Senior SQL Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior SQL Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior SQL Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 713 739
Rank change year-on-year +184 +26 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 24 39 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.055% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.058% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 24 39 28
10th Percentile £49,000 £51,600 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -7.64% +25.00%
75th Percentile £71,563 £71,250 £75,938
90th Percentile £75,875 £72,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £69,412
% change year-on-year +5.77% -6.36% +15.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,760 66,748 54,875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.80% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 18,678 47,256 31,166
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,600 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Senior SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior SQL Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior SQL Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +108 15 £67,500 -
West Midlands +55 4 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Midlands +54 4 £60,000 - 3
North of England +71 3 £70,000 - 3
North West +23 3 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +130 2 £50,000 -7.41% 2
Senior SQL Developer
UK

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (62.50%) OLTP
2 15 (62.50%) HTML
2 15 (62.50%) PL/SQL
2 15 (62.50%) Oracle
2 15 (62.50%) Software Testing
3 13 (54.17%) SOAP
3 13 (54.17%) XML
4 11 (45.83%) Degree
5 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
6 7 (29.17%) Finance
6 7 (29.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (29.17%) Azure
6 7 (29.17%) SaaS
6 7 (29.17%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (29.17%) Power BI
6 7 (29.17%) Fintech
6 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
7 5 (20.83%) Metadata
7 5 (20.83%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (20.83%) Data Privacy
7 5 (20.83%) Private Cloud
7 5 (20.83%) Refactoring
7 5 (20.83%) Wealth Management
7 5 (20.83%) Statistics
7 5 (20.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (20.83%) SQL CLR

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
1 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
1 7 (29.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (62.50%) OLTP
2 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 7 (29.17%) Power BI
3 7 (29.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (20.83%) Data Hub
4 5 (20.83%) Metadata
4 5 (20.83%) SQL CLR
4 5 (20.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Back Office
3 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (62.50%) HTML
2 13 (54.17%) SOAP
2 13 (54.17%) XML
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (8.33%) CSS
3 2 (8.33%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Private Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
1 15 (62.50%) Software Testing
2 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (29.17%) Fintech
2 7 (29.17%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (20.83%) Data Privacy
3 5 (20.83%) High Availability
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Migration
3 5 (20.83%) Refactoring
3 5 (20.83%) Statistics
3 5 (20.83%) Wealth Management
3 5 (20.83%) Workflow
4 2 (8.33%) Change Control
4 2 (8.33%) Data Management
4 2 (8.33%) Defect Tracking
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (8.33%) Project Management
4 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (62.50%) PL/SQL
3 5 (20.83%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) VMware