SQL Jobs in the South East

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,673 1,990 3,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.98% 13.81% 16.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.77% 34.46% 33.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,323 1,439 2,402
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,875 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,594
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,140
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.81% +5.03%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,954 5,774 9,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.55% 40.08% 49.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,990 3,793 6,406
10th Percentile £34,475 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £85,000
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 the South East

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the South East

SQL
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the South East.

Salary trend for SQL in the South East

SQL
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for SQL in the South East

SQL
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the South East 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
Thames Valley -2 601 £50,000 -9.09% 99
Hampshire -1 428 £47,500 -9.52% 74
Berkshire -1 315 £62,500 +4.17% 47
Surrey -2 285 £50,000 -13.04% 48
Buckinghamshire -9 153 £47,500 -9.52% 31
Kent +5 152 £54,500 +3.81% 27
Oxfordshire +6 133 £42,500 - 21
East Sussex -6 109 £55,000 - 22
West Sussex -11 68 £52,500 -8.70% 11
Sussex - 14 £60,000 - 2
Middlesex -14 7 £65,000 -16.13% 7
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 106 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (4.60%) SharePoint
3 46 (2.75%) IIS
4 31 (1.85%) CMS
5 15 (0.90%) WebLogic
6 14 (0.84%) Oracle Service Bus
7 11 (0.66%) Apache
8 10 (0.60%) Confluence
8 10 (0.60%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.54%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.48%) WordPress
11 6 (0.36%) JBoss
11 6 (0.36%) SAS
12 5 (0.30%) Drupal
12 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.24%) ColdFusion
14 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.18%) WinCC
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 107 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.84%) Simulink
5 12 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.30%) SPSS
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.060%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 40 (2.39%) Siebel CRM
2 32 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.78%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.30%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
8 4 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
9 2 (0.12%) Magento
9 2 (0.12%) nopCommerce
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.12%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.12%) Shopify
9 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 646 (38.61%) Azure
2 265 (15.84%) Power Platform
3 190 (11.36%) AWS
4 172 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
5 144 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
6 131 (7.83%) Serverless
7 84 (5.02%) Azure Functions
8 80 (4.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 77 (4.60%) IBM Cloud
10 75 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
11 74 (4.42%) Azure API Management
12 71 (4.24%) SaaS
13 35 (2.09%) GitHub
14 34 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
15 31 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
16 30 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 30 (1.79%) Snowflake
17 28 (1.67%) OneDrive
18 26 (1.55%) PowerApps
19 23 (1.37%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 93 (5.56%) Firewall
2 42 (2.51%) DNS
3 30 (1.79%) DHCP
4 28 (1.67%) Internet
5 21 (1.26%) SSL
5 21 (1.26%) VPN
5 21 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (1.14%) HTTP
7 17 (1.02%) Network Security
8 16 (0.96%) Broadband
9 15 (0.90%) SNMP
10 14 (0.84%) TCP/IP
11 13 (0.78%) Wireless
12 12 (0.72%) VLAN
13 10 (0.60%) FTP
14 8 (0.48%) Intranet
14 8 (0.48%) VoIP
15 6 (0.36%) LAN
15 6 (0.36%) Unified Communications
15 6 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (20.68%) SQL Server
2 258 (15.42%) Power BI
3 207 (12.37%) NoSQL
4 162 (9.68%) Relational Database
5 156 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
6 120 (7.17%) MongoDB
7 95 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 94 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
9 84 (5.02%) DB2
10 83 (4.96%) Data Lake
11 80 (4.78%) MySQL
12 71 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 54 (3.23%) Oracle Database
14 47 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 47 (2.81%) Tableau
15 34 (2.03%) Oracle BI EE
16 32 (1.91%) Siebel EIM
17 31 (1.85%) Hadoop
18 26 (1.55%) Oracle Database 11g
19 25 (1.49%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 155 (9.26%) Git
2 91 (5.44%) Visual Studio
3 76 (4.54%) JIRA
4 58 (3.47%) Jenkins
5 56 (3.35%) Selenium
6 33 (1.97%) Postman
7 32 (1.91%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.79%) SoapUI
9 26 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
10 25 (1.49%) NUnit
11 24 (1.43%) Ant
12 23 (1.37%) GitLab
13 20 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
14 19 (1.14%) JMeter
15 15 (0.90%) Vagrant
15 15 (0.90%) WebDriver
16 12 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
17 11 (0.66%) Cucumber
18 10 (0.60%) Bitbucket
18 10 (0.60%) Eclipse
General
1 410 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 251 (15.00%) Finance
3 193 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.56%) Retail
6 65 (3.89%) Manufacturing
7 62 (3.71%) Marketing
8 58 (3.47%) Aerospace
9 55 (3.29%) Legal
10 46 (2.75%) Law
11 41 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
11 41 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 35 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
13 28 (1.67%) Games
14 22 (1.32%) Billing
15 16 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.84%) Health Technology
17 13 (0.78%) Back Office
17 13 (0.78%) Banking
18 11 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 617 (36.88%) Developer
2 227 (13.57%) Senior
3 162 (9.68%) Analyst
4 145 (8.67%) .NET Developer
5 144 (8.61%) Senior Developer
6 118 (7.05%) Full Stack Developer
7 105 (6.28%) Support Engineer
8 100 (5.98%) Lead
9 97 (5.80%) Software Engineer
10 85 (5.08%) IT Support
11 82 (4.90%) Azure Developer
12 77 (4.60%) Software Developer
13 72 (4.30%) Applications Support
14 71 (4.24%) IT Engineer
15 64 (3.83%) Consultant
16 63 (3.77%) IT Support Engineer
17 59 (3.53%) Architect
18 58 (3.47%) C# Developer
19 51 (3.05%) Support Analyst
20 50 (2.99%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (30.90%) .NET
2 324 (19.37%) HTML
3 283 (16.92%) CSS
4 208 (12.43%) React
5 205 (12.25%) ASP.NET
6 172 (10.28%) AngularJS
7 156 (9.32%) Web Services
8 151 (9.03%) REST
9 138 (8.25%) Node.js
10 136 (8.13%) .NET Core
11 112 (6.69%) XML
12 111 (6.63%) jQuery
13 108 (6.46%) HTML5
14 100 (5.98%) Vue
15 99 (5.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 97 (5.80%) Blazor
17 84 (5.02%) JSON
18 83 (4.96%) Entity Framework
19 81 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
20 79 (4.72%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 110 (6.58%) Data Structures
2 92 (5.50%) Algorithms
3 79 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (4.54%) Blockchain
5 59 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 49 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
7 48 (2.87%) Management Information System
8 31 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (1.85%) Replication
9 28 (1.67%) Product Ownership
10 19 (1.14%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.02%) Driving Licence
12 16 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (0.90%) Mobile App
14 13 (0.78%) CMDB
14 13 (0.78%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.72%) Clustering
15 12 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 306 (18.29%) Windows
2 249 (14.88%) Linux
3 100 (5.98%) Windows Server
4 98 (5.86%) Android
5 80 (4.78%) Apple iOS
6 54 (3.23%) Windows 10
7 47 (2.81%) Windows 7
8 43 (2.57%) Windows 8
9 31 (1.85%) VMS
10 29 (1.73%) Unix
11 16 (0.96%) CentOS
11 16 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.96%) Ubuntu
12 14 (0.84%) Solaris
13 6 (0.36%) AIX
14 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (26.90%) Agile
2 309 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
3 288 (17.21%) Business Intelligence
4 270 (16.14%) DevOps
5 230 (13.75%) Full Stack Development
6 208 (12.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 203 (12.13%) MVC
8 187 (11.18%) Software Engineering
9 165 (9.86%) Test Automation
10 155 (9.26%) Computer Science
11 144 (8.61%) ETL
12 125 (7.47%) Analytics
12 125 (7.47%) User Experience
13 124 (7.41%) Actionable Insight
13 124 (7.41%) Scrum
14 121 (7.23%) OOP
15 118 (7.05%) Collaborative Working
15 118 (7.05%) Machine Learning
15 118 (7.05%) OO
16 117 (6.99%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 472 (28.21%) C#
2 458 (27.38%) JavaScript
3 309 (18.47%) Python
4 302 (18.05%) Java
5 135 (8.07%) T-SQL
6 89 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 75 (4.48%) PL/SQL
8 71 (4.24%) C++
9 51 (3.05%) PowerShell
10 42 (2.51%) Kotlin
11 40 (2.39%) PHP
12 30 (1.79%) R
12 30 (1.79%) VB.NET
13 20 (1.20%) VBA
14 19 (1.14%) RPG
15 18 (1.08%) Ruby
15 18 (1.08%) VB
16 17 (1.02%) Go
17 16 (0.96%) Shell Script
18 13 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 302 (18.05%) Degree
2 238 (14.23%) Security Cleared
3 217 (12.97%) SC Cleared
4 91 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.57%) DBS Check
6 34 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.02%) MBA
10 13 (0.78%) PhD
11 11 (0.66%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.54%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.30%) HNC
14 5 (0.30%) HND
14 5 (0.30%) MCSE
14 5 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.24%) MCSA
15 4 (0.24%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.02%) QA
2 52 (3.11%) GDPR
3 41 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.49%) SLA
5 18 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.24%) COBIT
9 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.18%) NIST
10 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.060%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.060%) GRC
12 1 (0.060%) IFRS
12 1 (0.060%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.060%) MISRA
12 1 (0.060%) PMO
System Software
1 149 (8.91%) Active Directory
2 93 (5.56%) Docker
3 91 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (4.18%) Hyper-V
5 46 (2.75%) VirtualBox
6 43 (2.57%) XenApp
6 43 (2.57%) XenDesktop
7 27 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (0.42%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 102 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.29%) Ansible
3 38 (2.27%) Terraform
4 19 (1.14%) Oracle RMAN
5 16 (0.96%) SCOM
6 15 (0.90%) Data Guard
7 5 (0.30%) Puppet
7 5 (0.30%) SCCM
8 4 (0.24%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) Wonderware InTouch
9 3 (0.18%) WSUS
10 2 (0.12%) Grafana
10 2 (0.12%) Podman
11 1 (0.060%) FTK
11 1 (0.060%) Kibana
11 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.060%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.060%) systemd
Vendors
1 447 (26.72%) Microsoft
2 153 (9.15%) Oracle
3 113 (6.75%) VMware
4 94 (5.62%) Citrix
5 80 (4.78%) IBM
6 78 (4.66%) Red Hat
7 50 (2.99%) Databricks
8 48 (2.87%) SAP
9 40 (2.39%) Siebel
10 39 (2.33%) Veeam
11 28 (1.67%) Google
12 26 (1.55%) Sage
13 25 (1.49%) Cisco
14 18 (1.08%) Remedy
15 17 (1.02%) Salesforce
16 14 (0.84%) Sun
16 14 (0.84%) Xilinx
17 13 (0.78%) Dynatrace
17 13 (0.78%) Epicor
18 10 (0.60%) Adobe