SQL Job Trends in Portsmouth

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 21 7
Rank change year-on-year -11 -14 +22
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12 24 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 3.49% 7.87% 16.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.46% 32.00% 48.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11 20 32
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -18.03% +10.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £53,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - £57,500 -
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 65 75 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 18.90% 24.59% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 37 50 60
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,100 £75,750 £82,500
Hampshire median annual salary £58,000 £58,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -0.85% +8.33% -1.82%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

SQL
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Portsmouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Portsmouth

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) SaaS
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Postman
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Automotive
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Games
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 4 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) JSON
1 4 (33.33%) OAuth
1 4 (33.33%) REST
1 4 (33.33%) SAML
1 4 (33.33%) SOAP
1 4 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (50.00%) ETL
2 5 (41.67%) Analytics
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
2 5 (41.67%) Manual Testing
2 5 (41.67%) User Experience
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) B2B
3 4 (33.33%) GTM Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Product Management
3 4 (33.33%) Product Operations
3 4 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) API Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft