SQL Developer Job Trends in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer salary in England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 528 440
Rank change year-on-year -4 -88 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 86 197 257
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.33% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.35% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 72 132 245
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £37,079
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,750 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +1.90% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £77,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £53,875
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.55% -6.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 42,051 56,729 43,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 94.29% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 27,089 31,796 34,125
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -

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 25 November 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 25 November 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
Midlands +49 21 £45,000 -10.00% 3
London -5 17 £70,000 +16.67% 6
South East +8 16 £40,600 -27.50% 6
East Midlands +40 12 £45,000 -18.18% 1
North of England +31 12 £40,000 -15.79% 1
West Midlands +36 9 £46,250 -7.50% 2
East of England +25 8 £25,000 -54.55% 2
Yorkshire +15 7 £40,000 -13.85%
South West - 7 £55,000 -
North East +21 4 £62,500 +89.39%
North West +42 1 £55,000 +8.11% 1
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 November 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 86 (100.00%) SQL
2 49 (56.98%) SQL Server
3 46 (53.49%) Azure
4 32 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (33.72%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (33.72%) C#
5 29 (33.72%) T-SQL
6 27 (31.40%) Degree
7 25 (29.07%) .NET
7 25 (29.07%) Power BI
7 25 (29.07%) Power Platform
8 23 (26.74%) Computer Science
8 23 (26.74%) DevOps
9 21 (24.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (24.42%) ETL
10 20 (23.26%) AWS
10 20 (23.26%) CSS
10 20 (23.26%) MVC
10 20 (23.26%) OOP
11 18 (20.93%) Agile
11 18 (20.93%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (20.93%) MySQL
12 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
12 16 (18.60%) PHP
13 15 (17.44%) REST
14 14 (16.28%) Visualisation
14 14 (16.28%) XML
15 13 (15.12%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (15.12%) C++
15 13 (15.12%) Data Pipeline

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 3 (3.49%) Apache
1 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 46 (53.49%) Azure
2 25 (29.07%) Power Platform
3 20 (23.26%) AWS
4 11 (12.79%) GitHub
5 9 (10.47%) Serverless
6 8 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (8.14%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (8.14%) GCP
7 7 (8.14%) Snowflake
8 5 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.65%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.65%) SaaS
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.49%) dbt
10 3 (3.49%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.33%) Azure App Service
11 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (56.98%) SQL Server
2 25 (29.07%) Power BI
3 18 (20.93%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (20.93%) MySQL
4 13 (15.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (12.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (12.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (11.63%) NoSQL
6 10 (11.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (8.14%) BigQuery
7 7 (8.14%) Data Lake
7 7 (8.14%) OLAP
8 6 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (5.81%) OLTP
9 5 (5.81%) Tableau
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (3.49%) Big Data
10 3 (3.49%) DynamoDB
10 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.63%) Git
2 8 (9.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 30 (34.88%) Finance
2 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.79%) Retail
4 7 (8.14%) Front Office
5 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.65%) Back Office
6 4 (4.65%) Law
7 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.49%) Marketing
8 2 (2.33%) Legal
9 1 (1.16%) Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.07%) .NET
2 20 (23.26%) CSS
3 15 (17.44%) REST
4 14 (16.28%) XML
5 13 (15.12%) jQuery
6 11 (12.79%) HTML
7 10 (11.63%) ASP.NET
7 10 (11.63%) JSON
8 6 (6.98%) Web Services
9 5 (5.81%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.81%) React
10 4 (4.65%) Flask
10 4 (4.65%) OAuth
10 4 (4.65%) OAuth2
10 4 (4.65%) OpenID
10 4 (4.65%) SOAP
11 3 (3.49%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (3.49%) Bootstrap
11 3 (3.49%) CSS3
11 3 (3.49%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.65%) BYOD
3 4 (4.65%) PKI
4 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.33%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (33.72%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (26.74%) Computer Science
3 23 (26.74%) DevOps
4 21 (24.42%) ETL
5 20 (23.26%) MVC
5 20 (23.26%) OOP
6 18 (20.93%) Agile
7 14 (16.28%) Visualisation
8 13 (15.12%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (12.79%) CI/CD
11 10 (11.63%) Data Modelling
12 9 (10.47%) Analytics
12 9 (10.47%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (10.47%) Dimensional Modelling
12 9 (10.47%) OO
13 8 (9.30%) Design Patterns
14 7 (8.14%) Containerisation
14 7 (8.14%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) SQL
2 29 (33.72%) C#
2 29 (33.72%) T-SQL
3 16 (18.60%) PHP
4 13 (15.12%) C++
4 13 (15.12%) Java
5 12 (13.95%) Python
6 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.81%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 27 (31.40%) Degree
2 21 (24.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.49%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Developer
3 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.49%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.33%) HNC
4 2 (2.33%) HND
4 2 (2.33%) MCSA
4 2 (2.33%) MCSE
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.14%) Terraform
2 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.14%) Databricks
2 7 (8.14%) Oracle
3 4 (4.65%) Trayport
4 3 (3.49%) Splunk
5 2 (2.33%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.33%) VMware
6 1 (1.16%) SAP