SQL Developer Job Trends in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 October 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 516 431
Rank change year-on-year -4 -85 +146
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 110 209 291
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.33% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.35% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 93 138 278
10th Percentile £30,900 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 38,604 59,518 48,107
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 95.18% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 23,213 34,172 37,107
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,358 £44,435
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% -6.67% -

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 17 October 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 17 October 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
London -7 30 £70,000 +16.67% 8
North of England +7 24 £60,000 +23.08% 4
Midlands +46 22 £45,000 -10.00% 2
South East -12 19 £65,000 +18.18% 9
Yorkshire +14 14 £51,250 +2.50% 4
East Midlands +24 12 £45,000 -25.00%
West Midlands +39 10 £52,500 +5.00% 2
South West - 7 £55,000 - 9
North East +15 5 £100,000 +203.03% 1
East of England +10 5 £25,000 -41.18% 2
North West -4 5 £70,000 +40.00%
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 October 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.

1 110 (100.00%) SQL
2 66 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 65 (59.09%) Azure
4 51 (46.36%) T-SQL
5 45 (40.91%) Business Intelligence
6 42 (38.18%) Power BI
6 42 (38.18%) Power Platform
7 38 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (33.64%) Microsoft
9 32 (29.09%) .NET
10 28 (25.45%) C#
10 28 (25.45%) DevOps
11 27 (24.55%) ETL
12 25 (22.73%) Degree
13 23 (20.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 22 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
15 21 (19.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 20 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
16 20 (18.18%) XML
17 18 (16.36%) Computer Science
17 18 (16.36%) Migration
17 18 (16.36%) REST
18 17 (15.45%) Computer Science Degree
18 17 (15.45%) Data Pipeline
18 17 (15.45%) Workflow
19 16 (14.55%) Fintech
20 15 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
20 15 (13.64%) CI/CD
20 15 (13.64%) SaaS
20 15 (13.64%) Visualisation

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 13 (11.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.64%) Apache
2 4 (3.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (1.82%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 65 (59.09%) Azure
2 42 (38.18%) Power Platform
3 15 (13.64%) SaaS
4 12 (10.91%) AWS
4 12 (10.91%) GitHub
5 10 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (8.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (7.27%) GCP
7 8 (7.27%) Serverless
7 8 (7.27%) Snowflake
8 7 (6.36%) Power Automate
9 6 (5.45%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.64%) dbt
11 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 42 (38.18%) Power BI
3 23 (20.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 21 (19.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 20 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (11.82%) Data Hub
7 13 (11.82%) Metadata
7 13 (11.82%) MySQL
7 13 (11.82%) SQL CLR
8 11 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (9.09%) NoSQL
10 8 (7.27%) BigQuery
10 8 (7.27%) Data Lake
10 8 (7.27%) OLTP
11 7 (6.36%) OLAP
11 7 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (4.55%) Tableau
13 4 (3.64%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 14 (12.73%) Git
2 9 (8.18%) JIRA
3 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 39 (35.45%) Finance
2 27 (24.55%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.64%) Back Office
4 12 (10.91%) Retail
5 9 (8.18%) Front Office
6 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.36%) Law
7 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.64%) Legal
7 4 (3.64%) Marketing
8 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (29.09%) .NET
2 20 (18.18%) XML
3 18 (16.36%) REST
4 14 (12.73%) CSS
4 14 (12.73%) HTML
5 12 (10.91%) ASP.NET
6 11 (10.00%) JSON
7 9 (8.18%) Web Services
8 7 (6.36%) jQuery
8 7 (6.36%) SOAP
9 6 (5.45%) AngularJS
9 6 (5.45%) React
10 5 (4.55%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.64%) Bootstrap
11 4 (3.64%) CSS3
11 4 (3.64%) GraphQL
11 4 (3.64%) HTML5
11 4 (3.64%) Material-UI
11 4 (3.64%) Tailwind CSS
11 4 (3.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Private Cloud
2 9 (8.18%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (5.45%) BYOD
3 6 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.73%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.73%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.82%) NHS
5 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.82%) PKI
6 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Linux
1 1 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.91%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (25.45%) DevOps
4 27 (24.55%) ETL
5 22 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (16.36%) Computer Science
6 18 (16.36%) Migration
7 17 (15.45%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (15.45%) Workflow
8 16 (14.55%) Fintech
9 15 (13.64%) CI/CD
9 15 (13.64%) Visualisation
10 14 (12.73%) Agile
10 14 (12.73%) High Availability
11 13 (11.82%) Data Modelling
11 13 (11.82%) Data Privacy
11 13 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (11.82%) Refactoring
11 13 (11.82%) Statistics
11 13 (11.82%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (100.00%) SQL
2 51 (46.36%) T-SQL
3 28 (25.45%) C#
4 11 (10.00%) Python
5 10 (9.09%) PHP
6 9 (8.18%) PL/SQL
7 8 (7.27%) Java
8 7 (6.36%) C++
8 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 25 (22.73%) Degree
2 17 (15.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (9.09%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.64%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.82%) HNC
6 2 (1.82%) HND
6 2 (1.82%) MCSA
6 2 (1.82%) MCSE
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.91%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (11.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (7.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (11.82%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (33.64%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.82%) VMware
3 11 (10.00%) Oracle
4 8 (7.27%) Databricks
5 6 (5.45%) Trayport
6 4 (3.64%) Splunk
7 2 (1.82%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.82%) Intapp
8 1 (0.91%) SAP