SQL Job Trends in London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,473 2,461 2,862
As % of all permanent jobs in London 11.10% 15.09% 15.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.94% 35.62% 35.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,049 1,531 2,444
10th Percentile £40,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,967
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £118,750 £110,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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 4,216 6,910 7,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.78% 42.37% 44.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,980 4,567 6,966
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,188 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.62%
75th Percentile £106,250 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SQL job vacancy trend in London

SQL
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in London over the 6 months to 14 December 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 14 December 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 -3 267 £75,000 +7.14% 144
South London +40 30 £42,500 -20.93% 39
West London -14 22 £51,750 -20.38% 44
East London -6 14 £40,000 -42.86% 36
North London +6 2 £40,500 -43.16% 8
SQL
England

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 90 (6.11%) Apache Spark
2 47 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.58%) Confluence
4 37 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 26 (1.77%) Apache
6 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (1.09%) SAS
8 8 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.54%) IIS
9 7 (0.48%) JBoss
9 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.34%) Appian
12 4 (0.27%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.27%) Moodle
12 4 (0.27%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
13 3 (0.20%) CMS
14 2 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 158 (10.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.14%) SPSS
8 1 (0.068%) Notion
8 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.88%) Shopify
3 12 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.75%) Endur
5 9 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.27%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.20%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.14%) EuroRunner
9 2 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 2 (0.14%) Lawson
9 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.14%) Relativity
9 2 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 579 (39.31%) Azure
2 428 (29.06%) Power Platform
3 279 (18.94%) AWS
4 119 (8.08%) GCP
5 108 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (6.79%) Snowflake
7 95 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 87 (5.91%) SaaS
9 73 (4.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 70 (4.75%) GitHub
11 67 (4.55%) Serverless
12 63 (4.28%) dbt
13 49 (3.33%) Power Automate
14 48 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
15 36 (2.44%) Amazon S3
16 32 (2.17%) Entra ID
17 31 (2.10%) Datadog
18 30 (2.04%) Azure Functions
19 29 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
19 29 (1.97%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.43%) WAN
2 20 (1.36%) Firewall
3 19 (1.29%) VPN
4 15 (1.02%) LAN
5 11 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.68%) DNS
7 8 (0.54%) DHCP
7 8 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.41%) Network Security
8 6 (0.41%) WinSCP
9 5 (0.34%) Broadband
9 5 (0.34%) VLAN
9 5 (0.34%) VoIP
10 3 (0.20%) FIX Connectivity
10 3 (0.20%) SAN
11 2 (0.14%) Intranet
11 2 (0.14%) Multicast
11 2 (0.14%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.068%) AMQP
12 1 (0.068%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (26.34%) Power BI
2 230 (15.61%) SQL Server
3 210 (14.26%) Data Warehouse
4 158 (10.73%) Tableau
5 133 (9.03%) NoSQL
6 103 (6.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 91 (6.18%) Relational Database
8 78 (5.30%) MongoDB
9 77 (5.23%) Data Lake
10 76 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
11 67 (4.55%) Big Data
11 67 (4.55%) MySQL
12 63 (4.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 52 (3.53%) Looker
14 44 (2.99%) Metadata
15 43 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 41 (2.78%) Hadoop
17 38 (2.58%) Data Mining
18 34 (2.31%) Power Query
19 32 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 118 (8.01%) Git
2 74 (5.02%) JIRA
3 43 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.31%) Selenium
5 28 (1.90%) GitLab
6 21 (1.43%) Cucumber
7 20 (1.36%) Postman
8 19 (1.29%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 17 (1.15%) MLflow
10 16 (1.09%) Visual Studio
11 15 (1.02%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.61%) SoapUI
14 8 (0.54%) JMeter
15 6 (0.41%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.34%) LoadRunner
16 5 (0.34%) TestRail
17 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 4 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 587 (39.85%) Finance
2 580 (39.38%) Social Skills
3 299 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (6.79%) Law
5 97 (6.59%) Banking
6 95 (6.45%) Marketing
7 71 (4.82%) Front Office
8 64 (4.34%) Retail
9 59 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (3.33%) Legal
11 42 (2.85%) Public Sector
12 35 (2.38%) Manufacturing
13 33 (2.24%) Advertising
14 32 (2.17%) Back Office
15 30 (2.04%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.83%) Financial Institution
17 26 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
18 19 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
19 16 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
19 16 (1.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 327 (22.20%) Analyst
2 276 (18.74%) Developer
3 237 (16.09%) Senior
4 201 (13.65%) Data Engineer
5 121 (8.21%) Lead
6 118 (8.01%) Data Analyst
7 86 (5.84%) Support Analyst
8 85 (5.77%) Applications Support
9 70 (4.75%) Architect
10 61 (4.14%) Senior Data Engineer
11 59 (4.01%) Applications Support Analyst
12 55 (3.73%) .NET Developer
13 51 (3.46%) Software Engineer
14 46 (3.12%) Business Analyst
14 46 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
14 46 (3.12%) Senior Developer
15 42 (2.85%) Consultant
16 40 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
17 39 (2.65%) Support Engineer
18 36 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (9.64%) .NET
2 112 (7.60%) REST
3 105 (7.13%) React
4 86 (5.84%) Kafka
5 81 (5.50%) HTML
6 70 (4.75%) Node.js
6 70 (4.75%) RESTful
7 68 (4.62%) CSS
8 62 (4.21%) PySpark
9 61 (4.14%) AngularJS
10 52 (3.53%) ASP.NET
11 49 (3.33%) .NET Core
12 41 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
12 41 (2.78%) XML
13 38 (2.58%) Pandas
14 36 (2.44%) JSON
15 33 (2.24%) ASP.NET Web API
15 33 (2.24%) PyTorch
16 31 (2.10%) FastAPI
16 31 (2.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (4.21%) Onboarding
2 58 (3.94%) Data Structures
3 55 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 49 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 48 (3.26%) Management Information System
6 45 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
7 44 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
9 39 (2.65%) Algorithms
10 36 (2.44%) Hedge funds
11 30 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
13 28 (1.90%) Derivative
14 27 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (1.63%) Low-Code
16 23 (1.56%) Equities
17 21 (1.43%) FMCG
18 19 (1.29%) Reinsurance
19 18 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 18 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (6.45%) Linux
2 81 (5.50%) Windows
3 44 (2.99%) Unix
4 29 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.54%) VMS
5 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.27%) Android
7 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.20%) Solaris
8 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.14%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.068%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (30.28%) Business Intelligence
2 424 (28.78%) Analytics
3 367 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
4 363 (24.64%) Agile
5 322 (21.86%) ETL
6 309 (20.98%) AI
7 304 (20.64%) CI/CD
8 299 (20.30%) Data Modelling
9 295 (20.03%) DevOps
10 265 (17.99%) Data Pipeline
11 232 (15.75%) Data Engineering
12 203 (13.78%) Decision-Making
13 179 (12.15%) Data Analysis
14 160 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 159 (10.79%) Visualisation
16 158 (10.73%) Data Science
17 152 (10.32%) Data Governance
18 148 (10.05%) Machine Learning
19 143 (9.71%) Mentoring
20 136 (9.23%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 735 (49.90%) Python
2 191 (12.97%) C#
3 157 (10.66%) JavaScript
4 141 (9.57%) Java
5 86 (5.84%) TypeScript
6 80 (5.43%) PowerShell
7 54 (3.67%) T-SQL
8 43 (2.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 40 (2.72%) Scala
10 35 (2.38%) R
11 32 (2.17%) C++
12 31 (2.10%) VBA
13 28 (1.90%) Bash
14 27 (1.83%) PL/SQL
15 20 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
16 15 (1.02%) PHP
17 10 (0.68%) Go
18 8 (0.54%) Bicep
18 8 (0.54%) VB.NET
19 7 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 230 (15.61%) Degree
2 56 (3.80%) Security Cleared
3 55 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 40 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 31 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 21 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.15%) ACCA
11 16 (1.09%) CIMA
12 15 (1.02%) CISSP
13 14 (0.95%) CISA
13 14 (0.95%) PhD
14 12 (0.81%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.81%) MCP
15 9 (0.61%) SnowPro
16 7 (0.48%) ISEB
17 6 (0.41%) MBA
18 5 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (11.27%) Data Quality
2 85 (5.77%) QA
3 48 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 46 (3.12%) GDPR
5 28 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.02%) SLA
7 11 (0.75%) NIST
8 7 (0.48%) COREP
9 6 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.27%) EMIR
11 4 (0.27%) HL7
11 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) SEPA
12 3 (0.20%) WCAG
13 2 (0.14%) GRC
13 2 (0.14%) IFRS
13 2 (0.14%) MiFID
13 2 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 128 (8.69%) Docker
2 46 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.068%) zsh
Systems Management
1 110 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 77 (5.23%) Terraform
3 28 (1.90%) Grafana
4 15 (1.02%) Ansible
5 13 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.48%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.41%) SCCM
9 5 (0.34%) Autotask
10 4 (0.27%) Control-M
10 4 (0.27%) Kibana
10 4 (0.27%) Puppet
10 4 (0.27%) WSUS
11 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.20%) logstash
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.068%) Nagios
Vendors
1 391 (26.54%) Microsoft
2 164 (11.13%) Databricks
3 103 (6.99%) Oracle
4 59 (4.01%) SAP
5 49 (3.33%) Google
6 37 (2.51%) Informatica
7 32 (2.17%) Guidewire
8 30 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.77%) OpenAI
10 24 (1.63%) Talend
11 23 (1.56%) ServiceNow
12 19 (1.29%) Palantir
13 18 (1.22%) Alteryx
14 16 (1.09%) IBM
15 15 (1.02%) Blue Prism
15 15 (1.02%) Intapp
15 15 (1.02%) Palo Alto
16 14 (0.95%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.95%) VMware
17 13 (0.88%) Splunk