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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 27 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 -14 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 312 293 472
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.13% 7.73% 10.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.84% 49.49% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 246 184 293
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,125
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.62% +3.10%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 1,082 592 1,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.33% 15.62% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 849 380 736
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,875 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -2.61%

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 13 October 2026.

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 13 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
Berkshire +5 132 £56,250 -11.42% 107
Buckinghamshire +4 105 £50,000 +17.65% 51
Oxfordshire -14 75 £60,000 +4.35% 51
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 8 (2.56%) IIS
2 7 (2.24%) OpenEdge
3 5 (1.60%) Confluence
3 5 (1.60%) SAS
4 4 (1.28%) CICS
4 4 (1.28%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 34 (10.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (4.49%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.28%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (1.28%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.96%) Magento
3 3 (0.96%) Shopify
4 2 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.64%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.32%) Finacle
5 1 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.32%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 134 (42.95%) Azure
2 71 (22.76%) Power Platform
3 50 (16.03%) AWS
4 34 (10.90%) SaaS
5 28 (8.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 28 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (6.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 18 (5.77%) GitHub
8 15 (4.81%) Azure AI
9 14 (4.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (3.53%) GCP
10 11 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (3.21%) Snowflake
12 9 (2.88%) dbt
13 8 (2.56%) Google Workspace
14 7 (2.24%) Serverless
15 6 (1.92%) Azure Databricks
15 6 (1.92%) Fivetran
16 5 (1.60%) Amazon S3
16 5 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.60%) Internet
2 3 (0.96%) VPN
3 2 (0.64%) HTTP
4 1 (0.32%) Modbus
4 1 (0.32%) MQTT
4 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (22.76%) Power BI
2 43 (13.78%) SQL Server
3 41 (13.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (9.94%) MongoDB
5 24 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (5.77%) Tableau
7 17 (5.45%) NoSQL
7 17 (5.45%) OLTP
8 16 (5.13%) Metadata
9 12 (3.85%) DynamoDB
9 12 (3.85%) Star Schema
10 11 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (3.53%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.88%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.24%) Crystal Reports
14 6 (1.92%) MySQL
14 6 (1.92%) Redis
14 6 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (11.22%) Git
2 11 (3.53%) JIRA
3 4 (1.28%) ChangeMan
3 4 (1.28%) GitLab
4 3 (0.96%) MLflow
4 3 (0.96%) Selenium
5 2 (0.64%) Mocha
6 1 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.32%) JMeter
6 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.32%) Postman
6 1 (0.32%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 71 (22.76%) Finance
3 50 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.81%) Advertising
5 14 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (4.17%) Marketing
7 10 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.88%) Legal
9 8 (2.56%) Law
9 8 (2.56%) Retail
10 7 (2.24%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.92%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.96%) Banking
13 3 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.64%) Aviation
14 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.64%) Electronics
14 2 (0.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 85 (27.24%) Senior
2 74 (23.72%) Developer
3 64 (20.51%) Analyst
4 37 (11.86%) Data Engineer
5 36 (11.54%) Support Analyst
6 34 (10.90%) Applications Support
7 33 (10.58%) Senior Developer
8 31 (9.94%) .NET Developer
9 19 (6.09%) Oracle Developer
9 19 (6.09%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 17 (5.45%) Lead
10 17 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (5.13%) Data Analyst
11 16 (5.13%) SQL Developer
12 15 (4.81%) Applications Support Analyst
12 15 (4.81%) Software Engineer
13 13 (4.17%) Systems Analyst
14 12 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.85%) IT Support
14 12 (3.85%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.95%) .NET
2 33 (10.58%) .NET Core
3 32 (10.26%) ASP.NET
4 31 (9.94%) ASP.NET Core
5 25 (8.01%) React
6 24 (7.69%) HTML
7 21 (6.73%) REST
8 20 (6.41%) XML
9 18 (5.77%) CSS
10 16 (5.13%) Node.js
11 15 (4.81%) SOAP
12 13 (4.17%) JSON
12 13 (4.17%) PySpark
13 12 (3.85%) RESTful
14 11 (3.53%) .NET Framework
14 11 (3.53%) Blazor
15 10 (3.21%) Entity Framework
16 9 (2.88%) ASP.NET Web API
16 9 (2.88%) ML.NET
17 7 (2.24%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.65%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (5.13%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.53%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.28%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.28%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.28%) Social Network
9 4 (1.28%) VSAM
10 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.64%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.64%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.64%) Life Science
11 2 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.77%) Linux
2 15 (4.81%) Windows
3 4 (1.28%) zOS
4 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) Android
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (24.68%) Agile
4 74 (23.72%) Analytics
5 69 (22.12%) Data Modelling
6 59 (18.91%) CI/CD
7 58 (18.59%) AI
8 52 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 51 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (15.38%) DevOps
11 46 (14.74%) ETL
12 41 (13.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 37 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (11.54%) ERP
15 31 (9.94%) Mentoring
15 31 (9.94%) Microservices
16 30 (9.62%) Software Engineering
17 28 (8.97%) Machine Learning
18 26 (8.33%) Scrum
19 25 (8.01%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 77 (24.68%) Python
2 76 (24.36%) C#
3 29 (9.29%) JavaScript
4 24 (7.69%) Java
5 20 (6.41%) PL/SQL
6 19 (6.09%) PowerShell
7 17 (5.45%) T-SQL
8 15 (4.81%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.92%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.60%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.28%) C++
12 4 (1.28%) COBOL
12 4 (1.28%) JCL
13 2 (0.64%) Bicep
14 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (13.78%) Degree
2 9 (2.88%) Azure Certification
3 7 (2.24%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.92%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.92%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.28%) PhD
6 3 (0.96%) ACCA
6 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.96%) CIMA
6 3 (0.96%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.64%) CFA
7 2 (0.64%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.32%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.32%) HNC
8 1 (0.32%) HND
8 1 (0.32%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (18.59%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.49%) QA
3 11 (3.53%) GDPR
4 9 (2.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (2.24%) SLA
6 4 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.32%) IASME
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (7.05%) Docker
2 7 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.28%) CA Endevor
3 3 (0.96%) Grafana
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.96%) Nagios
3 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.32%) MOM
Vendors
1 100 (32.05%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.26%) Oracle
3 20 (6.41%) Google
4 18 (5.77%) Sage
5 13 (4.17%) Databricks
6 9 (2.88%) Informatica
6 9 (2.88%) Talend
7 8 (2.56%) SAP
8 7 (2.24%) Facebook
8 7 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.24%) VMware
8 7 (2.24%) YouTube
9 4 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.28%) Foundry
9 4 (1.28%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.28%) Palantir
10 2 (0.64%) Adobe
10 2 (0.64%) Thales
10 2 (0.64%) Yardi
11 1 (0.32%) FIS