SQL Jobs in England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 10 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,343 10,273 26,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.65% 14.45% 17.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.79% 35.85% 34.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,106 8,082 14,373
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.19% +7.62%

All Programming Languages
England

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,314 28,657 75,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.75% 40.31% 51.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17,627 21,657 38,997
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in England

SQL
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in England.

Salary trend for SQL in England

SQL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in England

SQL
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 0 3,205 £75,000 +7.14% 360
North of England -2 1,629 £50,309 -2.31% 273
South East -2 1,399 £50,000 -9.09% 256
Midlands -5 1,114 £47,500 -5.47% 180
North West -2 926 £55,000 +4.76% 137
West Midlands -7 620 £50,000 -4.76% 117
South West -7 594 £50,500 +1.00% 133
Yorkshire -6 502 £47,000 -7.84% 82
East Midlands +3 483 £45,000 -10.00% 63
East of England -4 346 £47,500 -13.64% 72
North East +7 201 £49,274 -6.14% 61
SQL
UK

SQL
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
1 281 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 246 (2.95%) Apache
3 196 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 188 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 163 (1.95%) SAS
6 149 (1.79%) IIS
7 136 (1.63%) Apache Spark
8 110 (1.32%) CMS
9 96 (1.15%) Confluence
10 38 (0.46%) Umbraco
11 18 (0.22%) Tomcat
12 17 (0.20%) nginx
13 16 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 15 (0.18%) WordPress
15 13 (0.16%) WebSphere
16 11 (0.13%) Drupal
16 11 (0.13%) JBoss
16 11 (0.13%) Tuxedo
17 10 (0.12%) Jupyter
18 9 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 582 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 281 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.38%) Simulink
6 21 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 19 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 18 (0.22%) SPSS
8 18 (0.22%) Trello
9 14 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
10 8 (0.096%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.072%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
14 2 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.024%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.024%) InDesign
15 1 (0.012%) Acrobat
15 1 (0.012%) AutoCAD
15 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 102 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 37 (0.44%) SDL Web 8
4 36 (0.43%) Siebel CRM
5 25 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
6 24 (0.29%) NEC Housing
7 22 (0.26%) Elite 3E
7 22 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 21 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 18 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
9 18 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
10 17 (0.20%) SAP Business One
11 16 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 16 (0.19%) Sage 200
11 16 (0.19%) Shopify
12 13 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
12 13 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
12 13 (0.16%) thinkFolio
13 12 (0.14%) Magento
14 11 (0.13%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 2,921 (35.01%) Azure
2 1,497 (17.94%) AWS
3 1,483 (17.78%) Power Platform
4 617 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
5 474 (5.68%) GCP
6 447 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
7 351 (4.21%) Serverless
8 348 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 326 (3.91%) SaaS
10 251 (3.01%) Snowflake
11 250 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 241 (2.89%) IBM Cloud
13 202 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
14 197 (2.36%) GitHub
15 195 (2.34%) Azure Functions
16 193 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
17 185 (2.22%) dbt
18 166 (1.99%) Entra ID
19 162 (1.94%) PowerApps
20 158 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 228 (2.73%) Firewall
2 150 (1.80%) DNS
3 103 (1.23%) WAN
4 90 (1.08%) SAN
5 87 (1.04%) LAN
6 81 (0.97%) VPN
7 78 (0.93%) TCP/IP
8 71 (0.85%) DHCP
9 60 (0.72%) Network Security
10 53 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
11 46 (0.55%) Internet
12 45 (0.54%) HTTP
12 45 (0.54%) SSL
13 42 (0.50%) VLAN
14 39 (0.47%) Broadband
15 31 (0.37%) FTP
16 24 (0.29%) SD-WAN
16 24 (0.29%) WLAN
17 17 (0.20%) BGP
17 17 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,649 (19.77%) SQL Server
2 1,406 (16.85%) Power BI
3 746 (8.94%) NoSQL
4 698 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
5 697 (8.35%) Tableau
6 637 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
7 548 (6.57%) Relational Database
8 510 (6.11%) MongoDB
9 408 (4.89%) Data Lake
10 406 (4.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 382 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 358 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 347 (4.16%) MySQL
14 295 (3.54%) DB2
15 225 (2.70%) Big Data
16 164 (1.97%) Oracle Database
17 139 (1.67%) BigQuery
18 135 (1.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 124 (1.49%) Data Mining
20 110 (1.32%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 829 (9.94%) Git
2 342 (4.10%) JIRA
3 289 (3.46%) Visual Studio
4 126 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 111 (1.33%) GitLab
6 90 (1.08%) Selenium
7 83 (0.99%) NUnit
8 76 (0.91%) TeamCity
9 69 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
10 67 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
11 66 (0.79%) Postman
12 56 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 55 (0.66%) Moq
14 53 (0.64%) SpecFlow
15 44 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 44 (0.53%) SoapUI
16 34 (0.41%) Eclipse
17 33 (0.40%) Vagrant
18 32 (0.38%) JMeter
18 32 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,236 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 1,975 (23.67%) Finance
3 1,333 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
4 576 (6.90%) Retail
5 532 (6.38%) Banking
6 468 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 403 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 391 (4.69%) Front Office
9 351 (4.21%) Law
10 344 (4.12%) Marketing
11 343 (4.11%) Legal
12 279 (3.34%) Manufacturing
13 238 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
14 183 (2.19%) Investment Banking
15 114 (1.37%) Back Office
16 106 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
17 95 (1.14%) Telecoms
18 87 (1.04%) Games
18 87 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
19 81 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,392 (28.67%) Developer
2 1,714 (20.54%) Analyst
3 1,651 (19.79%) Senior
4 700 (8.39%) Lead
5 590 (7.07%) Data Engineer
6 565 (6.77%) Data Analyst
7 552 (6.62%) Software Engineer
8 519 (6.22%) .NET Developer
9 483 (5.79%) Senior Developer
10 433 (5.19%) Senior Analyst
11 411 (4.93%) Full Stack Developer
12 361 (4.33%) Software Developer
13 352 (4.22%) C# Developer
14 325 (3.90%) Applications Support
15 295 (3.54%) Architect
16 285 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
17 248 (2.97%) Support Engineer
18 231 (2.77%) Business Analyst
19 227 (2.72%) SQL Developer
20 222 (2.66%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,961 (23.50%) .NET
2 1,154 (13.83%) HTML
3 975 (11.69%) CSS
4 811 (9.72%) React
5 803 (9.62%) ASP.NET
6 759 (9.10%) AngularJS
7 680 (8.15%) REST
8 561 (6.72%) Web Services
9 486 (5.83%) jQuery
10 445 (5.33%) .NET Core
11 434 (5.20%) Vue
12 425 (5.09%) .NET Framework
13 372 (4.46%) XML
14 366 (4.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 351 (4.21%) Node.js
16 324 (3.88%) JSON
17 301 (3.61%) ASP.NET Core
18 283 (3.39%) PySpark
19 272 (3.26%) RESTful
20 251 (3.01%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 418 (5.01%) Algorithms
2 394 (4.72%) Data Structures
3 328 (3.93%) Hedge funds
4 299 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 288 (3.45%) Fixed Income
6 275 (3.30%) Management Information System
7 274 (3.28%) Equities
8 265 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 259 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 247 (2.96%) Blockchain
11 233 (2.79%) Derivative
12 228 (2.73%) Onboarding
13 173 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
14 171 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
15 132 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
16 121 (1.45%) e-Learning
17 95 (1.14%) Mobile App
18 93 (1.11%) Cloud Native
19 91 (1.09%) Public Cloud
20 89 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,079 (12.93%) Windows
2 886 (10.62%) Linux
3 336 (4.03%) Android
4 314 (3.76%) Windows Server
5 276 (3.31%) Apple iOS
6 180 (2.16%) Unix
7 107 (1.28%) Windows 10
8 85 (1.02%) CentOS
9 73 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 73 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 70 (0.84%) Ubuntu
10 70 (0.84%) VMS
11 59 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
12 55 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 26 (0.31%) Windows 7
14 23 (0.28%) AIX
15 18 (0.22%) Solaris
16 15 (0.18%) Windows 8
17 14 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
18 12 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,089 (25.04%) Agile
2 1,729 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
3 1,511 (18.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1,394 (16.71%) Analytics
5 1,197 (14.35%) DevOps
6 1,026 (12.30%) Software Engineering
7 931 (11.16%) Visualisation
8 921 (11.04%) Full Stack Development
9 824 (9.88%) ETL
10 814 (9.76%) Computer Science
11 780 (9.35%) Mentoring
12 765 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence
13 764 (9.16%) Data Modelling
14 759 (9.10%) Data Analysis
15 645 (7.73%) MVC
16 602 (7.22%) Decision-Making
17 582 (6.98%) CI/CD
18 575 (6.89%) Machine Learning
19 552 (6.62%) Data Science
20 537 (6.44%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2,417 (28.97%) Python
2 2,022 (24.24%) C#
3 1,645 (19.72%) JavaScript
4 952 (11.41%) Java
5 677 (8.11%) T-SQL
6 445 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 388 (4.65%) PowerShell
8 253 (3.03%) R
9 225 (2.70%) PL/SQL
10 202 (2.42%) C++
11 199 (2.39%) PHP
12 191 (2.29%) VBA
13 157 (1.88%) VB.NET
14 154 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 145 (1.74%) VB
16 130 (1.56%) Bash
17 99 (1.19%) C
18 89 (1.07%) Kotlin
19 77 (0.92%) Scala
20 62 (0.74%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,751 (20.99%) Degree
2 477 (5.72%) Security Cleared
3 447 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 318 (3.81%) SC Cleared
5 291 (3.49%) DBS Check
6 218 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 189 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 93 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 93 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 47 (0.56%) PhD
10 38 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
11 37 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 31 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 31 (0.37%) MBA
13 29 (0.35%) MCSE
14 25 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
15 24 (0.29%) CISA
16 21 (0.25%) ISEB
17 20 (0.24%) MCSA
18 17 (0.20%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 500 (5.99%) Data Quality
2 328 (3.93%) QA
3 142 (1.70%) SLA
4 101 (1.21%) GDPR
5 91 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 52 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (0.23%) MiFID
9 16 (0.19%) GAAP
9 16 (0.19%) PMO
10 15 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 15 (0.18%) ITGC
11 11 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.13%) IFRS
12 10 (0.12%) NIST
13 9 (0.11%) COBIT
13 9 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.096%) WCAG
15 6 (0.072%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.072%) TickIT
System Software
1 479 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 347 (4.16%) Docker
3 191 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 115 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 77 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (0.54%) RACF
7 31 (0.37%) Firmware
8 30 (0.36%) vSphere
9 25 (0.30%) XenApp
10 24 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
11 18 (0.22%) XenDesktop
12 13 (0.16%) VirtualBox
13 10 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 10 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
14 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 8 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.072%) Forefront TMG
17 5 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
18 4 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
18 4 (0.048%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 316 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 253 (3.03%) Terraform
3 103 (1.23%) Ansible
4 38 (0.46%) Grafana
4 38 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.42%) SCCM
6 29 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.35%) SCOM
7 25 (0.30%) WSUS
8 22 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 21 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
11 17 (0.20%) NetBackup
12 16 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
14 13 (0.16%) Backup Exec
15 12 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
16 11 (0.13%) Control-M
16 11 (0.13%) Puppet
17 10 (0.12%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,899 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 725 (8.69%) Oracle
3 601 (7.20%) Databricks
4 327 (3.92%) Google
5 319 (3.82%) IBM
6 303 (3.63%) Red Hat
7 269 (3.22%) VMware
8 175 (2.10%) Bloomberg
9 171 (2.05%) SAP
10 99 (1.19%) Citrix
11 97 (1.16%) Cisco
12 89 (1.07%) Informatica
13 80 (0.96%) Reuters
14 75 (0.90%) Veeam
15 74 (0.89%) Salesforce
16 63 (0.76%) Sage
17 54 (0.65%) IFS
18 51 (0.61%) HP
19 49 (0.59%) Adobe
20 48 (0.58%) Alteryx