SQL Developer Job Trends in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer salary in England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 529 431
Rank change year-on-year -7 -98 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 82 193 255
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.33% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.35% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 69 130 243
10th Percentile £24,000 £36,250 £36,400
25th Percentile £25,000 £43,000 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%

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 42,623 55,882 43,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 94.16% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 27,509 31,264 33,899
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,471 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SQL Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SQL Developer job vacancy trend in England

SQL Developer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in England

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in England over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in England

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 SQL Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Midlands +47 19 £45,000 -10.00% 2
South East +15 15 £40,600 -27.50% 5
London +1 14 £70,000 +16.67% 4
North of England +40 13 £40,000 -14.83%
East of England +39 10 £25,000 -54.55% 1
East Midlands +34 10 £45,000 -18.18% 1
West Midlands +40 9 £46,250 -7.50% 1
Yorkshire -1 9 £40,000 -12.92%
South West - 6 £52,500 -
North East +16 3 £25,000 -24.24%
North West +46 1 £55,000 +8.11%
SQL Developer
UK

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 82 (100.00%) SQL
2 45 (54.88%) Azure
3 43 (52.44%) SQL Server
4 33 (40.24%) C#
5 28 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (31.71%) Computer Science
6 26 (31.71%) T-SQL
7 25 (30.49%) Degree
8 23 (28.05%) .NET
8 23 (28.05%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (25.61%) Agile
9 21 (25.61%) PHP
10 20 (24.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (24.39%) DevOps
10 20 (24.39%) MVC
11 19 (23.17%) CSS
11 19 (23.17%) OOP
11 19 (23.17%) Power BI
11 19 (23.17%) Power Platform
12 17 (20.73%) AWS
12 17 (20.73%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (20.73%) ETL
12 17 (20.73%) MySQL
13 13 (15.85%) C++
13 13 (15.85%) Java
13 13 (15.85%) jQuery
13 13 (15.85%) Microsoft
13 13 (15.85%) REST
13 13 (15.85%) Visualisation
13 13 (15.85%) XML

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.44%) Apache
1 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 45 (54.88%) Azure
2 19 (23.17%) Power Platform
3 17 (20.73%) AWS
4 9 (10.98%) GitHub
5 8 (9.76%) Serverless
6 7 (8.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (7.32%) GCP
7 6 (7.32%) Snowflake
8 5 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.66%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.66%) SaaS
10 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.44%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.44%) dbt
10 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (52.44%) SQL Server
2 19 (23.17%) Power BI
3 17 (20.73%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (20.73%) MySQL
4 11 (13.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (10.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (9.76%) NoSQL
6 8 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (8.54%) OLAP
7 7 (8.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (7.32%) BigQuery
8 6 (7.32%) Data Lake
9 5 (6.10%) OLTP
9 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (4.88%) Tableau
11 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (2.44%) Big Data
11 2 (2.44%) DynamoDB
11 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Git
1 8 (9.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (37.80%) Finance
2 19 (23.17%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.98%) Retail
4 6 (7.32%) Front Office
5 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Back Office
6 3 (3.66%) Law
7 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.44%) Marketing
8 1 (1.22%) Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.05%) .NET
2 19 (23.17%) CSS
3 13 (15.85%) jQuery
3 13 (15.85%) REST
3 13 (15.85%) XML
4 10 (12.20%) ASP.NET
4 10 (12.20%) HTML
5 9 (10.98%) JSON
6 5 (6.10%) Web Services
7 4 (4.88%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.88%) Flask
7 4 (4.88%) OAuth
7 4 (4.88%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.88%) OpenID
7 4 (4.88%) React
7 4 (4.88%) SOAP
8 3 (3.66%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.66%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (2.44%) CSS3
9 2 (2.44%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.88%) PKI
4 3 (3.66%) BYOD
4 3 (3.66%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.44%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) NHS
6 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (31.71%) Computer Science
3 23 (28.05%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (25.61%) Agile
5 20 (24.39%) DevOps
5 20 (24.39%) MVC
6 19 (23.17%) OOP
7 17 (20.73%) ETL
8 13 (15.85%) Visualisation
9 11 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (10.98%) CI/CD
11 8 (9.76%) Data Modelling
11 8 (9.76%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (9.76%) Dimensional Modelling
11 8 (9.76%) OO
11 8 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (8.54%) Design Patterns
13 6 (7.32%) Analytics
13 6 (7.32%) Containerisation
13 6 (7.32%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 82 (100.00%) SQL
2 33 (40.24%) C#
3 26 (31.71%) T-SQL
4 21 (25.61%) PHP
5 13 (15.85%) C++
5 13 (15.85%) Java
6 11 (13.41%) Python
7 6 (7.32%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.10%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 25 (30.49%) Degree
2 20 (24.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.44%) HNC
3 2 (2.44%) HND
3 2 (2.44%) MCSA
3 2 (2.44%) MCSE
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (7.32%) Terraform
2 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) Oracle
3 6 (7.32%) Databricks
4 3 (3.66%) Trayport
5 2 (2.44%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.44%) Splunk
6 1 (1.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) VMware