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 30 March 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 520 544
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 142 86 267
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 134 79 244
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £32,575
25th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,063 £69,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,750 £74,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 64,058 33,155 73,652
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 89.99% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 42,215 21,310 57,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,231 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,159
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 30 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 30 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
North of England -24 36 £55,000 - 10
South East -16 35 £67,500 - 6
London +13 22 £92,500 +34.55% 2
Midlands -30 19 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Yorkshire -36 19 £45,000 -14.29% 7
East of England -16 18 £25,000 -18.03% 2
North West -11 17 £60,000 +9.09% 3
West Midlands -14 13 £52,500 +5.00% 2
South West -36 9 £65,000 +26.83%
East Midlands -38 6 £24,500 -45.56%
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 141 (99.30%) SQL
2 60 (42.25%) C#
3 56 (39.44%) Azure
4 44 (30.99%) Agile
4 44 (30.99%) SQL Server
5 43 (30.28%) Computer Science
6 39 (27.46%) Degree
7 38 (26.76%) PHP
8 25 (17.61%) .NET
8 25 (17.61%) AWS
9 24 (16.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (16.90%) Java
9 24 (16.90%) MVC
10 23 (16.20%) CSS
10 23 (16.20%) OLTP
10 23 (16.20%) Oracle
10 23 (16.20%) PL/SQL
10 23 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (14.79%) OOP
11 21 (14.79%) XML
12 19 (13.38%) C++
12 19 (13.38%) HTML
12 19 (13.38%) jQuery
13 17 (11.97%) Microsoft
13 17 (11.97%) SOAP
14 15 (10.56%) Software Testing
15 14 (9.86%) MySQL
15 14 (9.86%) T-SQL
16 12 (8.45%) Clean Code
16 12 (8.45%) Python

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 (1.41%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.70%) Magento
1 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (39.44%) Azure
2 25 (17.61%) AWS
3 5 (3.52%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.82%) Serverless
5 3 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.11%) GitHub
6 2 (1.41%) SaaS
7 1 (0.70%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.70%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.70%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (30.99%) SQL Server
2 23 (16.20%) OLTP
3 14 (9.86%) MySQL
4 6 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.52%) Power BI
6 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.41%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.41%) Tableau
9 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.70%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Git
1 5 (3.52%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
General
1 49 (34.51%) Finance
2 11 (7.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.11%) Front Office
5 2 (1.41%) Advertising
5 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.41%) Games
5 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.70%) Law
6 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.61%) .NET
2 23 (16.20%) CSS
3 21 (14.79%) XML
4 19 (13.38%) HTML
4 19 (13.38%) jQuery
5 17 (11.97%) SOAP
6 7 (4.93%) .NET Core
7 6 (4.23%) JSON
8 5 (3.52%) REST
9 4 (2.82%) .NET Framework
9 4 (2.82%) Kafka
9 4 (2.82%) React
10 3 (2.11%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (1.41%) Flask
11 2 (1.41%) FpML
11 2 (1.41%) J2EE
11 2 (1.41%) OAuth
11 2 (1.41%) Spring
11 2 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.93%) Hedge funds
1 7 (4.93%) Virtual Team
2 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.82%) Fixed Income
2 4 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.41%) PKI
4 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.99%) Agile
2 43 (30.28%) Computer Science
3 24 (16.90%) MVC
4 23 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (14.79%) OOP
6 15 (10.56%) Software Testing
7 12 (8.45%) Clean Code
7 12 (8.45%) Software Engineering
8 10 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (6.34%) Data Analysis
9 9 (6.34%) DevOps
9 9 (6.34%) Mentoring
10 8 (5.63%) CI/CD
10 8 (5.63%) ETL
11 7 (4.93%) OO
12 6 (4.23%) Analytics
13 5 (3.52%) Collaborative Culture
13 5 (3.52%) SDLC
13 5 (3.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 141 (99.30%) SQL
2 60 (42.25%) C#
3 38 (26.76%) PHP
4 24 (16.90%) Java
5 23 (16.20%) PL/SQL
6 19 (13.38%) C++
7 14 (9.86%) T-SQL
8 12 (8.45%) Python
9 4 (2.82%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.41%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.70%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 39 (27.46%) Degree
2 24 (16.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (16.20%) Oracle
2 17 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.41%) Cognos
3 2 (1.41%) IBM
3 2 (1.41%) Rollbar
3 2 (1.41%) Sage
4 1 (0.70%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.70%) VMware
4 1 (0.70%) WooCommerce