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SQL in internship postings

From the 12,147 open internship postings we track that have a description · as of Nov 6, 2026

Postings that ask for it7.2%880 postings (920 requisitions) of 12,147 postings with a description
Remote4.5%40 of the 880 SQL postings
Median pay with it+20.4%$32.50/h (N=339) vs $27.00/h for all postings with pay (N=4545)

How to read this: this compares pay in postings that ask for the skill with pay in all postings. It mostly shows which kinds of jobs ask for it — not what the skill alone does to your pay.

Fields that ask for it
Share of the 880 SQL postings in each field. A posting can be in several fields, or none.
  1. Data Science35.8% (315 of 880)
  2. Business25.1% (221 of 880)
  3. Computer Science23% (202 of 880)
  4. Finance9.9% (87 of 880)
  5. Engineering5.9% (52 of 880)
  6. Product & Design1.7% (15 of 880)
Employers asking for it most
Postings per employer, out of the 880 SQL postings.
  1. Hewlett Packard (HP)2% (18 of 880)
  2. CIBC1.9% (17 of 880)
  3. United Parcel Service (UPS)1.4% (12 of 880)
  4. Micron Technology1.2% (11 of 880)
  5. SOTI1.2% (11 of 880)
  6. Nissan Global1.2% (11 of 880)
  7. Coinbase1.1% (10 of 880)
  8. Rocket Lab USA1% (9 of 880)
Learned SQL? Add one of these next
The skills SQL postings most often ask for alongside it: the share of SQL postings that also name each one.
  1. Python71.9% (633 of 880)
  2. Excel39% (343 of 880)
  3. Power BI32.8% (289 of 880)
  4. Tableau24.3% (214 of 880)
  5. Java18.5% (163 of 880)
How to build it
Free resources, one project and a resume bullet to adapt. Time spans are rough estimates.

Project: Answer questions with a public dataset

about 2 weeks part time (estimate)

Load a public dataset (city open data, a sports archive) into PostgreSQL or SQLite and write 10 queries that answer real questions, using joins, GROUP BY and window functions.

Sample resume bullet

Wrote SQL queries over [N] rows of [dataset] to answer [question], surfacing [finding] used in [decision].

Replace every [bracket] with your real numbers; never invent them.

Open postings that ask for SQL
The newest ones, still open when these numbers were computed.
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How these numbers are made

Counting unit: a posting is one role. Repeat requisitions from the same employer with the same title and the same location (city, state or province, country, and remote or not) count once, using the newest one. Counted over open, de-duplicated postings with a description (12,147), once per posting; the 880 SQL postings stand for 920 requisitions. Every share, median and pairing below uses postings, not requisitions. A posting counts as asking for SQL when its description matches: word, any case; not inside PostgreSQL/MySQL/NoSQL. A skill is never counted for its own employer's postings. Shares show their N and denominator: 7.2% (880 of 12,147).

Pay compares hourly US-dollar pay (weekly, monthly and yearly pay converted, ranges at their midpoint), only for postings that publish it: 339 SQL postings against 4545 postings overall. Medians, not averages.