SQL Jobs in the UK excluding London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4,756 11,398 11,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.14% 17.33% 17.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.20% 40.30% 36.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,482 6,713 8,624
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,718 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,133 28,285 30,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 38.62% 43.01% 47.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8,772 17,250 22,606
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,825 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 1,204 £52,500 +4.50% 629
South East -1 1,176 £52,500 -4.55% 576
Midlands 0 868 £50,000 - 343
North West -3 626 £55,000 +10.00% 372
South West -7 583 £54,000 +8.00% 194
West Midlands +2 539 £50,000 - 202
Yorkshire -3 508 £50,000 -4.76% 189
Scotland +3 462 £57,500 +4.55% 132
East Midlands 0 333 £50,000 - 141
East of England +1 233 £55,000 +4.76% 187
Wales -7 164 £45,000 -10.00% 68
North East -3 70 £47,500 -5.00% 77
Northern Ireland -18 68 £47,500 -5.00% 32
Isle of Man +6 20 £52,500 -27.59% 2
Channel Islands +10 4 £65,000 +30.00% 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
1 142 (2.99%) IIS
2 126 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 77 (1.62%) SAS
4 69 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 51 (1.07%) Confluence
6 50 (1.05%) CMS
7 37 (0.78%) WebSphere
8 36 (0.76%) Apache
9 35 (0.74%) Umbraco
10 30 (0.63%) MS Exchange
11 23 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
11 23 (0.48%) Tomcat
12 18 (0.38%) Captiva
12 18 (0.38%) FileNet
13 15 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
13 15 (0.32%) WebLogic
14 12 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
14 12 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
15 11 (0.23%) Jetty
15 11 (0.23%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 258 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 209 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.11%) SPSS
7 3 (0.063%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.042%) Trello
9 1 (0.021%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.021%) InDesign
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.021%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 88 (1.85%) Hyperion Planning
2 54 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 22 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 19 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 17 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
7 16 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
8 14 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
8 14 (0.29%) Shopify
9 9 (0.19%) ProductWriter
10 8 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
10 8 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
10 8 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (0.13%) Primavera
12 5 (0.11%) Demantra
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle ASCP
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.11%) SAP Business One
12 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,551 (32.61%) Azure
2 795 (16.72%) Power Platform
3 786 (16.53%) AWS
4 330 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
5 267 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
6 245 (5.15%) GCP
7 229 (4.81%) SaaS
8 190 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 143 (3.01%) Serverless
10 119 (2.50%) GitHub
11 103 (2.17%) Entra ID
12 102 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 101 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
14 87 (1.83%) PowerApps
15 82 (1.72%) PaaS
16 80 (1.68%) Snowflake
17 77 (1.62%) Power Automate
18 76 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
19 62 (1.30%) IaaS
20 60 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 147 (3.09%) Firewall
2 109 (2.29%) DNS
3 104 (2.19%) WAN
4 65 (1.37%) VPN
5 55 (1.16%) LAN
6 54 (1.14%) DHCP
7 51 (1.07%) SAN
8 48 (1.01%) Internet
9 36 (0.76%) HTTP
9 36 (0.76%) TCP/IP
10 33 (0.69%) SNMP
11 31 (0.65%) VoIP
12 25 (0.53%) NAS
12 25 (0.53%) VLAN
13 24 (0.50%) Skype
14 13 (0.27%) FTP
14 13 (0.27%) Network Security
15 12 (0.25%) SMS
16 11 (0.23%) Wireless
17 10 (0.21%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,113 (23.40%) SQL Server
2 742 (15.60%) Power BI
3 447 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
4 322 (6.77%) NoSQL
5 300 (6.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 254 (5.34%) MySQL
7 237 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
8 229 (4.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 221 (4.65%) Oracle Database
10 216 (4.54%) Relational Database
11 174 (3.66%) Tableau
12 169 (3.55%) Data Lake
13 168 (3.53%) MongoDB
14 156 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
15 121 (2.54%) Big Data
16 104 (2.19%) Oracle Database 11g
17 100 (2.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 73 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
19 72 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
20 64 (1.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 410 (8.62%) Git
2 216 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 191 (4.02%) JIRA
4 150 (3.15%) Selenium
5 141 (2.96%) Visual Studio
6 95 (2.00%) Maven
7 81 (1.70%) LabVIEW
8 70 (1.47%) Cucumber
9 54 (1.14%) Cypress.io
10 48 (1.01%) Postman
11 47 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
12 44 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
13 43 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
14 42 (0.88%) Bitbucket
15 40 (0.84%) SoapUI
16 38 (0.80%) IntelliJ
17 35 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 34 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
19 30 (0.63%) Visual Studio Team System
20 29 (0.61%) JUnit
General
1 1,156 (24.31%) Finance
2 926 (19.47%) Social Skills
3 570 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 333 (7.00%) Banking
5 305 (6.41%) Law
6 256 (5.38%) Retail
7 242 (5.09%) Marketing
8 220 (4.63%) Manufacturing
9 203 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 155 (3.26%) Public Sector
11 121 (2.54%) Legal
12 85 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 51 (1.07%) Financial Institution
15 47 (0.99%) Automotive
16 46 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
17 43 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
18 37 (0.78%) Electronics
19 32 (0.67%) Advertising
19 32 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,397 (29.37%) Developer
2 953 (20.04%) Senior
3 681 (14.32%) Analyst
4 371 (7.80%) Software Engineer
5 345 (7.25%) Data Engineer
6 321 (6.75%) Senior Developer
7 315 (6.62%) Lead
8 284 (5.97%) .NET Developer
9 272 (5.72%) Systems Engineer
10 269 (5.66%) Software Developer
11 214 (4.50%) Applications Support
12 210 (4.42%) DBA
13 197 (4.14%) Data Analyst
14 185 (3.89%) Consultant
15 177 (3.72%) Support Analyst
16 176 (3.70%) Administrator
17 163 (3.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 149 (3.13%) C# Developer
19 141 (2.96%) Support Engineer
20 140 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 978 (20.56%) .NET
2 597 (12.55%) HTML
3 526 (11.06%) CSS
4 363 (7.63%) React
5 308 (6.48%) AngularJS
6 258 (5.42%) .NET Framework
7 257 (5.40%) ASP.NET
8 254 (5.34%) XML
9 249 (5.24%) REST
10 244 (5.13%) .NET Core
11 238 (5.00%) Web Services
12 190 (3.99%) JSON
13 167 (3.51%) Spring
14 160 (3.36%) Vue
15 159 (3.34%) jQuery
16 147 (3.09%) RESTful
17 146 (3.07%) SOAP
18 135 (2.84%) Node.js
19 125 (2.63%) Entity Framework
20 109 (2.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 268 (5.63%) Management Information System
2 171 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
3 111 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 109 (2.29%) Data Structures
5 103 (2.17%) Replication
6 100 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 95 (2.00%) Clustering
8 92 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 87 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 85 (1.79%) Raspberry Pi
11 84 (1.77%) Arduino
12 80 (1.68%) Data Centre
13 68 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 67 (1.41%) Cloud Native
14 67 (1.41%) Mobile App
15 63 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 57 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
17 54 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
18 50 (1.05%) Low-Code
19 42 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 557 (11.71%) Windows
2 331 (6.96%) Linux
3 250 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 139 (2.92%) Unix
5 69 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 59 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 45 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 43 (0.90%) Android
9 42 (0.88%) Windows 10
10 34 (0.71%) Mac OS
11 28 (0.59%) Apple iOS
12 27 (0.57%) CentOS
13 19 (0.40%) Windows 7
14 16 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 15 (0.32%) AIX
15 15 (0.32%) Debian
16 14 (0.29%) Ubuntu
17 13 (0.27%) Solaris
18 6 (0.13%) Windows 8
19 4 (0.084%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,477 (31.06%) Agile
2 992 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
3 890 (18.71%) Business Intelligence
4 816 (17.16%) DevOps
5 658 (13.84%) Analytics
6 576 (12.11%) Software Engineering
7 491 (10.32%) ETL
8 475 (9.99%) CI/CD
9 420 (8.83%) Actionable Insight
10 399 (8.39%) Data Modelling
11 395 (8.31%) Visualisation
12 369 (7.76%) Mentoring
13 353 (7.42%) Full Stack Development
14 344 (7.23%) Migration
15 319 (6.71%) Scrum
16 311 (6.54%) Data Analysis
17 302 (6.35%) Computer Science
18 282 (5.93%) MVC
19 274 (5.76%) Microservices
20 273 (5.74%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1,015 (21.34%) C#
2 939 (19.74%) Python
3 890 (18.71%) JavaScript
4 580 (12.20%) Java
5 480 (10.09%) PL/SQL
6 469 (9.86%) T-SQL
7 320 (6.73%) PowerShell
8 217 (4.56%) TypeScript
9 161 (3.39%) PHP
10 142 (2.99%) VB
11 126 (2.65%) Bash
11 126 (2.65%) C++
12 91 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 75 (1.58%) VB.NET
14 70 (1.47%) R
15 49 (1.03%) Scala
16 48 (1.01%) Shell Script
17 47 (0.99%) Go
18 43 (0.90%) Ruby
19 42 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 661 (13.90%) Degree
2 447 (9.40%) Security Cleared
3 338 (7.11%) SC Cleared
4 194 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 93 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 83 (1.75%) HNC
7 77 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 58 (1.22%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 26 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 26 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
11 25 (0.53%) MCSE
12 24 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 21 (0.44%) CCNA
15 20 (0.42%) AWS Certification
16 17 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 16 (0.34%) MCSA
18 15 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 12 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (2.96%) Data Quality
2 132 (2.78%) QA
3 109 (2.29%) SLA
4 71 (1.49%) GDPR
5 25 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 24 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (0.36%) PMO
8 12 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 7 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.13%) MISRA
12 4 (0.084%) GxP
12 4 (0.084%) ITGC
12 4 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.084%) WCAG
13 3 (0.063%) COBIT
System Software
1 377 (7.93%) Active Directory
2 318 (6.69%) Docker
3 138 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 100 (2.10%) Hyper-V
5 39 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 25 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
7 23 (0.48%) vSphere
8 9 (0.19%) HDFS
8 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
9 7 (0.15%) XenApp
10 6 (0.13%) Firmware
10 6 (0.13%) VirtualBox
10 6 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.13%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.084%) RACF
12 3 (0.063%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.042%) Postfix
13 2 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 258 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 143 (3.01%) Terraform
3 72 (1.51%) Ansible
4 66 (1.39%) SCCM
5 47 (0.99%) SCOM
6 43 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 31 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
8 30 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
9 24 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 22 (0.46%) Data Guard
11 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
12 17 (0.36%) SCVMM
13 16 (0.34%) Puppet
14 11 (0.23%) Grafana
14 11 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 10 (0.21%) Istio
16 9 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
17 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
17 8 (0.17%) Oracle Statspack
17 8 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,136 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 676 (14.21%) Oracle
3 215 (4.52%) VMware
4 157 (3.30%) Databricks
5 148 (3.11%) NEC
6 137 (2.88%) Google
7 91 (1.91%) SAP
8 88 (1.85%) Hyperion
9 74 (1.56%) Cisco
10 64 (1.35%) IBM
11 55 (1.16%) ServiceNow
12 53 (1.11%) Citrix
13 45 (0.95%) Teradata
14 41 (0.86%) Dynatrace
15 38 (0.80%) Salesforce
16 34 (0.71%) Red Hat
17 32 (0.67%) Alteryx
18 29 (0.61%) Veeam
19 26 (0.55%) Splunk
20 24 (0.50%) Xamarin