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 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 498 540
Rank change year-on-year -22 +42 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 141 107 265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.33% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 133 99 241
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £43,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £66,204
90th Percentile £87,000 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% -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 67,939 32,820 74,862
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 89.78% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,702 21,220 58,170
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -44 36 £55,000 -6.38% 10
South East -25 33 £67,500 - 6
London -4 22 £92,500 +34.55% 2
Yorkshire -47 19 £35,000 -41.67% 7
Midlands -50 19 £45,000 -10.00% 2
East of England -29 18 £25,000 -18.03% 2
North West -27 17 £60,000 +6.67% 3
West Midlands -12 13 £52,500 +5.00% 2
South West -34 10 £65,000 +30.00%
East Midlands -56 6 £24,500 -49.74%
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 April 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.

1 140 (99.29%) SQL
2 60 (42.55%) C#
3 57 (40.43%) Azure
4 44 (31.21%) Agile
4 44 (31.21%) SQL Server
5 43 (30.50%) Computer Science
6 38 (26.95%) Degree
6 38 (26.95%) PHP
7 26 (18.44%) .NET
8 25 (17.73%) AWS
9 24 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (17.02%) Java
9 24 (17.02%) MVC
10 23 (16.31%) CSS
11 22 (15.60%) OLTP
11 22 (15.60%) Oracle
11 22 (15.60%) PL/SQL
11 22 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (14.89%) OOP
13 19 (13.48%) C++
13 19 (13.48%) jQuery
13 19 (13.48%) XML
14 18 (12.77%) HTML
15 16 (11.35%) SOAP
16 15 (10.64%) Microsoft
17 14 (9.93%) MySQL
17 14 (9.93%) Software Testing
18 12 (8.51%) Clean Code
18 12 (8.51%) Python
18 12 (8.51%) Software Engineering

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 (1.42%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.71%) Magento
1 1 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (40.43%) Azure
2 25 (17.73%) AWS
3 4 (2.84%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.84%) Serverless
4 3 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.13%) GitHub
5 2 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.42%) SaaS
6 1 (0.71%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.71%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.71%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (31.21%) SQL Server
2 22 (15.60%) OLTP
3 14 (9.93%) MySQL
4 6 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.84%) Power BI
6 2 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.42%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.42%) Tableau
7 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Git
2 4 (2.84%) JIRA
3 2 (1.42%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 49 (34.75%) Finance
2 11 (7.80%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.13%) Front Office
5 2 (1.42%) Advertising
5 2 (1.42%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.42%) Games
5 2 (1.42%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.44%) .NET
2 23 (16.31%) CSS
3 19 (13.48%) jQuery
3 19 (13.48%) XML
4 18 (12.77%) HTML
5 16 (11.35%) SOAP
6 7 (4.96%) .NET Core
7 5 (3.55%) JSON
8 4 (2.84%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.84%) Kafka
8 4 (2.84%) React
8 4 (2.84%) REST
9 3 (2.13%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.42%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (1.42%) FpML
10 2 (1.42%) J2EE
10 2 (1.42%) OAuth
10 2 (1.42%) Spring
10 2 (1.42%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.42%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.96%) Hedge funds
1 7 (4.96%) Virtual Team
2 5 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.84%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.84%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.42%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.42%) PKI
5 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.21%) Agile
2 43 (30.50%) Computer Science
3 24 (17.02%) MVC
4 22 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (14.89%) OOP
6 14 (9.93%) Software Testing
7 12 (8.51%) Clean Code
7 12 (8.51%) Software Engineering
8 11 (7.80%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (6.38%) Data Analysis
9 9 (6.38%) Mentoring
10 8 (5.67%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (5.67%) CI/CD
10 8 (5.67%) DevOps
10 8 (5.67%) ETL
11 7 (4.96%) OO
12 6 (4.26%) Analytics
13 5 (3.55%) Data Modelling
13 5 (3.55%) SDLC
13 5 (3.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 140 (99.29%) SQL
2 60 (42.55%) C#
3 38 (26.95%) PHP
4 24 (17.02%) Java
5 22 (15.60%) PL/SQL
6 19 (13.48%) C++
7 12 (8.51%) Python
7 12 (8.51%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.84%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.42%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.71%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 38 (26.95%) Degree
2 24 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (15.60%) Oracle
2 15 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.13%) Sage
4 2 (1.42%) Cognos
4 2 (1.42%) IBM
4 2 (1.42%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.71%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.71%) VMware
5 1 (0.71%) WooCommerce