SQL Job Trends in Croydon

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 37 26
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 -20
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4 10 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 3.42% 5.78% 14.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.18% 14.08% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 14
10th Percentile - - £33,150
25th Percentile - £31,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £32,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +115.38% -55.17% +26.09%
75th Percentile - £33,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - - £77,500
South London median annual salary £42,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.09% -4.17% -

All Programming Languages
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22 71 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 18.80% 41.04% 52.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 59
10th Percentile £47,163 - £40,400
25th Percentile £52,400 £32,000 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,600 £34,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +84.12% -54.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,813 £83,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £67,250 -
South London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% -21.43% +16.67%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Croydon

SQL
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SQL

SQL
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Kenley - 1 - -
SQL
South London

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) GIS
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Video on Demand
1 1 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Demand Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Icinga
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware