SQL Jobs in South London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 33 5
Rank change year-on-year -19 -28 +6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 33 60 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 4.82% 6.73% 28.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.50% 30.61% 53.80%
Number of salaries quoted 29 55 69
10th Percentile £47,100 £43,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +13.40%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £95,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +3.70%

All Programming Languages
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 200 196 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 29.20% 21.97% 52.47%
Number of salaries quoted 77 139 158
10th Percentile £46,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £86,300 £91,250
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in South London

SQL
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for SQL in South London

SQL
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in South London over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in South London

SQL
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the South London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Kingston Upon Thames +27 25 £65,000 - 7
Croydon -16 5 £57,500 -
Merton +1 2 £65,000 +32.65% 4
Bromley -19 1 £61,250 +6.52% 11
SQL
London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (6.06%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.06%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (66.67%) Azure
2 15 (45.45%) Azure Monitor
3 11 (33.33%) AWS
4 10 (30.30%) Azure App Service
5 9 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (27.27%) GCP
6 8 (24.24%) Power Platform
7 6 (18.18%) Azure Functions
7 6 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (18.18%) SaaS
7 6 (18.18%) Serverless
8 4 (12.12%) Azure Storage
8 4 (12.12%) Azure Table
8 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
9 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (6.06%) Google Analytics
10 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
10 2 (6.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Power BI
2 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (9.09%) Tableau
4 2 (6.06%) Big Data
4 2 (6.06%) MS Access
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.03%) DbUnit
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) jMock
2 1 (3.03%) JUnit
2 1 (3.03%) Maven
2 1 (3.03%) Mockito
2 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Local Government
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 13 (39.39%) 3rd Line Support
1 13 (39.39%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 13 (39.39%) Support Engineer
2 11 (33.33%) Analyst
3 9 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Data Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Monitoring Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Control Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Head of IT
6 2 (6.06%) Performance Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Graduate Support Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Support
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Pandas
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.03%) JPA
2 1 (3.03%) PowerMock
2 1 (3.03%) React
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) SOAP
2 1 (3.03%) Spring
2 1 (3.03%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) iPad
2 2 (6.06%) SCADA
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) DevOps
2 11 (33.33%) Analytics
3 10 (30.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (27.27%) B2B
4 9 (27.27%) Change Management
4 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 9 (27.27%) Cost Optimisation
4 9 (27.27%) High Availability
4 9 (27.27%) ITIL
4 9 (27.27%) Proactive Monitoring
4 9 (27.27%) Resource Management
5 7 (21.21%) Data Management
6 6 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (18.18%) Customer Experience
6 6 (18.18%) Data Analysis
6 6 (18.18%) Log Analytics
6 6 (18.18%) SIEM
6 6 (18.18%) Synthetic Monitoring
6 6 (18.18%) Trend Analysis
7 5 (15.15%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) C#
2 9 (27.27%) Python
3 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
4 6 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
5 2 (6.06%) C++
5 2 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
5 2 (6.06%) VB
6 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 12 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (18.18%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) MCP
4 2 (6.06%) MCSE
4 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 20 (60.61%) Microsoft
2 11 (33.33%) Google
3 6 (18.18%) Splunk
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) Siemens
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks