SQL Jobs in the UK excluding London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,207 8,207 8,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.09% 10.17% 15.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.97% 34.59% 40.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,248 5,661 5,297
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,219 £62,500 £65,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,354 23,729 21,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.11% 29.40% 38.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6,577 17,069 12,808
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 June 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 -22 852 £52,000 +4.00% 933
South East -8 741 £50,000 - 2,244
Midlands -6 647 £48,500 +2.11% 463
North West -32 491 £50,000 -2.91% 535
West Midlands -4 372 £52,500 +5.53% 250
East of England 0 366 £65,550 +38.00% 282
Yorkshire -7 295 £55,000 +21.55% 288
South West +2 278 £50,000 - 320
Scotland -19 274 £48,000 -12.73% 282
East Midlands -9 273 £45,000 +3.45% 197
North East -10 68 £52,500 +5.00% 115
Wales -33 39 £65,000 +46.07% 108
Northern Ireland +5 21 £52,500 -4.55% 80
Channel Islands 0 4 £87,500 +29.63% 57
Isle of Man - 1 - -
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
SQL
UK

SQL
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
1 229 (7.14%) Confluence
2 111 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 96 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 74 (2.31%) Apache
5 58 (1.81%) IIS
6 40 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 39 (1.22%) CMS
8 28 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
9 27 (0.84%) SAS
10 25 (0.78%) IBM Domino
11 22 (0.69%) Umbraco
12 14 (0.44%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.16%) nginx
15 4 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
15 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.094%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.094%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.094%) Sitefinity
16 3 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 200 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (3.84%) Chatbot
3 66 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.094%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.062%) Trello
9 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.031%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 43 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
2 35 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
4 28 (0.87%) Sage 200
5 22 (0.69%) NetSuite
6 17 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
7 16 (0.50%) Sage CRM
8 14 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
9 11 (0.34%) Sage 50
10 9 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite
10 9 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 8 (0.25%) Infor M3
12 7 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
13 6 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
14 4 (0.12%) ResourceLink
14 4 (0.12%) Sage 1000
14 4 (0.12%) SAP Business One
15 3 (0.094%) Infor SunSystems
15 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
15 3 (0.094%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,332 (41.53%) Azure
2 768 (23.95%) AWS
3 581 (18.12%) Power Platform
4 341 (10.63%) GCP
5 179 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
6 143 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
7 142 (4.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 140 (4.37%) SaaS
9 116 (3.62%) GitHub
10 112 (3.49%) Snowflake
11 102 (3.18%) Power Automate
12 95 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 85 (2.65%) Serverless
14 77 (2.40%) Entra ID
15 76 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
16 71 (2.21%) PowerApps
17 64 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
18 57 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
19 55 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
20 45 (1.40%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.37%) Firewall
2 80 (2.49%) DNS
3 62 (1.93%) WAN
4 50 (1.56%) LAN
5 47 (1.47%) VPN
6 42 (1.31%) DHCP
7 40 (1.25%) SAN
8 38 (1.18%) VLAN
9 37 (1.15%) VoIP
10 35 (1.09%) Network Security
11 32 (1.00%) TCP/IP
12 24 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.72%) FTP
13 23 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.65%) SSL
15 20 (0.62%) Wireless
16 18 (0.56%) MPLS
17 16 (0.50%) HTTP
18 15 (0.47%) Intranet
19 14 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 853 (26.60%) SQL Server
2 537 (16.74%) Power BI
3 270 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
4 211 (6.58%) NoSQL
5 165 (5.14%) Relational Database
6 162 (5.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 160 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
8 156 (4.86%) MySQL
9 154 (4.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 150 (4.68%) Data Lake
11 132 (4.12%) Tableau
12 130 (4.05%) Big Data
13 110 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 80 (2.49%) MongoDB
15 60 (1.87%) RDBMS
16 56 (1.75%) Metadata
17 52 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
18 50 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
19 43 (1.34%) Hadoop
20 42 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 378 (11.79%) JIRA
2 285 (8.89%) GitLab
3 275 (8.57%) Maven
4 270 (8.42%) Selenium
5 264 (8.23%) Bitbucket
5 264 (8.23%) SonarQube
6 258 (8.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 254 (7.92%) Cucumber
7 254 (7.92%) Git
8 101 (3.15%) Visual Studio
9 75 (2.34%) Jenkins
10 46 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
11 41 (1.28%) JUnit
12 40 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 38 (1.18%) Eclipse
14 32 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
15 28 (0.87%) Mockito
15 28 (0.87%) MSBuild
16 25 (0.78%) Eclipse RCP
17 20 (0.62%) Postman
General
1 909 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 874 (27.25%) Finance
3 467 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 430 (13.41%) Banking
5 396 (12.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 335 (10.45%) Retail
7 277 (8.64%) Law
8 161 (5.02%) Manufacturing
9 133 (4.15%) Marketing
10 105 (3.27%) Investment Banking
11 90 (2.81%) Corporate Banking
12 87 (2.71%) Public Sector
13 74 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
14 61 (1.90%) Legal
15 56 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
16 43 (1.34%) Automotive
17 37 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
18 35 (1.09%) Aerospace
19 29 (0.90%) Advertising
19 29 (0.90%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 784 (24.45%) Developer
2 590 (18.40%) Analyst
3 554 (17.27%) Software Engineer
4 414 (12.91%) Senior
5 248 (7.73%) Lead
6 221 (6.89%) Support Analyst
7 204 (6.36%) Data Engineer
8 164 (5.11%) Data Analyst
9 148 (4.61%) Senior Developer
10 136 (4.24%) IT Support
11 135 (4.21%) SQL Developer
12 130 (4.05%) Architect
13 122 (3.80%) Applications Support
14 116 (3.62%) Trainer
15 96 (2.99%) Support Engineer
16 91 (2.84%) Software Developer
17 88 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
18 85 (2.65%) Junior
19 84 (2.62%) .NET Developer
20 75 (2.34%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (21.86%) HTML
2 509 (15.87%) .NET
3 487 (15.19%) CSS
4 457 (14.25%) React
5 353 (11.01%) Spring
6 346 (10.79%) Kafka
7 325 (10.13%) Spring Boot
8 284 (8.86%) JPA
9 261 (8.14%) REST
10 253 (7.89%) Redux
11 204 (6.36%) Hibernate
12 194 (6.05%) RESTful
13 168 (5.24%) ASP.NET
14 155 (4.83%) HTML5
15 146 (4.55%) XML
16 142 (4.43%) JSON
17 139 (4.33%) .NET Framework
18 131 (4.08%) AngularJS
19 112 (3.49%) .NET Core
20 109 (3.40%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 332 (10.35%) Product Ownership
2 286 (8.92%) Enterprise Software
3 114 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
4 112 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 103 (3.21%) Data Structures
6 92 (2.87%) Cloud Native
7 72 (2.25%) Algorithms
8 63 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 50 (1.56%) Mobile App
10 49 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 39 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 38 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
13 35 (1.09%) Driving Licence
14 33 (1.03%) Data Centre
15 31 (0.97%) NHS
16 30 (0.94%) Public Cloud
17 29 (0.90%) IoT
18 26 (0.81%) Client/Server
19 24 (0.75%) Replication
20 23 (0.72%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 275 (8.57%) Windows
2 254 (7.92%) Linux
3 119 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 97 (3.02%) Unix
5 50 (1.56%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (0.59%) Mac OS X
9 18 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.25%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.22%) VMS
14 6 (0.19%) AIX
14 6 (0.19%) Android
14 6 (0.19%) Rocky
15 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.16%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.12%) Solaris
17 3 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (28.94%) Agile
2 766 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
3 699 (21.80%) Software Engineering
4 663 (20.67%) DevOps
5 647 (20.17%) Business Intelligence
6 611 (19.05%) CI/CD
7 541 (16.87%) Analytics
8 454 (14.16%) SDLC
9 442 (13.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 428 (13.35%) Microservices
11 392 (12.22%) Mentoring
12 380 (11.85%) Artificial Intelligence
12 380 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 373 (11.63%) ETL
14 368 (11.47%) Test Automation
15 350 (10.91%) Containerisation
16 313 (9.76%) Performance Optimisation
17 303 (9.45%) Migration
18 295 (9.20%) Front End Development
19 283 (8.82%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 883 (27.53%) Python
2 825 (25.72%) JavaScript
3 707 (22.05%) C#
4 705 (21.98%) Java
5 239 (7.45%) TypeScript
6 219 (6.83%) C++
7 218 (6.80%) T-SQL
8 172 (5.36%) PowerShell
9 140 (4.37%) PHP
10 136 (4.24%) PL/SQL
11 127 (3.96%) R
12 78 (2.43%) C
13 75 (2.34%) Rust
14 69 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 55 (1.71%) Ruby
16 49 (1.53%) Dart
16 49 (1.53%) MATLAB
17 47 (1.47%) Bash
17 47 (1.47%) VBA
18 27 (0.84%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 716 (22.33%) Degree
2 184 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 130 (4.05%) Security Cleared
4 112 (3.49%) DBS Check
5 95 (2.96%) SC Cleared
6 90 (2.81%) Azure Certification
7 76 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 44 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 36 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 31 (0.97%) MCSE
12 29 (0.90%) MCSA
13 23 (0.72%) A+ Certification
14 22 (0.69%) MCP
15 20 (0.62%) DV Cleared
16 16 (0.50%) HND
16 16 (0.50%) ISTQB
17 15 (0.47%) PhD
18 14 (0.44%) HNC
19 12 (0.37%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (11.76%) QA
2 195 (6.08%) Data Quality
3 179 (5.58%) Accessibility
4 101 (3.15%) GDPR
5 87 (2.71%) SLA
6 39 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.65%) NIST
9 15 (0.47%) WCAG
10 13 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 13 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.22%) HL7
14 6 (0.19%) GxP
14 6 (0.19%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.12%) IFRS
16 4 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 460 (14.34%) Docker
2 142 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 56 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 36 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.47%) HDFS
8 8 (0.25%) vSphere
9 7 (0.22%) Firmware
9 7 (0.22%) Postfix
9 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.16%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.094%) Apache Flume
11 3 (0.094%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.094%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.094%) Squid
12 2 (0.062%) KVM
12 2 (0.062%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.062%) Xen
12 2 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 415 (12.94%) Kubernetes
2 91 (2.84%) Terraform
3 42 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (0.87%) Grafana
5 25 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.47%) Ansible
7 10 (0.31%) Istio
7 10 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 10 (0.31%) SCCM
8 8 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
9 7 (0.22%) PaperCut
10 6 (0.19%) WSUS
11 5 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.16%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.12%) Kibana
12 4 (0.12%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 691 (21.55%) Microsoft
2 279 (8.70%) Oracle
3 246 (7.67%) Solace
4 195 (6.08%) Databricks
5 124 (3.87%) PayPal
6 93 (2.90%) Google
7 77 (2.40%) VMware
8 62 (1.93%) SAP
9 40 (1.25%) IBM
10 38 (1.18%) Cisco
11 33 (1.03%) Sage
11 33 (1.03%) Salesforce
12 27 (0.84%) Informatica
13 25 (0.78%) Facebook
14 23 (0.72%) ServiceNow
15 20 (0.62%) Dell
16 19 (0.59%) Red Hat
17 17 (0.53%) Infor
17 17 (0.53%) Meraki
17 17 (0.53%) Splunk