Senior SQL Developer Jobs in the City of London

Senior SQL Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior SQL Developer salary in the City of London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 172 220
Rank change year-on-year +30 +48 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 5 2 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.24% 0.059% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.062% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £59,000 - -
25th Percentile £63,125 £97,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile £71,875 £102,500 £86,500
90th Percentile £73,000 - £92,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £100,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% -28.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,947 3,236 4,526
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.91% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,481 2,577 3,799
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%

Senior SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL Developer in the City of London

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Senior SQL Developer in the City of London

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior SQL Developer in the City of London

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Senior 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 City of London region featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) .NET
3 3 (60.00%) Cognos
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (40.00%) Wealth Management
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) Back Office
5 1 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (20.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Statistics
5 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (20.00%) Data Hub
4 1 (20.00%) Metadata
4 1 (20.00%) SQL CLR
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Back Office
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Fintech
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) Statistics
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cognos
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware