SQL Jobs in Kent

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL 30 153 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 3.78% 10.23% 10.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.18% 40.69% 39.54%
Number of salaries quoted 25 153 88
10th Percentile £30,250 £30,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,500 £81,500 £63,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 376 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 20.81% 25.15% 26.63%
Number of salaries quoted 136 317 166
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,188 £39,750 £43,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £73,125
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Kent

SQL
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for SQL in Kent

SQL
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Kent over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Kent

SQL
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Kent region over the 6 months to 7 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
Maidstone +16 5 £31,000 -36.73% 8
Chatham -4 3 £82,500 +26.92% 4
Tunbridge Wells 0 2 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Dartford +4 1 £35,000 -12.50% 12
Rochester - 1 £40,101 -
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
1 10 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Functions
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) npm
3 2 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (3.33%) Azure App Service
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (3.33%) NAS
1 1 (3.33%) SAN
1 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) Power BI
2 6 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
2 6 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (16.67%) Big Data
3 5 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (10.00%) Tableau
6 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (6.67%) Redis
7 1 (3.33%) QlikView
7 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) ESLint
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (6.67%) Sinon.JS
1 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
1 2 (6.67%) webpack
2 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.33%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Maven
2 1 (3.33%) Selenium
2 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
4 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Health Technology
6 2 (6.67%) Retail
7 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Senior
3 7 (23.33%) Support Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) IT Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Applications Support
5 4 (13.33%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Systems Support
6 3 (10.00%) Business Support Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) IT Support
6 3 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Support Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 4 (13.33%) HTML
3 3 (10.00%) CSS
3 3 (10.00%) React
4 2 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (6.67%) Jest
4 2 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.33%) JPA
5 1 (3.33%) JSON
5 1 (3.33%) JSP
5 1 (3.33%) Kafka
5 1 (3.33%) Middleware
5 1 (3.33%) Redux
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
5 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) IoT
1 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) NHS
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (30.00%) Analytics
3 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.00%) Change Control
4 6 (20.00%) ERP
4 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 4 (13.33%) Data Management
6 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 4 (13.33%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (13.33%) ITIL
6 4 (13.33%) Problem Management
6 4 (13.33%) SDLC
6 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) Agile
7 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.00%) Microservices
8 2 (6.67%) Scrum
8 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) C#
2 4 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Ada
4 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) R
4 1 (3.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Databricks
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Aruba
3 2 (6.67%) Cognos
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) Citrix
4 1 (3.33%) SIMUL8
4 1 (3.33%) Solace