SQL Developer Jobs

SQL Developer
UK

The median SQL Developer salary in the UK is £54,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 627 545 571
Rank change year-on-year -82 +26 -234
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Developer 295 454 945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.48% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.53% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 249 415 801
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,647 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £89,852 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -84 269 £55,000 -4.35% 47
UK excluding London -59 190 £50,000 - 30
Work from Home -73 144 £57,500 - 21
London -4 85 £65,000 -7.14% 17
North of England +25 61 £47,500 -5.00% 4
South East -29 44 £55,000 +4.76% 11
Midlands -2 43 £47,500 -5.00% 9
North West -12 40 £45,000 -2.17% 2
East Midlands +2 23 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Yorkshire +63 20 £55,000 -12.00% 2
West Midlands -23 20 £45,000 -10.00% 8
East of England -8 18 £32,500 -45.83% 2
Scotland -58 10 £54,000 +20.00% 3
Wales +15 7 £30,000 -47.83%
South West -38 7 £55,000 +22.22% 1
North East -10 1 - -

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 293 (99.32%) SQL
2 138 (46.78%) SQL Server
3 136 (46.10%) C#
4 110 (37.29%) Azure
5 109 (36.95%) .NET
6 86 (29.15%) T-SQL
7 77 (26.10%) Business Intelligence
7 77 (26.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 72 (24.41%) Microsoft
9 67 (22.71%) Agile
10 58 (19.66%) Power BI
10 58 (19.66%) Power Platform
11 56 (18.98%) ETL
12 51 (17.29%) Social Skills
13 43 (14.58%) Finance
14 42 (14.24%) Data Warehouse
14 42 (14.24%) Full Stack Development
14 42 (14.24%) AngularJS
15 41 (13.90%) .NET Core
15 41 (13.90%) JavaScript
16 36 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (11.53%) ERP
18 33 (11.19%) ASP.NET
19 31 (10.51%) .NET Framework
20 30 (10.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 30 (10.17%) HTML
21 29 (9.83%) AWS
22 28 (9.49%) Back Office
23 26 (8.81%) MVC
23 26 (8.81%) Java

SQL Developer Skill Set
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 4 (1.36%) Apache
1 4 (1.36%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.02%) IIS
3 2 (0.68%) CMS
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 110 (37.29%) Azure
2 58 (19.66%) Power Platform
3 29 (9.83%) AWS
4 15 (5.08%) SaaS
5 11 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.69%) GCP
8 4 (1.36%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.68%) dbt
10 2 (0.68%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.34%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.34%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.34%) GitHub
11 1 (0.34%) IaaS
11 1 (0.34%) PaaS
11 1 (0.34%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) Network Security
2 1 (0.34%) FTP
2 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (46.78%) SQL Server
2 77 (26.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 58 (19.66%) Power BI
4 42 (14.24%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (10.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (7.46%) NoSQL
7 21 (7.12%) Relational Database
8 20 (6.78%) Data Lake
9 16 (5.42%) OLTP
9 16 (5.42%) Tableau
10 14 (4.75%) MS Access
11 12 (4.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 8 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (2.03%) MongoDB
13 6 (2.03%) OLAP
14 4 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.36%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (1.36%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.36%) Redis
15 2 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 20 (6.78%) Visual Studio
2 17 (5.76%) Git
3 10 (3.39%) JIRA
4 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.36%) Maven
4 4 (1.36%) Subversion
4 4 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.34%) GCC
5 1 (0.34%) GDB
5 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 51 (17.29%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.58%) Finance
3 28 (9.49%) Back Office
4 22 (7.46%) Law
5 20 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.41%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.41%) Retail
7 12 (4.07%) Legal
7 12 (4.07%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.39%) Billing
9 8 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.37%) Banking
11 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.03%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.69%) Marketing
13 4 (1.36%) Automotive
14 3 (1.02%) Front Office
14 3 (1.02%) Games
14 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.68%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (36.95%) .NET
2 42 (14.24%) AngularJS
3 41 (13.90%) .NET Core
4 33 (11.19%) ASP.NET
5 31 (10.51%) .NET Framework
6 30 (10.17%) HTML
7 23 (7.80%) CSS
8 17 (5.76%) ASP.NET Web API
9 16 (5.42%) Entity Framework
9 16 (5.42%) Web Services
10 15 (5.08%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (3.39%) React
11 10 (3.39%) WPF
12 8 (2.71%) jQuery
12 8 (2.71%) Node.js
12 8 (2.71%) XSL
13 7 (2.37%) Angular 2
13 7 (2.37%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (2.37%) GraphQL
14 6 (2.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.75%) Hedge funds
2 13 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.71%) Client/Server
5 8 (2.71%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.37%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.03%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.69%) Replication
8 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.68%) Molecular Biology
11 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.34%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.34%) Mobile Computing
11 1 (0.34%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.37%) Linux
2 5 (1.69%) Windows
3 3 (1.02%) Android
3 3 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (26.10%) Business Intelligence
2 67 (22.71%) Agile
3 56 (18.98%) ETL
4 42 (14.24%) Full Stack Development
5 36 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (11.53%) ERP
7 26 (8.81%) MVC
7 26 (8.81%) Performance Tuning
8 24 (8.14%) Analytics
8 24 (8.14%) Data Modelling
9 22 (7.46%) DevOps
10 20 (6.78%) ETL Development
11 17 (5.76%) CRM
12 16 (5.42%) Data Engineering
12 16 (5.42%) Software Engineering
13 15 (5.08%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (5.08%) Mentoring
13 15 (5.08%) TDD
14 14 (4.75%) SDLC
15 13 (4.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 293 (99.32%) SQL
2 136 (46.10%) C#
3 86 (29.15%) T-SQL
4 41 (13.90%) JavaScript
5 26 (8.81%) Java
6 22 (7.46%) PL/SQL
7 17 (5.76%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.07%) Python
9 10 (3.39%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.69%) C++
10 5 (1.69%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.02%) Bicep
11 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.02%) VB
11 3 (1.02%) VBA
12 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.68%) VBScript
13 1 (0.34%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) R
13 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (4.75%) DBS Check
2 13 (4.41%) Degree
3 7 (2.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.37%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.02%) MCSD
6 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.68%) PhD
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.39%) QA
3 3 (1.02%) SLA
4 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (2.37%) Docker
2 4 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 72 (24.41%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.44%) Oracle
3 4 (1.36%) SAP
4 3 (1.02%) BT
5 2 (0.68%) Google
5 2 (0.68%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.34%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.34%) VMware