SQL Jobs in England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 7,143 18,459 19,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.40% 17.13% 17.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.68% 37.56% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,654 12,085 14,975
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
England

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18,955 49,141 58,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 40.86% 45.61% 52.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15,137 32,180 40,697
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 2,920 £72,500 +3.57% 1,484
North of England -2 1,204 £52,500 +4.50% 629
South East -1 1,176 £52,500 -4.55% 576
Midlands 0 868 £50,000 - 343
North West -3 626 £55,000 +10.00% 372
South West -7 583 £54,000 +8.00% 194
West Midlands +2 539 £50,000 - 202
Yorkshire -3 508 £50,000 -4.76% 189
East Midlands 0 333 £50,000 - 141
East of England +1 233 £55,000 +4.76% 187
North East -3 70 £47,500 -5.00% 77
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
1 247 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 159 (2.23%) IIS
3 137 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 123 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 107 (1.50%) Confluence
6 104 (1.46%) Apache
7 96 (1.34%) SAS
8 56 (0.78%) CMS
9 55 (0.77%) MS Exchange
10 35 (0.49%) Tomcat
11 31 (0.43%) WebSphere
12 29 (0.41%) Umbraco
13 23 (0.32%) WordPress
14 19 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
15 18 (0.25%) Captiva
15 18 (0.25%) FileNet
16 14 (0.20%) NServiceBus
17 12 (0.17%) Drupal
17 12 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
17 12 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 415 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 241 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 52 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.084%) SPSS
8 5 (0.070%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.056%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.042%) InDesign
11 2 (0.028%) Trello
12 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.014%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.014%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.014%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 141 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 62 (0.87%) Hyperion Planning
3 34 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 31 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
6 21 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
7 18 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
8 16 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 16 (0.22%) Shopify
9 14 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
10 13 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
10 13 (0.18%) SAP Business One
11 10 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
12 9 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
12 9 (0.13%) Elite 3E
12 9 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
12 9 (0.13%) ProductWriter
13 8 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
13 8 (0.11%) SAP ERP
13 8 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,541 (35.57%) Azure
2 1,322 (18.51%) AWS
3 1,321 (18.49%) Power Platform
4 563 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
5 504 (7.06%) GCP
6 385 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
7 360 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 308 (4.31%) SaaS
9 287 (4.02%) Serverless
10 197 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 197 (2.76%) Snowflake
11 191 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
12 189 (2.65%) PowerApps
13 162 (2.27%) Entra ID
13 162 (2.27%) GitHub
14 158 (2.21%) PaaS
15 134 (1.88%) Power Automate
16 128 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
17 115 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
18 114 (1.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 202 (2.83%) Firewall
2 158 (2.21%) DNS
3 96 (1.34%) WAN
4 92 (1.29%) VPN
5 88 (1.23%) DHCP
6 76 (1.06%) SAN
7 69 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 65 (0.91%) LAN
9 64 (0.90%) Internet
10 49 (0.69%) HTTP
10 49 (0.69%) VLAN
11 36 (0.50%) NAS
12 33 (0.46%) Network Security
12 33 (0.46%) SNMP
12 33 (0.46%) VoIP
13 25 (0.35%) Skype
14 21 (0.29%) SMTP
15 18 (0.25%) Wireless
16 17 (0.24%) FTP
17 13 (0.18%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,570 (21.98%) SQL Server
2 1,207 (16.90%) Power BI
3 724 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
4 483 (6.76%) NoSQL
5 480 (6.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 379 (5.31%) Tableau
7 376 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 342 (4.79%) Relational Database
9 334 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
10 332 (4.65%) Data Lake
11 309 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 276 (3.86%) MySQL
13 223 (3.12%) MongoDB
14 221 (3.09%) Oracle Database
15 182 (2.55%) Big Data
16 175 (2.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 121 (1.69%) BigQuery
18 118 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
19 104 (1.46%) Hadoop
20 92 (1.29%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 519 (7.27%) Git
2 298 (4.17%) JIRA
3 220 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 182 (2.55%) Visual Studio
5 175 (2.45%) Selenium
6 102 (1.43%) Cucumber
7 93 (1.30%) Maven
8 86 (1.20%) Postman
9 81 (1.13%) LabVIEW
10 66 (0.92%) Cypress.io
10 66 (0.92%) JUnit
11 61 (0.85%) SoapUI
12 57 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 55 (0.77%) Bitbucket
14 53 (0.74%) GitLab
15 50 (0.70%) TeamCity
16 44 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
17 42 (0.59%) JMeter
18 41 (0.57%) NUnit
19 38 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,922 (26.91%) Finance
2 1,517 (21.24%) Social Skills
3 927 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 497 (6.96%) Banking
5 323 (4.52%) Retail
6 276 (3.86%) Marketing
7 273 (3.82%) Law
8 241 (3.37%) Manufacturing
9 188 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 176 (2.46%) Legal
11 168 (2.35%) Public Sector
12 153 (2.14%) Front Office
13 152 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
14 88 (1.23%) Back Office
15 85 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 74 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 71 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
18 69 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
19 66 (0.92%) Investment Banking
20 64 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,111 (29.55%) Developer
2 1,438 (20.13%) Senior
3 1,155 (16.17%) Analyst
4 719 (10.07%) Data Engineer
5 545 (7.63%) Lead
6 469 (6.57%) Senior Developer
7 445 (6.23%) .NET Developer
8 379 (5.31%) Data Analyst
9 369 (5.17%) Software Engineer
10 326 (4.56%) Software Developer
11 293 (4.10%) Full Stack Developer
12 279 (3.91%) Applications Support
13 272 (3.81%) C# Developer
14 263 (3.68%) Systems Engineer
15 244 (3.42%) Architect
16 240 (3.36%) DBA
17 230 (3.22%) Support Analyst
18 215 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
19 214 (3.00%) Administrator
19 214 (3.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,466 (20.52%) .NET
2 688 (9.63%) HTML
3 620 (8.68%) CSS
4 569 (7.97%) React
5 484 (6.78%) AngularJS
6 413 (5.78%) ASP.NET
7 406 (5.68%) .NET Framework
8 396 (5.54%) .NET Core
9 391 (5.47%) REST
10 330 (4.62%) XML
11 314 (4.40%) JSON
12 312 (4.37%) Web Services
13 232 (3.25%) RESTful
14 224 (3.14%) Spring
15 190 (2.66%) SOAP
16 188 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
17 185 (2.59%) Entity Framework
18 175 (2.45%) Node.js
18 175 (2.45%) Vue
19 174 (2.44%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 305 (4.27%) Management Information System
2 247 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
3 167 (2.34%) Product Ownership
4 158 (2.21%) Data Structures
5 144 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 142 (1.99%) Replication
7 136 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 132 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 117 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 110 (1.54%) Public Cloud
11 106 (1.48%) Data Centre
12 95 (1.33%) Cloud Native
13 91 (1.27%) Clustering
13 91 (1.27%) Hedge funds
14 88 (1.23%) Mobile App
15 82 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
15 82 (1.15%) Raspberry Pi
16 81 (1.13%) Arduino
17 80 (1.12%) Fixed Income
18 73 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 729 (10.21%) Windows
2 486 (6.80%) Linux
3 337 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 200 (2.80%) Unix
5 84 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
5 84 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 77 (1.08%) Windows 10
7 59 (0.83%) Android
8 58 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 45 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 35 (0.49%) CentOS
10 35 (0.49%) Ubuntu
11 26 (0.36%) Solaris
12 24 (0.34%) Mac OS
13 19 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 19 (0.27%) Windows 7
14 17 (0.24%) Debian
15 15 (0.21%) AIX
16 14 (0.20%) Mac OS X
16 14 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,991 (27.87%) Agile
2 1,431 (20.03%) Business Intelligence
3 1,254 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
4 1,229 (17.21%) DevOps
5 1,143 (16.00%) Analytics
6 917 (12.84%) ETL
7 755 (10.57%) Data Modelling
8 723 (10.12%) CI/CD
9 712 (9.97%) Software Engineering
10 682 (9.55%) Visualisation
11 579 (8.11%) Data Analysis
11 579 (8.11%) Full Stack Development
12 525 (7.35%) Scrum
13 524 (7.34%) Computer Science
14 509 (7.13%) Data Science
15 482 (6.75%) Mentoring
16 472 (6.61%) Microservices
17 468 (6.55%) Migration
18 463 (6.48%) Data Visualisation
19 424 (5.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,728 (24.19%) Python
2 1,631 (22.83%) C#
3 1,271 (17.79%) JavaScript
4 731 (10.23%) Java
5 701 (9.81%) T-SQL
6 543 (7.60%) PowerShell
7 518 (7.25%) PL/SQL
8 347 (4.86%) TypeScript
9 195 (2.73%) R
10 194 (2.72%) PHP
11 175 (2.45%) Bash
12 170 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 170 (2.38%) VB
13 157 (2.20%) C++
14 104 (1.46%) Scala
15 91 (1.27%) VB.NET
16 87 (1.22%) VBA
17 76 (1.06%) Ruby
18 67 (0.94%) Go
19 56 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,086 (15.20%) Degree
2 458 (6.41%) Security Cleared
3 345 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 314 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 147 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 129 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 109 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 96 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 87 (1.22%) HNC
10 47 (0.66%) AWS Certification
11 37 (0.52%) MCSE
12 36 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 34 (0.48%) MCSA
14 32 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 31 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
16 29 (0.41%) ISTQB
17 28 (0.39%) PhD
18 25 (0.35%) CCNA
19 19 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
19 19 (0.27%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (4.97%) Data Quality
2 323 (4.52%) QA
3 117 (1.64%) SLA
4 85 (1.19%) GDPR
5 47 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 31 (0.43%) PMO
8 26 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.15%) NCSC
12 10 (0.14%) NIST
13 7 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.098%) HL7
13 7 (0.098%) ISO 22301
13 7 (0.098%) MiFID
14 6 (0.084%) IFRS
14 6 (0.084%) IFRS 9
14 6 (0.084%) MISRA
15 5 (0.070%) Basel III
System Software
1 493 (6.90%) Docker
2 480 (6.72%) Active Directory
3 219 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 134 (1.88%) Hyper-V
5 45 (0.63%) vSphere
6 42 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 25 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
9 17 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.20%) vCloud
10 14 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
13 8 (0.11%) XenApp
14 7 (0.098%) HDFS
15 6 (0.084%) RACF
15 6 (0.084%) VirtualBox
15 6 (0.084%) XenDesktop
16 5 (0.070%) Firmware
17 4 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 454 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 235 (3.29%) Terraform
3 91 (1.27%) Ansible
4 83 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 79 (1.11%) SCCM
6 51 (0.71%) SCOM
7 36 (0.50%) Grafana
8 31 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
9 30 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
10 27 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.36%) Prometheus
12 25 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 24 (0.34%) Data Guard
14 23 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
15 19 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (0.24%) Packer
17 16 (0.22%) Kibana
17 16 (0.22%) SCVMM
18 13 (0.18%) Puppet
19 12 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,621 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 750 (10.50%) Oracle
3 301 (4.21%) VMware
4 290 (4.06%) Databricks
5 236 (3.30%) Google
6 147 (2.06%) NEC
7 131 (1.83%) SAP
8 101 (1.41%) Cisco
9 73 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 70 (0.98%) Citrix
11 69 (0.97%) IBM
12 68 (0.95%) Hyperion
13 63 (0.88%) Salesforce
14 60 (0.84%) Alteryx
15 56 (0.78%) Red Hat
16 54 (0.76%) Informatica
17 52 (0.73%) HP
18 51 (0.71%) Veeam
19 43 (0.60%) Bloomberg
20 42 (0.59%) Splunk