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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 24 22 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 9.30% 18.03% 8.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.29% 31.43% 23.66%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 20
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,970 £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 - £67,500 £57,813
90th Percentile - £82,500 £65,625
Surrey median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% -4.55%

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 68 70 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 26.36% 57.38% 36.47%
Number of salaries quoted 58 42 88
10th Percentile £49,625 £42,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £57,500 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year +36.96% +13.30% -7.73%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £106,625 £82,500 £72,000
Surrey median annual salary £51,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.54% +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 13 February 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 9 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) Power Platform
3 9 (37.50%) Azure AI
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
1 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Power BI
2 9 (37.50%) Tableau
3 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
2 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
2 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Analyst
2 9 (37.50%) Data Analyst
2 9 (37.50%) Junior
2 9 (37.50%) Junior Analyst
2 9 (37.50%) Junior Data Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Head of Development
3 5 (20.83%) Head of Software Development
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Development Team Leader
4 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Lead
4 4 (16.67%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Software Development Team Leader
4 4 (16.67%) Software Team Leader
4 4 (16.67%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (58.33%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) HTML
3 4 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (16.67%) Blazor
3 4 (16.67%) CSS
3 4 (16.67%) React
3 4 (16.67%) RESTful
3 4 (16.67%) Vue
4 2 (8.33%) SOAP
5 1 (4.17%) JSON
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
5 1 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) XML
5 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (37.50%) AI
2 9 (37.50%) Fintech
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.83%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) API Integration
5 4 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (16.67%) MVC
5 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 1 (4.17%) API Testing
6 1 (4.17%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 1 (4.17%) Data Integration
6 1 (4.17%) Data Transformation
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (4.17%) Software Testing
6 1 (4.17%) Sprint Retrospective
6 1 (4.17%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) C#
2 9 (37.50%) C++
2 9 (37.50%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle