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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,137 10,390 11,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.62% 16.81% 15.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.20% 41.59% 34.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,705 5,688 8,040
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +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 22,477 24,981 32,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.09% 40.42% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,345 14,015 21,422
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,463
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -4 2,033 £50,000 -4.76% 396
South East -3 1,683 £50,000 -9.09% 278
Scotland +3 1,496 £55,000 -12.00% 126
Midlands -3 1,377 £47,500 -5.00% 299
North West -2 1,153 £52,500 - 237
West Midlands -4 807 £50,000 - 172
South West -7 744 £50,000 - 172
Yorkshire -6 630 £47,500 -9.52% 117
East Midlands -1 563 £45,000 -10.00% 127
East of England -5 529 £47,500 -9.52% 162
North East 0 252 £50,000 - 47
Wales 0 216 £45,000 +12.50% 46
Northern Ireland -18 62 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Isle of Man - 4 £45,000 -
Channel Islands -2 2 - -
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
1 467 (5.74%) Apache Spark
2 284 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 229 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 201 (2.47%) IIS
5 152 (1.87%) Apache
6 118 (1.45%) FileNet
7 90 (1.11%) Confluence
8 78 (0.96%) CMS
9 64 (0.79%) SAS
10 56 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
11 49 (0.60%) WebLogic
12 45 (0.55%) Oracle Service Bus
13 38 (0.47%) WebSphere
14 33 (0.41%) Umbraco
15 31 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
16 22 (0.27%) Captiva
16 22 (0.27%) WordPress
17 21 (0.26%) GemFire
18 18 (0.22%) Tomcat
19 13 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 488 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 305 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 42 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.16%) Trello
7 12 (0.15%) SPSS
8 10 (0.12%) Simulink
9 9 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.086%) Oracle Smart View
11 5 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.025%) LaTeX
13 1 (0.012%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.012%) InDesign
13 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
13 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 87 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 38 (0.47%) Siebel CRM
4 36 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.25%) Sage 200
5 20 (0.25%) Shopify
6 15 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 14 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
7 14 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
8 13 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 13 (0.16%) Magento
8 13 (0.16%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.14%) Endur
9 11 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.098%) Dynamics GP
10 8 (0.098%) HFM
10 8 (0.098%) Oracle Applications
11 7 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.086%) Sage X3
11 7 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,697 (33.14%) Azure
2 1,450 (17.82%) AWS
3 1,385 (17.02%) Power Platform
4 543 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 501 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
6 349 (4.29%) Serverless
7 347 (4.26%) GCP
8 270 (3.32%) SaaS
9 219 (2.69%) IBM Cloud
10 208 (2.56%) GitHub
11 192 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 159 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
13 157 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
14 155 (1.90%) Amazon S3
15 153 (1.88%) Azure Functions
16 150 (1.84%) Snowflake
17 148 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
18 142 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
19 141 (1.73%) PowerApps
20 132 (1.62%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 260 (3.20%) Firewall
2 179 (2.20%) WAN
3 141 (1.73%) DNS
4 130 (1.60%) LAN
5 93 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 86 (1.06%) DHCP
7 83 (1.02%) Internet
8 82 (1.01%) VPN
9 78 (0.96%) Broadband
10 69 (0.85%) SAN
11 65 (0.80%) HTTP
12 53 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
13 49 (0.60%) SSL
13 49 (0.60%) VLAN
14 40 (0.49%) Network Security
15 35 (0.43%) VoIP
16 31 (0.38%) Wireless
17 30 (0.37%) MQTT
18 28 (0.34%) WLAN
19 22 (0.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,917 (23.56%) SQL Server
2 1,315 (16.16%) Power BI
3 1,223 (15.03%) NoSQL
4 618 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
5 598 (7.35%) Relational Database
6 575 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
7 503 (6.18%) MongoDB
8 496 (6.10%) Big Data
9 457 (5.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 421 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 399 (4.90%) MySQL
12 376 (4.62%) Tableau
13 318 (3.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 291 (3.58%) DB2
15 270 (3.32%) Data Lake
16 263 (3.23%) Hadoop
17 258 (3.17%) Oracle Database
18 228 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
19 148 (1.82%) BigQuery
20 139 (1.71%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 679 (8.34%) Git
2 330 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 317 (3.90%) JIRA
4 286 (3.51%) Visual Studio
5 170 (2.09%) JUnit
6 133 (1.63%) Selenium
7 112 (1.38%) GitLab
8 94 (1.16%) Bitbucket Server
9 79 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 77 (0.95%) Jasmine
11 74 (0.91%) Postman
12 70 (0.86%) Cucumber
13 69 (0.85%) Maven
14 65 (0.80%) Mockito
15 63 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
16 52 (0.64%) TeamCity
17 50 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
18 49 (0.60%) NUnit
19 46 (0.57%) Bitbucket
20 44 (0.54%) SoapUI
General
1 2,268 (27.87%) Finance
2 1,816 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 1,334 (16.39%) Law
4 1,307 (16.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 921 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
6 781 (9.60%) Marketing
7 599 (7.36%) Legal
8 542 (6.66%) Public Sector
9 490 (6.02%) Retail
10 361 (4.44%) Manufacturing
11 314 (3.86%) Banking
12 186 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
13 164 (2.02%) Financial Institution
14 145 (1.78%) Games
14 145 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
15 124 (1.52%) Investment Banking
16 99 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
17 92 (1.13%) Telecoms
18 89 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
19 82 (1.01%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,432 (29.89%) Developer
2 1,322 (16.25%) Software Engineer
3 1,165 (14.32%) Senior
4 1,039 (12.77%) Analyst
5 822 (10.10%) Lead
6 521 (6.40%) Data Engineer
7 515 (6.33%) Java Engineer
8 509 (6.26%) .NET Developer
9 500 (6.14%) Java Software Engineer
10 464 (5.70%) Software Developer
11 445 (5.47%) Senior Developer
12 355 (4.36%) Full Stack Engineer
13 340 (4.18%) Lead Software Engineer
14 305 (3.75%) C# Developer
15 304 (3.74%) DBA
16 294 (3.61%) Full Stack Developer
17 291 (3.58%) Big Data Engineer
17 291 (3.58%) Big Data Software Engineer
18 289 (3.55%) Data Analyst
19 263 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,931 (23.73%) .NET
2 1,277 (15.69%) HTML
3 1,105 (13.58%) CSS
4 916 (11.26%) React
5 865 (10.63%) AngularJS
6 827 (10.16%) ASP.NET
7 690 (8.48%) REST
8 555 (6.82%) Web Services
9 551 (6.77%) .NET Core
10 504 (6.19%) Spring
11 478 (5.87%) jQuery
12 404 (4.96%) Vue
13 397 (4.88%) Node.js
14 387 (4.76%) .NET Framework
15 378 (4.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 372 (4.57%) Kafka
17 364 (4.47%) XML
18 346 (4.25%) JSON
19 342 (4.20%) Entity Framework
20 306 (3.76%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 672 (8.26%) Algorithms
2 440 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 428 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 263 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 250 (3.07%) Management Information System
6 235 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 214 (2.63%) Blockchain
7 214 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 160 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 160 (1.97%) Product Ownership
9 135 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 130 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
11 122 (1.50%) Clustering
12 115 (1.41%) Mobile App
13 107 (1.31%) e-Learning
14 99 (1.22%) Replication
15 81 (1.00%) Data Centre
16 80 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
17 73 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
18 68 (0.84%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,003 (12.33%) Windows
2 895 (11.00%) Linux
3 314 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 309 (3.80%) Unix
5 272 (3.34%) Android
6 246 (3.02%) Apple iOS
7 118 (1.45%) Windows 10
8 99 (1.22%) VMS
9 71 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 68 (0.84%) Windows 7
11 67 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
12 62 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
13 57 (0.70%) CentOS
14 49 (0.60%) Solaris
14 49 (0.60%) Windows 8
15 24 (0.29%) Ubuntu
16 22 (0.27%) AIX
16 22 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 19 (0.23%) Debian
18 13 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,887 (35.48%) Agile
2 1,843 (22.65%) Software Engineering
3 1,657 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
4 1,447 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
5 1,328 (16.32%) CI/CD
6 1,296 (15.93%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,272 (15.63%) SDLC
8 1,098 (13.49%) DevOps
9 1,049 (12.89%) Full Stack Development
10 1,004 (12.34%) Machine Learning
11 982 (12.07%) Visualisation
12 851 (10.46%) Analytics
13 767 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 763 (9.38%) Mentoring
14 763 (9.38%) Operational Stability
15 762 (9.36%) ETL
16 759 (9.33%) MVC
17 671 (8.25%) Computer Science
18 634 (7.79%) Decision-Making
19 628 (7.72%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,015 (24.76%) C#
2 1,704 (20.94%) Java
3 1,700 (20.89%) JavaScript
4 1,601 (19.68%) Python
5 732 (9.00%) T-SQL
6 452 (5.55%) TypeScript
7 446 (5.48%) PL/SQL
8 331 (4.07%) Scala
9 273 (3.36%) PowerShell
10 229 (2.81%) PHP
11 190 (2.34%) VB
12 166 (2.04%) C++
13 146 (1.79%) VB.NET
14 113 (1.39%) Bash
15 103 (1.27%) R
16 101 (1.24%) VBA
17 95 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 89 (1.09%) C
19 74 (0.91%) Groovy
20 61 (0.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,203 (14.78%) Degree
2 430 (5.28%) Security Cleared
3 339 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 325 (3.99%) SC Cleared
5 227 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 178 (2.19%) DBS Check
7 123 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 78 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 78 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 37 (0.45%) PMI Certification
10 36 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (0.38%) PhD
12 30 (0.37%) CCNA
13 27 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
14 26 (0.32%) MCSE
15 25 (0.31%) ISTQB
16 23 (0.28%) CISA
16 23 (0.28%) OCP
16 23 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
17 21 (0.26%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (3.24%) Data Quality
2 254 (3.12%) QA
3 158 (1.94%) SLA
4 121 (1.49%) GDPR
5 89 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 46 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (0.45%) PMO
8 21 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.17%) ITGC
10 9 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.098%) PSD2
12 7 (0.086%) NIST
12 7 (0.086%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.074%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.061%) TickIT
15 4 (0.049%) COBIT
15 4 (0.049%) HL7
15 4 (0.049%) WCAG
System Software
1 452 (5.55%) Active Directory
2 396 (4.87%) Docker
3 240 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 157 (1.93%) Hyper-V
5 112 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 102 (1.25%) HDFS
7 51 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
7 51 (0.63%) XenApp
8 50 (0.61%) VirtualBox
9 47 (0.58%) XenDesktop
10 43 (0.53%) VMware NSX
11 27 (0.33%) Firmware
12 24 (0.29%) vSphere
13 16 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
14 10 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 9 (0.11%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.061%) Terminal Services
18 4 (0.049%) RACF
Systems Management
1 508 (6.24%) Kubernetes
2 270 (3.32%) Terraform
3 100 (1.23%) Ansible
4 79 (0.97%) Grafana
5 56 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
6 49 (0.60%) Data Guard
7 47 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 45 (0.55%) SCCM
9 38 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 30 (0.37%) SCOM
11 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 27 (0.33%) Kibana
12 25 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
13 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
14 16 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
15 15 (0.18%) WSUS
16 13 (0.16%) Backup Exec
16 13 (0.16%) NetBackup
16 13 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,070 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 1,039 (12.77%) Oracle
3 423 (5.20%) Databricks
4 348 (4.28%) IBM
5 341 (4.19%) VMware
6 269 (3.31%) Google
7 247 (3.04%) Red Hat
8 190 (2.34%) SAP
9 143 (1.76%) Informatica
10 132 (1.62%) Citrix
11 80 (0.98%) Cisco
12 73 (0.90%) Cloudera
13 72 (0.88%) Veeam
14 67 (0.82%) Splunk
15 64 (0.79%) Remedy
16 61 (0.75%) Alteryx
16 61 (0.75%) Dynatrace
17 57 (0.70%) Sage
18 47 (0.58%) F5
19 45 (0.55%) Salesforce