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 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 56 47
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,055 5,229 11,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.93% 5.37% 6.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.58% 24.89% 23.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,424 4,119 7,191
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +0.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,647 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +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 18,328 21,007 47,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 21.58% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,523 13,073 21,105
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 £103,750 £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 28 May 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 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
England +21 4,633 £55,000 -3.51% 1,104
UK excluding London +17 3,671 £51,500 - 757
Work from Home +20 2,657 £55,000 -0.53% 841
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
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
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
1 277 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 248 (4.91%) IIS
3 227 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 122 (2.41%) CMS
5 63 (1.25%) Apache
6 51 (1.01%) Umbraco
7 42 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.45%) Confluence
9 22 (0.44%) WordPress
10 21 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 20 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
12 19 (0.38%) 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
1 204 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.42%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.059%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.059%) S-PLUS
9 3 (0.059%) SPSS
10 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.020%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 116 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (0.85%) Endur
3 42 (0.83%) NEC Housing
4 34 (0.67%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 17 (0.34%) Fidessa
7 14 (0.28%) Elite 3E
7 14 (0.28%) PlanetPress Connect
8 12 (0.24%) Sage 200
9 11 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.22%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.22%) Shopify
10 10 (0.20%) Maximo
10 10 (0.20%) Sage X3
11 9 (0.18%) Epicor Tropos
12 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
13 7 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
14 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
14 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
14 6 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2,868 (56.74%) Azure
2 814 (16.10%) AWS
3 813 (16.08%) Power Platform
4 588 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
5 385 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
6 201 (3.98%) SaaS
7 162 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 147 (2.91%) GCP
9 112 (2.22%) Serverless
10 108 (2.14%) PaaS
11 107 (2.12%) PowerApps
12 105 (2.08%) GitHub
13 97 (1.92%) Power Automate
14 96 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 96 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 93 (1.84%) Entra ID
16 92 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
16 92 (1.82%) Snowflake
17 87 (1.72%) IaaS
18 74 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 258 (5.10%) Firewall
2 209 (4.13%) DNS
3 163 (3.22%) Internet
4 119 (2.35%) SAN
5 116 (2.29%) WAN
6 103 (2.04%) DHCP
7 100 (1.98%) TCP/IP
8 90 (1.78%) VPN
9 89 (1.76%) Broadband
10 68 (1.35%) LAN
11 46 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
12 43 (0.85%) VoIP
13 41 (0.81%) HTTP
14 39 (0.77%) SSL
15 30 (0.59%) NAS
16 29 (0.57%) Network Security
16 29 (0.57%) Wireless
17 22 (0.44%) SD-WAN
17 22 (0.44%) VLAN
18 18 (0.36%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 751 (14.86%) Power BI
2 561 (11.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 468 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
4 426 (8.43%) Relational Database
5 408 (8.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 388 (7.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 337 (6.67%) MongoDB
8 302 (5.97%) MySQL
9 298 (5.90%) Elasticsearch
10 263 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
11 194 (3.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 176 (3.48%) Data Lake
13 156 (3.09%) NoSQL
14 121 (2.39%) Oracle Database
15 112 (2.22%) RDBMS
16 91 (1.80%) Tableau
17 78 (1.54%) DB2
18 67 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
19 59 (1.17%) Big Data
19 59 (1.17%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 475 (9.40%) Git
2 292 (5.78%) Visual Studio
3 228 (4.51%) JIRA
4 103 (2.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 86 (1.70%) NUnit
6 72 (1.42%) GitLab
6 72 (1.42%) Moq
7 64 (1.27%) TeamCity
8 63 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 59 (1.17%) Jenkins
10 54 (1.07%) Jasmine
11 42 (0.83%) Karma Test Runner
12 36 (0.71%) Selenium
12 36 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
13 35 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
14 31 (0.61%) MSTest
14 31 (0.61%) SpecFlow
15 29 (0.57%) Postman
16 24 (0.47%) Bitbucket
17 23 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,252 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 879 (17.39%) Finance
3 448 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (5.38%) Retail
5 198 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 197 (3.90%) Marketing
7 182 (3.60%) Law
8 156 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 148 (2.93%) Games
10 138 (2.73%) Banking
11 136 (2.69%) Legal
12 127 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 96 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
14 92 (1.82%) Back Office
15 84 (1.66%) Local Government
16 80 (1.58%) Advertising
17 50 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
18 47 (0.93%) Police
19 46 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
20 44 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,463 (48.72%) Developer
2 1,219 (24.11%) .NET Developer
3 708 (14.01%) Senior
4 666 (13.18%) C# Developer
5 441 (8.72%) C# .NET Developer
6 385 (7.62%) Software Developer
7 377 (7.46%) Lead
8 361 (7.14%) Analyst
9 349 (6.90%) Senior Developer
10 302 (5.97%) DBA
11 273 (5.40%) Data Engineer
12 219 (4.33%) Consultant
13 217 (4.29%) Support Engineer
14 209 (4.13%) Full Stack Developer
15 207 (4.09%) Software Engineer
16 180 (3.56%) Administrator
17 179 (3.54%) SQL DBA
18 139 (2.75%) Senior C# Developer
19 134 (2.65%) SQL Developer
20 133 (2.63%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,470 (48.86%) .NET
2 1,471 (29.10%) ASP.NET
3 1,142 (22.59%) .NET Core
4 1,120 (22.16%) AngularJS
5 1,079 (21.35%) HTML
6 959 (18.97%) ASP.NET MVC
7 925 (18.30%) .NET Framework
8 876 (17.33%) Entity Framework
9 844 (16.70%) ASP.NET Web API
10 831 (16.44%) CSS
11 730 (14.44%) React
12 508 (10.05%) HTML5
13 501 (9.91%) Vue
14 404 (7.99%) RESTful
15 352 (6.96%) Web Services
16 334 (6.61%) Node.js
17 316 (6.25%) REST
18 297 (5.88%) jQuery
19 285 (5.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 259 (5.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 237 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
2 233 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
3 168 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 157 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 135 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 135 (2.67%) Replication
6 123 (2.43%) Data Structures
7 115 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 107 (2.12%) Clustering
9 93 (1.84%) Cloud Native
10 85 (1.68%) Product Ownership
11 62 (1.23%) Driving Licence
12 58 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 55 (1.09%) Data Centre
14 54 (1.07%) NHS
15 53 (1.05%) Algorithms
16 50 (0.99%) Reinsurance
17 43 (0.85%) Social Media
18 42 (0.83%) Swaptions
19 39 (0.77%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 845 (16.72%) Windows
2 399 (7.89%) Linux
3 377 (7.46%) Windows Server
4 110 (2.18%) VMS
5 109 (2.16%) Unix
6 82 (1.62%) Windows 10
6 82 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 77 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 69 (1.36%) Android
9 51 (1.01%) 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 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 17 (0.34%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.32%) Windows 7
19 14 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,816 (35.92%) Agile
2 1,246 (24.65%) MVC
3 1,175 (23.24%) Full Stack Development
4 941 (18.62%) DevOps
5 898 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
6 855 (16.91%) Microservices
7 810 (16.02%) Business Intelligence
8 620 (12.27%) TDD
9 608 (12.03%) ETL
10 602 (11.91%) Scrum
11 458 (9.06%) Computer Science
12 420 (8.31%) CI/CD
13 419 (8.29%) BDD
14 391 (7.73%) Software Engineering
15 378 (7.48%) Mentoring
16 365 (7.22%) Data Modelling
17 349 (6.90%) OO
18 343 (6.79%) Analytics
19 323 (6.39%) Roadmaps
20 315 (6.23%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,598 (51.39%) SQL
2 2,489 (49.24%) C#
3 1,679 (33.21%) JavaScript
4 804 (15.91%) T-SQL
5 590 (11.67%) TypeScript
6 466 (9.22%) Python
7 345 (6.82%) PowerShell
8 311 (6.15%) Java
9 164 (3.24%) VB
9 164 (3.24%) VB.NET
10 85 (1.68%) PHP
11 82 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 81 (1.60%) C++
13 72 (1.42%) Bash
14 54 (1.07%) C
14 54 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 53 (1.05%) R
16 47 (0.93%) VBA
17 44 (0.87%) Bicep
18 42 (0.83%) XPath
Qualifications
1 853 (16.87%) Degree
2 270 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 210 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 204 (4.04%) Security Cleared
5 115 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 64 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 64 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 41 (0.81%) DBS Check
8 36 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
9 31 (0.61%) CCNA
9 31 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (0.57%) DV Cleared
11 23 (0.45%) MCSE
12 19 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.38%) MCP
13 14 (0.28%) HND
13 14 (0.28%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.26%) MCSA
14 13 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
14 13 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (4.95%) QA
2 196 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 74 (1.46%) SLA
4 72 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 66 (1.31%) GDPR
6 33 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.28%) WAI
8 13 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.16%) WCAG
12 6 (0.12%) GMP
12 6 (0.12%) NIST
13 5 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.099%) MiFID
14 4 (0.079%) COBIT
14 4 (0.079%) NCSC
14 4 (0.079%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.059%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 378 (7.48%) Active Directory
2 232 (4.59%) Docker
3 215 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 123 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
5 106 (2.10%) Hyper-V
6 60 (1.19%) vSphere
7 42 (0.83%) VMware NSX
8 38 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.34%) XenApp
10 9 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.12%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.079%) Firmware
12 4 (0.079%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.059%) NFS
14 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.020%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 226 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 149 (2.95%) Terraform
3 58 (1.15%) Ansible
4 52 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 46 (0.91%) SCCM
6 31 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.51%) Nagios
8 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
9 22 (0.44%) Grafana
10 18 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (0.36%) 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
16 9 (0.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,627 (51.97%) Microsoft
2 571 (11.30%) Oracle
3 336 (6.65%) VMware
4 170 (3.36%) Google
5 149 (2.95%) Databricks
6 115 (2.27%) Veeam
7 100 (1.98%) Citrix
8 88 (1.74%) Cisco
9 85 (1.68%) Facebook
10 75 (1.48%) IBM
11 72 (1.42%) Sybase
12 67 (1.33%) Apple
13 62 (1.23%) SAP
14 59 (1.17%) Red Hat
15 58 (1.15%) Informatica
16 48 (0.95%) NEC
17 45 (0.89%) Adobe
18 44 (0.87%) TIBCO
19 42 (0.83%) OpenLink
20 40 (0.79%) HP