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 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 11 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8,070 10,052 11,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.27% 17.00% 15.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.87% 42.48% 34.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,620 5,447 7,979
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £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 £63,188 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £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 22,500 23,662 33,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.41% 40.01% 45.71%
Number of salaries quoted 16,335 13,344 21,181
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 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,275
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 20 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 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
North of England -4 2,011 £50,000 -3.85% 483
South East -3 1,679 £50,000 -9.09% 545
Scotland +2 1,490 £55,000 -8.33% 124
Midlands -3 1,365 £47,500 -5.00% 365
North West -3 1,135 £52,500 +1.87% 264
West Midlands -5 804 £50,000 - 239
South West -10 740 £50,000 - 209
Yorkshire -7 621 £47,500 -9.52% 174
East Midlands -1 551 £45,000 -10.00% 126
East of England -9 515 £47,500 -9.52% 162
North East -1 257 £50,000 -4.76% 50
Wales -1 213 £45,000 +12.50% 57
Northern Ireland -21 56 £55,500 +11.00% 31
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £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 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 265 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 208 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 179 (2.22%) IIS
5 152 (1.88%) Apache
6 115 (1.43%) FileNet
7 94 (1.16%) Confluence
8 74 (0.92%) CMS
9 63 (0.78%) SAS
10 57 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
11 49 (0.61%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.55%) Oracle Service Bus
13 34 (0.42%) WebSphere
14 32 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
15 29 (0.36%) Umbraco
16 22 (0.27%) WordPress
17 21 (0.26%) GemFire
18 17 (0.21%) Captiva
18 17 (0.21%) Tomcat
19 12 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 477 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 299 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 39 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.20%) 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 78 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.51%) Siebel CRM
4 34 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.25%) Shopify
6 19 (0.24%) Sage 200
7 15 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 15 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 13 (0.16%) Magento
9 12 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 12 (0.15%) Epicor Tropos
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%) SAP S/4HANA
12 7 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,673 (33.12%) Azure
2 1,436 (17.79%) AWS
3 1,369 (16.96%) Power Platform
4 523 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
5 493 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
6 342 (4.24%) Serverless
7 334 (4.14%) GCP
8 262 (3.25%) SaaS
9 232 (2.87%) IBM Cloud
10 201 (2.49%) GitHub
11 186 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 161 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 154 (1.91%) Azure Functions
14 153 (1.90%) Amazon S3
15 151 (1.87%) Snowflake
16 150 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
17 149 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
18 135 (1.67%) PowerApps
19 134 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
20 132 (1.64%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 241 (2.99%) Firewall
2 137 (1.70%) DNS
2 137 (1.70%) WAN
3 103 (1.28%) LAN
4 95 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 82 (1.02%) DHCP
6 79 (0.98%) Internet
7 78 (0.97%) Broadband
8 75 (0.93%) VPN
9 68 (0.84%) SAN
10 62 (0.77%) HTTP
11 54 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
12 49 (0.61%) SSL
13 46 (0.57%) VLAN
14 41 (0.51%) Network Security
15 31 (0.38%) MQTT
16 29 (0.36%) Wireless
17 27 (0.33%) WLAN
18 26 (0.32%) VoIP
19 23 (0.29%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,851 (22.94%) SQL Server
2 1,307 (16.20%) Power BI
3 1,250 (15.49%) NoSQL
4 626 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
5 598 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 581 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
7 518 (6.42%) MongoDB
8 500 (6.20%) Big Data
9 443 (5.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 414 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 375 (4.65%) MySQL
11 375 (4.65%) Tableau
12 313 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 301 (3.73%) DB2
14 275 (3.41%) Hadoop
15 273 (3.38%) Data Lake
16 240 (2.97%) Oracle Database
17 232 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
18 145 (1.80%) BigQuery
19 131 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 680 (8.43%) Git
2 317 (3.93%) Jenkins
3 307 (3.80%) JIRA
4 278 (3.44%) Visual Studio
5 169 (2.09%) JUnit
6 129 (1.60%) Selenium
7 113 (1.40%) GitLab
8 91 (1.13%) Bitbucket Server
9 79 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 77 (0.95%) Jasmine
11 72 (0.89%) Postman
12 67 (0.83%) Cucumber
13 64 (0.79%) Maven
14 63 (0.78%) Mockito
15 59 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
16 48 (0.59%) NUnit
16 48 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
17 46 (0.57%) TeamCity
18 43 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
19 39 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 2,278 (28.23%) Finance
2 1,832 (22.70%) Social Skills
3 1,333 (16.52%) Law
4 1,307 (16.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 938 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
6 785 (9.73%) Marketing
7 624 (7.73%) Legal
8 553 (6.85%) Public Sector
9 475 (5.89%) Retail
10 353 (4.37%) Manufacturing
11 323 (4.00%) Banking
12 186 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
13 162 (2.01%) Financial Institution
14 146 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
15 143 (1.77%) Games
16 120 (1.49%) Investment Banking
17 98 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
18 93 (1.15%) Telecoms
19 85 (1.05%) Aerospace
20 79 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,379 (29.48%) Developer
2 1,339 (16.59%) Software Engineer
3 1,172 (14.52%) Senior
4 1,049 (13.00%) Analyst
5 824 (10.21%) Lead
6 522 (6.47%) Java Engineer
7 512 (6.34%) Data Engineer
8 506 (6.27%) Java Software Engineer
9 500 (6.20%) .NET Developer
10 450 (5.58%) Software Developer
11 426 (5.28%) Senior Developer
12 365 (4.52%) Full Stack Engineer
13 341 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
14 304 (3.77%) C# Developer
15 298 (3.69%) DBA
16 292 (3.62%) Full Stack Developer
17 291 (3.61%) Big Data Engineer
17 291 (3.61%) Big Data Software Engineer
18 288 (3.57%) Data Analyst
19 270 (3.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,930 (23.92%) .NET
2 1,254 (15.54%) HTML
3 1,092 (13.53%) CSS
4 893 (11.07%) React
5 848 (10.51%) AngularJS
6 837 (10.37%) ASP.NET
7 692 (8.57%) REST
8 565 (7.00%) Web Services
9 551 (6.83%) .NET Core
10 498 (6.17%) Spring
11 489 (6.06%) jQuery
12 409 (5.07%) Vue
13 396 (4.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 395 (4.89%) Node.js
15 386 (4.78%) Kafka
16 382 (4.73%) .NET Framework
17 348 (4.31%) JSON
18 347 (4.30%) Entity Framework
19 338 (4.19%) XML
20 300 (3.72%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 688 (8.53%) Algorithms
2 447 (5.54%) Cloud Native
3 443 (5.49%) Data Structures
4 261 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 249 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 247 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 229 (2.84%) Blockchain
8 207 (2.57%) Public Cloud
9 159 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 158 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 138 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
12 127 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
13 118 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 115 (1.43%) e-Learning
15 107 (1.33%) Clustering
16 104 (1.29%) Replication
17 78 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
18 77 (0.95%) Data Centre
19 70 (0.87%) NHS
20 69 (0.86%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1,002 (12.42%) Windows
2 909 (11.26%) Linux
3 299 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 296 (3.67%) Unix
5 290 (3.59%) Android
6 257 (3.18%) Apple iOS
7 118 (1.46%) Windows 10
8 99 (1.23%) VMS
9 69 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
10 67 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
11 66 (0.82%) CentOS
12 64 (0.79%) Windows 7
13 58 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
14 48 (0.59%) Solaris
15 45 (0.56%) Windows 8
16 30 (0.37%) Ubuntu
17 26 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 21 (0.26%) AIX
19 19 (0.24%) Debian
20 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,882 (35.71%) Agile
2 1,886 (23.37%) Software Engineering
3 1,660 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1,421 (17.61%) Business Intelligence
5 1,310 (16.23%) CI/CD
6 1,304 (16.16%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,266 (15.69%) SDLC
8 1,069 (13.25%) DevOps
9 1,052 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
10 1,007 (12.48%) Machine Learning
11 995 (12.33%) Visualisation
12 844 (10.46%) Analytics
13 768 (9.52%) Operational Stability
14 766 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 766 (9.49%) Mentoring
15 763 (9.45%) MVC
16 747 (9.26%) ETL
17 701 (8.69%) Computer Science
18 641 (7.94%) Decision-Making
19 612 (7.58%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,010 (24.91%) C#
2 1,735 (21.50%) Java
3 1,676 (20.77%) JavaScript
4 1,603 (19.86%) Python
5 723 (8.96%) T-SQL
6 436 (5.40%) TypeScript
7 432 (5.35%) PL/SQL
8 330 (4.09%) Scala
9 277 (3.43%) PowerShell
10 195 (2.42%) PHP
11 175 (2.17%) C++
12 170 (2.11%) VB
13 151 (1.87%) VB.NET
14 110 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 107 (1.33%) R
16 99 (1.23%) Bash
17 97 (1.20%) VBA
18 90 (1.12%) C
19 74 (0.92%) Groovy
20 60 (0.74%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,204 (14.92%) Degree
2 453 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 348 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 345 (4.28%) SC Cleared
5 231 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 189 (2.34%) DBS Check
7 129 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 81 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 76 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 38 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 36 (0.45%) PhD
12 29 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (0.32%) ISTQB
14 25 (0.31%) 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
1 273 (3.38%) Data Quality
2 258 (3.20%) QA
3 161 (2.00%) SLA
4 114 (1.41%) GDPR
5 87 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 45 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.41%) PMO
8 22 (0.27%) 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
14 5 (0.062%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.062%) TickIT
15 4 (0.050%) COBIT
15 4 (0.050%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.050%) WCAG
System Software
1 449 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 377 (4.67%) Docker
3 223 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 156 (1.93%) Hyper-V
5 116 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 102 (1.26%) HDFS
7 49 (0.61%) XenApp
8 48 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
9 46 (0.57%) VirtualBox
10 45 (0.56%) XenDesktop
11 30 (0.37%) VMware NSX
12 27 (0.33%) Firmware
12 27 (0.33%) RACF
13 23 (0.29%) vSphere
14 16 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
15 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 9 (0.11%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.062%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 504 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 278 (3.44%) Terraform
3 105 (1.30%) Ansible
4 78 (0.97%) Grafana
5 54 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 47 (0.58%) Data Guard
7 46 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 38 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 34 (0.42%) SCCM
10 27 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 26 (0.32%) Kibana
11 26 (0.32%) SCOM
12 22 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (0.26%) HAProxy
13 21 (0.26%) Zipkin
14 17 (0.21%) 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 2,053 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 1,020 (12.64%) Oracle
3 422 (5.23%) Databricks
4 350 (4.34%) IBM
5 316 (3.92%) VMware
6 272 (3.37%) Google
7 263 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 184 (2.28%) SAP
9 146 (1.81%) Informatica
10 129 (1.60%) Citrix
11 73 (0.90%) Cloudera
12 70 (0.87%) Veeam
13 65 (0.81%) Cisco
14 64 (0.79%) Splunk
15 61 (0.76%) Remedy
16 58 (0.72%) Dynatrace
17 57 (0.71%) Alteryx
18 54 (0.67%) Sage
19 44 (0.55%) F5
19 44 (0.55%) Sun