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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12,188 16,939 27,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.30% 16.71% 17.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.75% 38.63% 32.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,878 10,092 15,625
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,191 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,991 £92,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

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 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 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 -2 10,066 £55,000 -8.33% 2,577
UK excluding London -4 8,084 £50,000 -4.76% 1,558
Work from Home -2 4,870 £57,500 -2.70% 1,408
London -1 3,656 £70,000 - 1,132
North of England -4 2,021 £50,000 -4.76% 393
South East -3 1,680 £50,000 -9.09% 294
Scotland +1 1,503 £55,000 -8.33% 111
Midlands -4 1,349 £47,500 -5.00% 353
North West -3 1,146 £52,500 +0.96% 217
West Midlands -4 798 £50,000 - 209
South West -10 741 £50,000 - 197
Yorkshire -6 622 £47,500 -9.52% 141
East Midlands -1 542 £45,000 -10.00% 144
East of England -7 521 £47,500 -9.52% 166
North East -1 255 £50,000 -4.76% 37
Wales -1 211 £45,000 +12.50% 47
Northern Ireland -19 59 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 2 £45,000 -

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
1 623 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 406 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 284 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 276 (2.26%) Apache
5 256 (2.10%) IIS
6 179 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 152 (1.25%) SAS
8 132 (1.08%) CMS
9 126 (1.03%) FileNet
10 121 (0.99%) Confluence
11 50 (0.41%) WebLogic
12 48 (0.39%) WebSphere
13 44 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
14 32 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
14 32 (0.26%) Umbraco
15 28 (0.23%) Captiva
15 28 (0.23%) Drupal
15 28 (0.23%) Tomcat
16 26 (0.21%) WordPress
17 21 (0.17%) GemFire
Applications
1 786 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 422 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 69 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.22%) SPSS
7 21 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.14%) Trello
9 14 (0.11%) Simulink
10 9 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
11 7 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.016%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.016%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.016%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.016%) InDesign
13 2 (0.016%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.008%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.008%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 170 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 40 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
4 36 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 29 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 27 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
7 26 (0.21%) thinkFolio
8 25 (0.21%) SAP Business One
9 24 (0.20%) Elite 3E
10 23 (0.19%) NEC Housing
11 22 (0.18%) NetSuite
12 21 (0.17%) Sage 200
12 21 (0.17%) Shopify
13 20 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
14 18 (0.15%) Endur
15 16 (0.13%) Fidessa
15 16 (0.13%) Sage X3
16 14 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
16 14 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4,116 (33.77%) Azure
2 2,369 (19.44%) AWS
3 2,123 (17.42%) Power Platform
4 798 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
5 700 (5.74%) GCP
6 664 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 546 (4.48%) Serverless
8 417 (3.42%) SaaS
9 394 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 311 (2.55%) GitHub
11 290 (2.38%) Snowflake
12 251 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 243 (1.99%) IBM Cloud
14 242 (1.99%) PowerApps
15 235 (1.93%) Amazon S3
16 234 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
17 230 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
18 224 (1.84%) Azure Functions
19 222 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
20 202 (1.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 341 (2.80%) Firewall
2 198 (1.62%) DNS
3 176 (1.44%) WAN
4 129 (1.06%) VPN
5 127 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 125 (1.03%) Internet
7 117 (0.96%) DHCP
8 115 (0.94%) LAN
9 94 (0.77%) SAN
10 85 (0.70%) HTTP
11 80 (0.66%) Broadband
12 73 (0.60%) Network Security
13 64 (0.53%) VLAN
14 59 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
15 51 (0.42%) SSL
16 42 (0.34%) Wireless
17 32 (0.26%) SD-WAN
17 32 (0.26%) VoIP
18 30 (0.25%) MQTT
19 29 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,614 (21.45%) SQL Server
2 1,981 (16.25%) Power BI
3 1,525 (12.51%) NoSQL
4 1,054 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
5 838 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
6 819 (6.72%) Relational Database
7 804 (6.60%) Tableau
8 676 (5.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 664 (5.45%) Big Data
10 663 (5.44%) MongoDB
11 621 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 514 (4.22%) MySQL
13 493 (4.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 491 (4.03%) Data Lake
15 357 (2.93%) Hadoop
16 331 (2.72%) DB2
17 326 (2.67%) Oracle Database
18 265 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
19 226 (1.85%) BigQuery
20 177 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,039 (8.52%) Git
2 471 (3.86%) JIRA
3 419 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 379 (3.11%) Visual Studio
5 189 (1.55%) JUnit
6 184 (1.51%) GitLab
7 147 (1.21%) Selenium
8 108 (0.89%) Postman
9 95 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
10 92 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 90 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 88 (0.72%) NUnit
13 85 (0.70%) Cucumber
14 84 (0.69%) Cypress.io
15 78 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
16 77 (0.63%) Jasmine
17 76 (0.62%) Maven
18 65 (0.53%) Mockito
19 62 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
20 51 (0.42%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,486 (28.60%) Finance
2 2,985 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 1,656 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 1,516 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,486 (12.19%) Law
6 995 (8.16%) Marketing
7 732 (6.01%) Legal
8 721 (5.92%) Retail
9 659 (5.41%) Banking
10 648 (5.32%) Public Sector
11 395 (3.24%) Manufacturing
12 307 (2.52%) Front Office
13 277 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
14 215 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
15 207 (1.70%) Games
16 202 (1.66%) Financial Institution
17 197 (1.62%) Back Office
18 179 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
19 169 (1.39%) Investment Banking
20 125 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,472 (28.49%) Developer
2 2,208 (18.12%) Senior
3 2,009 (16.48%) Analyst
4 1,572 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 1,182 (9.70%) Lead
6 947 (7.77%) Data Engineer
7 744 (6.10%) Senior Developer
8 704 (5.78%) .NET Developer
9 616 (5.05%) Data Analyst
10 539 (4.42%) Java Engineer
11 522 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
12 521 (4.27%) Software Developer
13 499 (4.09%) Full Stack Developer
14 453 (3.72%) Applications Support
15 441 (3.62%) C# Developer
16 419 (3.44%) Full Stack Engineer
17 386 (3.17%) Support Analyst
18 380 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
19 366 (3.00%) DBA
20 365 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,648 (21.73%) .NET
2 1,564 (12.83%) HTML
3 1,383 (11.35%) CSS
4 1,216 (9.98%) React
5 1,139 (9.35%) AngularJS
6 1,086 (8.91%) ASP.NET
7 941 (7.72%) REST
8 749 (6.15%) Web Services
9 735 (6.03%) .NET Core
10 609 (5.00%) jQuery
11 599 (4.91%) Spring
12 565 (4.64%) .NET Framework
13 515 (4.23%) JSON
14 514 (4.22%) Kafka
15 511 (4.19%) Vue
16 492 (4.04%) XML
17 479 (3.93%) Node.js
18 431 (3.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 429 (3.52%) Entity Framework
20 406 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 835 (6.85%) Algorithms
2 549 (4.50%) Data Structures
3 496 (4.07%) Cloud Native
4 374 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 362 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 330 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 289 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 273 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 265 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
10 256 (2.10%) Hedge funds
11 253 (2.08%) Public Cloud
12 249 (2.04%) Blockchain
13 178 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 171 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
15 166 (1.36%) Fixed Income
16 162 (1.33%) Derivative
17 154 (1.26%) Equities
18 141 (1.16%) Replication
19 137 (1.12%) Mobile App
20 135 (1.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,365 (11.20%) Windows
2 1,219 (10.00%) Linux
3 427 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 419 (3.44%) Unix
5 313 (2.57%) Android
6 281 (2.31%) Apple iOS
7 161 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 106 (0.87%) VMS
9 89 (0.73%) CentOS
10 79 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 78 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
12 74 (0.61%) Windows 7
13 73 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
14 62 (0.51%) Solaris
15 55 (0.45%) Ubuntu
16 47 (0.39%) Windows 8
17 37 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 25 (0.21%) AIX
19 23 (0.19%) SUSE
20 21 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,807 (31.24%) Agile
2 2,418 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
3 2,314 (18.99%) Software Engineering
4 2,220 (18.21%) Business Intelligence
5 1,730 (14.19%) Analytics
6 1,711 (14.04%) CI/CD
7 1,667 (13.68%) DevOps
8 1,661 (13.63%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,554 (12.75%) Visualisation
10 1,434 (11.77%) Full Stack Development
11 1,431 (11.74%) Machine Learning
12 1,419 (11.64%) SDLC
13 1,329 (10.90%) ETL
14 1,140 (9.35%) Mentoring
15 1,127 (9.25%) Computer Science
16 1,085 (8.90%) Data Modelling
17 956 (7.84%) Data Analysis
18 953 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
19 925 (7.59%) Decision-Making
20 907 (7.44%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3,207 (26.31%) Python
2 2,847 (23.36%) C#
3 2,251 (18.47%) JavaScript
4 2,138 (17.54%) Java
5 1,093 (8.97%) T-SQL
6 660 (5.42%) TypeScript
7 585 (4.80%) PL/SQL
8 450 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 407 (3.34%) Scala
10 312 (2.56%) R
11 258 (2.12%) PHP
12 237 (1.94%) C++
13 188 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 186 (1.53%) VB
15 177 (1.45%) VBA
16 164 (1.35%) VB.NET
17 154 (1.26%) Bash
18 144 (1.18%) C
19 81 (0.66%) Groovy
20 73 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,185 (17.93%) Degree
2 561 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 544 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 422 (3.46%) SC Cleared
5 334 (2.74%) DBS Check
6 306 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 287 (2.35%) Master's Degree
8 119 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 117 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 82 (0.67%) PhD
11 52 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 46 (0.38%) MCSE
13 45 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
14 42 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 31 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 31 (0.25%) CISA
15 31 (0.25%) ISTQB
16 30 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
16 30 (0.25%) MBA
16 30 (0.25%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (4.41%) Data Quality
2 405 (3.32%) QA
3 211 (1.73%) SLA
4 154 (1.26%) GDPR
5 133 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 54 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (0.40%) PMO
8 26 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 18 (0.15%) ITGC
10 17 (0.14%) COBIT
11 15 (0.12%) NIST
12 14 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.066%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.066%) IFRS
13 8 (0.066%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.066%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.066%) PSD2
14 7 (0.057%) GMP
14 7 (0.057%) SOC 1
System Software
1 611 (5.01%) Docker
2 603 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 291 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 184 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 126 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 120 (0.98%) HDFS
7 58 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
8 55 (0.45%) XenApp
9 48 (0.39%) VirtualBox
9 48 (0.39%) XenDesktop
10 43 (0.35%) vSphere
11 39 (0.32%) VMware NSX
12 34 (0.28%) Firmware
13 22 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
14 17 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
15 13 (0.11%) vCloud
15 13 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
16 10 (0.082%) Terminal Services
17 9 (0.074%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.074%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 760 (6.24%) Kubernetes
2 480 (3.94%) Terraform
3 146 (1.20%) Ansible
4 108 (0.89%) Grafana
5 56 (0.46%) Data Guard
5 56 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
6 55 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 53 (0.43%) SCCM
8 49 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.37%) Progress Chef
10 37 (0.30%) SCOM
11 31 (0.25%) Kibana
12 29 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 27 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
13 27 (0.22%) WSUS
14 22 (0.18%) HAProxy
14 22 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
15 21 (0.17%) Zipkin
16 18 (0.15%) Backup Exec
16 18 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,817 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 1,375 (11.28%) Oracle
3 851 (6.98%) Databricks
4 445 (3.65%) Google
5 403 (3.31%) VMware
6 399 (3.27%) IBM
7 300 (2.46%) Red Hat
8 271 (2.22%) SAP
9 162 (1.33%) Informatica
10 154 (1.26%) Citrix
11 108 (0.89%) Cisco
12 103 (0.85%) Alteryx
13 96 (0.79%) Veeam
14 90 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 89 (0.73%) Splunk
16 88 (0.72%) Cloudera
17 81 (0.66%) Bloomberg
18 80 (0.66%) F5
19 79 (0.65%) Sage
20 70 (0.57%) Remedy