SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12,232 17,259 27,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.38% 16.69% 17.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.73% 38.59% 32.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8,935 10,326 15,873
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +8.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,991 £92,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,299 44,724 84,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.71% 43.25% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25,064 28,554 44,071
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK

SQL
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL in the UK

SQL
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK

SQL
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England -2 10,098 £55,000 -8.33% 2,758
UK excluding London -4 8,150 £50,000 -4.76% 1,667
Work from Home -2 4,874 £57,500 -2.70% 1,492
London -1 3,630 £70,000 - 1,220
North of England -4 2,024 £50,000 -4.76% 404
South East -3 1,696 £50,000 -9.09% 322
Scotland +1 1,508 £55,000 -10.57% 130
Midlands -4 1,373 £47,500 -5.00% 369
North West -3 1,148 £52,500 +0.96% 227
West Midlands -4 809 £50,000 - 216
South West -9 747 £50,000 - 208
Yorkshire -6 623 £47,500 -9.52% 137
East Midlands -2 557 £45,000 -10.00% 153
East of England -7 529 £47,500 -9.52% 182
North East 0 255 £50,000 -4.76% 43
Wales -2 214 £45,000 +12.50% 53
Northern Ireland -17 62 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 3 £45,000 -

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 623 (5.09%) Apache Spark
2 412 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 298 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 272 (2.22%) Apache
5 260 (2.13%) IIS
6 175 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
7 149 (1.22%) SAS
8 131 (1.07%) CMS
9 126 (1.03%) FileNet
10 119 (0.97%) Confluence
11 51 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 47 (0.38%) WebSphere
13 45 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
14 32 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
14 32 (0.26%) Umbraco
15 30 (0.25%) Tomcat
16 28 (0.23%) Captiva
16 28 (0.23%) Drupal
17 26 (0.21%) WordPress
18 22 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 787 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 425 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 70 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.21%) SPSS
7 21 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.14%) Trello
9 12 (0.098%) Simulink
10 9 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
11 7 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.016%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.016%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.016%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.016%) InDesign
13 2 (0.016%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.008%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.008%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 175 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 39 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
5 36 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 30 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 27 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
8 25 (0.20%) SAP Business One
8 25 (0.20%) thinkFolio
9 24 (0.20%) Elite 3E
10 23 (0.19%) NEC Housing
11 22 (0.18%) NetSuite
11 22 (0.18%) Shopify
12 21 (0.17%) Sage 200
13 20 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
14 18 (0.15%) Endur
15 16 (0.13%) Sage X3
16 15 (0.12%) Fidessa
17 14 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
17 14 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 4,133 (33.79%) Azure
2 2,369 (19.37%) AWS
3 2,131 (17.42%) Power Platform
4 808 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
5 705 (5.76%) GCP
6 676 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
7 551 (4.50%) Serverless
8 423 (3.46%) SaaS
9 396 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 310 (2.53%) GitHub
11 290 (2.37%) Snowflake
12 249 (2.04%) PowerApps
13 247 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 243 (1.99%) IBM Cloud
15 240 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
16 232 (1.90%) Amazon S3
16 232 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 226 (1.85%) Azure Functions
17 226 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
18 204 (1.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 345 (2.82%) Firewall
2 198 (1.62%) DNS
3 189 (1.55%) WAN
4 133 (1.09%) VPN
5 127 (1.04%) LAN
6 126 (1.03%) Internet
7 125 (1.02%) TCP/IP
8 118 (0.96%) DHCP
9 98 (0.80%) SAN
10 84 (0.69%) HTTP
11 80 (0.65%) Broadband
12 75 (0.61%) Network Security
13 66 (0.54%) VLAN
14 59 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
15 51 (0.42%) SSL
16 42 (0.34%) Wireless
17 33 (0.27%) VoIP
18 32 (0.26%) SD-WAN
19 30 (0.25%) MQTT
20 29 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,646 (21.63%) SQL Server
2 1,986 (16.24%) Power BI
3 1,527 (12.48%) NoSQL
4 1,053 (8.61%) Data Warehouse
5 851 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
6 823 (6.73%) Relational Database
7 785 (6.42%) Tableau
8 689 (5.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 671 (5.49%) MongoDB
10 657 (5.37%) Big Data
11 617 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 517 (4.23%) MySQL
13 496 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 485 (3.97%) Data Lake
15 360 (2.94%) Hadoop
16 343 (2.80%) Oracle Database
17 332 (2.71%) DB2
18 266 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
19 233 (1.90%) BigQuery
20 179 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,023 (8.36%) Git
2 471 (3.85%) JIRA
3 425 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 380 (3.11%) Visual Studio
5 190 (1.55%) JUnit
6 183 (1.50%) GitLab
7 151 (1.23%) Selenium
8 110 (0.90%) Postman
9 96 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
10 92 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 89 (0.73%) NUnit
11 89 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 86 (0.70%) Cucumber
13 82 (0.67%) Cypress.io
14 79 (0.65%) Maven
15 78 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
16 77 (0.63%) Jasmine
17 66 (0.54%) Mockito
18 61 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
19 56 (0.46%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,477 (28.43%) Finance
2 2,966 (24.25%) Social Skills
3 1,643 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 1,514 (12.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,485 (12.14%) Law
6 997 (8.15%) Marketing
7 733 (5.99%) Legal
8 717 (5.86%) Retail
9 663 (5.42%) Banking
10 653 (5.34%) Public Sector
11 395 (3.23%) Manufacturing
12 294 (2.40%) Front Office
13 271 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
14 209 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 208 (1.70%) Games
16 203 (1.66%) Financial Institution
17 198 (1.62%) Back Office
18 180 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
19 173 (1.41%) Investment Banking
20 125 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,520 (28.78%) Developer
2 2,208 (18.05%) Senior
3 1,986 (16.24%) Analyst
4 1,555 (12.71%) Software Engineer
5 1,189 (9.72%) Lead
6 951 (7.77%) Data Engineer
7 764 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 714 (5.84%) .NET Developer
9 601 (4.91%) Data Analyst
10 538 (4.40%) Java Engineer
11 536 (4.38%) Software Developer
12 521 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
13 501 (4.10%) Full Stack Developer
14 450 (3.68%) Applications Support
15 441 (3.61%) C# Developer
16 419 (3.43%) Full Stack Engineer
17 384 (3.14%) Support Analyst
18 367 (3.00%) DBA
18 367 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
19 366 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,657 (21.72%) .NET
2 1,578 (12.90%) HTML
3 1,394 (11.40%) CSS
4 1,224 (10.01%) React
5 1,148 (9.39%) AngularJS
6 1,088 (8.89%) ASP.NET
7 944 (7.72%) REST
8 748 (6.12%) Web Services
9 730 (5.97%) .NET Core
10 611 (5.00%) jQuery
11 604 (4.94%) Spring
12 564 (4.61%) .NET Framework
13 516 (4.22%) JSON
14 514 (4.20%) Kafka
14 514 (4.20%) Vue
15 505 (4.13%) XML
16 488 (3.99%) Node.js
17 429 (3.51%) Entity Framework
17 429 (3.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 407 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 831 (6.79%) Algorithms
2 549 (4.49%) Data Structures
3 494 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 379 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 370 (3.02%) Management Information System
6 324 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 280 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 273 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 263 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
10 252 (2.06%) Public Cloud
11 248 (2.03%) Blockchain
12 245 (2.00%) Hedge funds
13 179 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 172 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
15 160 (1.31%) Fixed Income
16 159 (1.30%) Derivative
17 147 (1.20%) Equities
18 142 (1.16%) Replication
19 140 (1.14%) Clustering
19 140 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,373 (11.22%) Windows
2 1,220 (9.97%) Linux
3 437 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 418 (3.42%) Unix
5 312 (2.55%) Android
6 283 (2.31%) Apple iOS
7 163 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 105 (0.86%) VMS
9 87 (0.71%) CentOS
10 83 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
11 79 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
12 78 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
13 76 (0.62%) Windows 7
14 62 (0.51%) Solaris
15 53 (0.43%) Ubuntu
16 49 (0.40%) Windows 8
17 36 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 25 (0.20%) AIX
19 24 (0.20%) SUSE
20 21 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,815 (31.19%) Agile
2 2,403 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
3 2,296 (18.77%) Software Engineering
4 2,225 (18.19%) Business Intelligence
5 1,725 (14.10%) CI/CD
6 1,713 (14.00%) Analytics
7 1,697 (13.87%) DevOps
8 1,671 (13.66%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,532 (12.52%) Visualisation
10 1,440 (11.77%) Full Stack Development
11 1,427 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 1,425 (11.65%) SDLC
13 1,349 (11.03%) ETL
14 1,143 (9.34%) Mentoring
15 1,118 (9.14%) Computer Science
16 1,086 (8.88%) Data Modelling
17 952 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
18 941 (7.69%) Data Analysis
19 918 (7.50%) Decision-Making
20 914 (7.47%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3,194 (26.11%) Python
2 2,860 (23.38%) C#
3 2,265 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 2,134 (17.45%) Java
5 1,109 (9.07%) T-SQL
6 661 (5.40%) TypeScript
7 599 (4.90%) PL/SQL
8 462 (3.78%) PowerShell
9 409 (3.34%) Scala
10 307 (2.51%) R
11 272 (2.22%) PHP
12 235 (1.92%) C++
13 199 (1.63%) VB
14 188 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 172 (1.41%) VBA
16 163 (1.33%) Bash
17 162 (1.32%) VB.NET
18 144 (1.18%) C
19 80 (0.65%) Groovy
20 73 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,170 (17.74%) Degree
2 561 (4.59%) Security Cleared
3 542 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 424 (3.47%) SC Cleared
5 315 (2.58%) DBS Check
6 303 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 277 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 121 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 115 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 78 (0.64%) PhD
11 52 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 47 (0.38%) MCSE
13 43 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
14 41 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 37 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
16 35 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
17 31 (0.25%) CISA
17 31 (0.25%) ISTQB
17 31 (0.25%) MCSA
18 30 (0.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 533 (4.36%) Data Quality
2 406 (3.32%) QA
3 209 (1.71%) SLA
4 152 (1.24%) GDPR
5 136 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 53 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 51 (0.42%) PMO
8 26 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (0.15%) ITGC
11 17 (0.14%) COBIT
12 15 (0.12%) NIST
13 13 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.065%) IFRS
14 8 (0.065%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.065%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.065%) PSD2
15 7 (0.057%) GMP
15 7 (0.057%) SOC 1
System Software
1 620 (5.07%) Active Directory
2 619 (5.06%) Docker
3 300 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 189 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 126 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 120 (0.98%) HDFS
7 60 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
8 55 (0.45%) XenApp
9 50 (0.41%) VirtualBox
10 48 (0.39%) XenDesktop
11 46 (0.38%) vSphere
12 43 (0.35%) VMware NSX
13 35 (0.29%) Firmware
14 23 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
15 17 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
16 14 (0.11%) vCloud
17 13 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
18 11 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
19 10 (0.082%) Terminal Services
20 9 (0.074%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 762 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 482 (3.94%) Terraform
3 144 (1.18%) Ansible
4 109 (0.89%) Grafana
5 58 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
5 58 (0.47%) SCCM
6 57 (0.47%) Data Guard
7 55 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 50 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 44 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 38 (0.31%) SCOM
11 31 (0.25%) Kibana
12 29 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 27 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
13 27 (0.22%) WSUS
14 22 (0.18%) HAProxy
14 22 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
15 21 (0.17%) Zipkin
16 20 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
17 18 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,840 (23.22%) Microsoft
2 1,389 (11.36%) Oracle
3 829 (6.78%) Databricks
4 443 (3.62%) Google
5 414 (3.38%) VMware
6 401 (3.28%) IBM
7 300 (2.45%) Red Hat
8 271 (2.22%) SAP
9 165 (1.35%) Informatica
10 156 (1.28%) Citrix
11 117 (0.96%) Cisco
12 105 (0.86%) Alteryx
13 96 (0.78%) Veeam
14 91 (0.74%) Splunk
15 90 (0.74%) Salesforce
16 88 (0.72%) Cloudera
17 81 (0.66%) F5
18 79 (0.65%) Sage
19 74 (0.60%) Bloomberg
20 70 (0.57%) Remedy