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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10,070 15,585 23,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.82% 16.91% 17.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.52% 39.09% 33.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,083 9,303 14,284
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,666
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.79% +6.03%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,766 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,191 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +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 27,576 39,866 70,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.36% 43.27% 53.34%
Number of salaries quoted 22,446 25,598 39,451
10th Percentile £35,250 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -1 3,621 £70,000 - 1,370
North of England -4 2,022 £50,000 -4.76% 400
South East -3 1,685 £50,000 -9.09% 357
Midlands -4 1,370 £47,500 -5.00% 372
North West -3 1,145 £52,500 +0.96% 222
West Midlands -4 806 £50,000 - 213
South West -10 747 £50,000 - 205
Yorkshire -6 624 £47,500 -9.52% 138
East Midlands -2 557 £45,000 -10.00% 159
East of England -7 527 £47,500 -9.52% 175
North East 0 255 £50,000 -4.76% 43
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
1 366 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 296 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 226 (2.24%) IIS
4 183 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 159 (1.58%) Apache
6 154 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
7 128 (1.27%) SAS
8 119 (1.18%) CMS
9 101 (1.00%) Confluence
10 30 (0.30%) Umbraco
11 29 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 28 (0.28%) Drupal
13 25 (0.25%) Tomcat
13 25 (0.25%) WordPress
14 21 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
15 20 (0.20%) WebLogic
16 18 (0.18%) Captiva
16 18 (0.18%) FileNet
17 16 (0.16%) nginx
18 15 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 674 (6.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 376 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.26%) SPSS
7 21 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.17%) Trello
9 12 (0.12%) Simulink
10 9 (0.089%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
12 7 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
13 5 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.020%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.020%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.020%) InDesign
14 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
15 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
15 1 (0.010%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 158 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
3 36 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 35 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 27 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
6 25 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 25 (0.25%) thinkFolio
7 24 (0.24%) Elite 3E
8 22 (0.22%) NEC Housing
8 22 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 22 (0.22%) Shopify
9 20 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
9 20 (0.20%) Sage 200
10 18 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
11 16 (0.16%) Sage X3
12 15 (0.15%) Fidessa
13 14 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
13 14 (0.14%) Magento
13 14 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
13 14 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,687 (36.61%) Azure
2 1,925 (19.12%) Power Platform
3 1,676 (16.64%) AWS
4 709 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
5 639 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
6 607 (6.03%) GCP
7 472 (4.69%) Serverless
8 364 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 349 (3.47%) SaaS
10 280 (2.78%) Snowflake
11 239 (2.37%) IBM Cloud
12 232 (2.30%) GitHub
13 228 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 222 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 220 (2.18%) Azure Functions
16 215 (2.14%) PowerApps
17 214 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
18 202 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
19 187 (1.86%) Power Automate
20 171 (1.70%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 323 (3.21%) Firewall
2 194 (1.93%) DNS
3 169 (1.68%) WAN
4 129 (1.28%) VPN
5 125 (1.24%) LAN
6 117 (1.16%) DHCP
7 115 (1.14%) Internet
8 105 (1.04%) TCP/IP
9 97 (0.96%) SAN
10 73 (0.72%) Network Security
11 70 (0.70%) HTTP
12 69 (0.69%) Broadband
13 65 (0.65%) VLAN
14 56 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
15 51 (0.51%) SSL
16 38 (0.38%) Wireless
17 33 (0.33%) VoIP
18 32 (0.32%) SD-WAN
19 29 (0.29%) FTP
20 27 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,388 (23.71%) SQL Server
2 1,800 (17.87%) Power BI
3 942 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
4 804 (7.98%) NoSQL
5 752 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
6 708 (7.03%) Tableau
7 645 (6.41%) Relational Database
8 622 (6.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 551 (5.47%) MongoDB
10 544 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 464 (4.61%) MySQL
12 459 (4.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 420 (4.17%) Data Lake
14 302 (3.00%) DB2
15 244 (2.42%) Big Data
16 240 (2.38%) Oracle Database
17 228 (2.26%) BigQuery
18 161 (1.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 138 (1.37%) Data Mining
20 132 (1.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 834 (8.28%) Git
2 392 (3.89%) JIRA
3 341 (3.39%) Visual Studio
4 236 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 153 (1.52%) GitLab
6 117 (1.16%) Selenium
7 96 (0.95%) Postman
8 89 (0.88%) TeamCity
9 81 (0.80%) NUnit
10 78 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 65 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
12 55 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 55 (0.55%) JUnit
13 49 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 48 (0.48%) Moq
15 46 (0.46%) SoapUI
16 44 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
16 44 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
17 43 (0.43%) SpecFlow
18 42 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,649 (26.31%) Social Skills
2 2,193 (21.78%) Finance
3 1,444 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 681 (6.76%) Retail
5 604 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 475 (4.72%) Banking
7 442 (4.39%) Marketing
8 416 (4.13%) Law
9 387 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 357 (3.55%) Manufacturing
11 294 (2.92%) Front Office
12 291 (2.89%) Legal
13 250 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 184 (1.83%) Back Office
15 181 (1.80%) Games
16 171 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
17 110 (1.09%) Telecoms
18 100 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
19 97 (0.96%) Aerospace
20 93 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3,132 (31.10%) Developer
2 1,874 (18.61%) Senior
3 1,831 (18.18%) Analyst
4 824 (8.18%) Lead
5 778 (7.73%) Data Engineer
6 689 (6.84%) .NET Developer
7 665 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 562 (5.58%) Software Engineer
9 560 (5.56%) Data Analyst
10 493 (4.90%) Software Developer
11 476 (4.73%) Full Stack Developer
12 410 (4.07%) C# Developer
13 389 (3.86%) Applications Support
14 347 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
15 332 (3.30%) Support Analyst
16 317 (3.15%) Consultant
17 302 (3.00%) DBA
18 290 (2.88%) Support Engineer
19 288 (2.86%) Architect
20 267 (2.65%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,424 (24.07%) .NET
2 1,351 (13.42%) HTML
3 1,168 (11.60%) CSS
4 1,039 (10.32%) ASP.NET
5 914 (9.08%) React
6 876 (8.70%) AngularJS
7 785 (7.80%) REST
8 647 (6.43%) Web Services
9 645 (6.41%) .NET Core
10 517 (5.13%) jQuery
11 499 (4.96%) .NET Framework
12 470 (4.67%) Vue
13 431 (4.28%) XML
14 401 (3.98%) Entity Framework
15 393 (3.90%) JSON
16 389 (3.86%) Node.js
17 353 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
18 350 (3.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 348 (3.46%) HTML5
20 345 (3.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 504 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 428 (4.25%) Algorithms
3 344 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
4 297 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 266 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 258 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 247 (2.45%) Blockchain
8 241 (2.39%) Hedge funds
9 229 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
10 182 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 160 (1.59%) Fixed Income
12 159 (1.58%) Derivative
12 159 (1.58%) Public Cloud
13 155 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 152 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
15 146 (1.45%) Equities
16 134 (1.33%) Mobile App
17 121 (1.20%) Client/Server
18 117 (1.16%) e-Learning
19 112 (1.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1,267 (12.58%) Windows
2 1,002 (9.95%) Linux
3 396 (3.93%) Windows Server
4 309 (3.07%) Android
5 280 (2.78%) Apple iOS
6 216 (2.14%) Unix
7 163 (1.62%) Windows 10
8 92 (0.91%) VMS
9 83 (0.82%) CentOS
10 82 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
11 79 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
13 72 (0.71%) Windows 7
14 50 (0.50%) Ubuntu
15 49 (0.49%) Windows 8
16 30 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 30 (0.30%) Solaris
17 25 (0.25%) AIX
18 24 (0.24%) SUSE
19 19 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,509 (24.92%) Agile
2 2,009 (19.95%) Business Intelligence
3 1,951 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
4 1,526 (15.15%) Analytics
5 1,447 (14.37%) DevOps
6 1,204 (11.96%) ETL
7 1,135 (11.27%) Full Stack Development
8 1,071 (10.64%) Software Engineering
9 1,059 (10.52%) Visualisation
10 971 (9.64%) Mentoring
11 958 (9.51%) Artificial Intelligence
12 921 (9.15%) Data Modelling
13 890 (8.84%) Computer Science
14 887 (8.81%) MVC
15 830 (8.24%) Data Science
16 804 (7.98%) Data Analysis
17 768 (7.63%) Machine Learning
18 707 (7.02%) CI/CD
19 657 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
20 646 (6.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,610 (25.92%) C#
2 2,590 (25.72%) Python
3 1,982 (19.68%) JavaScript
4 1,055 (10.48%) Java
5 989 (9.82%) T-SQL
6 521 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 418 (4.15%) PowerShell
8 322 (3.20%) PL/SQL
9 284 (2.82%) R
10 256 (2.54%) PHP
11 193 (1.92%) C++
12 187 (1.86%) VB
13 173 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 159 (1.58%) VB.NET
15 158 (1.57%) VBA
16 142 (1.41%) Bash
17 132 (1.31%) C
18 122 (1.21%) Scala
19 65 (0.65%) Go
20 59 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,895 (18.82%) Degree
2 463 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 461 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 344 (3.42%) SC Cleared
5 300 (2.98%) DBS Check
6 276 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 223 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 120 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 108 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 69 (0.69%) PhD
11 51 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 45 (0.45%) MCSE
13 37 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 37 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
13 37 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
14 31 (0.31%) MCSA
15 29 (0.29%) MBA
15 29 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 28 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
17 27 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 352 (3.50%) QA
3 152 (1.51%) SLA
4 133 (1.32%) GDPR
5 107 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 53 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (0.20%) PMO
9 19 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 11 (0.11%) COBIT
12 9 (0.089%) NIST
13 8 (0.079%) IFRS
13 8 (0.079%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.079%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.079%) PSD2
14 7 (0.070%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.070%) GMP
14 7 (0.070%) ITGC
14 7 (0.070%) SOC 1
System Software
1 585 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 525 (5.21%) Docker
3 276 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 185 (1.84%) Hyper-V
5 109 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 55 (0.55%) XenApp
7 50 (0.50%) VirtualBox
8 48 (0.48%) XenDesktop
9 46 (0.46%) vSphere
10 30 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
11 27 (0.27%) Firmware
12 23 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
12 23 (0.23%) VMware NSX
13 18 (0.18%) HDFS
14 17 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 14 (0.14%) vCloud
16 13 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
17 11 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
18 10 (0.099%) Terminal Services
19 9 (0.089%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 449 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 315 (3.13%) Terraform
3 119 (1.18%) Ansible
4 55 (0.55%) SCCM
5 50 (0.50%) Grafana
6 49 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 38 (0.38%) SCOM
8 32 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 30 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 28 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 27 (0.27%) Data Guard
11 27 (0.27%) WSUS
12 26 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
13 22 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
14 19 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
15 18 (0.18%) Backup Exec
16 15 (0.15%) NetBackup
17 14 (0.14%) Puppet
18 13 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
19 12 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 2,595 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 872 (8.66%) Oracle
3 607 (6.03%) Databricks
4 373 (3.70%) Google
5 370 (3.67%) IBM
6 367 (3.64%) VMware
7 300 (2.98%) Red Hat
8 227 (2.25%) SAP
9 155 (1.54%) Citrix
10 113 (1.12%) Cisco
11 90 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 88 (0.87%) Veeam
13 84 (0.83%) Alteryx
14 81 (0.80%) F5
15 77 (0.76%) Informatica
16 74 (0.73%) Bloomberg
17 67 (0.67%) Sage
18 53 (0.53%) ServiceNow
19 48 (0.48%) HP
20 47 (0.47%) Adobe