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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,092 10,197 11,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.40% 17.02% 15.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.02% 42.49% 34.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,678 5,493 7,904
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,144 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.01% +7.54% +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 22,464 23,997 32,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.65% 40.04% 46.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16,379 13,518 21,111
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,063
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 10 May 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 10 May 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 2,021 £50,000 -4.76% 395
South East -4 1,682 £50,000 -9.09% 288
Scotland +1 1,502 £55,000 -8.33% 106
Midlands -4 1,356 £47,500 -5.00% 350
North West -3 1,146 £52,500 +0.96% 218
West Midlands -4 802 £50,000 - 208
South West -9 741 £50,000 - 195
Yorkshire -6 622 £47,500 -9.52% 142
East Midlands -1 545 £45,000 -10.00% 142
East of England -8 520 £47,500 -9.52% 168
North East 0 255 £50,000 -4.76% 37
Wales -1 213 £45,000 +12.50% 45
Northern Ireland -22 58 £55,000 +10.00% 25
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 2 £45,000 -
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
1 473 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 274 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 211 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 193 (2.39%) IIS
5 155 (1.92%) Apache
6 120 (1.48%) FileNet
7 93 (1.15%) Confluence
8 77 (0.95%) CMS
9 62 (0.77%) SAS
10 58 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
11 48 (0.59%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.54%) Oracle Service Bus
13 38 (0.47%) WebSphere
14 32 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
15 31 (0.38%) Umbraco
16 22 (0.27%) Captiva
16 22 (0.27%) WordPress
17 21 (0.26%) GemFire
18 17 (0.21%) Tomcat
19 13 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 483 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 301 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 40 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.17%) Simulink
7 13 (0.16%) Trello
8 11 (0.14%) SPSS
9 9 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.025%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 80 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (0.49%) Siebel CRM
4 34 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.25%) Sage 200
6 19 (0.23%) Shopify
7 15 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 14 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
8 14 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.16%) Magento
10 12 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 12 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
11 11 (0.14%) Endur
11 11 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
12 8 (0.099%) Dynamics GP
12 8 (0.099%) HFM
12 8 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
13 7 (0.087%) Hyperion Planning
13 7 (0.087%) Sage X3
13 7 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,696 (33.32%) Azure
2 1,448 (17.89%) AWS
3 1,376 (17.00%) Power Platform
4 536 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
5 500 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
6 348 (4.30%) Serverless
7 346 (4.28%) GCP
8 265 (3.27%) SaaS
9 233 (2.88%) IBM Cloud
10 206 (2.55%) GitHub
11 191 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 165 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
13 155 (1.92%) Azure Functions
13 155 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
14 154 (1.90%) Amazon S3
15 153 (1.89%) Snowflake
16 151 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
17 137 (1.69%) PowerApps
18 136 (1.68%) Azure API Management
18 136 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 250 (3.09%) Firewall
2 150 (1.85%) WAN
3 138 (1.71%) DNS
4 105 (1.30%) LAN
5 97 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 84 (1.04%) DHCP
7 82 (1.01%) Internet
8 79 (0.98%) VPN
9 78 (0.96%) Broadband
10 68 (0.84%) SAN
11 64 (0.79%) HTTP
12 53 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
13 49 (0.61%) SSL
14 47 (0.58%) VLAN
15 41 (0.51%) Network Security
16 31 (0.38%) Wireless
17 30 (0.37%) MQTT
18 29 (0.36%) VoIP
19 27 (0.33%) WLAN
20 22 (0.27%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,877 (23.20%) SQL Server
2 1,311 (16.20%) Power BI
3 1,250 (15.45%) NoSQL
4 626 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
5 605 (7.48%) Relational Database
6 583 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
7 514 (6.35%) MongoDB
8 504 (6.23%) Big Data
9 444 (5.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 420 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 387 (4.78%) MySQL
12 381 (4.71%) Tableau
13 315 (3.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 303 (3.74%) DB2
15 275 (3.40%) Data Lake
16 271 (3.35%) Hadoop
17 241 (2.98%) Oracle Database
18 234 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
19 146 (1.80%) BigQuery
20 132 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 679 (8.39%) Git
2 321 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 314 (3.88%) JIRA
4 283 (3.50%) Visual Studio
5 171 (2.11%) JUnit
6 131 (1.62%) Selenium
7 114 (1.41%) GitLab
8 92 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 80 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 77 (0.95%) Jasmine
11 72 (0.89%) Postman
12 69 (0.85%) Cucumber
13 64 (0.79%) Maven
13 64 (0.79%) Mockito
14 59 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
15 52 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
16 48 (0.59%) NUnit
16 48 (0.59%) TeamCity
17 41 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 40 (0.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,259 (27.92%) Finance
2 1,822 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 1,335 (16.50%) Law
4 1,313 (16.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 930 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
6 783 (9.68%) Marketing
7 599 (7.40%) Legal
8 556 (6.87%) Public Sector
9 484 (5.98%) Retail
10 358 (4.42%) Manufacturing
11 306 (3.78%) Banking
12 187 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
13 163 (2.01%) Financial Institution
14 145 (1.79%) Games
14 145 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
15 122 (1.51%) Investment Banking
16 97 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
17 92 (1.14%) Telecoms
18 84 (1.04%) Aerospace
18 84 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,393 (29.57%) Developer
2 1,344 (16.61%) Software Engineer
3 1,152 (14.24%) Senior
4 1,030 (12.73%) Analyst
5 827 (10.22%) Lead
6 521 (6.44%) Java Engineer
7 519 (6.41%) Data Engineer
8 506 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
9 501 (6.19%) .NET Developer
10 448 (5.54%) Software Developer
11 428 (5.29%) Senior Developer
12 366 (4.52%) Full Stack Engineer
13 341 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
14 303 (3.74%) C# Developer
15 301 (3.72%) DBA
16 293 (3.62%) Full Stack Developer
17 291 (3.60%) Big Data Engineer
17 291 (3.60%) Big Data Software Engineer
17 291 (3.60%) Data Analyst
18 265 (3.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,941 (23.99%) .NET
2 1,266 (15.65%) HTML
3 1,099 (13.58%) CSS
4 899 (11.11%) React
5 849 (10.49%) AngularJS
6 844 (10.43%) ASP.NET
7 699 (8.64%) REST
8 568 (7.02%) Web Services
9 554 (6.85%) .NET Core
10 501 (6.19%) Spring
11 488 (6.03%) jQuery
12 411 (5.08%) Vue
13 394 (4.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 390 (4.82%) Node.js
15 389 (4.81%) .NET Framework
16 385 (4.76%) Kafka
17 348 (4.30%) JSON
18 347 (4.29%) Entity Framework
19 338 (4.18%) XML
20 301 (3.72%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 688 (8.50%) Algorithms
2 446 (5.51%) Cloud Native
3 445 (5.50%) Data Structures
4 262 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
5 250 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 229 (2.83%) Blockchain
7 224 (2.77%) Management Information System
8 215 (2.66%) Public Cloud
9 161 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 157 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 135 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 128 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
13 117 (1.45%) Clustering
14 116 (1.43%) e-Learning
14 116 (1.43%) Mobile App
15 103 (1.27%) Replication
16 81 (1.00%) Data Centre
17 77 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
18 73 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
19 69 (0.85%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,002 (12.38%) Windows
2 917 (11.33%) Linux
3 303 (3.74%) Unix
4 298 (3.68%) Windows Server
5 289 (3.57%) Android
6 257 (3.18%) Apple iOS
7 118 (1.46%) Windows 10
8 99 (1.22%) VMS
9 68 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 66 (0.82%) Windows 7
10 66 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 62 (0.77%) CentOS
12 54 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
13 48 (0.59%) Solaris
14 47 (0.58%) Windows 8
15 29 (0.36%) Ubuntu
16 26 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 22 (0.27%) AIX
18 19 (0.23%) Debian
19 13 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,885 (35.65%) Agile
2 1,883 (23.27%) Software Engineering
3 1,662 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
4 1,438 (17.77%) Business Intelligence
5 1,324 (16.36%) CI/CD
6 1,304 (16.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,270 (15.69%) SDLC
8 1,076 (13.30%) DevOps
9 1,045 (12.91%) Full Stack Development
10 1,013 (12.52%) Machine Learning
11 994 (12.28%) Visualisation
12 847 (10.47%) Analytics
13 771 (9.53%) Mentoring
14 768 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 768 (9.49%) MVC
15 767 (9.48%) Operational Stability
16 754 (9.32%) ETL
17 686 (8.48%) Computer Science
18 637 (7.87%) Decision-Making
19 612 (7.56%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,027 (25.05%) C#
2 1,741 (21.52%) Java
3 1,684 (20.81%) JavaScript
4 1,598 (19.75%) Python
5 729 (9.01%) T-SQL
6 444 (5.49%) TypeScript
7 434 (5.36%) PL/SQL
8 333 (4.12%) Scala
9 252 (3.11%) PowerShell
10 201 (2.48%) PHP
11 174 (2.15%) C++
12 168 (2.08%) VB
13 150 (1.85%) VB.NET
14 106 (1.31%) R
15 100 (1.24%) VBA
16 99 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 95 (1.17%) Bash
18 92 (1.14%) C
19 74 (0.91%) Groovy
20 60 (0.74%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,190 (14.71%) Degree
2 446 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 342 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 335 (4.14%) SC Cleared
5 228 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 186 (2.30%) DBS Check
7 126 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 79 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 75 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 37 (0.46%) PMI Certification
11 35 (0.43%) PhD
12 28 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
13 25 (0.31%) ISTQB
14 24 (0.30%) MCSE
15 22 (0.27%) CISA
15 22 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.27%) MBA
15 22 (0.27%) OCP
15 22 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
16 20 (0.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 257 (3.18%) QA
3 159 (1.96%) SLA
4 120 (1.48%) GDPR
5 88 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 45 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.41%) PMO
8 21 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.15%) ITGC
11 9 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.11%) NIST
12 8 (0.099%) PSD2
13 6 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.074%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.074%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.062%) TickIT
15 4 (0.049%) COBIT
15 4 (0.049%) HL7
15 4 (0.049%) WCAG
System Software
1 427 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 387 (4.78%) Docker
3 230 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 156 (1.93%) Hyper-V
5 115 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 102 (1.26%) HDFS
7 51 (0.63%) XenApp
8 49 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
9 48 (0.59%) VirtualBox
10 47 (0.58%) XenDesktop
11 38 (0.47%) VMware NSX
12 26 (0.32%) Firmware
13 23 (0.28%) vSphere
14 16 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
15 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 9 (0.11%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.062%) Terminal Services
18 4 (0.049%) RACF
Systems Management
1 508 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 278 (3.44%) Terraform
3 104 (1.29%) Ansible
4 79 (0.98%) Grafana
5 54 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 48 (0.59%) Data Guard
7 46 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 38 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 37 (0.46%) SCCM
10 28 (0.35%) SCOM
11 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
12 26 (0.32%) Kibana
13 23 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
14 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
14 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
15 15 (0.19%) WSUS
16 13 (0.16%) Backup Exec
16 13 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
16 13 (0.16%) NetBackup
16 13 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,037 (25.17%) Microsoft
2 1,031 (12.74%) Oracle
3 426 (5.26%) Databricks
4 359 (4.44%) IBM
5 330 (4.08%) VMware
6 272 (3.36%) Google
7 262 (3.24%) Red Hat
8 188 (2.32%) SAP
9 144 (1.78%) Informatica
10 132 (1.63%) Citrix
11 73 (0.90%) Cloudera
12 72 (0.89%) Veeam
13 66 (0.82%) Cisco
14 65 (0.80%) Splunk
15 62 (0.77%) Remedy
16 59 (0.73%) Dynatrace
17 58 (0.72%) Alteryx
18 55 (0.68%) Sage
19 45 (0.56%) F5
20 44 (0.54%) Sun