SQL Job Trends in Guildford

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	14	24	11
Rank change year-on-year	+10	-13	-8
Permanent jobs citing SQL	47	4	24
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford	8.97%	2.82%	10.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category	35.34%	12.50%	25.26%
Number of salaries quoted	41	3	11
10^th Percentile	£61,250	£49,750	£40,000
25^th Percentile	£75,000	£51,250	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£100,000	£57,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+73.91%	-11.54%	-2.99%
75^th Percentile	-	£60,000	£77,500
90^th Percentile	-	£60,750	£78,750
Surrey median annual salary	£65,000	£57,500	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+13.04%	+15.00%	-9.09%

All Programming Languages
Guildford

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 Guildford.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	133	32	95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford	25.38%	22.54%	43.38%
Number of salaries quoted	118	31	48
10^th Percentile	£43,950	£47,500	£35,500
25^th Percentile	£61,250	£55,000	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£90,000	£77,500	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+16.13%	+40.91%	-15.38%
75^th Percentile	£100,000	£106,250	£65,625
90^th Percentile	-	£113,750	£77,875
Surrey median annual salary	£68,500	£57,500	£58,500
% change year-on-year	+19.13%	-1.71%	+6.36%

SQL Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

SQL Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing SQL.

SQL Salary Histogram in Guildford

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Guildford over the 6 months to 19 October 2026.

SQL Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing SQL also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Guildford region with a requirement for SQL.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	.NET	78.7%	37
1	C#	78.7%	37
3	Fintech	68.1%	32
4	C++	59.6%	28
5	Azure	40.4%	19
6	Microsoft	31.9%	15
7	Azure SQL Database	17.0%	8
7	Business Intelligence	17.0%	8
9	.NET Core	14.9%	7
9	AngularJS	14.9%	7
9	ASP.NET	14.9%	7
9	ASP.NET Core	14.9%	7
9	CRM	14.9%	7
9	Full-Stack Development	14.9%	7
9	MongoDB	14.9%	7
9	TypeScript	14.9%	7
9	Vue	14.9%	7
18	Active Directory	10.6%	5
18	Agile	10.6%	5
18	Customer Experience	10.6%	5
18	Customer Service	10.6%	5
18	ERP	10.6%	5
18	ITIL	10.6%	5
18	Microsoft 365	10.6%	5
18	Microsoft Intune	10.6%	5
18	Problem-Solving	10.6%	5
18	Python	10.6%	5
18	System Testing	10.6%	5
18	Ticket Management	10.6%	5
18	Windows	10.6%	5

SQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	C#	78.7%	37
2	C++	59.6%	28
3	TypeScript	14.9%	7
4	Python	10.6%	5
5	T-SQL	2.1%	1