SQL Jobs in England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10,239 13,573 25,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.22% 16.11% 17.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.03% 38.06% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,024 8,774 14,094
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28,419 35,659 75,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.14% 42.31% 53.60%
Number of salaries quoted 22,739 23,985 38,638
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,943 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in England

SQL
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SQL in England

SQL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in England

SQL
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London -1 3,745 £70,000 - 1,242
North of England -4 2,061 £50,000 -3.85% 459
South East -3 1,684 £50,000 -9.09% 283
Midlands -3 1,420 £47,500 -5.00% 281
North West -3 1,153 £51,500 -0.96% 265
West Midlands -5 835 £50,000 - 168
South West -8 741 £50,000 - 192
Yorkshire -6 642 £47,000 -9.62% 157
East Midlands 0 574 £45,000 -10.00% 113
East of England -6 511 £47,500 -9.52% 121
North East +5 268 £50,000 -4.76% 42
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 348 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 271 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 209 (2.04%) IIS
4 176 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 174 (1.70%) Apache
6 150 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 141 (1.38%) SAS
8 128 (1.25%) CMS
9 114 (1.11%) Confluence
10 31 (0.30%) Umbraco
11 27 (0.26%) Drupal
12 24 (0.23%) WordPress
13 22 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 20 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 19 (0.19%) WebLogic
16 15 (0.15%) nginx
17 14 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
18 13 (0.13%) WebSphere
19 11 (0.11%) Jupyter
19 11 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 683 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 369 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.27%) SPSS
7 26 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 20 (0.20%) Simulink
9 17 (0.17%) Trello
10 8 (0.078%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
11 6 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
11 6 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
12 3 (0.029%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.020%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.020%) InDesign
13 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.010%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 138 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
3 36 (0.35%) SDL Web 8
4 35 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 34 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 25 (0.24%) Elite 3E
6 25 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 25 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 25 (0.24%) thinkFolio
7 22 (0.21%) Shopify
8 20 (0.20%) NEC Housing
9 19 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
9 19 (0.19%) Sage 200
10 18 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
11 17 (0.17%) Fidessa
12 16 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
13 14 (0.14%) Magento
13 14 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
13 14 (0.14%) Sage X3
14 12 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,696 (36.10%) Azure
2 1,958 (19.12%) Power Platform
3 1,696 (16.56%) AWS
4 693 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
5 607 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
6 557 (5.44%) GCP
7 446 (4.36%) Serverless
8 366 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 346 (3.38%) SaaS
10 281 (2.74%) Snowflake
11 254 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 238 (2.32%) IBM Cloud
13 214 (2.09%) Azure Functions
14 212 (2.07%) Azure Service Bus
15 211 (2.06%) GitHub
15 211 (2.06%) PowerApps
16 204 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
17 191 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
18 189 (1.85%) Entra ID
19 182 (1.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 301 (2.94%) Firewall
2 193 (1.88%) DNS
3 141 (1.38%) WAN
4 112 (1.09%) DHCP
4 112 (1.09%) Internet
5 111 (1.08%) VPN
6 108 (1.05%) LAN
7 104 (1.02%) TCP/IP
8 93 (0.91%) SAN
9 70 (0.68%) Broadband
10 68 (0.66%) HTTP
11 67 (0.65%) Network Security
12 58 (0.57%) VLAN
13 56 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
14 50 (0.49%) SSL
15 33 (0.32%) Wireless
16 29 (0.28%) SD-WAN
17 28 (0.27%) FTP
18 27 (0.26%) VoIP
19 25 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,383 (23.27%) SQL Server
2 1,841 (17.98%) Power BI
3 967 (9.44%) Data Warehouse
4 810 (7.91%) NoSQL
5 756 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
6 753 (7.35%) Tableau
7 643 (6.28%) Relational Database
8 619 (6.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 562 (5.49%) MongoDB
10 544 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 467 (4.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 451 (4.40%) MySQL
13 440 (4.30%) Data Lake
14 299 (2.92%) DB2
15 260 (2.54%) Big Data
16 236 (2.30%) Oracle Database
17 219 (2.14%) BigQuery
18 167 (1.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 136 (1.33%) Data Mining
20 135 (1.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 920 (8.99%) Git
2 389 (3.80%) JIRA
3 345 (3.37%) Visual Studio
4 212 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 169 (1.65%) GitLab
6 102 (1.00%) Selenium
7 94 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 89 (0.87%) NUnit
8 89 (0.87%) Postman
9 75 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 72 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 58 (0.57%) Moq
12 52 (0.51%) JUnit
12 52 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
13 50 (0.49%) SpecFlow
14 47 (0.46%) Cucumber
15 45 (0.44%) Cypress.io
16 44 (0.43%) Eclipse
17 39 (0.38%) SoapUI
18 36 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,763 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 2,271 (22.18%) Finance
3 1,498 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 700 (6.84%) Retail
5 592 (5.78%) Public Sector
6 506 (4.94%) Banking
7 446 (4.36%) Marketing
8 415 (4.05%) Law
9 403 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 373 (3.64%) Manufacturing
11 347 (3.39%) Legal
12 327 (3.19%) Front Office
13 274 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
14 189 (1.85%) Back Office
15 175 (1.71%) Games
16 166 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
17 104 (1.02%) Telecoms
18 102 (1.00%) Advertising
19 100 (0.98%) Aerospace
20 89 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,131 (30.58%) Developer
2 1,997 (19.50%) Senior
3 1,964 (19.18%) Analyst
4 829 (8.10%) Lead
5 771 (7.53%) Data Engineer
6 709 (6.92%) .NET Developer
7 675 (6.59%) Senior Developer
8 620 (6.06%) Data Analyst
9 591 (5.77%) Software Engineer
10 480 (4.69%) Software Developer
11 474 (4.63%) Full Stack Developer
12 451 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
13 433 (4.23%) C# Developer
14 400 (3.91%) Applications Support
15 330 (3.22%) Consultant
16 315 (3.08%) Support Analyst
17 307 (3.00%) Support Engineer
18 304 (2.97%) DBA
19 294 (2.87%) Architect
20 273 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,460 (24.03%) .NET
2 1,360 (13.28%) HTML
3 1,181 (11.53%) CSS
4 1,052 (10.27%) ASP.NET
5 920 (8.99%) React
6 875 (8.55%) AngularJS
7 785 (7.67%) REST
8 654 (6.39%) .NET Core
9 646 (6.31%) Web Services
10 532 (5.20%) jQuery
11 516 (5.04%) .NET Framework
12 471 (4.60%) Vue
13 424 (4.14%) XML
14 416 (4.06%) Entity Framework
15 396 (3.87%) Node.js
16 379 (3.70%) JSON
17 358 (3.50%) ASP.NET MVC
18 357 (3.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 340 (3.32%) HTML5
20 337 (3.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 501 (4.89%) Data Structures
2 446 (4.36%) Algorithms
3 338 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 333 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 285 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 272 (2.66%) Hedge funds
7 265 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 248 (2.42%) Blockchain
9 235 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
10 206 (2.01%) Onboarding
11 189 (1.85%) Fixed Income
12 177 (1.73%) Derivative
13 174 (1.70%) Equities
14 167 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 153 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
16 145 (1.42%) Public Cloud
17 133 (1.30%) Mobile App
18 119 (1.16%) Client/Server
19 118 (1.15%) e-Learning
20 108 (1.05%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1,260 (12.31%) Windows
2 997 (9.74%) Linux
3 384 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 314 (3.07%) Android
5 275 (2.69%) Apple iOS
6 207 (2.02%) Unix
7 158 (1.54%) Windows 10
8 97 (0.95%) CentOS
9 95 (0.93%) VMS
10 78 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 78 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
11 77 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
12 66 (0.64%) Windows 7
13 62 (0.61%) Ubuntu
14 43 (0.42%) Windows 8
15 37 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 32 (0.31%) Solaris
17 25 (0.24%) AIX
18 20 (0.20%) SUSE
19 19 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,557 (24.97%) Agile
2 2,061 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
3 2,004 (19.57%) Business Intelligence
4 1,576 (15.39%) Analytics
5 1,392 (13.60%) DevOps
6 1,162 (11.35%) Full Stack Development
7 1,148 (11.21%) ETL
8 1,127 (11.01%) Software Engineering
9 1,113 (10.87%) Visualisation
10 982 (9.59%) Mentoring
11 963 (9.41%) Artificial Intelligence
12 956 (9.34%) Computer Science
13 918 (8.97%) Data Modelling
14 883 (8.62%) MVC
15 856 (8.36%) Data Analysis
16 828 (8.09%) Data Science
17 775 (7.57%) Machine Learning
18 701 (6.85%) Data Pipeline
19 688 (6.72%) CI/CD
20 677 (6.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,682 (26.19%) Python
2 2,611 (25.50%) C#
3 1,976 (19.30%) JavaScript
4 1,057 (10.32%) Java
5 974 (9.51%) T-SQL
6 512 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 452 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 303 (2.96%) PL/SQL
9 289 (2.82%) R
10 235 (2.30%) PHP
11 208 (2.03%) C++
12 186 (1.82%) VBA
13 185 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 178 (1.74%) VB
15 171 (1.67%) VB.NET
16 142 (1.39%) Bash
17 134 (1.31%) C
18 115 (1.12%) Scala
19 78 (0.76%) Kotlin
20 70 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,005 (19.58%) Degree
2 497 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 487 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 355 (3.47%) SC Cleared
5 352 (3.44%) DBS Check
6 283 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 251 (2.45%) Master's Degree
8 124 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 118 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 72 (0.70%) PhD
11 52 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 42 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
13 41 (0.40%) MCSE
14 33 (0.32%) AWS Certification
14 33 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
15 31 (0.30%) MBA
16 28 (0.27%) MCSA
17 27 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 25 (0.24%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 536 (5.23%) Data Quality
2 340 (3.32%) QA
3 164 (1.60%) SLA
4 122 (1.19%) GDPR
5 106 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 54 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 14 (0.14%) PMO
11 11 (0.11%) COBIT
12 10 (0.098%) NIST
13 9 (0.088%) MiFID
14 8 (0.078%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.078%) PSD2
15 7 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.068%) IFRS
15 7 (0.068%) ITGC
15 7 (0.068%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.068%) SOC 1
System Software
1 593 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 492 (4.81%) Docker
3 251 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 173 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 111 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 53 (0.52%) XenApp
7 46 (0.45%) RACF
7 46 (0.45%) XenDesktop
8 44 (0.43%) VirtualBox
9 42 (0.41%) vSphere
10 30 (0.29%) Firmware
11 26 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
12 21 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
13 16 (0.16%) VMware NSX
14 15 (0.15%) HDFS
14 15 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
15 13 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
16 10 (0.098%) Terminal Services
16 10 (0.098%) vCloud
17 9 (0.088%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 425 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 313 (3.06%) Terraform
3 127 (1.24%) Ansible
4 48 (0.47%) Grafana
4 48 (0.47%) SCCM
5 47 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.33%) SCOM
7 32 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 31 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 29 (0.28%) WSUS
10 24 (0.23%) Data Guard
11 23 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 22 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
13 19 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
14 18 (0.18%) Backup Exec
14 18 (0.18%) NetBackup
15 15 (0.15%) Puppet
16 14 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
17 13 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
18 12 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 2,637 (25.75%) Microsoft
2 863 (8.43%) Oracle
3 664 (6.49%) Databricks
4 371 (3.62%) Google
5 346 (3.38%) IBM
6 337 (3.29%) VMware
7 309 (3.02%) Red Hat
8 209 (2.04%) SAP
9 147 (1.44%) Citrix
10 104 (1.02%) Cisco
11 94 (0.92%) Veeam
12 92 (0.90%) Bloomberg
13 89 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 82 (0.80%) Informatica
15 77 (0.75%) Alteryx
15 77 (0.75%) F5
16 66 (0.64%) Sage
17 54 (0.53%) Adobe
18 46 (0.45%) CyberArk
19 43 (0.42%) HP