SQL Job Trends in the Thames Valley

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 269 536 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 7.04% 13.19% 14.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.98% 38.93% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 201 344 334
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,563 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +19.13% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £67,188
90th Percentile £72,500 £86,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £51,789 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% -1.35% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 585 1,377 1,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.31% 33.88% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 420 806 941
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,770 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.15% -5.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,125 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SQL job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SQL
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in the Thames Valley

SQL
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Buckinghamshire -2 122 £43,750 -16.67% 41
Berkshire -34 100 £57,500 -14.81% 47
Oxfordshire 0 47 £60,000 +26.32% 34
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 16 (5.95%) IIS
2 5 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.12%) CMS
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.12%) SAS
4 2 (0.74%) WordPress
5 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
5 1 (0.37%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 32 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 6 (2.23%) Oracle Assets
1 6 (2.23%) Oracle Payables
1 6 (2.23%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.12%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.12%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.37%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (29.74%) Power Platform
2 72 (26.77%) Azure
3 23 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.43%) AWS
5 18 (6.69%) SaaS
6 14 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (5.20%) GCP
7 12 (4.46%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.72%) Snowflake
9 9 (3.35%) Azure AI
10 7 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.23%) dbt
11 6 (2.23%) GitHub
12 5 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.49%) SonarCloud
14 3 (1.12%) Collibra
14 3 (1.12%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.23%) DNS
2 5 (1.86%) MQTT
2 5 (1.86%) SSL
3 4 (1.49%) DHCP
3 4 (1.49%) Firewall
3 4 (1.49%) Modbus
3 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.12%) Broadband
4 3 (1.12%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.12%) VLAN
5 2 (0.74%) Wireless
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.37%) Intranet
6 1 (0.37%) PBX
6 1 (0.37%) RFID
6 1 (0.37%) RTP
6 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.37%) VoIP
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (28.62%) Power BI
2 31 (11.52%) SQL Server
3 25 (9.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 23 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (8.55%) Tableau
5 21 (7.81%) OLTP
6 20 (7.43%) Relational Database
7 16 (5.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (4.46%) Metadata
8 12 (4.46%) Power Query
9 10 (3.72%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.97%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.60%) PowerPivot
13 6 (2.23%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.23%) MySQL
14 5 (1.86%) Qlik Sense
15 4 (1.49%) Data Mining
15 4 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (13.38%) JIRA
2 26 (9.67%) Git
3 14 (5.20%) Postman
3 14 (5.20%) Selenium
4 13 (4.83%) SoapUI
4 13 (4.83%) Team Foundation Server
5 9 (3.35%) WebDriver
6 5 (1.86%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.86%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.86%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.49%) MSBuild
8 3 (1.12%) ERwin
8 3 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (1.12%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.74%) GitLab
10 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.37%) Gradle
10 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 121 (44.98%) Social Skills
2 83 (30.86%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (22.68%) Finance
4 26 (9.67%) Retail
5 19 (7.06%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.97%) Marketing
7 6 (2.23%) Law
7 6 (2.23%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.86%) Legal
9 4 (1.49%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.12%) Banking
10 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.12%) Publishing
10 3 (1.12%) Retail Finance
10 3 (1.12%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.74%) Aviation
11 2 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 90 (33.46%) Analyst
2 60 (22.30%) Senior
3 57 (21.19%) Developer
4 33 (12.27%) Data Analyst
5 31 (11.52%) Senior Developer
5 31 (11.52%) Support Analyst
6 26 (9.67%) Oracle Developer
6 26 (9.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 24 (8.92%) Software Engineer
8 21 (7.81%) Applications Support
9 16 (5.95%) Applications Support Analyst
9 16 (5.95%) Support Engineer
10 14 (5.20%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.83%) IT Support
11 13 (4.83%) Technical Support
12 12 (4.46%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (4.46%) Junior
12 12 (4.46%) Junior Analyst
12 12 (4.46%) Software Support Engineer
12 12 (4.46%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.61%) .NET
2 35 (13.01%) HTML
3 26 (9.67%) JSON
4 24 (8.92%) SOAP
5 19 (7.06%) .NET Framework
5 19 (7.06%) REST
6 18 (6.69%) ASP.NET
6 18 (6.69%) XML
7 15 (5.58%) Entity Framework
8 12 (4.46%) WinForms
9 6 (2.23%) CSS
9 6 (2.23%) EDI
10 5 (1.86%) Bootstrap
10 5 (1.86%) React
11 4 (1.49%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.49%) gRPC
11 4 (1.49%) Middleware
11 4 (1.49%) pytest
11 4 (1.49%) RESTful
11 4 (1.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.18%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.97%) SCADA
5 7 (2.60%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.60%) FMCG
5 7 (2.60%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 6 (2.23%) IoT
6 6 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.86%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.49%) Industry 4.0
8 4 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) IBM Storwize
9 3 (1.12%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 46 (17.10%) Windows
2 14 (5.20%) Linux
3 6 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.49%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) Android
5 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (31.97%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (31.60%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (17.47%) Analytics
4 43 (15.99%) Agile
5 42 (15.61%) Decision-Making
6 40 (14.87%) ETL
7 34 (12.64%) Software Engineering
8 33 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (11.15%) Computer Science
9 30 (11.15%) DevOps
10 27 (10.04%) Mentoring
11 26 (9.67%) Data Analysis
12 23 (8.55%) Data Modelling
13 22 (8.18%) Clean Code
14 21 (7.81%) Software Testing
14 21 (7.81%) Visualisation
15 20 (7.43%) AI
15 20 (7.43%) Configuration Management
15 20 (7.43%) Data Management
15 20 (7.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 72 (26.77%) Python
2 50 (18.59%) C#
3 37 (13.75%) Java
4 30 (11.15%) PL/SQL
4 30 (11.15%) T-SQL
5 29 (10.78%) JavaScript
6 21 (7.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (3.72%) VBA
8 7 (2.60%) PHP
8 7 (2.60%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.86%) Go
9 5 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.49%) C++
10 4 (1.49%) R
11 2 (0.74%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Ruby
12 1 (0.37%) Scala
12 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (30.86%) Degree
2 26 (9.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.09%) Azure Certification
3 11 (4.09%) ISTQB
4 10 (3.72%) ACCA
4 10 (3.72%) CIMA
5 9 (3.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 8 (2.97%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.60%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.86%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.49%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.49%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.49%) PMP
10 3 (1.12%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.74%) MCSE
12 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.37%) MCSA
12 1 (0.37%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.78%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.95%) QA
3 8 (2.97%) GDPR
4 7 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.74%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (0.74%) ECSS
5 2 (0.74%) GxP
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (3.72%) Docker
2 9 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.37%) Firmware
6 1 (0.37%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (2.23%) Terraform
2 5 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.12%) ZABBIX
4 2 (0.74%) SCCM
4 2 (0.74%) SCOM
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Argo
5 1 (0.37%) Control-M
5 1 (0.37%) Grafana
5 1 (0.37%) Kibana
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.75%) Oracle
3 17 (6.32%) SAP
4 12 (4.46%) Databricks
4 12 (4.46%) Sage
4 12 (4.46%) Xamarin
5 11 (4.09%) Google
6 7 (2.60%) Zoho
7 6 (2.23%) JD Edwards
8 5 (1.86%) Allen-Bradley
8 5 (1.86%) IBM
8 5 (1.86%) Siemens
8 5 (1.86%) VMware
9 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.49%) Talend
10 2 (0.74%) Cisco
10 2 (0.74%) Cognos
10 2 (0.74%) Informatica
10 2 (0.74%) Juniper
10 2 (0.74%) Red Hat