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 23 March 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 540 528
Rank change year-on-year +29 -12 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 142 79 269
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.23% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 132 69 247
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £32,650
25th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £43,125
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 £87,250 £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 62,487 34,309 72,190
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 90.23% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 40,738 21,159 56,617
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
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% -9.69%
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 23 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 23 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 -15 37 £67,500 - 6
North of England -13 36 £55,000 +25.00% 11
London +10 22 £92,500 +42.31% 2
Yorkshire -27 19 £45,000 +2.27% 8
Midlands -40 18 £50,000 - 3
North West -1 17 £60,000 +9.09% 3
East of England +2 15 £25,000 -28.57% 2
West Midlands +1 12 £55,000 +10.00% 3
South West -16 9 £65,000 +26.83% 1
East Midlands -38 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 23 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.

1 141 (99.30%) SQL
2 56 (39.44%) C#
3 53 (37.32%) Azure
4 41 (28.87%) SQL Server
5 40 (28.17%) Agile
5 40 (28.17%) Computer Science
6 37 (26.06%) Degree
7 35 (24.65%) PHP
8 26 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (16.90%) .NET
9 24 (16.90%) AWS
9 24 (16.90%) OLTP
9 24 (16.90%) Oracle
9 24 (16.90%) PL/SQL
10 23 (16.20%) MVC
10 23 (16.20%) XML
11 22 (15.49%) CSS
11 22 (15.49%) HTML
12 21 (14.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (14.79%) Java
13 20 (14.08%) OOP
14 18 (12.68%) SOAP
15 16 (11.27%) C++
15 16 (11.27%) jQuery
15 16 (11.27%) Software Testing
16 15 (10.56%) Microsoft
17 14 (9.86%) MySQL
17 14 (9.86%) T-SQL
18 12 (8.45%) Software Engineering
19 11 (7.75%) Data Analysis

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 (1.41%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.70%) Magento
1 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (37.32%) Azure
2 24 (16.90%) AWS
3 6 (4.23%) Serverless
4 5 (3.52%) GitHub
4 5 (3.52%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.41%) SaaS
7 1 (0.70%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.70%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.70%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.87%) SQL Server
2 24 (16.90%) OLTP
3 14 (9.86%) MySQL
4 6 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.52%) Power BI
6 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.41%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.41%) Tableau
9 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.70%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Git
1 5 (3.52%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
General
1 46 (32.39%) Finance
2 8 (5.63%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.11%) Front Office
5 2 (1.41%) Advertising
5 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.41%) Games
5 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.70%) Law
6 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.90%) .NET
2 23 (16.20%) XML
3 22 (15.49%) CSS
3 22 (15.49%) HTML
4 18 (12.68%) SOAP
5 16 (11.27%) jQuery
6 7 (4.93%) .NET Core
6 7 (4.93%) JSON
7 6 (4.23%) REST
8 4 (2.82%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.82%) Flask
8 4 (2.82%) Kafka
8 4 (2.82%) OAuth
8 4 (2.82%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.82%) OpenID
8 4 (2.82%) React
9 3 (2.11%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (1.41%) FpML
10 2 (1.41%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.93%) Hedge funds
2 6 (4.23%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.82%) Fixed Income
3 4 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.82%) PKI
3 4 (2.82%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (28.17%) Agile
1 40 (28.17%) Computer Science
2 26 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (16.20%) MVC
4 20 (14.08%) OOP
5 16 (11.27%) Software Testing
6 12 (8.45%) Software Engineering
7 11 (7.75%) Data Analysis
7 11 (7.75%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (6.34%) Clean Code
8 9 (6.34%) DevOps
9 8 (5.63%) CI/CD
9 8 (5.63%) ETL
9 8 (5.63%) Mentoring
10 6 (4.23%) Analytics
10 6 (4.23%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (4.23%) Data Protection
10 6 (4.23%) Test Automation
11 5 (3.52%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 141 (99.30%) SQL
2 56 (39.44%) C#
3 35 (24.65%) PHP
4 24 (16.90%) PL/SQL
5 21 (14.79%) Java
6 16 (11.27%) C++
7 14 (9.86%) T-SQL
8 11 (7.75%) Python
9 6 (4.23%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (26.06%) Degree
2 21 (14.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (16.90%) Oracle
2 15 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.41%) Cognos
3 2 (1.41%) IBM
3 2 (1.41%) Rollbar
3 2 (1.41%) Sage
4 1 (0.70%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.70%) VMware
4 1 (0.70%) WooCommerce