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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL 49 14 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 11.53% 13.33% 6.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.50% 31.82% 17.39%
Number of salaries quoted 28 13 23
10th Percentile £46,875 £48,692 £33,300
25th Percentile £93,750 £53,750 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £55,790 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +79.24% +11.58% -13.04%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile - £82,500 £70,000
Surrey median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +22.55% -11.30%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 121 44 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 28.47% 41.90% 38.87%
Number of salaries quoted 91 41 133
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +35.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £97,500 £71,000
Surrey median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%

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 job vacancy trend in Guildford

SQL
Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing SQL.

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 5 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Guildford

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Applications
1 21 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (55.10%) Azure
2 22 (44.90%) Power Platform
3 21 (42.86%) Azure AI
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (44.90%) Power BI
2 21 (42.86%) Tableau
3 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Git
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
1 1 (2.04%) Postman
1 1 (2.04%) SoapUI
1 1 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (46.94%) Finance
2 22 (44.90%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (44.90%) Analyst
2 21 (42.86%) Data Analyst
2 21 (42.86%) Junior
2 21 (42.86%) Junior Analyst
2 21 (42.86%) Junior Data Analyst
3 11 (22.45%) Lead
4 10 (20.41%) Head of Development
4 10 (20.41%) Head of Software Development
5 8 (16.33%) Development Team Leader
5 8 (16.33%) Software Development Team Leader
5 8 (16.33%) Software Team Leader
5 8 (16.33%) Team Leader
6 3 (6.12%) Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Data Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Engineering Manager
8 1 (2.04%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.04%) Graduate Developer
8 1 (2.04%) Graduate Software Developer
8 1 (2.04%) PHP Developer
8 1 (2.04%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (46.94%) .NET
2 2 (4.08%) HTML
2 2 (4.08%) PySpark
2 2 (4.08%) SOAP
3 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (2.04%) Blazor
3 1 (2.04%) CSS
3 1 (2.04%) JSON
3 1 (2.04%) OAuth
3 1 (2.04%) React
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) RESTful
3 1 (2.04%) Vue
3 1 (2.04%) XML
3 1 (2.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (42.86%) AI
2 21 (42.86%) Fintech
3 4 (8.16%) Agile
4 2 (4.08%) CI/CD
4 2 (4.08%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (4.08%) Data Architecture
4 2 (4.08%) Data Engineering
4 2 (4.08%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (4.08%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (4.08%) Mentoring
4 2 (4.08%) Scrum
4 2 (4.08%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (2.04%) API Integration
5 1 (2.04%) API Testing
5 1 (2.04%) Clean Code
5 1 (2.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (2.04%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (2.04%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (2.04%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.98%) C#
2 23 (46.94%) Python
3 21 (42.86%) C++
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (44.90%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 22 (44.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle