SQL Developer Job Trends in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer salary in England is £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 554 453
Rank change year-on-year +46 -101 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 85 129 229
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.26% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.28% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 76 85 217
10th Percentile £24,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,188 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,300 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%

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 47,127 45,334 44,294
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.77% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,584 23,965 34,730
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,199 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.78%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +10 23 £67,500 +3.85% 6
London +17 16 £80,000 +33.33% 5
North of England +23 15 £50,000 +0.76% 6
Midlands +21 15 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands +25 9 £52,500 +5.00% 3
East of England +26 8 £25,000 -54.55%
North West +27 7 £60,000 +15.94% 5
Yorkshire -3 7 £40,000 -10.56% 1
East Midlands - 6 £47,500 -
South West - 4 £37,000 - 1
North East - 1 £25,000 -
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 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 84 (98.82%) SQL
2 38 (44.71%) Azure
3 32 (37.65%) C#
4 30 (35.29%) SQL Server
5 24 (28.24%) Computer Science
5 24 (28.24%) Degree
5 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.53%) .NET
6 20 (23.53%) Agile
6 20 (23.53%) PHP
7 17 (20.00%) MVC
7 17 (20.00%) T-SQL
8 15 (17.65%) AWS
8 15 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (17.65%) Oracle
8 15 (17.65%) XML
9 14 (16.47%) CSS
9 14 (16.47%) MySQL
9 14 (16.47%) OOP
10 13 (15.29%) HTML
10 13 (15.29%) OLTP
10 13 (15.29%) PL/SQL
11 12 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (14.12%) ETL
11 12 (14.12%) Power BI
11 12 (14.12%) Power Platform
12 10 (11.76%) C++
12 10 (11.76%) Java
12 10 (11.76%) jQuery

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:

Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.71%) Azure
2 15 (17.65%) AWS
3 12 (14.12%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.06%) Serverless
5 4 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.71%) GitHub
6 3 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.35%) Azure App Service
7 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.35%) GCP
7 2 (2.35%) SaaS
7 2 (2.35%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 14 (16.47%) MySQL
3 13 (15.29%) OLTP
4 12 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (14.12%) Power BI
5 7 (8.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (7.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (7.06%) OLAP
6 6 (7.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.71%) Tableau
9 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.18%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 7 (8.24%) JIRA
2 2 (2.35%) Git
General
1 26 (30.59%) Finance
2 11 (12.94%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.71%) Front Office
4 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Back Office
5 2 (2.35%) Retail
6 1 (1.18%) Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.18%) Games
6 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.53%) .NET
2 15 (17.65%) XML
3 14 (16.47%) CSS
4 13 (15.29%) HTML
5 10 (11.76%) jQuery
6 9 (10.59%) SOAP
7 8 (9.41%) REST
8 6 (7.06%) ASP.NET
8 6 (7.06%) JSON
9 4 (4.71%) .NET Core
9 4 (4.71%) Flask
9 4 (4.71%) OAuth
9 4 (4.71%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.71%) OpenID
10 3 (3.53%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (2.35%) .NET Framework
11 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.35%) Blazor
11 2 (2.35%) React
11 2 (2.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.71%) PKI
3 3 (3.53%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.53%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) Computer Science
1 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (23.53%) Agile
3 17 (20.00%) MVC
4 15 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (16.47%) OOP
6 12 (14.12%) ETL
7 9 (10.59%) DevOps
7 9 (10.59%) Software Testing
7 9 (10.59%) Visualisation
8 8 (9.41%) Software Engineering
9 6 (7.06%) Data Analysis
9 6 (7.06%) Data Integration
9 6 (7.06%) Data Modelling
9 6 (7.06%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (5.88%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (5.88%) Analytics
10 5 (5.88%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (4.71%) CI/CD
11 4 (4.71%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 84 (98.82%) SQL
2 32 (37.65%) C#
3 20 (23.53%) PHP
4 17 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 13 (15.29%) PL/SQL
6 10 (11.76%) C++
6 10 (11.76%) Java
6 10 (11.76%) Python
7 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 24 (28.24%) Degree
2 15 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.35%) HNC
3 2 (2.35%) HND
3 2 (2.35%) MCSA
3 2 (2.35%) MCSE
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (17.65%) Oracle
2 10 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.35%) Databricks
3 2 (2.35%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.18%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.18%) SAP