SQL Jobs in Reading

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 47 158 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 9.02% 9.21% 13.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.92% 28.68% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 32 107 138
10th Percentile £31,750 £34,000 £39,625
25th Percentile £40,625 £44,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £76,000 £78,625
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 152 551 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 29.17% 32.11% 43.73%
Number of salaries quoted 90 358 412
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £38,728
25th Percentile £51,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £85,313
90th Percentile £100,500 £81,625 £100,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +12.50%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Reading

SQL
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Reading.

Salary trend for SQL in Reading

SQL
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Reading over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Reading

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (4.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.13%) IIS
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.13%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) Azure
2 17 (36.17%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (29.79%) AWS
4 12 (25.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 12 (25.53%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (23.40%) SonarCloud
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (8.51%) AWS KMS
6 4 (8.51%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (8.51%) GCP
6 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.38%) SaaS
8 2 (4.26%) Serverless
9 1 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.13%) OCI
9 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Broadband
1 1 (2.13%) DNS
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
1 1 (2.13%) HTTP
1 1 (2.13%) NAS
1 1 (2.13%) SAN
1 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.13%) VPN
1 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.40%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.51%) MySQL
4 4 (8.51%) Power BI
5 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.26%) Metadata
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.26%) Redis
6 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (42.55%) Git
2 11 (23.40%) MSBuild
2 11 (23.40%) Octopus Deploy
2 11 (23.40%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (23.40%) Visual Studio
3 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.64%) JUnit
3 5 (10.64%) Maven
4 4 (8.51%) DbUnit
4 4 (8.51%) JIRA
4 4 (8.51%) jMock
4 4 (8.51%) Mockito
4 4 (8.51%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.38%) Selenium
6 2 (4.26%) GitLab
6 2 (4.26%) Mocha
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (2.13%) gulp
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (2.13%) Yeoman
General
1 12 (25.53%) Retail
2 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Finance
5 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.38%) Law
7 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Developer
2 13 (27.66%) Architect
3 12 (25.53%) Technical Architect
4 8 (17.02%) Java Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Software Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Graduate
6 5 (10.64%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Junior
6 5 (10.64%) Junior Software Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Analyst
7 4 (8.51%) Senior
8 3 (6.38%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Lead
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Data Manager
9 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse Manager
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.17%) REST
2 15 (31.91%) .NET
3 14 (29.79%) Bootstrap
3 14 (29.79%) CSS
3 14 (29.79%) HTML
4 12 (25.53%) ASP.NET
4 12 (25.53%) JSON
4 12 (25.53%) XML
5 11 (23.40%) gRPC
6 9 (19.15%) Node.js
7 6 (12.77%) SOAP
7 6 (12.77%) Web Services
8 5 (10.64%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (10.64%) Hibernate
8 5 (10.64%) JPA
8 5 (10.64%) Spring
9 4 (8.51%) AngularJS
9 4 (8.51%) PowerMock
9 4 (8.51%) RESTful
9 4 (8.51%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.38%) Hackathon
2 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Acoustics
3 2 (4.26%) NHS
3 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Clustering
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
2 2 (4.26%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) DevOps
2 18 (38.30%) Microservices
3 16 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (29.79%) Agile
5 12 (25.53%) MVC
5 12 (25.53%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (23.40%) API Integration
6 11 (23.40%) Code Quality
6 11 (23.40%) Data Encryption
6 11 (23.40%) Design Patterns
6 11 (23.40%) Event-Driven
6 11 (23.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 11 (23.40%) Migration
6 11 (23.40%) Performance Optimisation
6 11 (23.40%) Performance Testing
6 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
7 8 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
8 7 (14.89%) Computer Science
9 6 (12.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) C#
2 17 (36.17%) JavaScript
3 14 (29.79%) Java
4 9 (19.15%) Python
5 7 (14.89%) C++
6 3 (6.38%) Go
6 3 (6.38%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.38%) X++
7 2 (4.26%) Bash
7 2 (4.26%) C
7 2 (4.26%) Fortran
8 1 (2.13%) Bicep
8 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Degree
2 5 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.26%) PhD
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.40%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (34.04%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Postfix
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.51%) Grafana
2 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.38%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
1 5 (10.64%) Oracle
2 3 (6.38%) Google
2 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.26%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe
4 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.13%) Databricks
4 1 (2.13%) IBM
4 1 (2.13%) Meraki
4 1 (2.13%) VMware
4 1 (2.13%) Workday