SQL Jobs in London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,705 3,706 5,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.63% 15.58% 16.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.62% 38.92% 34.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 2,816 3,950
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £106,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +6.19%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,071 9,523 16,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.53% 40.03% 49.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,490 7,539 12,211
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £61,182 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.97% -7.69% +4.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in London

SQL
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SQL in London

SQL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in London

SQL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London -3 394 £75,000 +7.14% 167
South London -33 29 £65,000 +8.33% 19
West London +9 18 £49,000 -24.03% 38
North London -14 7 £55,000 -21.43% 4
East London -30 7 £49,500 -13.91% 16
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 88 (5.16%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.23%) Apache
4 50 (2.93%) SharePoint
5 44 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (1.82%) Confluence
7 22 (1.29%) SAS
8 15 (0.88%) IIS
9 14 (0.82%) CMS
10 7 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.35%) Moodle
11 6 (0.35%) nginx
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.18%) Mule
13 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
13 3 (0.18%) WinCC
Applications
1 151 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.29%) InDesign
4 5 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.29%) SPSS
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.12%) Trello
6 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.059%) Notion
6 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 60 (3.52%) Aladdin
2 39 (2.29%) thinkFolio
3 23 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.76%) Elite 3E
5 7 (0.41%) Endur
6 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.29%) Relativity
7 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.23%) Orchestrade
7 4 (0.23%) Ringtail
7 4 (0.23%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 625 (36.66%) Azure
2 384 (22.52%) AWS
3 380 (22.29%) Power Platform
4 155 (9.09%) GCP
5 120 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 119 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (6.80%) Snowflake
8 93 (5.45%) dbt
9 90 (5.28%) Serverless
10 88 (5.16%) SaaS
11 69 (4.05%) Power Automate
12 68 (3.99%) GitHub
13 66 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
14 65 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 54 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
16 47 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
17 46 (2.70%) PowerApps
18 45 (2.64%) Amazon S3
19 35 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
20 34 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.46%) DNS
2 38 (2.23%) Firewall
3 26 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.47%) DHCP
5 19 (1.11%) HTTP
6 8 (0.47%) Internet
7 7 (0.41%) WAN
8 6 (0.35%) VLAN
9 5 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
10 4 (0.23%) LAN
10 4 (0.23%) Multicast
10 4 (0.23%) Network Security
10 4 (0.23%) VPN
11 3 (0.18%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.18%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.18%) SSH
11 3 (0.18%) Telnet
12 2 (0.12%) SAN
12 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (19.82%) Power BI
2 233 (13.67%) SQL Server
3 195 (11.44%) Data Warehouse
4 159 (9.33%) Tableau
5 144 (8.45%) NoSQL
6 127 (7.45%) Relational Database
7 93 (5.45%) MongoDB
8 91 (5.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 87 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
10 83 (4.87%) Data Lake
10 83 (4.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 74 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (3.23%) Big Data
13 49 (2.87%) MySQL
14 46 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
15 42 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
16 37 (2.17%) BigQuery
16 37 (2.17%) DB2
17 35 (2.05%) Apache Iceberg
18 33 (1.94%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 185 (10.85%) Git
2 111 (6.51%) JIRA
3 54 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.94%) Selenium
5 32 (1.88%) Postman
6 22 (1.29%) Visual Studio
7 19 (1.11%) JMeter
8 17 (1.00%) Maven
9 16 (0.94%) GitLab
9 16 (0.94%) Gradle
9 16 (0.94%) NUnit
9 16 (0.94%) SoapUI
10 15 (0.88%) JUnit
11 11 (0.65%) MSTest
12 10 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.59%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.59%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.53%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 631 (37.01%) Finance
2 586 (34.37%) Social Skills
3 361 (21.17%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (12.61%) Banking
5 176 (10.32%) Front Office
6 102 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 92 (5.40%) Marketing
8 85 (4.99%) Law
9 69 (4.05%) Investment Banking
9 69 (4.05%) Retail
10 59 (3.46%) Legal
11 58 (3.40%) Public Sector
12 52 (3.05%) Back Office
13 51 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (2.64%) Games
15 28 (1.64%) Advertising
16 21 (1.23%) Billing
16 21 (1.23%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.88%) Telecoms
18 13 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 412 (24.16%) Analyst
2 376 (22.05%) Developer
3 364 (21.35%) Senior
4 191 (11.20%) Data Engineer
5 161 (9.44%) Lead
6 116 (6.80%) Data Analyst
7 111 (6.51%) Software Engineer
8 104 (6.10%) Senior Analyst
9 95 (5.57%) Applications Support
10 93 (5.45%) Business Analyst
11 80 (4.69%) Support Analyst
12 73 (4.28%) Senior Developer
13 67 (3.93%) Architect
14 64 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
15 59 (3.46%) .NET Developer
15 59 (3.46%) Business Manager
16 56 (3.28%) Python Engineer
17 54 (3.17%) Applications Support Analyst
17 54 (3.17%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
18 51 (2.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (12.90%) .NET
2 127 (7.45%) React
3 104 (6.10%) AngularJS
3 104 (6.10%) PySpark
4 92 (5.40%) REST
5 90 (5.28%) HTML
6 88 (5.16%) RESTful
7 79 (4.63%) Kafka
8 71 (4.16%) ASP.NET
9 70 (4.11%) .NET Core
10 69 (4.05%) .NET Framework
11 68 (3.99%) CSS
12 49 (2.87%) JSON
12 49 (2.87%) Web Services
13 46 (2.70%) Spring
14 43 (2.52%) Node.js
14 43 (2.52%) XML
15 41 (2.40%) Entity Framework
16 40 (2.35%) Pandas
17 39 (2.29%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.10%) Derivative
2 113 (6.63%) Hedge funds
3 112 (6.57%) Fixed Income
4 72 (4.22%) Management Information System
5 64 (3.75%) Algorithms
5 64 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 64 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 63 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 59 (3.46%) Data Structures
7 59 (3.46%) Equities
8 54 (3.17%) Product Ownership
9 32 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
11 26 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.35%) Credit Risk
15 21 (1.23%) Reinsurance
16 19 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 151 (8.86%) Linux
2 127 (7.45%) Windows
3 69 (4.05%) Unix
4 32 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.82%) Android
5 14 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.59%) CentOS
7 10 (0.59%) Rocky
8 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.23%) VMS
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Debian
11 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (29.38%) Agile
2 430 (25.22%) Analytics
3 424 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
4 397 (23.28%) Business Intelligence
5 285 (16.72%) CI/CD
6 280 (16.42%) DevOps
7 269 (15.78%) ETL
8 234 (13.72%) Visualisation
9 214 (12.55%) Data Modelling
10 194 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
11 189 (11.09%) Computer Science
12 186 (10.91%) Software Engineering
13 177 (10.38%) Data Science
13 177 (10.38%) Mentoring
14 163 (9.56%) Microservices
15 162 (9.50%) Data Analysis
15 162 (9.50%) Decision-Making
16 160 (9.38%) Data Engineering
17 155 (9.09%) Data Management
18 152 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 767 (44.99%) Python
2 284 (16.66%) C#
3 204 (11.96%) JavaScript
4 185 (10.85%) Java
5 116 (6.80%) T-SQL
6 105 (6.16%) PowerShell
7 84 (4.93%) TypeScript
8 58 (3.40%) R
9 47 (2.76%) PL/SQL
10 40 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 35 (2.05%) C++
12 32 (1.88%) Bash
13 30 (1.76%) Scala
14 29 (1.70%) VB.NET
15 24 (1.41%) Go
16 23 (1.35%) Shell Script
16 23 (1.35%) VBA
17 17 (1.00%) PHP
18 14 (0.82%) MATLAB
19 13 (0.76%) C
Qualifications
1 295 (17.30%) Degree
2 92 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 70 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 53 (3.11%) Master's Degree
5 50 (2.93%) SC Cleared
6 37 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.94%) DBS Check
8 32 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.47%) ISTQB
10 21 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
12 11 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 10 (0.59%) PhD
14 7 (0.41%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
15 5 (0.29%) ACCA
15 5 (0.29%) CIMA
15 5 (0.29%) DV Cleared
15 5 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 86 (5.04%) QA
3 41 (2.40%) GDPR
4 16 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.53%) SLA
7 8 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.29%) NIST
9 4 (0.23%) COREP
9 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.23%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.18%) HL7
10 3 (0.18%) ITGC
11 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.12%) DICOM
11 2 (0.12%) FINRA
11 2 (0.12%) GRC
11 2 (0.12%) IFRS
System Software
1 148 (8.68%) Docker
2 42 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.35%) vSphere
7 5 (0.29%) Apache Flume
8 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.059%) ACF2
9 1 (0.059%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.059%) Postfix
9 1 (0.059%) RACF
9 1 (0.059%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.059%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.059%) zsh
Systems Management
1 165 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 112 (6.57%) Terraform
3 23 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.23%) Grafana
5 18 (1.06%) Ansible
5 18 (1.06%) SCCM
6 13 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.70%) Nagios
8 11 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 6 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.29%) Argo
11 5 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
11 5 (0.29%) Oozie
12 3 (0.18%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.18%) Packer
12 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 363 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 172 (10.09%) Databricks
3 133 (7.80%) Oracle
4 95 (5.57%) Google
5 59 (3.46%) BISAM
6 46 (2.70%) Charles River
7 40 (2.35%) SimCorp
8 39 (2.29%) Calypso
9 35 (2.05%) VMware
10 33 (1.94%) Red Hat
11 30 (1.76%) Alteryx
12 29 (1.70%) SAP
12 29 (1.70%) ServiceNow
13 28 (1.64%) Salesforce
14 25 (1.47%) Adobe
15 22 (1.29%) Trayport
16 21 (1.23%) IBM
16 21 (1.23%) Informatica
16 21 (1.23%) SolarWinds
17 16 (0.94%) Splunk