Senior SQL Developer Jobs in England

Senior SQL Developer
UK > England

The median Senior SQL Developer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 633 786 865
Rank change year-on-year +153 +79 +210
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 29 47 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.063% 0.055% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.058% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 26 43 49
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,875 £62,323
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.92% +14.71%
75th Percentile £72,188 £71,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £75,625 £90,000 £87,600
UK median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £69,412
% change year-on-year +5.77% -6.36% +15.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 41,555 80,517 84,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,558 60,256 53,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Senior SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL Developer in England

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in England.

Salary trend for Senior SQL Developer in England

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior SQL Developer in England

Senior SQL Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior SQL Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East +109 15 £67,500 -
London +109 7 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Midlands +58 4 £60,000 - 4
West Midlands +51 4 £60,000 -4.00% 4
North of England +94 3 £70,000 - 3
North West +22 3 £70,000 - 3
Senior SQL Developer
UK

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 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 England region featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (51.72%) OLTP
2 15 (51.72%) HTML
2 15 (51.72%) PL/SQL
2 15 (51.72%) Oracle
3 14 (48.28%) SQL Server
4 13 (44.83%) SOAP
4 13 (44.83%) XML
4 13 (44.83%) Azure
4 13 (44.83%) Software Testing
4 13 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (41.38%) T-SQL
6 11 (37.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (37.93%) Power Platform
6 11 (37.93%) Power BI
7 9 (31.03%) Wealth Management
7 9 (31.03%) Degree
7 9 (31.03%) Finance
8 8 (27.59%) Migration
8 8 (27.59%) VMware
8 8 (27.59%) Back Office
8 8 (27.59%) Workflow
8 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
8 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (27.59%) Refactoring
8 8 (27.59%) SaaS
8 8 (27.59%) SQL CLR

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) Power Platform
3 8 (27.59%) SaaS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (51.72%) OLTP
2 14 (48.28%) SQL Server
3 11 (37.93%) Power BI
3 11 (37.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (27.59%) Data Hub
4 8 (27.59%) Metadata
4 8 (27.59%) SQL CLR
4 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.45%) Tableau
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Back Office
3 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) HTML
2 13 (44.83%) SOAP
2 13 (44.83%) XML
3 5 (17.24%) .NET
4 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (6.90%) CSS
4 2 (6.90%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
1 13 (44.83%) Software Testing
2 11 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (31.03%) Wealth Management
4 8 (27.59%) Data Privacy
4 8 (27.59%) Fintech
4 8 (27.59%) High Availability
4 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (27.59%) Migration
4 8 (27.59%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (27.59%) Refactoring
4 8 (27.59%) Statistics
4 8 (27.59%) Workflow
5 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis
6 2 (6.90%) DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.90%) Translating Business Requirements
7 1 (3.45%) Dashboard Development
7 1 (3.45%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (51.72%) PL/SQL
3 12 (41.38%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.90%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Oracle
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (27.59%) VMware
3 3 (10.34%) Cognos