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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,778 3,116 4,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.71% 15.52% 15.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.22% 38.66% 34.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 2,194 3,504
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £96,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,250 £118,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% +4.35%

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 5,352 8,061 12,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.26% 40.15% 46.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,506 5,877 10,318
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -6 350 £73,000 +4.29% 387
South London +5 39 £65,000 - 52
West London +14 23 £52,500 -25.00% 56
East London -13 9 £34,000 -45.60% 48
North London -12 7 £50,000 -25.93% 8
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 93 (5.23%) Apache Spark
2 91 (5.12%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (3.82%) Apache
4 39 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (2.08%) SharePoint
6 33 (1.86%) Confluence
7 17 (0.96%) IIS
8 12 (0.67%) SAS
9 11 (0.62%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.56%) CMS
11 9 (0.51%) Moodle
12 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
13 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.17%) Appian
14 3 (0.17%) Mule
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.11%) nginx
16 1 (0.056%) GemFire
Applications
1 154 (8.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) InDesign
5 3 (0.17%) SPSS
6 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.056%) Notion
Business Applications
1 42 (2.36%) Aladdin
2 39 (2.19%) thinkFolio
3 18 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.62%) Shopify
5 10 (0.56%) Elite 3E
5 10 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.45%) Endur
7 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.22%) Relativity
8 4 (0.22%) Ringtail
8 4 (0.22%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 3 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.17%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 740 (41.62%) Azure
2 444 (24.97%) AWS
3 430 (24.18%) Power Platform
4 169 (9.51%) GCP
5 137 (7.71%) Snowflake
6 130 (7.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 126 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
8 112 (6.30%) SaaS
9 107 (6.02%) Serverless
10 92 (5.17%) dbt
11 85 (4.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 68 (3.82%) GitHub
13 59 (3.32%) Power Automate
14 50 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
15 49 (2.76%) Amazon S3
16 46 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
16 46 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
16 46 (2.59%) PowerApps
17 42 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
18 40 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.08%) Firewall
2 28 (1.57%) DNS
3 19 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.01%) DHCP
5 17 (0.96%) WAN
6 14 (0.79%) HTTP
7 12 (0.67%) LAN
8 9 (0.51%) VPN
9 8 (0.45%) VLAN
10 7 (0.39%) VoIP
11 6 (0.34%) Internet
11 6 (0.34%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.28%) Network Security
13 4 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (0.22%) SAN
14 3 (0.17%) Broadband
14 3 (0.17%) FIX Connectivity
14 3 (0.17%) FTP
14 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
15 2 (0.11%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (22.10%) Power BI
2 244 (13.72%) SQL Server
3 212 (11.92%) Data Warehouse
4 160 (9.00%) NoSQL
5 141 (7.93%) Tableau
6 120 (6.75%) Relational Database
7 93 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 88 (4.95%) MongoDB
9 82 (4.61%) Data Lake
10 76 (4.27%) Big Data
11 72 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
12 70 (3.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 68 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 54 (3.04%) MySQL
15 50 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
16 48 (2.70%) Metadata
17 47 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
18 45 (2.53%) Apache Iceberg
19 40 (2.25%) Hadoop
20 39 (2.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 186 (10.46%) Git
2 112 (6.30%) JIRA
3 51 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.41%) Postman
5 23 (1.29%) Visual Studio
6 21 (1.18%) Selenium
7 19 (1.07%) GitLab
8 13 (0.73%) Cypress.io
8 13 (0.73%) JMeter
8 13 (0.73%) JUnit
8 13 (0.73%) Maven
8 13 (0.73%) NUnit
9 11 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
10 10 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.56%) MLflow
11 9 (0.51%) SoapUI
12 8 (0.45%) Eclipse
12 8 (0.45%) MSTest
12 8 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (0.39%) Artifactory
General
1 678 (38.13%) Finance
2 650 (36.56%) Social Skills
3 363 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (12.49%) Banking
5 174 (9.79%) Front Office
6 157 (8.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 149 (8.38%) Law
8 108 (6.07%) Marketing
9 66 (3.71%) Investment Banking
9 66 (3.71%) Retail
10 62 (3.49%) Public Sector
11 58 (3.26%) Back Office
12 50 (2.81%) Legal
13 41 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (2.19%) Advertising
15 29 (1.63%) Games
16 27 (1.52%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
18 15 (0.84%) Billing
19 14 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 416 (23.40%) Developer
2 399 (22.44%) Analyst
3 350 (19.69%) Senior
4 212 (11.92%) Data Engineer
5 179 (10.07%) Lead
6 133 (7.48%) Software Engineer
7 113 (6.36%) Data Analyst
8 96 (5.40%) Business Analyst
9 95 (5.34%) Applications Support
10 83 (4.67%) Senior Developer
11 81 (4.56%) Senior Analyst
12 71 (3.99%) Architect
12 71 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
12 71 (3.99%) Python Engineer
13 70 (3.94%) Support Analyst
14 69 (3.88%) .NET Developer
15 57 (3.21%) Business Manager
16 56 (3.15%) Applications Support Analyst
16 56 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
17 54 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (12.32%) .NET
2 145 (8.16%) React
3 128 (7.20%) PySpark
4 115 (6.47%) HTML
5 113 (6.36%) AngularJS
6 112 (6.30%) Kafka
7 109 (6.13%) REST
8 94 (5.29%) CSS
9 93 (5.23%) RESTful
10 78 (4.39%) .NET Core
11 74 (4.16%) ASP.NET
12 70 (3.94%) .NET Framework
13 60 (3.37%) Node.js
14 53 (2.98%) JSON
15 49 (2.76%) Pandas
15 49 (2.76%) XML
16 47 (2.64%) Vue
17 46 (2.59%) Spring
18 45 (2.53%) Entity Framework
18 45 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 114 (6.41%) Derivative
2 108 (6.07%) Hedge funds
3 93 (5.23%) Fixed Income
4 82 (4.61%) Algorithms
5 78 (4.39%) Cloud Native
5 78 (4.39%) Data Structures
6 73 (4.11%) Onboarding
7 69 (3.88%) Product Ownership
8 68 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 62 (3.49%) Equities
10 56 (3.15%) Management Information System
11 46 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
12 35 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
13 33 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
15 30 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (1.69%) Public Cloud
16 29 (1.63%) Credit Risk
17 28 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
18 23 (1.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 130 (7.31%) Linux
2 128 (7.20%) Windows
3 66 (3.71%) Unix
4 40 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.73%) Android
5 13 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.34%) VMS
8 4 (0.22%) CentOS
8 4 (0.22%) Rocky
8 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.11%) Debian
10 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) zOS
11 1 (0.056%) Solaris
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (32.00%) Agile
2 465 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
3 454 (25.53%) Analytics
4 432 (24.30%) Business Intelligence
5 352 (19.80%) CI/CD
6 351 (19.74%) DevOps
7 300 (16.87%) ETL
8 269 (15.13%) Data Modelling
9 242 (13.61%) Visualisation
10 235 (13.22%) Data Pipeline
11 223 (12.54%) Software Engineering
12 213 (11.98%) Data Science
13 211 (11.87%) Data Engineering
14 206 (11.59%) Artificial Intelligence
15 199 (11.19%) Decision-Making
16 192 (10.80%) Data Analysis
17 181 (10.18%) Mentoring
18 172 (9.67%) Machine Learning
19 168 (9.45%) Test Automation
20 166 (9.34%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 839 (47.19%) Python
2 274 (15.41%) C#
3 215 (12.09%) Java
4 207 (11.64%) JavaScript
5 108 (6.07%) PowerShell
6 103 (5.79%) T-SQL
7 100 (5.62%) TypeScript
8 55 (3.09%) R
9 46 (2.59%) PL/SQL
10 45 (2.53%) Bash
11 42 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 41 (2.31%) Scala
13 37 (2.08%) Go
14 32 (1.80%) Shell Script
15 30 (1.69%) C++
16 29 (1.63%) VBA
17 23 (1.29%) PHP
18 21 (1.18%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
20 8 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 293 (16.48%) Degree
2 75 (4.22%) Security Cleared
3 62 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (3.09%) Master's Degree
5 48 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 48 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 44 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (2.14%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.46%) PhD
9 23 (1.29%) DBS Check
10 16 (0.90%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.67%) ACCA
12 12 (0.67%) CIMA
12 12 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
13 11 (0.62%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.45%) CISA
14 8 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.45%) MCP
14 8 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 84 (4.72%) QA
3 57 (3.21%) GDPR
4 29 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.62%) NIST
7 10 (0.56%) SLA
8 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.34%) GRC
9 6 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.28%) ITGC
11 4 (0.22%) HL7
11 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.17%) IFRS
12 3 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.17%) WCAG
13 2 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.11%) COREP
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 159 (8.94%) Docker
2 56 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.28%) zsh
8 4 (0.22%) vSphere
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.056%) ACF2
11 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.056%) Postfix
11 1 (0.056%) RACF
11 1 (0.056%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.056%) Xen
11 1 (0.056%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 196 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 140 (7.87%) Terraform
3 32 (1.80%) Grafana
4 20 (1.12%) Ansible
5 13 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.51%) SCCM
8 8 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.45%) Nagios
9 7 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
10 6 (0.34%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.34%) Mesos
11 5 (0.28%) Autotask
12 3 (0.17%) Control-M
12 3 (0.17%) Oozie
12 3 (0.17%) Packer
12 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 438 (24.63%) Microsoft
2 220 (12.37%) Databricks
3 123 (6.92%) Oracle
4 120 (6.75%) Google
5 46 (2.59%) Charles River
6 43 (2.42%) Calypso
7 40 (2.25%) BISAM
7 40 (2.25%) SimCorp
8 37 (2.08%) Alteryx
8 37 (2.08%) VMware
9 29 (1.63%) Splunk
10 28 (1.57%) SAP
11 27 (1.52%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.35%) Salesforce
12 24 (1.35%) ServiceNow
12 24 (1.35%) Trayport
13 23 (1.29%) Guidewire
14 22 (1.24%) IBM
15 19 (1.07%) Informatica
16 18 (1.01%) Adobe