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 20 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 2,314 3,047 7,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.78% 15.74% 17.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.15% 36.09% 35.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,311 2,556 5,285
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,563 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £96,875 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £111,746 £107,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +9.09%

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 6,584 8,442 20,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.20% 43.60% 50.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,041 7,233 14,849
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £125,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -2 541 £72,500 -3.33% 117
West London -1 87 £62,500 +2.04% 21
South London -50 27 £57,500 -4.17% 17
East London -18 7 - - 28
North London -13 4 £74,250 +6.07% 6
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 90 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 55 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 52 (2.25%) SAS
5 46 (1.99%) Confluence
6 45 (1.94%) Apache
7 41 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.73%) CMS
9 13 (0.56%) IIS
9 13 (0.56%) nginx
10 12 (0.52%) Apache Solr
11 11 (0.48%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
12 7 (0.30%) Moodle
13 6 (0.26%) WordPress
14 5 (0.22%) Drupal
14 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
15 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
16 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 224 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.39%) Weka
6 7 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.22%) Sketch
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.17%) InVision
8 4 (0.17%) Zeplin
9 2 (0.086%) SPSS
10 1 (0.043%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.043%) InDesign
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.043%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 86 (3.72%) NEC Housing
2 50 (2.16%) Aladdin
3 36 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
5 12 (0.52%) Endur
6 9 (0.39%) Fidessa
7 8 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
8 7 (0.30%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 5 (0.22%) CiviCRM
10 5 (0.22%) Findur
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.17%) Aareon QL
11 4 (0.17%) MIS ActiveH
11 4 (0.17%) OPENHousing
11 4 (0.17%) Orchard Housing
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
13 2 (0.086%) FLEXCUBE
13 2 (0.086%) Lawson
Cloud Services
1 716 (30.94%) Azure
2 487 (21.05%) AWS
3 461 (19.92%) Power Platform
4 207 (8.95%) GCP
5 147 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 140 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 122 (5.27%) Snowflake
8 112 (4.84%) GitHub
9 100 (4.32%) Serverless
10 98 (4.24%) SaaS
11 97 (4.19%) dbt
12 85 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 80 (3.46%) Amazon S3
14 77 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 75 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
16 64 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (2.77%) Power Automate
16 64 (2.77%) PowerApps
17 62 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
18 61 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 111 (4.80%) Broadband
2 46 (1.99%) Firewall
3 44 (1.90%) DNS
4 28 (1.21%) DHCP
5 21 (0.91%) HTTP
6 20 (0.86%) LAN
7 18 (0.78%) Internet
8 17 (0.73%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.73%) WAN
9 16 (0.69%) SAN
10 10 (0.43%) 3GPP
10 10 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
11 7 (0.30%) VSAN
11 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.26%) Bluetooth
12 6 (0.26%) VPN
13 3 (0.13%) Cisco Firepower
13 3 (0.13%) FTP
13 3 (0.13%) Wireless
14 2 (0.086%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (18.06%) Power BI
2 341 (14.74%) SQL Server
3 259 (11.19%) Data Warehouse
4 238 (10.29%) Tableau
5 199 (8.60%) NoSQL
6 145 (6.27%) MySQL
7 136 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 135 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
9 129 (5.57%) Data Lake
10 122 (5.27%) Relational Database
11 86 (3.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 80 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 78 (3.37%) MongoDB
14 73 (3.15%) Big Data
15 65 (2.81%) Data Mining
16 64 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
17 63 (2.72%) BigQuery
18 50 (2.16%) DynamoDB
19 45 (1.94%) Amazon QuickSight
20 42 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 192 (8.30%) Git
2 107 (4.62%) JIRA
3 69 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.34%) Visual Studio
5 30 (1.30%) Selenium
6 28 (1.21%) GitLab
7 23 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 22 (0.95%) SoapUI
9 18 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.73%) Gradle
10 17 (0.73%) Postman
11 15 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
11 15 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
12 14 (0.61%) MSTest
13 13 (0.56%) JUnit
13 13 (0.56%) Maven
14 10 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.43%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.39%) PyCharm
15 9 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 833 (36.00%) Finance
2 714 (30.86%) Social Skills
3 464 (20.05%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (10.20%) Banking
5 183 (7.91%) Front Office
6 169 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 119 (5.14%) Public Sector
8 106 (4.58%) Legal
9 100 (4.32%) Marketing
10 96 (4.15%) Investment Banking
11 86 (3.72%) Local Government
12 83 (3.59%) Police
13 76 (3.28%) Retail
14 68 (2.94%) Law
15 60 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
16 53 (2.29%) Social Housing
17 51 (2.20%) Games
18 43 (1.86%) Back Office
19 42 (1.82%) Advertising
20 32 (1.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 573 (24.76%) Analyst
2 503 (21.74%) Senior
3 472 (20.40%) Developer
4 210 (9.08%) Data Engineer
5 169 (7.30%) Senior Analyst
6 164 (7.09%) Lead
7 157 (6.78%) Data Analyst
8 155 (6.70%) Software Engineer
9 134 (5.79%) Consultant
10 122 (5.27%) Senior Developer
11 99 (4.28%) Applications Support
12 89 (3.85%) Architect
13 87 (3.76%) Business Analyst
13 87 (3.76%) Service Analyst
14 86 (3.72%) Support Analyst
15 81 (3.50%) Operations Analyst
16 78 (3.37%) Service Operations Analyst
17 77 (3.33%) Senior Data Analyst
18 71 (3.07%) Senior Software Engineer
19 65 (2.81%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (11.24%) .NET
2 181 (7.82%) React
3 157 (6.78%) HTML
4 141 (6.09%) AngularJS
5 106 (4.58%) CSS
6 95 (4.11%) RESTful
7 92 (3.98%) REST
8 83 (3.59%) .NET Framework
9 79 (3.41%) Kafka
10 65 (2.81%) ASP.NET
11 64 (2.77%) Pandas
12 62 (2.68%) PySpark
13 59 (2.55%) JSON
14 58 (2.51%) Web Services
15 56 (2.42%) .NET Core
15 56 (2.42%) jQuery
15 56 (2.42%) XML
16 53 (2.29%) Node.js
17 48 (2.07%) Spring
18 46 (1.99%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 127 (5.49%) Hedge funds
2 113 (4.88%) Derivative
3 112 (4.84%) Fixed Income
4 111 (4.80%) Onboarding
5 105 (4.54%) Equities
6 104 (4.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 82 (3.54%) Product Ownership
8 81 (3.50%) Management Information System
9 60 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 52 (2.25%) Cloud Native
10 52 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
10 52 (2.25%) Housing Association
11 50 (2.16%) Data Structures
12 47 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
13 33 (1.43%) Reinsurance
14 32 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
15 26 (1.12%) Cyberattack
16 25 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
17 20 (0.86%) Mobile Games
18 18 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 238 (10.29%) Linux
2 187 (8.08%) Windows
3 147 (6.35%) Unix
4 52 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.08%) Solaris
6 21 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.48%) CentOS
11 9 (0.39%) Android
12 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.086%) AIX
15 1 (0.043%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (27.18%) Analytics
2 595 (25.71%) Agile
3 527 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
4 486 (21.00%) Business Intelligence
5 461 (19.92%) DevOps
6 315 (13.61%) Visualisation
7 297 (12.83%) ETL
8 296 (12.79%) Data Modelling
9 282 (12.19%) Software Engineering
10 276 (11.93%) CI/CD
11 274 (11.84%) Computer Science
12 209 (9.03%) Machine Learning
13 205 (8.86%) Data Visualisation
14 196 (8.47%) Data Analytics
15 195 (8.43%) Data Science
15 195 (8.43%) Mentoring
16 193 (8.34%) Artificial Intelligence
17 188 (8.12%) Data Pipeline
18 186 (8.04%) Data Engineering
19 180 (7.78%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 893 (38.59%) Python
2 338 (14.61%) C#
3 311 (13.44%) JavaScript
4 253 (10.93%) Java
5 200 (8.64%) T-SQL
6 141 (6.09%) TypeScript
7 131 (5.66%) PowerShell
8 117 (5.06%) R
9 60 (2.59%) VBA
10 53 (2.29%) C++
11 51 (2.20%) Bash
12 50 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 44 (1.90%) PL/SQL
14 42 (1.82%) MATLAB
15 40 (1.73%) Shell Script
16 33 (1.43%) C
17 26 (1.12%) Go
18 25 (1.08%) VB.NET
19 21 (0.91%) Scala
20 19 (0.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 492 (21.26%) Degree
2 180 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 119 (5.14%) DBS Check
4 94 (4.06%) Security Cleared
5 66 (2.85%) Master's Degree
6 45 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.69%) SC Cleared
8 34 (1.47%) CISA
9 30 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 29 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
11 26 (1.12%) CCAB
12 14 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.52%) MBA
13 12 (0.52%) MCSA
14 11 (0.48%) AWS Certification
15 10 (0.43%) Dell Certification
15 10 (0.43%) PMP
16 8 (0.35%) ACCA
16 8 (0.35%) CIPFA
16 8 (0.35%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 116 (5.01%) QA
3 105 (4.54%) Accessibility
4 34 (1.47%) ITGC
5 26 (1.12%) GDPR
6 24 (1.04%) SLA
7 21 (0.91%) ISO 9001
8 14 (0.61%) MiFID
9 12 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.30%) COREP
11 6 (0.26%) FINRA
12 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.13%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.086%) EMIR
14 2 (0.086%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.086%) SEPA
15 1 (0.043%) IFRS
15 1 (0.043%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 174 (7.52%) Docker
2 75 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.35%) vSphere
7 7 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.086%) Apache Flume
9 2 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.043%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.043%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 140 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 104 (4.49%) Terraform
3 77 (3.33%) Grafana
4 38 (1.64%) Ansible
5 24 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.61%) WSUS
7 13 (0.56%) SCCM
8 12 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.43%) Amdocs OSS
10 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.26%) Argo
12 5 (0.22%) Puppet
13 4 (0.17%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.17%) logstash
13 4 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
13 4 (0.17%) Nessus
14 3 (0.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 448 (19.36%) Microsoft
2 205 (8.86%) Databricks
3 182 (7.87%) Oracle
4 111 (4.80%) Google
5 86 (3.72%) NEC
6 59 (2.55%) Bloomberg
7 56 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 47 (2.03%) BISAM
9 43 (1.86%) VMware
10 38 (1.64%) SAP
11 28 (1.21%) Citrix
12 25 (1.08%) Cisco
12 25 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 23 (0.99%) Dell
14 21 (0.91%) Adobe
15 19 (0.82%) HP
16 18 (0.78%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.65%) IBM
18 14 (0.61%) Reuters
19 11 (0.48%) Murex