SQL Jobs in the South East

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 13 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 729 1,693 2,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.61% 10.15% 13.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.30% 33.89% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 567 1,341 1,516
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,063 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +7.77%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,406 4,995 5,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.43% 29.93% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,786 4,034 3,935
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £34,589
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the South East

SQL
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the South East.

Salary trend for SQL in the South East

SQL
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in the South East

SQL
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley -2 306 £60,000 +20.00% 219
Berkshire -5 157 £66,250 +6.00% 111
Hampshire -7 145 £47,500 - 117
Surrey +5 134 £62,500 +19.05% 64
Buckinghamshire -3 98 £60,000 +26.32% 62
Oxfordshire -4 51 £37,500 -11.76% 65
East Sussex +2 46 £42,500 -21.30% 41
Middlesex +16 32 £90,000 +38.46% 9
Kent -22 28 £47,000 -13.76% 43
West Sussex +3 24 £30,000 -42.86% 26
Sussex +11 5 £72,500 +20.83% 36
Isle of Wight - 3 £40,101 - 2
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 36 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.70%) Apache
2 27 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.19%) Confluence
4 12 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.23%) IIS
6 6 (0.82%) CMS
7 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) ColdFusion
8 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.14%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) SAS
9 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.19%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.69%) Endur
3 3 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.41%) Q-Pulse
3 3 (0.41%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.27%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 260 (35.67%) Azure
2 158 (21.67%) Power Platform
3 102 (13.99%) AWS
4 90 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 45 (6.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 44 (6.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 42 (5.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 38 (5.21%) GitHub
10 37 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
10 37 (5.08%) SaaS
11 35 (4.80%) SonarCloud
12 34 (4.66%) GCP
13 29 (3.98%) Snowflake
14 19 (2.61%) PowerApps
15 18 (2.47%) Azure API Management
16 14 (1.92%) Power Automate
16 14 (1.92%) Serverless
17 12 (1.65%) OpenShift
18 11 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.02%) Network Security
2 16 (2.19%) DNS
3 12 (1.65%) Firewall
4 11 (1.51%) LAN
4 11 (1.51%) VoIP
4 11 (1.51%) WAN
5 10 (1.37%) VPN
6 7 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.55%) SSL
8 2 (0.27%) Broadband
8 2 (0.27%) HTTP
8 2 (0.27%) Internet
9 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.14%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.14%) Intranet
9 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.14%) NAS
9 1 (0.14%) RS-232
9 1 (0.14%) SAN
9 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (20.03%) SQL Server
2 136 (18.66%) Power BI
3 76 (10.43%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (7.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 44 (6.04%) NoSQL
6 43 (5.90%) MySQL
7 42 (5.76%) Data Lake
8 39 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (4.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (4.25%) Geospatial Data
11 30 (4.12%) GIS
12 29 (3.98%) Big Data
12 29 (3.98%) Metadata
13 28 (3.84%) Power Query
14 25 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 23 (3.16%) OLTP
16 20 (2.74%) Relational Database
17 17 (2.33%) Tableau
18 16 (2.19%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 88 (12.07%) Git
2 73 (10.01%) Visual Studio
3 37 (5.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 36 (4.94%) Jenkins
5 35 (4.80%) MSBuild
5 35 (4.80%) Team Foundation Server
6 33 (4.53%) JIRA
7 17 (2.33%) GitLab
8 14 (1.92%) JUnit
8 14 (1.92%) Selenium
9 13 (1.78%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.78%) Mockito
10 10 (1.37%) SoapUI
11 9 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.23%) Robot Framework
12 8 (1.10%) Eclipse
12 8 (1.10%) Postman
13 6 (0.82%) Maven
14 5 (0.69%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 218 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 81 (11.11%) Finance
3 79 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.37%) Retail
5 48 (6.58%) Law
6 27 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 24 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 21 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.92%) Banking
10 12 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.37%) Marketing
11 10 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.23%) Automotive
13 8 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.96%) Billing
14 7 (0.96%) Legal
15 6 (0.82%) Back Office
15 6 (0.82%) Local Government
15 6 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 195 (26.75%) Developer
2 131 (17.97%) Senior
3 80 (10.97%) Analyst
4 62 (8.50%) Software Engineer
5 60 (8.23%) Data Engineer
6 52 (7.13%) Lead
7 50 (6.86%) Architect
8 49 (6.72%) Senior Developer
9 38 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (5.08%) Support Engineer
11 36 (4.94%) IT Support
11 36 (4.94%) Technical Architect
12 35 (4.80%) Applications Support
13 32 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
14 29 (3.98%) Applications Engineer
14 29 (3.98%) Technical Support
15 28 (3.84%) Support Analyst
16 24 (3.29%) Applications Support Engineer
16 24 (3.29%) C# Developer
16 24 (3.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (28.81%) .NET
2 123 (16.87%) HTML
3 97 (13.31%) XML
4 90 (12.35%) CSS
5 73 (10.01%) JSON
5 73 (10.01%) REST
6 72 (9.88%) React
7 71 (9.74%) ASP.NET
8 44 (6.04%) .NET Framework
8 44 (6.04%) Bootstrap
9 35 (4.80%) gRPC
9 35 (4.80%) SOAP
10 32 (4.39%) .NET Core
11 31 (4.25%) AngularJS
12 27 (3.70%) HTML5
13 25 (3.43%) Kafka
14 24 (3.29%) RESTful
15 19 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
16 18 (2.47%) Blazor
16 18 (2.47%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.62%) Algorithms
2 33 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (3.98%) Data Structures
4 24 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.88%) Mobile App
6 20 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 16 (2.19%) Client/Server
9 13 (1.78%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.78%) Driving Licence
10 11 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.23%) Blockchain
12 9 (1.23%) Robotics
13 8 (1.10%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.10%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.96%) NHS
15 5 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 75 (10.29%) Linux
2 61 (8.37%) Windows
3 29 (3.98%) Unix
4 18 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.23%) Rocky
6 5 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.69%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.41%) Android
7 3 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (30.32%) Problem-Solving
2 149 (20.44%) Agile
3 140 (19.20%) DevOps
4 139 (19.07%) Business Intelligence
5 112 (15.36%) Analytics
6 102 (13.99%) Software Engineering
7 83 (11.39%) ETL
8 79 (10.84%) Data Modelling
9 78 (10.70%) Data Engineering
10 73 (10.01%) Microservices
11 71 (9.74%) CI/CD
12 70 (9.60%) Data Management
13 67 (9.19%) MVC
14 63 (8.64%) Full-Stack Development
15 60 (8.23%) Project Management
16 57 (7.82%) ERP
16 57 (7.82%) Migration
17 54 (7.41%) Data Governance
18 52 (7.13%) Code Quality
19 49 (6.72%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 226 (31.00%) Python
2 186 (25.51%) C#
3 139 (19.07%) JavaScript
4 85 (11.66%) Java
5 69 (9.47%) PL/SQL
6 60 (8.23%) PowerShell
7 25 (3.43%) C++
7 25 (3.43%) PHP
7 25 (3.43%) T-SQL
7 25 (3.43%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.74%) R
9 17 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (2.33%) VB.NET
10 14 (1.92%) Bash
11 9 (1.23%) Scala
12 7 (0.96%) Go
13 6 (0.82%) Bicep
13 6 (0.82%) RPG
13 6 (0.82%) Rust
13 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 139 (19.07%) Degree
2 39 (5.35%) Security Cleared
3 36 (4.94%) Azure Certification
4 25 (3.43%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.33%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.96%) MCP
10 6 (0.82%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.55%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.55%) Dell Certification
12 4 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.41%) MCSA
13 3 (0.41%) MCSE
14 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.41%) QA
2 51 (7.00%) Data Quality
3 49 (6.72%) Accessibility
4 41 (5.62%) GDPR
5 3 (0.41%) SLA
6 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.27%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 64 (8.78%) Docker
2 10 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.23%) HDFS
4 7 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.41%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.27%) Postfix
8 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.10%) Terraform
3 5 (0.69%) ZABBIX
4 3 (0.41%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.41%) PaperCut
4 3 (0.41%) WMI
5 2 (0.27%) Grafana
5 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) SCCM
6 1 (0.14%) SCOM
6 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 157 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.60%) Oracle
3 65 (8.92%) Databricks
4 22 (3.02%) Red Hat
5 17 (2.33%) Google
6 14 (1.92%) SAP
7 13 (1.78%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.78%) IBM
8 10 (1.37%) VMware
9 8 (1.10%) Informatica
10 7 (0.96%) Epicor
10 7 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.69%) OpenLink
12 4 (0.55%) Citrix
12 4 (0.55%) Dell
12 4 (0.55%) Rockwell
12 4 (0.55%) Siemens
13 3 (0.41%) Adobe
13 3 (0.41%) Aruba
14 2 (0.27%) RedGate