SQL Job Trends in Surrey

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 17 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 147 99 250
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.89% 8.72% 13.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.87% 47.83% 42.02%
Number of salaries quoted 136 80 170
10th Percentile £43,563 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +21.05% -17.39%
75th Percentile £80,625 £65,000 £61,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £67,500 £73,875
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 434 207 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 17.39% 18.24% 33.26%
Number of salaries quoted 374 165 354
10th Percentile £38,915 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Surrey

SQL
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Surrey over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 8 October 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
Guildford +12 44 £100,000 +73.91% 16
Woking +4 27 £65,000 +44.44% 13
Sunbury-on-Thames - 10 £65,000 - 3
Egham - 8 £55,000 - 1
Farnham -3 6 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Epsom -11 6 £65,000 +36.84% 1
Reigate -20 5 £65,000 - 8
Cobham - 5 £42,500 -
Leatherhead -15 4 £35,000 -36.36% 5
Staines -21 4 £67,500 +8.00% 5
Redhill +5 3 £49,875 +10.83% 4
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Chertsey - 2 £47,500 - 1
Esher 0 1 £62,500 +27.55% 2
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 10 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.40%) IIS
2 5 (3.40%) nginx
3 4 (2.72%) Apache
3 4 (2.72%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.04%) SAS
5 2 (1.36%) Confluence
5 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 2 (1.36%) Siebel CRM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (51.70%) Azure
2 27 (18.37%) AWS
3 20 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.48%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.12%) GitHub
5 9 (6.12%) SaaS
6 8 (5.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (5.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (4.76%) Azure AI
8 6 (4.08%) GCP
9 5 (3.40%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.40%) Azure Pipelines
9 5 (3.40%) Cloudflare
9 5 (3.40%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.72%) dbt
10 4 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.72%) Google Play
10 4 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) Hyperconnected
1 3 (2.04%) Internet
2 2 (1.36%) Firewall
2 2 (1.36%) SAN
2 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (25.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 29 (19.73%) MongoDB
2 29 (19.73%) SQL Server
3 13 (8.84%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (5.44%) MySQL
6 7 (4.76%) Power BI
7 6 (4.08%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.40%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.04%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (2.04%) Tableau
11 2 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.36%) Metadata
11 2 (1.36%) MS Access
11 2 (1.36%) Redis
11 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.36%) Siebel EIM
11 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Git
2 7 (4.76%) JIRA
3 5 (3.40%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.36%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.68%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) MLflow
6 1 (0.68%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) TestNG
6 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (31.97%) Finance
2 19 (12.93%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.40%) Advertising
4 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.40%) Music Industry
4 5 (3.40%) Retail
5 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.36%) Games
6 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.36%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 46 (31.29%) Developer
2 38 (25.85%) .NET Developer
3 22 (14.97%) Head of Development
4 20 (13.61%) Head of Software Development
5 18 (12.24%) Data Engineer
6 13 (8.84%) Lead
7 10 (6.80%) Analyst
7 10 (6.80%) DBA
7 10 (6.80%) SQL DBA
7 10 (6.80%) SQL Server DBA
8 8 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) C# Software Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) .NET Software Developer
10 6 (4.08%) .NET Software Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (4.08%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.08%) C# Software Developer
10 6 (4.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (53.06%) .NET
2 35 (23.81%) .NET Core
3 32 (21.77%) ASP.NET
4 28 (19.05%) ASP.NET Core
5 17 (11.56%) Vue
6 16 (10.88%) Entity Framework
7 15 (10.20%) AngularJS
7 15 (10.20%) ASP.NET Web API
8 14 (9.52%) Node.js
9 13 (8.84%) CSS
9 13 (8.84%) React
10 12 (8.16%) Blazor
10 12 (8.16%) HTML
10 12 (8.16%) LINQ
11 11 (7.48%) RESTful
12 9 (6.12%) .NET Framework
13 7 (4.76%) PySpark
14 5 (3.40%) ARM Templates
14 5 (3.40%) Loki
14 5 (3.40%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.72%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.72%) iPhone
3 4 (2.72%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.36%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.36%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.36%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.36%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.80%) Windows
2 8 (5.44%) Linux
3 4 (2.72%) Android
4 2 (1.36%) Unix
4 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.81%) Agile
1 35 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (21.77%) Fintech
3 25 (17.01%) AI
3 25 (17.01%) CI/CD
3 25 (17.01%) Microservices
4 24 (16.33%) Analytics
5 23 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (13.61%) DevOps
7 18 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (10.88%) Data Engineering
9 13 (8.84%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (8.84%) Machine Learning
9 13 (8.84%) Mentoring
10 12 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (8.16%) Data Modelling
11 11 (7.48%) Multithreading
12 10 (6.80%) Data Science
12 10 (6.80%) SDLC
12 10 (6.80%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 78 (53.06%) C#
2 31 (21.09%) C++
3 26 (17.69%) Python
4 16 (10.88%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.20%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.16%) T-SQL
7 9 (6.12%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.08%) Java
9 5 (3.40%) Bicep
10 4 (2.72%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.36%) Scala
13 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.68%) Groovy
13 1 (0.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (4.08%) Degree
2 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.04%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.04%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.36%) CBAP
4 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.68%) ACCA
5 1 (0.68%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.08%) QA
3 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (12.24%) Docker
2 5 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.72%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.40%) Grafana
2 5 (3.40%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.68%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 58 (39.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.88%) Databricks
3 8 (5.44%) Google
4 6 (4.08%) Oracle
5 5 (3.40%) Facebook
5 5 (3.40%) YouTube
6 2 (1.36%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.36%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.36%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.36%) RedGate
6 2 (1.36%) Siebel
6 2 (1.36%) Veeam
7 1 (0.68%) SAP