SQL Server Jobs in the South West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 55 61 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 -29 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 409 332 712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.21% 4.94% 8.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.07% 25.70% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 369 250 470
10th Percentile £33,100 £32,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,431 £38,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £65,000
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
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,360 1,292 2,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.00% 19.23% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 957 815 1,488
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £31,680
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,239 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,700 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +5.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £86,250 £85,000
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 the South West

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the South West 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
Bristol +15 123 £57,500 +27.78% 30
Wiltshire +28 86 £51,000 -7.27% 14
Devon +31 69 £47,500 +5.56% 15
Gloucestershire -38 43 £51,250 -6.82% 12
Dorset -41 39 £57,500 +9.52% 11
Somerset +12 36 £50,000 -10.87% 12
Cornwall -7 3 £42,500 -14.14% 1
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 22 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.20%) IIS
4 6 (1.47%) CMS
4 6 (1.47%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.22%) Apache
5 5 (1.22%) NServiceBus
5 5 (1.22%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.73%) Confluence
7 3 (0.73%) GlassFish
7 3 (0.73%) JBoss
7 3 (0.73%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.73%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (0.73%) WildFly
8 2 (0.49%) nginx
8 2 (0.49%) SAS
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.73%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.47%) Maximo
2 4 (0.98%) Elite 3E
2 4 (0.98%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 248 (60.64%) Azure
2 79 (19.32%) Azure DevOps
3 71 (17.36%) Power Platform
4 65 (15.89%) AWS
5 33 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (4.65%) GCP
7 8 (1.96%) GitHub
8 7 (1.71%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (1.71%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.47%) Google Play
10 5 (1.22%) Azure Storage
10 5 (1.22%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.22%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (0.98%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.98%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.98%) SaaS
12 3 (0.73%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.65%) SAN
2 15 (3.67%) LAN
3 14 (3.42%) WAN
4 11 (2.69%) Broadband
5 7 (1.71%) DNS
5 7 (1.71%) Internet
6 5 (1.22%) HTTP
6 5 (1.22%) WLAN
7 4 (0.98%) Firewall
7 4 (0.98%) SSL
7 4 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.98%) VoIP
7 4 (0.98%) Wireless
8 3 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.73%) VPN
9 2 (0.49%) DHCP
9 2 (0.49%) Network Security
10 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.24%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (16.63%) Power BI
2 49 (11.98%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (11.74%) Relational Database
4 39 (9.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 34 (8.31%) MySQL
6 30 (7.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 26 (6.36%) MongoDB
8 23 (5.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (3.91%) NoSQL
10 15 (3.67%) Big Data
11 14 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (2.69%) Data Lake
12 11 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 10 (2.44%) Tableau
14 8 (1.96%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.96%) Flink
14 8 (1.96%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.96%) Qlik Sense
15 7 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 64 (15.65%) Git
2 21 (5.13%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.93%) Team Foundation Server
4 10 (2.44%) Selenium
5 8 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (1.71%) Postman
6 7 (1.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (1.71%) Subversion
7 6 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.47%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.22%) JIRA
9 4 (0.98%) Jasmine
9 4 (0.98%) Mocha
9 4 (0.98%) Toad
10 3 (0.73%) Maven
10 3 (0.73%) Moq
10 3 (0.73%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.73%) xUnit.net
11 1 (0.24%) RSpec
11 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 134 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.14%) Finance
3 46 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.87%) Retail
5 15 (3.67%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.71%) Local Government
9 6 (1.47%) Games
9 6 (1.47%) Legal
9 6 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.22%) Automotive
10 5 (1.22%) Banking
11 4 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.98%) Marketing
12 3 (0.73%) Advertising
12 3 (0.73%) German Language
12 3 (0.73%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.49%) Law
13 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 214 (52.32%) Developer
2 121 (29.58%) .NET Developer
3 73 (17.85%) C# Developer
4 72 (17.60%) Senior
5 60 (14.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 53 (12.96%) Senior Developer
6 53 (12.96%) Software Developer
7 38 (9.29%) Software Engineer
8 31 (7.58%) Senior .NET Developer
9 30 (7.33%) DBA
10 25 (6.11%) Senior C# Developer
11 24 (5.87%) SQL DBA
12 23 (5.62%) Administrator
12 23 (5.62%) Analyst
13 21 (5.13%) Consultant
13 21 (5.13%) Lead
14 19 (4.65%) C# Software Developer
14 19 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.16%) Senior C# .NET Developer
15 17 (4.16%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (55.01%) .NET
2 143 (34.96%) ASP.NET
3 115 (28.12%) CSS
4 112 (27.38%) HTML
5 110 (26.89%) .NET Core
6 106 (25.92%) AngularJS
7 98 (23.96%) .NET Framework
8 93 (22.74%) Entity Framework
9 81 (19.80%) React
10 69 (16.87%) ASP.NET MVC
11 66 (16.14%) Vue
12 59 (14.43%) ASP.NET Web API
13 32 (7.82%) jQuery
13 32 (7.82%) LESS
14 28 (6.85%) HTML5
15 27 (6.60%) Blazor
16 24 (5.87%) CSS3
17 23 (5.62%) REST
17 23 (5.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 16 (3.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.65%) Onboarding
2 17 (4.16%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.91%) Virtual Team
4 13 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.93%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.44%) Replication
7 8 (1.96%) AS400
8 7 (1.71%) Digital TV
8 7 (1.71%) Social Network
8 7 (1.71%) VAX
9 6 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.47%) CCTV
9 6 (1.47%) iPhone
9 6 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.22%) EMC VNX
10 5 (1.22%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.22%) Learning Management System
10 5 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.69%) Windows
2 37 (9.05%) Linux
3 26 (6.36%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.93%) Android
6 11 (2.69%) VMS
7 9 (2.20%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.71%) Windows 7
8 7 (1.71%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.47%) AIX
9 6 (1.47%) Unix
10 5 (1.22%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.73%) Solaris
12 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (35.21%) Agile
2 121 (29.58%) MVC
3 104 (25.43%) DevOps
4 95 (23.23%) Full Stack Development
5 77 (18.83%) Business Intelligence
6 68 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (15.89%) CI/CD
8 62 (15.16%) Microservices
9 57 (13.94%) Software Engineering
10 50 (12.22%) Scrum
11 45 (11.00%) Design Patterns
12 42 (10.27%) TDD
13 39 (9.54%) Mentoring
14 37 (9.05%) ETL
15 36 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (8.31%) Clean Code
17 31 (7.58%) Machine Learning
17 31 (7.58%) Migration
18 29 (7.09%) BDD
19 28 (6.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 218 (53.30%) C#
2 184 (44.99%) SQL
3 168 (41.08%) JavaScript
4 59 (14.43%) TypeScript
5 46 (11.25%) T-SQL
6 31 (7.58%) Python
7 30 (7.33%) Java
8 20 (4.89%) VB.NET
9 15 (3.67%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.44%) PHP
11 9 (2.20%) VB
12 8 (1.96%) Scala
13 7 (1.71%) Bicep
13 7 (1.71%) Go
14 6 (1.47%) C++
15 5 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.98%) Bash
17 3 (0.73%) C
17 3 (0.73%) XAML
18 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (12.22%) Degree
2 29 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.71%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.73%) MCPD
8 2 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) MCSA
9 1 (0.24%) MCSD
9 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.60%) QA
2 9 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (7.58%) Docker
2 29 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.36%) Active Directory
4 23 (5.62%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (2.69%) XenApp
7 5 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.98%) vSphere
9 1 (0.24%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.93%) Nagios
2 12 (2.93%) Terraform
3 10 (2.44%) SCCM
4 7 (1.71%) EMC VPLEX
5 5 (1.22%) Ansible
5 5 (1.22%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (1.22%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.73%) Oracle Statspack
6 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.24%) SCOM
8 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 218 (53.30%) Microsoft
2 52 (12.71%) Oracle
3 34 (8.31%) VMware
4 16 (3.91%) Veeam
5 15 (3.67%) Citrix
5 15 (3.67%) Red Hat
6 14 (3.42%) Google
7 12 (2.93%) EMC
8 11 (2.69%) SolarWinds
8 11 (2.69%) Sybase
9 10 (2.44%) Xamarin
10 9 (2.20%) IBM
11 8 (1.96%) Teradata
12 7 (1.71%) Centreon
12 7 (1.71%) Twitter
13 6 (1.47%) SAP
14 5 (1.22%) Apple
14 5 (1.22%) Aruba
14 5 (1.22%) Meraki
15 4 (0.98%) Civica