SQL Jobs in the Thames Valley

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 319 623 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.62% 9.30% 12.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.53% 32.18% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 236 516 475
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £68,750 £69,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 787 1,936 2,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 23.74% 28.91% 39.82%
Number of salaries quoted 524 1,584 1,423
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £34,875
25th Percentile £47,375 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £93,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for SQL in the Thames Valley

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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 6 May 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
Berkshire -7 162 £66,250 +6.00% 115
Buckinghamshire -4 102 £60,000 +26.32% 61
Oxfordshire -12 55 £40,000 -5.88% 60
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 15 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.82%) Confluence
3 7 (2.19%) Apache
3 7 (2.19%) IIS
4 5 (1.57%) IBM Domino
5 4 (1.25%) CMS
6 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (1.25%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 103 (32.29%) Azure
2 83 (26.02%) Power Platform
3 57 (17.87%) AWS
4 48 (15.05%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (11.60%) GCP
6 29 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 28 (8.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 26 (8.15%) SonarCloud
9 24 (7.52%) Snowflake
10 10 (3.13%) SaaS
11 9 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.19%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.88%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.57%) Serverless
15 4 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (1.25%) AWS KMS
15 4 (1.25%) GitHub
15 4 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.57%) DNS
1 5 (1.57%) Firewall
1 5 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.25%) VPN
3 2 (0.63%) Broadband
4 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.31%) HTTP
4 1 (0.31%) Internet
4 1 (0.31%) NAS
4 1 (0.31%) RS-232
4 1 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (21.94%) SQL Server
2 68 (21.32%) Power BI
3 40 (12.54%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (9.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 29 (9.09%) GIS
6 28 (8.78%) Geospatial Data
6 28 (8.78%) Power Query
7 27 (8.46%) Data Lake
8 26 (8.15%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (7.52%) OLTP
10 23 (7.21%) Metadata
11 21 (6.58%) MySQL
12 17 (5.33%) NoSQL
12 17 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (4.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (2.51%) MongoDB
14 8 (2.51%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.19%) Tableau
16 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (1.25%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 53 (16.61%) Visual Studio
2 48 (15.05%) Git
3 26 (8.15%) MSBuild
3 26 (8.15%) Octopus Deploy
3 26 (8.15%) Team Foundation Server
4 17 (5.33%) JIRA
4 17 (5.33%) Selenium
5 12 (3.76%) GitLab
6 10 (3.13%) Maven
6 10 (3.13%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.82%) JUnit
7 9 (2.82%) Mockito
8 8 (2.51%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.51%) SoapUI
9 7 (2.19%) Jenkins
10 6 (1.88%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.88%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.25%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.25%) jMock
General
1 76 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 34 (10.66%) Retail
3 32 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.46%) Law
5 24 (7.52%) Finance
6 19 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.82%) Banking
9 7 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.57%) Aviation
11 5 (1.57%) Back Office
11 5 (1.57%) Local Government
12 4 (1.25%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.25%) Marketing
12 4 (1.25%) Military
12 4 (1.25%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.94%) Games
13 3 (0.94%) Legal
14 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (30.72%) Developer
2 61 (19.12%) Senior
3 36 (11.29%) Lead
3 36 (11.29%) Software Engineer
4 32 (10.03%) Architect
5 28 (8.78%) Senior Developer
5 28 (8.78%) Technical Architect
6 27 (8.46%) Analyst
7 24 (7.52%) Oracle Developer
7 24 (7.52%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 22 (6.90%) Support Engineer
9 21 (6.58%) Portal Developer
10 20 (6.27%) Software Developer
11 16 (5.02%) Applications Support
11 16 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (5.02%) Technical Support
12 15 (4.70%) Applications Engineer
12 15 (4.70%) Senior SQL Developer
12 15 (4.70%) SQL Developer
12 15 (4.70%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (32.92%) .NET
2 73 (22.88%) XML
3 67 (21.00%) HTML
4 54 (16.93%) JSON
5 52 (16.30%) React
6 46 (14.42%) ASP.NET
7 45 (14.11%) CSS
8 38 (11.91%) REST
9 30 (9.40%) .NET Framework
10 27 (8.46%) Bootstrap
11 26 (8.15%) gRPC
12 24 (7.52%) .NET Core
13 22 (6.90%) AngularJS
14 21 (6.58%) SOAP
15 15 (4.70%) Hibernate
16 14 (4.39%) Spring
17 12 (3.76%) Jest
17 12 (3.76%) JPA
17 12 (3.76%) Kafka
18 10 (3.13%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.85%) Algorithms
2 21 (6.58%) Mobile App
3 13 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.19%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.19%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.57%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.25%) Clustering
8 4 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.25%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.25%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.94%) Hackathon
9 3 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.29%) Linux
2 20 (6.27%) Windows
3 9 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.57%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.94%) Android
5 3 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (36.05%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (24.76%) Business Intelligence
3 76 (23.82%) Agile
4 75 (23.51%) DevOps
5 54 (16.93%) Data Management
6 52 (16.30%) Asset Management
6 52 (16.30%) Software Engineering
7 47 (14.73%) Analytics
7 47 (14.73%) Microservices
8 37 (11.60%) Project Management
9 35 (10.97%) Actionable Insight
10 34 (10.66%) Data Engineering
10 34 (10.66%) MVC
10 34 (10.66%) Performance Optimisation
11 32 (10.03%) Design Patterns
12 31 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (9.72%) Workflow
13 30 (9.40%) Data Modelling
13 30 (9.40%) ETL
13 30 (9.40%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 77 (24.14%) C#
1 77 (24.14%) Python
2 74 (23.20%) JavaScript
3 43 (13.48%) PL/SQL
4 31 (9.72%) Java
5 16 (5.02%) TypeScript
6 14 (4.39%) PowerShell
6 14 (4.39%) VB.NET
7 12 (3.76%) C++
8 10 (3.13%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.88%) Bash
10 4 (1.25%) Ruby
11 3 (0.94%) C
11 3 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.94%) Go
11 3 (0.94%) R
11 3 (0.94%) X++
12 2 (0.63%) Fortran
12 2 (0.63%) VBA
12 2 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (19.12%) Degree
2 20 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.70%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.19%) MCP
5 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.25%) A+ Certification
7 4 (1.25%) Dell Certification
7 4 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.94%) MCSA
8 3 (0.94%) MCSE
9 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.63%) PhD
10 1 (0.31%) ISEB
10 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.72%) QA
2 28 (8.78%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.78%) GDPR
3 25 (7.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.63%) SLA
5 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 53 (16.61%) Docker
2 6 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.63%) Postfix
5 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.57%) Terraform
2 5 (1.57%) ZABBIX
3 3 (0.94%) Grafana
3 3 (0.94%) PaperCut
3 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 60 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.29%) Oracle
3 7 (2.19%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.88%) Epicor
4 6 (1.88%) Google
4 6 (1.88%) Solace
4 6 (1.88%) VMware
5 4 (1.25%) Dell
6 3 (0.94%) IBM
7 2 (0.63%) Apple
7 2 (0.63%) F5
7 2 (0.63%) Freshdesk
7 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.63%) SAP
7 2 (0.63%) Zoho
8 1 (0.31%) Databricks
8 1 (0.31%) Intapp
8 1 (0.31%) Medallia
8 1 (0.31%) Sage
8 1 (0.31%) Workday