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 10 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 548 525
Rank change year-on-year +45 -23 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 132 86 270
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 121 69 251
10th Percentile £24,000 £41,850 £32,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.60% +0.91% -8.33%

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 59,045 35,767 69,614
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.78% 90.67% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 38,347 20,975 55,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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
South East -12 33 £67,500 +1.89% 7
North of England -11 29 £57,500 +4.55% 6
London +7 21 £95,000 +58.33% 4
Midlands -11 20 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Yorkshire -34 15 £55,000 +25.00% 1
East of England +11 14 £25,000 -44.44% 1
West Midlands +1 14 £52,500 +5.00% 2
North West 0 14 £60,000 +9.09% 5
South West -20 10 £65,000 +26.83% 1
East Midlands -23 6 £37,000 -17.78%
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 March 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.

1 131 (99.24%) SQL
2 50 (37.88%) C#
3 47 (35.61%) Azure
4 36 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 34 (25.76%) Agile
5 34 (25.76%) SQL Server
6 33 (25.00%) Degree
7 30 (22.73%) PHP
8 27 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (18.94%) .NET
10 24 (18.18%) Oracle
11 23 (17.42%) OLTP
11 23 (17.42%) PL/SQL
12 22 (16.67%) XML
13 21 (15.91%) AWS
13 21 (15.91%) HTML
14 18 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (13.64%) CSS
15 17 (12.88%) MVC
15 17 (12.88%) SOAP
16 16 (12.12%) OOP
17 15 (11.36%) Java
17 15 (11.36%) MySQL
17 15 (11.36%) Software Testing
18 12 (9.09%) C++
18 12 (9.09%) jQuery
18 12 (9.09%) Software Engineering
19 11 (8.33%) Data Analysis
19 11 (8.33%) Microsoft
19 11 (8.33%) T-SQL

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 1 (0.76%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
1 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (35.61%) Azure
2 21 (15.91%) AWS
3 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.30%) Serverless
4 5 (3.79%) GitHub
5 4 (3.03%) SaaS
6 3 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.52%) Azure App Service
7 2 (1.52%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.76%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.76%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.76%) SQL Server
2 23 (17.42%) OLTP
3 15 (11.36%) MySQL
4 7 (5.30%) Power BI
5 5 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.27%) Tableau
7 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.52%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.76%) OLAP
8 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.79%) JIRA
2 4 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (28.79%) Finance
2 6 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (3.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.27%) Front Office
5 2 (1.52%) Advertising
6 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.76%) Games
6 1 (0.76%) Law
6 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.94%) .NET
2 22 (16.67%) XML
3 21 (15.91%) HTML
4 18 (13.64%) CSS
5 17 (12.88%) SOAP
6 12 (9.09%) jQuery
7 9 (6.82%) REST
8 7 (5.30%) JSON
9 6 (4.55%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.03%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.03%) Flask
10 4 (3.03%) OAuth
10 4 (3.03%) OAuth2
10 4 (3.03%) OpenID
11 3 (2.27%) Kafka
12 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.52%) ASP.NET
12 2 (1.52%) React
12 2 (1.52%) Spring Boot
12 2 (1.52%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.30%) Data Structures
1 7 (5.30%) Hedge funds
2 4 (3.03%) PKI
3 3 (2.27%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.27%) Computer Science
2 34 (25.76%) Agile
3 27 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (12.88%) MVC
5 16 (12.12%) OOP
6 15 (11.36%) Software Testing
7 12 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 11 (8.33%) Data Analysis
9 10 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (7.58%) DevOps
10 9 (6.82%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (6.06%) CI/CD
11 8 (6.06%) ETL
12 6 (4.55%) API Integration
12 6 (4.55%) Data Protection
12 6 (4.55%) Test Automation
13 5 (3.79%) Clean Code
13 5 (3.79%) Collaborative Culture
13 5 (3.79%) Containerisation
13 5 (3.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 131 (99.24%) SQL
2 50 (37.88%) C#
3 30 (22.73%) PHP
4 23 (17.42%) PL/SQL
5 15 (11.36%) Java
6 12 (9.09%) C++
7 11 (8.33%) T-SQL
8 8 (6.06%) Python
9 6 (4.55%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.52%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (25.00%) Degree
2 18 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.76%) HNC
4 1 (0.76%) HND
4 1 (0.76%) MCSA
4 1 (0.76%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) Oracle
2 11 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.76%) Cognos
3 1 (0.76%) Dataiku
3 1 (0.76%) IBM
3 1 (0.76%) ION Trading
3 1 (0.76%) Rollbar
3 1 (0.76%) Sage
3 1 (0.76%) VMware
3 1 (0.76%) WooCommerce