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

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,139 10,482 11,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.74% 16.73% 16.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.20% 41.24% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,765 5,737 8,178
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,000 £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 £65,000 £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 22,483 25,419 32,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.42% 40.58% 46.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,462 14,228 21,700
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £67,500
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 19 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 19 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 2,040 £50,000 -4.76% 419
South East -4 1,686 £50,000 -9.09% 266
Scotland +4 1,476 £55,000 -12.29% 125
Midlands -3 1,379 £47,500 -5.00% 291
North West -1 1,151 £52,500 - 258
West Midlands -2 819 £50,000 - 165
South West -7 750 £50,000 - 166
Yorkshire -5 633 £47,500 -9.52% 117
East Midlands -1 553 £45,000 -10.00% 125
East of England -6 527 £47,500 -9.52% 153
North East 0 258 £50,000 - 52
Wales -2 219 £45,000 +12.50% 47
Northern Ireland -16 63 £55,000 +10.00% 22
Isle of Man - 6 £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
1 458 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 294 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 230 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 205 (2.52%) IIS
5 147 (1.81%) Apache
6 115 (1.41%) FileNet
7 90 (1.11%) Confluence
8 80 (0.98%) CMS
9 65 (0.80%) SAS
10 57 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
11 48 (0.59%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.54%) Oracle Service Bus
13 38 (0.47%) WebSphere
14 33 (0.41%) Umbraco
15 29 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
16 22 (0.27%) Captiva
17 21 (0.26%) GemFire
17 21 (0.26%) WordPress
18 19 (0.23%) Tomcat
19 14 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 488 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 311 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 45 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.16%) Trello
7 12 (0.15%) SPSS
8 10 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 8 (0.098%) Simulink
11 7 (0.086%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.025%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.012%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.012%) Adobe XD
14 1 (0.012%) InDesign
14 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 88 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 38 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 37 (0.45%) Siebel CRM
5 20 (0.25%) Sage 200
5 20 (0.25%) Shopify
6 16 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
7 15 (0.18%) SAP Business One
8 14 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
8 14 (0.17%) Magento
9 13 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
10 12 (0.15%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.14%) Endur
11 11 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
12 10 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
13 8 (0.098%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.098%) HFM
13 8 (0.098%) Oracle Applications
14 7 (0.086%) Oracle EBS R12
14 7 (0.086%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,696 (33.12%) Azure
2 1,445 (17.75%) AWS
3 1,394 (17.13%) Power Platform
4 553 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
5 502 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
6 353 (4.34%) GCP
7 346 (4.25%) Serverless
8 270 (3.32%) SaaS
9 210 (2.58%) GitHub
10 193 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 191 (2.35%) IBM Cloud
12 162 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
13 155 (1.90%) Amazon S3
14 153 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
15 151 (1.86%) Snowflake
16 147 (1.81%) Azure Functions
17 145 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
18 142 (1.74%) PowerApps
19 140 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
20 126 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 269 (3.31%) Firewall
2 182 (2.24%) WAN
3 145 (1.78%) DNS
4 130 (1.60%) LAN
5 92 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 87 (1.07%) DHCP
6 87 (1.07%) Internet
7 84 (1.03%) VPN
8 78 (0.96%) Broadband
9 77 (0.95%) SAN
10 65 (0.80%) HTTP
11 52 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (0.61%) VLAN
13 49 (0.60%) SSL
14 39 (0.48%) VoIP
15 37 (0.45%) Network Security
16 32 (0.39%) Wireless
17 29 (0.36%) MQTT
18 28 (0.34%) WLAN
19 24 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,939 (23.82%) SQL Server
2 1,323 (16.26%) Power BI
3 1,186 (14.57%) NoSQL
4 625 (7.68%) Data Warehouse
5 597 (7.34%) Relational Database
6 545 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
7 491 (6.03%) Big Data
8 467 (5.74%) MongoDB
9 463 (5.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 429 (5.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 407 (5.00%) MySQL
12 369 (4.53%) Tableau
13 323 (3.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 272 (3.34%) Data Lake
15 262 (3.22%) DB2
15 262 (3.22%) Oracle Database
16 252 (3.10%) Hadoop
17 225 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
18 149 (1.83%) BigQuery
19 142 (1.74%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 677 (8.32%) Git
2 333 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 318 (3.91%) JIRA
4 290 (3.56%) Visual Studio
5 167 (2.05%) JUnit
6 132 (1.62%) Selenium
7 112 (1.38%) GitLab
8 93 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 76 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 76 (0.93%) Jasmine
10 73 (0.90%) Postman
11 70 (0.86%) Maven
12 69 (0.85%) Cucumber
13 66 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
14 65 (0.80%) Mockito
15 53 (0.65%) TeamCity
16 51 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
17 49 (0.60%) NUnit
18 47 (0.58%) Bitbucket
19 44 (0.54%) SoapUI
General
1 2,266 (27.84%) Finance
2 1,802 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 1,321 (16.23%) Law
4 1,264 (15.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 917 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
6 770 (9.46%) Marketing
7 593 (7.29%) Legal
8 518 (6.36%) Public Sector
9 489 (6.01%) Retail
10 369 (4.53%) Manufacturing
11 316 (3.88%) Banking
12 182 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
13 162 (1.99%) Financial Institution
14 145 (1.78%) Games
14 145 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
15 124 (1.52%) Investment Banking
16 98 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
17 95 (1.17%) Telecoms
18 88 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
19 80 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,458 (30.20%) Developer
2 1,295 (15.91%) Software Engineer
3 1,168 (14.35%) Senior
4 1,045 (12.84%) Analyst
5 808 (9.93%) Lead
6 525 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 524 (6.44%) .NET Developer
8 503 (6.18%) Java Engineer
9 489 (6.01%) Java Software Engineer
10 469 (5.76%) Software Developer
11 447 (5.49%) Senior Developer
12 332 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
13 329 (4.04%) Full Stack Engineer
14 316 (3.88%) C# Developer
15 312 (3.83%) DBA
16 293 (3.60%) Data Analyst
17 290 (3.56%) Full Stack Developer
18 285 (3.50%) Big Data Engineer
18 285 (3.50%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 267 (3.28%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,924 (23.64%) .NET
2 1,261 (15.49%) HTML
3 1,083 (13.31%) CSS
4 888 (10.91%) React
5 836 (10.27%) AngularJS
6 806 (9.90%) ASP.NET
7 662 (8.13%) REST
8 557 (6.84%) .NET Core
9 529 (6.50%) Web Services
10 498 (6.12%) Spring
11 452 (5.55%) jQuery
12 399 (4.90%) .NET Framework
13 384 (4.72%) Node.js
14 374 (4.60%) Vue
15 366 (4.50%) XML
16 356 (4.37%) Kafka
17 350 (4.30%) Entity Framework
18 346 (4.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 345 (4.24%) JSON
20 308 (3.78%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 636 (7.81%) Algorithms
2 427 (5.25%) Cloud Native
3 399 (4.90%) Data Structures
4 262 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
5 255 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 213 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 206 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 185 (2.27%) Blockchain
9 160 (1.97%) Onboarding
9 160 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 136 (1.67%) Clustering
11 131 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
12 129 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
13 117 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 100 (1.23%) Replication
15 86 (1.06%) e-Learning
16 83 (1.02%) Data Centre
17 81 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
18 74 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
19 66 (0.81%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 987 (12.13%) Windows
2 866 (10.64%) Linux
3 330 (4.05%) Windows Server
4 307 (3.77%) Unix
5 241 (2.96%) Android
6 218 (2.68%) Apple iOS
7 119 (1.46%) Windows 10
8 98 (1.20%) VMS
9 85 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
10 75 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
11 69 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
12 67 (0.82%) Windows 7
13 56 (0.69%) CentOS
14 50 (0.61%) Solaris
15 49 (0.60%) Windows 8
16 22 (0.27%) AIX
17 21 (0.26%) Ubuntu
18 20 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 19 (0.23%) Debian
20 13 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,863 (35.18%) Agile
2 1,817 (22.32%) Software Engineering
3 1,643 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
4 1,454 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
5 1,320 (16.22%) CI/CD
6 1,252 (15.38%) SDLC
7 1,251 (15.37%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,103 (13.55%) DevOps
9 1,019 (12.52%) Full Stack Development
10 990 (12.16%) Machine Learning
11 976 (11.99%) Visualisation
12 853 (10.48%) Analytics
13 776 (9.53%) ETL
14 765 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 748 (9.19%) Operational Stability
16 742 (9.12%) Mentoring
17 738 (9.07%) MVC
18 670 (8.23%) Computer Science
19 626 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
20 624 (7.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,005 (24.63%) C#
2 1,680 (20.64%) JavaScript
3 1,668 (20.49%) Java
4 1,565 (19.23%) Python
5 746 (9.17%) T-SQL
6 454 (5.58%) TypeScript
7 447 (5.49%) PL/SQL
8 322 (3.96%) Scala
9 285 (3.50%) PowerShell
10 232 (2.85%) PHP
11 186 (2.29%) VB
12 163 (2.00%) C++
13 146 (1.79%) VB.NET
14 115 (1.41%) Bash
15 101 (1.24%) VBA
16 96 (1.18%) R
17 92 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 85 (1.04%) C
19 75 (0.92%) Groovy
20 62 (0.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,206 (14.82%) Degree
2 429 (5.27%) Security Cleared
3 342 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 326 (4.01%) SC Cleared
5 228 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 176 (2.16%) DBS Check
7 125 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 85 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 80 (0.98%) Azure Certification
10 37 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 36 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
12 30 (0.37%) CCNA
12 30 (0.37%) PhD
13 27 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (0.33%) MCSE
14 24 (0.29%) ISTQB
15 23 (0.28%) OCP
15 23 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
16 22 (0.27%) AWS Certification
17 21 (0.26%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (3.22%) Data Quality
2 261 (3.21%) QA
3 158 (1.94%) SLA
4 125 (1.54%) GDPR
5 87 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 48 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (0.48%) PMO
8 21 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.18%) ITGC
10 14 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.098%) PSD2
13 7 (0.086%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.086%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.061%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.061%) TickIT
15 5 (0.061%) WCAG
16 4 (0.049%) COBIT
16 4 (0.049%) HIPAA
System Software
1 469 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 403 (4.95%) Docker
3 251 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 168 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 112 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 100 (1.23%) HDFS
7 53 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 51 (0.63%) XenApp
9 50 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
9 50 (0.61%) VirtualBox
10 47 (0.58%) XenDesktop
11 32 (0.39%) vSphere
12 27 (0.33%) Firmware
13 15 (0.18%) 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
1 511 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 270 (3.32%) Terraform
3 101 (1.24%) Ansible
4 77 (0.95%) Grafana
5 55 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
6 53 (0.65%) SCCM
7 48 (0.59%) Data Guard
8 47 (0.58%) Prometheus
9 39 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 30 (0.37%) SCOM
11 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 27 (0.33%) Kibana
11 27 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
13 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
13 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
14 19 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
15 16 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (0.18%) Puppet
17 14 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2,097 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 1,044 (12.83%) Oracle
3 420 (5.16%) Databricks
4 355 (4.36%) VMware
5 319 (3.92%) IBM
6 269 (3.31%) Google
7 219 (2.69%) Red Hat
8 191 (2.35%) SAP
9 141 (1.73%) Informatica
10 131 (1.61%) Citrix
11 83 (1.02%) Cisco
12 72 (0.88%) Cloudera
13 71 (0.87%) Veeam
14 67 (0.82%) Splunk
15 63 (0.77%) Dynatrace
16 61 (0.75%) Alteryx
17 60 (0.74%) Remedy
18 58 (0.71%) Sage
19 47 (0.58%) F5
20 44 (0.54%) Salesforce