SQL Job Trends in the City of London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 245 460 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 11.55% 17.05% 15.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.15% 36.28% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 191 295 392
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £93,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +3.45%

All Programming Languages
City of London

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 739 1,268 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.83% 47.00% 50.76%
Number of salaries quoted 603 932 1,321
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SQL job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.63%) Confluence
3 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.22%) Apache
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.82%) CMS
5 2 (0.82%) Luigi
5 2 (0.82%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (11.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Elite 3E
1 3 (1.22%) Endur
2 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.82%) EuroRunner
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.82%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.41%) Actimize
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 117 (47.76%) Azure
2 83 (33.88%) Power Platform
3 34 (13.88%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (13.06%) AWS
5 30 (12.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (6.94%) Datadog
7 16 (6.53%) GCP
8 13 (5.31%) Serverless
9 12 (4.90%) dbt
10 11 (4.49%) Snowflake
11 10 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (4.08%) Power Automate
12 7 (2.86%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.45%) Azure Functions
13 6 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.04%) GitHub
14 5 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.41%) Broadband
2 1 (0.41%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (30.20%) Power BI
2 55 (22.45%) SQL Server
3 46 (18.78%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (9.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (8.57%) Data Lake
5 21 (8.57%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (4.49%) Tableau
8 10 (4.08%) NoSQL
9 9 (3.67%) Power Query
10 7 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.04%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.04%) Metabase
11 5 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.63%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.63%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.22%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (6.94%) Git
2 11 (4.49%) Octopus Deploy
3 10 (4.08%) JIRA
3 10 (4.08%) TeamCity
4 6 (2.45%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.63%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.22%) ESLint
6 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.82%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.82%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.41%) GitLab
8 1 (0.41%) MLflow
8 1 (0.41%) NUnit
8 1 (0.41%) Selenium
8 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
General
1 92 (37.55%) Finance
2 78 (31.84%) Social Skills
3 41 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (5.71%) Banking
6 13 (5.31%) Legal
7 12 (4.90%) Law
8 11 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.27%) Marketing
10 7 (2.86%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.45%) International Banking
12 5 (2.04%) Retail
13 4 (1.63%) Advertising
13 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.63%) Front Office
13 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.82%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 50 (20.41%) Developer
2 46 (18.78%) Analyst
3 45 (18.37%) Senior
4 44 (17.96%) Data Engineer
5 25 (10.20%) Support Analyst
6 24 (9.80%) Lead
6 24 (9.80%) Senior Data Engineer
7 23 (9.39%) Applications Support
8 17 (6.94%) Applications Support Analyst
9 12 (4.90%) Data Analyst
9 12 (4.90%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 11 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.67%) Architect
12 8 (3.27%) Financial Analyst
13 7 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.45%) Finance Systems Analyst
14 6 (2.45%) Systems Analyst
15 5 (2.04%) Data Scientist
15 5 (2.04%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.80%) .NET
2 11 (4.49%) PySpark
3 8 (3.27%) Node.js
4 7 (2.86%) Kafka
5 6 (2.45%) CSS
5 6 (2.45%) Pandas
5 6 (2.45%) React
5 6 (2.45%) XML
6 5 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (2.04%) REST
7 4 (1.63%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.63%) RESTful
8 3 (1.22%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.22%) NumPy
8 3 (1.22%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.22%) WebAssembly
8 3 (1.22%) WPF
9 2 (0.82%) Spring
9 2 (0.82%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.57%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.49%) Virtual Team
4 10 (4.08%) Reinsurance
5 6 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.45%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.45%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.04%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.63%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.22%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.82%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.82%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.27%) Linux
2 6 (2.45%) Unix
2 6 (2.45%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.41%) OpenVMS
3 1 (0.41%) VMS
3 1 (0.41%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (31.43%) Analytics
2 72 (29.39%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 68 (27.76%) DevOps
5 67 (27.35%) ETL
6 63 (25.71%) AI
7 60 (24.49%) Agile
8 59 (24.08%) CI/CD
9 52 (21.22%) Data Pipeline
10 49 (20.00%) Data Modelling
11 42 (17.14%) Decision-Making
12 36 (14.69%) Data Engineering
13 35 (14.29%) Mentoring
14 31 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (12.65%) Data Governance
14 31 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (12.65%) Test Automation
15 30 (12.24%) Migration
16 24 (9.80%) Scrum
17 22 (8.98%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 122 (49.80%) Python
2 38 (15.51%) C#
3 24 (9.80%) PowerShell
4 23 (9.39%) Java
5 19 (7.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (5.31%) T-SQL
7 10 (4.08%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.86%) C++
10 6 (2.45%) Scala
10 6 (2.45%) VBA
11 4 (1.63%) Bash
12 2 (0.82%) Bicep
12 2 (0.82%) VC++
13 1 (0.41%) Korn
13 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.41%) RPG
13 1 (0.41%) Rust
13 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 22 (8.98%) Degree
2 6 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.63%) Azure Certification
3 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.63%) MCP
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.22%) ACCA
4 3 (1.22%) CIMA
5 2 (0.82%) CBAP
5 2 (0.82%) MBA
5 2 (0.82%) PhD
6 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.41%) CISSP
6 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.41%) ISEB
6 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.45%) GDPR
3 5 (2.04%) QA
4 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.82%) EMIR
5 2 (0.82%) NIST
5 2 (0.82%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (3.27%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (8.57%) Terraform
2 9 (3.67%) Grafana
3 8 (3.27%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.22%) Ansible
4 3 (1.22%) Kibana
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.22%) Puppet
5 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.41%) Ambari
6 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.41%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.41%) WSUS
6 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 41 (16.73%) Databricks
3 28 (11.43%) Guidewire
4 10 (4.08%) Oracle
5 8 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.45%) Intapp
7 5 (2.04%) Google
8 3 (1.22%) Aderant
8 3 (1.22%) Informatica
8 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.82%) Concur
9 2 (0.82%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.82%) Sage
9 2 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) SAP
9 2 (0.82%) Trayport
10 1 (0.41%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.41%) iManage