aderant
8 12 (1.76%) Adobe
8 12 (1.76%) Guidewire
8 12 (1.76%) VMware
9 8 (1.17%) Cognizant
10 7 (1.03%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.03%) Cisco
10 7 (1.03%) Citrix
11 6 (0.88%) FFastFill
11 6 (0.88%) HP
11 6 (0.88%) Refinitiv
11 6 (0.88%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.73%) Informatica
12 5 (0.73%) Intapp