SQL Jobs in the Thames Valley

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 607 752 1,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.03% 12.49% 15.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.63% 31.35% 34.74%
Number of salaries quoted 503 470 783
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,438 £69,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,275 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,919 2,399 3,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.54% 39.83% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 1,407 1,889
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,875 £34,350
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

SQL
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

SQL
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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 8 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
Berkshire -1 318 £61,500 +2.50% 45
Buckinghamshire -9 156 £47,500 -9.52% 30
Oxfordshire +4 133 £42,500 - 21
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 46 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 42 (6.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (3.62%) IIS
4 15 (2.47%) Oracle Service Bus
4 15 (2.47%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.65%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.99%) Confluence
7 5 (0.82%) JBoss
7 5 (0.82%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.49%) CMS
8 3 (0.49%) Drupal
8 3 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.49%) WinCC
8 3 (0.49%) WordPress
9 2 (0.33%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.33%) SAS
10 1 (0.16%) Apache
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 58 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (2.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (1.15%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.99%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.33%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 194 (31.96%) Azure
2 112 (18.45%) Power Platform
3 75 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (10.38%) AWS
5 31 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.45%) SaaS
7 22 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (3.62%) Serverless
8 18 (2.97%) OneDrive
9 15 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (2.47%) PowerApps
10 14 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (2.31%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (1.98%) iTunes
13 10 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.65%) WhatsApp
14 9 (1.48%) PaaS
15 8 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 7 (1.15%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 79 (13.01%) Firewall
2 33 (5.44%) DNS
3 24 (3.95%) DHCP
4 20 (3.29%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (2.97%) SSL
6 15 (2.47%) Network Security
7 14 (2.31%) SNMP
8 11 (1.81%) Internet
9 10 (1.65%) VPN
10 7 (1.15%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.15%) Wireless
11 4 (0.66%) Broadband
12 3 (0.49%) BGP
12 3 (0.49%) Ethernet
12 3 (0.49%) Intranet
12 3 (0.49%) VLAN
12 3 (0.49%) WAN
13 2 (0.33%) LAN
14 1 (0.16%) FTP
14 1 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (22.57%) SQL Server
2 106 (17.46%) Power BI
3 64 (10.54%) NoSQL
4 45 (7.41%) Oracle Database
5 44 (7.25%) Relational Database
6 43 (7.08%) MySQL
7 38 (6.26%) Data Lake
8 31 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (4.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 26 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (4.12%) Oracle Database 11g
12 22 (3.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (2.97%) Power Query
13 18 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 15 (2.47%) Oracle Database 10g
14 15 (2.47%) VLDB
15 14 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (2.14%) OLTP
16 13 (2.14%) Tableau
17 8 (1.32%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 63 (10.38%) Git
2 41 (6.75%) Visual Studio
3 40 (6.59%) Selenium
4 30 (4.94%) JIRA
5 27 (4.45%) SoapUI
6 24 (3.95%) Cypress.io
7 21 (3.46%) Jenkins
8 18 (2.97%) NUnit
9 13 (2.14%) GitLab
10 12 (1.98%) WebDriver
11 9 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (1.32%) Gradle
13 7 (1.15%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.99%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.99%) JMeter
15 5 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
15 5 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
15 5 (0.82%) Serenity BDD
16 4 (0.66%) Postman
16 4 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 165 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 65 (10.71%) Finance
3 57 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.44%) Law
5 32 (5.27%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (5.11%) Retail
7 29 (4.78%) Public Sector
8 15 (2.47%) Legal
9 14 (2.31%) Health Technology
9 14 (2.31%) Marketing
10 12 (1.98%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.81%) Banking
12 10 (1.65%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.48%) Back Office
14 8 (1.32%) Local Government
14 8 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.15%) Games
15 7 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 187 (30.81%) Developer
2 96 (15.82%) Senior
3 82 (13.51%) Analyst
4 79 (13.01%) Support Engineer
5 70 (11.53%) Senior Developer
6 58 (9.56%) IT Support
7 57 (9.39%) Applications Support
8 56 (9.23%) IT Engineer
9 52 (8.57%) Lead
10 49 (8.07%) IT Support Engineer
11 39 (6.43%) Support Analyst
12 36 (5.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 35 (5.77%) Software Engineer
14 34 (5.60%) Applications Support Analyst
15 33 (5.44%) 3rd Line Support
15 33 (5.44%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 29 (4.78%) .NET Developer
17 27 (4.45%) Systems Engineer
18 26 (4.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 23 (3.79%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (26.85%) .NET
2 67 (11.04%) HTML
2 67 (11.04%) React
3 59 (9.72%) XML
4 54 (8.90%) CSS
5 41 (6.75%) JSON
6 40 (6.59%) .NET Core
6 40 (6.59%) AngularJS
7 33 (5.44%) Web Services
8 30 (4.94%) ASP.NET
9 29 (4.78%) REST
10 25 (4.12%) SOAP
10 25 (4.12%) Spring Boot
11 23 (3.79%) Jest
11 23 (3.79%) Spring
12 19 (3.13%) Blazor
13 18 (2.97%) Kafka
14 17 (2.80%) .NET Framework
14 17 (2.80%) Node.js
15 13 (2.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.28%) Replication
2 23 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.14%) CMDB
5 12 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.81%) Driving Licence
6 11 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.65%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.48%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.32%) PropTech
10 7 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.82%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.66%) Mobile Banking
13 4 (0.66%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 82 (13.51%) Windows
2 69 (11.37%) Linux
3 37 (6.10%) Windows Server
4 24 (3.95%) Unix
5 15 (2.47%) Solaris
6 13 (2.14%) VMS
7 5 (0.82%) Android
7 5 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.66%) AIX
8 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (29.32%) Agile
2 107 (17.63%) Business Intelligence
3 95 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (13.84%) Software Engineering
5 75 (12.36%) Artificial Intelligence
6 63 (10.38%) DevOps
7 55 (9.06%) Performance Tuning
8 47 (7.74%) Project Management
9 46 (7.58%) Machine Learning
10 43 (7.08%) Scrum
11 41 (6.75%) Computer Science
11 41 (6.75%) ETL
12 40 (6.59%) Customer Service
12 40 (6.59%) Full Stack Development
12 40 (6.59%) Microservices
13 39 (6.43%) Test Automation
14 37 (6.10%) TDD
15 36 (5.93%) Software Testing
16 35 (5.77%) Actionable Insight
16 35 (5.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 157 (25.86%) C#
2 123 (20.26%) JavaScript
3 72 (11.86%) Java
4 68 (11.20%) Python
5 67 (11.04%) PL/SQL
6 58 (9.56%) T-SQL
7 51 (8.40%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.80%) C++
9 15 (2.47%) VB.NET
10 12 (1.98%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.81%) Fortran
11 11 (1.81%) R
12 8 (1.32%) Ruby
12 8 (1.32%) Scala
12 8 (1.32%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.15%) PHP
14 6 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.99%) XAML
15 5 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 130 (21.42%) Degree
2 72 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 58 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.81%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.32%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.82%) HNC
9 5 (0.82%) HND
10 4 (0.66%) OCP
10 4 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.33%) MCITP
12 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.16%) MBA
12 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.93%) QA
2 19 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.80%) SLA
4 5 (0.82%) GDPR
5 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 68 (11.20%) Active Directory
2 65 (10.71%) Docker
3 41 (6.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.97%) Hyper-V
5 15 (2.47%) Oracle RAC
6 12 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.13%) Ansible
2 19 (3.13%) Oracle RMAN
3 15 (2.47%) Data Guard
4 14 (2.31%) Terraform
5 13 (2.14%) SCOM
6 3 (0.49%) SCCM
6 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.49%) Wonderware InTouch
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.16%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 201 (33.11%) Microsoft
2 68 (11.20%) Oracle
3 53 (8.73%) VMware
4 43 (7.08%) Citrix
5 36 (5.93%) Veeam
6 18 (2.97%) Cisco
7 16 (2.64%) Remedy
8 15 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.47%) Sun
9 13 (2.14%) Databricks
9 13 (2.14%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.65%) WSO2
11 9 (1.48%) Google
12 8 (1.32%) Sage
12 8 (1.32%) SAP
13 7 (1.15%) Draytek
14 5 (0.82%) Adaptive Insights
14 5 (0.82%) Anaplan
14 5 (0.82%) Apple
14 5 (0.82%) Jedox