SQL Jobs in Central London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 715 857 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 18.91% 16.93% 17.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.47% 34.02% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 523 777 1,313
10th Percentile £42,550 £44,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £105,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,645 2,519 4,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 43.50% 49.76% 50.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 2,270 3,681
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £110,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Central London

SQL
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for SQL in Central London

SQL
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in Central London

SQL
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 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
City of London +5 647 £72,500 - 107
City of Westminster +17 39 £75,000 -16.67% 2
West End of London +12 29 £110,000 +62.96% 2
Camden -7 8 £55,000 -18.52% 1
Lambeth +8 4 £45,000 - 1
Kensington and Chelsea +6 2 £68,750 -
Southwark +8 1 £55,000 +7.32% 1
SQL
London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 20 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.66%) CMS
3 10 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.40%) IIS
3 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.40%) SAS
4 7 (0.98%) Confluence
5 6 (0.84%) Apache
5 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.84%) Drupal
6 5 (0.70%) EPiServer
7 4 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.28%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) Documentum
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.14%) Site Server
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 71 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.12%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.42%) SPSS
6 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.66%) Aladdin
1 19 (2.66%) thinkFolio
2 12 (1.68%) SDL Web 8
3 9 (1.26%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.56%) Relativity
6 2 (0.28%) Endur
6 2 (0.28%) Farmplan
6 2 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.28%) KEYPrime
6 2 (0.28%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.28%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 2 (0.28%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.28%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 261 (36.50%) Azure
2 141 (19.72%) AWS
3 136 (19.02%) Power Platform
4 45 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (4.76%) GCP
6 33 (4.62%) Serverless
7 32 (4.48%) SaaS
8 23 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 22 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.08%) Snowflake
10 20 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (2.38%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.96%) Google Sheets
13 13 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (1.82%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.68%) GitHub
15 11 (1.54%) Entra ID
16 10 (1.40%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.40%) WhatsApp
17 9 (1.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.50%) Internet
2 16 (2.24%) HTTP
3 10 (1.40%) DNS
4 9 (1.26%) WAN
5 8 (1.12%) Firewall
5 8 (1.12%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.56%) Network Security
6 4 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.42%) PSTN
8 2 (0.28%) SAN
8 2 (0.28%) SNA
8 2 (0.28%) SSL
8 2 (0.28%) VPN
9 1 (0.14%) 4G
9 1 (0.14%) Intranet
9 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.14%) LAN
9 1 (0.14%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (24.62%) SQL Server
2 130 (18.18%) Power BI
3 123 (17.20%) Tableau
4 67 (9.37%) Data Warehouse
5 55 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 47 (6.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (5.73%) Relational Database
8 27 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (3.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 26 (3.64%) MySQL
10 25 (3.50%) Oracle Database
11 24 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (3.08%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.66%) Data Lake
14 13 (1.82%) GIS
14 13 (1.82%) RDBMS
15 12 (1.68%) MongoDB
16 11 (1.54%) Data Mining
17 9 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
17 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 124 (17.34%) Git
2 29 (4.06%) JIRA
3 27 (3.78%) Visual Studio
4 22 (3.08%) TeamCity
5 20 (2.80%) SpecFlow
6 19 (2.66%) GitLab
7 17 (2.38%) NUnit
8 16 (2.24%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.68%) Jenkins
9 12 (1.68%) Moq
10 9 (1.26%) git-flow
11 8 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (1.12%) Postman
11 8 (1.12%) Sourcetree
12 7 (0.98%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.98%) Katalon Studio
12 7 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.56%) PowerBuilder
General
1 251 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 180 (25.17%) Finance
3 157 (21.96%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (9.37%) Retail
5 53 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
6 32 (4.48%) Law
6 32 (4.48%) Marketing
7 27 (3.78%) Front Office
8 26 (3.64%) Legal
9 20 (2.80%) Banking
10 19 (2.66%) Back Office
11 12 (1.68%) Advertising
11 12 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.98%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.84%) Games
14 6 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.70%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.70%) Public Sector
16 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 219 (30.63%) Senior
2 187 (26.15%) Analyst
3 149 (20.84%) Developer
4 98 (13.71%) Lead
5 72 (10.07%) Data Analyst
6 63 (8.81%) Senior Developer
7 62 (8.67%) Data Engineer
8 54 (7.55%) Senior Analyst
9 46 (6.43%) Applications Support
10 44 (6.15%) Data Scientist
11 42 (5.87%) Support Analyst
12 38 (5.31%) Full Stack Developer
13 36 (5.03%) Senior Data Scientist
14 35 (4.90%) Senior Data Analyst
15 32 (4.48%) C# Developer
15 32 (4.48%) Software Engineer
15 32 (4.48%) Systems Analyst
16 30 (4.20%) Software Developer
17 27 (3.78%) .NET Developer
17 27 (3.78%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (16.92%) .NET
2 83 (11.61%) HTML
3 82 (11.47%) CSS
4 52 (7.27%) PySpark
5 50 (6.99%) REST
6 49 (6.85%) .NET Framework
7 48 (6.71%) Pandas
8 47 (6.57%) React
9 43 (6.01%) ASP.NET
10 40 (5.59%) AngularJS
11 34 (4.76%) RESTful
11 34 (4.76%) TensorFlow
12 33 (4.62%) scikit-learn
13 32 (4.48%) Web Services
14 27 (3.78%) jQuery
15 26 (3.64%) Entity Framework
16 24 (3.36%) XML
17 22 (3.08%) HTML5
18 21 (2.94%) WPF
19 20 (2.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.73%) Algorithms
2 34 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 28 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (2.80%) Reinsurance
6 19 (2.66%) Fixed Income
7 18 (2.52%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.68%) Legacy Code
9 12 (1.68%) Life Science
10 11 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.40%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.12%) Clustering
12 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
13 7 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (0.98%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.98%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.84%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 75 (10.49%) Windows
2 35 (4.90%) Windows Server
3 29 (4.06%) Linux
4 10 (1.40%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.26%) Unix
6 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.14%) AIX
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (22.24%) Visualisation
2 149 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
3 138 (19.30%) Analytics
4 134 (18.74%) Business Intelligence
5 110 (15.38%) Agile
6 108 (15.10%) Actionable Insight
7 106 (14.83%) Data Science
8 100 (13.99%) Data Analysis
9 96 (13.43%) Statistics
10 95 (13.29%) DevOps
11 90 (12.59%) Computer Science
11 90 (12.59%) Mathematics
12 84 (11.75%) ETL
13 81 (11.33%) Decision-Making
14 78 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
15 75 (10.49%) Root Cause Analysis
16 74 (10.35%) Storytelling
17 73 (10.21%) Data Modelling
18 67 (9.37%) Data Visualisation
19 66 (9.23%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 244 (34.13%) Python
2 125 (17.48%) C#
3 103 (14.41%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.59%) T-SQL
5 35 (4.90%) PowerShell
6 31 (4.34%) Java
7 30 (4.20%) R
8 22 (3.08%) PHP
9 19 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (2.24%) TypeScript
11 15 (2.10%) XPath
12 14 (1.96%) C++
12 14 (1.96%) VBA
13 13 (1.82%) PL/SQL
14 9 (1.26%) C
15 4 (0.56%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.56%) Scala
15 4 (0.56%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.42%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.28%) Bash
Qualifications
1 219 (30.63%) Degree
2 71 (9.93%) DBS Check
3 46 (6.43%) Master's Degree
4 39 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.84%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.84%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.70%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.70%) PMI Certification
6 5 (0.70%) PMP
7 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.28%) ISEB
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.14%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.87%) QA
3 14 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.40%) SLA
5 6 (0.84%) SOC 1
6 2 (0.28%) COBIT
6 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.38%) Docker
3 9 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.28%) vSphere
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) XenApp
5 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (4.48%) Kubernetes
1 32 (4.48%) Terraform
2 4 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (0.42%) Backup Exec
3 3 (0.42%) SCCM
4 2 (0.28%) Ansible
4 2 (0.28%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.28%) Foglight
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.28%) SCOM
5 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.14%) cPanel
5 1 (0.14%) Kibana
5 1 (0.14%) logstash
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 138 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 101 (14.13%) Databricks
3 57 (7.97%) Oracle
4 35 (4.90%) Google
5 27 (3.78%) Bloomberg
6 19 (2.66%) Charles River
7 18 (2.52%) Aderant
8 14 (1.96%) Guidewire
9 12 (1.68%) Adobe
10 11 (1.54%) Veeam
11 9 (1.26%) VMware
12 8 (1.12%) Cisco
12 8 (1.12%) Cognizant
12 8 (1.12%) Dell
13 7 (0.98%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.98%) Sybase
14 6 (0.84%) FFastFill
14 6 (0.84%) Intapp
14 6 (0.84%) Refinitiv
15 5 (0.70%) Citrix