SQL Jobs in Sheffield

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 44 130 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 15.88% 11.37% 15.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.14% 34.30% 30.37%
Number of salaries quoted 38 107 58
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,400 £27,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,249 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -1.10% -12.86%
75th Percentile £67,188 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £77,500 £60,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +27.66% -1.05% -7.32%

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 102 379 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.82% 33.16% 52.51%
Number of salaries quoted 78 319 166
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £75,772 £72,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -14.29%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Sheffield

SQL
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for SQL in Sheffield

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Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Sheffield over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (4.55%) Confluence
1 2 (4.55%) Tomcat
1 2 (4.55%) WebSphere
1 2 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.27%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 33 (75.00%) Azure
2 15 (34.09%) AWS
3 10 (22.73%) SaaS
4 9 (20.45%) Power Platform
5 7 (15.91%) GCP
6 5 (11.36%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (11.36%) Power Automate
7 4 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (9.09%) PowerApps
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.55%) Azure WebJobs
9 2 (4.55%) dbt
9 2 (4.55%) GitHub
9 2 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) Multicast
2 7 (15.91%) SAN
3 3 (6.82%) Firewall
3 3 (6.82%) VPN
3 3 (6.82%) WAN
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.55%) FCoE
4 2 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (4.55%) iSCSI
4 2 (4.55%) LAN
4 2 (4.55%) NAS
5 1 (2.27%) DNS
5 1 (2.27%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 9 (20.45%) Power BI
3 6 (13.64%) DB2
4 5 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (9.09%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (6.82%) BigQuery
6 3 (6.82%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.27%) MySQL
8 1 (2.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Git
1 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.27%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.27%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.27%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.27%) JUnit
3 1 (2.27%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (2.27%) Mockito
3 1 (2.27%) Protractor
General
1 16 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Cantonese Language
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Publishing
5 1 (2.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Developer
1 9 (20.45%) Support Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) SQL Developer
3 5 (11.36%) C# Software Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Data Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Lead
3 5 (11.36%) Lead Software Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Senior
3 5 (11.36%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) Applications Support
5 3 (6.82%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Data Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) Database Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Power Apps Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) SQL Database Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Kafka
2 3 (6.82%) HTML
2 3 (6.82%) JSON
3 2 (4.55%) .NET
3 2 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (4.55%) Blazor
3 2 (4.55%) LDAP
3 2 (4.55%) Middleware
3 2 (4.55%) SignalR
3 2 (4.55%) Skia Graphics Library
3 2 (4.55%) WPF
4 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.27%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.27%) JPA
4 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Replication
2 5 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (11.36%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.82%) Pricing Data
4 2 (4.55%) Clustering
5 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.27%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.27%) NHS
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Windows
2 6 (13.64%) Windows 10
2 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (6.82%) Linux
4 2 (4.55%) Solaris
5 1 (2.27%) Unix
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Agile
2 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (25.00%) DevOps
4 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 9 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (20.45%) Roadmaps
6 7 (15.91%) ETL
7 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.64%) Customer Service
7 6 (13.64%) Product Management
8 5 (11.36%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (11.36%) B2B
8 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (11.36%) Data Analysis
8 5 (11.36%) Decision-Making
8 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
8 5 (11.36%) OO
8 5 (11.36%) Technology Roadmap
8 5 (11.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) C#
1 7 (15.91%) Python
2 6 (13.64%) T-SQL
3 5 (11.36%) Java
3 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.27%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.27%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.27%) Bicep
6 1 (2.27%) R
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
6 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) DBS Check
2 6 (13.64%) Degree
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.55%) KVM
3 2 (4.55%) NFS
3 2 (4.55%) SRDF
3 2 (4.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) Xen
4 1 (2.27%) Docker
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Ansible
2 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Puppet
3 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (43.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) IBM
3 7 (15.91%) Cisco
4 6 (13.64%) Oracle
5 5 (11.36%) Databricks
6 3 (6.82%) Google
6 3 (6.82%) SAP
7 2 (4.55%) EMC
7 2 (4.55%) F5
7 2 (4.55%) NetApp
7 2 (4.55%) VMware
8 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.27%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (2.27%) Meraki
8 1 (2.27%) Splunk