SQL Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 5 17 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Richmond upon Thames 6.10% 28.81% 17.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.71% 94.44% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £64,000 £59,650 £44,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +35.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £56,875
90th Percentile £81,000 £90,500 £66,250
West London median annual salary £51,750 £67,500 £57,750
% change year-on-year -23.33% +16.88% -3.75%

All Programming Languages
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14 18 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 17.07% 30.51% 32.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 13
10th Percentile £30,500 £57,963 £46,000
25th Percentile £34,597 £62,069 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,138 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.54% +22.73% -6.38%
75th Percentile £60,660 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,875 -
West London median annual salary £49,600 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.52% +12.50% +4.35%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

SQL
Salary Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Richmond upon Thames

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Richmond upon Thames over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Richmond upon Thames

SQL
Job Locations in Richmond upon Thames

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Richmond upon Thames region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Twickenham -3 3 £65,000 -3.70% 4
SQL
West London

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Infor M3
1 1 (20.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Power Query
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Planning Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Dell Certification
2 2 (40.00%) MCSA
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) Fujitsu
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SAP