SQL Job Trends in Stevenage

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stevenage requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 29 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +15
Permanent jobs citing SQL 11 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Stevenage 1.87% 1.54% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.64% 6.82% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 2
10th Percentile - - £63,000
25th Percentile £42,780 - £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £76,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.92% +12.59% +35.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 - £72,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +30.43% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 59 44 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stevenage 10.05% 22.56% 22.14%
Number of salaries quoted 41 20 26
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £52,188 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £58,750 £72,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £88,750 £67,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Stevenage

SQL
Salary Trend in Stevenage

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Stevenage

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Stevenage over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Stevenage

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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 4 (36.36%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Boomi
1 4 (36.36%) Matillion
2 3 (27.27%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) MS Access
2 4 (36.36%) Pentaho
2 4 (36.36%) SAP Data Services
2 4 (36.36%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 3 (27.27%) Star Schema
4 2 (18.18%) Big Data
4 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
4 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 2 (18.18%) Neo4j
5 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Toad
General
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 5 (45.45%) Law
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Local Government
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Applications Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Applications Support
1 4 (36.36%) Applications Support Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Applications Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Applications Support
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Support Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Customer Support
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Unix
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Migration
2 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) ETL
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Data Extraction
3 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Digital Strategy
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (36.36%) Workflow
4 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
4 3 (27.27%) RBAC
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
5 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
2 4 (36.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (27.27%) GDPR
2 3 (27.27%) HIPAA
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) NIST
2 3 (27.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Informatica
2 4 (36.36%) MuleSoft
2 4 (36.36%) NEC
2 4 (36.36%) SAP
2 4 (36.36%) Talend