SQL Job Trends in Grays

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Essex > Grays

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Grays requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Grays 3.70% - 10.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% - 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £62,500
75th Percentile - - £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median annual salary £66,250 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +39.47% +5.56% +1.05%

All Programming Languages
Grays

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 Grays.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3 7 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Grays 11.11% 77.78% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - - £34,725
25th Percentile - £42,500 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -28.00% -
75th Percentile - £47,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% - -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Grays

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Grays

SQL
Salary Trend in Grays

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Grays citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Grays citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Grays 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality