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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,682 5,803 13,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.58% 16.94% 19.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.73% 34.20% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,833 4,085 6,625
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,540
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £105,000
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 9,506 16,969 40,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.22% 49.52% 60.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,613 12,587 18,920
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 £102,500 £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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +3 694 £70,000 -3.45% 137
South London -22 73 £60,000 +8.68% 14
West London -56 36 £64,000 +28.00% 21
East London 0 24 £57,500 +6.98% 28
North London -8 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
1 136 (3.69%) Apache Spark
2 115 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
3 114 (3.10%) Apache
4 104 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 82 (2.23%) SAS
6 68 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 52 (1.41%) IIS
8 43 (1.17%) CMS
9 25 (0.68%) Confluence
10 15 (0.41%) Drupal
11 13 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
12 11 (0.30%) Tomcat
13 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
14 9 (0.24%) Apache Pig
15 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
17 6 (0.16%) Jupyter
18 5 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
19 4 (0.11%) Site Server
19 4 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 280 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.43%) SPSS
6 13 (0.35%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.054%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 73 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.98%) Aladdin
3 26 (0.71%) thinkFolio
4 23 (0.62%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.54%) Elite 3E
6 17 (0.46%) NEC Housing
7 16 (0.43%) Fidessa
8 11 (0.30%) Relativity
9 9 (0.24%) Sage X3
9 9 (0.24%) SAP Business One
10 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
11 7 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
11 7 (0.19%) Endur
12 6 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.16%) Primavera
13 5 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
13 5 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,252 (34.00%) Azure
2 846 (22.98%) AWS
3 669 (18.17%) Power Platform
4 322 (8.75%) GCP
5 232 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
6 176 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 175 (4.75%) Serverless
8 131 (3.56%) Snowflake
9 127 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 118 (3.20%) SaaS
11 113 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
12 93 (2.53%) GitHub
13 87 (2.36%) PowerApps
14 79 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
15 77 (2.09%) Amazon S3
16 76 (2.06%) Power Automate
17 75 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
18 56 (1.52%) PaaS
19 55 (1.49%) Azure Functions
20 54 (1.47%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.20%) Firewall
2 54 (1.47%) DNS
3 48 (1.30%) VPN
4 39 (1.06%) Internet
5 33 (0.90%) DHCP
6 30 (0.81%) Network Security
6 30 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 26 (0.71%) WAN
8 25 (0.68%) SAN
9 19 (0.52%) HTTP
10 16 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
10 16 (0.43%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.43%) VLAN
11 11 (0.30%) BGP
11 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (0.30%) MPLS
11 11 (0.30%) Wireless
12 10 (0.27%) LAN
13 9 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (0.24%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 644 (17.49%) SQL Server
2 605 (16.43%) Power BI
3 394 (10.70%) Tableau
4 382 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
5 256 (6.95%) NoSQL
6 225 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
7 218 (5.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 189 (5.13%) Relational Database
9 174 (4.73%) Data Lake
10 171 (4.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 169 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 143 (3.88%) MongoDB
13 139 (3.78%) Big Data
14 111 (3.01%) MySQL
15 91 (2.47%) Data Mining
16 80 (2.17%) Hadoop
17 74 (2.01%) BigQuery
18 73 (1.98%) Oracle Database
19 60 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
19 60 (1.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 353 (9.59%) Git
2 146 (3.97%) JIRA
3 92 (2.50%) Visual Studio
4 87 (2.36%) Jenkins
5 67 (1.82%) GitLab
6 41 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 41 (1.11%) TeamCity
7 33 (0.90%) NUnit
8 27 (0.73%) SpecFlow
9 23 (0.62%) Moq
9 23 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
10 22 (0.60%) Eclipse
10 22 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
11 20 (0.54%) Postman
12 18 (0.49%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.46%) JUnit
13 17 (0.46%) Sourcetree
14 16 (0.43%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.41%) Selenium
16 14 (0.38%) git-flow
General
1 1,178 (31.99%) Finance
2 1,036 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 666 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 339 (9.21%) Banking
5 310 (8.42%) Front Office
6 223 (6.06%) Retail
7 188 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 177 (4.81%) Marketing
9 167 (4.54%) Presentation Skills
10 146 (3.97%) Back Office
11 145 (3.94%) Law
12 112 (3.04%) Legal
13 78 (2.12%) Public Sector
14 55 (1.49%) Games
15 47 (1.28%) Investment Banking
16 39 (1.06%) Retail Banking
17 35 (0.95%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.92%) Health Technology
19 33 (0.90%) Advertising
20 31 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 991 (26.91%) Senior
2 941 (25.56%) Analyst
3 913 (24.80%) Developer
4 388 (10.54%) Data Engineer
5 319 (8.66%) Lead
6 315 (8.56%) Data Analyst
7 287 (7.79%) Senior Developer
8 226 (6.14%) Senior Analyst
9 215 (5.84%) Software Engineer
10 199 (5.40%) Full Stack Developer
11 193 (5.24%) Applications Support
12 190 (5.16%) .NET Developer
13 185 (5.02%) Support Analyst
14 133 (3.61%) Business Analyst
15 131 (3.56%) Financial Analyst
16 128 (3.48%) Data Scientist
16 128 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
17 118 (3.20%) Architect
18 114 (3.10%) Applications Support Analyst
19 111 (3.01%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 594 (16.13%) .NET
2 294 (7.98%) React
3 270 (7.33%) AngularJS
4 262 (7.12%) HTML
5 246 (6.68%) CSS
6 225 (6.11%) REST
7 209 (5.68%) ASP.NET
8 165 (4.48%) Web Services
9 156 (4.24%) .NET Framework
10 155 (4.21%) PySpark
11 150 (4.07%) .NET Core
12 147 (3.99%) XML
13 137 (3.72%) JSON
14 126 (3.42%) Kafka
15 112 (3.04%) RESTful
16 107 (2.91%) jQuery
17 103 (2.80%) Spring
18 102 (2.77%) Pandas
19 95 (2.58%) SOAP
20 91 (2.47%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 246 (6.68%) Hedge funds
2 167 (4.54%) Fixed Income
3 165 (4.48%) Derivative
4 157 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 156 (4.24%) Equities
6 154 (4.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 139 (3.78%) Algorithms
8 123 (3.34%) Onboarding
9 118 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
10 111 (3.01%) Management Information System
11 95 (2.58%) Data Structures
12 81 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
13 59 (1.60%) Client/Server
14 47 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
15 46 (1.25%) Reinsurance
16 44 (1.20%) Cloud Native
17 37 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
17 37 (1.00%) Public Cloud
18 32 (0.87%) Data Centre
18 32 (0.87%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 336 (9.13%) Windows
2 271 (7.36%) Linux
3 124 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 111 (3.01%) Unix
5 44 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.73%) CentOS
7 24 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.62%) Android
8 23 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.33%) Solaris
11 12 (0.33%) SUSE
11 12 (0.33%) zOS
12 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.19%) VMS
14 7 (0.19%) Windows 7
15 6 (0.16%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (22.30%) Agile
2 810 (22.00%) Analytics
3 683 (18.55%) Business Intelligence
4 670 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
5 527 (14.31%) ETL
6 525 (14.26%) Visualisation
7 496 (13.47%) DevOps
8 454 (12.33%) Data Modelling
9 448 (12.17%) Data Science
10 413 (11.22%) Data Analysis
11 391 (10.62%) Software Engineering
12 389 (10.56%) Computer Science
13 379 (10.29%) Machine Learning
14 366 (9.94%) Full Stack Development
15 358 (9.72%) Data Pipeline
16 329 (8.94%) Mentoring
17 317 (8.61%) Artificial Intelligence
18 312 (8.47%) Mathematics
19 311 (8.45%) CI/CD
19 311 (8.45%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1,530 (41.55%) Python
2 707 (19.20%) C#
3 512 (13.91%) JavaScript
4 340 (9.23%) Java
5 322 (8.75%) T-SQL
6 200 (5.43%) TypeScript
7 193 (5.24%) R
8 170 (4.62%) PowerShell
9 121 (3.29%) PL/SQL
10 83 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 71 (1.93%) VBA
12 55 (1.49%) Bash
12 55 (1.49%) Scala
13 52 (1.41%) C++
14 49 (1.33%) C
15 43 (1.17%) PHP
15 43 (1.17%) XPath
16 24 (0.65%) Ruby
17 23 (0.62%) MATLAB
17 23 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 904 (24.55%) Degree
2 174 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 152 (4.13%) DBS Check
4 147 (3.99%) Master's Degree
5 91 (2.47%) Security Cleared
6 73 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 66 (1.79%) SC Cleared
8 47 (1.28%) PhD
9 42 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 35 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 24 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
12 22 (0.60%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.60%) MCSE
13 18 (0.49%) MCSA
14 16 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 14 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.38%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.24%) MBA
16 9 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 8 (0.22%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 128 (3.48%) QA
3 47 (1.28%) SLA
4 33 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 24 (0.65%) GDPR
6 15 (0.41%) PMO
7 10 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.19%) COBIT
8 7 (0.19%) IFRS
8 7 (0.19%) MiFID
8 7 (0.19%) SOC 1
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) ITGC
10 5 (0.14%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.11%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.081%) EMIR
12 3 (0.081%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 199 (5.40%) Docker
2 151 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.57%) vSphere
6 18 (0.49%) HDFS
7 13 (0.35%) vCloud
8 10 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.24%) Firmware
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.14%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.11%) XenApp
15 3 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.054%) IAG
16 2 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 215 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 180 (4.89%) Terraform
3 37 (1.00%) Ansible
4 26 (0.71%) Grafana
4 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (0.43%) SCCM
7 12 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.33%) WSUS
8 10 (0.27%) logstash
8 10 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.27%) SCOM
9 8 (0.22%) Data Guard
10 7 (0.19%) Control-M
10 7 (0.19%) Istio
11 6 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
11 6 (0.16%) Stealthwatch
12 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 703 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 396 (10.76%) Databricks
3 307 (8.34%) Oracle
4 158 (4.29%) Google
5 81 (2.20%) Bloomberg
6 64 (1.74%) VMware
7 60 (1.63%) SAP
8 47 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 42 (1.14%) Cisco
10 41 (1.11%) Alteryx
11 38 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 35 (0.95%) F5
13 33 (0.90%) IBM
14 30 (0.81%) ION Trading
15 25 (0.68%) Murex
15 25 (0.68%) Veeam
16 24 (0.65%) Juniper
16 24 (0.65%) Sage
16 24 (0.65%) ServiceNow
17 23 (0.62%) Adobe