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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 48 153 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 9.43% 8.39% 13.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.53% 27.08% 31.19%
Number of salaries quoted 34 102 131
10th Percentile £31,750 £34,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,848 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £75,000 £77,500
Berkshire median annual salary £64,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.20% +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 139 565 683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 27.31% 30.98% 44.35%
Number of salaries quoted 78 362 387
10th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,212 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.17% -17.86% +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £80,000 £105,000
Berkshire median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% +16.67%

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 30 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 (4.17%) Confluence
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.08%) IIS
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.08%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.08%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (45.83%) Azure
2 18 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (27.08%) AWS
3 13 (27.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 12 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (22.92%) SonarCloud
6 7 (14.58%) Power Platform
7 6 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (12.50%) GCP
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (6.25%) AWS KMS
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.17%) OCI
9 2 (4.17%) Route 53
9 2 (4.17%) SaaS
9 2 (4.17%) Serverless
10 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) DNS
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) HTTP
1 1 (2.08%) NAS
1 1 (2.08%) SAN
1 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.08%) VPN
1 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (14.58%) Power BI
4 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
5 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 4 (8.33%) MySQL
5 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 4 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.17%) Metadata
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (4.17%) Redis
7 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (35.42%) Git
2 11 (22.92%) MSBuild
2 11 (22.92%) Octopus Deploy
2 11 (22.92%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (22.92%) Visual Studio
3 4 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.33%) JUnit
3 4 (8.33%) Maven
4 3 (6.25%) DbUnit
4 3 (6.25%) JIRA
4 3 (6.25%) jMock
4 3 (6.25%) Mockito
4 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (4.17%) GitLab
5 2 (4.17%) Mocha
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (4.17%) Selenium
5 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (25.00%) Retail
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Law
5 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Architect
3 12 (25.00%) Technical Architect
4 7 (14.58%) Software Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Graduate
6 5 (10.42%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Junior
6 5 (10.42%) Junior Software Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Lead
7 4 (8.33%) Senior
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Scientific Software Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) .NET
1 17 (35.42%) REST
2 14 (29.17%) Bootstrap
3 13 (27.08%) CSS
3 13 (27.08%) HTML
3 13 (27.08%) JSON
3 13 (27.08%) XML
4 11 (22.92%) ASP.NET
4 11 (22.92%) gRPC
5 9 (18.75%) Node.js
6 6 (12.50%) SOAP
6 6 (12.50%) Web Services
7 5 (10.42%) .NET Framework
7 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.42%) Middleware
8 4 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (8.33%) Hibernate
8 4 (8.33%) JPA
8 4 (8.33%) Loki
8 4 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Hackathon
2 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Acoustics
4 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) NHS
5 1 (2.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Mac OS
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) DevOps
2 17 (35.42%) Microservices
2 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (27.08%) Agile
3 13 (27.08%) Technical Leadership
4 12 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 11 (22.92%) API Integration
5 11 (22.92%) Code Quality
5 11 (22.92%) Data Encryption
5 11 (22.92%) Design Patterns
5 11 (22.92%) Event-Driven
5 11 (22.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 11 (22.92%) Migration
5 11 (22.92%) MVC
5 11 (22.92%) Performance Optimisation
5 11 (22.92%) Performance Testing
6 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
8 6 (12.50%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) C#
2 16 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 12 (25.00%) Java
4 10 (20.83%) Python
5 7 (14.58%) C++
6 4 (8.33%) Go
6 4 (8.33%) PL/SQL
7 3 (6.25%) X++
8 2 (4.17%) Bash
8 2 (4.17%) C
8 2 (4.17%) Fortran
8 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.08%) Bicep
9 1 (2.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.17%) PhD
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.92%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Postfix
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.42%) Grafana
2 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 6 (12.50%) Oracle
2 4 (8.33%) Google
3 3 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.17%) Databricks
4 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.08%) Adobe
5 1 (2.08%) IBM
5 1 (2.08%) Meraki
5 1 (2.08%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) VMware
5 1 (2.08%) Workday