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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 44 14 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 10.86% 13.73% 6.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.64% 32.56% 16.92%
Number of salaries quoted 24 14 21
10th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £53,533 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £55,790 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +79.24% +11.58% -13.04%
75th Percentile - £65,938 £57,500
90th Percentile - £82,500 £65,000
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% -8.70%

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 111 43 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 27.41% 42.16% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 83 41 126
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,460 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +30.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £97,500 £70,625
Surrey median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -4.35%

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 18 April 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 20 (45.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (61.36%) Azure
2 23 (52.27%) Power Platform
3 20 (45.45%) Azure AI
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (52.27%) Power BI
2 20 (45.45%) Tableau
3 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Postman
2 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 18 (40.91%) Finance
3 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (47.73%) Analyst
2 20 (45.45%) Data Analyst
2 20 (45.45%) Junior
2 20 (45.45%) Junior Analyst
2 20 (45.45%) Junior Data Analyst
3 8 (18.18%) Development Team Leader
3 8 (18.18%) Head of Development
3 8 (18.18%) Head of Software Development
3 8 (18.18%) Lead
3 8 (18.18%) Software Development Team Leader
3 8 (18.18%) Software Team Leader
3 8 (18.18%) Team Leader
4 5 (11.36%) Developer
5 3 (6.82%) .NET Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (45.45%) .NET
2 4 (9.09%) HTML
3 3 (6.82%) .NET Core
3 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET
3 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (6.82%) Blazor
3 3 (6.82%) CSS
3 3 (6.82%) React
3 3 (6.82%) RESTful
3 3 (6.82%) Vue
4 2 (4.55%) SOAP
5 1 (2.27%) JSON
5 1 (2.27%) OAuth
5 1 (2.27%) PySpark
5 1 (2.27%) REST
5 1 (2.27%) XML
5 1 (2.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (45.45%) AI
3 16 (36.36%) Fintech
4 6 (13.64%) Agile
5 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 4 (9.09%) Scrum
6 3 (6.82%) API Integration
6 3 (6.82%) Clean Code
6 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (6.82%) MVC
6 3 (6.82%) Unit Testing
7 1 (2.27%) Data Architecture
7 1 (2.27%) Data Integration
7 1 (2.27%) Data Mapping
7 1 (2.27%) Data Migration
7 1 (2.27%) Data Transformation
7 1 (2.27%) DevOps
7 1 (2.27%) Mentoring
7 1 (2.27%) Non-Functional Testing
7 1 (2.27%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) C#
1 21 (47.73%) Python
2 16 (36.36%) C++
3 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.27%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (47.73%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Databricks
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle