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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,853 1,589 2,989
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.16% 13.47% 16.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.87% 34.93% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 1,107 1,867
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -3.33% +4.90%
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £99,375
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,150 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.61% -4.75% -

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 5,471 4,549 7,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.15% 38.57% 42.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,616 3,035 5,115
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 8 October 2026.

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 8 October 2026. 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 -8 217 £80,000 +6.67% 369
West London +1 34 £50,000 - 60
East London +8 25 £36,250 +6.62% 17
South London -20 19 £67,500 +31.07% 22
North London -2 6 £85,000 +70.00% 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 85 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 58 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 55 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (2.27%) Apache
5 31 (1.67%) Confluence
6 21 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.81%) IIS
8 10 (0.54%) SAS
9 8 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.32%) Camunda
10 6 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.27%) Apache Pig
11 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.27%) CMS
12 4 (0.22%) nginx
13 3 (0.16%) DNN
13 3 (0.16%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 104 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 37 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.46%) Elite 3E
3 23 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.81%) Oracle Retail
5 14 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.70%) Fidessa
6 13 (0.70%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.65%) Actimize
7 12 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
8 11 (0.59%) Carpe Diem
8 11 (0.59%) FLEXCUBE
9 10 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
12 6 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 5 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
13 5 (0.27%) Shopify
14 4 (0.22%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 653 (35.24%) Azure
2 480 (25.90%) Power Platform
3 402 (21.69%) AWS
4 175 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
5 168 (9.07%) GCP
6 151 (8.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 142 (7.66%) Snowflake
8 131 (7.07%) dbt
9 103 (5.56%) Serverless
10 100 (5.40%) SaaS
11 83 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 83 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
12 78 (4.21%) GitHub
13 74 (3.99%) Power Automate
14 71 (3.83%) PowerApps
15 67 (3.62%) Amazon S3
16 63 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
17 62 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
18 61 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
18 61 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.97%) DNS
2 33 (1.78%) TCP/IP
3 30 (1.62%) Firewall
4 18 (0.97%) VPN
5 17 (0.92%) Broadband
6 15 (0.81%) 3GPP
6 15 (0.81%) MGW
6 15 (0.81%) MVNO
6 15 (0.81%) Packet Switching
6 15 (0.81%) RTP
6 15 (0.81%) SGSN
6 15 (0.81%) SMPP
7 14 (0.76%) BGP
8 13 (0.70%) HTTP
9 12 (0.65%) Internet
10 11 (0.59%) DHCP
11 8 (0.43%) 5G
11 8 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
11 8 (0.43%) LAN
12 7 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 436 (23.53%) Power BI
2 217 (11.71%) Data Warehouse
3 201 (10.85%) SQL Server
4 153 (8.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 147 (7.93%) Tableau
6 143 (7.72%) NoSQL
7 119 (6.42%) Data Lake
8 99 (5.34%) Relational Database
9 92 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
10 89 (4.80%) Metadata
11 59 (3.18%) Delta Lake
12 57 (3.08%) Looker
13 52 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 50 (2.70%) Big Data
14 50 (2.70%) BigQuery
15 48 (2.59%) MongoDB
16 44 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 42 (2.27%) Data Vault
17 42 (2.27%) Star Schema
18 40 (2.16%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 140 (7.56%) Git
2 75 (4.05%) GitLab
3 71 (3.83%) JIRA
4 46 (2.48%) Cucumber
5 39 (2.10%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.70%) Claude Code
6 13 (0.70%) Vite
7 11 (0.59%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.49%) MLflow
9 8 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.38%) Selenium
11 6 (0.32%) JUnit
11 6 (0.32%) Maven
11 6 (0.32%) Toad
12 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.27%) Mockito
12 5 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
12 5 (0.27%) Postman
13 4 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 807 (43.55%) Finance
2 618 (33.35%) Social Skills
3 384 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (9.98%) Banking
5 159 (8.58%) Marketing
6 133 (7.18%) Law
7 116 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 108 (5.83%) Retail
9 105 (5.67%) Legal
10 54 (2.91%) Front Office
10 54 (2.91%) Public Sector
11 44 (2.37%) Financial Institution
12 42 (2.27%) Investment Banking
13 34 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.78%) Back Office
15 32 (1.73%) Billing
15 32 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
17 21 (1.13%) Advertising
18 18 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 370 (19.97%) Senior
2 301 (16.24%) Developer
3 300 (16.19%) Analyst
4 249 (13.44%) Data Engineer
5 191 (10.31%) Lead
6 129 (6.96%) Data Analyst
7 120 (6.48%) Architect
8 87 (4.70%) Data Architect
9 85 (4.59%) Software Engineer
10 77 (4.16%) Consultant
11 72 (3.89%) Azure Engineer
12 63 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
12 63 (3.40%) Senior Developer
13 62 (3.35%) Business Analyst
14 59 (3.18%) Java Engineer
14 59 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
15 49 (2.64%) Principal Engineer
15 49 (2.64%) SQL Developer
16 46 (2.48%) .NET Developer
16 46 (2.48%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (9.66%) .NET
2 152 (8.20%) Terraform
3 139 (7.50%) REST
4 129 (6.96%) Kafka
5 106 (5.72%) React
6 82 (4.43%) PySpark
7 70 (3.78%) Spring
8 65 (3.51%) Spring Boot
9 61 (3.29%) CSS
10 59 (3.18%) HTML
10 59 (3.18%) RESTful
11 54 (2.91%) ASP.NET
12 53 (2.86%) Node.js
13 40 (2.16%) XML
14 39 (2.10%) FastAPI
15 36 (1.94%) AngularJS
16 34 (1.83%) .NET Core
17 33 (1.78%) ASP.NET Core
18 32 (1.73%) Pandas
19 30 (1.62%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 216 (11.66%) Cloud Native
2 137 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 66 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (3.29%) Data Structures
7 55 (2.97%) Management Information System
8 53 (2.86%) AI Agents
9 52 (2.81%) Public Cloud
10 46 (2.48%) e-Learning
11 36 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
12 35 (1.89%) Credit Risk
13 34 (1.83%) Blog
14 32 (1.73%) Fixed Income
15 30 (1.62%) Equities
16 28 (1.51%) Algorithms
17 27 (1.46%) Derivative
17 27 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 25 (1.35%) Hedge funds
19 23 (1.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 113 (6.10%) Linux
2 61 (3.29%) Unix
3 49 (2.64%) Windows
4 23 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.54%) AIX
6 10 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (0.54%) Rocky
6 10 (0.54%) VMS
7 8 (0.43%) CentOS
8 7 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.27%) Solaris
9 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (35.29%) Analytics
2 570 (30.76%) AI
3 520 (28.06%) Business Intelligence
4 490 (26.44%) CI/CD
5 427 (23.04%) Data Modelling
6 396 (21.37%) Agile
7 361 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
8 329 (17.75%) Data Engineering
8 329 (17.75%) DevOps
9 320 (17.27%) Data Pipeline
10 298 (16.08%) Decision-Making
11 286 (15.43%) Machine Learning
12 259 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 259 (13.98%) Mentoring
13 249 (13.44%) ETL
14 235 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 224 (12.09%) Software Engineering
16 216 (11.66%) Data Science
17 204 (11.01%) Data Governance
18 200 (10.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 877 (47.33%) Python
2 216 (11.66%) C#
3 195 (10.52%) Java
4 146 (7.88%) JavaScript
5 101 (5.45%) PowerShell
6 85 (4.59%) TypeScript
7 64 (3.45%) R
8 63 (3.40%) T-SQL
9 56 (3.02%) Scala
10 46 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 41 (2.21%) Bash
12 40 (2.16%) Bicep
13 39 (2.10%) C++
13 39 (2.10%) PL/SQL
14 35 (1.89%) VBA
15 31 (1.67%) Go
16 25 (1.35%) Shell Script
17 24 (1.30%) Ruby
18 23 (1.24%) PHP
19 13 (0.70%) C
Qualifications
1 223 (12.03%) Degree
2 85 (4.59%) Security Cleared
3 78 (4.21%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 65 (3.51%) AWS Certification
6 52 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (1.57%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.08%) SnowPro
11 19 (1.03%) CISSP
11 19 (1.03%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
13 16 (0.86%) PhD
14 15 (0.81%) ACCA
14 15 (0.81%) CIMA
15 12 (0.65%) DV Cleared
16 11 (0.59%) CISM
17 8 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (19.75%) Data Quality
2 124 (6.69%) QA
3 67 (3.62%) GDPR
4 34 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 20 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.76%) SLA
8 9 (0.49%) EU AI Act
8 9 (0.49%) NIST
9 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.27%) EMIR
10 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.22%) MiFID
12 3 (0.16%) GAAP
13 2 (0.11%) Basel III
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS
14 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.054%) ITGC
System Software
1 131 (7.07%) Docker
2 37 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.11%) IAG
8 1 (0.054%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.054%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 133 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 48 (2.59%) Grafana
3 19 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 16 (0.86%) Ansible
5 14 (0.76%) Nagios
6 13 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
7 11 (0.59%) Data Guard
8 10 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.38%) Argo
9 7 (0.38%) EnCase
9 7 (0.38%) FTK
10 6 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (0.27%) Cilium
11 5 (0.27%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.22%) Kibana
12 4 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
13 3 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 435 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 249 (13.44%) Databricks
3 133 (7.18%) Oracle
4 83 (4.48%) Google
5 60 (3.24%) Salesforce
6 53 (2.86%) SAP
7 36 (1.94%) IBM
8 33 (1.78%) OpenAI
9 27 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.35%) Intapp
11 22 (1.19%) iManage
12 20 (1.08%) Informatica
13 18 (0.97%) Bloomberg
14 15 (0.81%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.76%) Aderant
15 14 (0.76%) Alteryx
15 14 (0.76%) Concur
15 14 (0.76%) Foundry
15 14 (0.76%) Splunk
15 14 (0.76%) Workday