SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 8 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,206 21,154 22,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 16.74% 17.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.52% 36.35% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,428 13,717 16,602
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -

All Programming Languages
UK

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,870 58,197 67,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.61% 46.05% 52.22%
Number of salaries quoted 17,139 36,667 45,610
10th Percentile £39,788 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,140 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK

SQL
Top 19 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 30 November 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 +2 7,281 £60,000 - 3,378
UK excluding London -1 4,779 £52,500 - 2,188
Work from Home -2 3,766 £60,000 +4.35% 1,816
London 0 2,991 £72,500 +3.57% 1,485
North of England -2 1,229 £52,500 +2.94% 648
South East -1 1,185 £52,500 -4.55% 589
Midlands 0 883 £50,000 - 333
North West -2 638 £57,500 +15.00% 398
South West -6 593 £53,375 +6.75% 224
West Midlands +1 552 £50,000 - 196
Yorkshire -2 520 £50,000 -4.76% 192
Scotland +6 410 £56,318 +2.40% 128
East Midlands 0 335 £50,000 - 137
East of England +3 239 £55,000 +4.76% 199
Wales -7 170 £45,000 -10.00% 79
Northern Ireland -18 72 £45,000 -10.00% 32
North East -2 71 £50,000 +6.38% 69
Isle of Man +6 20 £52,500 -27.59% 2
Channel Islands +9 4 £65,000 +30.00% 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
1 257 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 195 (2.38%) IIS
3 145 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 143 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 138 (1.68%) Confluence
6 122 (1.49%) SAS
7 107 (1.30%) Apache
8 68 (0.83%) CMS
9 57 (0.69%) MS Exchange
10 55 (0.67%) Tomcat
11 49 (0.60%) WebSphere
12 37 (0.45%) Umbraco
13 25 (0.30%) Jetty
14 24 (0.29%) WordPress
15 21 (0.26%) Captiva
15 21 (0.26%) FileNet
16 19 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
17 15 (0.18%) NServiceBus
17 15 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
18 14 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 467 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 290 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.073%) SPSS
8 4 (0.049%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.049%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.049%) Trello
9 3 (0.037%) InDesign
10 2 (0.024%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.012%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.012%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.012%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.012%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 155 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 105 (1.28%) Hyperion Planning
3 35 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 35 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 27 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 22 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 19 (0.23%) Fidessa
7 18 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
8 17 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 17 (0.21%) Shopify
8 17 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
9 15 (0.18%) SAP Business One
10 14 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
12 10 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
12 10 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
12 10 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
13 9 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
13 9 (0.11%) Primavera
13 9 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2,866 (34.93%) Azure
2 1,524 (18.57%) AWS
3 1,450 (17.67%) Power Platform
4 664 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
5 566 (6.90%) GCP
6 424 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
7 389 (4.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 369 (4.50%) SaaS
9 298 (3.63%) Serverless
10 221 (2.69%) PowerApps
11 219 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 218 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
13 210 (2.56%) GitHub
13 210 (2.56%) Snowflake
14 194 (2.36%) Entra ID
15 182 (2.22%) PaaS
16 158 (1.93%) Power Automate
17 142 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
18 132 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
19 130 (1.58%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 228 (2.78%) Firewall
2 179 (2.18%) DNS
3 115 (1.40%) WAN
4 106 (1.29%) VPN
5 100 (1.22%) DHCP
6 87 (1.06%) Internet
7 79 (0.96%) SAN
8 76 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 69 (0.84%) LAN
10 55 (0.67%) HTTP
11 52 (0.63%) VLAN
12 38 (0.46%) NAS
13 35 (0.43%) VoIP
14 33 (0.40%) SNMP
15 32 (0.39%) Network Security
16 26 (0.32%) Skype
17 21 (0.26%) SMTP
18 20 (0.24%) Wireless
19 18 (0.22%) FTP
20 14 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,844 (22.47%) SQL Server
2 1,315 (16.02%) Power BI
3 811 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
4 557 (6.79%) NoSQL
5 531 (6.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 420 (5.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 417 (5.08%) Tableau
8 399 (4.86%) Relational Database
9 387 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
10 362 (4.41%) Data Lake
11 346 (4.22%) MySQL
12 343 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 289 (3.52%) Oracle Database
14 270 (3.29%) MongoDB
15 228 (2.78%) Big Data
16 196 (2.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 137 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
17 137 (1.67%) BigQuery
17 137 (1.67%) Hadoop
18 124 (1.51%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 663 (8.08%) Git
2 378 (4.61%) JIRA
3 284 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 209 (2.55%) Selenium
5 207 (2.52%) Visual Studio
6 142 (1.73%) Maven
7 113 (1.38%) Cucumber
8 90 (1.10%) Postman
9 81 (0.99%) LabVIEW
10 75 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
11 70 (0.85%) JUnit
12 67 (0.82%) Cypress.io
13 66 (0.80%) GitLab
14 63 (0.77%) SoapUI
15 61 (0.74%) Bitbucket
16 59 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 55 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
18 53 (0.65%) IntelliJ
19 49 (0.60%) NUnit
20 48 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 2,277 (27.75%) Finance
2 1,767 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 1,084 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 635 (7.74%) Banking
5 399 (4.86%) Retail
6 351 (4.28%) Marketing
7 321 (3.91%) Law
8 275 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 263 (3.20%) Manufacturing
10 221 (2.69%) Public Sector
11 202 (2.46%) Legal
12 156 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
13 153 (1.86%) Front Office
14 102 (1.24%) Financial Institution
15 92 (1.12%) Back Office
16 81 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
16 81 (0.99%) Telecoms
17 74 (0.90%) Automotive
18 73 (0.89%) Investment Banking
19 70 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,349 (28.63%) Developer
2 1,716 (20.91%) Senior
3 1,341 (16.34%) Analyst
4 777 (9.47%) Data Engineer
5 603 (7.35%) Lead
6 572 (6.97%) Senior Developer
7 486 (5.92%) .NET Developer
8 484 (5.90%) Software Engineer
9 412 (5.02%) Data Analyst
10 361 (4.40%) Software Developer
11 351 (4.28%) Applications Support
12 303 (3.69%) Full Stack Developer
13 302 (3.68%) Systems Engineer
14 298 (3.63%) Architect
15 294 (3.58%) C# Developer
16 291 (3.55%) DBA
17 289 (3.52%) Consultant
17 289 (3.52%) Support Analyst
18 263 (3.20%) Administrator
19 245 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,676 (20.42%) .NET
2 837 (10.20%) HTML
3 760 (9.26%) CSS
4 634 (7.73%) React
5 563 (6.86%) AngularJS
6 478 (5.83%) .NET Framework
7 473 (5.76%) ASP.NET
8 450 (5.48%) .NET Core
8 450 (5.48%) REST
9 401 (4.89%) XML
10 370 (4.51%) JSON
11 355 (4.33%) Web Services
12 284 (3.46%) Spring
13 274 (3.34%) RESTful
14 235 (2.86%) jQuery
15 220 (2.68%) Vue
16 218 (2.66%) SOAP
17 213 (2.60%) ASP.NET Web API
18 210 (2.56%) Entity Framework
19 191 (2.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 364 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 290 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
3 203 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 184 (2.24%) Data Structures
5 167 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 163 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 162 (1.97%) Replication
8 146 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 145 (1.77%) Public Cloud
10 132 (1.61%) Onboarding
11 124 (1.51%) Data Centre
12 115 (1.40%) Clustering
13 107 (1.30%) Cloud Native
14 98 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 97 (1.18%) Mobile App
16 94 (1.15%) Virtual Team
17 88 (1.07%) Low-Code
18 86 (1.05%) Hedge funds
19 84 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
19 84 (1.02%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 886 (10.80%) Windows
2 558 (6.80%) Linux
3 407 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 250 (3.05%) Unix
5 94 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 90 (1.10%) Windows 10
7 85 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 65 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 64 (0.78%) Android
10 48 (0.58%) Mac OS
11 47 (0.57%) Ubuntu
12 46 (0.56%) Apple iOS
13 42 (0.51%) CentOS
14 29 (0.35%) Solaris
15 28 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 20 (0.24%) Windows 7
17 18 (0.22%) Debian
18 15 (0.18%) AIX
18 15 (0.18%) Mac OS X
19 14 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,340 (28.52%) Agile
2 1,570 (19.13%) Business Intelligence
3 1,521 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
4 1,446 (17.62%) DevOps
5 1,284 (15.65%) Analytics
6 994 (12.11%) ETL
7 872 (10.63%) Software Engineering
8 836 (10.19%) CI/CD
9 827 (10.08%) Data Modelling
10 742 (9.04%) Visualisation
11 646 (7.87%) Full Stack Development
12 628 (7.65%) Data Analysis
13 615 (7.49%) Computer Science
14 609 (7.42%) Mentoring
14 609 (7.42%) Scrum
15 596 (7.26%) Migration
16 561 (6.84%) Microservices
17 544 (6.63%) Data Science
18 535 (6.52%) Actionable Insight
19 494 (6.02%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,974 (24.06%) Python
2 1,867 (22.75%) C#
3 1,451 (17.68%) JavaScript
4 944 (11.50%) Java
5 781 (9.52%) T-SQL
6 624 (7.60%) PowerShell
7 598 (7.29%) PL/SQL
8 375 (4.57%) TypeScript
9 219 (2.67%) PHP
9 219 (2.67%) R
10 218 (2.66%) Bash
11 204 (2.49%) C++
12 174 (2.12%) VB
13 173 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 115 (1.40%) Scala
15 110 (1.34%) VB.NET
16 89 (1.08%) VBA
17 86 (1.05%) Ruby
17 86 (1.05%) Shell Script
18 76 (0.93%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,288 (15.70%) Degree
2 551 (6.71%) Security Cleared
3 416 (5.07%) SC Cleared
4 388 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 184 (2.24%) Master's Degree
6 148 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 121 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 103 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 86 (1.05%) HNC
10 50 (0.61%) AWS Certification
11 48 (0.58%) MCSA
12 44 (0.54%) MCSE
13 37 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
14 33 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
14 33 (0.40%) ISTQB
14 33 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 32 (0.39%) DBS Check
16 31 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
17 28 (0.34%) PhD
18 25 (0.30%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 364 (4.44%) QA
3 131 (1.60%) SLA
4 102 (1.24%) GDPR
5 52 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (0.45%) PMO
7 35 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 27 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.13%) NCSC
12 10 (0.12%) NIST
13 9 (0.11%) HL7
13 9 (0.11%) IFRS
14 8 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.097%) IFRS 9
14 8 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 7 (0.085%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.085%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.085%) MiFID
System Software
1 568 (6.92%) Docker
2 566 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 235 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 144 (1.75%) Hyper-V
5 57 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 46 (0.56%) vSphere
7 41 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 24 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
9 16 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 13 (0.16%) vCloud
12 12 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
14 9 (0.11%) HDFS
14 9 (0.11%) XenApp
15 8 (0.097%) Firmware
16 7 (0.085%) XenDesktop
17 6 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 6 (0.073%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.061%) RACF
Systems Management
1 516 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 269 (3.28%) Terraform
3 101 (1.23%) Ansible
4 92 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 88 (1.07%) SCCM
6 55 (0.67%) SCOM
7 39 (0.48%) Grafana
8 36 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
9 34 (0.41%) Prometheus
10 33 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
11 29 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
12 28 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
13 25 (0.30%) Puppet
14 24 (0.29%) Kibana
14 24 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 23 (0.28%) Data Guard
16 21 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 18 (0.22%) SCVMM
18 17 (0.21%) Packer
19 15 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,877 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 954 (11.63%) Oracle
3 346 (4.22%) VMware
4 314 (3.83%) Databricks
5 286 (3.49%) Google
6 164 (2.00%) NEC
7 159 (1.94%) SAP
8 111 (1.35%) Hyperion
9 102 (1.24%) Cisco
10 84 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 82 (1.00%) IBM
12 76 (0.93%) Salesforce
13 75 (0.91%) Citrix
14 64 (0.78%) Alteryx
15 60 (0.73%) HP
16 59 (0.72%) Informatica
16 59 (0.72%) Red Hat
17 57 (0.69%) Splunk
17 57 (0.69%) Veeam
18 52 (0.63%) Teradata