SQL Job Trends in Essex

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 47 67 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 6.30% 14.53% 10.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.76% 50.76% 32.56%
Number of salaries quoted 37 26 35
10th Percentile £24,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £53,438 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +35.29% -22.73%
75th Percentile £50,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £61,250 - £77,500
East of England median annual salary £43,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.91% +4.76% -

All Programming Languages
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 105 132 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 14.08% 28.63% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 91 42 101
10th Percentile £25,000 £41,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £27,125 £53,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £78,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £83,750
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Essex.

SQL job vacancy trend in Essex

SQL
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Essex over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Essex

SQL
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Essex region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Colchester +7 12 £40,000 - 78
Basildon -1 8 £48,750 -42.65% 90
Chelmsford -2 8 £57,500 -11.54% 87
Brentwood +2 1 £24,000 -56.36%
Braintree -1 1 - -
Southend-on-Sea -3 1 £25,000 - 1
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (29.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (57.45%) Azure
2 17 (36.17%) Power Platform
3 11 (23.40%) AWS
3 11 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.64%) Azure AI
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.26%) IaaS
6 2 (4.26%) PaaS
6 2 (4.26%) SaaS
6 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.13%) GCP
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub
7 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.13%) Serverless
7 1 (2.13%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) FTP
2 1 (2.13%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (38.30%) SQL Server
2 17 (36.17%) Power BI
3 16 (34.04%) MySQL
4 7 (14.89%) Tableau
5 6 (12.77%) Oracle Database
6 5 (10.64%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (10.64%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (6.38%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (4.26%) PowerPivot
8 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.13%) Big Data
9 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
9 1 (2.13%) InfluxDB
9 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.13%) Power Query
9 1 (2.13%) QlikView
9 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.79%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Billing
4 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (55.32%) Analyst
2 12 (25.53%) Applications Support
2 12 (25.53%) Applications Support Analyst
2 12 (25.53%) Developer
3 11 (23.40%) Graduate
3 11 (23.40%) Graduate Developer
3 11 (23.40%) Support Analyst
4 9 (19.15%) C# Developer
4 9 (19.15%) Graduate C# Developer
4 9 (19.15%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 9 (19.15%) PHP Developer
4 9 (19.15%) Systems Analyst
4 9 (19.15%) Systems Support
4 9 (19.15%) Systems Support Analyst
5 8 (17.02%) C# Software Developer
5 8 (17.02%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 8 (17.02%) Graduate Software Developer
5 8 (17.02%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 8 (17.02%) Software Developer
5 8 (17.02%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) HTML
2 10 (21.28%) REST
3 9 (19.15%) CSS
3 9 (19.15%) JSON
3 9 (19.15%) SOAP
3 9 (19.15%) Web Services
3 9 (19.15%) XML
4 6 (12.77%) jQuery
5 3 (6.38%) .NET
5 3 (6.38%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Beam
6 1 (2.13%) Django
6 1 (2.13%) EDI
6 1 (2.13%) Kafka
6 1 (2.13%) Next.js
6 1 (2.13%) Node.js
6 1 (2.13%) React
6 1 (2.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) Reinsurance
1 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.13%) IoT
2 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
1 1 (2.13%) Windows
1 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
3 9 (19.15%) Agile
3 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (12.77%) ERP
4 6 (12.77%) ITIL
4 6 (12.77%) MVC
4 6 (12.77%) OOP
4 6 (12.77%) Visualisation
5 5 (10.64%) AI
5 5 (10.64%) ETL
5 5 (10.64%) Service Management
6 4 (8.51%) Data Modelling
6 4 (8.51%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (6.38%) Analytics
7 3 (6.38%) Data Collection
7 3 (6.38%) Data Management
7 3 (6.38%) Decision-Making
7 3 (6.38%) Migration
7 3 (6.38%) OO
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) Python
2 11 (23.40%) C#
2 11 (23.40%) PHP
3 6 (12.77%) C++
3 6 (12.77%) Java
4 3 (6.38%) Apex Code
5 2 (4.26%) VBA
6 1 (2.13%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Degree
2 7 (14.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (12.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
1 1 (2.13%) Firmware
1 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (59.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.89%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) Databricks
4 1 (2.13%) Epicor
4 1 (2.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.13%) StreamSets