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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12,124 16,989 27,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.31% 16.73% 17.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.70% 38.66% 32.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8,853 10,120 15,730
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,191 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 33,037 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,871 28,012 43,733
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 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 7 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 7 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 9,997 £55,000 -8.33% 2,885
UK excluding London -4 8,066 £50,000 -4.76% 1,743
Work from Home -2 4,840 £57,500 -2.70% 1,563
London -1 3,612 £70,000 - 1,267
North of England -4 2,013 £50,000 -4.76% 413
South East -3 1,662 £50,000 -9.09% 350
Scotland +3 1,504 £55,000 -8.33% 128
Midlands -4 1,347 £47,500 -5.00% 394
North West -3 1,144 £52,500 +0.96% 233
West Midlands -4 797 £50,000 - 233
South West -10 741 £50,000 - 209
Yorkshire -7 617 £47,500 -9.52% 143
East Midlands -2 541 £45,000 -10.00% 161
East of England -7 525 £47,500 -9.52% 196
North East 0 254 £50,000 -2.44% 40
Wales -1 211 £45,000 +12.50% 53
Northern Ireland -15 61 £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 (5.14%) Apache Spark
2 404 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 283 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 276 (2.28%) Apache
5 257 (2.12%) IIS
6 177 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 147 (1.21%) SAS
8 131 (1.08%) CMS
9 126 (1.04%) FileNet
10 118 (0.97%) Confluence
11 51 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 48 (0.40%) WebSphere
13 45 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
14 32 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
14 32 (0.26%) Umbraco
15 29 (0.24%) Tomcat
16 28 (0.23%) Captiva
16 28 (0.23%) Drupal
17 26 (0.21%) WordPress
18 22 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 781 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 423 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 70 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.21%) SPSS
7 21 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.14%) Trello
9 12 (0.099%) Simulink
10 9 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
11 7 (0.058%) 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
1 170 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 39 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
5 36 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 30 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 27 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
8 25 (0.21%) SAP Business One
8 25 (0.21%) 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 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
17 14 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 4,103 (33.84%) Azure
2 2,353 (19.41%) AWS
3 2,109 (17.40%) Power Platform
4 798 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
5 697 (5.75%) GCP
6 660 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
7 549 (4.53%) Serverless
8 419 (3.46%) SaaS
9 391 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 308 (2.54%) GitHub
11 286 (2.36%) Snowflake
12 247 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 243 (2.00%) IBM Cloud
13 243 (2.00%) PowerApps
14 234 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
15 231 (1.91%) Amazon S3
16 230 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 225 (1.86%) Azure Functions
18 224 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
19 202 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 340 (2.80%) Firewall
2 197 (1.62%) DNS
3 176 (1.45%) WAN
4 129 (1.06%) VPN
5 126 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 125 (1.03%) Internet
7 116 (0.96%) DHCP
8 115 (0.95%) LAN
9 93 (0.77%) SAN
10 83 (0.68%) HTTP
11 80 (0.66%) Broadband
12 74 (0.61%) Network Security
13 64 (0.53%) VLAN
14 59 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
15 51 (0.42%) SSL
16 42 (0.35%) Wireless
17 33 (0.27%) SD-WAN
18 32 (0.26%) VoIP
19 30 (0.25%) MQTT
20 29 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,618 (21.59%) SQL Server
2 1,965 (16.21%) Power BI
3 1,515 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1,043 (8.60%) Data Warehouse
5 849 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
6 820 (6.76%) Relational Database
7 776 (6.40%) Tableau
8 678 (5.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 662 (5.46%) MongoDB
10 655 (5.40%) Big Data
11 621 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 515 (4.25%) MySQL
13 491 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 481 (3.97%) Data Lake
15 359 (2.96%) Hadoop
16 341 (2.81%) Oracle Database
17 332 (2.74%) DB2
18 263 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
19 227 (1.87%) BigQuery
20 177 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,015 (8.37%) Git
2 466 (3.84%) JIRA
3 419 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 380 (3.13%) Visual Studio
5 189 (1.56%) JUnit
6 183 (1.51%) GitLab
7 147 (1.21%) Selenium
8 106 (0.87%) Postman
9 95 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
10 92 (0.76%) TeamCity
11 89 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 88 (0.73%) NUnit
13 85 (0.70%) Cucumber
14 82 (0.68%) Cypress.io
15 79 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
16 77 (0.64%) Jasmine
17 76 (0.63%) Maven
18 65 (0.54%) Mockito
19 61 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
20 52 (0.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,466 (28.59%) Finance
2 2,951 (24.34%) Social Skills
3 1,627 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 1,509 (12.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,483 (12.23%) Law
6 997 (8.22%) Marketing
7 730 (6.02%) Legal
8 713 (5.88%) Retail
9 661 (5.45%) Banking
10 647 (5.34%) Public Sector
11 391 (3.23%) Manufacturing
12 302 (2.49%) Front Office
13 269 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
14 209 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 207 (1.71%) Games
16 202 (1.67%) Financial Institution
17 197 (1.62%) Back Office
18 179 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
19 170 (1.40%) Investment Banking
20 124 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,484 (28.74%) Developer
2 2,185 (18.02%) Senior
3 1,979 (16.32%) Analyst
4 1,561 (12.88%) Software Engineer
5 1,183 (9.76%) Lead
6 939 (7.74%) Data Engineer
7 757 (6.24%) Senior Developer
8 708 (5.84%) .NET Developer
9 602 (4.97%) Data Analyst
10 538 (4.44%) Java Engineer
11 521 (4.30%) Java Software Engineer
11 521 (4.30%) Software Developer
12 501 (4.13%) Full Stack Developer
13 445 (3.67%) Applications Support
14 441 (3.64%) C# Developer
15 419 (3.46%) Full Stack Engineer
16 382 (3.15%) Support Analyst
17 367 (3.03%) DBA
18 365 (3.01%) Consultant
19 364 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,644 (21.81%) .NET
2 1,562 (12.88%) HTML
3 1,380 (11.38%) CSS
4 1,212 (10.00%) React
5 1,136 (9.37%) AngularJS
6 1,088 (8.97%) ASP.NET
7 938 (7.74%) REST
8 747 (6.16%) Web Services
9 735 (6.06%) .NET Core
10 610 (5.03%) jQuery
11 598 (4.93%) Spring
12 563 (4.64%) .NET Framework
13 511 (4.21%) Vue
14 510 (4.21%) JSON
14 510 (4.21%) Kafka
15 489 (4.03%) XML
16 477 (3.93%) Node.js
17 432 (3.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 429 (3.54%) Entity Framework
19 404 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 828 (6.83%) Algorithms
2 549 (4.53%) Data Structures
3 495 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 375 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
5 360 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 324 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 277 (2.28%) Onboarding
8 273 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 265 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
10 253 (2.09%) Hedge funds
11 251 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 248 (2.05%) Blockchain
13 177 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 169 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
15 166 (1.37%) Fixed Income
16 159 (1.31%) Derivative
17 152 (1.25%) Equities
18 142 (1.17%) Replication
19 137 (1.13%) Mobile App
20 135 (1.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,361 (11.23%) Windows
2 1,213 (10.00%) Linux
3 427 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 415 (3.42%) Unix
5 311 (2.57%) Android
6 281 (2.32%) Apple iOS
7 160 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 105 (0.87%) VMS
9 87 (0.72%) CentOS
10 78 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 77 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
12 74 (0.61%) Windows 7
12 74 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
13 62 (0.51%) Solaris
14 52 (0.43%) Ubuntu
15 47 (0.39%) Windows 8
16 36 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 25 (0.21%) AIX
18 23 (0.19%) SUSE
19 21 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,797 (31.32%) Agile
2 2,390 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
3 2,301 (18.98%) Software Engineering
4 2,198 (18.13%) Business Intelligence
5 1,708 (14.09%) CI/CD
6 1,704 (14.05%) Analytics
7 1,665 (13.73%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,663 (13.72%) DevOps
9 1,524 (12.57%) Visualisation
10 1,433 (11.82%) Full Stack Development
11 1,420 (11.71%) SDLC
12 1,419 (11.70%) Machine Learning
13 1,330 (10.97%) ETL
14 1,139 (9.39%) Mentoring
15 1,115 (9.20%) Computer Science
16 1,077 (8.88%) Data Modelling
17 949 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 937 (7.73%) Data Analysis
19 916 (7.56%) Decision-Making
20 909 (7.50%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3,153 (26.01%) Python
2 2,841 (23.43%) C#
3 2,243 (18.50%) JavaScript
4 2,125 (17.53%) Java
5 1,090 (8.99%) T-SQL
6 658 (5.43%) TypeScript
7 594 (4.90%) PL/SQL
8 448 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 408 (3.37%) Scala
10 305 (2.52%) R
11 259 (2.14%) PHP
12 231 (1.91%) C++
13 187 (1.54%) VB
14 185 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 169 (1.39%) VBA
16 163 (1.34%) VB.NET
17 153 (1.26%) Bash
18 144 (1.19%) C
19 80 (0.66%) Groovy
20 73 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,140 (17.65%) Degree
2 550 (4.54%) Security Cleared
3 537 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 414 (3.41%) SC Cleared
5 315 (2.60%) DBS Check
6 301 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 278 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 117 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 115 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 79 (0.65%) PhD
11 52 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 46 (0.38%) MCSE
13 44 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
14 41 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 32 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
16 31 (0.26%) CISA
16 31 (0.26%) ISTQB
17 30 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
17 30 (0.25%) MBA
17 30 (0.25%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 530 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 400 (3.30%) QA
3 209 (1.72%) SLA
4 151 (1.25%) GDPR
5 133 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 53 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (0.41%) 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 (0.066%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.066%) IFRS
14 8 (0.066%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.066%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.066%) PSD2
15 7 (0.058%) GMP
15 7 (0.058%) SOC 1
System Software
1 610 (5.03%) Docker
2 600 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 288 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 182 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 126 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 120 (0.99%) HDFS
7 59 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
8 53 (0.44%) XenApp
9 48 (0.40%) VirtualBox
10 46 (0.38%) XenDesktop
11 41 (0.34%) vSphere
12 39 (0.32%) VMware NSX
13 34 (0.28%) Firmware
14 22 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
15 17 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
16 13 (0.11%) vCloud
16 13 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
17 10 (0.082%) Terminal Services
18 9 (0.074%) Forefront TMG
18 9 (0.074%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 758 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 478 (3.94%) Terraform
3 144 (1.19%) Ansible
4 108 (0.89%) Grafana
5 57 (0.47%) Data Guard
5 57 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
6 55 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 54 (0.45%) SCCM
8 48 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.37%) Progress Chef
10 37 (0.31%) SCOM
11 31 (0.26%) Kibana
12 30 (0.25%) 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 18 (0.15%) Backup Exec
16 18 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,807 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 1,380 (11.38%) Oracle
3 820 (6.76%) Databricks
4 443 (3.65%) Google
5 400 (3.30%) IBM
5 400 (3.30%) VMware
6 300 (2.47%) Red Hat
7 270 (2.23%) SAP
8 162 (1.34%) Informatica
9 151 (1.25%) Citrix
10 108 (0.89%) Cisco
11 104 (0.86%) Alteryx
12 96 (0.79%) Veeam
13 91 (0.75%) Splunk
14 90 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 88 (0.73%) Cloudera
16 81 (0.67%) F5
17 79 (0.65%) Sage
18 77 (0.64%) Bloomberg
19 70 (0.58%) Remedy