SQL Server Jobs in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 49 46 68
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 -21
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,224 1,919 4,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.13% 5.84% 5.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.30% 23.30% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 957 1,572 2,577
10th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £68,823 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +5.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,254 8,236 23,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.01% 25.04% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,862 5,710 9,038
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £116,349 £108,750
England 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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the London 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
Central London +1 235 £67,500 -3.57% 67
West London -38 28 £53,750 +7.50% 14
South London -25 19 £55,000 - 6
East London +12 13 £57,500 +4.55% 6
North London +2 6 £55,000 -24.14%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 103 (8.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 68 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 65 (5.31%) IIS
4 60 (4.90%) CMS
5 23 (1.88%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.63%) Apache
7 15 (1.23%) EPiServer
8 14 (1.14%) WordPress
9 12 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
10 11 (0.90%) Umbraco
11 9 (0.74%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.65%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.57%) Confluence
13 7 (0.57%) JBoss
13 7 (0.57%) WebLogic
13 7 (0.57%) WildFly
14 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
15 5 (0.41%) Immediacy CMS
15 5 (0.41%) Kentico
Applications
1 60 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.31%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.25%) SPSS
7 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 58 (4.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (3.43%) Endur
3 30 (2.45%) SDL Web 8
4 23 (1.88%) NEC Housing
5 17 (1.39%) Fidessa
6 10 (0.82%) Elite 3E
7 9 (0.74%) Sage X3
7 9 (0.74%) SAP Business One
8 7 (0.57%) PlanetPress Connect
8 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.41%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 5 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
9 5 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 2 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
12 2 (0.16%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 631 (51.55%) Azure
2 205 (16.75%) Power Platform
3 200 (16.34%) AWS
4 165 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (4.66%) SaaS
7 56 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 38 (3.10%) GCP
9 35 (2.86%) GitHub
9 35 (2.86%) PaaS
10 34 (2.78%) Serverless
11 33 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 33 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 32 (2.61%) Snowflake
13 31 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 30 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
15 28 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.29%) IaaS
16 26 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
16 26 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.15%) DNS
2 60 (4.90%) Firewall
3 43 (3.51%) Internet
4 32 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.29%) DHCP
6 17 (1.39%) FIX Connectivity
6 17 (1.39%) SAN
7 13 (1.06%) VPN
8 12 (0.98%) HTTP
9 11 (0.90%) iSCSI
10 9 (0.74%) WAN
10 9 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
11 8 (0.65%) LAN
11 8 (0.65%) Network Security
11 8 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (0.57%) Broadband
12 7 (0.57%) Mobile Broadband
12 7 (0.57%) VoIP
12 7 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (16.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 184 (15.03%) Power BI
3 142 (11.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 138 (11.27%) Relational Database
5 123 (10.05%) Data Warehouse
6 84 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (6.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 75 (6.13%) MongoDB
9 68 (5.56%) RDBMS
10 62 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 59 (4.82%) MySQL
12 41 (3.35%) Data Lake
12 41 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
13 40 (3.27%) Tableau
14 35 (2.86%) DB2
15 31 (2.53%) Oracle Database
16 26 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
17 25 (2.04%) NoSQL
18 19 (1.55%) Big Data
19 16 (1.31%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 142 (11.60%) Git
2 90 (7.35%) Visual Studio
3 87 (7.11%) JIRA
4 44 (3.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 39 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 37 (3.02%) Moq
7 32 (2.61%) NUnit
8 26 (2.12%) Jenkins
9 22 (1.80%) GitLab
9 22 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
10 21 (1.72%) SpecFlow
11 16 (1.31%) git-flow
11 16 (1.31%) Sourcetree
12 12 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (0.90%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.82%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.65%) Mercurial
16 7 (0.57%) MSTest
17 5 (0.41%) Subversion
18 4 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 330 (26.96%) Finance
2 302 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 142 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (8.33%) Marketing
5 77 (6.29%) Banking
6 66 (5.39%) Games
7 56 (4.58%) Legal
8 45 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (3.59%) Local Government
10 42 (3.43%) Back Office
10 42 (3.43%) Law
11 35 (2.86%) Public Sector
12 32 (2.61%) Retail
13 21 (1.72%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.63%) Front Office
15 17 (1.39%) Investment Banking
16 13 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.90%) Billing
18 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
19 8 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 491 (40.11%) Developer
2 281 (22.96%) Senior
3 206 (16.83%) .NET Developer
4 156 (12.75%) C# Developer
5 152 (12.42%) Analyst
6 128 (10.46%) Lead
7 118 (9.64%) Senior Developer
8 86 (7.03%) Full Stack Developer
9 81 (6.62%) C# .NET Developer
10 70 (5.72%) Data Engineer
11 69 (5.64%) Architect
12 66 (5.39%) Applications Support
13 64 (5.23%) Support Analyst
14 56 (4.58%) Consultant
15 55 (4.49%) DBA
15 55 (4.49%) Senior C# Developer
16 52 (4.25%) Software Developer
17 44 (3.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 44 (3.59%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 39 (3.19%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (39.79%) .NET
2 252 (20.59%) ASP.NET
3 238 (19.44%) HTML
4 193 (15.77%) AngularJS
5 192 (15.69%) CSS
6 183 (14.95%) .NET Framework
7 160 (13.07%) .NET Core
8 148 (12.09%) ASP.NET MVC
9 139 (11.36%) Web Services
10 135 (11.03%) Entity Framework
11 116 (9.48%) RESTful
12 114 (9.31%) ASP.NET Web API
13 111 (9.07%) React
14 101 (8.25%) HTML5
15 98 (8.01%) REST
15 98 (8.01%) XML
16 86 (7.03%) jQuery
17 76 (6.21%) SOAP
18 64 (5.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 63 (5.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 68 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 61 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
3 46 (3.76%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.35%) Swaptions
5 30 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.37%) Legacy Code
6 29 (2.37%) Replication
7 28 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 27 (2.21%) Hedge funds
9 26 (2.12%) Cloud Native
9 26 (2.12%) Clustering
10 24 (1.96%) Life Science
11 23 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.72%) Data Centre
14 20 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (1.47%) Housing Association
16 17 (1.39%) Data Fabric
16 17 (1.39%) Eurex
17 16 (1.31%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 250 (20.42%) Windows
2 125 (10.21%) Linux
3 80 (6.54%) Windows Server
4 55 (4.49%) Unix
5 28 (2.29%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.21%) CentOS
6 27 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 24 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (1.72%) Solaris
10 20 (1.63%) zOS
11 10 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.74%) Android
13 8 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.57%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.57%) VMS
15 6 (0.49%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.16%) AIX
16 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (32.60%) Agile
2 286 (23.37%) DevOps
3 209 (17.08%) ETL
4 208 (16.99%) Business Intelligence
5 202 (16.50%) Full Stack Development
6 197 (16.09%) MVC
7 192 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
8 179 (14.62%) Scrum
9 170 (13.89%) Computer Science
10 162 (13.24%) Microservices
11 154 (12.58%) TDD
12 145 (11.85%) Data Modelling
13 130 (10.62%) Analytics
14 119 (9.72%) ITIL
15 117 (9.56%) CI/CD
16 115 (9.40%) Software Engineering
17 104 (8.50%) Mentoring
18 89 (7.27%) Roadmaps
19 85 (6.94%) Test Automation
20 84 (6.86%) OO
Programming Languages
1 660 (53.92%) SQL
2 476 (38.89%) C#
3 343 (28.02%) JavaScript
4 266 (21.73%) T-SQL
5 194 (15.85%) Python
6 116 (9.48%) PowerShell
7 106 (8.66%) Java
8 84 (6.86%) TypeScript
9 43 (3.51%) Bash
9 43 (3.51%) VB
10 41 (3.35%) PL/SQL
10 41 (3.35%) XPath
11 28 (2.29%) Perl
12 24 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 24 (1.96%) R
13 23 (1.88%) Bicep
13 23 (1.88%) Ruby
14 16 (1.31%) VBA
15 13 (1.06%) Scala
16 10 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 277 (22.63%) Degree
2 71 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 21 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 21 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (1.63%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (0.57%) MCSE
10 6 (0.49%) MCP
11 5 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
11 5 (0.41%) MCSA
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.33%) CISM
12 4 (0.33%) CISSP
13 3 (0.25%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.16%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (3.84%) Data Quality
2 42 (3.43%) QA
3 37 (3.02%) SLA
4 19 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.14%) GDPR
6 13 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.49%) NIST
8 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (0.41%) MiFID
10 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.082%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (8.58%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.51%) Docker
3 27 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.55%) vSphere
5 10 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.16%) NFS
9 2 (0.16%) XenApp
10 1 (0.082%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.082%) Firmware
10 1 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.082%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 68 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 57 (4.66%) Terraform
3 24 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 23 (1.88%) Ansible
5 18 (1.47%) SCCM
6 17 (1.39%) Grafana
7 15 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.82%) Puppet
10 9 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (0.74%) Foglight
10 9 (0.74%) Nagios
10 9 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.49%) Istio
11 6 (0.49%) WSUS
12 5 (0.41%) Control-M
13 4 (0.33%) Nessus
13 4 (0.33%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 536 (43.79%) Microsoft
2 219 (17.89%) Oracle
3 65 (5.31%) Databricks
4 57 (4.66%) Sybase
5 47 (3.84%) VMware
6 43 (3.51%) TIBCO
7 41 (3.35%) OpenLink
8 36 (2.94%) Red Hat
9 26 (2.12%) Bloomberg
9 26 (2.12%) Veeam
10 25 (2.04%) ServiceNow
11 23 (1.88%) NEC
12 22 (1.80%) Adobe
12 22 (1.80%) Cisco
12 22 (1.80%) Reuters
12 22 (1.80%) SAP
13 21 (1.72%) HP
14 20 (1.63%) Citrix
15 19 (1.55%) F5
15 19 (1.55%) IBM