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 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 48 45 68
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 -20
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,220 1,876 4,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.07% 5.85% 5.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.06% 23.71% 17.95%
Number of salaries quoted 948 1,547 2,559
10th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £41,950
25th Percentile £51,938 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £68,823 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +5.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +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 5,291 7,912 23,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.97% 24.66% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,882 5,619 9,034
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 £128,750 £117,236 £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 31 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 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
Central London +2 238 £67,500 -3.57% 69
West London -36 28 £53,750 +7.50% 13
South London -30 18 £55,000 - 5
East London +11 13 £57,500 +4.55% 7
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 (8.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 63 (5.16%) CMS
3 63 (5.16%) IIS
4 23 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.64%) Apache
6 15 (1.23%) EPiServer
7 14 (1.15%) WordPress
8 13 (1.07%) Sitecore CMS
9 11 (0.90%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.74%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.66%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.57%) Confluence
12 7 (0.57%) JBoss
12 7 (0.57%) WebLogic
12 7 (0.57%) WildFly
13 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.41%) Immediacy CMS
14 5 (0.41%) Kentico
Applications
1 60 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.48%) 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 54 (4.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (3.44%) Endur
3 32 (2.62%) SDL Web 8
4 22 (1.80%) 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%) Teamcenter
9 6 (0.49%) PlanetPress Connect
10 5 (0.41%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 5 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
12 3 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
12 3 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 2 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
13 2 (0.16%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 631 (51.72%) Azure
2 201 (16.48%) Power Platform
3 199 (16.31%) AWS
4 165 (13.52%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (4.75%) SaaS
7 57 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 38 (3.11%) GCP
9 35 (2.87%) GitHub
9 35 (2.87%) Serverless
10 34 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 34 (2.79%) PaaS
11 32 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 31 (2.54%) PowerApps
12 31 (2.54%) Snowflake
13 30 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (2.30%) IaaS
15 27 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
16 25 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 61 (5.00%) DNS
2 58 (4.75%) Firewall
3 44 (3.61%) Internet
4 32 (2.62%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.13%) DHCP
6 17 (1.39%) FIX Connectivity
7 15 (1.23%) SAN
8 12 (0.98%) HTTP
9 11 (0.90%) VPN
10 10 (0.82%) iSCSI
11 9 (0.74%) WAN
11 9 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.66%) Fibre Channel
12 8 (0.66%) LAN
12 8 (0.66%) Network Security
12 8 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (0.57%) Broadband
13 7 (0.57%) Mobile Broadband
13 7 (0.57%) VoIP
14 6 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (15.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 182 (14.92%) Power BI
3 140 (11.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 138 (11.31%) Relational Database
5 120 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
6 84 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (6.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 75 (6.15%) MongoDB
9 68 (5.57%) RDBMS
10 62 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 58 (4.75%) MySQL
12 42 (3.44%) Data Lake
13 41 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
14 40 (3.28%) Tableau
15 35 (2.87%) DB2
16 31 (2.54%) Oracle Database
17 26 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
18 25 (2.05%) NoSQL
19 19 (1.56%) Big Data
20 15 (1.23%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 146 (11.97%) Git
2 91 (7.46%) Visual Studio
3 87 (7.13%) JIRA
4 42 (3.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 41 (3.36%) TeamCity
6 39 (3.20%) Moq
7 34 (2.79%) NUnit
8 26 (2.13%) Jenkins
9 24 (1.97%) Octopus Deploy
10 23 (1.89%) SpecFlow
11 22 (1.80%) GitLab
12 18 (1.48%) git-flow
12 18 (1.48%) Sourcetree
13 12 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.82%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.82%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.66%) Mercurial
16 7 (0.57%) MSTest
17 4 (0.33%) Selenium
17 4 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 331 (27.13%) Finance
2 304 (24.92%) Social Skills
3 143 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (8.52%) Marketing
5 78 (6.39%) Banking
6 66 (5.41%) Games
7 57 (4.67%) Legal
8 46 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (3.52%) Local Government
10 41 (3.36%) Back Office
11 40 (3.28%) Law
12 36 (2.95%) Public Sector
13 33 (2.70%) Retail
14 21 (1.72%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.56%) Front Office
16 17 (1.39%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.82%) Billing
19 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
20 8 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 500 (40.98%) Developer
2 283 (23.20%) Senior
3 210 (17.21%) .NET Developer
4 160 (13.11%) C# Developer
5 148 (12.13%) Analyst
6 126 (10.33%) Lead
7 122 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 91 (7.46%) Full Stack Developer
9 83 (6.80%) C# .NET Developer
10 69 (5.66%) Architect
11 68 (5.57%) Data Engineer
12 64 (5.25%) Applications Support
13 62 (5.08%) Support Analyst
14 58 (4.75%) Senior C# Developer
15 54 (4.43%) Consultant
16 53 (4.34%) Software Developer
17 52 (4.26%) DBA
18 48 (3.93%) Full-Stack C# Developer
19 44 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
20 40 (3.28%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (40.41%) .NET
2 255 (20.90%) ASP.NET
3 244 (20.00%) HTML
4 197 (16.15%) AngularJS
4 197 (16.15%) CSS
5 188 (15.41%) .NET Framework
6 163 (13.36%) .NET Core
7 150 (12.30%) ASP.NET MVC
8 141 (11.56%) Web Services
9 139 (11.39%) Entity Framework
10 118 (9.67%) RESTful
11 115 (9.43%) React
12 114 (9.34%) ASP.NET Web API
13 102 (8.36%) HTML5
14 98 (8.03%) REST
14 98 (8.03%) XML
15 89 (7.30%) jQuery
16 77 (6.31%) SOAP
17 65 (5.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 64 (5.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 69 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
2 60 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.36%) Swaptions
5 31 (2.54%) Legacy Code
6 30 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 28 (2.30%) Replication
8 27 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 26 (2.13%) Cloud Native
9 26 (2.13%) Hedge funds
10 25 (2.05%) Clustering
10 25 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.97%) Life Science
12 22 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (1.56%) Data Centre
15 17 (1.39%) Data Fabric
15 17 (1.39%) Eurex
15 17 (1.39%) Housing Association
16 16 (1.31%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 248 (20.33%) Windows
2 125 (10.25%) Linux
3 79 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 56 (4.59%) Unix
5 29 (2.38%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.21%) CentOS
6 27 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 25 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (1.72%) Solaris
10 20 (1.64%) zOS
11 11 (0.90%) Android
12 10 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
13 9 (0.74%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.57%) VMS
16 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.41%) Mac OS
18 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
18 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (33.03%) Agile
2 288 (23.61%) DevOps
3 207 (16.97%) Full Stack Development
4 206 (16.89%) Business Intelligence
5 205 (16.80%) ETL
6 199 (16.31%) MVC
7 198 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
8 182 (14.92%) Scrum
9 172 (14.10%) Computer Science
10 161 (13.20%) Microservices
11 157 (12.87%) TDD
12 147 (12.05%) Data Modelling
13 129 (10.57%) Analytics
14 116 (9.51%) CI/CD
14 116 (9.51%) ITIL
15 114 (9.34%) Software Engineering
16 104 (8.52%) Mentoring
17 88 (7.21%) Roadmaps
18 87 (7.13%) OO
19 85 (6.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 663 (54.34%) SQL
2 479 (39.26%) C#
3 349 (28.61%) JavaScript
4 266 (21.80%) T-SQL
5 193 (15.82%) Python
6 117 (9.59%) PowerShell
7 106 (8.69%) Java
8 84 (6.89%) TypeScript
9 44 (3.61%) Bash
10 43 (3.52%) VB
10 43 (3.52%) XPath
11 38 (3.11%) PL/SQL
12 28 (2.30%) Perl
13 24 (1.97%) Bicep
13 24 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 24 (1.97%) R
14 23 (1.89%) Ruby
15 18 (1.48%) VBA
16 12 (0.98%) Scala
17 10 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 276 (22.62%) Degree
2 70 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (2.95%) Security Cleared
4 22 (1.80%) Master's Degree
5 21 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (1.64%) SC Cleared
7 12 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.57%) MCSE
9 7 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
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 45 (3.69%) Data Quality
2 43 (3.52%) QA
3 37 (3.03%) SLA
4 19 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.23%) GDPR
6 12 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.66%) 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
1 102 (8.36%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.61%) Docker
3 26 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.48%) vSphere
5 10 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.33%) 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 69 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 56 (4.59%) Terraform
3 24 (1.97%) Prometheus
4 23 (1.89%) Ansible
5 18 (1.48%) SCCM
6 17 (1.39%) Grafana
7 15 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.07%) 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%) Control-M
11 6 (0.49%) Istio
12 5 (0.41%) PaperCut
12 5 (0.41%) WSUS
13 4 (0.33%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 535 (43.85%) Microsoft
2 218 (17.87%) Oracle
3 64 (5.25%) Databricks
4 57 (4.67%) Sybase
5 44 (3.61%) VMware
6 42 (3.44%) TIBCO
7 41 (3.36%) OpenLink
8 36 (2.95%) Red Hat
9 26 (2.13%) Bloomberg
10 25 (2.05%) Veeam
11 24 (1.97%) Adobe
11 24 (1.97%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.80%) Cisco
12 22 (1.80%) NEC
12 22 (1.80%) Reuters
12 22 (1.80%) SAP
13 21 (1.72%) HP
14 19 (1.56%) Citrix
14 19 (1.56%) F5
14 19 (1.56%) IBM