SQL Jobs in London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,672 5,774 13,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.57% 16.98% 19.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.73% 34.22% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,816 4,062 6,649
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £91,250 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,140
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.81% +5.03%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,481 16,873 41,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.20% 49.62% 60.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,581 12,529 19,001
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in London

SQL
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SQL in London

SQL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in London

SQL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London +3 692 £70,000 -3.45% 140
South London -22 73 £60,000 +9.09% 17
West London -59 36 £64,000 +28.00% 23
East London +1 23 £57,500 +4.55% 32
North London -7 8 £70,000 +33.33% 3
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 135 (3.68%) Apache Spark
2 114 (3.10%) Apache
3 113 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 104 (2.83%) SharePoint
5 83 (2.26%) SAS
6 67 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 52 (1.42%) IIS
8 43 (1.17%) CMS
9 26 (0.71%) Confluence
10 15 (0.41%) Drupal
11 13 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
12 11 (0.30%) Tomcat
13 10 (0.27%) EPiServer
14 9 (0.25%) Apache Pig
15 8 (0.22%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
17 6 (0.16%) Jupyter
18 5 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
19 4 (0.11%) Site Server
19 4 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 280 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.46%) SPSS
6 13 (0.35%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.054%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 71 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.98%) Aladdin
3 26 (0.71%) thinkFolio
4 23 (0.63%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.54%) Elite 3E
6 17 (0.46%) NEC Housing
7 16 (0.44%) Fidessa
8 11 (0.30%) Relativity
9 9 (0.25%) Sage X3
9 9 (0.25%) SAP Business One
10 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
11 7 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
11 7 (0.19%) Endur
12 6 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.16%) Primavera
13 5 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
13 5 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,242 (33.82%) Azure
2 853 (23.23%) AWS
3 664 (18.08%) Power Platform
4 320 (8.71%) GCP
5 226 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 176 (4.79%) Serverless
7 170 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 131 (3.57%) Snowflake
9 125 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 116 (3.16%) SaaS
11 111 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
12 90 (2.45%) GitHub
13 87 (2.37%) PowerApps
14 81 (2.21%) Amazon S3
15 77 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
16 76 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
16 76 (2.07%) Power Automate
17 54 (1.47%) Azure Functions
18 53 (1.44%) dbt
19 52 (1.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.15%) Firewall
2 55 (1.50%) DNS
3 47 (1.28%) VPN
4 39 (1.06%) Internet
5 33 (0.90%) DHCP
6 30 (0.82%) Network Security
6 30 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 26 (0.71%) WAN
8 24 (0.65%) SAN
9 20 (0.54%) HTTP
10 16 (0.44%) FIX Connectivity
10 16 (0.44%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.44%) VLAN
11 11 (0.30%) BGP
11 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (0.30%) MPLS
11 11 (0.30%) Wireless
12 10 (0.27%) LAN
13 9 (0.25%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (0.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 639 (17.40%) SQL Server
2 600 (16.34%) Power BI
3 401 (10.92%) Tableau
4 380 (10.35%) Data Warehouse
5 258 (7.03%) NoSQL
6 224 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
7 218 (5.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 186 (5.07%) Relational Database
9 171 (4.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 170 (4.63%) Data Lake
11 166 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 143 (3.89%) MongoDB
13 141 (3.84%) Big Data
14 111 (3.02%) MySQL
15 88 (2.40%) Data Mining
16 79 (2.15%) Hadoop
17 74 (2.02%) BigQuery
18 73 (1.99%) Oracle Database
19 63 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
20 60 (1.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 362 (9.86%) Git
2 143 (3.89%) JIRA
3 93 (2.53%) Visual Studio
4 86 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 67 (1.82%) GitLab
6 40 (1.09%) TeamCity
7 38 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 33 (0.90%) NUnit
9 27 (0.74%) SpecFlow
10 23 (0.63%) Moq
10 23 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
11 22 (0.60%) Eclipse
11 22 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
12 20 (0.54%) Postman
13 17 (0.46%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.46%) Sourcetree
14 16 (0.44%) JUnit
14 16 (0.44%) SonarQube
15 14 (0.38%) Selenium
15 14 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,178 (32.08%) Finance
2 1,040 (28.32%) Social Skills
3 668 (18.19%) Analytical Skills
4 336 (9.15%) Banking
5 313 (8.52%) Front Office
6 228 (6.21%) Retail
7 189 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 178 (4.85%) Marketing
9 173 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
10 147 (4.00%) Back Office
11 145 (3.95%) Law
12 112 (3.05%) Legal
13 77 (2.10%) Public Sector
14 55 (1.50%) Games
15 46 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 40 (1.09%) Retail Banking
17 34 (0.93%) Financial Institution
17 34 (0.93%) Health Technology
18 33 (0.90%) Advertising
19 31 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 989 (26.93%) Senior
2 950 (25.87%) Analyst
3 908 (24.73%) Developer
4 384 (10.46%) Data Engineer
5 321 (8.74%) Data Analyst
6 317 (8.63%) Lead
7 286 (7.79%) Senior Developer
8 231 (6.29%) Senior Analyst
9 216 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 198 (5.39%) Full Stack Developer
11 191 (5.20%) Applications Support
12 190 (5.17%) .NET Developer
13 185 (5.04%) Support Analyst
14 131 (3.57%) Business Analyst
14 131 (3.57%) Financial Analyst
15 130 (3.54%) Data Scientist
16 125 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
17 117 (3.19%) Architect
18 115 (3.13%) Senior Data Analyst
19 113 (3.08%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 590 (16.07%) .NET
2 293 (7.98%) React
3 270 (7.35%) AngularJS
4 259 (7.05%) HTML
5 244 (6.64%) CSS
6 226 (6.15%) REST
7 207 (5.64%) ASP.NET
8 163 (4.44%) Web Services
9 155 (4.22%) PySpark
10 153 (4.17%) .NET Framework
11 148 (4.03%) .NET Core
12 145 (3.95%) XML
13 136 (3.70%) JSON
14 124 (3.38%) Kafka
15 110 (3.00%) RESTful
16 106 (2.89%) jQuery
17 102 (2.78%) Spring
18 101 (2.75%) Pandas
19 95 (2.59%) SOAP
20 91 (2.48%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 250 (6.81%) Hedge funds
2 169 (4.60%) Fixed Income
3 166 (4.52%) Derivative
4 159 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 156 (4.25%) Equities
6 153 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 139 (3.79%) Algorithms
8 127 (3.46%) Onboarding
9 119 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
10 112 (3.05%) Management Information System
11 92 (2.51%) Data Structures
12 81 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
13 59 (1.61%) Client/Server
14 47 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
14 47 (1.28%) Reinsurance
15 44 (1.20%) Cloud Native
16 37 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (0.95%) Public Cloud
18 32 (0.87%) IoT
18 32 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 332 (9.04%) Windows
2 272 (7.41%) Linux
3 121 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 110 (3.00%) Unix
5 42 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.74%) CentOS
7 25 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.65%) Android
8 24 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.33%) Solaris
10 12 (0.33%) SUSE
10 12 (0.33%) zOS
11 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.19%) VMS
13 7 (0.19%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.14%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 812 (22.11%) Agile
2 811 (22.09%) Analytics
3 677 (18.44%) Business Intelligence
4 676 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
5 529 (14.41%) Visualisation
6 520 (14.16%) ETL
7 485 (13.21%) DevOps
8 449 (12.23%) Data Modelling
9 446 (12.15%) Data Science
10 421 (11.47%) Data Analysis
11 391 (10.65%) Software Engineering
12 390 (10.62%) Computer Science
13 376 (10.24%) Machine Learning
14 366 (9.97%) Data Pipeline
15 363 (9.89%) Full Stack Development
16 324 (8.82%) Mentoring
17 322 (8.77%) Mathematics
18 321 (8.74%) Statistics
19 318 (8.66%) Artificial Intelligence
20 307 (8.36%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,533 (41.75%) Python
2 700 (19.06%) C#
3 509 (13.86%) JavaScript
4 338 (9.20%) Java
5 323 (8.80%) T-SQL
6 199 (5.42%) TypeScript
7 194 (5.28%) R
8 170 (4.63%) PowerShell
9 118 (3.21%) PL/SQL
10 80 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 73 (1.99%) VBA
12 55 (1.50%) Scala
13 53 (1.44%) Bash
14 52 (1.42%) C++
15 49 (1.33%) C
16 43 (1.17%) PHP
16 43 (1.17%) XPath
17 24 (0.65%) Ruby
18 23 (0.63%) MATLAB
18 23 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 912 (24.84%) Degree
2 173 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 158 (4.30%) DBS Check
4 147 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 91 (2.48%) Security Cleared
6 72 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 66 (1.80%) SC Cleared
8 47 (1.28%) PhD
9 43 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 35 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 25 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
12 22 (0.60%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.60%) MCSE
13 18 (0.49%) MCSA
14 16 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 14 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.38%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.25%) MBA
16 9 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 8 (0.22%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 126 (3.43%) QA
3 47 (1.28%) SLA
4 33 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 24 (0.65%) GDPR
6 12 (0.33%) PMO
7 10 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.19%) COBIT
8 7 (0.19%) IFRS
8 7 (0.19%) MiFID
8 7 (0.19%) SOC 1
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) ITGC
10 5 (0.14%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.11%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.082%) CDISC
12 3 (0.082%) EMIR
System Software
1 197 (5.36%) Docker
2 147 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.57%) vSphere
6 18 (0.49%) HDFS
7 13 (0.35%) vCloud
8 9 (0.25%) Firmware
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
11 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
12 5 (0.14%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.11%) XenApp
14 3 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 213 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 178 (4.85%) Terraform
3 38 (1.03%) Ansible
4 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.65%) Grafana
6 23 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 16 (0.44%) SCCM
8 12 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.33%) WSUS
9 10 (0.27%) logstash
9 10 (0.27%) SCOM
10 9 (0.25%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 7 (0.19%) Control-M
12 7 (0.19%) Istio
13 6 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
13 6 (0.16%) Stealthwatch
14 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 692 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 399 (10.87%) Databricks
3 303 (8.25%) Oracle
4 158 (4.30%) Google
5 84 (2.29%) Bloomberg
6 62 (1.69%) VMware
7 61 (1.66%) SAP
8 47 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 41 (1.12%) Alteryx
9 41 (1.12%) Cisco
10 38 (1.03%) Red Hat
11 35 (0.95%) F5
12 33 (0.90%) IBM
13 30 (0.82%) ION Trading
14 26 (0.71%) Veeam
15 25 (0.68%) Juniper
15 25 (0.68%) Murex
16 24 (0.65%) Sage
16 24 (0.65%) ServiceNow
17 23 (0.63%) HP