SQL Jobs in England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10,090 15,068 24,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.67% 17.03% 17.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.46% 39.29% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,001 8,978 14,150
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.89% +4.95%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,671 38,352 73,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.00% 43.35% 53.39%
Number of salaries quoted 22,367 24,763 39,036
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £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 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in England

SQL
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SQL in England

SQL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in England

SQL
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London 0 3,694 £70,000 - 1,485
North of England -4 2,011 £50,000 -3.85% 481
South East -3 1,679 £50,000 -9.09% 542
Midlands -3 1,365 £47,500 -5.00% 363
North West -3 1,135 £52,500 +1.87% 262
West Midlands -5 804 £50,000 - 238
South West -10 740 £50,000 - 213
Yorkshire -7 621 £47,500 -9.52% 175
East Midlands -1 551 £45,000 -10.00% 125
East of England -9 515 £47,500 -9.52% 160
North East -1 257 £50,000 -4.76% 49
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 354 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 276 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 215 (2.13%) IIS
4 180 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 165 (1.64%) Apache
6 151 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
7 134 (1.33%) SAS
8 121 (1.20%) CMS
9 108 (1.07%) Confluence
10 28 (0.28%) Umbraco
11 27 (0.27%) Drupal
12 25 (0.25%) WebSphere
13 24 (0.24%) WordPress
14 23 (0.23%) Tomcat
15 20 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
16 19 (0.19%) WebLogic
17 15 (0.15%) nginx
18 14 (0.14%) OpenStack
18 14 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
19 13 (0.13%) Captiva
Applications
1 680 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 373 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 62 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 28 (0.28%) SPSS
6 23 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 17 (0.17%) Trello
8 16 (0.16%) Simulink
9 9 (0.089%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
11 7 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.020%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.020%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.020%) InDesign
13 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.010%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 144 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (0.41%) Siebel CRM
3 35 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 35 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 33 (0.33%) SDL Web 8
5 26 (0.26%) thinkFolio
6 25 (0.25%) Elite 3E
6 25 (0.25%) SAP Business One
7 23 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 22 (0.22%) Shopify
9 21 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 19 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
10 19 (0.19%) Sage 200
11 18 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
12 16 (0.16%) Fidessa
13 15 (0.15%) Sage X3
13 15 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
14 14 (0.14%) Magento
14 14 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
15 12 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 3,676 (36.43%) Azure
2 1,928 (19.11%) Power Platform
3 1,693 (16.78%) AWS
4 687 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
5 612 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
6 586 (5.81%) GCP
7 456 (4.52%) Serverless
8 356 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 337 (3.34%) SaaS
10 278 (2.76%) Snowflake
11 240 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 238 (2.36%) IBM Cloud
13 226 (2.24%) GitHub
14 213 (2.11%) Azure Functions
15 212 (2.10%) Azure Service Bus
16 209 (2.07%) PowerApps
17 202 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
18 191 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
19 185 (1.83%) Power Automate
20 172 (1.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 306 (3.03%) Firewall
2 192 (1.90%) DNS
3 148 (1.47%) WAN
4 120 (1.19%) VPN
5 113 (1.12%) DHCP
6 111 (1.10%) Internet
6 111 (1.10%) LAN
7 104 (1.03%) TCP/IP
8 89 (0.88%) SAN
9 70 (0.69%) Network Security
10 69 (0.68%) Broadband
11 68 (0.67%) HTTP
12 61 (0.60%) VLAN
13 56 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
14 51 (0.51%) SSL
15 34 (0.34%) Wireless
16 31 (0.31%) SD-WAN
17 29 (0.29%) FTP
18 27 (0.27%) VoIP
18 27 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,361 (23.40%) SQL Server
2 1,810 (17.94%) Power BI
3 954 (9.45%) Data Warehouse
4 812 (8.05%) NoSQL
5 751 (7.44%) Tableau
6 749 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
7 634 (6.28%) Relational Database
8 618 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 553 (5.48%) MongoDB
10 543 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 464 (4.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 451 (4.47%) MySQL
13 428 (4.24%) Data Lake
14 300 (2.97%) DB2
15 254 (2.52%) Big Data
16 234 (2.32%) Oracle Database
17 220 (2.18%) BigQuery
18 165 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 137 (1.36%) Data Mining
20 133 (1.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 893 (8.85%) Git
2 396 (3.92%) JIRA
3 344 (3.41%) Visual Studio
4 229 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 164 (1.63%) GitLab
6 109 (1.08%) Selenium
7 95 (0.94%) Postman
8 92 (0.91%) TeamCity
9 86 (0.85%) NUnit
10 78 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 69 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
12 54 (0.54%) Moq
13 53 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 52 (0.52%) JUnit
15 51 (0.51%) Cypress.io
16 48 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
17 44 (0.44%) SpecFlow
18 41 (0.41%) Eclipse
18 41 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
19 40 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,719 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 2,245 (22.25%) Finance
3 1,489 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
4 701 (6.95%) Retail
5 596 (5.91%) Public Sector
6 499 (4.95%) Banking
7 444 (4.40%) Marketing
8 422 (4.18%) Law
9 392 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 363 (3.60%) Manufacturing
11 320 (3.17%) Front Office
12 312 (3.09%) Legal
13 278 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
14 191 (1.89%) Back Office
15 177 (1.75%) Games
16 169 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
17 111 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 99 (0.98%) Aerospace
19 97 (0.96%) Advertising
20 93 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,075 (30.48%) Developer
2 1,936 (19.19%) Senior
3 1,913 (18.96%) Analyst
4 810 (8.03%) Lead
5 776 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 682 (6.76%) .NET Developer
7 648 (6.42%) Senior Developer
8 598 (5.93%) Data Analyst
9 587 (5.82%) Software Engineer
10 480 (4.76%) Software Developer
11 473 (4.69%) Full Stack Developer
12 414 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
13 413 (4.09%) C# Developer
14 398 (3.94%) Applications Support
15 331 (3.28%) Support Analyst
16 314 (3.11%) Consultant
17 299 (2.96%) DBA
18 297 (2.94%) Support Engineer
19 289 (2.86%) Architect
20 271 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,415 (23.93%) .NET
2 1,335 (13.23%) HTML
3 1,159 (11.49%) CSS
4 1,037 (10.28%) ASP.NET
5 908 (9.00%) React
6 864 (8.56%) AngularJS
7 785 (7.78%) REST
8 647 (6.41%) Web Services
9 645 (6.39%) .NET Core
10 521 (5.16%) jQuery
11 504 (5.00%) .NET Framework
12 465 (4.61%) Vue
13 418 (4.14%) XML
14 409 (4.05%) Entity Framework
15 389 (3.86%) JSON
16 387 (3.84%) Node.js
17 358 (3.55%) ASP.NET MVC
18 355 (3.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 340 (3.37%) HTML5
20 337 (3.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 498 (4.94%) Data Structures
2 442 (4.38%) Algorithms
3 336 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 315 (3.12%) Management Information System
5 271 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 265 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 263 (2.61%) Hedge funds
8 248 (2.46%) Blockchain
9 236 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
10 199 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 175 (1.73%) Fixed Income
12 172 (1.70%) Derivative
13 161 (1.60%) Equities
14 159 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 153 (1.52%) Public Cloud
16 152 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
17 132 (1.31%) Mobile App
18 120 (1.19%) Client/Server
19 116 (1.15%) e-Learning
20 110 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1,267 (12.56%) Windows
2 1,000 (9.91%) Linux
3 388 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 311 (3.08%) Android
5 278 (2.76%) Apple iOS
6 214 (2.12%) Unix
7 160 (1.59%) Windows 10
8 94 (0.93%) VMS
9 89 (0.88%) CentOS
10 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
11 74 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
12 68 (0.67%) Windows 7
13 54 (0.54%) Ubuntu
14 45 (0.45%) Windows 8
15 33 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 30 (0.30%) Solaris
17 24 (0.24%) AIX
18 22 (0.22%) SUSE
19 19 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,525 (25.02%) Agile
2 2,018 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1,998 (19.80%) Business Intelligence
4 1,561 (15.47%) Analytics
5 1,413 (14.00%) DevOps
6 1,171 (11.61%) ETL
7 1,141 (11.31%) Full Stack Development
8 1,100 (10.90%) Visualisation
9 1,099 (10.89%) Software Engineering
10 966 (9.57%) Mentoring
11 962 (9.53%) Artificial Intelligence
12 919 (9.11%) Computer Science
13 915 (9.07%) Data Modelling
14 881 (8.73%) MVC
15 835 (8.28%) Data Analysis
16 822 (8.15%) Data Science
17 774 (7.67%) Machine Learning
18 698 (6.92%) Data Pipeline
19 676 (6.70%) CI/CD
20 673 (6.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,655 (26.31%) Python
2 2,578 (25.55%) C#
3 1,964 (19.46%) JavaScript
4 1,071 (10.61%) Java
5 978 (9.69%) T-SQL
6 514 (5.09%) TypeScript
7 436 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 303 (3.00%) PL/SQL
9 292 (2.89%) R
10 234 (2.32%) PHP
11 204 (2.02%) C++
12 180 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 177 (1.75%) VB
14 166 (1.65%) VBA
15 162 (1.61%) VB.NET
16 141 (1.40%) Bash
17 132 (1.31%) C
18 116 (1.15%) Scala
19 71 (0.70%) Kotlin
20 66 (0.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,968 (19.50%) Degree
2 478 (4.74%) Security Cleared
3 470 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 358 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 349 (3.46%) DBS Check
6 281 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 241 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 121 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 116 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 71 (0.70%) PhD
11 52 (0.52%) PMI Certification
12 44 (0.44%) MCSE
13 39 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
14 37 (0.37%) AWS Certification
15 31 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
16 30 (0.30%) MBA
16 30 (0.30%) MCSA
17 29 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
18 27 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 25 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 495 (4.91%) Data Quality
2 342 (3.39%) QA
3 157 (1.56%) SLA
4 130 (1.29%) GDPR
5 106 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 55 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 15 (0.15%) PMO
10 11 (0.11%) COBIT
11 10 (0.099%) NIST
12 8 (0.079%) IFRS
12 8 (0.079%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.079%) PSD2
13 7 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.069%) ITGC
13 7 (0.069%) MiFID
13 7 (0.069%) SOC 1
14 6 (0.059%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 583 (5.78%) Active Directory
2 505 (5.00%) Docker
3 256 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 178 (1.76%) Hyper-V
5 108 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 53 (0.53%) XenApp
7 46 (0.46%) VirtualBox
7 46 (0.46%) XenDesktop
8 42 (0.42%) vSphere
9 29 (0.29%) Firmware
10 27 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
10 27 (0.27%) RACF
11 22 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 17 (0.17%) HDFS
12 17 (0.17%) VMware NSX
13 15 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
14 13 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.12%) vCloud
16 10 (0.099%) Terminal Services
17 9 (0.089%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 441 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 317 (3.14%) Terraform
3 128 (1.27%) Ansible
4 47 (0.47%) Grafana
4 47 (0.47%) SCCM
5 46 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (0.36%) SCOM
7 33 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 29 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 29 (0.29%) WSUS
10 25 (0.25%) Data Guard
11 23 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
12 22 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
13 18 (0.18%) Backup Exec
14 17 (0.17%) NetBackup
15 15 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
16 14 (0.14%) Puppet
17 13 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
18 12 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 2,607 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 858 (8.50%) Oracle
3 659 (6.53%) Databricks
4 371 (3.68%) Google
5 360 (3.57%) IBM
6 342 (3.39%) VMware
7 301 (2.98%) Red Hat
8 222 (2.20%) SAP
9 148 (1.47%) Citrix
10 101 (1.00%) Cisco
11 91 (0.90%) Veeam
12 86 (0.85%) Salesforce
13 85 (0.84%) Bloomberg
14 80 (0.79%) Alteryx
15 79 (0.78%) F5
16 78 (0.77%) Informatica
17 66 (0.65%) Sage
18 51 (0.51%) ServiceNow
19 49 (0.49%) Adobe
20 43 (0.43%) HP