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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12,185 17,303 26,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 16.63% 17.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.80% 38.26% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8,918 10,441 15,969
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £74,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £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 33,114 45,223 82,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.75% 43.47% 53.61%
Number of salaries quoted 24,936 28,811 44,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 10,065 £55,000 -8.33% 2,586
UK excluding London -4 8,140 £50,000 -4.76% 1,540
Work from Home -2 4,834 £57,500 -2.86% 1,407
London -1 3,599 £70,000 - 1,185
North of England -4 2,033 £50,000 -4.76% 407
South East -3 1,685 £50,000 -9.09% 284
Scotland +3 1,496 £55,000 -12.00% 130
Midlands -3 1,377 £47,500 -5.00% 315
North West -2 1,153 £52,500 - 244
West Midlands -4 807 £50,000 - 182
South West -9 745 £50,000 - 187
Yorkshire -6 630 £47,500 -9.52% 117
East Midlands -1 563 £45,000 -10.00% 133
East of England -5 529 £47,500 -9.52% 168
North East 0 252 £50,000 - 51
Wales 0 216 £45,000 +12.50% 54
Northern Ireland -17 62 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Isle of Man - 4 £45,000 -
Channel Islands -2 2 - -

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 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 416 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 307 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 270 (2.22%) Apache
5 262 (2.15%) IIS
6 172 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
7 147 (1.21%) SAS
8 132 (1.08%) CMS
9 124 (1.02%) FileNet
10 117 (0.96%) Confluence
11 51 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 47 (0.39%) WebSphere
13 45 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
14 33 (0.27%) Umbraco
15 31 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
15 31 (0.25%) Tomcat
16 28 (0.23%) Captiva
16 28 (0.23%) Drupal
17 26 (0.21%) WordPress
18 21 (0.17%) GemFire
Applications
1 787 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 425 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 70 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.22%) SPSS
7 22 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.14%) Trello
9 10 (0.082%) 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 3 (0.025%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.025%) InDesign
14 2 (0.016%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.016%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.016%) LaTeX
15 1 (0.008%) Mathematica
15 1 (0.008%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 182 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 38 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
5 35 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 31 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 27 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
8 25 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 25 (0.21%) SAP Business One
9 24 (0.20%) Elite 3E
9 24 (0.20%) thinkFolio
10 22 (0.18%) Shopify
11 21 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 21 (0.17%) Sage 200
11 21 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
12 16 (0.13%) Endur
12 16 (0.13%) Fidessa
12 16 (0.13%) Sage X3
13 15 (0.12%) Magento
14 14 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 4,111 (33.74%) Azure
2 2,333 (19.15%) AWS
3 2,136 (17.53%) Power Platform
4 808 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
5 701 (5.75%) GCP
6 677 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 549 (4.51%) Serverless
8 423 (3.47%) SaaS
9 400 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 310 (2.54%) GitHub
11 293 (2.40%) Snowflake
12 254 (2.08%) PowerApps
13 243 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 243 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
14 231 (1.90%) Amazon S3
15 229 (1.88%) IBM Cloud
16 228 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
17 226 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
18 224 (1.84%) Azure Functions
19 204 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 352 (2.89%) Firewall
2 202 (1.66%) WAN
3 196 (1.61%) DNS
4 139 (1.14%) LAN
4 139 (1.14%) VPN
5 128 (1.05%) Internet
6 123 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 118 (0.97%) DHCP
8 98 (0.80%) SAN
9 85 (0.70%) HTTP
10 80 (0.66%) Broadband
11 75 (0.62%) Network Security
12 68 (0.56%) VLAN
13 59 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
14 51 (0.42%) SSL
15 42 (0.34%) Wireless
16 36 (0.30%) VoIP
17 31 (0.25%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.25%) MQTT
18 30 (0.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,656 (21.80%) SQL Server
2 1,987 (16.31%) Power BI
3 1,496 (12.28%) NoSQL
4 1,045 (8.58%) Data Warehouse
5 822 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
6 809 (6.64%) Relational Database
7 756 (6.20%) Tableau
8 690 (5.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 656 (5.38%) Big Data
10 648 (5.32%) MongoDB
11 610 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 521 (4.28%) MySQL
13 490 (4.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 483 (3.96%) Data Lake
15 352 (2.89%) Hadoop
16 340 (2.79%) Oracle Database
17 318 (2.61%) DB2
18 262 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
19 236 (1.94%) BigQuery
20 179 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,000 (8.21%) Git
2 472 (3.87%) JIRA
3 429 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 380 (3.12%) Visual Studio
5 189 (1.55%) JUnit
6 181 (1.49%) GitLab
7 150 (1.23%) Selenium
8 111 (0.91%) Postman
9 97 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
10 94 (0.77%) TeamCity
11 89 (0.73%) NUnit
11 89 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 86 (0.71%) Cucumber
13 83 (0.68%) Maven
14 82 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
15 80 (0.66%) Cypress.io
16 77 (0.63%) Jasmine
17 66 (0.54%) Mockito
18 60 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
19 57 (0.47%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,468 (28.46%) Finance
2 2,944 (24.16%) Social Skills
3 1,625 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 1,496 (12.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,480 (12.15%) Law
6 992 (8.14%) Marketing
7 734 (6.02%) Legal
8 703 (5.77%) Retail
9 658 (5.40%) Banking
10 638 (5.24%) Public Sector
11 397 (3.26%) Manufacturing
12 284 (2.33%) Front Office
13 258 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
14 210 (1.72%) Games
15 207 (1.70%) Financial Institution
16 206 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
17 196 (1.61%) Back Office
18 179 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
19 173 (1.42%) Investment Banking
20 125 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,510 (28.81%) Developer
2 2,188 (17.96%) Senior
3 1,967 (16.14%) Analyst
4 1,537 (12.61%) Software Engineer
5 1,177 (9.66%) Lead
6 952 (7.81%) Data Engineer
7 760 (6.24%) Senior Developer
8 714 (5.86%) .NET Developer
9 584 (4.79%) Data Analyst
10 541 (4.44%) Software Developer
11 533 (4.37%) Java Engineer
12 516 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
13 493 (4.05%) Full Stack Developer
14 448 (3.68%) Applications Support
15 440 (3.61%) C# Developer
16 405 (3.32%) Full Stack Engineer
17 390 (3.20%) Support Analyst
18 370 (3.04%) Consultant
19 369 (3.03%) DBA
20 361 (2.96%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,626 (21.55%) .NET
2 1,572 (12.90%) HTML
3 1,387 (11.38%) CSS
4 1,218 (10.00%) React
5 1,150 (9.44%) AngularJS
6 1,067 (8.76%) ASP.NET
7 932 (7.65%) REST
8 732 (6.01%) Web Services
9 726 (5.96%) .NET Core
10 605 (4.97%) Spring
11 595 (4.88%) jQuery
12 558 (4.58%) .NET Framework
13 518 (4.25%) JSON
13 518 (4.25%) XML
14 508 (4.17%) Kafka
15 506 (4.15%) Vue
16 482 (3.96%) Node.js
17 423 (3.47%) Entity Framework
18 413 (3.39%) RESTful
19 412 (3.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 808 (6.63%) Algorithms
2 530 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 489 (4.01%) Cloud Native
4 385 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 378 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
6 324 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 285 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 265 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 258 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 255 (2.09%) Public Cloud
11 235 (1.93%) Hedge funds
12 232 (1.90%) Blockchain
13 176 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 171 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
15 155 (1.27%) Derivative
16 152 (1.25%) Fixed Income
17 142 (1.17%) Replication
18 141 (1.16%) Clustering
18 141 (1.16%) Mobile App
19 139 (1.14%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1,360 (11.16%) Windows
2 1,193 (9.79%) Linux
3 437 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 423 (3.47%) Unix
5 297 (2.44%) Android
6 271 (2.22%) Apple iOS
7 162 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 103 (0.85%) VMS
9 84 (0.69%) CentOS
9 84 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 81 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
11 76 (0.62%) Windows 7
11 76 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
12 63 (0.52%) Solaris
13 51 (0.42%) Ubuntu
14 49 (0.40%) Windows 8
15 33 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 25 (0.21%) AIX
16 25 (0.21%) SUSE
17 21 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,798 (31.17%) Agile
2 2,393 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
3 2,259 (18.54%) Software Engineering
4 2,226 (18.27%) Business Intelligence
5 1,729 (14.19%) CI/CD
6 1,703 (13.98%) DevOps
7 1,700 (13.95%) Analytics
8 1,638 (13.44%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,510 (12.39%) Visualisation
10 1,426 (11.70%) Full Stack Development
11 1,420 (11.65%) SDLC
12 1,409 (11.56%) Machine Learning
13 1,355 (11.12%) ETL
14 1,137 (9.33%) Mentoring
15 1,108 (9.09%) Computer Science
16 1,083 (8.89%) Data Modelling
17 949 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 927 (7.61%) Data Analysis
19 905 (7.43%) Decision-Making
20 898 (7.37%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3,171 (26.02%) Python
2 2,834 (23.26%) C#
3 2,269 (18.62%) JavaScript
4 2,102 (17.25%) Java
5 1,105 (9.07%) T-SQL
6 656 (5.38%) TypeScript
7 599 (4.92%) PL/SQL
8 470 (3.86%) PowerShell
9 413 (3.39%) Scala
10 307 (2.52%) R
11 286 (2.35%) PHP
12 231 (1.90%) C++
13 209 (1.72%) VB
14 188 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 173 (1.42%) Bash
16 170 (1.40%) VBA
17 159 (1.30%) VB.NET
18 144 (1.18%) C
19 81 (0.66%) Groovy
20 73 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,154 (17.68%) Degree
2 541 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 540 (4.43%) Security Cleared
4 407 (3.34%) SC Cleared
5 303 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 290 (2.38%) DBS Check
7 271 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 116 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 113 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 78 (0.64%) PhD
11 52 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 49 (0.40%) MCSE
13 44 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 41 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
15 40 (0.33%) AWS Certification
16 36 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
17 34 (0.28%) CCNA
18 33 (0.27%) CISA
18 33 (0.27%) MCSA
19 31 (0.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 533 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 408 (3.35%) QA
3 209 (1.72%) SLA
4 154 (1.26%) GDPR
5 138 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 55 (0.45%) PMO
7 54 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 19 (0.16%) ITGC
10 17 (0.14%) COBIT
11 14 (0.11%) NIST
12 13 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.074%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.066%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.066%) IFRS
14 8 (0.066%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.066%) PSD2
15 7 (0.057%) GMP
15 7 (0.057%) SOC 1
System Software
1 634 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 621 (5.10%) Docker
3 307 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 190 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 125 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 120 (0.98%) HDFS
7 60 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
8 55 (0.45%) XenApp
9 50 (0.41%) VirtualBox
10 48 (0.39%) XenDesktop
11 47 (0.39%) vSphere
12 44 (0.36%) VMware NSX
13 35 (0.29%) Firmware
14 23 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
15 18 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
16 15 (0.12%) vCloud
17 13 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
18 12 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
19 10 (0.082%) Terminal Services
20 9 (0.074%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 760 (6.24%) Kubernetes
2 473 (3.88%) Terraform
3 139 (1.14%) Ansible
4 110 (0.90%) Grafana
5 61 (0.50%) SCCM
6 58 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
7 57 (0.47%) Data Guard
8 56 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 51 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 39 (0.32%) SCOM
12 32 (0.26%) Kibana
13 28 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 27 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 27 (0.22%) WSUS
15 24 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
16 22 (0.18%) HAProxy
17 21 (0.17%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
19 18 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,854 (23.42%) Microsoft
2 1,384 (11.36%) Oracle
3 807 (6.62%) Databricks
4 434 (3.56%) Google
5 420 (3.45%) VMware
6 388 (3.18%) IBM
7 285 (2.34%) Red Hat
8 271 (2.22%) SAP
9 169 (1.39%) Informatica
10 158 (1.30%) Citrix
11 124 (1.02%) Cisco
12 106 (0.87%) Alteryx
13 96 (0.79%) Veeam
14 92 (0.76%) Splunk
15 89 (0.73%) Cloudera
15 89 (0.73%) Salesforce
16 82 (0.67%) F5
17 80 (0.66%) Sage
18 71 (0.58%) Bloomberg
19 70 (0.57%) Remedy