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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,810 1,740 3,099
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.58% 14.33% 15.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.37% 35.06% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,238 1,218 2,176
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,713
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £59,125
% change year-on-year - -2.75% -1.46%

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 5,592 4,963 7,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.41% 40.87% 40.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,837 3,402 5,768
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +2.36% +3.75% -5.84%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -5 283 £80,000 +9.59% 246
South London +5 44 £92,500 +42.31% 12
West London -10 37 £50,000 -4.76% 43
East London -7 12 £28,250 -16.91% 19
North London -4 4 £85,000 +65.85% 6
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
1 127 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 103 (5.69%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (3.26%) Apache
4 42 (2.32%) SharePoint
5 23 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.88%) IIS
7 13 (0.72%) SAS
8 9 (0.50%) CMS
9 8 (0.44%) Confluence
10 7 (0.39%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.33%) Camunda
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.33%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.28%) Apache Pig
12 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.17%) DNN
13 3 (0.17%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.17%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 120 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.27%) Elite 3E
3 21 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.83%) Oracle Retail
5 14 (0.77%) FLEXCUBE
6 12 (0.66%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.55%) Fidessa
7 10 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
8 9 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (0.44%) Carpe Diem
10 7 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.28%) Shopify
13 4 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 645 (35.64%) Azure
2 449 (24.81%) Power Platform
3 384 (21.22%) AWS
4 178 (9.83%) Snowflake
5 159 (8.78%) GCP
6 144 (7.96%) dbt
7 135 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 121 (6.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 112 (6.19%) Serverless
11 87 (4.81%) SaaS
12 74 (4.09%) Azure AI
13 72 (3.98%) Amazon S3
14 70 (3.87%) Power Automate
15 66 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
15 66 (3.65%) PowerApps
16 63 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
17 62 (3.43%) GitHub
18 55 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
19 54 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.32%) DNS
2 22 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.05%) Broadband
4 16 (0.88%) Firewall
5 12 (0.66%) Internet
6 11 (0.61%) DHCP
6 11 (0.61%) HTTP
7 10 (0.55%) LAN
7 10 (0.55%) VPN
8 7 (0.39%) 5G
9 6 (0.33%) 3GPP
9 6 (0.33%) BGP
9 6 (0.33%) IPsec
9 6 (0.33%) MGW
9 6 (0.33%) MVNO
9 6 (0.33%) Packet Switching
9 6 (0.33%) RTP
9 6 (0.33%) SGSN
9 6 (0.33%) SMPP
9 6 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (22.21%) Power BI
2 223 (12.32%) SQL Server
3 201 (11.10%) Data Warehouse
4 170 (9.39%) Tableau
5 136 (7.51%) NoSQL
6 131 (7.24%) Data Lake
7 125 (6.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 90 (4.97%) Relational Database
9 70 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
10 68 (3.76%) Metadata
11 63 (3.48%) Delta Lake
12 62 (3.43%) BigQuery
12 62 (3.43%) Looker
13 52 (2.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 50 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 44 (2.43%) Big Data
15 44 (2.43%) MongoDB
16 42 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
17 40 (2.21%) Data Vault
18 39 (2.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 147 (8.12%) Git
2 61 (3.37%) GitLab
3 48 (2.65%) JIRA
4 35 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 31 (1.71%) Cucumber
6 28 (1.55%) MLflow
7 16 (0.88%) IBM UrbanCode
8 15 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.55%) Selenium
10 8 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.44%) Vite
11 7 (0.39%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.39%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.33%) ERwin
12 6 (0.33%) JUnit
12 6 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.28%) Mockito
13 5 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
13 5 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 767 (42.38%) Finance
2 554 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 394 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (10.06%) Banking
5 135 (7.46%) Marketing
6 126 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 125 (6.91%) Law
8 88 (4.86%) Legal
9 80 (4.42%) Retail
10 64 (3.54%) Front Office
11 53 (2.93%) Public Sector
12 46 (2.54%) Investment Banking
13 34 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 33 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
15 28 (1.55%) Billing
16 23 (1.27%) Advertising
17 21 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.88%) General Ledger
18 16 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 359 (19.83%) Senior
2 305 (16.85%) Analyst
3 284 (15.69%) Developer
4 251 (13.87%) Data Engineer
5 184 (10.17%) Lead
6 140 (7.73%) Data Analyst
7 118 (6.52%) Architect
8 90 (4.97%) Data Architect
9 81 (4.48%) Software Engineer
10 79 (4.36%) Consultant
11 60 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
12 55 (3.04%) Senior Developer
13 54 (2.98%) Business Analyst
14 53 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
14 53 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
15 50 (2.76%) Python Engineer
16 49 (2.71%) Java Engineer
17 47 (2.60%) Data Manager
17 47 (2.60%) Support Analyst
18 44 (2.43%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (9.89%) .NET
2 159 (8.78%) Kafka
3 106 (5.86%) PySpark
4 95 (5.25%) React
5 91 (5.03%) REST
6 61 (3.37%) Spring
7 60 (3.31%) CSS
8 58 (3.20%) HTML
9 57 (3.15%) Spring Boot
10 51 (2.82%) Node.js
11 50 (2.76%) RESTful
12 48 (2.65%) ASP.NET
13 44 (2.43%) PyTorch
14 42 (2.32%) FastAPI
15 41 (2.27%) Pandas
16 40 (2.21%) scikit-learn
17 38 (2.10%) TensorFlow
18 36 (1.99%) AngularJS
19 35 (1.93%) .NET Core
20 32 (1.77%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 190 (10.50%) Cloud Native
2 94 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (5.03%) Product Ownership
4 87 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 68 (3.76%) Data Structures
6 59 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
7 51 (2.82%) Public Cloud
8 43 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 38 (2.10%) Fixed Income
9 38 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 37 (2.04%) AI Agents
11 35 (1.93%) e-Learning
12 30 (1.66%) Clustering
13 29 (1.60%) Derivative
14 28 (1.55%) Blog
14 28 (1.55%) Management Information System
15 26 (1.44%) Credit Risk
15 26 (1.44%) Equities
16 25 (1.38%) Hedge funds
16 25 (1.38%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.13%) Linux
2 64 (3.54%) Windows
3 53 (2.93%) Unix
4 26 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.83%) VMS
7 11 (0.61%) AIX
7 11 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
8 9 (0.50%) Rocky
9 7 (0.39%) CentOS
10 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.22%) Android
11 4 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.17%) Solaris
12 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (35.30%) Analytics
2 554 (30.61%) AI
3 492 (27.18%) Business Intelligence
4 433 (23.92%) CI/CD
5 413 (22.82%) Agile
6 402 (22.21%) Data Modelling
7 346 (19.12%) Data Engineering
8 335 (18.51%) Data Pipeline
9 329 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 299 (16.52%) Machine Learning
11 288 (15.91%) DevOps
12 266 (14.70%) Data Governance
13 261 (14.42%) ETL
14 257 (14.20%) Decision-Making
15 245 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 242 (13.37%) Mentoring
17 220 (12.15%) Roadmaps
18 214 (11.82%) Data Science
19 205 (11.33%) Data Architecture
20 192 (10.61%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 887 (49.01%) Python
2 202 (11.16%) C#
3 176 (9.72%) Java
4 145 (8.01%) JavaScript
5 108 (5.97%) PowerShell
6 77 (4.25%) TypeScript
7 54 (2.98%) T-SQL
8 49 (2.71%) R
9 46 (2.54%) PL/SQL
10 44 (2.43%) Scala
11 43 (2.38%) Bash
11 43 (2.38%) C++
12 34 (1.88%) VBA
13 33 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 32 (1.77%) Bicep
15 27 (1.49%) PHP
16 23 (1.27%) Shell Script
17 22 (1.22%) Ruby
18 19 (1.05%) Go
19 15 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 217 (11.99%) Degree
2 76 (4.20%) Azure Certification
2 76 (4.20%) Security Cleared
3 66 (3.65%) SC Cleared
4 57 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 36 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 18 (0.99%) SnowPro
10 17 (0.94%) DV Cleared
11 16 (0.88%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.83%) ACCA
12 15 (0.83%) CIMA
13 11 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
14 10 (0.55%) PhD
15 8 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
16 7 (0.39%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.33%) CISSP
17 6 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (17.13%) Data Quality
2 99 (5.47%) QA
3 86 (4.75%) GDPR
4 36 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 16 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.72%) SLA
8 12 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.39%) EMIR
9 7 (0.39%) EU AI Act
9 7 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.39%) NIST
10 5 (0.28%) MiFID
10 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.28%) PMO
10 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.22%) GAAP
11 4 (0.22%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.17%) IFRS
12 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (6.24%) Docker
2 36 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
4 14 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.11%) IAG
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.055%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 144 (7.96%) Terraform
2 109 (6.02%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.38%) Grafana
4 22 (1.22%) Ansible
5 19 (1.05%) Nagios
6 16 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.77%) Data Guard
7 14 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.28%) WSUS
9 5 (0.28%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.22%) Kibana
10 4 (0.22%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.22%) SCCM
11 3 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 438 (24.20%) Microsoft
2 278 (15.36%) Databricks
3 134 (7.40%) Oracle
4 71 (3.92%) Google
5 51 (2.82%) SAP
6 47 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.04%) OpenAI
8 36 (1.99%) IBM
9 35 (1.93%) Intapp
10 32 (1.77%) Red Hat
11 27 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.38%) iManage
13 20 (1.10%) Dell
14 19 (1.05%) Foundry
15 17 (0.94%) Bloomberg
15 17 (0.94%) Cloudera
16 16 (0.88%) Informatica
17 15 (0.83%) VMware
18 14 (0.77%) Concur
19 12 (0.66%) Workday