SQL Developer Job Trends in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 545 451
Rank change year-on-year +22 -94 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 82 139 237
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.28% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.30% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 73 92 226
10th Percentile £24,000 £42,050 £37,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 47,490 46,476 43,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 93.22% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,835 24,852 34,063
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,173 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 28 December 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 28 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
South East +14 21 £67,500 +3.85% 7
Midlands +24 15 £50,000 - 4
London +18 15 £77,500 +29.17% 9
North of England +18 14 £45,000 -9.32% 7
East of England +30 9 £25,000 -54.55%
Yorkshire -6 8 £40,000 -12.92% 1
East Midlands - 8 £45,000 -
West Midlands +26 7 £51,250 +2.50% 4
North West +17 5 £60,000 +15.94% 6
South West - 4 £37,000 - 1
North East - 1 £25,000 -
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 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 81 (98.78%) SQL
2 39 (47.56%) Azure
3 32 (39.02%) C#
4 30 (36.59%) SQL Server
5 24 (29.27%) Computer Science
6 23 (28.05%) Degree
6 23 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (25.61%) PHP
8 20 (24.39%) Agile
9 19 (23.17%) .NET
9 19 (23.17%) T-SQL
10 17 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (20.73%) MVC
11 15 (18.29%) AWS
11 15 (18.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (17.07%) CSS
12 14 (17.07%) MySQL
12 14 (17.07%) OOP
12 14 (17.07%) XML
13 13 (15.85%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (15.85%) ETL
13 13 (15.85%) Oracle
13 13 (15.85%) Power BI
13 13 (15.85%) Power Platform
14 12 (14.63%) HTML
15 11 (13.41%) DevOps
15 11 (13.41%) OLTP
15 11 (13.41%) PL/SQL
16 10 (12.20%) C++
16 10 (12.20%) Java

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:

Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 39 (47.56%) Azure
2 15 (18.29%) AWS
3 13 (15.85%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.32%) Serverless
5 4 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.88%) GitHub
6 3 (3.66%) GCP
6 3 (3.66%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.44%) Azure App Service
7 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.44%) SaaS
8 1 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (36.59%) SQL Server
2 14 (17.07%) MySQL
3 13 (15.85%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (15.85%) Power BI
4 11 (13.41%) OLTP
5 8 (9.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (8.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (8.54%) OLAP
7 6 (7.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (6.10%) NoSQL
8 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (6.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (4.88%) Tableau
10 3 (3.66%) BigQuery
10 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
11 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.44%) Data Mining
11 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
12 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) JIRA
2 2 (2.44%) Git
General
1 27 (32.93%) Finance
2 11 (13.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.88%) Front Office
3 4 (4.88%) Retail
4 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.44%) Back Office
6 1 (1.22%) Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.22%) Games
6 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.17%) .NET
2 14 (17.07%) CSS
2 14 (17.07%) XML
3 12 (14.63%) HTML
4 10 (12.20%) jQuery
5 8 (9.76%) REST
5 8 (9.76%) SOAP
6 6 (7.32%) ASP.NET
6 6 (7.32%) JSON
7 4 (4.88%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.88%) Flask
7 4 (4.88%) OAuth
7 4 (4.88%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.88%) OpenID
8 3 (3.66%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (2.44%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.44%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.44%) Blazor
9 2 (2.44%) React
9 2 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.88%) PKI
3 3 (3.66%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.66%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.27%) Computer Science
2 23 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (24.39%) Agile
4 17 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (20.73%) MVC
5 14 (17.07%) OOP
6 13 (15.85%) ETL
7 11 (13.41%) DevOps
8 10 (12.20%) Visualisation
9 8 (9.76%) Software Testing
10 7 (8.54%) Software Engineering
11 6 (7.32%) Actionable Insight
11 6 (7.32%) Data Integration
11 6 (7.32%) Data Modelling
11 6 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
12 5 (6.10%) Analytics
12 5 (6.10%) Data Visualisation
12 5 (6.10%) Dimensional Modelling
12 5 (6.10%) Performance Tuning
13 4 (4.88%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 81 (98.78%) SQL
2 32 (39.02%) C#
3 21 (25.61%) PHP
4 19 (23.17%) T-SQL
5 11 (13.41%) PL/SQL
6 10 (12.20%) C++
6 10 (12.20%) Java
6 10 (12.20%) Python
7 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 23 (28.05%) Degree
2 15 (18.29%) Computer Science Degree
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Docker
1 4 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Oracle
2 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.66%) Databricks
4 2 (2.44%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.22%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.22%) SAP