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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10,340 13,291 25,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.98% 16.08% 17.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.81% 38.18% 33.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,008 8,680 14,166
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £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 28,875 34,809 76,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.65% 42.11% 53.20%
Number of salaries quoted 22,864 23,583 38,764
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,787 £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 9 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 9 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 -2 3,789 £70,000 - 1,031
North of England -5 2,080 £50,000 -4.76% 464
South East -3 1,686 £50,000 -9.09% 267
Midlands -3 1,440 £47,500 -5.00% 276
North West -4 1,170 £51,125 -1.68% 266
West Midlands -5 842 £49,750 -0.50% 157
South West -10 760 £50,000 - 180
Yorkshire -6 644 £45,249 -13.40% 156
East Midlands -2 586 £45,000 -10.00% 116
East of England -7 512 £47,500 -9.52% 113
North East +1 268 £50,000 -4.76% 48
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
1 341 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 263 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 204 (1.97%) IIS
4 189 (1.83%) Apache
5 175 (1.69%) Apache Spark
6 161 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
7 149 (1.44%) SAS
8 129 (1.25%) CMS
9 112 (1.08%) Confluence
10 32 (0.31%) Umbraco
11 26 (0.25%) Drupal
12 24 (0.23%) WordPress
13 21 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 21 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 17 (0.16%) WebLogic
15 16 (0.15%) nginx
16 13 (0.13%) Oracle Service Bus
17 12 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
18 11 (0.11%) Jupyter
18 11 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 690 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 362 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 32 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.27%) SPSS
7 26 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 20 (0.19%) Simulink
9 18 (0.17%) Trello
10 9 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
11 8 (0.077%) Chatbot
12 7 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
13 6 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
14 4 (0.039%) Adobe XD
15 2 (0.019%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 2 (0.019%) FileZilla
15 2 (0.019%) InDesign
15 2 (0.019%) LaTeX
16 1 (0.010%) Acrobat
16 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 140 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
3 37 (0.36%) SDL Web 8
4 33 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 33 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 25 (0.24%) Elite 3E
5 25 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 25 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 23 (0.22%) Shopify
6 23 (0.22%) thinkFolio
7 19 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 19 (0.18%) NEC Housing
7 19 (0.18%) Sage 200
8 18 (0.17%) Fidessa
9 17 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
10 16 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
11 15 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
12 14 (0.14%) Magento
12 14 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
12 14 (0.14%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 3,715 (35.93%) Azure
2 1,978 (19.13%) Power Platform
3 1,726 (16.69%) AWS
4 700 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
5 601 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
6 559 (5.41%) GCP
7 436 (4.22%) Serverless
8 366 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 353 (3.41%) SaaS
10 293 (2.83%) Snowflake
11 258 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 238 (2.30%) IBM Cloud
13 214 (2.07%) PowerApps
14 212 (2.05%) Azure Functions
15 211 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
16 209 (2.02%) GitHub
17 202 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
18 193 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
19 188 (1.82%) Entra ID
20 180 (1.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 296 (2.86%) Firewall
2 188 (1.82%) DNS
3 137 (1.32%) WAN
4 111 (1.07%) Internet
5 109 (1.05%) DHCP
6 107 (1.03%) LAN
7 106 (1.03%) VPN
8 102 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 92 (0.89%) SAN
10 70 (0.68%) Broadband
11 68 (0.66%) HTTP
12 65 (0.63%) Network Security
13 56 (0.54%) VLAN
13 56 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
14 50 (0.48%) SSL
15 33 (0.32%) Wireless
16 29 (0.28%) FTP
17 28 (0.27%) SD-WAN
18 26 (0.25%) VoIP
19 24 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,396 (23.17%) SQL Server
2 1,855 (17.94%) Power BI
3 971 (9.39%) Data Warehouse
4 812 (7.85%) NoSQL
5 765 (7.40%) Tableau
6 758 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
7 654 (6.32%) Relational Database
8 617 (5.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 568 (5.49%) MongoDB
10 550 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 463 (4.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 457 (4.42%) Data Lake
13 453 (4.38%) MySQL
14 298 (2.88%) DB2
15 264 (2.55%) Big Data
16 238 (2.30%) Oracle Database
17 219 (2.12%) BigQuery
18 170 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 143 (1.38%) Data Mining
20 137 (1.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 934 (9.03%) Git
2 392 (3.79%) JIRA
3 345 (3.34%) Visual Studio
4 204 (1.97%) Jenkins
5 170 (1.64%) GitLab
6 103 (1.00%) Selenium
7 95 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 92 (0.89%) NUnit
9 86 (0.83%) Postman
10 76 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
11 72 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 59 (0.57%) Moq
13 53 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
14 51 (0.49%) SpecFlow
15 50 (0.48%) JUnit
16 45 (0.44%) Cucumber
16 45 (0.44%) Cypress.io
17 44 (0.43%) Eclipse
18 39 (0.38%) SoapUI
19 35 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,775 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 2,298 (22.22%) Finance
3 1,517 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 696 (6.73%) Retail
5 586 (5.67%) Public Sector
6 513 (4.96%) Banking
7 454 (4.39%) Marketing
8 418 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 413 (3.99%) Law
10 375 (3.63%) Manufacturing
11 356 (3.44%) Legal
12 341 (3.30%) Front Office
13 263 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
14 186 (1.80%) Back Office
15 177 (1.71%) Games
16 163 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
17 106 (1.03%) Telecoms
18 105 (1.02%) Advertising
19 100 (0.97%) Aerospace
20 87 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,162 (30.58%) Developer
2 2,014 (19.48%) Senior
3 1,987 (19.22%) Analyst
4 834 (8.07%) Lead
5 773 (7.48%) Data Engineer
6 716 (6.92%) .NET Developer
7 673 (6.51%) Senior Developer
8 627 (6.06%) Data Analyst
9 605 (5.85%) Software Engineer
10 486 (4.70%) Software Developer
11 479 (4.63%) Full Stack Developer
12 465 (4.50%) Senior Analyst
13 437 (4.23%) C# Developer
14 395 (3.82%) Applications Support
15 339 (3.28%) Consultant
16 307 (2.97%) Support Analyst
17 305 (2.95%) DBA
18 303 (2.93%) Support Engineer
19 300 (2.90%) Architect
20 277 (2.68%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,474 (23.93%) .NET
2 1,379 (13.34%) HTML
3 1,193 (11.54%) CSS
4 1,054 (10.19%) ASP.NET
5 932 (9.01%) React
6 881 (8.52%) AngularJS
7 786 (7.60%) REST
8 661 (6.39%) .NET Core
9 646 (6.25%) Web Services
10 533 (5.15%) jQuery
11 513 (4.96%) .NET Framework
12 476 (4.60%) Vue
13 420 (4.06%) XML
14 415 (4.01%) Entity Framework
15 404 (3.91%) Node.js
16 372 (3.60%) JSON
17 358 (3.46%) ASP.NET MVC
18 357 (3.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 338 (3.27%) HTML5
19 338 (3.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 500 (4.84%) Data Structures
2 450 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 342 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 328 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 292 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 287 (2.78%) Hedge funds
7 265 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 248 (2.40%) Blockchain
9 233 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
10 229 (2.21%) Onboarding
11 208 (2.01%) Fixed Income
12 194 (1.88%) Derivative
13 192 (1.86%) Equities
14 186 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 153 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
16 136 (1.32%) Public Cloud
17 134 (1.30%) Mobile App
18 122 (1.18%) Client/Server
19 119 (1.15%) e-Learning
20 106 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1,252 (12.11%) Windows
2 1,000 (9.67%) Linux
3 379 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 313 (3.03%) Android
5 273 (2.64%) Apple iOS
6 212 (2.05%) Unix
7 157 (1.52%) Windows 10
8 98 (0.95%) CentOS
9 96 (0.93%) VMS
10 78 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
11 77 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
12 76 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
13 63 (0.61%) Ubuntu
13 63 (0.61%) Windows 7
14 40 (0.39%) Windows 8
15 36 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 32 (0.31%) Solaris
17 25 (0.24%) AIX
18 19 (0.18%) Debian
18 19 (0.18%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,579 (24.94%) Agile
2 2,098 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2,013 (19.47%) Business Intelligence
4 1,605 (15.52%) Analytics
5 1,392 (13.46%) DevOps
6 1,177 (11.38%) Full Stack Development
7 1,155 (11.17%) ETL
8 1,152 (11.14%) Software Engineering
9 1,130 (10.93%) Visualisation
10 985 (9.53%) Computer Science
11 980 (9.48%) Mentoring
12 963 (9.31%) Artificial Intelligence
13 947 (9.16%) Data Modelling
14 888 (8.59%) MVC
15 866 (8.38%) Data Analysis
16 831 (8.04%) Data Science
17 769 (7.44%) Machine Learning
18 705 (6.82%) Data Pipeline
19 686 (6.63%) Decision-Making
20 680 (6.58%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 2,757 (26.66%) Python
2 2,620 (25.34%) C#
3 2,008 (19.42%) JavaScript
4 1,065 (10.30%) Java
5 967 (9.35%) T-SQL
6 528 (5.11%) TypeScript
7 456 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 305 (2.95%) PL/SQL
9 295 (2.85%) R
10 244 (2.36%) PHP
11 209 (2.02%) C++
12 206 (1.99%) VBA
13 190 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 178 (1.72%) VB
15 174 (1.68%) VB.NET
16 146 (1.41%) Bash
17 138 (1.33%) C
18 114 (1.10%) Scala
19 85 (0.82%) Kotlin
20 75 (0.73%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,055 (19.87%) Degree
2 510 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 485 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 355 (3.43%) SC Cleared
5 353 (3.41%) DBS Check
6 278 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 264 (2.55%) Master's Degree
8 123 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 119 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 72 (0.70%) PhD
11 53 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 41 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
13 38 (0.37%) MCSE
14 33 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
15 32 (0.31%) MBA
16 30 (0.29%) AWS Certification
17 28 (0.27%) ISTQB
18 25 (0.24%) MCSA
19 24 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
20 23 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 550 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 349 (3.38%) QA
3 167 (1.62%) SLA
4 121 (1.17%) GDPR
5 106 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 58 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 14 (0.14%) PMO
11 12 (0.12%) MiFID
12 11 (0.11%) COBIT
13 10 (0.097%) NIST
14 9 (0.087%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.068%) IFRS
15 7 (0.068%) ITGC
15 7 (0.068%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.068%) PSD2
System Software
1 581 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 488 (4.72%) Docker
3 242 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 163 (1.58%) Hyper-V
5 111 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 50 (0.48%) XenApp
7 45 (0.44%) RACF
8 43 (0.42%) XenDesktop
9 41 (0.40%) VirtualBox
10 40 (0.39%) vSphere
11 31 (0.30%) Firmware
12 24 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
13 21 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
14 16 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
14 16 (0.15%) VMware NSX
15 13 (0.13%) HDFS
16 12 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
17 9 (0.087%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.087%) Terminal Services
17 9 (0.087%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 422 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 306 (2.96%) Terraform
3 123 (1.19%) Ansible
4 47 (0.45%) Grafana
5 45 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.43%) SCCM
7 32 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.31%) SCOM
8 29 (0.28%) WSUS
9 27 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 24 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 21 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
13 18 (0.17%) Backup Exec
13 18 (0.17%) NetBackup
13 18 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
14 16 (0.15%) Puppet
15 14 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
16 13 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
17 12 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 2,642 (25.55%) Microsoft
2 870 (8.41%) Oracle
3 667 (6.45%) Databricks
4 369 (3.57%) Google
5 338 (3.27%) IBM
6 330 (3.19%) VMware
7 312 (3.02%) Red Hat
8 213 (2.06%) SAP
9 142 (1.37%) Citrix
10 108 (1.04%) Bloomberg
11 104 (1.01%) Cisco
12 93 (0.90%) Veeam
13 90 (0.87%) Informatica
13 90 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 79 (0.76%) F5
15 76 (0.74%) Alteryx
16 67 (0.65%) Sage
17 55 (0.53%) Adobe
18 46 (0.44%) CyberArk
19 45 (0.44%) HP