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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 53 47
Rank change year-on-year +18 -6 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,649 4,639 9,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.14% 5.48% 6.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.04% 25.67% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,053 3,688 6,328
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 15,478 18,071 39,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.12% 21.33% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,445 11,646 18,858
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 £83,750 £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 31 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 31 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 1,220 £66,000 -4.10% 389
North of England +38 969 £50,000 - 206
South East +10 871 £55,000 - 139
Midlands +25 737 £50,000 - 182
North West +41 552 £50,000 - 108
West Midlands +21 473 £52,500 +5.00% 113
South West +5 415 £52,500 +5.00% 89
East of England +26 406 £47,500 -5.00% 67
Yorkshire +30 301 £50,000 - 64
East Midlands +32 264 £47,500 - 69
North East +35 116 £47,500 - 36
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
1 270 (5.81%) SharePoint
2 214 (4.60%) IIS
3 208 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 118 (2.54%) CMS
5 50 (1.08%) Apache
6 49 (1.05%) Umbraco
7 33 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.49%) Confluence
9 22 (0.47%) WordPress
10 21 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
11 19 (0.41%) Tomcat
12 16 (0.34%) EPiServer
12 16 (0.34%) WebSphere
13 15 (0.32%) Apache Solr
13 15 (0.32%) ArcGIS
13 15 (0.32%) JBoss
14 13 (0.28%) Kentico
15 10 (0.22%) SAS
15 10 (0.22%) WildFly
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 184 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.49%) Photoshop
4 17 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.065%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.065%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.065%) SPSS
9 1 (0.022%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 104 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (0.90%) Endur
3 40 (0.86%) NEC Housing
4 36 (0.77%) 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 9 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
10 9 (0.19%) Maximo
10 9 (0.19%) Sage X3
11 8 (0.17%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
12 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
13 6 (0.13%) PlanetPress Connect
14 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,636 (56.70%) Azure
2 747 (16.07%) Power Platform
3 725 (15.59%) AWS
4 537 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
5 365 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
6 183 (3.94%) SaaS
7 155 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 123 (2.65%) GCP
9 105 (2.26%) PowerApps
10 102 (2.19%) Serverless
11 97 (2.09%) GitHub
12 92 (1.98%) Power Automate
13 91 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 91 (1.96%) Snowflake
14 90 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 90 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
15 81 (1.74%) PaaS
16 77 (1.66%) Entra ID
17 61 (1.31%) IaaS
18 60 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 229 (4.93%) Firewall
2 203 (4.37%) DNS
3 155 (3.33%) Internet
4 117 (2.52%) SAN
5 100 (2.15%) TCP/IP
6 99 (2.13%) DHCP
7 88 (1.89%) WAN
8 78 (1.68%) Broadband
9 69 (1.48%) LAN
9 69 (1.48%) VPN
10 46 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
11 45 (0.97%) VoIP
12 41 (0.88%) HTTP
13 39 (0.84%) SSL
14 30 (0.65%) NAS
15 27 (0.58%) Wireless
16 23 (0.49%) Network Security
17 17 (0.37%) FIX Connectivity
17 17 (0.37%) VLAN
18 16 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 688 (14.80%) Power BI
2 516 (11.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 418 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
4 388 (8.35%) Relational Database
5 370 (7.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 345 (7.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 316 (6.80%) MongoDB
8 283 (6.09%) MySQL
9 277 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
10 246 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
11 177 (3.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 166 (3.57%) Data Lake
13 138 (2.97%) NoSQL
14 107 (2.30%) Oracle Database
15 91 (1.96%) Tableau
16 90 (1.94%) RDBMS
17 78 (1.68%) DB2
18 65 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
19 60 (1.29%) MS Access
20 45 (0.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 442 (9.51%) Git
2 270 (5.81%) Visual Studio
3 214 (4.60%) JIRA
4 84 (1.81%) NUnit
5 80 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 71 (1.53%) GitLab
7 65 (1.40%) Moq
8 64 (1.38%) TeamCity
9 61 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
10 53 (1.14%) Jenkins
11 38 (0.82%) Jasmine
12 37 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
13 32 (0.69%) Selenium
14 31 (0.67%) SpecFlow
15 29 (0.62%) MSTest
16 27 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
16 27 (0.58%) Postman
17 23 (0.49%) Bitbucket
17 23 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
18 22 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 1,150 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 783 (16.84%) Finance
3 419 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (5.70%) Retail
5 192 (4.13%) Public Sector
6 184 (3.96%) Marketing
7 153 (3.29%) Law
8 150 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 137 (2.95%) Games
10 133 (2.86%) Legal
11 106 (2.28%) Banking
12 87 (1.87%) Back Office
13 83 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
14 82 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 78 (1.68%) Advertising
16 71 (1.53%) Local Government
17 44 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
17 44 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
18 36 (0.77%) Telecoms
19 32 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,314 (49.77%) Developer
2 1,178 (25.34%) .NET Developer
3 643 (13.83%) Senior
4 640 (13.77%) C# Developer
5 423 (9.10%) C# .NET Developer
6 346 (7.44%) Software Developer
7 343 (7.38%) Lead
8 325 (6.99%) Senior Developer
9 321 (6.90%) Analyst
10 251 (5.40%) Data Engineer
11 244 (5.25%) DBA
12 209 (4.50%) Support Engineer
13 206 (4.43%) Full Stack Developer
14 201 (4.32%) Consultant
15 183 (3.94%) Software Engineer
16 157 (3.38%) Administrator
17 145 (3.12%) SQL DBA
18 134 (2.88%) Senior C# Developer
19 133 (2.86%) SQL Developer
20 126 (2.71%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,311 (49.71%) .NET
2 1,376 (29.60%) ASP.NET
3 1,079 (23.21%) .NET Core
4 1,038 (22.33%) AngularJS
5 1,018 (21.90%) HTML
6 891 (19.17%) ASP.NET MVC
7 854 (18.37%) .NET Framework
8 808 (17.38%) Entity Framework
9 791 (17.01%) ASP.NET Web API
10 770 (16.56%) CSS
11 687 (14.78%) React
12 482 (10.37%) HTML5
13 478 (10.28%) Vue
14 385 (8.28%) RESTful
15 332 (7.14%) Web Services
16 310 (6.67%) Node.js
17 295 (6.35%) REST
18 266 (5.72%) jQuery
19 262 (5.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 255 (5.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
2 210 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
3 148 (3.18%) Management Information System
4 124 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 116 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 113 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 110 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 109 (2.34%) Replication
9 81 (1.74%) Clustering
10 76 (1.63%) Product Ownership
11 72 (1.55%) Cloud Native
12 61 (1.31%) Driving Licence
13 60 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
14 53 (1.14%) NHS
15 49 (1.05%) Reinsurance
16 45 (0.97%) Algorithms
17 41 (0.88%) Swaptions
18 38 (0.82%) Data Centre
18 38 (0.82%) iPhone
19 36 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 783 (16.84%) Windows
2 363 (7.81%) Linux
3 336 (7.23%) Windows Server
4 104 (2.24%) Unix
5 97 (2.09%) VMS
6 83 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 82 (1.76%) Windows 10
8 73 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 69 (1.48%) Android
10 48 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
11 43 (0.92%) CentOS
12 38 (0.82%) Ubuntu
13 29 (0.62%) Solaris
14 24 (0.52%) zOS
15 23 (0.49%) AIX
15 23 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
16 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 17 (0.37%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.34%) Windows 7
19 14 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,723 (37.06%) Agile
2 1,165 (25.06%) MVC
3 1,133 (24.37%) Full Stack Development
4 861 (18.52%) DevOps
5 825 (17.75%) Microservices
6 812 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
7 743 (15.98%) Business Intelligence
8 583 (12.54%) TDD
9 581 (12.50%) Scrum
10 551 (11.85%) ETL
11 420 (9.03%) Computer Science
12 403 (8.67%) BDD
13 381 (8.20%) CI/CD
14 353 (7.59%) Data Modelling
15 339 (7.29%) Software Engineering
16 324 (6.97%) OO
17 320 (6.88%) Mentoring
18 317 (6.82%) Analytics
19 306 (6.58%) Roadmaps
20 291 (6.26%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,378 (51.15%) SQL
2 2,320 (49.90%) C#
3 1,574 (33.86%) JavaScript
4 716 (15.40%) T-SQL
5 557 (11.98%) TypeScript
6 452 (9.72%) Python
7 303 (6.52%) PowerShell
8 271 (5.83%) Java
9 163 (3.51%) VB.NET
10 156 (3.36%) VB
11 82 (1.76%) PHP
12 73 (1.57%) C++
13 63 (1.36%) PL/SQL
14 62 (1.33%) Bash
15 54 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 50 (1.08%) R
17 47 (1.01%) Bicep
18 44 (0.95%) XPath
19 39 (0.84%) C
19 39 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 761 (16.37%) Degree
2 242 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 187 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 176 (3.79%) Security Cleared
5 105 (2.26%) SC Cleared
6 57 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 56 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 34 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 31 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
10 27 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 23 (0.49%) MCSE
12 19 (0.41%) MCP
13 18 (0.39%) CCNA
13 18 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 14 (0.30%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.28%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.26%) HND
17 12 (0.26%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (4.93%) QA
2 181 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 72 (1.55%) SLA
4 66 (1.42%) GDPR
5 52 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 33 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.13%) GMP
9 6 (0.13%) NIST
10 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.11%) MiFID
10 5 (0.11%) WCAG
11 4 (0.086%) COBIT
11 4 (0.086%) NCSC
11 4 (0.086%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.065%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.043%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 354 (7.61%) Active Directory
2 207 (4.45%) Docker
3 190 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 107 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
5 102 (2.19%) Hyper-V
6 56 (1.20%) vSphere
7 37 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.37%) XenApp
9 14 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.086%) Firmware
13 4 (0.086%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.065%) NFS
15 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.022%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 216 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 126 (2.71%) Terraform
3 44 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (0.92%) SCCM
5 37 (0.80%) Ansible
6 26 (0.56%) Nagios
6 26 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.49%) 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
15 8 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
15 8 (0.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,428 (52.23%) Microsoft
2 538 (11.57%) Oracle
3 295 (6.35%) VMware
4 157 (3.38%) Google
5 144 (3.10%) Databricks
6 113 (2.43%) Veeam
7 96 (2.06%) Citrix
8 79 (1.70%) Facebook
9 74 (1.59%) IBM
10 73 (1.57%) Cisco
11 69 (1.48%) Sybase
12 61 (1.31%) Apple
13 60 (1.29%) SAP
14 58 (1.25%) Red Hat
15 57 (1.23%) Informatica
16 47 (1.01%) Adobe
17 44 (0.95%) NEC
18 42 (0.90%) TIBCO
19 41 (0.88%) OpenLink
20 37 (0.80%) F5