SQL Jobs in the South West

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 747 937 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.09% 13.52% 16.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.38% 35.72% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 582 626 926
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,461 £37,909 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,542 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +5.71%

All Programming Languages
South West

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,064 2,623 4,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 33.16% 37.83% 51.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,425 1,708 2,836
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the South West

SQL
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SQL in the South West

SQL
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the South West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the South West

SQL
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Bristol -7 287 £55,000 -4.35% 81
Gloucestershire -5 147 £51,250 -6.82% 24
Wiltshire -12 84 £35,000 -28.21% 32
Devon +6 70 £40,000 +45.45% 26
Somerset -3 70 £52,500 +5.00% 23
Dorset -24 65 £52,500 +19.32% 16
Cornwall -14 9 £40,000 -3.03% 1
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 30 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.14%) Confluence
4 15 (2.01%) Apache
4 15 (2.01%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.61%) SAS
6 11 (1.47%) IIS
7 8 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.94%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.80%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.67%) CMS
10 5 (0.67%) Oracle Application Server
10 5 (0.67%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.40%) Captiva
12 3 (0.40%) FileNet
12 3 (0.40%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.40%) JBoss
12 3 (0.40%) nginx
12 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.94%) Oracle Smart View
6 6 (0.80%) Trello
7 2 (0.27%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) HFM
1 7 (0.94%) Hyperion Planning
2 5 (0.67%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.54%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.54%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) iTrent
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 235 (31.46%) Azure
2 158 (21.15%) Power Platform
3 112 (14.99%) AWS
4 56 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (6.69%) GCP
6 31 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (3.61%) PowerApps
8 22 (2.95%) Snowflake
9 21 (2.81%) GitHub
10 19 (2.54%) Serverless
11 17 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (2.01%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.61%) Firebase
13 12 (1.61%) OpenShift
14 11 (1.47%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.34%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
17 8 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.61%) SAN
2 21 (2.81%) LAN
3 17 (2.28%) WAN
4 15 (2.01%) DNS
5 11 (1.47%) Broadband
5 11 (1.47%) Firewall
6 10 (1.34%) Internet
6 10 (1.34%) Network Security
7 8 (1.07%) VPN
8 6 (0.80%) DHCP
8 6 (0.80%) HTTP
8 6 (0.80%) SSL
8 6 (0.80%) Wireless
9 5 (0.67%) AMQP
9 5 (0.67%) NAS
9 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.67%) VoIP
10 4 (0.54%) Skype
10 4 (0.54%) VLAN
11 3 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (25.57%) SQL Server
2 147 (19.68%) Power BI
3 80 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (8.30%) Relational Database
5 55 (7.36%) Tableau
6 53 (7.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 51 (6.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 50 (6.69%) MongoDB
9 49 (6.56%) NoSQL
10 35 (4.69%) MySQL
11 33 (4.42%) Big Data
12 31 (4.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 30 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
14 27 (3.61%) Data Lake
15 22 (2.95%) BigQuery
16 16 (2.14%) Oracle Database
16 16 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
17 15 (2.01%) Star Schema
18 13 (1.74%) Hadoop
18 13 (1.74%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 54 (7.23%) Git
2 38 (5.09%) JIRA
3 23 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.28%) Visual Studio
5 15 (2.01%) Selenium
6 14 (1.87%) Subversion
7 13 (1.74%) Postman
8 12 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (1.34%) GitLab
10 9 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.07%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.94%) Eclipse
12 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.80%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.80%) Maven
14 5 (0.67%) LabVIEW
14 5 (0.67%) NetBeans
15 4 (0.54%) Gradle
15 4 (0.54%) Jasmine
15 4 (0.54%) Toad
General
1 250 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 195 (26.10%) Finance
3 102 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.96%) Marketing
5 51 (6.83%) Retail
6 37 (4.95%) Public Sector
7 36 (4.82%) Banking
8 33 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (3.61%) Law
10 22 (2.95%) Fire and Rescue
11 21 (2.81%) Legal
11 21 (2.81%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (2.28%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.74%) Tech for Good
16 8 (1.07%) Military
17 7 (0.94%) Advertising
17 7 (0.94%) Electronics
18 5 (0.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 228 (30.52%) Developer
2 122 (16.33%) Analyst
3 108 (14.46%) Senior
4 67 (8.97%) DBA
5 66 (8.84%) Lead
6 62 (8.30%) Data Engineer
7 59 (7.90%) Software Developer
8 56 (7.50%) Data Analyst
9 53 (7.10%) .NET Developer
10 52 (6.96%) Administrator
11 47 (6.29%) Software Engineer
12 42 (5.62%) Senior Developer
13 41 (5.49%) Support Engineer
14 28 (3.75%) DV Cleared DBA
15 27 (3.61%) Consultant
16 26 (3.48%) SQL DBA
17 24 (3.21%) C# Developer
18 23 (3.08%) Applications Developer
19 22 (2.95%) Junior
20 20 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (18.61%) .NET
2 115 (15.39%) HTML
3 94 (12.58%) CSS
4 80 (10.71%) React
5 58 (7.76%) ASP.NET
6 50 (6.69%) AngularJS
7 42 (5.62%) .NET Core
8 41 (5.49%) Entity Framework
9 39 (5.22%) REST
10 35 (4.69%) Blazor
11 33 (4.42%) ASP.NET MVC
12 32 (4.28%) .NET Framework
13 30 (4.02%) HTML5
14 28 (3.75%) RESTful
15 25 (3.35%) Pandas
16 23 (3.08%) jQuery
17 21 (2.81%) Spring
17 21 (2.81%) Vue
18 19 (2.54%) CSS3
18 19 (2.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.75%) Data Structures
2 21 (2.81%) Replication
2 21 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (2.28%) Clustering
4 15 (2.01%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.47%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.34%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.07%) AS400
9 8 (1.07%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.94%) CCTV
10 7 (0.94%) Digital TV
10 7 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.94%) IoT
10 7 (0.94%) Learning Management System
11 6 (0.80%) Hedge funds
11 6 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (14.86%) Linux
2 107 (14.32%) Windows
3 37 (4.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 36 (4.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 32 (4.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (4.15%) CentOS
7 29 (3.88%) Windows Server
8 21 (2.81%) Unix
9 18 (2.41%) Android
10 16 (2.14%) Apple iOS
11 15 (2.01%) AIX
12 11 (1.47%) VMS
13 7 (0.94%) Windows 10
14 4 (0.54%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.40%) Solaris
16 2 (0.27%) Windows 2000
16 2 (0.27%) Windows 8
16 2 (0.27%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (28.51%) Agile
2 162 (21.69%) Business Intelligence
3 139 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (16.60%) Analytics
5 122 (16.33%) DevOps
6 96 (12.85%) Mentoring
7 94 (12.58%) Software Engineering
8 84 (11.24%) Visualisation
9 81 (10.84%) Full Stack Development
10 79 (10.58%) Artificial Intelligence
10 79 (10.58%) Machine Learning
11 75 (10.04%) Computer Science
12 74 (9.91%) User Experience
13 71 (9.50%) ETL
14 69 (9.24%) Data Science
15 64 (8.57%) MVC
16 59 (7.90%) Actionable Insight
17 58 (7.76%) Data Analysis
18 57 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 57 (7.63%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 172 (23.03%) Python
2 170 (22.76%) JavaScript
3 150 (20.08%) C#
4 149 (19.95%) Java
5 72 (9.64%) T-SQL
6 59 (7.90%) TypeScript
7 49 (6.56%) PowerShell
8 46 (6.16%) Bash
9 33 (4.42%) PHP
10 25 (3.35%) Scala
11 22 (2.95%) C
11 22 (2.95%) PL/SQL
12 21 (2.81%) VBA
13 20 (2.68%) C++
14 16 (2.14%) VB
15 15 (2.01%) R
16 14 (1.87%) Go
17 13 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (1.74%) VB.NET
18 11 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 133 (17.80%) Degree
2 91 (12.18%) Security Cleared
3 53 (7.10%) DV Cleared
4 49 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (5.89%) SC Cleared
6 26 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.68%) DBS Check
8 15 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.80%) IIBA
10 6 (0.80%) SANS
11 5 (0.67%) CISA
11 5 (0.67%) CISM
11 5 (0.67%) CISSP
11 5 (0.67%) CRISC
11 5 (0.67%) PMP
11 5 (0.67%) RHCE
11 5 (0.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.28%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.41%) QA
2 18 (2.41%) SLA
3 6 (0.80%) NIST
4 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.67%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.67%) TickIT
5 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.40%) GDPR
5 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (7.36%) Active Directory
2 46 (6.16%) Docker
3 34 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.68%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.07%) vSphere
7 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.54%) XenApp
8 3 (0.40%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.01%) SCCM
3 12 (1.61%) Backup Exec
3 12 (1.61%) NetBackup
4 10 (1.34%) Terraform
5 6 (0.80%) Opsgenie
6 5 (0.67%) Ansible
6 5 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (0.67%) Grafana
6 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.67%) Rancher
7 4 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Statspack
8 3 (0.40%) SCOM
8 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.40%) WSUS
9 2 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 240 (32.13%) Microsoft
2 136 (18.21%) Oracle
3 39 (5.22%) Google
4 38 (5.09%) VMware
5 35 (4.69%) Red Hat
6 28 (3.75%) IBM
7 20 (2.68%) Databricks
7 20 (2.68%) SAP
8 17 (2.28%) Citrix
9 12 (1.61%) Alteryx
9 12 (1.61%) Hitachi
9 12 (1.61%) NetApp
9 12 (1.61%) Snow
9 12 (1.61%) Veritas
10 11 (1.47%) AppDynamics
11 10 (1.34%) Teradata
11 10 (1.34%) Xamarin
12 7 (0.94%) Hyperion
12 7 (0.94%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.80%) Apple