SQL Developer Job Trends in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 474 556
Rank change year-on-year -54 +82 -102
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 213 173 210
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.39% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.44% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 192 157 151
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -9.09%

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 89,009 39,723 68,532
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 90.60% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 62,517 23,995 46,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,400 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.55% - -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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -11 51 £52,500 -22.22% 5
North of England -67 48 £40,000 -33.33% 4
London -34 47 £85,000 +21.43% 15
Midlands -35 30 £37,000 -17.78% 8
Yorkshire -42 25 £47,500 -20.83% 1
East of England -21 22 £25,000 - 1
East Midlands -19 20 £25,000 -44.44% 3
North West -6 17 £43,750 -23.91% 2
South West -71 14 £60,000 +20.00% 1
West Midlands -42 10 £37,000 -17.78% 5
North East -66 6 £40,000 -30.43% 1
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 August 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.

1 201 (94.37%) SQL
2 99 (46.48%) SQL Server
3 66 (30.99%) Azure
4 65 (30.52%) C#
5 51 (23.94%) Agile
6 50 (23.47%) Computer Science
7 43 (20.19%) PHP
8 33 (15.49%) .NET
9 32 (15.02%) Degree
10 27 (12.68%) Microsoft
10 27 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (11.74%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (11.27%) Java
13 24 (11.27%) Power BI
13 24 (11.27%) Power Platform
14 23 (10.80%) ETL
14 23 (10.80%) MVC
14 23 (10.80%) T-SQL
15 22 (10.33%) AWS
15 22 (10.33%) C++
16 21 (9.86%) CSS
16 21 (9.86%) Python
17 20 (9.39%) OOP
18 19 (8.92%) jQuery
18 19 (8.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 18 (8.45%) Performance Tuning
20 16 (7.51%) Clean Code
21 15 (7.04%) Logistics
21 15 (7.04%) OLTP

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 (0.47%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (30.99%) Azure
2 24 (11.27%) Power Platform
3 22 (10.33%) AWS
4 8 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.76%) SaaS
5 3 (1.41%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.41%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.47%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.47%) GCP
7 1 (0.47%) GitHub
7 1 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.47%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (46.48%) SQL Server
2 24 (11.27%) Power BI
3 19 (8.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (7.04%) OLTP
5 11 (5.16%) MySQL
6 9 (4.23%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.88%) Tableau
10 3 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.47%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.76%) JIRA
2 7 (3.29%) Git
3 2 (0.94%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 58 (27.23%) Finance
2 21 (9.86%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.69%) Law
5 5 (2.35%) Front Office
6 3 (1.41%) Retail
7 2 (0.94%) Advertising
7 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.47%) Games
8 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.49%) .NET
2 21 (9.86%) CSS
3 19 (8.92%) jQuery
4 14 (6.57%) XML
5 9 (4.23%) .NET Framework
5 9 (4.23%) HTML
5 9 (4.23%) SOAP
6 8 (3.76%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.76%) FastAPI
7 7 (3.29%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.82%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.82%) Entity Framework
9 5 (2.35%) WPF
10 4 (1.88%) Kafka
10 4 (1.88%) React
11 3 (1.41%) JSON
11 3 (1.41%) XSLT
12 2 (0.94%) FIX Protocol
12 2 (0.94%) FpML
12 2 (0.94%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.69%) Virtual Team
2 6 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.35%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (1.88%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.41%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.41%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.94%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.35%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Unix
2 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.94%) Agile
2 50 (23.47%) Computer Science
3 27 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (10.80%) ETL
5 23 (10.80%) MVC
6 20 (9.39%) OOP
7 18 (8.45%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (7.51%) Clean Code
9 15 (7.04%) Logistics
9 15 (7.04%) Software Engineering
10 14 (6.57%) DevOps
10 14 (6.57%) Mentoring
11 12 (5.63%) Data Modelling
11 12 (5.63%) OO
11 12 (5.63%) Technology Transformation
12 11 (5.16%) CI/CD
13 9 (4.23%) E-Commerce
14 8 (3.76%) Analytics
14 8 (3.76%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 201 (94.37%) SQL
2 65 (30.52%) C#
3 43 (20.19%) PHP
4 24 (11.27%) Java
5 23 (10.80%) T-SQL
6 22 (10.33%) C++
7 21 (9.86%) Python
8 15 (7.04%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.82%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.88%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.41%) VBA
12 2 (0.94%) Delphi
12 2 (0.94%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.94%) XPath
13 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (15.02%) Degree
2 25 (11.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.47%) ACCA
3 1 (0.47%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.88%) QA
2 2 (0.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.04%) Oracle
3 3 (1.41%) Sage
4 2 (0.94%) Databricks
4 2 (0.94%) IBM
4 2 (0.94%) iManage
4 2 (0.94%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.47%) Cognos
5 1 (0.47%) WooCommerce