Senior SQL Developer Jobs

Senior SQL Developer
UK

The median Senior SQL Developer salary in the UK is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 667 827 913
Rank change year-on-year +160 +86 +221
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 32 51 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.052% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.055% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 28 47 50
10th Percentile £49,000 £52,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,625 £62,323
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £69,412
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -6.36% +15.69%
75th Percentile £71,563 £71,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £75,375 £85,000 £87,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £63,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +6.30% -7.64% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 47,358 93,248 95,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,451 66,908 59,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.21% +5.50%

Senior SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL Developer in the UK

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior SQL Developer.

Salary trend for Senior SQL Developer in the UK

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior SQL Developer over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior SQL Developer in the UK

Senior SQL Developer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior SQL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
England +171 30 £70,000 +3.70% 10
Work from Home +164 27 £70,000 +3.70% 7
UK excluding London +190 24 £67,500 +6.30% 8
South East +98 15 £67,500 -
London +106 8 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Midlands +61 4 £60,000 - 3
West Midlands +52 4 £60,000 -4.00% 3
North of England +73 3 £70,000 - 3
North West +27 3 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +132 2 £50,000 -7.41% 2

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) SQL
2 17 (53.13%) SQL Server
3 15 (46.88%) HTML
3 15 (46.88%) PL/SQL
3 15 (46.88%) Oracle
3 15 (46.88%) OLTP
3 15 (46.88%) Software Testing
3 15 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (43.75%) Power Platform
4 14 (43.75%) Power BI
4 14 (43.75%) Azure
4 14 (43.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (40.63%) SOAP
5 13 (40.63%) XML
5 13 (40.63%) T-SQL
6 12 (37.50%) Finance
7 11 (34.38%) SaaS
7 11 (34.38%) Degree
7 11 (34.38%) Fintech
7 11 (34.38%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (31.25%) Wealth Management
9 9 (28.13%) Refactoring
9 9 (28.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
9 9 (28.13%) SQL CLR
9 9 (28.13%) High Availability
9 9 (28.13%) Statistics
9 9 (28.13%) Migration
9 9 (28.13%) VMware

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (28.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
1 14 (43.75%) Power Platform
2 11 (34.38%) SaaS
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.13%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (53.13%) SQL Server
2 15 (46.88%) OLTP
3 14 (43.75%) Power BI
3 14 (43.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (28.13%) Data Hub
4 9 (28.13%) Metadata
4 9 (28.13%) SQL CLR
4 9 (28.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.13%) Tableau
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Back Office
3 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) HTML
2 13 (40.63%) SOAP
2 13 (40.63%) XML
3 5 (15.63%) .NET
4 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (6.25%) CSS
4 2 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
1 15 (46.88%) Software Testing
2 14 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (34.38%) Fintech
3 11 (34.38%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (31.25%) Wealth Management
5 9 (28.13%) Data Privacy
5 9 (28.13%) High Availability
5 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (28.13%) Migration
5 9 (28.13%) Refactoring
5 9 (28.13%) Statistics
5 9 (28.13%) Workflow
6 3 (9.38%) Data Analysis
7 2 (6.25%) Change Control
7 2 (6.25%) Data Management
7 2 (6.25%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (6.25%) Project Management
7 2 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (46.88%) PL/SQL
3 13 (40.63%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Oracle
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 9 (28.13%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) Cognos