SQL Job Trends in Ipswich

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +11
Permanent jobs citing SQL 14 14 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Ipswich 10.07% 12.17% 8.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.00% 45.16% 26.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £35,000 - £59,125
25th Percentile £36,875 £36,250 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £37,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £67,813 £38,750 £67,188
90th Percentile £80,000 - £67,375
Suffolk median annual salary £43,500 £46,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.95% -2.63% +5.56%

All Programming Languages
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 25 31 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Ipswich 17.99% 26.96% 31.15%
Number of salaries quoted 19 4 16
10th Percentile £30,000 £43,750 £33,125
25th Percentile £31,250 £55,000 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £69,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% +16.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £55,000 £82,750 £66,563
90th Percentile £68,000 £93,100 £67,500
Suffolk median annual salary £41,250 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.26% +4.55% -8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.

SQL job vacancy trend in Ipswich

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Salary Trend in Ipswich

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing SQL

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Salary Histogram in Ipswich

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Ipswich over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Ipswich

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Power Platform
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) Azure AI
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 2 (14.29%) Workato
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Power BI
2 7 (50.00%) Tableau
3 2 (14.29%) Data Mining
4 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Data Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Junior
2 5 (35.71%) Junior Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Junior Data Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Trainee
5 1 (7.14%) Business Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) AI
1 8 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
2 4 (28.57%) Validation
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Business Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) ETL
3 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
3 3 (21.43%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.14%) Intelligent Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Netezza
2 1 (7.14%) VMware