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 11 May 2024.

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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 631 551 532
Rank change year-on-year -80 -19 -207
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 275 501 974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.50% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.54% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 241 456 832
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,063 £65,313
90th Percentile £73,750 £89,852 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 11 May 2024.

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 11 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
England -80 256 £55,000 -7.60% 75
UK excluding London -65 176 £50,000 - 55
Work from Home -58 138 £60,000 +0.80% 53
London -17 76 £65,000 -10.34% 25
North of England +14 60 £47,500 -5.00% 12
South East -34 40 £57,500 +4.55% 11
North West -10 39 £45,000 -2.17% 7
Midlands -3 38 £50,000 - 23
East Midlands +1 21 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Yorkshire +74 20 £55,000 -12.00% 5
East of England +13 19 £32,500 -45.83% 2
West Midlands -4 17 £45,000 -10.00% 13
Scotland -53 8 £54,000 +20.00% 4
South West -38 7 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Wales +10 4 £30,000 -47.83% 2
North East -6 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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.

1 273 (99.27%) SQL
2 128 (46.55%) SQL Server
3 116 (42.18%) C#
4 97 (35.27%) Azure
5 94 (34.18%) .NET
6 81 (29.45%) T-SQL
7 80 (29.09%) Business Intelligence
8 69 (25.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 64 (23.27%) Microsoft
10 61 (22.18%) Power BI
10 61 (22.18%) Power Platform
11 57 (20.73%) Agile
12 56 (20.36%) ETL
13 46 (16.73%) Social Skills
14 44 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
15 40 (14.55%) Finance
16 38 (13.82%) AngularJS
17 35 (12.73%) Full Stack Development
18 33 (12.00%) ERP
18 33 (12.00%) JavaScript
19 31 (11.27%) ASP.NET
20 30 (10.91%) .NET Core
21 29 (10.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
21 29 (10.55%) .NET Framework
22 28 (10.18%) Back Office
22 28 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
23 27 (9.82%) Data Modelling
24 26 (9.45%) Java
24 26 (9.45%) Performance Tuning
25 24 (8.73%) HTML

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 (1.45%) Apache
1 4 (1.45%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.09%) IIS
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.82%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 97 (35.27%) Azure
2 61 (22.18%) Power Platform
3 24 (8.73%) AWS
4 12 (4.36%) SaaS
5 11 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.82%) GCP
8 3 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.09%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.73%) dbt
9 2 (0.73%) Fivetran
10 1 (0.36%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.36%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.36%) Heroku
10 1 (0.36%) IaaS
10 1 (0.36%) PaaS
10 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.45%) Network Security
2 2 (0.73%) FTP
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (46.55%) SQL Server
2 69 (25.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 61 (22.18%) Power BI
4 44 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (10.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (7.27%) NoSQL
7 19 (6.91%) Data Lake
7 19 (6.91%) Relational Database
8 16 (5.82%) OLTP
9 15 (5.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 14 (5.09%) Tableau
11 11 (4.00%) MS Access
12 8 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.55%) MongoDB
14 6 (2.18%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.82%) OLAP
16 4 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (1.45%) Crystal Reports
16 4 (1.45%) Redis
17 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (7.64%) Visual Studio
2 17 (6.18%) Git
3 11 (4.00%) JIRA
4 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.45%) Maven
4 4 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.73%) Subversion
6 1 (0.36%) GCC
6 1 (0.36%) GDB
General
1 46 (16.73%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.55%) Finance
3 28 (10.18%) Back Office
4 24 (8.73%) Law
5 14 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.09%) Legal
6 13 (4.73%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.36%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.64%) Billing
8 10 (3.64%) Retail
9 8 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.55%) Banking
11 6 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.82%) Marketing
13 4 (1.45%) Automotive
13 4 (1.45%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.09%) Front Office
14 3 (1.09%) Games
14 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.73%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (34.18%) .NET
2 38 (13.82%) AngularJS
3 31 (11.27%) ASP.NET
4 30 (10.91%) .NET Core
5 29 (10.55%) .NET Framework
6 24 (8.73%) HTML
7 19 (6.91%) CSS
8 17 (6.18%) ASP.NET Web API
9 16 (5.82%) Entity Framework
9 16 (5.82%) Web Services
10 13 (4.73%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (3.64%) React
11 10 (3.64%) WPF
12 9 (3.27%) Node.js
13 8 (2.91%) jQuery
13 8 (2.91%) XML
14 7 (2.55%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (2.55%) REST
14 7 (2.55%) SOAP
14 7 (2.55%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (3.64%) Hedge funds
3 9 (3.27%) Data Structures
3 9 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.91%) Client/Server
5 7 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.18%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.82%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.82%) Replication
7 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.73%) Molecular Biology
10 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.36%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.36%) Mobile Computing
10 1 (0.36%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.18%) Windows
2 5 (1.82%) Linux
3 3 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (29.09%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (20.73%) Agile
3 56 (20.36%) ETL
4 35 (12.73%) Full Stack Development
5 33 (12.00%) ERP
6 28 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (9.82%) Data Modelling
8 26 (9.45%) Performance Tuning
9 24 (8.73%) MVC
10 22 (8.00%) Analytics
10 22 (8.00%) DevOps
11 20 (7.27%) ETL Development
12 17 (6.18%) CRM
12 17 (6.18%) Decision-Making
13 16 (5.82%) Mentoring
13 16 (5.82%) Software Engineering
14 14 (5.09%) Data Engineering
14 14 (5.09%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (5.09%) SDLC
15 13 (4.73%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 273 (99.27%) SQL
2 116 (42.18%) C#
3 81 (29.45%) T-SQL
4 33 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.45%) Java
6 22 (8.00%) PL/SQL
7 17 (6.18%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.36%) Python
9 10 (3.64%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.82%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.09%) C++
11 3 (1.09%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.09%) VB
12 1 (0.36%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) R
12 1 (0.36%) Scala
12 1 (0.36%) SOQL
12 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (5.09%) DBS Check
2 11 (4.00%) Degree
3 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.45%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.45%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.09%) MCSD
6 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.73%) PhD
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) HNC
7 1 (0.36%) HND
7 1 (0.36%) MCSA
7 1 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.36%) QA
3 3 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.55%) Docker
2 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 64 (23.27%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.64%) Oracle
3 2 (0.73%) Google
3 2 (0.73%) SAP
3 2 (0.73%) VMware
4 1 (0.36%) Dataiku
4 1 (0.36%) Intapp
4 1 (0.36%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.36%) Salesforce