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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 312 598 741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.08% 8.91% 12.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.49% 31.69% 31.41%
Number of salaries quoted 220 494 465
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £32,500
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 £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 752 1,887 2,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.87% 28.12% 39.96%
Number of salaries quoted 474 1,537 1,395
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -5.17% +5.45%

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 20 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 20 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 -5 176 £65,000 +4.00% 167
Buckinghamshire -13 80 £60,000 +26.32% 51
Oxfordshire -9 56 £42,549 +0.12% 78
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 12 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.53%) IBM Domino
3 9 (2.88%) Confluence
4 7 (2.24%) Apache
4 7 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.24%) IIS
5 5 (1.60%) CMS
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Service Bus
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.53%) Sage 200
2 10 (3.21%) NetSuite
2 10 (3.21%) Sage CRM
3 6 (1.92%) Q-Pulse
4 4 (1.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (34.62%) Azure
2 64 (20.51%) AWS
3 54 (17.31%) Power Platform
4 47 (15.06%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (14.42%) GCP
6 30 (9.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 29 (9.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 27 (8.65%) Snowflake
9 26 (8.33%) SonarCloud
10 9 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.88%) SaaS
11 8 (2.56%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.92%) PaaS
12 6 (1.92%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.28%) GitHub
13 4 (1.28%) IaaS
13 4 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.24%) DNS
1 7 (2.24%) Firewall
2 6 (1.92%) VPN
3 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.64%) WAN
5 1 (0.32%) Broadband
5 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.32%) Internet
5 1 (0.32%) NAS
5 1 (0.32%) RS-232
5 1 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (21.15%) SQL Server
2 52 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (13.14%) Power BI
4 38 (12.18%) Data Lake
5 29 (9.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 27 (8.65%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (8.33%) Metadata
8 24 (7.69%) MySQL
8 24 (7.69%) OLTP
9 21 (6.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 18 (5.77%) NoSQL
10 18 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (2.88%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.56%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.24%) Big Data
13 7 (2.24%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.60%) Tableau
15 4 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (1.28%) Metabase
16 3 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 51 (16.35%) Visual Studio
2 47 (15.06%) Git
3 26 (8.33%) MSBuild
3 26 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 26 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 16 (5.13%) JIRA
5 15 (4.81%) Selenium
6 12 (3.85%) GitLab
7 11 (3.53%) Maven
8 10 (3.21%) SonarQube
9 9 (2.88%) JUnit
10 8 (2.56%) Jenkins
10 8 (2.56%) Mockito
11 7 (2.24%) Cypress.io
11 7 (2.24%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.92%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.92%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.28%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.28%) jMock
General
1 93 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.54%) Finance
3 34 (10.90%) Law
3 34 (10.90%) Retail
4 32 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.81%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.24%) Aviation
8 7 (2.24%) Banking
9 6 (1.92%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.92%) Military
10 5 (1.60%) Back Office
10 5 (1.60%) Local Government
10 5 (1.60%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.28%) Marketing
11 4 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.96%) Legal
13 2 (0.64%) Games
14 1 (0.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 91 (29.17%) Developer
2 65 (20.83%) Senior
3 39 (12.50%) Lead
4 37 (11.86%) Software Engineer
5 34 (10.90%) Architect
6 30 (9.62%) Senior Developer
7 28 (8.97%) Technical Architect
8 24 (7.69%) Analyst
8 24 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
8 24 (7.69%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 22 (7.05%) Support Engineer
10 19 (6.09%) Portal Developer
11 18 (5.77%) Software Developer
12 16 (5.13%) Applications Support
12 16 (5.13%) Technical Support
13 15 (4.81%) Applications Support Engineer
13 15 (4.81%) PL/SQL Developer
13 15 (4.81%) SQL Developer
13 15 (4.81%) Technical Engineer
13 15 (4.81%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (30.45%) .NET
2 74 (23.72%) HTML
3 73 (23.40%) XML
4 54 (17.31%) JSON
5 48 (15.38%) React
6 45 (14.42%) ASP.NET
7 43 (13.78%) CSS
8 40 (12.82%) REST
9 29 (9.29%) Bootstrap
10 26 (8.33%) .NET Framework
10 26 (8.33%) gRPC
11 22 (7.05%) .NET Core
11 22 (7.05%) SOAP
12 21 (6.73%) AngularJS
13 15 (4.81%) Hibernate
13 15 (4.81%) Kafka
13 15 (4.81%) Spring
14 12 (3.85%) JPA
14 12 (3.85%) Spring Boot
15 11 (3.53%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (6.09%) Mobile App
3 15 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.49%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.88%) Algorithms
5 9 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.24%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.92%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.92%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.60%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.28%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.28%) Hackathon
11 3 (0.96%) Clustering
11 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.90%) Linux
2 19 (6.09%) Windows
3 9 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.60%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.96%) Android
5 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (25.32%) DevOps
3 76 (24.36%) Agile
4 72 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 55 (17.63%) Analytics
6 52 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 48 (15.38%) Data Engineering
8 47 (15.06%) Microservices
9 45 (14.42%) Project Management
10 38 (12.18%) ETL
11 37 (11.86%) Data Modelling
12 36 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (10.58%) MVC
13 33 (10.58%) Performance Optimisation
14 32 (10.26%) Data Governance
15 31 (9.94%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (9.94%) Design Patterns
16 30 (9.62%) Data Architecture
16 30 (9.62%) Machine Learning
16 30 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 93 (29.81%) Python
2 79 (25.32%) C#
2 79 (25.32%) JavaScript
3 46 (14.74%) PL/SQL
4 40 (12.82%) Java
5 23 (7.37%) TypeScript
6 21 (6.73%) C++
7 16 (5.13%) T-SQL
8 14 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.49%) Ruby
9 12 (3.85%) C
9 12 (3.85%) VB.NET
10 11 (3.53%) R
11 10 (3.21%) PHP
11 10 (3.21%) Rust
12 9 (2.88%) Dart
12 9 (2.88%) MATLAB
13 6 (1.92%) Bash
14 4 (1.28%) Go
15 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 74 (23.72%) Degree
2 22 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.21%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.24%) MCP
7 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.92%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.28%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.28%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.28%) Dell Certification
9 4 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.96%) MCSA
10 3 (0.96%) MCSE
11 2 (0.64%) PhD
12 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.32%) HND
12 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.58%) Data Quality
2 32 (10.26%) GDPR
2 32 (10.26%) QA
3 28 (8.97%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.64%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 52 (16.67%) Docker
2 6 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.96%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.96%) Postfix
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.92%) Terraform
3 5 (1.60%) Grafana
3 5 (1.60%) Prometheus
3 5 (1.60%) ZABBIX
4 3 (0.96%) PaperCut
5 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 57 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.86%) Oracle
3 11 (3.53%) Google
3 11 (3.53%) Sage
4 6 (1.92%) Solace
4 6 (1.92%) VMware
5 5 (1.60%) Databricks
5 5 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.28%) Dell
6 4 (1.28%) Epicor
7 3 (0.96%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.64%) Apple
8 2 (0.64%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.64%) Freshdesk
8 2 (0.64%) IBM
8 2 (0.64%) Meraki
8 2 (0.64%) Zoho
9 1 (0.32%) Adobe
9 1 (0.32%) EMC
9 1 (0.32%) SAP