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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10,093 15,029 24,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.67% 17.04% 17.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.49% 39.31% 33.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,027 8,937 14,065
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 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +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 27,662 38,232 72,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.99% 43.34% 53.48%
Number of salaries quoted 22,393 24,644 38,772
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £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 18 May 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 18 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
London 0 3,698 £70,000 - 1,384
North of England -4 2,015 £50,000 -3.85% 467
South East -3 1,678 £50,000 -9.09% 491
Midlands -3 1,360 £47,500 -5.00% 365
North West -3 1,140 £52,500 +0.96% 254
West Midlands -4 801 £50,000 - 236
South West -9 739 £50,000 - 206
Yorkshire -7 621 £47,500 -9.52% 168
East Midlands +1 549 £45,000 -10.00% 129
East of England -8 515 £47,500 -9.52% 154
North East -1 256 £50,000 -4.76% 50
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
1 356 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 277 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 215 (2.13%) IIS
4 180 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 167 (1.65%) Apache
6 154 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
7 134 (1.33%) SAS
8 118 (1.17%) CMS
9 109 (1.08%) Confluence
10 28 (0.28%) Umbraco
11 27 (0.27%) Drupal
12 25 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 25 (0.25%) WordPress
13 23 (0.23%) Tomcat
14 20 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 19 (0.19%) WebLogic
16 15 (0.15%) nginx
17 14 (0.14%) OpenStack
17 14 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
18 13 (0.13%) Captiva
Applications
1 679 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 375 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 33 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.28%) SPSS
7 22 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.17%) Trello
9 16 (0.16%) Simulink
10 9 (0.089%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
12 7 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
13 5 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.020%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.020%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.020%) InDesign
14 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
15 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
15 1 (0.010%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 146 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (0.41%) Siebel CRM
3 36 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 35 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 29 (0.29%) SDL Web 8
6 27 (0.27%) thinkFolio
7 25 (0.25%) Elite 3E
7 25 (0.25%) SAP Business One
8 23 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 22 (0.22%) Shopify
10 20 (0.20%) NEC Housing
11 19 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
11 19 (0.19%) Sage 200
12 18 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
13 16 (0.16%) Fidessa
14 15 (0.15%) Sage X3
14 15 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
15 14 (0.14%) Magento
15 14 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
16 12 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 3,686 (36.52%) Azure
2 1,930 (19.12%) Power Platform
3 1,698 (16.82%) AWS
4 691 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
5 617 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
6 591 (5.86%) GCP
7 460 (4.56%) Serverless
8 360 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 337 (3.34%) SaaS
10 277 (2.74%) Snowflake
11 242 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 239 (2.37%) IBM Cloud
13 227 (2.25%) GitHub
14 217 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
15 214 (2.12%) Azure Functions
16 208 (2.06%) PowerApps
17 206 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
18 194 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
19 184 (1.82%) Power Automate
20 166 (1.64%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 307 (3.04%) Firewall
2 192 (1.90%) DNS
3 148 (1.47%) WAN
4 120 (1.19%) VPN
5 113 (1.12%) DHCP
6 112 (1.11%) Internet
7 111 (1.10%) LAN
8 104 (1.03%) TCP/IP
9 90 (0.89%) SAN
10 70 (0.69%) Network Security
11 69 (0.68%) Broadband
12 68 (0.67%) HTTP
13 61 (0.60%) VLAN
14 56 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
15 51 (0.51%) SSL
16 34 (0.34%) Wireless
17 31 (0.31%) SD-WAN
18 29 (0.29%) FTP
19 27 (0.27%) VoIP
19 27 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,359 (23.37%) SQL Server
2 1,809 (17.92%) Power BI
3 958 (9.49%) Data Warehouse
4 813 (8.06%) NoSQL
5 754 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
6 750 (7.43%) Tableau
7 636 (6.30%) Relational Database
8 619 (6.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 552 (5.47%) MongoDB
10 548 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 462 (4.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 457 (4.53%) MySQL
13 432 (4.28%) Data Lake
14 301 (2.98%) DB2
15 254 (2.52%) Big Data
16 231 (2.29%) Oracle Database
17 220 (2.18%) BigQuery
18 164 (1.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 137 (1.36%) Data Mining
20 132 (1.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 888 (8.80%) Git
2 393 (3.89%) JIRA
3 345 (3.42%) Visual Studio
4 230 (2.28%) Jenkins
5 161 (1.60%) GitLab
6 109 (1.08%) Selenium
7 95 (0.94%) Postman
8 89 (0.88%) TeamCity
9 82 (0.81%) NUnit
10 78 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 69 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
12 53 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 53 (0.53%) JUnit
13 50 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 50 (0.50%) Moq
14 48 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
15 43 (0.43%) SpecFlow
16 41 (0.41%) Eclipse
16 41 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
17 40 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,718 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 2,235 (22.14%) Finance
3 1,493 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 698 (6.92%) Retail
5 598 (5.92%) Public Sector
6 483 (4.79%) Banking
7 440 (4.36%) Marketing
8 420 (4.16%) Law
9 392 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 362 (3.59%) Manufacturing
11 320 (3.17%) Front Office
12 299 (2.96%) Legal
13 274 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
14 189 (1.87%) Back Office
15 178 (1.76%) Games
16 170 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
17 111 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 99 (0.98%) Aerospace
19 98 (0.97%) Advertising
20 93 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,088 (30.60%) Developer
2 1,916 (18.98%) Senior
3 1,889 (18.72%) Analyst
4 813 (8.06%) Lead
5 784 (7.77%) Data Engineer
6 683 (6.77%) .NET Developer
7 651 (6.45%) Senior Developer
8 590 (5.85%) Data Analyst
9 586 (5.81%) Software Engineer
10 482 (4.78%) Software Developer
11 474 (4.70%) Full Stack Developer
12 411 (4.07%) C# Developer
13 397 (3.93%) Applications Support
14 392 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
15 331 (3.28%) Support Analyst
16 316 (3.13%) Consultant
17 300 (2.97%) DBA
18 297 (2.94%) Support Engineer
19 289 (2.86%) Architect
20 273 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,418 (23.96%) .NET
2 1,336 (13.24%) HTML
3 1,159 (11.48%) CSS
4 1,033 (10.23%) ASP.NET
5 906 (8.98%) React
6 867 (8.59%) AngularJS
7 785 (7.78%) REST
8 645 (6.39%) .NET Core
8 645 (6.39%) Web Services
9 517 (5.12%) jQuery
10 498 (4.93%) .NET Framework
11 465 (4.61%) Vue
12 418 (4.14%) XML
13 404 (4.00%) Entity Framework
14 389 (3.85%) JSON
15 386 (3.82%) Node.js
16 355 (3.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 353 (3.50%) ASP.NET MVC
18 341 (3.38%) HTML5
19 336 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 497 (4.92%) Data Structures
2 442 (4.38%) Algorithms
3 337 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
4 301 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 275 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 266 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 263 (2.61%) Hedge funds
8 248 (2.46%) Blockchain
9 236 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
10 199 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 174 (1.72%) Fixed Income
12 171 (1.69%) Derivative
13 161 (1.60%) Equities
14 159 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 154 (1.53%) Public Cloud
16 152 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
17 132 (1.31%) Mobile App
18 121 (1.20%) Client/Server
19 117 (1.16%) e-Learning
20 110 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1,267 (12.55%) Windows
2 1,006 (9.97%) Linux
3 388 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 311 (3.08%) Android
5 278 (2.75%) Apple iOS
6 216 (2.14%) Unix
7 160 (1.59%) Windows 10
8 94 (0.93%) VMS
9 89 (0.88%) CentOS
10 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 77 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
11 74 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
12 68 (0.67%) Windows 7
13 54 (0.54%) Ubuntu
14 45 (0.45%) Windows 8
15 33 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 30 (0.30%) Solaris
17 24 (0.24%) AIX
18 22 (0.22%) SUSE
19 19 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,517 (24.94%) Agile
2 2,016 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
3 2,000 (19.82%) Business Intelligence
4 1,562 (15.48%) Analytics
5 1,418 (14.05%) DevOps
6 1,180 (11.69%) ETL
7 1,140 (11.29%) Full Stack Development
8 1,100 (10.90%) Visualisation
9 1,097 (10.87%) Software Engineering
10 967 (9.58%) Mentoring
11 962 (9.53%) Artificial Intelligence
12 918 (9.10%) Data Modelling
13 916 (9.08%) Computer Science
14 876 (8.68%) MVC
15 833 (8.25%) Data Analysis
16 825 (8.17%) Data Science
17 775 (7.68%) Machine Learning
18 696 (6.90%) Data Pipeline
19 681 (6.75%) CI/CD
20 670 (6.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,655 (26.31%) Python
2 2,586 (25.62%) C#
3 1,964 (19.46%) JavaScript
4 1,074 (10.64%) Java
5 973 (9.64%) T-SQL
6 513 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 419 (4.15%) PowerShell
8 304 (3.01%) PL/SQL
9 291 (2.88%) R
10 236 (2.34%) PHP
11 205 (2.03%) C++
12 181 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 177 (1.75%) VB
14 165 (1.63%) VBA
15 162 (1.61%) VB.NET
16 142 (1.41%) Bash
17 132 (1.31%) C
18 116 (1.15%) Scala
19 70 (0.69%) Kotlin
20 66 (0.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,959 (19.41%) Degree
2 474 (4.70%) Security Cleared
3 470 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 354 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 345 (3.42%) DBS Check
6 280 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 241 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 120 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 115 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 71 (0.70%) PhD
11 52 (0.52%) PMI Certification
12 44 (0.44%) MCSE
13 39 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
14 38 (0.38%) AWS Certification
15 30 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
15 30 (0.30%) MBA
15 30 (0.30%) MCSA
16 29 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
17 28 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 25 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 497 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 347 (3.44%) QA
3 157 (1.56%) SLA
4 130 (1.29%) GDPR
5 106 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 55 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 15 (0.15%) PMO
10 11 (0.11%) COBIT
11 10 (0.099%) NIST
12 8 (0.079%) IFRS
12 8 (0.079%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.079%) PSD2
13 7 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.069%) ITGC
13 7 (0.069%) MiFID
13 7 (0.069%) SOC 1
14 6 (0.059%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 568 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 508 (5.03%) Docker
3 257 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 178 (1.76%) Hyper-V
5 108 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 53 (0.53%) XenApp
7 46 (0.46%) VirtualBox
7 46 (0.46%) XenDesktop
8 43 (0.43%) vSphere
9 29 (0.29%) Firmware
10 27 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
11 23 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
12 18 (0.18%) HDFS
13 17 (0.17%) VMware NSX
14 15 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
15 13 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
16 12 (0.12%) RACF
16 12 (0.12%) vCloud
17 10 (0.099%) Terminal Services
18 9 (0.089%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 443 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 320 (3.17%) Terraform
3 128 (1.27%) Ansible
4 48 (0.48%) Grafana
5 47 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 47 (0.47%) SCCM
6 36 (0.36%) SCOM
7 33 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 29 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 29 (0.29%) WSUS
10 25 (0.25%) Data Guard
11 23 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
12 22 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
13 18 (0.18%) Backup Exec
14 17 (0.17%) NetBackup
15 15 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
16 14 (0.14%) Puppet
17 13 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
18 12 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 2,593 (25.69%) Microsoft
2 858 (8.50%) Oracle
3 659 (6.53%) Databricks
4 373 (3.70%) Google
5 363 (3.60%) IBM
6 343 (3.40%) VMware
7 301 (2.98%) Red Hat
8 222 (2.20%) SAP
9 150 (1.49%) Citrix
10 102 (1.01%) Cisco
11 90 (0.89%) Veeam
12 87 (0.86%) Salesforce
13 84 (0.83%) Bloomberg
14 81 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 79 (0.78%) F5
16 78 (0.77%) Informatica
17 66 (0.65%) Sage
18 51 (0.51%) ServiceNow
19 48 (0.48%) Adobe
20 43 (0.43%) HP