SQL Job Trends in West London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West London requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 19 10
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 21 37 41
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 4.09% 9.66% 13.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.62% 46.25% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 39
10th Percentile £34,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +12.07% -3.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £80,000 £80,375
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

All Programming Languages
West London

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 in West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 53 80 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 10.33% 20.89% 26.84%
Number of salaries quoted 32 40 78
10th Percentile £29,900 £44,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £40,104 £52,188 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,200 £66,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.29% +11.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £87,500 £80,638
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West London.

SQL job vacancy trend in West London

SQL
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in West London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in West London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in West London

SQL
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the West London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Hillingdon - 5 £40,375 - 3
Richmond upon Thames -13 4 £80,000 +18.52% 4
Hammersmith - 3 £35,000 -
Harrow - 2 £58,000 - 5
Hounslow +2 1 £50,000 - 1
Wembley -6 1 - - 1
SQL
London

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (4.76%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.76%) dbt
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Google Workspace
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) LAN
1 2 (9.52%) SAN
1 2 (9.52%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (28.57%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Postman
2 1 (4.76%) Selenium
2 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
2 1 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Games
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Analyst
1 5 (23.81%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Customer Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Customer Service Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Officer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Performance Officer
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Support
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Support Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Tester
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.76%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) HTML
1 3 (14.29%) PySpark
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) SOAP
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.76%) jQuery
3 1 (4.76%) LDAP
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) FMCG
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (4.76%) VMS
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (33.33%) Analytics
2 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
4 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
5 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 3 (14.29%) Data Science
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) ERP
5 3 (14.29%) ETL
5 3 (14.29%) Logistics
5 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (9.52%) Data Strategy
6 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
6 2 (9.52%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.76%) R
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Dell Certification
3 2 (9.52%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.76%) MCSE
4 1 (4.76%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (4.76%) OCP
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.76%) PhD
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (19.05%) QA
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
4 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.76%) NCSC
4 1 (4.76%) NIST
4 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Databricks
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco
3 2 (9.52%) Dell
3 2 (9.52%) Fujitsu
3 2 (9.52%) HP
3 2 (9.52%) Juniper
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Epicor
4 1 (4.76%) OpenText
4 1 (4.76%) Pegasus
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce