SQL Developer Job Trends in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 484 579
Rank change year-on-year -9 +95 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 196 156 269
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.44% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 185 143 225
10th Percentile £24,000 £29,250 £33,650
25th Percentile £30,000 £44,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £74,750 £73,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -6.09%

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 77,858 35,114 83,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.72% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,086 20,250 63,132
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,875 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +9.52% -13.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 1 June 2026.

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 1 June 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
North of England -33 53 £50,000 -16.67% 4
South East +13 52 £68,000 +0.74% 6
London -19 31 £95,000 +35.71% 9
North West +7 29 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Midlands -42 24 £25,000 -44.44% 4
East of England -9 21 £25,000 -18.03% 1
Yorkshire -63 21 £40,000 -33.33% 1
South West -48 14 £60,000 +20.00%
West Midlands -38 13 £37,000 -17.78% 3
East Midlands -35 11 £24,000 -46.67% 1
North East -46 3 £40,000 -30.43% 1
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2026, 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.

1 193 (98.47%) SQL
2 75 (38.27%) SQL Server
3 66 (33.67%) C#
4 59 (30.10%) Azure
5 49 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 47 (23.98%) Agile
7 43 (21.94%) PHP
8 41 (20.92%) Degree
9 30 (15.31%) .NET
9 30 (15.31%) OLTP
9 30 (15.31%) Oracle
9 30 (15.31%) PL/SQL
10 25 (12.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (12.24%) Java
12 23 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (10.71%) AWS
13 21 (10.71%) CSS
13 21 (10.71%) Microsoft
13 21 (10.71%) MVC
14 20 (10.20%) C++
15 19 (9.69%) jQuery
15 19 (9.69%) OOP
15 19 (9.69%) Python
15 19 (9.69%) XML
16 18 (9.18%) HTML
16 18 (9.18%) SOAP
17 17 (8.67%) Software Testing
18 16 (8.16%) ETL
18 16 (8.16%) Software Engineering
19 14 (7.14%) Clean Code

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 (1.02%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Magento
1 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (30.10%) Azure
2 21 (10.71%) AWS
3 7 (3.57%) SaaS
4 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.02%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.02%) Serverless
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.51%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.51%) GitHub
7 1 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.51%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (38.27%) SQL Server
2 30 (15.31%) OLTP
3 11 (5.61%) MySQL
4 7 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (3.06%) Power BI
6 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Git
1 5 (2.55%) JIRA
2 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.51%) GitLab
General
1 52 (26.53%) Finance
2 14 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.53%) Retail
5 2 (1.02%) Advertising
5 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.02%) Front Office
5 2 (1.02%) Games
5 2 (1.02%) Law
5 2 (1.02%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.31%) .NET
2 21 (10.71%) CSS
3 19 (9.69%) jQuery
3 19 (9.69%) XML
4 18 (9.18%) HTML
4 18 (9.18%) SOAP
5 7 (3.57%) FastAPI
6 5 (2.55%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.04%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.04%) Kafka
7 4 (2.04%) React
8 3 (1.53%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.53%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.53%) Entity Framework
9 2 (1.02%) NestJS
9 2 (1.02%) Next.js
9 2 (1.02%) Node.js
9 2 (1.02%) REST
9 2 (1.02%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.02%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.10%) Virtual Team
2 7 (3.57%) Hedge funds
3 6 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.55%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.53%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.53%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.53%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.02%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.53%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 47 (23.98%) Agile
3 23 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (10.71%) MVC
5 19 (9.69%) OOP
6 17 (8.67%) Software Testing
7 16 (8.16%) ETL
7 16 (8.16%) Software Engineering
8 14 (7.14%) Clean Code
8 14 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (6.12%) Logistics
10 11 (5.61%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (5.61%) Mentoring
11 10 (5.10%) OO
12 9 (4.59%) CI/CD
12 9 (4.59%) E-Commerce
13 7 (3.57%) Analytics
13 7 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (3.57%) Data Analysis
13 7 (3.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 193 (98.47%) SQL
2 66 (33.67%) C#
3 43 (21.94%) PHP
4 30 (15.31%) PL/SQL
5 24 (12.24%) Java
6 20 (10.20%) C++
7 19 (9.69%) Python
8 13 (6.63%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.02%) Delphi
10 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.02%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (20.92%) Degree
2 25 (12.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (15.31%) Oracle
2 21 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.53%) Sage
4 2 (1.02%) Cognos
4 2 (1.02%) IBM
4 2 (1.02%) iManage
4 2 (1.02%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.51%) Databricks
5 1 (0.51%) VMware
5 1 (0.51%) WooCommerce