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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8 27 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 4.42% 12.68% 17.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.62% 27.84% 41.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 19
10th Percentile £45,625 £37,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -14.18% +27.62%
75th Percentile £56,250 £78,125 £69,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £82,500 -
Surrey median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £53,750
% change year-on-year +7.32% -4.65% +2.38%

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 37 97 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 20.44% 45.54% 41.09%
Number of salaries quoted 35 50 49
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,625 £32,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £40,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% -10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £106,250 £74,688 £69,500
90th Percentile £113,250 £82,500 -
Surrey median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -

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
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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Power BI
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) Tableau
4 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Junior
3 2 (25.00%) Junior Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 4 (50.00%) Blazor
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) React
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
1 4 (50.00%) Vue
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) pytest
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) API Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (50.00%) MVC
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) AI
5 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
5 1 (12.50%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle