SQL Job Trends in Somerset

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Somerset

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 44 33 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 7.93% 7.28% 10.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.00% 33.33% 34.55%
Number of salaries quoted 30 14 33
10th Percentile £32,375 £36,250 £29,200
25th Percentile £32,813 £41,563 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £60,000
South West median annual salary £44,417 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.24% - +10.00%

All Programming Languages
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 100 99 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 18.02% 21.85% 30.99%
Number of salaries quoted 82 54 92
10th Percentile £29,900 £35,900 £29,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £42,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £85,000 £65,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Somerset

SQL
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Somerset over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Somerset

SQL
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. 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
Taunton +6 24 £37,500 -16.67%
Bath -13 6 £32,500 -38.10% 17
Street - 6 £72,500 - 2
Weston-super-Mare - 2 £42,500 - 1
Yeovil -2 1 £57,000 -
Castle Cary - 1 - -
SQL
South West

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (47.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 25 (56.82%) Power Platform
2 17 (38.64%) Azure
3 10 (22.73%) Azure AI
4 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (56.82%) Power BI
2 12 (27.27%) Tableau
3 7 (15.91%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) JMeter
1 1 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 31 (70.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Manufacturing
4 5 (11.36%) Advertising
5 4 (9.09%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (65.91%) Analyst
2 12 (27.27%) Data Analyst
3 10 (22.73%) Junior
3 10 (22.73%) Junior Analyst
3 10 (22.73%) Junior Data Analyst
4 9 (20.45%) Business Analyst
5 8 (18.18%) SQL Analyst
6 6 (13.64%) Tester
7 5 (11.36%) Support Analyst
8 4 (9.09%) Manual Tester
9 3 (6.82%) Software Tester
10 2 (4.55%) Senior
10 2 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
11 1 (2.27%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 1 (2.27%) Insight Analyst
11 1 (2.27%) Insight Manager
11 1 (2.27%) IT Engineer
11 1 (2.27%) Senior Data Analyst
11 1 (2.27%) Senior Insight Analyst
11 1 (2.27%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Life Science
3 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) AIX
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (36.36%) Agile
2 16 (36.36%) Data Analysis
3 10 (22.73%) AI
4 9 (20.45%) Business Analysis
4 9 (20.45%) Process Improvement
5 7 (15.91%) API Testing
5 7 (15.91%) DevOps
5 7 (15.91%) Kanban
5 7 (15.91%) Manual Testing
5 7 (15.91%) Regression Testing
5 7 (15.91%) Scrum
5 7 (15.91%) Software Testing
6 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.36%) Analytics
8 4 (9.09%) Case Management
8 4 (9.09%) Data Extraction
8 4 (9.09%) Practice Management
8 4 (9.09%) Workflow
8 4 (9.09%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) Python
2 2 (4.55%) R
3 1 (2.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Azure Certification
2 7 (15.91%) ISTQB
2 7 (15.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Backup Exec
1 1 (2.27%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks
3 1 (2.27%) Hitachi
3 1 (2.27%) IBM
3 1 (2.27%) NetApp
3 1 (2.27%) Snow
3 1 (2.27%) Veritas
3 1 (2.27%) VMware