SQL Jobs in the South East

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,678 1,980 3,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.94% 13.86% 16.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.76% 34.59% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,322 1,429 2,406
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,970 5,724 9,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.43% 40.06% 48.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,993 3,759 6,343
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +8.37%
75th Percentile £68,750 £74,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £85,000
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 the South East

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the South East

SQL
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in the South East.

Salary trend for SQL in the South East

SQL
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in the South East

SQL
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the South East 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
Thames Valley -2 598 £50,000 -9.09% 104
Hampshire -1 431 £47,500 -5.00% 63
Berkshire -1 313 £62,500 +4.17% 47
Surrey -2 289 £50,000 -13.04% 49
Buckinghamshire -11 154 £47,500 -9.52% 36
Kent +6 152 £54,750 +4.29% 24
Oxfordshire +6 131 £42,500 -2.86% 21
East Sussex -5 110 £55,000 - 16
West Sussex -12 68 £52,500 -8.70% 12
Sussex - 14 £60,000 -
Middlesex -14 7 £65,000 -16.13% 7
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 107 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (4.59%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.50%) IIS
4 29 (1.73%) CMS
5 15 (0.89%) WebLogic
6 14 (0.83%) Oracle Service Bus
7 11 (0.66%) Apache
8 10 (0.60%) Confluence
8 10 (0.60%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.48%) WordPress
10 7 (0.42%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.36%) JBoss
11 6 (0.36%) SAS
12 5 (0.30%) Drupal
12 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.24%) ColdFusion
14 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.18%) WinCC
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 108 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 16 (0.95%) Simulink
4 12 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.48%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.30%) SPSS
7 4 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.060%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 41 (2.44%) Siebel CRM
2 32 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.30%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
8 4 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
9 2 (0.12%) Magento
9 2 (0.12%) nopCommerce
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.12%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.12%) Shopify
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.060%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 651 (38.80%) Azure
2 269 (16.03%) Power Platform
3 194 (11.56%) AWS
4 172 (10.25%) Microsoft 365
5 144 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (7.75%) Serverless
7 84 (5.01%) Azure Functions
8 80 (4.77%) Azure Service Bus
9 77 (4.59%) IBM Cloud
10 75 (4.47%) Azure Logic Apps
11 74 (4.41%) Azure API Management
12 70 (4.17%) SaaS
13 34 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
14 33 (1.97%) GitHub
15 32 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 30 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
16 30 (1.79%) Snowflake
17 28 (1.67%) OneDrive
18 26 (1.55%) PowerApps
19 25 (1.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.42%) Firewall
2 40 (2.38%) DNS
3 28 (1.67%) DHCP
4 27 (1.61%) Internet
5 21 (1.25%) SSL
5 21 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (1.13%) HTTP
6 19 (1.13%) VPN
7 17 (1.01%) Network Security
8 16 (0.95%) Broadband
9 14 (0.83%) SNMP
9 14 (0.83%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.72%) VLAN
10 12 (0.72%) Wireless
11 10 (0.60%) FTP
12 8 (0.48%) VoIP
13 6 (0.36%) Intranet
13 6 (0.36%) LAN
13 6 (0.36%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (20.62%) SQL Server
2 262 (15.61%) Power BI
3 209 (12.46%) NoSQL
4 161 (9.59%) Relational Database
5 158 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
6 122 (7.27%) MongoDB
7 95 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 95 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
8 84 (5.01%) DB2
9 82 (4.89%) Data Lake
10 80 (4.77%) MySQL
11 70 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 53 (3.16%) Oracle Database
13 49 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 47 (2.80%) Tableau
15 35 (2.09%) Oracle BI EE
16 33 (1.97%) Hadoop
16 33 (1.97%) Siebel EIM
17 26 (1.55%) Oracle Database 11g
18 25 (1.49%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 156 (9.30%) Git
2 92 (5.48%) Visual Studio
3 74 (4.41%) JIRA
4 57 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 53 (3.16%) Selenium
6 33 (1.97%) Postman
7 30 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 28 (1.67%) SoapUI
9 25 (1.49%) GitLab
9 25 (1.49%) NUnit
10 24 (1.43%) Ant
10 24 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
11 20 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
12 17 (1.01%) JMeter
12 17 (1.01%) Vagrant
13 14 (0.83%) WebDriver
14 10 (0.60%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.60%) Eclipse
14 10 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
15 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
General
1 410 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 255 (15.20%) Finance
3 194 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.36%) Retail
6 65 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 62 (3.69%) Marketing
8 59 (3.52%) Aerospace
9 56 (3.34%) Legal
10 46 (2.74%) Law
11 42 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
12 41 (2.44%) Telecoms
13 32 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.61%) Games
15 22 (1.31%) Billing
16 16 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.83%) Health Technology
18 13 (0.77%) Back Office
18 13 (0.77%) Banking
19 11 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 618 (36.83%) Developer
2 228 (13.59%) Senior
3 163 (9.71%) Analyst
4 145 (8.64%) .NET Developer
5 143 (8.52%) Senior Developer
6 118 (7.03%) Full Stack Developer
7 105 (6.26%) Support Engineer
8 101 (6.02%) Lead
8 101 (6.02%) Software Engineer
9 83 (4.95%) IT Support
10 82 (4.89%) Azure Developer
11 76 (4.53%) Software Developer
12 73 (4.35%) Applications Support
13 71 (4.23%) IT Engineer
14 63 (3.75%) Architect
14 63 (3.75%) Consultant
14 63 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
15 59 (3.52%) C# Developer
16 50 (2.98%) 3rd Line Support
17 49 (2.92%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (30.57%) .NET
2 324 (19.31%) HTML
3 285 (16.98%) CSS
4 205 (12.22%) ASP.NET
4 205 (12.22%) React
5 171 (10.19%) AngularJS
6 155 (9.24%) Web Services
7 151 (9.00%) REST
8 140 (8.34%) Node.js
9 136 (8.10%) .NET Core
10 112 (6.67%) XML
11 111 (6.62%) jQuery
12 107 (6.38%) HTML5
13 100 (5.96%) Vue
14 99 (5.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 96 (5.72%) Blazor
16 84 (5.01%) JSON
17 83 (4.95%) Entity Framework
18 81 (4.83%) ASP.NET Core
19 79 (4.71%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 108 (6.44%) Data Structures
2 92 (5.48%) Algorithms
3 79 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (4.53%) Blockchain
5 58 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (3.04%) Management Information System
7 50 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (1.85%) Replication
10 28 (1.67%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.01%) Driving Licence
13 16 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (0.89%) Mobile App
15 13 (0.77%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.77%) NHS
16 12 (0.72%) Clustering
16 12 (0.72%) CMDB
16 12 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 306 (18.24%) Windows
2 251 (14.96%) Linux
3 100 (5.96%) Android
3 100 (5.96%) Windows Server
4 80 (4.77%) Apple iOS
5 54 (3.22%) Windows 10
6 47 (2.80%) Windows 7
7 43 (2.56%) Windows 8
8 31 (1.85%) VMS
9 29 (1.73%) Unix
10 18 (1.07%) CentOS
10 18 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (1.07%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.83%) Solaris
12 6 (0.36%) AIX
13 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (26.76%) Agile
2 312 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
3 287 (17.10%) Business Intelligence
4 273 (16.27%) DevOps
5 230 (13.71%) Full Stack Development
6 209 (12.46%) Artificial Intelligence
7 202 (12.04%) MVC
8 192 (11.44%) Software Engineering
9 163 (9.71%) Test Automation
10 161 (9.59%) Computer Science
11 146 (8.70%) ETL
12 126 (7.51%) Analytics
12 126 (7.51%) User Experience
13 124 (7.39%) Actionable Insight
14 123 (7.33%) Scrum
15 121 (7.21%) Collaborative Working
15 121 (7.21%) OOP
16 118 (7.03%) OO
17 117 (6.97%) Machine Learning
18 116 (6.91%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 469 (27.95%) C#
2 455 (27.12%) JavaScript
3 317 (18.89%) Python
4 308 (18.36%) Java
5 135 (8.05%) T-SQL
6 86 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 77 (4.59%) C++
8 76 (4.53%) PL/SQL
9 51 (3.04%) PowerShell
10 45 (2.68%) Kotlin
11 40 (2.38%) PHP
12 31 (1.85%) R
13 30 (1.79%) VB.NET
14 20 (1.19%) VBA
15 19 (1.13%) RPG
16 18 (1.07%) Ruby
16 18 (1.07%) VB
17 17 (1.01%) Go
18 16 (0.95%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 307 (18.30%) Degree
2 246 (14.66%) Security Cleared
3 223 (13.29%) SC Cleared
4 95 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.50%) DBS Check
6 33 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (1.61%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 17 (1.01%) MBA
11 13 (0.77%) PhD
12 11 (0.66%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.54%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.30%) HNC
15 5 (0.30%) HND
15 5 (0.30%) MCSE
15 5 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.24%) MCSA
16 4 (0.24%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.01%) QA
2 53 (3.16%) GDPR
3 43 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.49%) SLA
5 18 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.24%) COBIT
9 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.18%) NIST
10 3 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.060%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.060%) GRC
12 1 (0.060%) IFRS
12 1 (0.060%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.060%) MISRA
12 1 (0.060%) PMO
System Software
1 148 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 91 (5.42%) Docker
3 90 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 46 (2.74%) VirtualBox
6 43 (2.56%) XenApp
6 43 (2.56%) XenDesktop
7 27 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (0.42%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 100 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.40%) Ansible
3 40 (2.38%) Terraform
4 19 (1.13%) Oracle RMAN
5 15 (0.89%) Data Guard
5 15 (0.89%) SCOM
6 5 (0.30%) Puppet
6 5 (0.30%) SCCM
7 4 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.18%) Wonderware InTouch
8 3 (0.18%) WSUS
9 2 (0.12%) Grafana
9 2 (0.12%) Podman
10 1 (0.060%) FTK
10 1 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.060%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.060%) systemd
Vendors
1 444 (26.46%) Microsoft
2 154 (9.18%) Oracle
3 112 (6.67%) VMware
4 94 (5.60%) Citrix
5 80 (4.77%) IBM
6 78 (4.65%) Red Hat
7 49 (2.92%) Databricks
8 48 (2.86%) SAP
9 41 (2.44%) Siebel
10 39 (2.32%) Veeam
11 31 (1.85%) Google
12 26 (1.55%) Sage
13 25 (1.49%) Cisco
14 18 (1.07%) Remedy
15 17 (1.01%) Salesforce
16 16 (0.95%) Xilinx
17 14 (0.83%) Sun
18 13 (0.77%) Epicor
19 12 (0.72%) Dynatrace
20 10 (0.60%) Adobe