SQL Developer Job Trends in the South East

SQL Developer
England > South East

The median SQL Developer salary in the South East is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 254 348
Rank change year-on-year +9 +94 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 58 22 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.38% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.31% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 49 22 42
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,665 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,625 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +58.82% -19.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - £76,125 £71,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 14,392 7,003 16,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.46% 87.69% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,155 3,749 12,107
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SQL Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

SQL Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

SQL Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in the South East

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in the South East

SQL Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Thames Valley +31 31 £70,000 +1.82%
Berkshire +31 29 £70,000 +1.82%
Kent -9 19 £45,000 +80.00% 4
Surrey -12 6 £43,750 -2.78% 1
West Sussex - 2 £68,000 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £70,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £24,000 -
SQL Developer
England

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 June 2026, SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 50 (86.21%) SQL
2 25 (43.10%) OLTP
2 25 (43.10%) Oracle
2 25 (43.10%) PL/SQL
3 24 (41.38%) SQL Server
4 21 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (25.86%) Degree
6 12 (20.69%) Azure
6 12 (20.69%) HTML
6 12 (20.69%) SOAP
6 12 (20.69%) Software Testing
6 12 (20.69%) XML
7 11 (18.97%) Agile
8 9 (15.52%) C#
9 7 (12.07%) .NET
10 6 (10.34%) .NET Core
10 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
10 6 (10.34%) Computer Science
10 6 (10.34%) ETL
10 6 (10.34%) PHP
10 6 (10.34%) T-SQL
11 5 (8.62%) .NET Framework
11 5 (8.62%) ASP.NET
11 5 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (8.62%) E-Commerce
11 5 (8.62%) Entity Framework
11 5 (8.62%) JIRA
11 5 (8.62%) Logistics
11 5 (8.62%) Mentoring
11 5 (8.62%) MVC

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.17%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.10%) OLTP
2 24 (41.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.62%) Power BI
3 5 (8.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (17.24%) Finance
2 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Law
4 2 (3.45%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) HTML
1 12 (20.69%) SOAP
1 12 (20.69%) XML
2 7 (12.07%) .NET
3 6 (10.34%) .NET Core
3 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.62%) .NET Framework
4 5 (8.62%) ASP.NET
4 5 (8.62%) Entity Framework
5 4 (6.90%) WPF
6 3 (5.17%) CSS
6 3 (5.17%) jQuery
7 2 (3.45%) React
8 1 (1.72%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (20.69%) Software Testing
3 11 (18.97%) Agile
4 6 (10.34%) Computer Science
4 6 (10.34%) ETL
5 5 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (8.62%) E-Commerce
5 5 (8.62%) Logistics
5 5 (8.62%) Mentoring
5 5 (8.62%) MVC
6 4 (6.90%) Data Modelling
6 4 (6.90%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (6.90%) Visualisation
7 3 (5.17%) OOP
8 2 (3.45%) Clean Code
8 2 (3.45%) Data Mapping
8 2 (3.45%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (3.45%) Software Engineering
8 2 (3.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (3.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (86.21%) SQL
2 25 (43.10%) PL/SQL
3 9 (15.52%) C#
4 6 (10.34%) PHP
4 6 (10.34%) T-SQL
5 4 (6.90%) Kotlin
5 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.17%) C++
6 3 (5.17%) Java
7 1 (1.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 25 (43.10%) Oracle
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.72%) Rollbar