SQL Jobs in Essex

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 6 18
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 46 103 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 9.41% 11.59% 12.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.51% 45.37% 42.19%
Number of salaries quoted 36 89 52
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,000 £44,535
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -1.20% -1.03%
75th Percentile £80,938 £54,000 £55,938
90th Percentile £87,500 £65,750 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £66,100 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +39.16% -9.52% -

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 146 227 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 29.86% 25.53% 28.73%
Number of salaries quoted 90 201 141
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66,813 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £81,250
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Essex

SQL
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for SQL in Essex

SQL
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Essex over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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
Basildon 0 8 £47,500 - 122
Harlow +5 5 £32,500 - 3
Tilbury +1 5 - -
Billericay +9 4 £80,000 +128.57% 5
Colchester +3 4 £27,000 -32.50% 128
Chelmsford +1 2 - - 133
Waltham Abbey - 2 £57,500 -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - - 1
Braintree - 1 £35,000 -
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 2 (4.35%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.70%) AWS
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (6.52%) SaaS
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.35%) dbt
5 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 2 (4.35%) Serverless
5 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.74%) FTP
2 2 (4.35%) HTTP
2 2 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) SQL Server
2 11 (23.91%) MySQL
3 9 (19.57%) Power BI
4 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
4 3 (6.52%) Tableau
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.17%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.17%) Power Query
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Git
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Billing
5 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (60.87%) Analyst
2 14 (30.43%) Support Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) Business Systems Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) Systems Analyst
4 9 (19.57%) Applications Support
4 9 (19.57%) Applications Support Analyst
5 7 (15.22%) Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Business Support Analyst
6 5 (10.87%) Logistics Analyst
6 5 (10.87%) Logistics Specialist
6 5 (10.87%) Process Analyst
6 5 (10.87%) SQL Analyst
6 5 (10.87%) SQL Support Analyst
6 5 (10.87%) Systems Support
6 5 (10.87%) Systems Support Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Configuration Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) IT Support
7 3 (6.52%) Support Officer
8 2 (4.35%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) REST
2 12 (26.09%) JSON
2 12 (26.09%) SOAP
2 12 (26.09%) Web Services
2 12 (26.09%) XML
3 10 (21.74%) HTML
4 5 (10.87%) .NET
4 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET
5 4 (8.70%) jQuery
6 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (6.52%) EDI
7 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (4.35%) CSS
7 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (4.35%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.35%) LINQ
7 2 (4.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Reinsurance
2 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (19.57%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (15.22%) Customer Experience
4 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 5 (10.87%) Coaching
5 5 (10.87%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (10.87%) Data Analysis
5 5 (10.87%) Data Science
5 5 (10.87%) Logistics
5 5 (10.87%) MVC
6 4 (8.70%) Agile
6 4 (8.70%) API Integration
6 4 (8.70%) CI/CD
6 4 (8.70%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (8.70%) ETL
6 4 (8.70%) Visualisation
7 3 (6.52%) DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) ERP
7 3 (6.52%) Migration
7 3 (6.52%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) Python
2 5 (10.87%) C#
3 3 (6.52%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) C++
4 2 (4.35%) PHP
4 2 (4.35%) R
5 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Degree
2 6 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) A+ Certification
3 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Graylog
1 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) Duck Creek
2 4 (8.70%) Guidewire
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) IBM
4 2 (4.35%) Splunk
4 2 (4.35%) StreamSets