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 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 539 451
Rank change year-on-year +62 -88 +126
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 163 211 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.31% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.32% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 146 138 302
10th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,688 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

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 38,927 65,264 51,744
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 95.19% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,272 39,661 39,990
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer 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 16 September 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 16 September 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
North of England +77 59 £60,000 +27.75% 6
Yorkshire +44 38 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Midlands +73 35 £45,000 -10.00% 4
London -2 32 £70,000 +16.67% 7
West Midlands +54 20 £48,750 -2.50% 3
South East +15 16 £70,000 +59.09% 6
East Midlands +30 15 £45,000 -25.00% 1
North West -4 13 £61,250 +28.95% 2
East of England +5 11 £25,000 -41.18% 3
South West - 9 £50,000 - 6
North East +24 8 £57,500 +74.24%
SQL Developer
UK

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 160 (98.16%) SQL
2 119 (73.01%) Azure
3 117 (71.78%) SQL Server
4 95 (58.28%) T-SQL
5 75 (46.01%) Microsoft
6 68 (41.72%) Business Intelligence
7 64 (39.26%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (35.58%) Power Platform
8 58 (35.58%) Power BI
9 49 (30.06%) Finance
10 47 (28.83%) DBS Check
11 39 (23.93%) .NET
12 38 (23.31%) C#
13 35 (21.47%) Social Skills
14 33 (20.25%) ETL
15 29 (17.79%) Analytics
16 28 (17.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 28 (17.18%) Degree
17 26 (15.95%) Performance Tuning
17 26 (15.95%) DevOps
18 24 (14.72%) Critical Thinking
19 23 (14.11%) ASP.NET
20 22 (13.50%) Data Warehouse
20 22 (13.50%) Computer Science
20 22 (13.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
21 21 (12.88%) Computer Science Degree
22 20 (12.27%) Database Optimisation
22 20 (12.27%) CSS
22 20 (12.27%) Artificial Intelligence
22 20 (12.27%) Migration

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.45%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (1.23%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 119 (73.01%) Azure
2 58 (35.58%) Power Platform
3 18 (11.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (10.43%) SaaS
5 13 (7.98%) AWS
6 12 (7.36%) Power Automate
6 12 (7.36%) PowerApps
7 10 (6.13%) GitHub
8 8 (4.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (4.91%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (4.91%) GCP
8 8 (4.91%) IaaS
8 8 (4.91%) PaaS
8 8 (4.91%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.07%) Serverless
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.45%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (71.78%) SQL Server
2 58 (35.58%) Power BI
3 28 (17.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (13.50%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (11.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 19 (11.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (10.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (10.43%) MySQL
7 13 (7.98%) Data Hub
7 13 (7.98%) Metadata
7 13 (7.98%) SQL CLR
8 10 (6.13%) NoSQL
8 10 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (4.91%) BigQuery
10 8 (4.91%) Data Lake
10 8 (4.91%) OLTP
10 8 (4.91%) Star Schema
11 6 (3.68%) OLAP
12 5 (3.07%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 17 (10.43%) Git
2 8 (4.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (4.29%) JIRA
General
1 49 (30.06%) Finance
2 35 (21.47%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.20%) Back Office
4 12 (7.36%) Retail
5 9 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.52%) Front Office
6 6 (3.68%) Law
7 5 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.45%) Legal
8 4 (2.45%) Marketing
9 1 (0.61%) Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (23.93%) .NET
2 23 (14.11%) ASP.NET
3 20 (12.27%) CSS
4 17 (10.43%) HTML
4 17 (10.43%) XML
5 16 (9.82%) REST
6 12 (7.36%) jQuery
7 9 (5.52%) SOAP
8 8 (4.91%) Web Services
9 7 (4.29%) .NET Core
9 7 (4.29%) CSS3
9 7 (4.29%) HTML5
10 6 (3.68%) JSON
10 6 (3.68%) React
11 5 (3.07%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.45%) Bootstrap
12 4 (2.45%) GraphQL
12 4 (2.45%) Material-UI
12 4 (2.45%) Tailwind CSS
12 4 (2.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.98%) Private Cloud
1 13 (7.98%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (4.91%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.68%) BYOD
4 4 (2.45%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.84%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.84%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.23%) NHS
6 2 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (41.72%) Business Intelligence
2 64 (39.26%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (20.25%) ETL
4 29 (17.79%) Analytics
5 26 (15.95%) DevOps
5 26 (15.95%) Performance Tuning
6 24 (14.72%) Critical Thinking
7 22 (13.50%) Computer Science
7 22 (13.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 20 (12.27%) Artificial Intelligence
8 20 (12.27%) Database Optimisation
8 20 (12.27%) Migration
9 19 (11.66%) Agile
10 17 (10.43%) Workflow
11 16 (9.82%) Fintech
11 16 (9.82%) OO
12 15 (9.20%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (9.20%) OOP
12 15 (9.20%) Visualisation
13 14 (8.59%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 160 (98.16%) SQL
2 95 (58.28%) T-SQL
3 38 (23.31%) C#
4 17 (10.43%) PHP
5 13 (7.98%) Java
5 13 (7.98%) PL/SQL
6 12 (7.36%) C++
6 12 (7.36%) Python
7 10 (6.13%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 47 (28.83%) DBS Check
2 28 (17.18%) Degree
3 21 (12.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.45%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.45%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) HNC
6 1 (0.61%) HND
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.61%) MCSA
6 1 (0.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (7.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (7.98%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 75 (46.01%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.59%) Oracle
3 13 (7.98%) VMware
4 8 (4.91%) Databricks
5 6 (3.68%) Trayport
6 4 (2.45%) Splunk
7 2 (1.23%) Intapp
8 1 (0.61%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.61%) SAP