SQL Developer Jobs

SQL Developer
UK

The median SQL Developer salary in the UK is £51,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 October 2024.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 480 596
Rank change year-on-year -66 +116 -201
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 271 316 693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.54% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 162 301 585
10th Percentile £34,100 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £80,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

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 75,402 58,436 137,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.63% 95.77% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 40,224 42,232 78,508
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £44,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +6.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer over the 6 months to 9 October 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England -100 212 £52,500 -0.24% 24
UK excluding London -40 164 £50,000 - 20
Work from Home -59 101 £50,000 -4.76% 20
London -23 93 £60,000 -7.69% 7
South East -20 54 £55,000 +4.76% 8
Scotland +37 41 £43,750 -10.26% 2
North of England -17 29 £50,000 - 3
Midlands -42 29 £50,000 -
West Midlands -30 25 £50,000 -
North West -47 14 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +40 13 £50,000 - 1
Wales - 7 £30,000 - 1
East Midlands -29 4 £60,000 +17.07%
East of England -41 4 £42,500 -22.73% 2
North East -37 2 £33,000 -26.67%

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

For the 6 months to 9 October 2024, 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 SQL Developer in the job title.

1 268 (98.89%) SQL
2 140 (51.66%) SQL Server
3 122 (45.02%) C#
4 107 (39.48%) Finance
5 101 (37.27%) .NET
6 92 (33.95%) Azure
7 89 (32.84%) Business Intelligence
8 82 (30.26%) Power Platform
9 80 (29.52%) Power BI
10 78 (28.78%) Problem-Solving
11 77 (28.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 71 (26.20%) T-SQL
13 61 (22.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 60 (22.14%) Microsoft
15 54 (19.93%) Performance Tuning
16 52 (19.19%) .NET Core
17 50 (18.45%) Data Modelling
18 49 (18.08%) SaaS
19 48 (17.71%) ETL
20 47 (17.34%) Agile
20 47 (17.34%) Full-Stack Development
21 46 (16.97%) Degree
22 45 (16.61%) Social Skills
23 44 (16.24%) PL/SQL
24 43 (15.87%) HTML
25 39 (14.39%) JavaScript
25 39 (14.39%) AngularJS
26 36 (13.28%) Oracle
26 36 (13.28%) Data Management
27 31 (11.44%) CSS

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 6 (2.21%) CMS
2 4 (1.48%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (0.74%) IIS
3 2 (0.74%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.69%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.11%) Sage 200
2 3 (1.11%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.37%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 92 (33.95%) Azure
2 82 (30.26%) Power Platform
3 49 (18.08%) SaaS
4 24 (8.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (8.12%) AWS
6 11 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (1.85%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.74%) Boomi
10 2 (0.74%) GCP
10 2 (0.74%) GitHub
10 2 (0.74%) OCI
11 1 (0.37%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.37%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (51.66%) SQL Server
2 80 (29.52%) Power BI
3 77 (28.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 61 (22.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (7.75%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (7.01%) Relational Database
8 16 (5.90%) Oracle Database
9 13 (4.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (4.06%) OLTP
11 7 (2.58%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.21%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
12 6 (2.21%) MySQL
12 6 (2.21%) Tableau
13 5 (1.85%) Metadata
13 5 (1.85%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (1.85%) MS Access
14 4 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.48%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 15 (5.54%) Git
2 11 (4.06%) JIRA
2 11 (4.06%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (1.85%) Subversion
4 4 (1.48%) Mercurial
5 3 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 107 (39.48%) Finance
2 45 (16.61%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (5.90%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.06%) Law
6 11 (4.06%) Local Government
6 11 (4.06%) Retail
7 10 (3.69%) Police
8 7 (2.58%) Legal
9 6 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.48%) Back Office
11 4 (1.48%) Billing
12 3 (1.11%) Advertising
12 3 (1.11%) Banking
13 2 (0.74%) Marketing
14 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (37.27%) .NET
2 52 (19.19%) .NET Core
3 43 (15.87%) HTML
4 39 (14.39%) AngularJS
5 31 (11.44%) CSS
6 20 (7.38%) ASP.NET
7 18 (6.64%) SOAP
7 18 (6.64%) XML
8 17 (6.27%) .NET Framework
9 16 (5.90%) REST
10 12 (4.43%) Kafka
11 11 (4.06%) MSMQ
12 10 (3.69%) JSON
12 10 (3.69%) Ruby on Rails
13 8 (2.95%) Razor View Engine
14 7 (2.58%) React
15 6 (2.21%) ASP.NET MVC
15 6 (2.21%) jQuery
16 5 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web API
17 4 (1.48%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.70%) Hedge funds
2 10 (3.69%) NHS
3 8 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.74%) FMCG
6 2 (0.74%) Wiki
7 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.37%) Derivative
7 1 (0.37%) Equities
7 1 (0.37%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.37%) Oculus
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.58%) Windows
2 5 (1.85%) Linux
3 4 (1.48%) Android
3 4 (1.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.84%) Business Intelligence
2 78 (28.78%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (19.93%) Performance Tuning
4 50 (18.45%) Data Modelling
5 48 (17.71%) ETL
6 47 (17.34%) Agile
6 47 (17.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (13.28%) Data Management
8 28 (10.33%) DevOps
8 28 (10.33%) Fintech
9 26 (9.59%) Code Quality
10 25 (9.23%) Microservices
11 24 (8.86%) Software Testing
12 23 (8.49%) Unit Testing
13 22 (8.12%) Computer Science
13 22 (8.12%) User Experience
14 21 (7.75%) Analytics
14 21 (7.75%) TDD
15 19 (7.01%) Project Management
16 18 (6.64%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 268 (98.89%) SQL
2 122 (45.02%) C#
3 71 (26.20%) T-SQL
4 44 (16.24%) PL/SQL
5 39 (14.39%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.38%) Python
7 19 (7.01%) Java
8 13 (4.80%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.69%) C
9 10 (3.69%) Ruby
10 9 (3.32%) Bicep
11 7 (2.58%) VB.NET
12 6 (2.21%) VBA
13 5 (1.85%) C++
13 5 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.48%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.11%) PHP
16 1 (0.37%) VB
16 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (16.97%) Degree
2 19 (7.01%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.80%) DBS Check
4 7 (2.58%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.90%) MiFID
2 13 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.32%) QA
5 3 (1.11%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.28%) Oracle
3 12 (4.43%) Databricks
4 10 (3.69%) NEC
5 9 (3.32%) BT
5 9 (3.32%) SAP
6 6 (2.21%) Sage
7 4 (1.48%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.37%) iManage