SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12,209 16,653 28,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.22% 16.79% 17.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.76% 38.77% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 8,842 9,942 15,660
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £34,720
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £74,022
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK

SQL
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL in the UK

SQL
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for SQL in the UK

SQL
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK 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
England -2 10,093 £55,000 -8.33% 2,948
UK excluding London -4 8,069 £50,000 -4.76% 1,855
Work from Home -2 4,897 £57,500 -2.70% 1,510
London 0 3,698 £70,000 - 1,401
North of England -4 2,015 £50,000 -3.85% 466
South East -3 1,678 £50,000 -9.09% 499
Scotland +2 1,491 £55,000 -8.33% 107
Midlands -3 1,360 £47,500 -5.00% 362
North West -3 1,140 £52,500 +0.96% 253
West Midlands -4 801 £50,000 - 234
South West -9 739 £50,000 - 206
Yorkshire -7 621 £47,500 -9.52% 168
East Midlands +1 549 £45,000 -10.00% 128
East of England -8 515 £47,500 -9.52% 155
North East -1 256 £50,000 -4.76% 50
Wales -1 214 £45,000 +12.50% 52
Northern Ireland -22 57 £55,500 +11.00% 26
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £45,000 -

SQL
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
1 621 (5.09%) Apache Spark
2 401 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 279 (2.29%) Apache
3 279 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 243 (1.99%) IIS
5 175 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
6 154 (1.26%) SAS
7 129 (1.06%) CMS
8 126 (1.03%) Confluence
9 119 (0.97%) FileNet
10 51 (0.42%) WebLogic
11 44 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
12 42 (0.34%) WebSphere
13 34 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
14 29 (0.24%) Umbraco
15 28 (0.23%) Tomcat
16 27 (0.22%) Drupal
17 26 (0.21%) WordPress
18 22 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
19 21 (0.17%) Captiva
Applications
1 787 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 420 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 68 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.23%) SPSS
7 22 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.14%) Trello
9 16 (0.13%) Simulink
10 9 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
11 7 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
12 5 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.016%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.016%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.016%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.016%) InDesign
13 2 (0.016%) LaTeX
14 1 (0.008%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.008%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 164 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
4 40 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 36 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 29 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 29 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
7 27 (0.22%) thinkFolio
8 25 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 25 (0.20%) SAP Business One
9 23 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 22 (0.18%) Shopify
11 21 (0.17%) NEC Housing
12 20 (0.16%) Sage 200
12 20 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
13 18 (0.15%) Endur
14 16 (0.13%) Fidessa
15 15 (0.12%) Sage X3
15 15 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
16 14 (0.11%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4,118 (33.73%) Azure
2 2,380 (19.49%) AWS
3 2,136 (17.50%) Power Platform
4 788 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 687 (5.63%) GCP
6 653 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
7 539 (4.41%) Serverless
8 407 (3.33%) SaaS
9 390 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 301 (2.47%) GitHub
11 287 (2.35%) Snowflake
12 260 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 243 (1.99%) IBM Cloud
14 240 (1.97%) PowerApps
15 233 (1.91%) Amazon S3
16 232 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
17 228 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
18 220 (1.80%) Azure Functions
19 218 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
20 201 (1.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 329 (2.69%) Firewall
2 195 (1.60%) DNS
3 162 (1.33%) WAN
4 124 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 124 (1.02%) VPN
5 123 (1.01%) Internet
6 114 (0.93%) DHCP
7 113 (0.93%) LAN
8 91 (0.75%) SAN
9 83 (0.68%) HTTP
10 80 (0.66%) Broadband
11 72 (0.59%) Network Security
12 62 (0.51%) VLAN
13 59 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
14 51 (0.42%) SSL
15 38 (0.31%) Wireless
16 31 (0.25%) MQTT
16 31 (0.25%) SD-WAN
17 29 (0.24%) FTP
17 29 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,602 (21.31%) SQL Server
2 1,997 (16.36%) Power BI
3 1,528 (12.52%) NoSQL
4 1,065 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
5 841 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
6 825 (6.76%) Tableau
7 813 (6.66%) Relational Database
8 680 (5.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 667 (5.46%) MongoDB
10 664 (5.44%) Big Data
11 619 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 507 (4.15%) MySQL
13 500 (4.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 496 (4.06%) Data Lake
15 357 (2.92%) Hadoop
16 330 (2.70%) DB2
17 327 (2.68%) Oracle Database
18 260 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
19 226 (1.85%) BigQuery
20 180 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,069 (8.76%) Git
2 467 (3.83%) JIRA
3 417 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 382 (3.13%) Visual Studio
5 188 (1.54%) GitLab
5 188 (1.54%) JUnit
6 144 (1.18%) Selenium
7 108 (0.88%) Postman
8 92 (0.75%) Bitbucket Server
8 92 (0.75%) TeamCity
9 90 (0.74%) NUnit
10 89 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 84 (0.69%) Cucumber
12 82 (0.67%) Cypress.io
13 81 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
14 77 (0.63%) Jasmine
15 75 (0.61%) Maven
16 64 (0.52%) Mockito
17 56 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
18 50 (0.41%) Moq
General
1 3,510 (28.75%) Finance
2 3,036 (24.87%) Social Skills
3 1,688 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 1,517 (12.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,487 (12.18%) Law
6 995 (8.15%) Marketing
7 743 (6.09%) Legal
8 731 (5.99%) Retail
9 664 (5.44%) Banking
10 645 (5.28%) Public Sector
11 394 (3.23%) Manufacturing
12 320 (2.62%) Front Office
13 294 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
14 219 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
15 205 (1.68%) Games
16 203 (1.66%) Back Office
17 198 (1.62%) Financial Institution
18 178 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
19 171 (1.40%) Investment Banking
20 125 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,473 (28.45%) Developer
2 2,245 (18.39%) Senior
3 2,036 (16.68%) Analyst
4 1,573 (12.88%) Software Engineer
5 1,176 (9.63%) Lead
6 952 (7.80%) Data Engineer
7 745 (6.10%) Senior Developer
8 707 (5.79%) .NET Developer
9 631 (5.17%) Data Analyst
10 542 (4.44%) Java Engineer
11 525 (4.30%) Software Developer
12 524 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
13 502 (4.11%) Full Stack Developer
14 456 (3.73%) Applications Support
15 446 (3.65%) C# Developer
16 418 (3.42%) Full Stack Engineer
17 413 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
18 380 (3.11%) Support Analyst
19 367 (3.01%) Consultant
20 364 (2.98%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,645 (21.66%) .NET
2 1,552 (12.71%) HTML
3 1,376 (11.27%) CSS
4 1,214 (9.94%) React
5 1,142 (9.35%) AngularJS
6 1,082 (8.86%) ASP.NET
7 938 (7.68%) REST
8 746 (6.11%) Web Services
9 728 (5.96%) .NET Core
10 612 (5.01%) jQuery
11 598 (4.90%) Spring
12 562 (4.60%) .NET Framework
13 512 (4.19%) Kafka
14 510 (4.18%) JSON
15 508 (4.16%) Vue
16 489 (4.01%) XML
17 486 (3.98%) Node.js
18 434 (3.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 430 (3.52%) Entity Framework
20 399 (3.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 844 (6.91%) Algorithms
2 543 (4.45%) Data Structures
3 499 (4.09%) Cloud Native
4 376 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 374 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 338 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 297 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 273 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 270 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 267 (2.19%) Hedge funds
11 249 (2.04%) Blockchain
12 245 (2.01%) Public Cloud
13 182 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 174 (1.43%) Fixed Income
15 171 (1.40%) Derivative
15 171 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
16 161 (1.32%) Equities
17 141 (1.15%) Replication
18 140 (1.15%) Mobile App
19 126 (1.03%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,365 (11.18%) Windows
2 1,214 (9.94%) Linux
3 426 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 416 (3.41%) Unix
5 313 (2.56%) Android
6 280 (2.29%) Apple iOS
7 160 (1.31%) Windows 10
8 106 (0.87%) VMS
9 93 (0.76%) CentOS
10 78 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 78 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
11 74 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
12 72 (0.59%) Windows 7
13 62 (0.51%) Solaris
14 56 (0.46%) Ubuntu
15 45 (0.37%) Windows 8
16 37 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 24 (0.20%) AIX
18 22 (0.18%) SUSE
19 21 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,809 (31.20%) Agile
2 2,458 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
3 2,317 (18.98%) Software Engineering
4 2,217 (18.16%) Business Intelligence
5 1,752 (14.35%) Analytics
6 1,696 (13.89%) CI/CD
7 1,669 (13.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,657 (13.57%) DevOps
9 1,575 (12.90%) Visualisation
10 1,445 (11.84%) Full Stack Development
11 1,433 (11.74%) Machine Learning
12 1,424 (11.66%) SDLC
13 1,319 (10.80%) ETL
14 1,148 (9.40%) Computer Science
15 1,135 (9.30%) Mentoring
16 1,084 (8.88%) Data Modelling
17 971 (7.95%) Data Analysis
18 954 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
19 944 (7.73%) Decision-Making
20 902 (7.39%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3,248 (26.60%) Python
2 2,835 (23.22%) C#
3 2,246 (18.40%) JavaScript
4 2,137 (17.50%) Java
5 1,088 (8.91%) T-SQL
6 650 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 578 (4.73%) PL/SQL
8 463 (3.79%) PowerShell
9 403 (3.30%) Scala
10 315 (2.58%) R
11 250 (2.05%) PHP
12 244 (2.00%) C++
13 198 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 188 (1.54%) VB
15 178 (1.46%) VBA
16 165 (1.35%) VB.NET
17 159 (1.30%) Bash
18 143 (1.17%) C
19 82 (0.67%) Groovy
20 77 (0.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,234 (18.30%) Degree
2 563 (4.61%) Security Cleared
3 548 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 425 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 360 (2.95%) DBS Check
6 306 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 297 (2.43%) Master's Degree
8 121 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 120 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 82 (0.67%) PhD
11 53 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 46 (0.38%) MCSE
13 45 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
14 42 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 32 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
15 32 (0.26%) ISTQB
15 32 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
16 31 (0.25%) MBA
17 30 (0.25%) CISA
17 30 (0.25%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 540 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 405 (3.32%) QA
3 213 (1.74%) SLA
4 148 (1.21%) GDPR
5 137 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 55 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (0.38%) PMO
8 27 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (0.15%) ITGC
11 17 (0.14%) COBIT
12 16 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 16 (0.13%) NIST
13 8 (0.066%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.066%) IFRS
13 8 (0.066%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.066%) PSD2
14 7 (0.057%) MiFID
14 7 (0.057%) SOC 1
15 6 (0.049%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 601 (4.92%) Docker
2 599 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 278 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 182 (1.49%) Hyper-V
5 125 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 120 (0.98%) HDFS
7 57 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
8 53 (0.43%) XenApp
9 46 (0.38%) VirtualBox
9 46 (0.38%) XenDesktop
10 43 (0.35%) vSphere
11 36 (0.29%) Firmware
12 31 (0.25%) VMware NSX
13 23 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
14 15 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 13 (0.11%) RACF
15 13 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
16 12 (0.098%) vCloud
17 10 (0.082%) Terminal Services
18 9 (0.074%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 753 (6.17%) Kubernetes
2 484 (3.96%) Terraform
3 151 (1.24%) Ansible
4 107 (0.88%) Grafana
5 56 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
6 55 (0.45%) Data Guard
6 55 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 49 (0.40%) SCCM
8 47 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.37%) Progress Chef
10 36 (0.29%) SCOM
11 31 (0.25%) Kibana
12 29 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 29 (0.24%) WSUS
13 27 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 22 (0.18%) HAProxy
14 22 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
15 21 (0.17%) Zipkin
16 18 (0.15%) Backup Exec
16 18 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,826 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 1,368 (11.20%) Oracle
3 881 (7.22%) Databricks
4 447 (3.66%) Google
5 390 (3.19%) IBM
6 383 (3.14%) VMware
7 301 (2.47%) Red Hat
8 264 (2.16%) SAP
9 166 (1.36%) Informatica
10 151 (1.24%) Citrix
11 105 (0.86%) Cisco
12 102 (0.84%) Alteryx
13 97 (0.79%) Veeam
14 88 (0.72%) Cloudera
14 88 (0.72%) Salesforce
15 86 (0.70%) Splunk
16 84 (0.69%) Bloomberg
17 79 (0.65%) F5
18 78 (0.64%) Sage
19 68 (0.56%) Remedy