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 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 42 56 31
Rank change year-on-year +14 -25 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,690 2,933 5,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.89% 5.15% 7.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.73% 26.74% 34.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 2,301 3,966
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,498 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% +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 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 12,413 10,967 16,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.45% 19.25% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8,112 6,548 10,139
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,984 £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 £78,750 £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 31 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 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
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
Scotland -39 188 £52,500 +10.53% 47
North East +35 116 £47,500 - 36
Wales +19 79 £50,000 +16.28% 12
Northern Ireland -6 30 £50,000 - 15
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
1 202 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 165 (4.47%) IIS
3 119 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 56 (1.52%) CMS
5 38 (1.03%) Apache
6 36 (0.98%) Umbraco
7 17 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.43%) Confluence
9 13 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 12 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 10 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.24%) Apache Solr
13 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
13 8 (0.22%) JBoss
13 8 (0.22%) WordPress
14 7 (0.19%) Kentico
14 7 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.16%) NServiceBus
16 5 (0.14%) Drupal
16 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 141 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.081%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.081%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.027%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 54 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.49%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (0.33%) Sage 200
5 11 (0.30%) Shopify
6 10 (0.27%) Maximo
7 9 (0.24%) Epicor Tropos
8 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.16%) PlanetPress Connect
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 (0.081%) iTrent
12 3 (0.081%) Magento
13 2 (0.054%) Infor LN
13 2 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 2,159 (58.51%) Azure
2 583 (15.80%) AWS
3 579 (15.69%) Power Platform
4 385 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
5 282 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (3.50%) SaaS
7 103 (2.79%) GCP
8 98 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 73 (1.98%) PowerApps
9 73 (1.98%) Serverless
10 70 (1.90%) Power Automate
11 67 (1.82%) Entra ID
12 64 (1.73%) PaaS
13 62 (1.68%) GitHub
14 61 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 61 (1.65%) Snowflake
15 60 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
16 53 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 50 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
18 46 (1.25%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (5.23%) Firewall
2 140 (3.79%) DNS
3 120 (3.25%) Internet
4 105 (2.85%) WAN
5 102 (2.76%) SAN
6 82 (2.22%) Broadband
7 76 (2.06%) DHCP
8 73 (1.98%) VPN
9 68 (1.84%) TCP/IP
10 61 (1.65%) LAN
11 39 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (1.03%) VoIP
13 37 (1.00%) SSL
14 28 (0.76%) HTTP
15 24 (0.65%) NAS
16 23 (0.62%) Wireless
17 17 (0.46%) SD-WAN
18 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
18 16 (0.43%) VLAN
19 15 (0.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 538 (14.58%) Power BI
2 351 (9.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 325 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
4 318 (8.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 275 (7.45%) Relational Database
6 261 (7.07%) MongoDB
7 255 (6.91%) Elasticsearch
8 253 (6.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 246 (6.67%) MySQL
10 170 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
11 123 (3.33%) Data Lake
11 123 (3.33%) NoSQL
12 113 (3.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 82 (2.22%) Oracle Database
14 55 (1.49%) MS Access
15 51 (1.38%) Tableau
16 43 (1.17%) DB2
17 42 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
18 40 (1.08%) RDBMS
19 38 (1.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 329 (8.92%) Git
2 188 (5.09%) Visual Studio
3 134 (3.63%) JIRA
4 53 (1.44%) Jasmine
5 52 (1.41%) NUnit
6 50 (1.36%) GitLab
7 49 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 47 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 42 (1.14%) Karma Test Runner
10 32 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
11 31 (0.84%) Moq
12 30 (0.81%) Jenkins
13 27 (0.73%) Selenium
14 23 (0.62%) TeamCity
15 22 (0.60%) MSTest
15 22 (0.60%) Postman
16 20 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
17 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
17 13 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
18 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 907 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 512 (13.88%) Finance
3 283 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (6.40%) Retail
5 155 (4.20%) Manufacturing
5 155 (4.20%) Public Sector
6 133 (3.60%) Law
7 83 (2.25%) Marketing
7 83 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 79 (2.14%) Games
9 78 (2.11%) Legal
10 74 (2.01%) Advertising
10 74 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 51 (1.38%) Banking
12 45 (1.22%) Back Office
13 39 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
13 39 (1.06%) Local Government
14 33 (0.89%) Police
15 31 (0.84%) Music Industry
15 31 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,928 (52.25%) Developer
2 1,016 (27.53%) .NET Developer
3 509 (13.79%) C# Developer
4 393 (10.65%) Senior
5 367 (9.95%) C# .NET Developer
6 334 (9.05%) Software Developer
7 231 (6.26%) DBA
8 220 (5.96%) Lead
9 219 (5.93%) Senior Developer
10 197 (5.34%) Data Engineer
11 193 (5.23%) Analyst
12 191 (5.18%) Support Engineer
13 165 (4.47%) Software Engineer
14 155 (4.20%) Consultant
15 153 (4.15%) SQL DBA
16 140 (3.79%) Administrator
17 115 (3.12%) Full Stack Developer
17 115 (3.12%) IT Engineer
17 115 (3.12%) IT Support
18 107 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,926 (52.20%) .NET
2 1,207 (32.71%) ASP.NET
3 976 (26.45%) .NET Core
4 918 (24.88%) AngularJS
5 833 (22.57%) HTML
6 800 (21.68%) ASP.NET MVC
7 731 (19.81%) ASP.NET Web API
8 723 (19.59%) Entity Framework
9 720 (19.51%) .NET Framework
10 632 (17.13%) CSS
11 601 (16.29%) React
12 450 (12.20%) Vue
13 406 (11.00%) HTML5
14 290 (7.86%) RESTful
15 278 (7.53%) Node.js
16 221 (5.99%) Blazor
16 221 (5.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 211 (5.72%) CSS3
18 210 (5.69%) jQuery
19 206 (5.58%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 163 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
2 154 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 122 (3.31%) Public Cloud
4 109 (2.95%) Data Structures
5 108 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 103 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 100 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
8 95 (2.57%) Replication
9 73 (1.98%) Clustering
10 66 (1.79%) Cloud Native
11 51 (1.38%) Driving Licence
11 51 (1.38%) Product Ownership
12 47 (1.27%) Algorithms
13 44 (1.19%) NHS
14 40 (1.08%) Reinsurance
15 38 (1.03%) iPhone
16 35 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (0.92%) Social Network
18 33 (0.89%) Social Media
19 32 (0.87%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 564 (15.28%) Windows
2 289 (7.83%) Windows Server
3 254 (6.88%) Linux
4 103 (2.79%) VMS
5 59 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 54 (1.46%) Android
6 54 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 52 (1.41%) Windows 10
8 49 (1.33%) Unix
9 40 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.68%) AIX
11 23 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (0.43%) Windows 7
13 14 (0.38%) CentOS
13 14 (0.38%) Debian
14 13 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (0.22%) SUSE
15 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
16 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.14%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,389 (37.64%) Agile
2 1,041 (28.21%) MVC
3 967 (26.21%) Full Stack Development
4 697 (18.89%) Microservices
5 659 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 610 (16.53%) DevOps
7 563 (15.26%) Business Intelligence
8 455 (12.33%) TDD
9 414 (11.22%) Scrum
10 370 (10.03%) ETL
11 354 (9.59%) BDD
12 281 (7.62%) CI/CD
13 267 (7.24%) OO
14 266 (7.21%) Mentoring
15 262 (7.10%) Computer Science
16 250 (6.78%) Software Engineering
17 242 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence
18 226 (6.12%) Roadmaps
19 224 (6.07%) Kanban
20 221 (5.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,958 (53.06%) C#
2 1,850 (50.14%) SQL
3 1,314 (35.61%) JavaScript
4 505 (13.69%) T-SQL
5 500 (13.55%) TypeScript
6 269 (7.29%) Python
7 198 (5.37%) Java
8 193 (5.23%) PowerShell
9 154 (4.17%) VB.NET
10 118 (3.20%) VB
11 81 (2.20%) PHP
12 70 (1.90%) C++
13 48 (1.30%) C
14 32 (0.87%) XAML
15 31 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 30 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (0.79%) VB6
18 28 (0.76%) Bash
18 28 (0.76%) R
19 26 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 524 (14.20%) Degree
2 185 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 183 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 158 (4.28%) Security Cleared
5 86 (2.33%) SC Cleared
6 44 (1.19%) 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 (0.70%) DV Cleared
10 26 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
11 16 (0.43%) MCSE
12 15 (0.41%) HND
13 13 (0.35%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.35%) MCP
14 12 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
14 12 (0.33%) OCP
14 12 (0.33%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.30%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (5.45%) QA
2 141 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 51 (1.38%) GDPR
4 48 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 36 (0.98%) SLA
6 21 (0.57%) 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 (0.081%) 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
1 255 (6.91%) Active Directory
2 187 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 169 (4.58%) Docker
4 113 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 103 (2.79%) Hyper-V
6 41 (1.11%) vSphere
7 40 (1.08%) VMware NSX
8 30 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.41%) XenApp
10 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.16%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.081%) 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
1 149 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 91 (2.47%) Terraform
3 36 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.92%) 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%) MIIS
10 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
10 10 (0.27%) WSUS
11 9 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.19%) Prometheus
14 6 (0.16%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.14%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.14%) Grafana
15 5 (0.14%) SCOM
16 4 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 2,033 (55.09%) Microsoft
2 338 (9.16%) Oracle
3 288 (7.80%) VMware
4 148 (4.01%) Google
5 90 (2.44%) Veeam
6 82 (2.22%) Facebook
7 79 (2.14%) Citrix
7 79 (2.14%) Databricks
8 64 (1.73%) Cisco
9 61 (1.65%) Apple
10 51 (1.38%) IBM
11 46 (1.25%) Informatica
12 38 (1.03%) SAP
13 30 (0.81%) Sony
13 30 (0.81%) Yahoo!
14 24 (0.65%) Xamarin
15 23 (0.62%) Adobe
15 23 (0.62%) EMC
15 23 (0.62%) NetApp
15 23 (0.62%) Salesforce