SQL Jobs in London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,598 6,067 12,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.33% 16.94% 19.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.29% 34.18% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,825 4,283 6,758
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £105,900
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +5.71%

All Programming Languages
London

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,397 17,750 39,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.03% 49.56% 59.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,589 13,079 19,238
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +3 665 £70,000 -3.45% 132
South London -21 78 £61,250 +11.36% 11
West London -55 36 £65,000 +30.00% 18
East London +2 27 £57,500 +4.55% 36
North London -7 8 £70,000 +33.33% 3
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
1 140 (3.89%) Apache Spark
2 111 (3.09%) Apache
3 110 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
4 103 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 77 (2.14%) SAS
6 73 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 49 (1.36%) IIS
8 43 (1.20%) CMS
9 26 (0.72%) Confluence
10 15 (0.42%) Drupal
11 14 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
12 13 (0.36%) Tomcat
13 10 (0.28%) EPiServer
14 9 (0.25%) Apache Pig
15 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.17%) Site Server
16 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
17 5 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
17 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
18 4 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 271 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.42%) SPSS
6 13 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.056%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.056%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 79 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.97%) Aladdin
3 24 (0.67%) thinkFolio
4 23 (0.64%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 19 (0.53%) NEC Housing
7 16 (0.44%) Fidessa
8 11 (0.31%) Relativity
9 9 (0.25%) Sage X3
9 9 (0.25%) SAP Business One
10 8 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
10 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
11 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
12 6 (0.17%) Primavera
13 5 (0.14%) Endur
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,228 (34.13%) Azure
2 799 (22.21%) AWS
3 664 (18.45%) Power Platform
4 320 (8.89%) GCP
5 236 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
6 176 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 173 (4.81%) Serverless
8 137 (3.81%) Snowflake
9 122 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 119 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
11 118 (3.28%) SaaS
12 92 (2.56%) GitHub
13 91 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 81 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
15 78 (2.17%) Power Automate
16 74 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
17 73 (2.03%) Amazon S3
18 58 (1.61%) dbt
19 55 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
19 55 (1.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (2.31%) Firewall
2 53 (1.47%) VPN
3 49 (1.36%) DNS
4 41 (1.14%) Internet
5 32 (0.89%) DHCP
5 32 (0.89%) Network Security
6 30 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 29 (0.81%) SAN
8 23 (0.64%) WAN
9 19 (0.53%) HTTP
10 18 (0.50%) VLAN
11 16 (0.44%) FIX Connectivity
12 15 (0.42%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.31%) BGP
13 11 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.31%) MPLS
13 11 (0.31%) Wireless
14 10 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
15 9 (0.25%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 635 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 599 (16.65%) Power BI
3 372 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
4 346 (9.62%) Tableau
5 248 (6.89%) NoSQL
6 212 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
6 212 (5.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 180 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 169 (4.70%) Data Lake
9 160 (4.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 157 (4.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 138 (3.84%) Big Data
12 137 (3.81%) MongoDB
13 107 (2.97%) MySQL
14 91 (2.53%) Data Mining
15 83 (2.31%) Hadoop
16 82 (2.28%) BigQuery
17 65 (1.81%) Oracle Database
18 63 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
19 56 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 309 (8.59%) Git
2 143 (3.97%) JIRA
3 90 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 88 (2.45%) Visual Studio
5 65 (1.81%) GitLab
6 41 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 39 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 33 (0.92%) NUnit
9 27 (0.75%) SpecFlow
10 23 (0.64%) Moq
10 23 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
11 20 (0.56%) Postman
12 19 (0.53%) Eclipse
12 19 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
13 18 (0.50%) JUnit
14 17 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 17 (0.47%) Sourcetree
15 16 (0.44%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.39%) git-flow
16 14 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 1,133 (31.49%) Finance
2 986 (27.40%) Social Skills
3 634 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
4 329 (9.14%) Banking
5 284 (7.89%) Front Office
6 196 (5.45%) Retail
7 173 (4.81%) Marketing
8 169 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 142 (3.95%) Back Office
10 141 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
11 135 (3.75%) Law
12 113 (3.14%) Legal
13 78 (2.17%) Public Sector
14 54 (1.50%) Games
15 49 (1.36%) Investment Banking
16 39 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 36 (1.00%) Health Technology
17 36 (1.00%) Retail Banking
18 32 (0.89%) Advertising
19 31 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 944 (26.24%) Senior
2 907 (25.21%) Developer
3 884 (24.57%) Analyst
4 384 (10.67%) Data Engineer
5 319 (8.87%) Lead
6 287 (7.98%) Senior Developer
7 281 (7.81%) Data Analyst
8 198 (5.50%) Software Engineer
9 196 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
10 191 (5.31%) .NET Developer
11 189 (5.25%) Applications Support
12 188 (5.23%) Full Stack Developer
13 183 (5.09%) Support Analyst
14 128 (3.56%) Business Analyst
15 127 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
16 125 (3.47%) Financial Analyst
17 124 (3.45%) Architect
18 116 (3.22%) Data Scientist
19 113 (3.14%) Applications Support Analyst
20 107 (2.97%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 579 (16.09%) .NET
2 277 (7.70%) React
3 262 (7.28%) AngularJS
3 262 (7.28%) HTML
4 247 (6.86%) CSS
5 224 (6.23%) REST
6 204 (5.67%) ASP.NET
7 159 (4.42%) Web Services
8 149 (4.14%) .NET Framework
9 147 (4.09%) XML
10 144 (4.00%) .NET Core
11 142 (3.95%) JSON
12 135 (3.75%) PySpark
13 133 (3.70%) Kafka
14 117 (3.25%) RESTful
15 104 (2.89%) Spring
16 103 (2.86%) jQuery
17 96 (2.67%) SOAP
18 93 (2.58%) Pandas
19 89 (2.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 225 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 155 (4.31%) Derivative
3 151 (4.20%) Fixed Income
3 151 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 151 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 139 (3.86%) Equities
5 126 (3.50%) Algorithms
6 118 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 114 (3.17%) Onboarding
8 110 (3.06%) Management Information System
9 93 (2.58%) Data Structures
10 81 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
11 61 (1.70%) Client/Server
12 48 (1.33%) Reinsurance
13 46 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
14 41 (1.14%) Cloud Native
15 39 (1.08%) Public Cloud
16 36 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (0.97%) Data Centre
17 35 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 328 (9.12%) Windows
2 265 (7.37%) Linux
3 120 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 106 (2.95%) Unix
5 44 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.75%) CentOS
7 25 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.61%) Android
8 22 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.39%) SUSE
11 13 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.33%) Solaris
12 12 (0.33%) zOS
13 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
15 7 (0.19%) Mac OS X
15 7 (0.19%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 804 (22.35%) Agile
2 778 (21.62%) Analytics
3 670 (18.62%) Business Intelligence
4 641 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
5 539 (14.98%) ETL
6 504 (14.01%) DevOps
7 492 (13.67%) Visualisation
8 447 (12.42%) Data Modelling
9 441 (12.26%) Data Science
10 388 (10.78%) Computer Science
11 378 (10.51%) Data Analysis
12 372 (10.34%) Software Engineering
13 361 (10.03%) Machine Learning
14 348 (9.67%) Full Stack Development
15 334 (9.28%) Mentoring
16 317 (8.81%) CI/CD
17 316 (8.78%) Data Pipeline
18 305 (8.48%) Data Visualisation
19 293 (8.14%) Artificial Intelligence
20 285 (7.92%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,472 (40.91%) Python
2 703 (19.54%) C#
3 513 (14.26%) JavaScript
4 334 (9.28%) Java
5 328 (9.12%) T-SQL
6 188 (5.23%) TypeScript
7 187 (5.20%) R
8 169 (4.70%) PowerShell
9 124 (3.45%) PL/SQL
10 87 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 63 (1.75%) VBA
12 59 (1.64%) Scala
13 56 (1.56%) Bash
14 54 (1.50%) C++
15 51 (1.42%) C
16 44 (1.22%) PHP
17 43 (1.20%) XPath
18 24 (0.67%) Ruby
19 23 (0.64%) MATLAB
19 23 (0.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 855 (23.76%) Degree
2 177 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 135 (3.75%) Master's Degree
4 112 (3.11%) DBS Check
5 83 (2.31%) Security Cleared
6 71 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (1.67%) SC Cleared
8 47 (1.31%) PhD
9 38 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 31 (0.86%) Azure Certification
11 23 (0.64%) MCSE
11 23 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
12 21 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.53%) MCSA
14 18 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 17 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (0.39%) PMI Certification
17 11 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 10 (0.28%) CISA
19 9 (0.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 131 (3.64%) QA
3 47 (1.31%) SLA
4 36 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 23 (0.64%) GDPR
6 18 (0.50%) PMO
7 8 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.19%) COBIT
8 7 (0.19%) IFRS
8 7 (0.19%) SOC 1
9 6 (0.17%) GMP
9 6 (0.17%) ITGC
10 5 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.14%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.11%) MiFID
11 4 (0.11%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.083%) CDISC
12 3 (0.083%) HIPAA
System Software
1 199 (5.53%) Docker
2 160 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.64%) vSphere
6 18 (0.50%) HDFS
7 15 (0.42%) vCloud
8 12 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (0.22%) Firmware
10 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.14%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.11%) XenApp
15 3 (0.083%) IAG
15 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 216 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 182 (5.06%) Terraform
3 34 (0.94%) Ansible
4 27 (0.75%) Grafana
5 26 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 16 (0.44%) SCCM
8 12 (0.33%) WSUS
9 11 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.28%) logstash
11 9 (0.25%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.25%) SCOM
12 8 (0.22%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 7 (0.19%) Stealthwatch
14 6 (0.17%) CloudHub
14 6 (0.17%) Control-M
15 5 (0.14%) Backup Exec
15 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 695 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 348 (9.67%) Databricks
3 301 (8.37%) Oracle
4 151 (4.20%) Google
5 71 (1.97%) Bloomberg
5 71 (1.97%) VMware
6 61 (1.70%) SAP
7 44 (1.22%) Cisco
7 44 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 41 (1.14%) Alteryx
9 36 (1.00%) Red Hat
10 35 (0.97%) F5
11 31 (0.86%) IBM
12 30 (0.83%) ION Trading
13 27 (0.75%) HP
14 26 (0.72%) Citrix
15 25 (0.69%) ServiceNow
16 24 (0.67%) Informatica
16 24 (0.67%) Murex
16 24 (0.67%) Sage