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 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 534 435
Rank change year-on-year +2 -99 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 80 181 251
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.33% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.35% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 68 124 240
10th Percentile £24,000 £36,949 £37,179
25th Percentile £25,000 £44,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £70,313 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -4.35%

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 44,402 52,240 42,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 93.83% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 28,028 29,074 33,507
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 13 December 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 13 December 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 +26 18 £45,000 -10.00% 2
South East +13 16 £65,000 +7.44% 5
London +9 16 £70,000 +16.67% 5
North of England +21 11 £40,000 -20.00% 4
East Midlands +22 10 £45,000 -18.18%
East of England +28 9 £25,000 -54.55%
West Midlands +17 8 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire -6 8 £40,000 -17.04%
South West - 5 £50,000 -
North East +9 2 £62,500 +89.39%
North West +34 1 £55,000 +6.28% 4
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 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 79 (98.75%) SQL
2 41 (51.25%) Azure
3 37 (46.25%) SQL Server
4 34 (42.50%) C#
5 25 (31.25%) Computer Science
6 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (30.00%) T-SQL
7 23 (28.75%) Degree
8 21 (26.25%) .NET
8 21 (26.25%) Agile
8 21 (26.25%) PHP
9 20 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (21.25%) DevOps
10 17 (21.25%) MVC
11 16 (20.00%) AWS
11 16 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (20.00%) Power BI
11 16 (20.00%) Power Platform
12 15 (18.75%) CSS
12 15 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (18.75%) ETL
12 15 (18.75%) OOP
13 14 (17.50%) MySQL
13 14 (17.50%) XML
14 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
14 12 (15.00%) Visualisation
15 11 (13.75%) HTML
15 11 (13.75%) REST
16 10 (12.50%) C++
16 10 (12.50%) Java

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 (1.25%) Apache
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.25%) Azure
2 16 (20.00%) AWS
2 16 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.75%) GitHub
3 7 (8.75%) Serverless
4 6 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (6.25%) GCP
5 5 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.75%) SaaS
8 2 (2.50%) Azure App Service
8 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.25%) dbt
9 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (46.25%) SQL Server
2 16 (20.00%) Power BI
3 15 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (17.50%) MySQL
5 9 (11.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (11.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (8.75%) NoSQL
6 7 (8.75%) OLAP
6 7 (8.75%) OLTP
6 7 (8.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (6.25%) BigQuery
7 5 (6.25%) Data Lake
7 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (5.00%) Tableau
9 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.50%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.25%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) JIRA
2 6 (7.50%) Git
General
1 29 (36.25%) Finance
2 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Retail
4 6 (7.50%) Front Office
5 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Back Office
6 2 (2.50%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.25%) .NET
2 15 (18.75%) CSS
3 14 (17.50%) XML
4 11 (13.75%) HTML
4 11 (13.75%) REST
5 10 (12.50%) jQuery
6 8 (10.00%) JSON
7 7 (8.75%) ASP.NET
8 6 (7.50%) SOAP
9 4 (5.00%) .NET Core
9 4 (5.00%) Flask
9 4 (5.00%) OAuth
9 4 (5.00%) OAuth2
9 4 (5.00%) OpenID
9 4 (5.00%) Web Services
10 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (3.75%) React
11 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
11 2 (2.50%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.00%) PKI
2 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.75%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.50%) BYOD
4 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.25%) NHS
5 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) Computer Science
2 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (26.25%) Agile
4 20 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (21.25%) DevOps
5 17 (21.25%) MVC
6 15 (18.75%) ETL
6 15 (18.75%) OOP
7 12 (15.00%) Visualisation
8 9 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (8.75%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.75%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.75%) Data Visualisation
9 7 (8.75%) Dimensional Modelling
9 7 (8.75%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (7.50%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (7.50%) Data Integration
10 6 (7.50%) Design Patterns
10 6 (7.50%) Software Engineering
10 6 (7.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (98.75%) SQL
2 34 (42.50%) C#
3 24 (30.00%) T-SQL
4 21 (26.25%) PHP
5 10 (12.50%) C++
5 10 (12.50%) Java
5 10 (12.50%) Python
6 7 (8.75%) PL/SQL
7 5 (6.25%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 23 (28.75%) Degree
2 16 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.50%) HNC
3 2 (2.50%) HND
3 2 (2.50%) MCSA
3 2 (2.50%) MCSE
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) Terraform
2 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.25%) Oracle
3 5 (6.25%) Databricks
4 2 (2.50%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.50%) Trayport
5 1 (1.25%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.25%) SAP
5 1 (1.25%) Splunk
5 1 (1.25%) VMware