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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,853 9,829 11,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.25% 10.95% 14.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.12% 35.81% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,540 7,449 8,488
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.65% +6.35%

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 15,110 27,451 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.79% 30.58% 40.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,706 21,269 22,707
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,688 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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 -2 1,814 £75,000 +3.45% 2,917
North of England -23 844 £52,000 +4.00% 766
South East -8 780 £50,000 - 1,094
Midlands -3 689 £50,000 +5.26% 459
North West -32 486 £50,000 -4.76% 432
East of England +5 398 £60,000 +26.32% 277
West Midlands 0 382 £52,500 +5.00% 268
East Midlands -4 302 £45,000 - 190
Yorkshire -18 297 £57,500 +27.08% 259
South West -3 270 £50,000 - 256
North East -12 61 £50,000 -4.76% 83
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
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
1 208 (4.29%) Confluence
2 173 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 131 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 121 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
5 109 (2.25%) Apache
6 94 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 77 (1.59%) IIS
8 49 (1.01%) CMS
9 32 (0.66%) IBM Domino
10 26 (0.54%) SAS
11 18 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 18 (0.37%) Umbraco
12 15 (0.31%) nginx
13 14 (0.29%) Headless CMS
14 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 9 (0.19%) Moodle
16 8 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 4 (0.082%) Apache Synapse
17 4 (0.082%) Appian
17 4 (0.082%) WebLogic
Applications
1 372 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (2.60%) Chatbot
3 118 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 61 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.10%) InDesign
8 4 (0.082%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.062%) SPSS
9 3 (0.062%) Trello
10 1 (0.021%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.021%) Notion
10 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 57 (1.17%) NetSuite
2 55 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 50 (1.03%) Aladdin
4 40 (0.82%) thinkFolio
5 39 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
6 29 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
7 28 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
8 17 (0.35%) Sage 200
9 16 (0.33%) Sage CRM
10 13 (0.27%) Elite 3E
10 13 (0.27%) Shopify
11 12 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
11 12 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 12 (0.25%) SAP Business One
11 12 (0.25%) Sprinklr
12 11 (0.23%) JDE OneWorld
12 11 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
13 8 (0.16%) Infor M3
13 8 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
14 7 (0.14%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 1,956 (40.30%) Azure
2 1,125 (23.18%) AWS
3 1,000 (20.61%) Power Platform
4 444 (9.15%) GCP
5 295 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
6 270 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 260 (5.36%) SaaS
8 235 (4.84%) Snowflake
9 193 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
10 186 (3.83%) Serverless
11 164 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 159 (3.28%) Power Automate
13 150 (3.09%) GitHub
14 121 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
15 115 (2.37%) Amazon S3
16 105 (2.16%) dbt
16 105 (2.16%) Entra ID
16 105 (2.16%) PowerApps
17 102 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
18 95 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 139 (2.86%) Firewall
2 108 (2.23%) DNS
3 76 (1.57%) WAN
4 60 (1.24%) LAN
5 55 (1.13%) DHCP
6 46 (0.95%) VPN
7 45 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 45 (0.93%) VoIP
8 42 (0.87%) VLAN
9 41 (0.84%) SAN
10 32 (0.66%) HTTP
10 32 (0.66%) Network Security
11 28 (0.58%) SD-WAN
12 27 (0.56%) FTP
13 24 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
14 20 (0.41%) Wireless
15 17 (0.35%) MPLS
15 17 (0.35%) SSL
16 15 (0.31%) Multicast
17 13 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,041 (21.45%) SQL Server
2 920 (18.96%) Power BI
3 484 (9.97%) Data Warehouse
4 334 (6.88%) NoSQL
5 277 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 251 (5.17%) Tableau
7 241 (4.97%) Data Lake
8 227 (4.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 227 (4.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 211 (4.35%) MySQL
10 202 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
11 193 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 163 (3.36%) MongoDB
13 145 (2.99%) Big Data
14 115 (2.37%) Metadata
15 87 (1.79%) BigQuery
16 85 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
17 69 (1.42%) Power Query
18 68 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
19 64 (1.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 455 (9.38%) JIRA
2 427 (8.80%) Git
3 247 (5.09%) GitLab
4 246 (5.07%) Selenium
5 231 (4.76%) Maven
6 223 (4.60%) Bitbucket
7 219 (4.51%) SonarQube
8 213 (4.39%) Cucumber
9 209 (4.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 95 (1.96%) Jenkins
11 90 (1.85%) Visual Studio
12 54 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 46 (0.95%) Postman
14 41 (0.84%) JUnit
15 40 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 38 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
17 28 (0.58%) MLflow
18 27 (0.56%) MSBuild
19 26 (0.54%) Cypress.io
20 25 (0.52%) Mockito
General
1 1,564 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 1,394 (28.72%) Finance
3 833 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 529 (10.90%) Banking
5 428 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 405 (8.35%) Retail
7 363 (7.48%) Law
8 217 (4.47%) Marketing
9 192 (3.96%) Front Office
10 166 (3.42%) Investment Banking
11 163 (3.36%) Manufacturing
12 158 (3.26%) Public Sector
13 97 (2.00%) Legal
14 93 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
15 92 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
16 91 (1.88%) Corporate Banking
17 87 (1.79%) Back Office
18 65 (1.34%) Advertising
19 62 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
20 41 (0.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,183 (24.38%) Developer
2 994 (20.48%) Analyst
3 755 (15.56%) Senior
4 532 (10.96%) Software Engineer
5 422 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 390 (8.04%) Lead
7 314 (6.47%) Support Analyst
8 253 (5.21%) Data Analyst
9 232 (4.78%) Senior Developer
10 205 (4.22%) Applications Support
11 203 (4.18%) Architect
12 169 (3.48%) SQL Developer
13 144 (2.97%) Business Analyst
14 141 (2.91%) IT Support
15 139 (2.86%) Support Engineer
16 137 (2.82%) .NET Developer
17 136 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
17 136 (2.80%) Senior Data Engineer
18 134 (2.76%) Software Developer
19 130 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 744 (15.33%) HTML
2 708 (14.59%) .NET
3 514 (10.59%) React
4 499 (10.28%) CSS
5 365 (7.52%) REST
6 364 (7.50%) Kafka
7 307 (6.33%) Spring
8 291 (6.00%) RESTful
9 276 (5.69%) Spring Boot
10 237 (4.88%) ASP.NET
11 225 (4.64%) JPA
12 222 (4.57%) AngularJS
13 216 (4.45%) XML
14 210 (4.33%) Redux
15 197 (4.06%) JSON
16 185 (3.81%) PySpark
17 181 (3.73%) .NET Framework
18 177 (3.65%) HTML5
19 164 (3.38%) .NET Core
20 162 (3.34%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 351 (7.23%) Product Ownership
2 261 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
3 176 (3.63%) Data Structures
4 172 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 154 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 154 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 125 (2.58%) Algorithms
7 121 (2.49%) Derivative
7 121 (2.49%) Hedge funds
8 117 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 104 (2.14%) Fixed Income
10 90 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
11 88 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
12 76 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 68 (1.40%) Equities
14 67 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
14 67 (1.38%) Mobile App
15 56 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 56 (1.15%) Public Cloud
16 46 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 368 (7.58%) Windows
2 316 (6.51%) Linux
3 166 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 147 (3.03%) Unix
5 45 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 31 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (0.43%) Android
8 20 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.37%) VMS
10 17 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 17 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (0.31%) Mac OS X
12 15 (0.31%) Rocky
13 12 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 11 (0.23%) Mac OS
15 10 (0.21%) CentOS
16 7 (0.14%) AIX
16 7 (0.14%) Debian
16 7 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,355 (27.92%) Agile
2 1,201 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
3 1,052 (21.68%) Business Intelligence
4 937 (19.31%) DevOps
5 912 (18.79%) Analytics
6 872 (17.97%) CI/CD
7 738 (15.21%) Software Engineering
8 638 (13.15%) ETL
9 566 (11.66%) Data Modelling
10 554 (11.42%) Artificial Intelligence
11 531 (10.94%) Mentoring
12 530 (10.92%) Microservices
13 478 (9.85%) Full-Stack Development
13 478 (9.85%) Visualisation
14 470 (9.68%) Test Automation
15 463 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 453 (9.33%) Data Engineering
17 429 (8.84%) Decision-Making
18 425 (8.76%) Data Pipeline
19 420 (8.65%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,667 (34.35%) Python
2 992 (20.44%) JavaScript
3 963 (19.84%) C#
4 754 (15.54%) Java
5 327 (6.74%) T-SQL
6 323 (6.66%) TypeScript
7 272 (5.60%) PowerShell
8 233 (4.80%) C++
9 179 (3.69%) PL/SQL
10 168 (3.46%) R
11 163 (3.36%) PHP
12 121 (2.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 95 (1.96%) Bash
14 82 (1.69%) VBA
15 66 (1.36%) C
16 62 (1.28%) Go
17 61 (1.26%) Ruby
18 60 (1.24%) Rust
19 55 (1.13%) MATLAB
19 55 (1.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 925 (19.06%) Degree
2 246 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 230 (4.74%) Security Cleared
4 164 (3.38%) SC Cleared
5 131 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 120 (2.47%) DBS Check
7 119 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 90 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 77 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 43 (0.89%) ISTQB
11 41 (0.84%) PhD
12 36 (0.74%) MCSE
13 35 (0.72%) MCSA
14 31 (0.64%) DV Cleared
14 31 (0.64%) MCP
15 29 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
17 26 (0.54%) A+ Certification
17 26 (0.54%) ACCA
18 25 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (8.90%) QA
2 326 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 201 (4.14%) Accessibility
4 165 (3.40%) GDPR
5 103 (2.12%) SLA
6 64 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.66%) NIST
8 29 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.29%) HL7
10 14 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 12 (0.25%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.25%) WCAG
13 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.14%) IFRS
17 6 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 558 (11.50%) Docker
2 199 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 98 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 51 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.29%) vSphere
8 8 (0.16%) Apache Flume
8 8 (0.16%) Postfix
8 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) HDFS
10 5 (0.10%) Firmware
10 5 (0.10%) zsh
11 4 (0.082%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.082%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.082%) Squid
11 4 (0.082%) Terminal Server
11 4 (0.082%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.062%) XenApp
13 2 (0.041%) Xen
Systems Management
1 550 (11.33%) Kubernetes
2 242 (4.99%) Terraform
3 56 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 55 (1.13%) Grafana
5 41 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.64%) Ansible
8 27 (0.56%) SCCM
9 23 (0.47%) Kubeflow
10 16 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
11 14 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.25%) Nagios
13 10 (0.21%) SCOM
14 9 (0.19%) Istio
14 9 (0.19%) WSUS
15 8 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.16%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.16%) Oozie
16 7 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
16 7 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,125 (23.18%) Microsoft
2 415 (8.55%) Databricks
3 368 (7.58%) Oracle
4 215 (4.43%) Google
5 201 (4.14%) Solace
6 125 (2.58%) PayPal
7 123 (2.53%) VMware
8 102 (2.10%) SAP
9 75 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 55 (1.13%) Cisco
11 51 (1.05%) IBM
12 49 (1.01%) Informatica
13 48 (0.99%) Charles River
14 47 (0.97%) Alteryx
14 47 (0.97%) BISAM
15 45 (0.93%) Red Hat
16 43 (0.89%) ServiceNow
17 42 (0.87%) Adobe
17 42 (0.87%) Calypso
18 40 (0.82%) SimCorp