SQL Developer Jobs in the City of London

SQL Developer
Central London > City of London

The median SQL Developer salary in the City of London is £62,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 170 197
Rank change year-on-year +27 +27 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 8 7 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.38% 0.21% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.22% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 32
10th Percentile £54,375 - £50,000
25th Percentile £56,813 £46,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £71,875 £102,500 £94,700
Central London median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.83% -8.00% +4.17%

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 1,931 3,222 4,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 95.86% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,465 2,564 3,765
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,075 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £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 £73,210
% change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the City of London

SQL Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for SQL Developer in the City of London

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 City of London region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) T-SQL
3 5 (62.50%) .NET
3 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
3 5 (62.50%) Power BI
3 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Finance
5 3 (37.50%) Cognos
5 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (25.00%) C#
6 2 (25.00%) ETL
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Wealth Management
7 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 1 (12.50%) Release Management
7 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 1 (12.50%) Statistics
7 1 (12.50%) JIRA
7 1 (12.50%) Refactoring

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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Datadog
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (12.50%) Data Hub
4 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) SQL CLR
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
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
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) CQRS
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Release Management
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cognos
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) VMware