SQL Jobs in the UK excluding London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,061 10,219 11,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.38% 17.00% 15.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.96% 42.54% 34.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,645 5,524 7,942
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,700 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,414 24,023 32,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.64% 39.97% 45.90%
Number of salaries quoted 16,324 13,561 21,198
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England -4 2,016 £50,000 -3.85% 433
South East -3 1,679 £50,000 -9.09% 326
Scotland +2 1,495 £55,000 -8.33% 112
Midlands -3 1,347 £47,500 -5.00% 377
North West -3 1,143 £52,500 +1.87% 226
West Midlands -4 798 £50,000 - 233
South West -11 735 £50,000 - 211
Yorkshire -6 622 £47,500 -9.52% 164
East Midlands -2 540 £45,000 -9.51% 144
East of England -8 519 £47,500 -9.52% 163
North East -1 253 £50,000 -4.76% 46
Wales 0 213 £45,000 +12.50% 51
Northern Ireland -22 57 £55,000 +10.00% 28
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 2 £45,000 -
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 473 (5.87%) Apache Spark
2 271 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 210 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 186 (2.31%) IIS
5 154 (1.91%) Apache
6 120 (1.49%) FileNet
7 93 (1.15%) Confluence
8 77 (0.96%) CMS
9 62 (0.77%) SAS
10 58 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
11 48 (0.60%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.55%) Oracle Service Bus
13 38 (0.47%) WebSphere
14 32 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
15 31 (0.38%) Umbraco
16 22 (0.27%) Captiva
16 22 (0.27%) WordPress
17 21 (0.26%) GemFire
18 17 (0.21%) Tomcat
19 13 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 480 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 300 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 40 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.17%) Simulink
7 13 (0.16%) Trello
8 11 (0.14%) SPSS
9 9 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.087%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.025%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 79 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (0.50%) Siebel CRM
4 34 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 19 (0.24%) Sage 200
5 19 (0.24%) Shopify
6 15 (0.19%) SAP Business One
7 14 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
7 14 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.16%) Magento
9 12 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 12 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
10 11 (0.14%) Endur
11 8 (0.099%) Dynamics GP
11 8 (0.099%) HFM
11 8 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
12 7 (0.087%) Hyperion Planning
12 7 (0.087%) Sage X3
12 7 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,680 (33.25%) Azure
2 1,441 (17.88%) AWS
3 1,367 (16.96%) Power Platform
4 534 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
5 495 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
6 346 (4.29%) Serverless
7 344 (4.27%) GCP
8 263 (3.26%) SaaS
9 233 (2.89%) IBM Cloud
10 207 (2.57%) GitHub
11 190 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 164 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
13 155 (1.92%) Amazon S3
14 154 (1.91%) Azure Functions
15 151 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
15 151 (1.87%) Snowflake
16 150 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
17 136 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
18 135 (1.67%) Azure API Management
18 135 (1.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 249 (3.09%) Firewall
2 144 (1.79%) WAN
3 139 (1.72%) DNS
4 105 (1.30%) LAN
5 97 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 84 (1.04%) DHCP
7 80 (0.99%) Internet
8 79 (0.98%) VPN
9 78 (0.97%) Broadband
10 67 (0.83%) SAN
11 62 (0.77%) HTTP
12 53 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
13 49 (0.61%) SSL
14 47 (0.58%) VLAN
15 41 (0.51%) Network Security
16 31 (0.38%) Wireless
17 30 (0.37%) MQTT
18 29 (0.36%) VoIP
19 27 (0.33%) WLAN
20 22 (0.27%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,859 (23.06%) SQL Server
2 1,302 (16.15%) Power BI
3 1,246 (15.46%) NoSQL
4 622 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
5 603 (7.48%) Relational Database
6 583 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
7 514 (6.38%) MongoDB
8 503 (6.24%) Big Data
9 441 (5.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 418 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 386 (4.79%) MySQL
12 377 (4.68%) Tableau
13 313 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 302 (3.75%) DB2
15 274 (3.40%) Data Lake
16 271 (3.36%) Hadoop
17 240 (2.98%) Oracle Database
18 234 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
19 146 (1.81%) BigQuery
20 132 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 677 (8.40%) Git
2 320 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 313 (3.88%) JIRA
4 281 (3.49%) Visual Studio
5 171 (2.12%) JUnit
6 131 (1.63%) Selenium
7 113 (1.40%) GitLab
8 92 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 80 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 77 (0.96%) Jasmine
11 72 (0.89%) Postman
12 69 (0.86%) Cucumber
13 64 (0.79%) Maven
13 64 (0.79%) Mockito
14 58 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
15 53 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
16 48 (0.60%) NUnit
17 47 (0.58%) TeamCity
18 42 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
19 40 (0.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,254 (27.96%) Finance
2 1,818 (22.55%) Social Skills
3 1,333 (16.54%) Law
4 1,309 (16.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 926 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
6 781 (9.69%) Marketing
7 600 (7.44%) Legal
8 556 (6.90%) Public Sector
9 479 (5.94%) Retail
10 357 (4.43%) Manufacturing
11 306 (3.80%) Banking
12 187 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
13 163 (2.02%) Financial Institution
14 145 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
15 144 (1.79%) Games
16 121 (1.50%) Investment Banking
17 96 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
18 92 (1.14%) Telecoms
19 84 (1.04%) Aerospace
20 83 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,381 (29.54%) Developer
2 1,343 (16.66%) Software Engineer
3 1,149 (14.25%) Senior
4 1,025 (12.72%) Analyst
5 826 (10.25%) Lead
6 522 (6.48%) Java Engineer
7 518 (6.43%) Data Engineer
8 506 (6.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 501 (6.22%) .NET Developer
10 448 (5.56%) Software Developer
11 428 (5.31%) Senior Developer
12 366 (4.54%) Full Stack Engineer
13 341 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
14 302 (3.75%) C# Developer
15 297 (3.68%) DBA
16 291 (3.61%) Big Data Engineer
16 291 (3.61%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 291 (3.61%) Full Stack Developer
17 289 (3.59%) Data Analyst
18 267 (3.31%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,935 (24.00%) .NET
2 1,259 (15.62%) HTML
3 1,093 (13.56%) CSS
4 897 (11.13%) React
5 848 (10.52%) AngularJS
6 840 (10.42%) ASP.NET
7 696 (8.63%) REST
8 568 (7.05%) Web Services
9 551 (6.84%) .NET Core
10 501 (6.22%) Spring
11 487 (6.04%) jQuery
12 410 (5.09%) Vue
13 394 (4.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 389 (4.83%) Node.js
15 384 (4.76%) .NET Framework
15 384 (4.76%) Kafka
16 346 (4.29%) JSON
17 345 (4.28%) Entity Framework
18 336 (4.17%) XML
19 298 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 689 (8.55%) Algorithms
2 447 (5.55%) Cloud Native
3 444 (5.51%) Data Structures
4 262 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 250 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 229 (2.84%) Blockchain
7 222 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 211 (2.62%) Public Cloud
9 160 (1.98%) Product Ownership
10 157 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 136 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
12 127 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
13 116 (1.44%) e-Learning
13 116 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 110 (1.36%) Clustering
15 102 (1.27%) Replication
16 80 (0.99%) Data Centre
17 77 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
18 69 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
18 69 (0.86%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,001 (12.42%) Windows
2 916 (11.36%) Linux
3 302 (3.75%) Unix
4 297 (3.68%) Windows Server
5 289 (3.59%) Android
6 257 (3.19%) Apple iOS
7 118 (1.46%) Windows 10
8 99 (1.23%) VMS
9 68 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 66 (0.82%) Windows 7
11 65 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
12 62 (0.77%) CentOS
13 54 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
14 48 (0.60%) Solaris
15 47 (0.58%) Windows 8
16 29 (0.36%) Ubuntu
17 26 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 22 (0.27%) AIX
19 19 (0.24%) Debian
20 13 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,882 (35.75%) Agile
2 1,882 (23.35%) Software Engineering
3 1,659 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
4 1,428 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
5 1,318 (16.35%) CI/CD
6 1,307 (16.21%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,269 (15.74%) SDLC
8 1,069 (13.26%) DevOps
9 1,043 (12.94%) Full Stack Development
10 1,013 (12.57%) Machine Learning
11 990 (12.28%) Visualisation
12 845 (10.48%) Analytics
13 769 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 768 (9.53%) Mentoring
15 767 (9.51%) Operational Stability
16 765 (9.49%) MVC
17 748 (9.28%) ETL
18 686 (8.51%) Computer Science
19 638 (7.91%) Decision-Making
20 611 (7.58%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,021 (25.07%) C#
2 1,735 (21.52%) Java
3 1,678 (20.82%) JavaScript
4 1,596 (19.80%) Python
5 721 (8.94%) T-SQL
6 441 (5.47%) TypeScript
7 434 (5.38%) PL/SQL
8 333 (4.13%) Scala
9 251 (3.11%) PowerShell
10 198 (2.46%) PHP
11 171 (2.12%) C++
12 168 (2.08%) VB
13 150 (1.86%) VB.NET
14 106 (1.31%) R
15 99 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 98 (1.22%) VBA
17 96 (1.19%) Bash
18 91 (1.13%) C
19 74 (0.92%) Groovy
20 60 (0.74%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,189 (14.75%) Degree
2 440 (5.46%) Security Cleared
3 342 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 333 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 226 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 186 (2.31%) DBS Check
7 128 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 79 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 75 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 38 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 35 (0.43%) PhD
12 28 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
13 25 (0.31%) ISTQB
14 23 (0.29%) MCSE
15 22 (0.27%) CISA
15 22 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.27%) MBA
16 21 (0.26%) OCP
16 21 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
17 20 (0.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 256 (3.18%) QA
3 159 (1.97%) SLA
4 119 (1.48%) GDPR
5 87 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 45 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.41%) PMO
8 21 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.15%) ITGC
11 9 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.11%) NIST
12 8 (0.099%) PSD2
13 6 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.074%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.074%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.062%) TickIT
15 4 (0.050%) COBIT
15 4 (0.050%) HL7
15 4 (0.050%) WCAG
System Software
1 426 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 386 (4.79%) Docker
3 227 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 156 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 115 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 102 (1.27%) HDFS
7 51 (0.63%) XenApp
8 48 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
8 48 (0.60%) VirtualBox
9 47 (0.58%) XenDesktop
10 33 (0.41%) VMware NSX
11 26 (0.32%) Firmware
12 23 (0.29%) vSphere
13 16 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
14 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
14 9 (0.11%) VMware Server
15 7 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 5 (0.062%) Terminal Services
17 4 (0.050%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 508 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 277 (3.44%) Terraform
3 105 (1.30%) Ansible
4 79 (0.98%) Grafana
5 53 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
6 47 (0.58%) Data Guard
7 46 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 38 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 36 (0.45%) SCCM
10 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 27 (0.33%) SCOM
11 26 (0.32%) Kibana
12 23 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
13 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
14 15 (0.19%) WSUS
15 13 (0.16%) Backup Exec
15 13 (0.16%) NetBackup
15 13 (0.16%) Puppet
16 12 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2,027 (25.15%) Microsoft
2 1,027 (12.74%) Oracle
3 427 (5.30%) Databricks
4 358 (4.44%) IBM
5 323 (4.01%) VMware
6 271 (3.36%) Google
7 262 (3.25%) Red Hat
8 188 (2.33%) SAP
9 144 (1.79%) Informatica
10 132 (1.64%) Citrix
11 73 (0.91%) Cloudera
12 72 (0.89%) Veeam
13 66 (0.82%) Cisco
14 65 (0.81%) Splunk
15 62 (0.77%) Remedy
16 59 (0.73%) Dynatrace
17 58 (0.72%) Alteryx
18 54 (0.67%) Sage
19 44 (0.55%) F5
19 44 (0.55%) Sun