SQL Job Trends in Rugby

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Warwickshire > Rugby

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Rugby requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3 11 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Rugby 11.11% 16.42% 46.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 75.00% 100.00% 79.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 39
10th Percentile £48,500 - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
Warwickshire median annual salary £43,500 £52,500 £47,750
% change year-on-year -17.14% +9.95% -4.50%

All Programming Languages
Rugby

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 Rugby.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4 11 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Rugby 14.81% 16.42% 59.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 43
10th Percentile £37,727 - -
25th Percentile £44,010 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
Warwickshire median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +2.04%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Rugby

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Rugby

SQL
Salary Trend in Rugby

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Rugby citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Rugby citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Rugby 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Data Mining
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) DataOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks