SQL Job Trends in Luton

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Luton requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Luton 5.41% 9.91% 7.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 22.00% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £49,875 - £29,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £54,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +60.00% -41.67%
75th Percentile £77,813 £72,500 £51,563
90th Percentile £83,625 £74,600 £52,125
Bedfordshire median annual salary £43,750 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Luton

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 Luton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 20 50 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Luton 27.03% 45.05% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 18 12 12
10th Percentile - £40,500 £25,100
25th Percentile £30,500 £46,875 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +63.64% -62.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,625 £53,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £57,700
Bedfordshire median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Luton.

SQL job vacancy trend in Luton

SQL
Salary Trend in Luton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing SQL

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Salary Histogram in Luton

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Luton over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Luton

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aviation
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) JSON-LD
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (25.00%) Linked Data
2 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (25.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (50.00%) RDF
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Domain Models
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) People Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Reference Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SHACL
2 1 (25.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware