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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12,180 16,957 27,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.30% 16.75% 17.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.79% 38.77% 32.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,854 10,126 15,740
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
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 £73,750
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 33,111 43,735 85,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.44% 43.20% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,988 43,700
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £106,417 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.77% +6.00%

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 13 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 13 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 10,065 £55,000 -8.33% 2,756
UK excluding London -4 8,061 £50,000 -4.76% 1,648
Work from Home -2 4,869 £57,500 -2.70% 1,493
London 0 3,674 £70,000 - 1,217
North of England -4 2,016 £50,000 -3.85% 419
South East -3 1,679 £50,000 -9.09% 322
Scotland +2 1,495 £55,000 -8.33% 111
Midlands -3 1,347 £47,500 -5.00% 372
North West -3 1,143 £52,500 +1.87% 224
West Midlands -4 798 £50,000 - 230
South West -11 735 £50,000 - 207
Yorkshire -6 622 £47,500 -9.52% 154
East Midlands -2 540 £45,000 -9.51% 142
East of England -8 519 £47,500 -9.52% 159
North East -1 253 £50,000 -4.76% 43
Wales 0 213 £45,000 +12.50% 51
Northern Ireland -22 57 £55,000 +10.00% 29
Channel Islands -1 3 £67,500 +92.86% 1
Isle of Man - 2 £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
1 622 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 403 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 282 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 275 (2.26%) Apache
5 250 (2.05%) IIS
6 179 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 153 (1.26%) SAS
8 130 (1.07%) CMS
9 126 (1.03%) FileNet
10 121 (0.99%) Confluence
11 50 (0.41%) WebLogic
12 48 (0.39%) WebSphere
13 44 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
14 32 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
15 31 (0.25%) Umbraco
16 28 (0.23%) Captiva
16 28 (0.23%) Drupal
16 28 (0.23%) Tomcat
17 26 (0.21%) WordPress
18 21 (0.17%) GemFire
Applications
1 787 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 421 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 69 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 28 (0.23%) SPSS
7 21 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.14%) Trello
9 14 (0.11%) 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
1 168 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 40 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
4 36 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 29 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 27 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
7 26 (0.21%) thinkFolio
8 25 (0.21%) SAP Business One
9 24 (0.20%) Elite 3E
10 22 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 22 (0.18%) NetSuite
11 21 (0.17%) Shopify
12 20 (0.16%) Sage 200
12 20 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
13 18 (0.15%) Endur
14 16 (0.13%) Fidessa
14 16 (0.13%) Sage X3
15 15 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
16 14 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 4,113 (33.77%) Azure
2 2,372 (19.47%) AWS
3 2,120 (17.41%) Power Platform
4 793 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
5 700 (5.75%) GCP
6 661 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
7 543 (4.46%) Serverless
8 414 (3.40%) SaaS
9 394 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 312 (2.56%) GitHub
11 288 (2.36%) Snowflake
12 253 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 243 (2.00%) IBM Cloud
14 241 (1.98%) PowerApps
15 236 (1.94%) Amazon S3
16 234 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
17 228 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
18 222 (1.82%) Azure Functions
19 220 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
20 201 (1.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 338 (2.78%) Firewall
2 199 (1.63%) DNS
3 170 (1.40%) WAN
4 130 (1.07%) VPN
5 127 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 123 (1.01%) Internet
7 117 (0.96%) DHCP
8 115 (0.94%) LAN
9 91 (0.75%) SAN
10 82 (0.67%) HTTP
11 80 (0.66%) Broadband
12 73 (0.60%) Network Security
13 64 (0.53%) VLAN
14 59 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
15 51 (0.42%) SSL
16 42 (0.34%) Wireless
17 32 (0.26%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.25%) MQTT
18 30 (0.25%) VoIP
19 29 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,601 (21.35%) SQL Server
2 1,979 (16.25%) Power BI
3 1,523 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1,059 (8.69%) Data Warehouse
5 839 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
6 817 (6.71%) Relational Database
7 809 (6.64%) Tableau
8 677 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 665 (5.46%) Big Data
10 663 (5.44%) MongoDB
11 618 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 511 (4.20%) MySQL
13 495 (4.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 490 (4.02%) Data Lake
15 356 (2.92%) Hadoop
16 330 (2.71%) DB2
16 330 (2.71%) Oracle Database
17 265 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
18 226 (1.86%) BigQuery
19 179 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,043 (8.56%) Git
2 470 (3.86%) JIRA
3 418 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 379 (3.11%) Visual Studio
5 189 (1.55%) JUnit
6 184 (1.51%) GitLab
7 149 (1.22%) Selenium
8 107 (0.88%) Postman
9 95 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
10 91 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 90 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 88 (0.72%) NUnit
13 86 (0.71%) Cucumber
14 84 (0.69%) Cypress.io
15 77 (0.63%) Jasmine
15 77 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
16 76 (0.62%) Maven
17 65 (0.53%) Mockito
18 63 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
19 51 (0.42%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,490 (28.65%) Finance
2 2,996 (24.60%) Social Skills
3 1,662 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 1,512 (12.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,485 (12.19%) Law
6 991 (8.14%) Marketing
7 732 (6.01%) Legal
8 724 (5.94%) Retail
9 658 (5.40%) Banking
10 649 (5.33%) Public Sector
11 398 (3.27%) Manufacturing
12 310 (2.55%) Front Office
13 283 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
14 217 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
15 207 (1.70%) Games
16 202 (1.66%) Financial Institution
17 201 (1.65%) Back Office
18 179 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
19 168 (1.38%) Investment Banking
20 125 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,458 (28.39%) Developer
2 2,218 (18.21%) Senior
3 2,015 (16.54%) Analyst
4 1,574 (12.92%) Software Engineer
5 1,179 (9.68%) Lead
6 953 (7.82%) Data Engineer
7 743 (6.10%) Senior Developer
8 704 (5.78%) .NET Developer
9 621 (5.10%) Data Analyst
10 541 (4.44%) Java Engineer
11 523 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
12 522 (4.29%) Software Developer
13 496 (4.07%) Full Stack Developer
14 456 (3.74%) Applications Support
15 440 (3.61%) C# Developer
16 419 (3.44%) Full Stack Engineer
17 393 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
18 385 (3.16%) Support Analyst
19 364 (2.99%) Consultant
20 363 (2.98%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,642 (21.69%) .NET
2 1,551 (12.73%) HTML
3 1,370 (11.25%) CSS
4 1,215 (9.98%) React
5 1,138 (9.34%) AngularJS
6 1,080 (8.87%) ASP.NET
7 938 (7.70%) REST
8 750 (6.16%) Web Services
9 730 (5.99%) .NET Core
10 607 (4.98%) jQuery
11 601 (4.93%) Spring
12 560 (4.60%) .NET Framework
13 513 (4.21%) Kafka
14 512 (4.20%) JSON
15 510 (4.19%) Vue
16 489 (4.01%) XML
17 478 (3.92%) Node.js
18 431 (3.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 427 (3.51%) Entity Framework
20 405 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 836 (6.86%) Algorithms
2 546 (4.48%) Data Structures
3 499 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 375 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 359 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 332 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 292 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 273 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 266 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
10 258 (2.12%) Hedge funds
11 249 (2.04%) Blockchain
12 248 (2.04%) Public Cloud
13 178 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 169 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
15 168 (1.38%) Fixed Income
16 165 (1.35%) Derivative
17 156 (1.28%) Equities
18 141 (1.16%) Replication
19 138 (1.13%) Mobile App
20 130 (1.07%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,364 (11.20%) Windows
2 1,220 (10.02%) Linux
3 424 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 422 (3.46%) Unix
5 313 (2.57%) Android
6 281 (2.31%) Apple iOS
7 161 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 106 (0.87%) VMS
9 89 (0.73%) CentOS
10 77 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 76 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
12 74 (0.61%) Windows 7
13 71 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
14 62 (0.51%) Solaris
15 55 (0.45%) Ubuntu
16 47 (0.39%) Windows 8
17 37 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 25 (0.21%) AIX
19 23 (0.19%) SUSE
20 21 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,806 (31.25%) Agile
2 2,427 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
3 2,315 (19.01%) Software Engineering
4 2,216 (18.19%) Business Intelligence
5 1,733 (14.23%) Analytics
6 1,707 (14.01%) CI/CD
7 1,669 (13.70%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,658 (13.61%) DevOps
9 1,558 (12.79%) Visualisation
10 1,433 (11.77%) Machine Learning
11 1,431 (11.75%) Full Stack Development
12 1,418 (11.64%) SDLC
13 1,324 (10.87%) ETL
14 1,137 (9.33%) Mentoring
15 1,129 (9.27%) Computer Science
16 1,086 (8.92%) Data Modelling
17 966 (7.93%) Data Analysis
18 952 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
19 930 (7.64%) Decision-Making
20 902 (7.41%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3,220 (26.44%) Python
2 2,838 (23.30%) C#
3 2,242 (18.41%) JavaScript
4 2,135 (17.53%) Java
5 1,087 (8.92%) T-SQL
6 657 (5.39%) TypeScript
7 584 (4.79%) PL/SQL
8 451 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 408 (3.35%) Scala
10 314 (2.58%) R
11 252 (2.07%) PHP
12 235 (1.93%) C++
13 188 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 187 (1.54%) VB
15 176 (1.44%) VBA
16 164 (1.35%) VB.NET
17 154 (1.26%) Bash
18 143 (1.17%) C
19 81 (0.67%) Groovy
20 74 (0.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,196 (18.03%) Degree
2 556 (4.56%) Security Cleared
3 541 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 420 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 342 (2.81%) DBS Check
6 303 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 289 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 120 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 117 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 82 (0.67%) PhD
11 53 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 46 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
13 45 (0.37%) MCSE
14 42 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 31 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 31 (0.25%) ISTQB
15 31 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 31 (0.25%) MBA
16 30 (0.25%) CISA
16 30 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 536 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 404 (3.32%) QA
3 210 (1.72%) SLA
4 154 (1.26%) GDPR
5 133 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 55 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (0.38%) PMO
8 26 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 18 (0.15%) ITGC
10 17 (0.14%) COBIT
11 16 (0.13%) NIST
12 14 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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%) GMP
14 7 (0.057%) MiFID
14 7 (0.057%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 609 (5.00%) Docker
2 599 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 285 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 183 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 126 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 120 (0.99%) HDFS
7 57 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
8 55 (0.45%) XenApp
9 48 (0.39%) VirtualBox
9 48 (0.39%) XenDesktop
10 44 (0.36%) vSphere
11 35 (0.29%) Firmware
12 34 (0.28%) VMware NSX
13 23 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
14 16 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
15 13 (0.11%) vCloud
15 13 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
16 10 (0.082%) Terminal Services
17 9 (0.074%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.074%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 761 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 478 (3.92%) Terraform
3 147 (1.21%) Ansible
4 109 (0.89%) Grafana
5 56 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 55 (0.45%) Data Guard
6 55 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
7 52 (0.43%) SCCM
8 49 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.37%) Progress Chef
10 37 (0.30%) SCOM
11 31 (0.25%) Kibana
12 29 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 27 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
13 27 (0.22%) WSUS
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 2,818 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 1,379 (11.32%) Oracle
3 862 (7.08%) Databricks
4 445 (3.65%) Google
5 398 (3.27%) IBM
6 393 (3.23%) VMware
7 300 (2.46%) Red Hat
8 270 (2.22%) SAP
9 164 (1.35%) Informatica
10 153 (1.26%) Citrix
11 107 (0.88%) Cisco
12 103 (0.85%) Alteryx
13 98 (0.80%) Veeam
14 90 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 89 (0.73%) Splunk
16 88 (0.72%) Cloudera
17 81 (0.67%) Bloomberg
18 79 (0.65%) F5
19 78 (0.64%) Sage
20 69 (0.57%) Remedy