SQL Jobs in London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 11 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3,789 5,254 14,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.46% 16.73% 19.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.86% 34.38% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,833 3,844 6,741
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,611
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,751 15,283 44,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.78% 48.65% 60.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,593 11,745 18,899
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in London

SQL
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SQL in London

SQL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in London

SQL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the London 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
Central London +3 726 £70,000 -3.45% 117
South London -28 60 £60,000 +9.09% 9
West London -54 39 £65,000 +23.81% 38
East London +2 21 £57,500 +9.52% 12
North London +2 10 £70,000 +33.33% 1
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 138 (3.64%) Apache
2 125 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 116 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
4 107 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 89 (2.35%) SAS
6 65 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 56 (1.48%) CMS
8 49 (1.29%) IIS
9 28 (0.74%) Confluence
10 15 (0.40%) Drupal
11 14 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
12 10 (0.26%) EPiServer
13 9 (0.24%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.18%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.16%) Apache Pig
16 5 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
17 4 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
17 4 (0.11%) WordPress
18 3 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 294 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.48%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.45%) SPSS
6 16 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.053%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.053%) InDesign
11 1 (0.026%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 63 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 33 (0.87%) SDL Web 8
3 23 (0.61%) thinkFolio
4 21 (0.55%) Elite 3E
5 18 (0.48%) Fidessa
6 14 (0.37%) NEC Housing
7 11 (0.29%) Relativity
8 9 (0.24%) Sage X3
8 9 (0.24%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
10 7 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
10 7 (0.18%) Endur
10 7 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
11 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.16%) Primavera
12 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 5 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,267 (33.44%) Azure
2 880 (23.23%) AWS
3 721 (19.03%) Power Platform
4 320 (8.45%) GCP
5 221 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 166 (4.38%) Serverless
8 149 (3.93%) Snowflake
9 141 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 106 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
11 104 (2.74%) SaaS
12 89 (2.35%) PowerApps
13 78 (2.06%) Amazon S3
13 78 (2.06%) dbt
13 78 (2.06%) GitHub
13 78 (2.06%) Power Automate
14 74 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
15 65 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
16 56 (1.48%) Azure Functions
17 50 (1.32%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 75 (1.98%) Firewall
2 55 (1.45%) DNS
3 39 (1.03%) Internet
4 37 (0.98%) VPN
5 33 (0.87%) DHCP
6 28 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 24 (0.63%) Network Security
8 22 (0.58%) WAN
9 21 (0.55%) HTTP
10 18 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
10 18 (0.48%) SAN
11 13 (0.34%) VLAN
12 12 (0.32%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.29%) BGP
13 11 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.29%) LAN
13 11 (0.29%) MPLS
14 10 (0.26%) FTP
15 9 (0.24%) Wireless
16 5 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 667 (17.60%) SQL Server
2 661 (17.45%) Power BI
3 444 (11.72%) Tableau
4 394 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
5 259 (6.84%) NoSQL
6 219 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
7 215 (5.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 208 (5.49%) Data Lake
9 197 (5.20%) Relational Database
10 175 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 168 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 153 (4.04%) Big Data
13 143 (3.77%) MongoDB
14 107 (2.82%) MySQL
15 90 (2.38%) Data Mining
16 78 (2.06%) Oracle Database
17 76 (2.01%) BigQuery
18 72 (1.90%) Hadoop
19 71 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
20 64 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 386 (10.19%) Git
2 150 (3.96%) JIRA
3 101 (2.67%) Visual Studio
4 81 (2.14%) Jenkins
5 76 (2.01%) GitLab
6 47 (1.24%) TeamCity
7 44 (1.16%) NUnit
8 35 (0.92%) SpecFlow
9 34 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 33 (0.87%) Moq
11 28 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
12 26 (0.69%) Eclipse
13 23 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
14 22 (0.58%) Sourcetree
15 19 (0.50%) git-flow
15 19 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
16 18 (0.48%) Cucumber
17 17 (0.45%) Postman
18 15 (0.40%) PowerBuilder
19 14 (0.37%) JUnit
General
1 1,217 (32.12%) Finance
2 1,081 (28.53%) Social Skills
3 682 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (9.79%) Banking
5 341 (9.00%) Front Office
6 247 (6.52%) Retail
7 210 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 191 (5.04%) Marketing
9 180 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
10 147 (3.88%) Law
11 144 (3.80%) Back Office
12 130 (3.43%) Legal
13 77 (2.03%) Investment Banking
14 70 (1.85%) Public Sector
15 51 (1.35%) Games
16 38 (1.00%) Retail Banking
17 35 (0.92%) Advertising
18 34 (0.90%) Manufacturing
19 33 (0.87%) Financial Institution
20 31 (0.82%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,041 (27.47%) Senior
2 1,024 (27.03%) Analyst
3 930 (24.54%) Developer
4 380 (10.03%) Data Engineer
5 359 (9.47%) Data Analyst
6 331 (8.74%) Lead
7 292 (7.71%) Senior Developer
8 272 (7.18%) Senior Analyst
9 223 (5.89%) Software Engineer
10 203 (5.36%) Full Stack Developer
11 197 (5.20%) .NET Developer
12 184 (4.86%) Applications Support
13 176 (4.65%) Support Analyst
14 147 (3.88%) Financial Analyst
15 139 (3.67%) Business Analyst
16 134 (3.54%) Senior Data Analyst
17 126 (3.33%) Python Engineer
18 124 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
19 122 (3.22%) Architect
19 122 (3.22%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 594 (15.68%) .NET
2 301 (7.94%) React
3 271 (7.15%) HTML
4 265 (6.99%) AngularJS
5 257 (6.78%) CSS
6 231 (6.10%) REST
7 215 (5.67%) ASP.NET
8 180 (4.75%) PySpark
9 165 (4.35%) Web Services
10 158 (4.17%) .NET Framework
11 150 (3.96%) XML
12 145 (3.83%) .NET Core
13 130 (3.43%) JSON
14 125 (3.30%) jQuery
15 123 (3.25%) Kafka
16 112 (2.96%) RESTful
17 108 (2.85%) Pandas
18 103 (2.72%) SOAP
19 94 (2.48%) Node.js
19 94 (2.48%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 278 (7.34%) Hedge funds
2 207 (5.46%) Fixed Income
3 194 (5.12%) Derivative
4 192 (5.07%) Equities
5 186 (4.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 174 (4.59%) Product Ownership
7 155 (4.09%) Onboarding
8 149 (3.93%) Algorithms
9 121 (3.19%) Management Information System
10 119 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
11 88 (2.32%) Data Structures
12 76 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
13 56 (1.48%) Client/Server
14 52 (1.37%) Reinsurance
15 43 (1.13%) Cloud Native
16 41 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
16 41 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (0.92%) IoT
18 33 (0.87%) Legacy Code
19 30 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 328 (8.66%) Windows
2 269 (7.10%) Linux
3 119 (3.14%) Unix
4 115 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 43 (1.13%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.77%) CentOS
7 25 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.55%) Android
8 21 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.37%) Solaris
10 13 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (0.32%) zOS
12 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.21%) SUSE
15 7 (0.18%) VMS
15 7 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (22.88%) Agile
2 857 (22.62%) Analytics
3 746 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
4 710 (18.74%) Business Intelligence
5 575 (15.18%) Visualisation
6 503 (13.28%) ETL
7 474 (12.51%) DevOps
8 471 (12.43%) Data Modelling
9 442 (11.67%) Data Analysis
9 442 (11.67%) Data Science
10 412 (10.87%) Computer Science
11 401 (10.58%) Software Engineering
12 383 (10.11%) Data Pipeline
13 372 (9.82%) Full Stack Development
13 372 (9.82%) Machine Learning
14 350 (9.24%) Mathematics
15 338 (8.92%) Statistics
16 329 (8.68%) Data Visualisation
17 322 (8.50%) Artificial Intelligence
17 322 (8.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,600 (42.23%) Python
2 682 (18.00%) C#
3 534 (14.09%) JavaScript
4 351 (9.26%) Java
5 318 (8.39%) T-SQL
6 216 (5.70%) TypeScript
7 194 (5.12%) R
8 178 (4.70%) PowerShell
9 109 (2.88%) PL/SQL
10 100 (2.64%) VBA
11 82 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 56 (1.48%) Bash
13 53 (1.40%) Scala
14 51 (1.35%) C
14 51 (1.35%) C++
15 46 (1.21%) PHP
16 45 (1.19%) XPath
17 29 (0.77%) Perl
18 26 (0.69%) MATLAB
19 25 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 960 (25.34%) Degree
2 182 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 176 (4.65%) DBS Check
4 164 (4.33%) Master's Degree
5 84 (2.22%) Security Cleared
6 68 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 63 (1.66%) SC Cleared
8 44 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 41 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.08%) PhD
10 26 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
11 18 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.45%) MCSE
13 14 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.37%) MCSA
13 14 (0.37%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.29%) MCP
15 10 (0.26%) MBA
15 10 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (0.21%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (7.05%) Data Quality
2 122 (3.22%) QA
3 50 (1.32%) SLA
4 36 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 23 (0.61%) GDPR
6 12 (0.32%) MiFID
7 11 (0.29%) PMO
8 8 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.18%) COBIT
10 6 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.16%) GMP
10 6 (0.16%) IFRS
10 6 (0.16%) ITGC
10 6 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.16%) SOC 1
11 5 (0.13%) EMIR
12 4 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.11%) GAAP
12 4 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 184 (4.86%) Docker
2 132 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 37 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.37%) vSphere
6 13 (0.34%) HDFS
7 9 (0.24%) Firmware
7 9 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 9 (0.24%) vCloud
8 7 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
9 6 (0.16%) RACF
9 6 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (0.13%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.11%) XenApp
12 3 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.053%) IAG
13 2 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 196 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 169 (4.46%) Terraform
3 42 (1.11%) Ansible
4 26 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.53%) Grafana
6 17 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 14 (0.37%) SCCM
8 11 (0.29%) Control-M
8 11 (0.29%) WSUS
9 10 (0.26%) logstash
9 10 (0.26%) SCOM
9 10 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.21%) Data Guard
10 8 (0.21%) Istio
10 8 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.16%) CloudHub
12 5 (0.13%) Backup Exec
12 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.13%) Kibana
12 5 (0.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 695 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 432 (11.40%) Databricks
3 301 (7.94%) Oracle
4 157 (4.14%) Google
5 108 (2.85%) Bloomberg
6 60 (1.58%) SAP
7 49 (1.29%) Salesforce
7 49 (1.29%) VMware
8 39 (1.03%) Alteryx
8 39 (1.03%) Red Hat
9 37 (0.98%) Reuters
10 35 (0.92%) F5
11 34 (0.90%) Cisco
12 32 (0.84%) ION Trading
13 29 (0.77%) Adobe
13 29 (0.77%) Murex
14 28 (0.74%) IBM
15 24 (0.63%) Juniper
15 24 (0.63%) Sage
15 24 (0.63%) Veeam