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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -26 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL 33 151 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 3.97% 9.97% 10.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.46% 39.63% 38.62%
Number of salaries quoted 28 149 79
10th Percentile £30,250 £30,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £31,063 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,300 £54,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% +3.81% +23.53%
75th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £67,500 £79,500 £62,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 189 381 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 22.72% 25.17% 26.22%
Number of salaries quoted 145 318 149
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £42,500
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 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £71,500 £67,750
South East median annual salary £55,790 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +1.44% -5.98% +6.36%

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 21 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 21 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 +15 4 £31,000 -36.73% 4
Chatham -1 4 £73,750 +13.46% 4
Tunbridge Wells +1 3 £48,750 +14.71% 4
Sittingbourne -7 2 £32,500 -40.91% 1
Dartford +7 1 £35,000 -12.50% 6
Canterbury +4 1 £40,000 +23.08% 5
Rochester - 1 £40,101 - 3
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 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) IIS
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (6.06%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 10 (30.30%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.12%) AWS
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.03%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.03%) GCP
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.03%) npm
6 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) SAN
2 1 (3.03%) ADSL2
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.03%) NAS
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Power BI
2 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (15.15%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (9.09%) Big Data
4 3 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 3 (9.09%) Tableau
5 1 (3.03%) Metadata
5 1 (3.03%) MySQL
5 1 (3.03%) QlikView
5 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.03%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (3.03%) ER Studio
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Maven
2 1 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.03%) Selenium
2 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (3.03%) Vite
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Health Technology
5 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Advertising
6 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Back Office
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Analyst
2 10 (30.30%) Support Analyst
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 6 (18.18%) IT Support
5 5 (15.15%) IT Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Applications Support
6 4 (12.12%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (12.12%) Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Business Support Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Senior Support Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Support Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Systems Support
7 3 (9.09%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) .NET
1 5 (15.15%) CSS
1 5 (15.15%) HTML
2 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.03%) JPA
4 1 (3.03%) jQuery
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) JSP
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) Middleware
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) Redux
4 1 (3.03%) Sass
4 1 (3.03%) Spring
4 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) NHS
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Windows
2 4 (12.12%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) VMS
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (27.27%) Analytics
3 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (21.21%) ERP
4 5 (15.15%) Change Control
4 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
4 5 (15.15%) Service Delivery
4 5 (15.15%) Visualisation
5 4 (12.12%) Customer Service
5 4 (12.12%) Data Management
5 4 (12.12%) ITIL
5 4 (12.12%) Problem Management
5 4 (12.12%) SDLC
5 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
6 3 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 3 (9.09%) Data Architecture
6 3 (9.09%) DevOps
6 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (9.09%) OO
7 2 (6.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) C#
2 5 (15.15%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.06%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Ada
4 1 (3.03%) C++
4 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.03%) PHP
4 1 (3.03%) R
4 1 (3.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) Docker
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Aruba
2 3 (9.09%) Databricks
2 3 (9.09%) VMware
3 2 (6.06%) Citrix
3 2 (6.06%) Cognos
3 2 (6.06%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.03%) Ivanti
4 1 (3.03%) SIMUL8
4 1 (3.03%) Solace
4 1 (3.03%) WatchGuard