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 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 547 540
Rank change year-on-year +31 -7 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 139 79 269
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.21% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.23% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 129 69 248
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £32,675
25th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £75,000 £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 61,342 34,209 70,870
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 90.25% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 40,037 20,975 55,785
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
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 20 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 20 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 -9 36 £67,500 - 5
North of England -13 34 £55,000 +25.00% 11
London -1 22 £92,500 +42.31% 6
Midlands -26 18 £50,000 - 5
Yorkshire -27 18 £50,000 +13.64% 7
North West -5 16 £60,000 +9.09% 4
East of England -5 15 £25,000 -28.57% 2
West Midlands +4 12 £55,000 +10.00% 5
South West -23 9 £65,000 +26.83% 1
East Midlands -49 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 20 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.

1 138 (99.28%) SQL
2 55 (39.57%) C#
3 51 (36.69%) Azure
4 40 (28.78%) Agile
4 40 (28.78%) Computer Science
4 40 (28.78%) SQL Server
5 37 (26.62%) Degree
6 35 (25.18%) PHP
7 26 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (17.27%) AWS
8 24 (17.27%) OLTP
8 24 (17.27%) Oracle
8 24 (17.27%) PL/SQL
9 23 (16.55%) .NET
9 23 (16.55%) XML
10 22 (15.83%) CSS
10 22 (15.83%) HTML
10 22 (15.83%) MVC
11 21 (15.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (15.11%) Java
12 20 (14.39%) OOP
13 18 (12.95%) SOAP
14 16 (11.51%) C++
14 16 (11.51%) jQuery
14 16 (11.51%) Software Testing
15 15 (10.79%) Microsoft
16 14 (10.07%) MySQL
16 14 (10.07%) T-SQL
17 11 (7.91%) Data Analysis
17 11 (7.91%) Performance Tuning

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 (1.44%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.72%) Magento
1 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (36.69%) Azure
2 24 (17.27%) AWS
3 6 (4.32%) Serverless
4 5 (3.60%) GitHub
4 5 (3.60%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.44%) SaaS
7 1 (0.72%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.72%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.72%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.72%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.78%) SQL Server
2 24 (17.27%) OLTP
3 14 (10.07%) MySQL
4 6 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.60%) Power BI
6 4 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.44%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.44%) Tableau
9 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.72%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Git
1 5 (3.60%) JIRA
2 2 (1.44%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.72%) GitLab
General
1 45 (32.37%) Finance
2 8 (5.76%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.16%) Front Office
5 2 (1.44%) Advertising
5 2 (1.44%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.44%) Games
5 2 (1.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.72%) Law
6 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.55%) .NET
1 23 (16.55%) XML
2 22 (15.83%) CSS
2 22 (15.83%) HTML
3 18 (12.95%) SOAP
4 16 (11.51%) jQuery
5 7 (5.04%) JSON
6 6 (4.32%) .NET Core
6 6 (4.32%) REST
7 4 (2.88%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.88%) Flask
7 4 (2.88%) Kafka
7 4 (2.88%) OAuth
7 4 (2.88%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.88%) OpenID
8 3 (2.16%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.16%) React
9 2 (1.44%) Entity Framework
9 2 (1.44%) Node.js
9 2 (1.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.04%) Hedge funds
2 6 (4.32%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.88%) Fixed Income
3 4 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.88%) PKI
3 4 (2.88%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.44%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (28.78%) Agile
1 40 (28.78%) Computer Science
2 26 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (15.83%) MVC
4 20 (14.39%) OOP
5 16 (11.51%) Software Testing
6 11 (7.91%) Data Analysis
6 11 (7.91%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (7.91%) Software Engineering
7 9 (6.47%) Clean Code
7 9 (6.47%) DevOps
8 8 (5.76%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (5.76%) CI/CD
8 8 (5.76%) ETL
8 8 (5.76%) Mentoring
9 6 (4.32%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (4.32%) Data Protection
9 6 (4.32%) Test Automation
10 5 (3.60%) Analytics
10 5 (3.60%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 138 (99.28%) SQL
2 55 (39.57%) C#
3 35 (25.18%) PHP
4 24 (17.27%) PL/SQL
5 21 (15.11%) Java
6 16 (11.51%) C++
7 14 (10.07%) T-SQL
8 11 (7.91%) Python
9 6 (4.32%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (26.62%) Degree
2 21 (15.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (17.27%) Oracle
2 15 (10.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.44%) Cognos
3 2 (1.44%) IBM
3 2 (1.44%) Rollbar
3 2 (1.44%) Sage
4 1 (0.72%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.72%) VMware
4 1 (0.72%) WooCommerce