SQL Developer
UK

The median SQL Developer salary in the UK is £54,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 625 541 506
Rank change year-on-year -84 -35 -183
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 277 533 994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.51% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.55% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 244 478 865
10th Percentile £32,575 £37,275 £37,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,647 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £85,000
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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -59 263 £55,000 -8.33% 69
UK excluding London -82 177 £50,000 - 44
Work from Home -63 140 £60,000 +0.80% 53
London -21 77 £65,000 -10.34% 29
North of England +14 60 £47,500 -5.00% 12
Midlands +12 40 £47,500 -5.00% 20
North West -3 39 £45,000 -7.69% 8
South East -36 39 £55,000 - 5
East of England +22 22 £32,500 -45.83% 2
East Midlands 0 21 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Yorkshire +77 20 £55,000 - 4
West Midlands +8 19 £45,000 -10.00% 11
South West -34 7 £55,000 +18.28% 1
Scotland -57 7 £54,000 +13.68% 2
Wales +6 2 £36,250 -36.96% 2
North East -2 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 (98.56%) SQL
2 135 (48.74%) SQL Server
3 110 (39.71%) C#
4 100 (36.10%) Azure
5 93 (33.57%) .NET
6 85 (30.69%) T-SQL
7 83 (29.96%) Business Intelligence
8 77 (27.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 66 (23.83%) Power BI
9 66 (23.83%) Power Platform
10 65 (23.47%) Microsoft
11 61 (22.02%) ETL
12 56 (20.22%) Agile
13 49 (17.69%) Social Skills
14 47 (16.97%) Data Warehouse
15 42 (15.16%) Finance
16 34 (12.27%) AngularJS
17 33 (11.91%) Full Stack Development
17 33 (11.91%) ERP
17 33 (11.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 32 (11.55%) ASP.NET
19 31 (11.19%) JavaScript
20 30 (10.83%) .NET Framework
21 29 (10.47%) .NET Core
22 28 (10.11%) DevOps
22 28 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
22 28 (10.11%) Data Modelling
23 27 (9.75%) Back Office
23 27 (9.75%) Analytics
24 26 (9.39%) Performance Tuning

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 (1.44%) Apache
1 4 (1.44%) Tomcat
2 2 (0.72%) IIS
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.81%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 100 (36.10%) Azure
2 66 (23.83%) Power Platform
3 22 (7.94%) AWS
4 13 (4.69%) SaaS
5 12 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.44%) GCP
9 3 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.08%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.72%) dbt
10 2 (0.72%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.36%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.36%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.36%) Heroku
11 1 (0.36%) IaaS
11 1 (0.36%) PaaS
11 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.36%) Serverless
11 1 (0.36%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.81%) Network Security
2 3 (1.08%) FTP
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (48.74%) SQL Server
2 77 (27.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 66 (23.83%) Power BI
4 47 (16.97%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (11.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (6.86%) NoSQL
6 19 (6.86%) Relational Database
7 18 (6.50%) Data Lake
7 18 (6.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 16 (5.78%) OLTP
9 12 (4.33%) Tableau
10 11 (3.97%) MS Access
11 10 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.53%) MongoDB
12 7 (2.53%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.81%) OLAP
15 4 (1.44%) Crystal Reports
15 4 (1.44%) Redis
16 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (8.30%) Visual Studio
2 20 (7.22%) Git
3 13 (4.69%) JIRA
4 5 (1.81%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.44%) Maven
6 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.36%) GCC
7 1 (0.36%) GDB
General
1 49 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.16%) Finance
3 27 (9.75%) Back Office
4 26 (9.39%) Law
5 14 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.05%) Legal
6 13 (4.69%) Manufacturing
7 11 (3.97%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.61%) Banking
8 10 (3.61%) Retail
9 9 (3.25%) Billing
10 7 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.81%) Games
12 5 (1.81%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.81%) Marketing
13 4 (1.44%) Automotive
14 3 (1.08%) Front Office
15 2 (0.72%) Electronics
15 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (33.57%) .NET
2 34 (12.27%) AngularJS
3 32 (11.55%) ASP.NET
4 30 (10.83%) .NET Framework
5 29 (10.47%) .NET Core
6 23 (8.30%) HTML
7 18 (6.50%) CSS
8 17 (6.14%) ASP.NET Web API
9 16 (5.78%) Entity Framework
10 15 (5.42%) Web Services
11 14 (5.05%) ASP.NET MVC
12 12 (4.33%) WPF
13 10 (3.61%) React
14 9 (3.25%) Node.js
15 8 (2.89%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (2.89%) jQuery
15 8 (2.89%) XML
16 7 (2.53%) Angular 2
16 7 (2.53%) GraphQL
16 7 (2.53%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (3.61%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.25%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.89%) Client/Server
4 8 (2.89%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.81%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.81%) Replication
8 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.72%) Molecular Biology
10 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.36%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.36%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.36%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.89%) Windows
2 3 (1.08%) Linux
2 3 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (29.96%) Business Intelligence
2 61 (22.02%) ETL
3 56 (20.22%) Agile
4 33 (11.91%) ERP
4 33 (11.91%) Full Stack Development
5 28 (10.11%) Data Modelling
5 28 (10.11%) DevOps
5 28 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (9.75%) Analytics
7 26 (9.39%) Performance Tuning
8 25 (9.03%) MVC
9 20 (7.22%) ETL Development
10 17 (6.14%) Mentoring
11 16 (5.78%) CRM
11 16 (5.78%) Decision-Making
11 16 (5.78%) Software Engineering
12 14 (5.05%) SDLC
13 13 (4.69%) Data Engineering
13 13 (4.69%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (4.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 273 (98.56%) SQL
2 110 (39.71%) C#
3 85 (30.69%) T-SQL
4 31 (11.19%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.39%) Java
6 22 (7.94%) PL/SQL
7 17 (6.14%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.33%) Python
9 9 (3.25%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.81%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.08%) VB
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) R
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) SOQL
13 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (5.05%) DBS Check
2 11 (3.97%) Degree
3 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.08%) MCSD
5 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.72%) PhD
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.36%) HNC
6 1 (0.36%) HND
6 1 (0.36%) MCSA
6 1 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.86%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.69%) QA
3 3 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 65 (23.47%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.58%) Oracle
3 3 (1.08%) VMware
4 2 (0.72%) Google
4 2 (0.72%) SAP
5 1 (0.36%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.36%) Intapp
5 1 (0.36%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.36%) Salesforce