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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 6 25 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 3.51% 11.85% 17.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.14% 26.88% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 20
10th Percentile £45,625 £36,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,875 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -14.18% +21.82%
75th Percentile £56,250 £76,875 £69,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £82,125 -
Surrey median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -

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 35 93 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 20.47% 44.08% 40.46%
Number of salaries quoted 35 46 49
10th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £40,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £106,250 £68,750 £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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET Core
1 4 (66.67%) Blazor
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) React
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
1 4 (66.67%) Vue
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) pytest
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) API Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle