SQL Developer Job Trends in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 484 570
Rank change year-on-year -21 +86 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 214 168 285
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.41% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.46% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 194 152 231
10th Percentile £24,000 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £44,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -12.28%

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 80,360 36,827 87,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 90.00% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 56,528 21,708 64,688
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,869 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +8 57 £67,500 - 6
North of England -62 52 £42,500 -29.17% 7
London -3 41 £95,000 +35.71% 5
Midlands -44 27 £25,000 -44.44% 2
North West +10 25 £50,000 -13.04% 1
East of England -2 22 £25,000 -9.91% 2
Yorkshire -41 21 £40,000 -33.33% 6
East Midlands -17 14 £24,000 -46.67% 2
South West -64 14 £60,000 +20.00%
West Midlands -31 13 £37,000 -17.78%
North East -51 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 29 June 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.

1 206 (96.26%) SQL
2 89 (41.59%) SQL Server
3 67 (31.31%) C#
4 60 (28.04%) Azure
5 51 (23.83%) Agile
6 50 (23.36%) Computer Science
7 43 (20.09%) PHP
8 37 (17.29%) Degree
9 31 (14.49%) .NET
10 27 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (11.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (11.68%) Java
12 24 (11.21%) Microsoft
12 24 (11.21%) OLTP
12 24 (11.21%) Oracle
12 24 (11.21%) PL/SQL
13 22 (10.28%) AWS
13 22 (10.28%) C++
14 21 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (9.81%) CSS
14 21 (9.81%) ETL
14 21 (9.81%) MVC
14 21 (9.81%) Python
15 20 (9.35%) OOP
16 19 (8.88%) jQuery
17 17 (7.94%) Software Engineering
17 17 (7.94%) T-SQL
18 16 (7.48%) Performance Tuning
18 16 (7.48%) Power BI
18 16 (7.48%) Power Platform

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 (0.93%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Magento
1 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (28.04%) Azure
2 22 (10.28%) AWS
3 16 (7.48%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.74%) SaaS
5 3 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.93%) Azure Functions
6 2 (0.93%) Serverless
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Logic Apps
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%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.47%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (41.59%) SQL Server
2 24 (11.21%) OLTP
3 16 (7.48%) Power BI
4 12 (5.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (5.14%) MySQL
6 9 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (3.74%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.40%) Tableau
11 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.93%) 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 (3.74%) JIRA
2 5 (2.34%) Git
3 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 55 (25.70%) Finance
2 18 (8.41%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.80%) Law
5 4 (1.87%) Front Office
6 3 (1.40%) Retail
7 2 (0.93%) Advertising
7 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.93%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.47%) Games
8 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.49%) .NET
2 21 (9.81%) CSS
3 19 (8.88%) jQuery
4 15 (7.01%) XML
5 14 (6.54%) HTML
5 14 (6.54%) SOAP
6 8 (3.74%) .NET Core
6 8 (3.74%) FastAPI
7 7 (3.27%) .NET Framework
8 6 (2.80%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.80%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.80%) Entity Framework
9 5 (2.34%) WPF
10 4 (1.87%) Kafka
10 4 (1.87%) React
11 2 (0.93%) NestJS
11 2 (0.93%) Next.js
11 2 (0.93%) Node.js
11 2 (0.93%) REST
11 2 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.67%) Virtual Team
2 7 (3.27%) Hedge funds
3 6 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.34%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.40%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.93%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.93%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Unix
2 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.83%) Agile
2 50 (23.36%) Computer Science
3 27 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (9.81%) ETL
4 21 (9.81%) MVC
5 20 (9.35%) OOP
6 17 (7.94%) Software Engineering
7 16 (7.48%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (7.01%) Logistics
9 14 (6.54%) Clean Code
9 14 (6.54%) Mentoring
10 13 (6.07%) Software Testing
11 11 (5.14%) OO
12 9 (4.21%) CI/CD
12 9 (4.21%) Data Modelling
12 9 (4.21%) E-Commerce
13 8 (3.74%) Analytics
13 8 (3.74%) Cybersecurity
14 7 (3.27%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 206 (96.26%) SQL
2 67 (31.31%) C#
3 43 (20.09%) PHP
4 25 (11.68%) Java
5 24 (11.21%) PL/SQL
6 22 (10.28%) C++
7 21 (9.81%) Python
8 17 (7.94%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.80%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.87%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.93%) Delphi
11 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (17.29%) Degree
2 25 (11.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
1 2 (0.93%) QA
1 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (11.21%) Microsoft
1 24 (11.21%) Oracle
2 3 (1.40%) Sage
3 2 (0.93%) Cognos
3 2 (0.93%) Databricks
3 2 (0.93%) IBM
3 2 (0.93%) iManage
3 2 (0.93%) Rollbar
4 1 (0.47%) VMware
4 1 (0.47%) WooCommerce