SQL Developer Job Trends in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 479 559
Rank change year-on-year -51 +80 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 208 173 212
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.40% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.44% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 187 157 152
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -9.09%

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 89,383 39,648 68,958
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 90.60% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 62,829 23,898 46,485
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -1 49 £52,500 -22.22% 5
North of England -50 48 £40,000 -33.33% 4
London -28 45 £85,000 +21.43% 22
Midlands -47 30 £37,000 -17.78% 7
Yorkshire -35 25 £47,500 -20.83% 2
East of England -18 21 £25,000 -
East Midlands -14 20 £25,000 -44.44% 3
North West -10 17 £43,750 -23.91% 1
South West -57 14 £60,000 +20.00% 1
West Midlands -41 10 £46,000 +2.22% 4
North East -59 6 £40,000 -30.43% 1
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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.

1 196 (94.23%) SQL
2 97 (46.63%) SQL Server
3 63 (30.29%) Azure
4 62 (29.81%) C#
5 48 (23.08%) Agile
6 46 (22.12%) Computer Science
7 40 (19.23%) PHP
8 33 (15.87%) .NET
9 28 (13.46%) Microsoft
10 27 (12.98%) Degree
11 26 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.54%) Power BI
12 24 (11.54%) Power Platform
13 23 (11.06%) ETL
13 23 (11.06%) T-SQL
14 21 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (10.10%) Python
15 20 (9.62%) MVC
16 19 (9.13%) AWS
16 19 (9.13%) C++
16 19 (9.13%) Java
16 19 (9.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 18 (8.65%) CSS
17 18 (8.65%) Performance Tuning
18 17 (8.17%) OOP
19 16 (7.69%) Clean Code
19 16 (7.69%) jQuery
20 15 (7.21%) Logistics
20 15 (7.21%) 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 1 (0.48%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.29%) Azure
2 24 (11.54%) Power Platform
3 19 (9.13%) AWS
4 8 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.85%) SaaS
5 3 (1.44%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.44%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.48%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.48%) GCP
7 1 (0.48%) GitHub
7 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (46.63%) SQL Server
2 24 (11.54%) Power BI
3 19 (9.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (6.73%) OLTP
5 9 (4.33%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (3.85%) MySQL
7 7 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.92%) Tableau
10 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.48%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.85%) JIRA
2 7 (3.37%) Git
3 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (25.96%) Finance
2 21 (10.10%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.81%) Law
5 3 (1.44%) Front Office
5 3 (1.44%) Retail
6 2 (0.96%) Legal
7 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.48%) Games
7 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.48%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.87%) .NET
2 18 (8.65%) CSS
3 16 (7.69%) jQuery
4 12 (5.77%) XML
5 9 (4.33%) .NET Framework
6 8 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.85%) FastAPI
6 8 (3.85%) HTML
6 8 (3.85%) SOAP
7 7 (3.37%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.88%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.88%) Entity Framework
9 5 (2.40%) WPF
10 4 (1.92%) React
11 3 (1.44%) XSLT
12 2 (0.96%) JSON
12 2 (0.96%) Kafka
12 2 (0.96%) NestJS
12 2 (0.96%) Node.js
12 2 (0.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.81%) Virtual Team
2 5 (2.40%) Data Structures
2 5 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.92%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.96%) Client/Server
5 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.48%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.08%) Agile
2 46 (22.12%) Computer Science
3 26 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (11.06%) ETL
5 20 (9.62%) MVC
6 18 (8.65%) Performance Tuning
7 17 (8.17%) OOP
8 16 (7.69%) Clean Code
9 15 (7.21%) Logistics
9 15 (7.21%) Software Engineering
10 14 (6.73%) Mentoring
11 12 (5.77%) DevOps
11 12 (5.77%) OO
11 12 (5.77%) Technology Transformation
12 10 (4.81%) CI/CD
12 10 (4.81%) Data Modelling
13 9 (4.33%) E-Commerce
14 8 (3.85%) Analytics
14 8 (3.85%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 196 (94.23%) SQL
2 62 (29.81%) C#
3 40 (19.23%) PHP
4 23 (11.06%) T-SQL
5 21 (10.10%) Python
6 19 (9.13%) C++
6 19 (9.13%) Java
7 14 (6.73%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.88%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.88%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.44%) VBA
11 2 (0.96%) Delphi
11 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.96%) XPath
12 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (12.98%) Degree
2 21 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.48%) ACCA
3 1 (0.48%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.92%) QA
2 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.73%) Oracle
3 3 (1.44%) Sage
4 2 (0.96%) Databricks
4 2 (0.96%) IBM
4 2 (0.96%) iManage
4 2 (0.96%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.48%) Cognos
5 1 (0.48%) WooCommerce