SQL Server Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 42 59 31
Rank change year-on-year +17 -28 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,671 2,977 5,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.96% 5.12% 7.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.73% 26.26% 34.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,323 2,331 4,003
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,349 11,336 16,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.69% 19.51% 22.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,108 6,597 10,221
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,833 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,975 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
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
Scotland -33 191 £52,500 +10.53% 36
North East +39 115 £47,500 +5.56% 38
Wales +18 77 £50,000 +16.28% 15
Northern Ireland -10 30 £50,000 - 14
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 201 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 168 (4.58%) IIS
3 122 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 55 (1.50%) CMS
5 39 (1.06%) Apache
6 35 (0.95%) Umbraco
7 17 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.44%) Confluence
9 13 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 13 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.25%) Apache Solr
12 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 8 (0.22%) JBoss
12 8 (0.22%) WordPress
13 7 (0.19%) Kentico
13 7 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.16%) NServiceBus
15 5 (0.14%) Drupal
15 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 140 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.082%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.082%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.027%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.027%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 54 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.49%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (0.33%) Sage 200
5 11 (0.30%) Shopify
6 10 (0.27%) Maximo
7 9 (0.25%) Epicor Tropos
8 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.19%) PlanetPress Connect
8 7 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.14%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
12 3 (0.082%) Magento
13 2 (0.054%) Sage 50
13 2 (0.054%) SAP Business One
13 2 (0.054%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 2,148 (58.51%) Azure
2 582 (15.85%) AWS
3 575 (15.66%) Power Platform
4 389 (10.60%) Azure DevOps
5 280 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (3.51%) SaaS
7 105 (2.86%) GCP
8 97 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 74 (2.02%) Serverless
10 71 (1.93%) PowerApps
11 70 (1.91%) Power Automate
12 68 (1.85%) Entra ID
13 65 (1.77%) PaaS
14 62 (1.69%) GitHub
15 61 (1.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 60 (1.63%) Snowflake
17 59 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
18 52 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 52 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
19 47 (1.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 194 (5.28%) Firewall
2 139 (3.79%) DNS
3 120 (3.27%) Internet
4 107 (2.91%) WAN
5 102 (2.78%) SAN
6 82 (2.23%) Broadband
7 75 (2.04%) DHCP
8 73 (1.99%) VPN
9 68 (1.85%) TCP/IP
10 60 (1.63%) LAN
11 37 (1.01%) SSL
11 37 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (0.98%) VoIP
13 28 (0.76%) HTTP
14 24 (0.65%) NAS
15 22 (0.60%) Wireless
16 17 (0.46%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
17 16 (0.44%) VLAN
18 15 (0.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 535 (14.57%) Power BI
2 350 (9.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 327 (8.91%) Data Warehouse
4 316 (8.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 278 (7.57%) Relational Database
6 261 (7.11%) MongoDB
7 256 (6.97%) Elasticsearch
8 251 (6.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 240 (6.54%) MySQL
10 167 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
11 126 (3.43%) NoSQL
12 122 (3.32%) Data Lake
13 112 (3.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 82 (2.23%) Oracle Database
15 54 (1.47%) MS Access
16 49 (1.33%) Tableau
17 43 (1.17%) DB2
18 41 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 41 (1.12%) RDBMS
19 38 (1.04%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 327 (8.91%) Git
2 190 (5.18%) Visual Studio
3 136 (3.70%) JIRA
4 54 (1.47%) Jasmine
5 52 (1.42%) NUnit
6 51 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 50 (1.36%) GitLab
8 49 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 42 (1.14%) Karma Test Runner
10 32 (0.87%) Moq
10 32 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
11 31 (0.84%) Jenkins
12 29 (0.79%) Selenium
13 23 (0.63%) TeamCity
14 22 (0.60%) MSTest
14 22 (0.60%) Postman
15 20 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
16 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
16 13 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
17 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 899 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 513 (13.97%) Finance
3 279 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (6.35%) Retail
5 154 (4.20%) Public Sector
6 149 (4.06%) Manufacturing
7 136 (3.70%) Law
8 83 (2.26%) Marketing
9 82 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
10 79 (2.15%) Games
11 78 (2.12%) Legal
12 76 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 73 (1.99%) Advertising
14 53 (1.44%) Banking
15 45 (1.23%) Back Office
16 42 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
17 39 (1.06%) Local Government
18 33 (0.90%) Police
19 31 (0.84%) Music Industry
19 31 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,912 (52.08%) Developer
2 1,007 (27.43%) .NET Developer
3 502 (13.67%) C# Developer
4 393 (10.71%) Senior
5 363 (9.89%) C# .NET Developer
6 332 (9.04%) Software Developer
7 233 (6.35%) DBA
8 217 (5.91%) Lead
8 217 (5.91%) Senior Developer
9 198 (5.39%) Data Engineer
10 191 (5.20%) Analyst
11 190 (5.18%) Support Engineer
12 165 (4.49%) Software Engineer
13 154 (4.20%) Consultant
13 154 (4.20%) SQL DBA
14 142 (3.87%) Administrator
15 115 (3.13%) IT Engineer
16 113 (3.08%) Full Stack Developer
16 113 (3.08%) IT Support
17 108 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,911 (52.06%) .NET
2 1,197 (32.61%) ASP.NET
3 970 (26.42%) .NET Core
4 914 (24.90%) AngularJS
5 828 (22.56%) HTML
6 801 (21.82%) ASP.NET MVC
7 726 (19.78%) ASP.NET Web API
8 725 (19.75%) Entity Framework
9 722 (19.67%) .NET Framework
10 630 (17.16%) CSS
11 598 (16.29%) React
12 447 (12.18%) Vue
13 406 (11.06%) HTML5
14 287 (7.82%) RESTful
15 283 (7.71%) Node.js
16 220 (5.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 219 (5.97%) Blazor
18 212 (5.77%) CSS3
19 211 (5.75%) jQuery
20 207 (5.64%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 163 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
2 155 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
3 125 (3.41%) Public Cloud
4 109 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 106 (2.89%) Mobile App
6 104 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 101 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 96 (2.62%) Replication
9 77 (2.10%) Clustering
10 67 (1.83%) Cloud Native
11 51 (1.39%) Driving Licence
11 51 (1.39%) Product Ownership
12 48 (1.31%) Algorithms
13 44 (1.20%) NHS
14 40 (1.09%) Reinsurance
15 38 (1.04%) iPhone
16 35 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (0.93%) Social Network
18 33 (0.90%) Data Centre
18 33 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 565 (15.39%) Windows
2 288 (7.85%) Windows Server
3 251 (6.84%) Linux
4 103 (2.81%) VMS
5 58 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 55 (1.50%) Android
7 54 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 52 (1.42%) Windows 10
9 49 (1.33%) Unix
10 41 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 25 (0.68%) AIX
12 23 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
13 16 (0.44%) Windows 7
14 14 (0.38%) CentOS
14 14 (0.38%) Debian
15 13 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 8 (0.22%) SUSE
16 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
18 5 (0.14%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,379 (37.56%) Agile
2 1,038 (28.28%) MVC
3 957 (26.07%) Full Stack Development
4 688 (18.74%) Microservices
5 655 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
6 614 (16.73%) DevOps
7 564 (15.36%) Business Intelligence
8 457 (12.45%) TDD
9 411 (11.20%) Scrum
10 371 (10.11%) ETL
11 354 (9.64%) BDD
12 281 (7.65%) CI/CD
13 264 (7.19%) Mentoring
13 264 (7.19%) OO
14 258 (7.03%) Computer Science
15 255 (6.95%) Software Engineering
16 243 (6.62%) Artificial Intelligence
17 228 (6.21%) Roadmaps
18 223 (6.07%) Kanban
19 222 (6.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,944 (52.96%) C#
2 1,839 (50.10%) SQL
3 1,312 (35.74%) JavaScript
4 506 (13.78%) T-SQL
5 497 (13.54%) TypeScript
6 265 (7.22%) Python
7 199 (5.42%) Java
8 198 (5.39%) PowerShell
9 150 (4.09%) VB.NET
10 116 (3.16%) VB
11 78 (2.12%) PHP
12 68 (1.85%) C++
13 48 (1.31%) C
14 32 (0.87%) XAML
15 31 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 30 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (0.79%) Bash
17 29 (0.79%) VB6
18 28 (0.76%) R
19 26 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 518 (14.11%) Degree
2 187 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 183 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 160 (4.36%) Security Cleared
5 86 (2.34%) SC Cleared
6 44 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 36 (0.98%) DBS Check
8 32 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 29 (0.79%) CCNA
9 29 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.71%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
11 16 (0.44%) MCSE
12 14 (0.38%) HND
13 13 (0.35%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.35%) MCP
14 12 (0.33%) AWS Certification
14 12 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
14 12 (0.33%) OCP
14 12 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (5.45%) QA
2 139 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 50 (1.36%) GDPR
4 48 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 34 (0.93%) SLA
6 20 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.38%) WAI
8 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.16%) GMP
11 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.11%) COBIT
12 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.11%) WCAG
13 3 (0.082%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 2 (0.054%) PMO
15 1 (0.027%) HL7
15 1 (0.027%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 254 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 188 (5.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 170 (4.63%) Docker
4 113 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
5 103 (2.81%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.14%) VMware NSX
7 41 (1.12%) vSphere
8 30 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.41%) XenApp
10 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.16%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.082%) Firmware
14 2 (0.054%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.027%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.027%) NFS
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 150 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 92 (2.51%) Terraform
3 37 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (0.95%) Ansible
5 28 (0.76%) SCCM
6 17 (0.46%) Nagios
7 14 (0.38%) FortiGate
7 14 (0.38%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
9 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
9 11 (0.30%) MIIS
10 9 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.25%) WSUS
11 8 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
12 7 (0.19%) Prometheus
13 6 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.16%) SCOM
14 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.14%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2,025 (55.16%) Microsoft
2 338 (9.21%) Oracle
3 289 (7.87%) VMware
4 148 (4.03%) Google
5 89 (2.42%) Veeam
6 82 (2.23%) Facebook
7 80 (2.18%) Citrix
8 78 (2.12%) Databricks
9 62 (1.69%) Cisco
10 61 (1.66%) Apple
11 52 (1.42%) IBM
12 46 (1.25%) Informatica
13 38 (1.04%) SAP
14 30 (0.82%) Sony
14 30 (0.82%) Yahoo!
15 25 (0.68%) Xamarin
16 23 (0.63%) EMC
16 23 (0.63%) NetApp
16 23 (0.63%) Red Hat
16 23 (0.63%) Salesforce