SQL Job Trends in Plymouth

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Devon > Plymouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Plymouth requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 13 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -17
Permanent jobs citing SQL 5 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Plymouth 3.31% 6.00% 8.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 30.00% 37.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - - £33,435
25th Percentile £41,925 - £34,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £30,000 £53,350
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% -43.77% +6.70%
75th Percentile £43,575 £49,750 £54,038
90th Percentile - £60,400 £55,131
Devon median annual salary £45,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +35.00% +10.80%

All Programming Languages
Plymouth

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 Plymouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10 20 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Plymouth 6.62% 20.00% 24.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 26
10th Percentile £38,463 £30,000 £34,094
25th Percentile £46,563 £35,625 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,950 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.27% +12.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,919 - £54,000
90th Percentile £86,875 - £54,573
Devon median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +12.24% +8.89%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Plymouth

SQL
Salary Trend in Plymouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Plymouth citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Plymouth citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Plymouth 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau
3 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Junior
2 2 (40.00%) Junior Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Junior Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Keras
1 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (20.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Economics
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks