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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 11 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 6,331 6,495 12,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.70% 13.49% 16.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.73% 37.00% 36.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,131 4,934 8,016
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.19% +7.62%

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 18,228 17,552 34,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.93% 36.46% 43.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,662 11,914 21,248
10th Percentile £33,250 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,231 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -2 1,629 £50,309 -2.31% 273
South East -2 1,399 £50,000 -9.09% 256
Midlands -5 1,114 £47,500 -5.47% 180
Scotland +10 1,037 £50,000 -9.09% 53
North West -2 926 £55,000 +4.76% 137
West Midlands -7 620 £50,000 -4.76% 117
South West -7 594 £50,500 +1.00% 133
Yorkshire -6 502 £47,000 -7.84% 82
East Midlands +3 483 £45,000 -10.00% 63
East of England -4 346 £47,500 -13.64% 72
North East +7 201 £49,274 -6.14% 61
Wales +1 164 £42,500 +6.25% 23
Northern Ireland -14 50 £52,654 +5.31% 67
Channel Islands 0 5 £61,250 +75.00% 1
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
1 291 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 207 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 146 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 116 (1.83%) Apache
4 116 (1.83%) IIS
5 102 (1.61%) SAS
6 98 (1.55%) FileNet
7 77 (1.22%) Confluence
8 70 (1.11%) CMS
9 37 (0.58%) Umbraco
10 34 (0.54%) WebLogic
11 32 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
11 32 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
12 27 (0.43%) Oracle Service Bus
13 21 (0.33%) GemFire
14 18 (0.28%) WebSphere
15 16 (0.25%) WordPress
16 15 (0.24%) Tomcat
17 14 (0.22%) nginx
18 11 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 388 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 220 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.52%) Simulink
6 19 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.22%) Trello
8 8 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.095%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.063%) SPSS
11 3 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.032%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.016%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 60 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.57%) Siebel CRM
3 30 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 22 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 22 (0.35%) Sage 200
5 18 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 17 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 16 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 14 (0.22%) Shopify
9 13 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
10 12 (0.19%) Magento
10 12 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
11 10 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
11 10 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
11 10 (0.16%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
13 6 (0.095%) Endur
13 6 (0.095%) Maximo
13 6 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,036 (32.16%) Azure
2 1,050 (16.59%) AWS
3 937 (14.80%) Power Platform
4 439 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
5 374 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
6 274 (4.33%) Serverless
7 260 (4.11%) SaaS
8 231 (3.65%) IBM Cloud
9 204 (3.22%) GCP
10 186 (2.94%) GitHub
11 166 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
12 160 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
13 158 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
14 150 (2.37%) Azure Functions
15 139 (2.20%) Amazon S3
16 138 (2.18%) Entra ID
17 123 (1.94%) Azure API Management
18 110 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
19 97 (1.53%) PowerApps
20 94 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 190 (3.00%) Firewall
2 117 (1.85%) DNS
3 83 (1.31%) WAN
4 81 (1.28%) SAN
5 80 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 75 (1.18%) LAN
7 60 (0.95%) DHCP
8 55 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
9 54 (0.85%) VPN
10 45 (0.71%) HTTP
11 44 (0.69%) Broadband
11 44 (0.69%) Network Security
11 44 (0.69%) SSL
12 40 (0.63%) VLAN
13 33 (0.52%) Internet
14 24 (0.38%) WLAN
15 23 (0.36%) MQTT
16 22 (0.35%) FTP
17 17 (0.27%) Kerberos
18 15 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,242 (19.62%) SQL Server
2 992 (15.67%) NoSQL
3 885 (13.98%) Power BI
4 495 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
5 466 (7.36%) Relational Database
6 459 (7.25%) MongoDB
7 395 (6.24%) Data Warehouse
8 311 (4.91%) Big Data
9 300 (4.74%) MySQL
10 280 (4.42%) Tableau
11 271 (4.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 268 (4.23%) DB2
13 262 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 230 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 181 (2.86%) Hadoop
16 178 (2.81%) Oracle Database
17 173 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
18 148 (2.34%) Data Lake
19 127 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
20 86 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 595 (9.40%) Git
2 239 (3.78%) JIRA
3 226 (3.57%) Visual Studio
4 207 (3.27%) Jenkins
5 148 (2.34%) JUnit
6 98 (1.55%) Selenium
7 77 (1.22%) Jasmine
8 67 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 67 (1.06%) GitLab
9 62 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
10 60 (0.95%) Maven
11 55 (0.87%) Mockito
12 53 (0.84%) Postman
12 53 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
13 41 (0.65%) Cucumber
14 38 (0.60%) Bitbucket
14 38 (0.60%) JMeter
14 38 (0.60%) SoapUI
15 36 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
16 35 (0.55%) NUnit
General
1 1,646 (26.00%) Finance
2 1,520 (24.01%) Social Skills
3 933 (14.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 897 (14.17%) Law
5 883 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
6 533 (8.42%) Legal
7 441 (6.97%) Marketing
8 428 (6.76%) Public Sector
9 349 (5.51%) Retail
10 276 (4.36%) Manufacturing
11 214 (3.38%) Banking
12 115 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 86 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 84 (1.33%) Investment Banking
15 78 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
16 75 (1.18%) Games
17 72 (1.14%) Financial Institution
18 70 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
18 70 (1.11%) Telecoms
19 67 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,849 (29.21%) Developer
2 971 (15.34%) Software Engineer
3 969 (15.31%) Senior
4 853 (13.47%) Analyst
5 613 (9.68%) Lead
6 367 (5.80%) .NET Developer
7 356 (5.62%) Data Engineer
8 347 (5.48%) Java Engineer
9 339 (5.35%) Software Developer
10 335 (5.29%) Java Software Engineer
11 310 (4.90%) Senior Developer
12 298 (4.71%) Full Stack Engineer
13 253 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
14 252 (3.98%) C# Developer
15 230 (3.63%) Data Analyst
16 223 (3.52%) Applications Support
16 223 (3.52%) Support Engineer
17 218 (3.44%) Lead Software Engineer
18 208 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
19 207 (3.27%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,575 (24.88%) .NET
2 1,045 (16.51%) HTML
3 900 (14.22%) CSS
4 803 (12.68%) React
5 735 (11.61%) AngularJS
6 642 (10.14%) ASP.NET
7 584 (9.22%) REST
8 510 (8.06%) Web Services
9 456 (7.20%) jQuery
10 404 (6.38%) Vue
11 402 (6.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 377 (5.95%) Spring
13 371 (5.86%) Node.js
14 361 (5.70%) Kafka
15 359 (5.67%) .NET Core
16 320 (5.05%) .NET Framework
17 308 (4.86%) JSON
18 300 (4.74%) XML
19 273 (4.31%) ASP.NET Core
20 236 (3.73%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 555 (8.77%) Algorithms
2 359 (5.67%) Data Structures
3 326 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 243 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 234 (3.70%) Blockchain
6 206 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 143 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 134 (2.12%) Product Ownership
9 122 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 120 (1.90%) e-Learning
11 102 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
12 99 (1.56%) Public Cloud
13 94 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 94 (1.48%) Mobile App
14 93 (1.47%) Replication
15 75 (1.18%) NHS
16 65 (1.03%) Data Centre
17 59 (0.93%) Driving Licence
18 58 (0.92%) Clustering
19 50 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 845 (13.35%) Windows
2 775 (12.24%) Linux
3 317 (5.01%) Android
4 259 (4.09%) Apple iOS
5 240 (3.79%) Windows Server
6 204 (3.22%) Unix
7 76 (1.20%) Windows 10
8 69 (1.09%) VMS
9 63 (1.00%) CentOS
9 63 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 61 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
11 56 (0.88%) Ubuntu
12 49 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
13 47 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 32 (0.51%) Solaris
15 27 (0.43%) Windows 7
16 19 (0.30%) AIX
17 15 (0.24%) Windows 8
18 12 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
19 7 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,013 (31.80%) Agile
2 1,410 (22.27%) Software Engineering
3 1,366 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
4 927 (14.64%) Business Intelligence
5 913 (14.42%) CI/CD
6 896 (14.15%) Artificial Intelligence
7 866 (13.68%) DevOps
8 864 (13.65%) SDLC
9 834 (13.17%) Full Stack Development
10 704 (11.12%) Visualisation
11 662 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 659 (10.41%) Computer Science
13 653 (10.31%) Analytics
14 635 (10.03%) Machine Learning
15 633 (10.00%) Mentoring
16 565 (8.92%) MVC
17 509 (8.04%) Coaching
18 491 (7.76%) Operational Stability
19 486 (7.68%) OO
20 483 (7.63%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,633 (25.79%) C#
2 1,362 (21.51%) JavaScript
3 1,311 (20.71%) Python
4 1,231 (19.44%) Java
5 505 (7.98%) T-SQL
6 334 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 317 (5.01%) PL/SQL
8 246 (3.89%) PowerShell
9 181 (2.86%) Scala
10 175 (2.76%) PHP
11 172 (2.72%) C++
12 145 (2.29%) VB
13 144 (2.27%) VB.NET
14 113 (1.78%) VBA
15 107 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 107 (1.69%) R
16 85 (1.34%) Bash
16 85 (1.34%) Kotlin
17 83 (1.31%) C
18 46 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,105 (17.45%) Degree
2 432 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 366 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 291 (4.60%) SC Cleared
5 157 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 128 (2.02%) Master's Degree
7 125 (1.97%) DBS Check
8 58 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 49 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 37 (0.58%) PhD
11 25 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 25 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 24 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
13 22 (0.35%) MBA
13 22 (0.35%) MCSE
14 18 (0.28%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.27%) CISA
15 17 (0.27%) HND
16 14 (0.22%) HNC
17 13 (0.21%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (4.39%) QA
2 265 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 120 (1.90%) SLA
4 83 (1.31%) GDPR
5 75 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 46 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.16%) ITGC
7 10 (0.16%) PMO
7 10 (0.16%) WCAG
8 9 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (0.14%) NIST
9 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.095%) TickIT
12 5 (0.079%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.063%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.047%) IFRS
14 3 (0.047%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.032%) COBIT
System Software
1 406 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 261 (4.12%) Docker
3 165 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 108 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 77 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 60 (0.95%) HDFS
7 44 (0.69%) RACF
8 29 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
9 25 (0.39%) Firmware
9 25 (0.39%) vSphere
10 21 (0.33%) XenApp
11 20 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
12 17 (0.27%) XenDesktop
13 13 (0.21%) VirtualBox
14 11 (0.17%) VMware NSX
15 7 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 7 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.063%) pfSense
16 4 (0.063%) VMware Server
17 3 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 378 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 227 (3.59%) Terraform
3 66 (1.04%) Ansible
4 60 (0.95%) Grafana
5 44 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 40 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
7 32 (0.51%) SCCM
8 30 (0.47%) Data Guard
9 26 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 25 (0.39%) Kibana
11 23 (0.36%) SCOM
12 21 (0.33%) HAProxy
12 21 (0.33%) Zipkin
13 20 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
15 14 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
15 14 (0.22%) Progress Chef
15 14 (0.22%) WSUS
16 13 (0.21%) Backup Exec
17 12 (0.19%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1,470 (23.22%) Microsoft
2 831 (13.13%) Oracle
3 305 (4.82%) IBM
4 294 (4.64%) Databricks
5 274 (4.33%) Red Hat
6 241 (3.81%) VMware
7 232 (3.66%) Google
8 133 (2.10%) Informatica
9 123 (1.94%) SAP
10 78 (1.23%) Citrix
11 72 (1.14%) Cisco
12 69 (1.09%) Veeam
13 55 (0.87%) IFS
14 54 (0.85%) Sage
15 52 (0.82%) Splunk
16 45 (0.71%) CyberArk
17 39 (0.62%) Remedy
18 36 (0.57%) Salesforce
18 36 (0.57%) Siebel
19 34 (0.54%) HP