SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 9,894 11,560 31,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.95% 14.33% 17.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.85% 35.65% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,740 9,007 15,966
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
UK

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK

SQL
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL in the UK

SQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK

SQL
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 0 8,343 £57,500 -4.17% 1,211
UK excluding London 0 6,331 £50,000 -4.76% 1,033
Work from Home -1 3,728 £57,500 -4.17% 757
London 0 3,205 £75,000 +7.14% 360
North of England -2 1,629 £50,309 -2.31% 273
South East -2 1,399 £50,000 -9.09% 256
Midlands -5 1,114 £47,500 -5.47% 180
Scotland +10 1,037 £50,000 -9.09% 53
North West -2 926 £55,000 +4.76% 137
West Midlands -7 620 £50,000 -4.76% 117
South West -7 594 £50,500 +1.00% 133
Yorkshire -6 502 £47,000 -7.84% 82
East Midlands +3 483 £45,000 -10.00% 63
East of England -4 346 £47,500 -13.64% 72
North East +7 201 £49,274 -6.14% 61
Wales +1 164 £42,500 +6.25% 23
Northern Ireland -14 50 £52,654 +5.31% 67
Channel Islands 0 5 £61,250 +75.00% 1

SQL
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
1 375 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 325 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 311 (3.14%) Apache
4 202 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 189 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 189 (1.91%) SAS
6 160 (1.62%) IIS
7 124 (1.25%) CMS
8 110 (1.11%) Confluence
9 98 (0.99%) FileNet
10 39 (0.39%) Umbraco
11 36 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
11 36 (0.36%) WebLogic
12 27 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
13 25 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
14 23 (0.23%) Tomcat
14 23 (0.23%) WebSphere
15 21 (0.21%) GemFire
16 19 (0.19%) nginx
16 19 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 677 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 316 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 74 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (0.33%) Simulink
6 22 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 19 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 18 (0.18%) SPSS
8 18 (0.18%) Trello
9 15 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
10 8 (0.081%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.061%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.030%) Oracle Smart View
14 2 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.020%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.020%) InDesign
15 1 (0.010%) Acrobat
15 1 (0.010%) CPLEX
15 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 115 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 37 (0.37%) SDL Web 8
4 36 (0.36%) Siebel CRM
5 32 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
6 30 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
7 27 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
8 25 (0.25%) NEC Housing
8 25 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 23 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 22 (0.22%) Elite 3E
10 22 (0.22%) Sage 200
11 21 (0.21%) NetSuite
12 20 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
12 20 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
13 18 (0.18%) SAP Business One
14 16 (0.16%) Shopify
15 15 (0.15%) Endur
16 13 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
16 13 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 3,226 (32.61%) Azure
2 1,914 (19.35%) AWS
3 1,648 (16.66%) Power Platform
4 672 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
5 543 (5.49%) GCP
6 471 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 393 (3.97%) Serverless
8 374 (3.78%) SaaS
9 367 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 267 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 266 (2.69%) GitHub
12 257 (2.60%) Snowflake
13 241 (2.44%) IBM Cloud
14 213 (2.15%) Amazon S3
15 207 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
16 206 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
17 197 (1.99%) Azure Functions
18 195 (1.97%) dbt
19 185 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
19 185 (1.87%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 240 (2.43%) Firewall
2 156 (1.58%) DNS
3 105 (1.06%) WAN
4 94 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 91 (0.92%) SAN
6 87 (0.88%) LAN
7 81 (0.82%) VPN
8 75 (0.76%) DHCP
9 63 (0.64%) Network Security
10 58 (0.59%) HTTP
11 56 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 53 (0.54%) Internet
13 46 (0.46%) Broadband
14 45 (0.45%) SSL
15 43 (0.43%) VLAN
16 31 (0.31%) FTP
17 24 (0.24%) SD-WAN
17 24 (0.24%) WLAN
18 23 (0.23%) MQTT
19 17 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,824 (18.44%) SQL Server
2 1,561 (15.78%) Power BI
3 1,231 (12.44%) NoSQL
4 779 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
5 740 (7.48%) Tableau
6 692 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
7 660 (6.67%) Relational Database
8 570 (5.76%) MongoDB
9 452 (4.57%) Big Data
9 452 (4.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 443 (4.48%) Data Lake
11 438 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 392 (3.96%) MySQL
13 388 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 309 (3.12%) DB2
15 232 (2.34%) Oracle Database
16 219 (2.21%) Hadoop
17 192 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
18 147 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 146 (1.48%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 967 (9.77%) Git
2 391 (3.95%) JIRA
3 317 (3.20%) Visual Studio
4 274 (2.77%) Jenkins
5 158 (1.60%) JUnit
6 120 (1.21%) GitLab
6 120 (1.21%) Selenium
7 88 (0.89%) NUnit
8 78 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 77 (0.78%) Jasmine
9 77 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 74 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 73 (0.74%) Postman
12 68 (0.69%) Maven
13 67 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
13 67 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 62 (0.63%) Bitbucket Server
15 56 (0.57%) Mockito
16 55 (0.56%) Cucumber
16 55 (0.56%) Moq
General
1 2,808 (28.38%) Finance
2 2,513 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 1,507 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1,142 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,016 (10.27%) Law
6 671 (6.78%) Legal
7 635 (6.42%) Banking
8 614 (6.21%) Marketing
9 594 (6.00%) Retail
10 502 (5.07%) Public Sector
11 391 (3.95%) Front Office
12 311 (3.14%) Manufacturing
13 263 (2.66%) Investment Banking
14 242 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
15 149 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 122 (1.23%) Back Office
17 113 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
18 108 (1.09%) Games
19 102 (1.03%) Financial Institution
20 99 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,716 (27.45%) Developer
2 1,876 (18.96%) Senior
3 1,829 (18.49%) Analyst
4 1,186 (11.99%) Software Engineer
5 945 (9.55%) Lead
6 707 (7.15%) Data Engineer
7 587 (5.93%) Data Analyst
8 551 (5.57%) Senior Developer
9 547 (5.53%) .NET Developer
10 445 (4.50%) Senior Analyst
11 441 (4.46%) Full Stack Developer
12 423 (4.28%) Software Developer
13 391 (3.95%) C# Developer
14 388 (3.92%) Java Engineer
15 373 (3.77%) Applications Support
15 373 (3.77%) Java Software Engineer
16 343 (3.47%) Architect
17 339 (3.43%) Full Stack Engineer
18 310 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
19 292 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,157 (21.80%) .NET
2 1,321 (13.35%) HTML
3 1,142 (11.54%) CSS
4 1,055 (10.66%) React
5 967 (9.77%) AngularJS
6 839 (8.48%) ASP.NET
7 766 (7.74%) REST
8 646 (6.53%) Web Services
9 584 (5.90%) jQuery
10 496 (5.01%) .NET Core
11 480 (4.85%) .NET Framework
12 466 (4.71%) Vue
13 450 (4.55%) Node.js
14 448 (4.53%) Kafka
15 442 (4.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 441 (4.46%) Spring
17 440 (4.45%) XML
18 431 (4.36%) JSON
19 343 (3.47%) RESTful
20 314 (3.17%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 691 (6.98%) Algorithms
2 428 (4.33%) Data Structures
3 377 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 333 (3.37%) Hedge funds
5 316 (3.19%) Management Information System
6 314 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 301 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 288 (2.91%) Fixed Income
9 286 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 274 (2.77%) Equities
11 264 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
12 249 (2.52%) Blockchain
13 233 (2.35%) Derivative
14 211 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
15 194 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
16 143 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
17 124 (1.25%) e-Learning
18 118 (1.19%) Public Cloud
19 108 (1.09%) Replication
20 104 (1.05%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,144 (11.56%) Windows
2 1,020 (10.31%) Linux
3 344 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 337 (3.41%) Android
5 321 (3.24%) Unix
6 277 (2.80%) Apple iOS
7 107 (1.08%) Windows 10
8 85 (0.86%) CentOS
9 77 (0.78%) VMS
10 74 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 74 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
11 70 (0.71%) Ubuntu
12 59 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
13 55 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 42 (0.42%) Solaris
15 30 (0.30%) Windows 7
16 23 (0.23%) AIX
17 15 (0.15%) Windows 8
18 14 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
19 12 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,920 (29.51%) Agile
2 2,064 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
3 1,817 (18.36%) Software Engineering
4 1,655 (16.73%) Business Intelligence
5 1,536 (15.52%) Analytics
6 1,334 (13.48%) DevOps
7 1,263 (12.77%) Visualisation
8 1,245 (12.58%) CI/CD
9 1,222 (12.35%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,158 (11.70%) Full Stack Development
11 1,014 (10.25%) Computer Science
12 1,005 (10.16%) Machine Learning
13 998 (10.09%) SDLC
14 932 (9.42%) ETL
15 896 (9.06%) Mentoring
16 872 (8.81%) Data Modelling
17 859 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
18 849 (8.58%) Data Analysis
19 780 (7.88%) Decision-Making
20 667 (6.74%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2,789 (28.19%) Python
2 2,241 (22.65%) C#
3 1,903 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 1,634 (16.52%) Java
5 769 (7.77%) T-SQL
6 553 (5.59%) TypeScript
7 425 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 413 (4.17%) PL/SQL
9 272 (2.75%) R
10 230 (2.32%) C++
10 230 (2.32%) Scala
11 211 (2.13%) PHP
12 204 (2.06%) VBA
13 174 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 159 (1.61%) VB.NET
15 152 (1.54%) VB
16 142 (1.44%) Bash
17 106 (1.07%) C
18 94 (0.95%) Kotlin
19 76 (0.77%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,988 (20.09%) Degree
2 545 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 524 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 373 (3.77%) SC Cleared
5 298 (3.01%) DBS Check
6 267 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 208 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 97 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 93 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 60 (0.61%) PhD
11 43 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 38 (0.38%) PMI Certification
13 36 (0.36%) ISTQB
14 33 (0.33%) CISA
15 31 (0.31%) MBA
15 31 (0.31%) MCSE
16 30 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
17 28 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
18 22 (0.22%) ISEB
19 20 (0.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 543 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 405 (4.09%) QA
3 170 (1.72%) SLA
4 119 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 110 (1.11%) GDPR
6 52 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.25%) PMO
7 25 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 24 (0.24%) ITGC
9 19 (0.19%) MiFID
10 17 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 16 (0.16%) GAAP
12 12 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.12%) NIST
13 11 (0.11%) COBIT
13 11 (0.11%) IFRS
14 10 (0.10%) WCAG
15 9 (0.091%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.061%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.061%) TickIT
System Software
1 504 (5.09%) Active Directory
2 413 (4.17%) Docker
3 201 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 119 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 84 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 64 (0.65%) HDFS
7 50 (0.51%) RACF
8 32 (0.32%) Firmware
8 32 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
9 30 (0.30%) vSphere
10 27 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 25 (0.25%) XenApp
12 18 (0.18%) XenDesktop
13 13 (0.13%) VirtualBox
14 12 (0.12%) VMware NSX
15 10 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
16 9 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
17 6 (0.061%) Forefront TMG
18 5 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
19 4 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 543 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 363 (3.67%) Terraform
3 109 (1.10%) Ansible
4 76 (0.77%) Grafana
5 50 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 42 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
7 38 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 37 (0.37%) SCCM
9 33 (0.33%) Data Guard
10 29 (0.29%) SCOM
11 27 (0.27%) Kibana
12 26 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
13 25 (0.25%) WSUS
14 24 (0.24%) Progress Chef
15 22 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 21 (0.21%) HAProxy
16 21 (0.21%) Zipkin
17 18 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
18 17 (0.17%) NetBackup
19 16 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2,073 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 1,103 (11.15%) Oracle
3 739 (7.47%) Databricks
4 389 (3.93%) Google
5 327 (3.31%) IBM
6 303 (3.06%) Red Hat
7 288 (2.91%) VMware
8 199 (2.01%) SAP
9 175 (1.77%) Bloomberg
10 150 (1.52%) Informatica
11 100 (1.01%) Citrix
12 98 (0.99%) Cisco
13 83 (0.84%) Veeam
14 80 (0.81%) Reuters
15 79 (0.80%) Sage
16 78 (0.79%) Salesforce
17 73 (0.74%) Splunk
18 63 (0.64%) IFS
19 55 (0.56%) Adobe
20 52 (0.53%) HP