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 citing SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	16	25	13
Rank change year-on-year	+9	-12	-4
Permanent jobs citing SQL	41	5	23
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford	7.27%	3.14%	11.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category	32.54%	14.29%	27.06%
Number of salaries quoted	35	5	10
10^th Percentile	£51,500	-	£35,600
25^th Percentile	£70,500	£48,750	£40,625
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£100,000	£52,500	£57,500
Median % change year-on-year	+90.48%	-8.70%	-14.18%
75^th Percentile	-	£58,750	£74,375
90^th Percentile	-	£60,250	£79,125
Surrey median annual salary	£65,000	£55,000	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+18.18%	+10.00%	-9.09%

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 citing coding skills in Guildford.

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	126	35	85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford	22.34%	22.01%	41.46%
Number of salaries quoted	112	35	39
10^th Percentile	£41,500	£47,500	£33,750
25^th Percentile	£57,500	£51,875	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£85,000	£77,500	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.68%	+55.00%	-23.08%
75^th Percentile	£100,000	£106,250	£66,250
90^th Percentile	-	£113,250	£77,750
Surrey median annual salary	£70,000	£57,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+21.74%	-4.17%	+9.09%

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 Salary Trend in Guildford

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 3 November 2026.

SQL Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford

For the 6 months to 3 November 2026, job vacancies citing SQL also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Guildford region citing SQL.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	.NET	78.0%	32
1	C#	78.0%	32
3	Fintech	65.9%	27
4	C++	56.1%	23
5	Azure	43.9%	18
6	Microsoft	36.6%	15
7	Azure SQL Database	19.5%	8
7	Business Intelligence	19.5%	8
7	CRM	19.5%	8
10	.NET Core	17.1%	7
10	AngularJS	17.1%	7
10	ASP.NET	17.1%	7
10	ASP.NET Core	17.1%	7
10	Full-Stack Development	17.1%	7
10	MongoDB	17.1%	7
10	TypeScript	17.1%	7
10	Vue	17.1%	7
18	Active Directory	14.6%	6
18	Customer Experience	14.6%	6
18	Customer Service	14.6%	6
18	ERP	14.6%	6
18	ITIL	14.6%	6
18	Microsoft 365	14.6%	6
18	Microsoft Intune	14.6%	6
18	Problem-Solving	14.6%	6
18	System Testing	14.6%	6
18	Ticket Management	14.6%	6
18	Windows	14.6%	6
29	Agile	12.2%	5
30	.NET Framework	9.8%	4

SQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	C#	78.0%	32
2	C++	56.1%	23
3	TypeScript	17.1%	7
4	Python	7.3%	3
5	T-SQL	2.4%	1