SQL Server Jobs in England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 55 47
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,633 4,719 9,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.21% 5.45% 6.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.12% 25.19% 24.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,065 3,735 6,385
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.45% +0.45% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,381 18,732 39,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.31% 21.64% 27.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11,427 11,779 18,947
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 £84,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -3 1,224 £66,500 -3.38% 380
North of England +36 964 £50,000 - 222
South East +14 869 £55,000 - 136
Midlands +28 732 £50,000 - 186
North West +37 547 £50,000 - 119
West Midlands +24 471 £52,500 +5.00% 113
South West +6 409 £52,500 +5.00% 94
East of England +25 404 £47,500 -12.04% 68
Yorkshire +30 302 £50,000 - 67
East Midlands +37 261 £47,500 +5.56% 73
North East +39 115 £47,500 +5.56% 38
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 272 (5.87%) SharePoint
2 218 (4.71%) IIS
3 210 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 115 (2.48%) CMS
5 51 (1.10%) Apache
6 48 (1.04%) Umbraco
7 33 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.50%) Confluence
9 22 (0.47%) WordPress
10 20 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
11 19 (0.41%) Tomcat
12 17 (0.37%) WebSphere
13 16 (0.35%) EPiServer
14 15 (0.32%) Apache Solr
14 15 (0.32%) ArcGIS
14 15 (0.32%) JBoss
15 13 (0.28%) Kentico
16 10 (0.22%) SAS
16 10 (0.22%) WildFly
17 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 184 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.45%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.065%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.065%) S-PLUS
9 3 (0.065%) SPSS
10 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.022%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.022%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.022%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 107 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (0.91%) Endur
3 41 (0.88%) NEC Housing
4 34 (0.73%) SDL Web 8
5 19 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
6 17 (0.37%) Fidessa
7 14 (0.30%) Elite 3E
8 12 (0.26%) Sage 200
9 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.24%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.24%) Shopify
10 10 (0.22%) Sage X3
11 9 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
11 9 (0.19%) Maximo
12 8 (0.17%) Teamcenter
13 7 (0.15%) PlanetPress Connect
13 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
14 6 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
14 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
15 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,625 (56.66%) Azure
2 747 (16.12%) Power Platform
3 727 (15.69%) AWS
4 540 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
5 364 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
6 180 (3.89%) SaaS
7 153 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 125 (2.70%) GCP
9 103 (2.22%) PowerApps
10 102 (2.20%) Serverless
11 97 (2.09%) GitHub
12 93 (2.01%) Power Automate
13 91 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 91 (1.96%) Snowflake
14 89 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 89 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
15 83 (1.79%) PaaS
16 77 (1.66%) Entra ID
17 62 (1.34%) IaaS
18 59 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 232 (5.01%) Firewall
2 204 (4.40%) DNS
3 154 (3.32%) Internet
4 119 (2.57%) SAN
5 100 (2.16%) DHCP
5 100 (2.16%) TCP/IP
6 89 (1.92%) WAN
7 78 (1.68%) Broadband
8 71 (1.53%) VPN
9 68 (1.47%) LAN
10 44 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
11 43 (0.93%) VoIP
12 41 (0.88%) HTTP
13 39 (0.84%) SSL
14 30 (0.65%) NAS
15 27 (0.58%) Wireless
16 23 (0.50%) Network Security
17 18 (0.39%) VLAN
18 17 (0.37%) FIX Connectivity
18 17 (0.37%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 687 (14.83%) Power BI
2 519 (11.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 422 (9.11%) Data Warehouse
4 392 (8.46%) Relational Database
5 371 (8.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 343 (7.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 316 (6.82%) MongoDB
8 277 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
9 276 (5.96%) MySQL
10 243 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
11 177 (3.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 164 (3.54%) Data Lake
13 140 (3.02%) NoSQL
14 107 (2.31%) Oracle Database
15 92 (1.99%) RDBMS
16 89 (1.92%) Tableau
17 78 (1.68%) DB2
18 64 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
19 57 (1.23%) MS Access
20 45 (0.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 435 (9.39%) Git
2 271 (5.85%) Visual Studio
3 215 (4.64%) JIRA
4 85 (1.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 82 (1.77%) NUnit
6 71 (1.53%) GitLab
7 63 (1.36%) Moq
8 62 (1.34%) TeamCity
9 61 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
10 54 (1.17%) Jenkins
11 38 (0.82%) Jasmine
12 35 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
13 33 (0.71%) Selenium
14 29 (0.63%) MSTest
14 29 (0.63%) SpecFlow
15 27 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
15 27 (0.58%) Postman
16 24 (0.52%) Bitbucket
17 23 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
18 22 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 1,140 (24.61%) Social Skills
2 779 (16.81%) Finance
3 414 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (5.63%) Retail
5 190 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 182 (3.93%) Marketing
7 157 (3.39%) Law
8 145 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 137 (2.96%) Games
10 133 (2.87%) Legal
11 106 (2.29%) Banking
12 88 (1.90%) Back Office
13 82 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
14 81 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 77 (1.66%) Advertising
16 72 (1.55%) Local Government
17 47 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
18 44 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
19 36 (0.78%) Telecoms
20 32 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,291 (49.45%) Developer
2 1,166 (25.17%) .NET Developer
3 642 (13.86%) Senior
4 630 (13.60%) C# Developer
5 418 (9.02%) C# .NET Developer
6 342 (7.38%) Lead
6 342 (7.38%) Software Developer
7 322 (6.95%) Analyst
8 320 (6.91%) Senior Developer
9 254 (5.48%) Data Engineer
10 248 (5.35%) DBA
11 209 (4.51%) Support Engineer
12 202 (4.36%) Consultant
13 200 (4.32%) Full Stack Developer
14 182 (3.93%) Software Engineer
15 160 (3.45%) Administrator
16 148 (3.19%) SQL DBA
17 130 (2.81%) Senior C# Developer
18 129 (2.78%) SQL Developer
19 124 (2.68%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,292 (49.47%) .NET
2 1,365 (29.46%) ASP.NET
3 1,070 (23.10%) .NET Core
4 1,031 (22.25%) AngularJS
5 1,007 (21.74%) HTML
6 889 (19.19%) ASP.NET MVC
7 850 (18.35%) .NET Framework
8 805 (17.38%) Entity Framework
9 787 (16.99%) ASP.NET Web API
10 763 (16.47%) CSS
11 680 (14.68%) React
12 481 (10.38%) HTML5
13 476 (10.27%) Vue
14 380 (8.20%) RESTful
15 331 (7.14%) Web Services
16 313 (6.76%) Node.js
17 294 (6.35%) REST
18 264 (5.70%) jQuery
19 260 (5.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 255 (5.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 214 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
2 211 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 151 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 127 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 114 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
5 114 (2.46%) Mobile App
6 111 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 110 (2.37%) Replication
8 84 (1.81%) Clustering
9 75 (1.62%) Product Ownership
10 72 (1.55%) Cloud Native
11 61 (1.32%) Driving Licence
12 58 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 53 (1.14%) NHS
14 50 (1.08%) Reinsurance
15 45 (0.97%) Algorithms
16 41 (0.88%) Data Centre
16 41 (0.88%) Swaptions
17 38 (0.82%) iPhone
18 37 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 785 (16.94%) Windows
2 360 (7.77%) Linux
3 336 (7.25%) Windows Server
4 103 (2.22%) Unix
5 97 (2.09%) VMS
6 81 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 81 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 73 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 68 (1.47%) Android
9 49 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
10 43 (0.93%) CentOS
11 38 (0.82%) Ubuntu
12 29 (0.63%) Solaris
13 24 (0.52%) zOS
14 23 (0.50%) AIX
14 23 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
15 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 16 (0.35%) Apple iOS
16 16 (0.35%) Windows 7
17 14 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,708 (36.87%) Agile
2 1,160 (25.04%) MVC
3 1,119 (24.15%) Full Stack Development
4 861 (18.58%) DevOps
5 818 (17.66%) Microservices
6 800 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
7 747 (16.12%) Business Intelligence
8 581 (12.54%) TDD
9 575 (12.41%) Scrum
10 556 (12.00%) ETL
11 412 (8.89%) Computer Science
12 403 (8.70%) BDD
13 381 (8.22%) CI/CD
14 352 (7.60%) Data Modelling
15 343 (7.40%) Software Engineering
16 318 (6.86%) OO
17 317 (6.84%) Mentoring
18 316 (6.82%) Analytics
19 308 (6.65%) Roadmaps
20 292 (6.30%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,364 (51.03%) SQL
2 2,303 (49.71%) C#
3 1,566 (33.80%) JavaScript
4 716 (15.45%) T-SQL
5 555 (11.98%) TypeScript
6 451 (9.73%) Python
7 307 (6.63%) PowerShell
8 270 (5.83%) Java
9 159 (3.43%) VB.NET
10 154 (3.32%) VB
11 79 (1.71%) PHP
12 71 (1.53%) C++
13 66 (1.42%) PL/SQL
14 62 (1.34%) Bash
15 54 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 50 (1.08%) R
17 44 (0.95%) Bicep
18 42 (0.91%) XPath
19 39 (0.84%) C
19 39 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 754 (16.27%) Degree
2 243 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 187 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 177 (3.82%) Security Cleared
5 105 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 57 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 34 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 31 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
10 27 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 23 (0.50%) MCSE
12 19 (0.41%) MCP
13 18 (0.39%) CCNA
13 18 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.37%) AWS Certification
15 14 (0.30%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.28%) MCSA
16 13 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.28%) PMI Certification
17 11 (0.24%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (4.88%) QA
2 181 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 70 (1.51%) SLA
4 64 (1.38%) GDPR
5 52 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 33 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.13%) GMP
10 6 (0.13%) NIST
11 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.11%) MiFID
11 5 (0.11%) WCAG
12 4 (0.086%) COBIT
12 4 (0.086%) NCSC
12 4 (0.086%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.065%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.043%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 356 (7.68%) Active Directory
2 206 (4.45%) Docker
3 192 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 107 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 102 (2.20%) Hyper-V
6 57 (1.23%) vSphere
7 37 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.37%) XenApp
9 15 (0.32%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.086%) Firmware
12 4 (0.086%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.065%) NFS
14 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.022%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 216 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 128 (2.76%) Terraform
3 45 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (0.93%) SCCM
5 38 (0.82%) Ansible
6 26 (0.56%) Nagios
6 26 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
8 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.39%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.37%) Grafana
10 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.32%) WSUS
11 13 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (0.26%) MIIS
13 10 (0.22%) Puppet
14 9 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (0.19%) Foglight
14 9 (0.19%) SCOM
15 8 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,421 (52.26%) Microsoft
2 539 (11.63%) Oracle
3 298 (6.43%) VMware
4 157 (3.39%) Google
5 144 (3.11%) Databricks
6 113 (2.44%) Veeam
7 98 (2.12%) Citrix
8 79 (1.71%) Facebook
9 75 (1.62%) IBM
10 71 (1.53%) Cisco
11 69 (1.49%) Sybase
12 61 (1.32%) Apple
13 60 (1.30%) SAP
14 59 (1.27%) Red Hat
15 58 (1.25%) Informatica
16 45 (0.97%) Adobe
16 45 (0.97%) NEC
17 43 (0.93%) TIBCO
18 41 (0.88%) OpenLink
19 38 (0.82%) F5