SQL Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 591 485
Rank change year-on-year +156 -106 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 123 175 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.25% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.26% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 123 163 250
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £36,125
25th Percentile £44,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £59,375 £60,938
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

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 SQL Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +76 51 £60,000 +26.32% 9
Yorkshire +90 33 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Midlands +76 33 £50,000 +2.56% 7
West Midlands +58 26 £47,500 +5.56% 6
South East +87 17 £67,500 +22.73% 5
North West +6 14 £57,500 +27.78% 4
East of England +50 13 £30,500 -6.15% 2
East Midlands +36 7 £52,500 -4.55%
South West +105 5 £50,000 -9.09% 5
North East +53 4 £57,500 - 2
Scotland +126 2 £50,000 -7.41% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £69,000 - 1
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 SQL Developer in the job title.

1 120 (97.56%) SQL
2 90 (73.17%) SQL Server
3 81 (65.85%) Azure
4 65 (52.85%) T-SQL
5 59 (47.97%) Microsoft
6 55 (44.72%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (35.77%) DBS Check
9 34 (27.64%) Power BI
9 34 (27.64%) Power Platform
10 27 (21.95%) Analytics
11 26 (21.14%) Degree
11 26 (21.14%) .NET
12 25 (20.33%) Finance
12 25 (20.33%) Critical Thinking
13 24 (19.51%) C#
14 22 (17.89%) Oracle
14 22 (17.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (17.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 20 (16.26%) HTML
16 20 (16.26%) PL/SQL
16 20 (16.26%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 20 (16.26%) Database Optimisation
17 19 (15.45%) CSS
18 17 (13.82%) PHP
18 17 (13.82%) ASP.NET
18 17 (13.82%) ETL
18 17 (13.82%) Computer Science
19 16 (13.01%) Artificial Intelligence
19 16 (13.01%) Computer Science Degree

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 9 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.63%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 81 (65.85%) Azure
2 34 (27.64%) Power Platform
3 10 (8.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (8.13%) SaaS
4 9 (7.32%) IaaS
4 9 (7.32%) PaaS
4 9 (7.32%) Power Automate
4 9 (7.32%) PowerApps
5 5 (4.07%) AWS
6 4 (3.25%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.81%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (73.17%) SQL Server
2 34 (27.64%) Power BI
3 22 (17.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 21 (17.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (10.57%) OLTP
6 12 (9.76%) MySQL
7 11 (8.94%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (7.32%) Star Schema
9 7 (5.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (4.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (4.07%) Data Hub
10 5 (4.07%) MariaDB
10 5 (4.07%) Metadata
10 5 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (4.07%) SQL CLR
11 4 (3.25%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.63%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.81%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.63%) Git
3 1 (0.81%) JIRA
3 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (20.33%) Finance
2 15 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.07%) Back Office
3 5 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.44%) Games
5 2 (1.63%) Advertising
5 2 (1.63%) Automotive
5 2 (1.63%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.63%) Police
5 2 (1.63%) Publishing
5 2 (1.63%) Retail
5 2 (1.63%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.14%) .NET
2 20 (16.26%) HTML
3 19 (15.45%) CSS
4 17 (13.82%) ASP.NET
5 14 (11.38%) XML
6 12 (9.76%) SOAP
7 11 (8.94%) jQuery
8 6 (4.88%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.88%) HTML5
9 3 (2.44%) CSS3
10 2 (1.63%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.63%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (1.63%) JSON
10 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.63%) Razor View Engine
11 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (0.81%) OAuth
11 1 (0.81%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.81%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.07%) Private Cloud
2 5 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.63%) FMCG
5 2 (1.63%) Robotics
6 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (44.72%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (21.95%) Analytics
4 25 (20.33%) Critical Thinking
5 20 (16.26%) Database Optimisation
5 20 (16.26%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 17 (13.82%) Computer Science
6 17 (13.82%) ETL
7 16 (13.01%) Artificial Intelligence
8 14 (11.38%) Software Testing
9 13 (10.57%) OO
10 12 (9.76%) Decision-Making
10 12 (9.76%) MVC
10 12 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (8.94%) Agile
11 11 (8.94%) Customer Service
11 11 (8.94%) OOP
12 9 (7.32%) CRM
12 9 (7.32%) Data Mapping
12 9 (7.32%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 120 (97.56%) SQL
2 65 (52.85%) T-SQL
3 24 (19.51%) C#
4 20 (16.26%) PL/SQL
5 17 (13.82%) PHP
6 11 (8.94%) C++
6 11 (8.94%) Java
6 11 (8.94%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.69%) Python
8 4 (3.25%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.63%) R
9 2 (1.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 44 (35.77%) DBS Check
2 26 (21.14%) Degree
3 16 (13.01%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.63%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.07%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 59 (47.97%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.89%) Oracle
3 5 (4.07%) VMware
4 2 (1.63%) RedGate
5 1 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.81%) SAP