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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 26 13
Rank change year-on-year +13 -13 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL 45 3 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 8.09% 2.13% 10.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.61% 10.00% 24.24%
Number of salaries quoted 40 2 11
10th Percentile £60,250 £54,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £93,750 £54,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile - £60,625 £77,500
90th Percentile - £61,000 £78,750
Surrey median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +21.05% -17.39%

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 138 30 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 24.82% 21.28% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 121 28 53
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +61.90% -19.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £65,000
90th Percentile - £116,000 £74,750
Surrey median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £57,250
% change year-on-year +17.39% +0.44% -0.43%

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 October 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 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure AI
2 4 (8.89%) GitHub
2 4 (8.89%) GitHub Copilot
2 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.44%) Azure Storage
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.44%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.89%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (8.89%) Power BI
2 4 (8.89%) Tableau
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 34 (75.56%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (48.89%) Head of Development
2 20 (44.44%) Head of Software Development
3 8 (17.78%) Lead
4 6 (13.33%) .NET Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Data Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Junior
6 4 (8.89%) Junior Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Junior Data Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.44%) Data Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Engineering Manager
8 1 (2.22%) 2nd Line Support
8 1 (2.22%) Applications Support Analyst
8 1 (2.22%) Development Team Leader
8 1 (2.22%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Software Development Team Leader
8 1 (2.22%) Support Analyst
8 1 (2.22%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (80.00%) .NET
2 6 (13.33%) .NET Core
2 6 (13.33%) AngularJS
2 6 (13.33%) ASP.NET
2 6 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 6 (13.33%) Vue
3 4 (8.89%) .NET Framework
3 4 (8.89%) Node.js
4 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (4.44%) Entity Framework
4 2 (4.44%) LINQ
4 2 (4.44%) PySpark
4 2 (4.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) Fintech
2 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (8.89%) Agile
3 4 (8.89%) AI
3 4 (8.89%) Asset Management
3 4 (8.89%) BDD
3 4 (8.89%) CRM
3 4 (8.89%) Kanban
3 4 (8.89%) Microservices
3 4 (8.89%) Scrum
3 4 (8.89%) TDD
3 4 (8.89%) Wealth Management
4 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (4.44%) Data Engineering
5 2 (4.44%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (4.44%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (4.44%) Mentoring
5 2 (4.44%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (4.44%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (80.00%) C#
2 28 (62.22%) C++
3 6 (13.33%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Databricks