SQL Server Jobs

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 55 49
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 -21
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,076 5,146 11,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.82% 5.43% 6.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.55% 25.36% 23.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,412 4,079 7,127
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,647 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,415 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.16% +8.42% +5.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,423 20,288 47,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.50% 21.40% 28.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12,549 12,963 20,973
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +16 4,658 £55,000 -2.65% 1,029
UK excluding London +13 3,698 £51,415 -0.16% 708
Work from Home +19 2,668 £55,000 -1.79% 604
London -4 1,220 £66,000 -4.10% 361
North of England +36 971 £50,000 - 207
South East +10 873 £55,000 - 127
Midlands +24 739 £50,000 - 172
North West +38 553 £50,000 - 110
West Midlands +16 474 £52,500 +5.00% 111
South West +8 418 £52,500 +5.00% 77
East of England +24 406 £47,500 -12.04% 70
Yorkshire +30 302 £50,000 - 66
East Midlands +32 265 £47,500 - 61
Scotland -42 187 £52,500 +10.53% 45
North East +36 116 £47,500 - 33
Wales +16 79 £50,000 +16.28% 12
Northern Ireland -8 30 £50,000 - 15

SQL Server
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
1 276 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 243 (4.79%) IIS
3 224 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 126 (2.48%) CMS
5 62 (1.22%) Apache
6 52 (1.02%) Umbraco
7 42 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.45%) Confluence
9 22 (0.43%) WordPress
10 21 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
11 20 (0.39%) WebSphere
12 19 (0.37%) Tomcat
13 16 (0.32%) EPiServer
14 15 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 15 (0.30%) ArcGIS
14 15 (0.30%) JBoss
15 13 (0.26%) Kentico
15 13 (0.26%) SAS
16 12 (0.24%) WebLogic
17 10 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 205 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.45%) Photoshop
4 17 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.059%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.059%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.059%) SPSS
9 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 112 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (0.85%) Endur
3 41 (0.81%) NEC Housing
4 36 (0.71%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
6 17 (0.33%) Fidessa
7 14 (0.28%) Elite 3E
8 13 (0.26%) Sage 200
9 12 (0.24%) PlanetPress Connect
10 11 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
10 11 (0.22%) SAP Business One
10 11 (0.22%) Shopify
11 10 (0.20%) Maximo
12 9 (0.18%) Epicor Tropos
12 9 (0.18%) Sage X3
13 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
14 7 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
14 7 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
15 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
15 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2,879 (56.72%) Azure
2 816 (16.08%) AWS
3 812 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 583 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
5 386 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
6 204 (4.02%) SaaS
7 164 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 145 (2.86%) GCP
9 112 (2.21%) Serverless
10 109 (2.15%) PowerApps
11 106 (2.09%) PaaS
12 105 (2.07%) GitHub
13 98 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 96 (1.89%) Power Automate
15 95 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 93 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
17 92 (1.81%) Entra ID
17 92 (1.81%) Snowflake
18 86 (1.69%) IaaS
19 72 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 255 (5.02%) Firewall
2 208 (4.10%) DNS
3 164 (3.23%) Internet
4 117 (2.30%) SAN
5 115 (2.27%) WAN
6 102 (2.01%) DHCP
7 100 (1.97%) TCP/IP
8 89 (1.75%) Broadband
8 89 (1.75%) VPN
9 70 (1.38%) LAN
10 48 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
11 45 (0.89%) VoIP
12 41 (0.81%) HTTP
13 39 (0.77%) SSL
14 30 (0.59%) NAS
14 30 (0.59%) Wireless
15 29 (0.57%) Network Security
16 22 (0.43%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.41%) VLAN
18 17 (0.33%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 751 (14.80%) Power BI
2 559 (11.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 462 (9.10%) Data Warehouse
4 422 (8.31%) Relational Database
5 410 (8.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 390 (7.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 337 (6.64%) MongoDB
8 307 (6.05%) MySQL
9 297 (5.85%) Elasticsearch
10 266 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
11 195 (3.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 178 (3.51%) Data Lake
13 153 (3.01%) NoSQL
14 123 (2.42%) Oracle Database
15 110 (2.17%) RDBMS
16 93 (1.83%) Tableau
17 78 (1.54%) DB2
18 68 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
19 62 (1.22%) MS Access
20 59 (1.16%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 481 (9.48%) Git
2 291 (5.73%) Visual Studio
3 226 (4.45%) JIRA
4 98 (1.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 88 (1.73%) NUnit
6 73 (1.44%) Moq
7 72 (1.42%) GitLab
8 66 (1.30%) TeamCity
9 63 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 58 (1.14%) Jenkins
11 52 (1.02%) Jasmine
12 41 (0.81%) Karma Test Runner
13 37 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
14 35 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
15 34 (0.67%) Selenium
16 33 (0.65%) SpecFlow
17 31 (0.61%) MSTest
18 29 (0.57%) Postman
19 25 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
20 23 (0.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,262 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 880 (17.34%) Finance
3 453 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (5.46%) Retail
5 200 (3.94%) Marketing
5 200 (3.94%) Public Sector
6 176 (3.47%) Law
7 165 (3.25%) Manufacturing
8 149 (2.94%) Games
9 138 (2.72%) Banking
10 137 (2.70%) Legal
11 125 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 97 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 91 (1.79%) Back Office
14 83 (1.64%) Local Government
15 81 (1.60%) Advertising
16 47 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
16 47 (0.93%) Police
17 46 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 43 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,489 (49.03%) Developer
2 1,233 (24.29%) .NET Developer
3 710 (13.99%) Senior
4 678 (13.36%) C# Developer
5 448 (8.83%) C# .NET Developer
6 388 (7.64%) Software Developer
7 378 (7.45%) Lead
8 360 (7.09%) Analyst
9 355 (6.99%) Senior Developer
10 297 (5.85%) DBA
11 270 (5.32%) Data Engineer
12 219 (4.31%) Consultant
13 217 (4.28%) Full Stack Developer
13 217 (4.28%) Support Engineer
14 206 (4.06%) Software Engineer
15 176 (3.47%) Administrator
15 176 (3.47%) SQL DBA
16 143 (2.82%) Senior C# Developer
17 138 (2.72%) SQL Developer
18 131 (2.58%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,491 (49.07%) .NET
2 1,482 (29.20%) ASP.NET
3 1,151 (22.68%) .NET Core
4 1,127 (22.20%) AngularJS
5 1,091 (21.49%) HTML
6 958 (18.87%) ASP.NET MVC
7 928 (18.28%) .NET Framework
8 878 (17.30%) Entity Framework
9 848 (16.71%) ASP.NET Web API
10 838 (16.51%) CSS
11 737 (14.52%) React
12 509 (10.03%) HTML5
13 504 (9.93%) Vue
14 408 (8.04%) RESTful
15 354 (6.97%) Web Services
16 330 (6.50%) Node.js
17 317 (6.25%) REST
18 298 (5.87%) jQuery
19 287 (5.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 258 (5.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 238 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
2 231 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 168 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 153 (3.01%) Public Cloud
5 134 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
6 133 (2.62%) Replication
7 122 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 117 (2.30%) Mobile App
9 102 (2.01%) Clustering
10 91 (1.79%) Cloud Native
11 85 (1.67%) Product Ownership
12 62 (1.22%) Driving Licence
13 60 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
14 54 (1.06%) Data Centre
14 54 (1.06%) NHS
15 52 (1.02%) Algorithms
16 49 (0.97%) Reinsurance
17 42 (0.83%) Social Media
17 42 (0.83%) Swaptions
18 39 (0.77%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 845 (16.65%) Windows
2 404 (7.96%) Linux
3 380 (7.49%) Windows Server
4 110 (2.17%) Unix
4 110 (2.17%) VMS
5 84 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 83 (1.64%) Windows 10
7 77 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 70 (1.38%) Android
9 50 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
10 45 (0.89%) CentOS
11 39 (0.77%) Ubuntu
12 29 (0.57%) Solaris
13 27 (0.53%) AIX
14 24 (0.47%) zOS
15 23 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
16 21 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 18 (0.35%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.32%) Windows 7
19 14 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,829 (36.03%) Agile
2 1,249 (24.61%) MVC
3 1,191 (23.46%) Full Stack Development
4 938 (18.48%) DevOps
5 907 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
6 863 (17.00%) Microservices
7 806 (15.88%) Business Intelligence
8 621 (12.23%) TDD
9 608 (11.98%) Scrum
10 602 (11.86%) ETL
11 463 (9.12%) Computer Science
12 419 (8.25%) BDD
12 419 (8.25%) CI/CD
13 385 (7.58%) Software Engineering
14 380 (7.49%) Mentoring
15 366 (7.21%) Data Modelling
16 356 (7.01%) OO
17 346 (6.82%) Analytics
18 320 (6.30%) Roadmaps
19 319 (6.28%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,615 (51.52%) SQL
2 2,506 (49.37%) C#
3 1,687 (33.23%) JavaScript
4 801 (15.78%) T-SQL
5 592 (11.66%) TypeScript
6 469 (9.24%) Python
7 341 (6.72%) PowerShell
8 310 (6.11%) Java
9 169 (3.33%) VB.NET
10 166 (3.27%) VB
11 88 (1.73%) PHP
12 83 (1.64%) C++
13 79 (1.56%) PL/SQL
14 72 (1.42%) Bash
15 54 (1.06%) C
15 54 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 53 (1.04%) R
17 48 (0.95%) VBA
18 47 (0.93%) Bicep
19 44 (0.87%) XPath
Qualifications
1 861 (16.96%) Degree
2 267 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 210 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 202 (3.98%) Security Cleared
5 115 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 65 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 63 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 41 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 36 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
10 31 (0.61%) CCNA
10 31 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 23 (0.45%) MCSE
13 19 (0.37%) MCP
14 18 (0.35%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.30%) HND
16 14 (0.28%) ISTQB
17 13 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
17 13 (0.26%) PMI Certification
18 12 (0.24%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (4.96%) QA
2 196 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 78 (1.54%) SLA
4 71 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 68 (1.34%) GDPR
6 35 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.26%) WAI
8 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.16%) WCAG
10 6 (0.12%) GMP
10 6 (0.12%) NIST
11 5 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.099%) MiFID
12 4 (0.079%) COBIT
12 4 (0.079%) NCSC
12 4 (0.079%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.059%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 376 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 232 (4.57%) Docker
3 216 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 123 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
5 106 (2.09%) Hyper-V
6 59 (1.16%) vSphere
7 40 (0.79%) VMware NSX
8 38 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.33%) XenApp
10 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.12%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.079%) Firmware
13 4 (0.079%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.059%) NFS
15 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.020%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 226 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 147 (2.90%) Terraform
3 57 (1.12%) Ansible
4 51 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 46 (0.91%) SCCM
6 31 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.51%) Nagios
8 23 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
9 22 (0.43%) Grafana
10 18 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (0.35%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.30%) WSUS
12 14 (0.28%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
14 12 (0.24%) MIIS
15 10 (0.20%) Puppet
16 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.18%) Foglight
17 8 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,636 (51.93%) Microsoft
2 572 (11.27%) Oracle
3 335 (6.60%) VMware
4 170 (3.35%) Google
5 149 (2.94%) Databricks
6 115 (2.27%) Veeam
7 98 (1.93%) Citrix
8 92 (1.81%) Cisco
9 85 (1.67%) Facebook
10 74 (1.46%) IBM
11 72 (1.42%) Sybase
12 67 (1.32%) Apple
13 62 (1.22%) SAP
14 60 (1.18%) Red Hat
15 57 (1.12%) Informatica
16 47 (0.93%) Adobe
16 47 (0.93%) NEC
17 43 (0.85%) TIBCO
18 42 (0.83%) OpenLink
19 41 (0.81%) HP