SQL Job Trends in East London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East London requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL 14 8 26
As % of all permanent jobs in East London 5.69% 4.60% 9.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.67% 34.78% 65.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 26
10th Percentile - - £34,375
25th Percentile £32,000 - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £45,000 - £58,750
90th Percentile £55,008 - -
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

All Programming Languages
East 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 East London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 30 23 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 12.20% 13.22% 14.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22 9 40
10th Percentile - £51,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £32,000 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +39.13% -8.00%
75th Percentile £84,375 £127,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £132,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

SQL job vacancy trend in East London

SQL
Salary Trend in East London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in East London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in East London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in East London

SQL
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the East London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Hackney 0 5 £34,000 -
Barking - 4 £40,000 - 1
Dagenham - 1 - -
SQL
London

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
2 5 (35.71%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) LAN
1 6 (42.86%) WAN
2 5 (35.71%) DHCP
2 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 5 (35.71%) VLAN
2 5 (35.71%) VoIP
2 5 (35.71%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) IP Telephony
3 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) MySQL
2 4 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 4 (28.57%) Tableau
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) Power Query
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Local Government
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Trainee
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Trainee Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Insight Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Modeller
5 1 (7.14%) Finance Modeller
5 1 (7.14%) Insight Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Insight Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (35.71%) Social Media
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
1 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
1 5 (35.71%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 4 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) AI
4 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 2 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
2 1 (7.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
1 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Autotask
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Datto
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle