SQL Jobs in Hertfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 23 5
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 119 130 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.63% 6.56% 18.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.46% 24.39% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 85 120 151
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £64,063 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,400 £77,750 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £66,200 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +39.37% -9.52% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 287 533 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 32.88% 26.91% 34.22%
Number of salaries quoted 193 464 307
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £41,700
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +14.29%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire.

Salary trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Watford -8 24 £45,000 -7.22% 25
Stevenage +26 11 £42,000 -47.50% 8
Hemel Hempstead +19 11 £35,000 -26.32% 9
Hatfield +7 7 £29,500 -57.86% 11
St Albans +15 5 £64,250 +25.37% 2
Hoddesdon - 5 £97,500 -
Letchworth +10 4 £76,000 +38.18%
Bishop's Stortford - 4 £57,500 - 1
Borehamwood -1 3 £65,500 +45.56% 7
Buntingford - 3 £59,250 -
Hertford - 3 £63,000 - 1
Welwyn Garden City - 3 £65,500 - 2
Hitchin +4 2 £76,000 +186.79% 1
Potters Bar +3 2 £76,000 +133.85%
Berkhamsted -1 2 £76,000 +100.00%
Tring - 2 £76,000 -
Ware - 2 £76,000 -
Rickmansworth - 2 £76,000 -
Royston - 2 £76,000 -
Sawbridgeworth - 2 £76,000 -
Abbots Langley - 2 £76,000 - 4
Baldock - 2 £76,000 -
Harpenden - 2 £76,000 -
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (10.08%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.88%) IIS
3 4 (3.36%) Confluence
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.84%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.84%) CMS
5 1 (0.84%) Documentum
5 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 72 (60.50%) Power Platform
2 23 (19.33%) Azure
3 16 (13.45%) AWS
4 9 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.20%) Serverless
6 4 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.52%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.52%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.68%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.68%) Boomi
8 2 (1.68%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.68%) SaaS
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.88%) FTP
2 3 (2.52%) HTTP
3 2 (1.68%) Converged Networks
3 2 (1.68%) DNS
3 2 (1.68%) Firewall
3 2 (1.68%) LLU
3 2 (1.68%) PBX
3 2 (1.68%) VLAN
3 2 (1.68%) WAN
3 2 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.68%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (60.50%) Power BI
2 50 (42.02%) Geospatial Data
2 50 (42.02%) GIS
2 50 (42.02%) Power Query
3 13 (10.92%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
5 6 (5.04%) MySQL
5 6 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.20%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.20%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.52%) Tableau
9 2 (1.68%) Big Data
9 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.84%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Git
2 9 (7.56%) JIRA
3 7 (5.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (3.36%) Subversion
5 1 (0.84%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.84%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.84%) Gradle
5 1 (0.84%) Maven
5 1 (0.84%) Moq
5 1 (0.84%) MSTest
5 1 (0.84%) NUnit
5 1 (0.84%) xUnit.net
General
1 26 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.29%) Finance
4 14 (11.76%) Retail
5 8 (6.72%) Aerospace
5 8 (6.72%) Aviation
6 7 (5.88%) Local Government
6 7 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.52%) Marketing
7 3 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Law
9 1 (0.84%) Advertising
9 1 (0.84%) Automotive
9 1 (0.84%) Back Office
9 1 (0.84%) Games
9 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (12.61%) Analyst
2 14 (11.76%) Applications Support
2 14 (11.76%) Senior
3 10 (8.40%) Applications Engineer
3 10 (8.40%) Applications Support Engineer
3 10 (8.40%) Developer
3 10 (8.40%) Support Engineer
4 9 (7.56%) Support Analyst
5 8 (6.72%) Coordinator
6 7 (5.88%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Senior Applications Support
6 7 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) ERP Support
8 4 (3.36%) Applications Support Analyst
8 4 (3.36%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.36%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) .NET Developer
9 3 (2.52%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.56%) .NET
2 6 (5.04%) CSS
2 6 (5.04%) HTML
3 5 (4.20%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.20%) Spring
3 5 (4.20%) Web Services
4 4 (3.36%) .NET Framework
4 4 (3.36%) HTML5
4 4 (3.36%) React
4 4 (3.36%) Sass
4 4 (3.36%) Vue
5 3 (2.52%) ASP.NET
5 3 (2.52%) CSS3
5 3 (2.52%) D3.js
5 3 (2.52%) DOM
5 3 (2.52%) Entity Framework
5 3 (2.52%) jQuery
5 3 (2.52%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (1.68%) REST
6 2 (1.68%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 51 (42.86%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.24%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.88%) Smartphone
4 5 (4.20%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.84%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.84%) iSeries
7 1 (0.84%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.84%) Online Games
7 1 (0.84%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.08%) Windows
2 9 (7.56%) Windows 10
3 7 (5.88%) Linux
4 2 (1.68%) VMS
5 1 (0.84%) Android
5 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (63.03%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (60.50%) Business Intelligence
3 60 (50.42%) Data Management
4 54 (45.38%) Service Delivery
5 52 (43.70%) Actionable Insight
6 50 (42.02%) Asset Management
6 50 (42.02%) Strategic Planning
7 18 (15.13%) Agile
8 13 (10.92%) Project Management
9 12 (10.08%) Analytics
9 12 (10.08%) ERP
10 11 (9.24%) ITIL
11 10 (8.40%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (8.40%) Visualisation
12 9 (7.56%) Process Improvement
12 9 (7.56%) User Experience
12 9 (7.56%) WFM
13 8 (6.72%) Artificial Intelligence
13 8 (6.72%) CI/CD
13 8 (6.72%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.61%) Python
2 13 (10.92%) JavaScript
3 9 (7.56%) Java
4 8 (6.72%) T-SQL
5 7 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.20%) C#
7 4 (3.36%) Rust
8 3 (2.52%) R
9 2 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.68%) Groovy
9 2 (1.68%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (19.33%) Degree
2 4 (3.36%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.36%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.40%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.52%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (2.52%) SLA
3 1 (0.84%) COBIT
3 1 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (4.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.68%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) cPanel
Vendors
1 19 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.88%) Oracle
3 5 (4.20%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.36%) SAP
5 2 (1.68%) Cisco
5 2 (1.68%) Draytek
5 2 (1.68%) Workday
6 1 (0.84%) Dell
6 1 (0.84%) Informatica
6 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.84%) Talend