SQL Developer
UK

The median SQL Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 476 540 425
Rank change year-on-year +64 -115 -116
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 266 668 996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.54% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.56% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 253 589 857
10th Percentile £37,259 £37,516 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 51,159 118,464 121,698
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 95.41% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,465 74,592 83,940
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Top 16 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 6 December 2023. 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 +54 251 £53,750 -6.52% 66
Work from Home +100 164 £52,500 -4.55% 69
UK excluding London +100 149 £50,000 -4.76% 42
London +58 95 £70,000 +3.70% 28
North of England +94 48 £50,000 +4.17% 11
Midlands +108 38 £47,500 -13.64% 12
North West +87 37 £50,000 +2.56% 6
West Midlands +134 32 £47,500 -11.21% 9
South East +93 27 £52,500 -6.67% 15
South West +76 17 £50,000 - 1
East of England +117 14 £56,250 -2.17% 2
Yorkshire +72 7 £47,500 -7.32% 5
East Midlands +49 6 £61,250 -2.00% 3
North East +37 4 £45,000 +36.36%
Scotland +46 3 £48,750 -9.30%
Northern Ireland +37 2 £70,000 +55.56%

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2023, 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.

1 233 (87.59%) SQL
2 171 (64.29%) SQL Server
3 105 (39.47%) T-SQL
4 91 (34.21%) Agile
5 89 (33.46%) C#
6 83 (31.20%) .NET
7 75 (28.20%) Finance
8 74 (27.82%) Business Intelligence
9 68 (25.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 63 (23.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 63 (23.68%) JavaScript
11 61 (22.93%) Azure
12 54 (20.30%) Microsoft
13 52 (19.55%) HTML
14 50 (18.80%) CSS
15 48 (18.05%) Power Platform
16 47 (17.67%) Power BI
16 47 (17.67%) Java
17 38 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
18 37 (13.91%) REST
19 36 (13.53%) Relational Database
19 36 (13.53%) ETL
20 34 (12.78%) DevOps
20 34 (12.78%) Social Skills
21 33 (12.41%) .NET Core
21 33 (12.41%) Full Stack Development
21 33 (12.41%) Law
22 32 (12.03%) XML
23 31 (11.65%) PL/SQL
24 30 (11.28%) Oracle

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 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.13%) IIS
3 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.38%) Mendix
Applications
1 14 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.38%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 61 (22.93%) Azure
2 48 (18.05%) Power Platform
3 24 (9.02%) SaaS
4 18 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.76%) AWS
6 5 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (1.50%) PaaS
8 3 (1.13%) IaaS
8 3 (1.13%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.75%) Serverless
9 2 (0.75%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) Network Security
2 2 (0.75%) FTP
3 1 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 68 (25.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 63 (23.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 47 (17.67%) Power BI
5 38 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (13.53%) Relational Database
7 27 (10.15%) RDBMS
8 20 (7.52%) Oracle Database
9 19 (7.14%) Tableau
10 18 (6.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 12 (4.51%) Star Schema
12 9 (3.38%) NoSQL
13 8 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (3.01%) OLTP
14 7 (2.63%) OLAP
15 6 (2.26%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (2.26%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 4 (1.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (6.39%) Git
1 17 (6.39%) Oracle APEX
2 11 (4.14%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (2.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.50%) JIRA
5 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.13%) Postman
5 3 (1.13%) Selenium
6 2 (0.75%) Gradle
6 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.75%) Maven
7 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 75 (28.20%) Finance
2 34 (12.78%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.41%) Law
4 26 (9.77%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.40%) Banking
6 17 (6.39%) Local Government
7 15 (5.64%) Legal
8 8 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.63%) Retail
10 6 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.26%) Marketing
10 6 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.88%) Back Office
11 5 (1.88%) Games
12 4 (1.50%) Electronics
12 4 (1.50%) Front Office
12 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.75%) Advertising
13 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (31.20%) .NET
2 52 (19.55%) HTML
3 50 (18.80%) CSS
4 37 (13.91%) REST
5 33 (12.41%) .NET Core
6 32 (12.03%) XML
7 25 (9.40%) ASP.NET Web API
7 25 (9.40%) HTML5
7 25 (9.40%) JSON
7 25 (9.40%) Web Services
8 21 (7.89%) SOAP
9 20 (7.52%) ASP.NET
9 20 (7.52%) Spring
10 17 (6.39%) Ruby on Rails
10 17 (6.39%) Spring Boot
11 16 (6.02%) .NET Framework
12 14 (5.26%) RESTful
13 13 (4.89%) AngularJS
14 11 (4.14%) React
15 9 (3.38%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.38%) Replication
2 7 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 5 (1.88%) FMCG
3 5 (1.88%) NHS
3 5 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.13%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.13%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.75%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.75%) IoT
6 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.38%) Clustering
7 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.38%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.38%) Windows
2 5 (1.88%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.13%) Android
3 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.21%) Agile
2 74 (27.82%) Business Intelligence
3 36 (13.53%) ETL
4 34 (12.78%) DevOps
5 33 (12.41%) Full Stack Development
6 29 (10.90%) Data Modelling
6 29 (10.90%) MVC
7 28 (10.53%) Analytics
7 28 (10.53%) Scrum
7 28 (10.53%) Unit Testing
8 26 (9.77%) Performance Tuning
9 25 (9.40%) Migration
10 23 (8.65%) OOP
11 20 (7.52%) CI/CD
12 18 (6.77%) Visualisation
12 18 (6.77%) Web Development
13 17 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (6.39%) Multithreading
14 16 (6.02%) Computer Science
14 16 (6.02%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 233 (87.59%) SQL
2 105 (39.47%) T-SQL
3 89 (33.46%) C#
4 63 (23.68%) JavaScript
5 47 (17.67%) Java
6 31 (11.65%) PL/SQL
7 17 (6.39%) Ruby
8 14 (5.26%) Python
9 10 (3.76%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.63%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (2.26%) VB
11 6 (2.26%) VBScript
12 4 (1.50%) R
12 4 (1.50%) VBA
13 3 (1.13%) PHP
13 3 (1.13%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.38%) C++
14 1 (0.38%) COBOL
14 1 (0.38%) F#
Qualifications
1 21 (7.89%) Degree
2 17 (6.39%) SC Cleared
2 17 (6.39%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.75%) MCITP
5 2 (0.75%) MCTS
5 2 (0.75%) OCP
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.38%) HNC
6 1 (0.38%) HND
6 1 (0.38%) MCSA
6 1 (0.38%) MCSE
6 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.51%) QA
3 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (3.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.75%) Grafana
2 2 (0.75%) Kibana
2 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.28%) Oracle
3 9 (3.38%) VMware
4 5 (1.88%) SAP
4 5 (1.88%) Unisys
5 3 (1.13%) Aderant
6 2 (0.75%) Ab Initio
6 2 (0.75%) IBM
6 2 (0.75%) iManage
6 2 (0.75%) Okta
6 2 (0.75%) Sage
6 2 (0.75%) Sybase
6 2 (0.75%) Yardi
7 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.38%) Cognos
7 1 (0.38%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.38%) Splunk
7 1 (0.38%) Zoho