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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 55 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,061 5,348 10,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.10% 5.36% 6.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.74% 25.06% 24.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,437 4,212 7,126
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +4.19% +7.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% +3.26%

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 18,244 21,342 44,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.39% 21.40% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12,530 13,283 21,026
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 £76,250 £83,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%

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 15 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 15 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 +20 4,624 £55,000 -4.35% 1,042
UK excluding London +20 3,673 £52,500 +1.94% 745
Work from Home +19 2,668 £55,000 -2.65% 793
London -3 1,224 £65,000 -5.55% 337
North of England +40 969 £50,000 - 209
South East +13 859 £55,000 - 148
Midlands +31 719 £50,000 - 175
North West +37 553 £50,000 - 122
West Midlands +26 464 £52,500 +5.00% 104
South West +8 416 £52,500 +5.00% 92
East of England +30 404 £47,500 -9.52% 60
Yorkshire +32 302 £50,000 - 62
East Midlands +38 255 £47,500 +5.56% 71
Scotland -35 198 £52,500 +10.53% 44
North East +43 114 £47,500 +11.76% 26
Wales +18 81 £50,000 +16.28% 16
Northern Ireland -5 32 £50,000 - 11

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
1 287 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 252 (4.98%) IIS
3 222 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 111 (2.19%) CMS
5 61 (1.21%) Apache
6 51 (1.01%) Umbraco
7 40 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.43%) Confluence
8 22 (0.43%) WordPress
9 20 (0.40%) WebSphere
10 19 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
12 16 (0.32%) EPiServer
13 15 (0.30%) JBoss
14 14 (0.28%) Apache Solr
14 14 (0.28%) ArcGIS
15 13 (0.26%) Kentico
15 13 (0.26%) SAS
16 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
17 10 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 202 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.40%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.059%) S-PLUS
9 3 (0.059%) SPSS
10 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.020%) InDesign
11 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.020%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 126 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.93%) Endur
3 42 (0.83%) NEC Housing
4 29 (0.57%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 18 (0.36%) PlanetPress Connect
7 16 (0.32%) Elite 3E
7 16 (0.32%) Fidessa
8 13 (0.26%) Maximo
9 12 (0.24%) Epicor Tropos
10 11 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
10 11 (0.22%) SAP Business One
10 11 (0.22%) Shopify
11 10 (0.20%) Sage 200
11 10 (0.20%) Sage X3
12 8 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
12 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
13 7 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
14 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
14 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,863 (56.57%) Azure
2 825 (16.30%) AWS
3 822 (16.24%) Power Platform
4 588 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
5 400 (7.90%) Microsoft 365
6 210 (4.15%) SaaS
7 163 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 151 (2.98%) GCP
9 112 (2.21%) PaaS
9 112 (2.21%) PowerApps
9 112 (2.21%) Serverless
10 108 (2.13%) GitHub
11 106 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 101 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
13 97 (1.92%) Power Automate
14 95 (1.88%) Entra ID
15 91 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 91 (1.80%) Snowflake
16 88 (1.74%) IaaS
17 77 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 262 (5.18%) Firewall
2 206 (4.07%) DNS
3 167 (3.30%) Internet
4 119 (2.35%) WAN
5 116 (2.29%) SAN
6 102 (2.02%) DHCP
7 97 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 93 (1.84%) VPN
9 89 (1.76%) Broadband
10 67 (1.32%) LAN
11 46 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (0.87%) VoIP
13 41 (0.81%) HTTP
14 39 (0.77%) SSL
15 31 (0.61%) Wireless
16 29 (0.57%) NAS
17 28 (0.55%) Network Security
18 25 (0.49%) VLAN
19 21 (0.41%) SD-WAN
20 16 (0.32%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 748 (14.78%) Power BI
2 565 (11.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 478 (9.44%) Data Warehouse
4 431 (8.52%) Relational Database
5 408 (8.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 394 (7.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 340 (6.72%) MongoDB
8 305 (6.03%) MySQL
9 298 (5.89%) Elasticsearch
10 269 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
11 189 (3.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 175 (3.46%) Data Lake
13 160 (3.16%) NoSQL
14 120 (2.37%) Oracle Database
15 115 (2.27%) RDBMS
16 90 (1.78%) Tableau
17 78 (1.54%) DB2
18 69 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
19 60 (1.19%) MS Access
20 55 (1.09%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 469 (9.27%) Git
2 287 (5.67%) Visual Studio
3 229 (4.52%) JIRA
4 106 (2.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 82 (1.62%) NUnit
6 69 (1.36%) GitLab
7 65 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
8 64 (1.26%) Moq
9 61 (1.21%) Jenkins
10 60 (1.19%) TeamCity
11 55 (1.09%) Jasmine
12 43 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
13 37 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 35 (0.69%) Selenium
15 32 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
15 32 (0.63%) Postman
16 28 (0.55%) MSTest
16 28 (0.55%) SpecFlow
17 26 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
18 25 (0.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,264 (24.98%) Social Skills
2 890 (17.59%) Finance
3 449 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (5.41%) Retail
5 199 (3.93%) Public Sector
6 192 (3.79%) Marketing
7 183 (3.62%) Law
8 152 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 151 (2.98%) Games
10 141 (2.79%) Banking
11 139 (2.75%) Legal
12 127 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 98 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
14 92 (1.82%) Back Office
15 85 (1.68%) Local Government
16 80 (1.58%) Advertising
17 50 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
18 47 (0.93%) Police
19 46 (0.91%) Telecoms
20 45 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,432 (48.05%) Developer
2 1,195 (23.61%) .NET Developer
3 694 (13.71%) Senior
4 648 (12.80%) C# Developer
5 425 (8.40%) C# .NET Developer
6 381 (7.53%) Analyst
7 380 (7.51%) Lead
7 380 (7.51%) Software Developer
8 337 (6.66%) Senior Developer
9 303 (5.99%) DBA
10 268 (5.30%) Data Engineer
11 219 (4.33%) Consultant
12 217 (4.29%) Support Engineer
13 204 (4.03%) Software Engineer
14 195 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
15 183 (3.62%) SQL DBA
16 181 (3.58%) Administrator
17 151 (2.98%) Support Analyst
18 134 (2.65%) Architect
19 133 (2.63%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,444 (48.29%) .NET
2 1,451 (28.67%) ASP.NET
3 1,137 (22.47%) .NET Core
4 1,097 (21.68%) AngularJS
5 1,062 (20.98%) HTML
6 952 (18.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 908 (17.94%) .NET Framework
8 862 (17.03%) Entity Framework
9 827 (16.34%) ASP.NET Web API
10 809 (15.98%) CSS
11 710 (14.03%) React
12 505 (9.98%) HTML5
13 485 (9.58%) Vue
14 394 (7.79%) RESTful
15 347 (6.86%) Web Services
16 334 (6.60%) Node.js
17 325 (6.42%) REST
18 295 (5.83%) jQuery
19 282 (5.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 260 (5.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 233 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
1 233 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
2 171 (3.38%) Management Information System
3 160 (3.16%) Public Cloud
4 140 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
5 135 (2.67%) Replication
6 127 (2.51%) Data Structures
7 115 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 108 (2.13%) Clustering
9 91 (1.80%) Cloud Native
10 84 (1.66%) Product Ownership
11 64 (1.26%) Driving Licence
12 62 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 55 (1.09%) Data Centre
14 53 (1.05%) NHS
14 53 (1.05%) Reinsurance
15 51 (1.01%) Algorithms
16 46 (0.91%) Swaptions
17 43 (0.85%) Social Media
18 39 (0.77%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 848 (16.76%) Windows
2 399 (7.88%) Linux
3 377 (7.45%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.15%) VMS
5 106 (2.09%) Unix
6 85 (1.68%) Windows 10
7 79 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 79 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 70 (1.38%) Android
9 51 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 45 (0.89%) CentOS
11 39 (0.77%) Ubuntu
12 27 (0.53%) AIX
12 27 (0.53%) Solaris
13 24 (0.47%) zOS
14 20 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 20 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
15 18 (0.36%) Apple iOS
16 16 (0.32%) Windows 7
17 13 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,794 (35.45%) Agile
2 1,238 (24.46%) MVC
3 1,145 (22.62%) Full Stack Development
4 939 (18.55%) DevOps
5 908 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
6 844 (16.68%) Microservices
7 816 (16.12%) Business Intelligence
8 618 (12.21%) ETL
9 611 (12.07%) TDD
10 598 (11.82%) Scrum
11 443 (8.75%) Computer Science
12 417 (8.24%) BDD
13 407 (8.04%) CI/CD
14 397 (7.84%) Software Engineering
15 376 (7.43%) Mentoring
16 368 (7.27%) Data Modelling
17 346 (6.84%) OO
18 338 (6.68%) Analytics
19 334 (6.60%) Roadmaps
20 311 (6.15%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2,602 (51.41%) SQL
2 2,468 (48.77%) C#
3 1,665 (32.90%) JavaScript
4 816 (16.12%) T-SQL
5 577 (11.40%) TypeScript
6 462 (9.13%) Python
7 350 (6.92%) PowerShell
8 317 (6.26%) Java
9 169 (3.34%) VB
10 165 (3.26%) VB.NET
11 83 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 79 (1.56%) PHP
13 78 (1.54%) C++
14 75 (1.48%) Bash
15 54 (1.07%) C
15 54 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 54 (1.07%) R
16 45 (0.89%) VBA
17 42 (0.83%) Bicep
18 41 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 852 (16.83%) Degree
2 266 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 219 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 209 (4.13%) Security Cleared
5 116 (2.29%) SC Cleared
6 69 (1.36%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 43 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 35 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
10 30 (0.59%) CCNA
10 30 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (0.53%) DV Cleared
12 25 (0.49%) MCSE
13 19 (0.38%) AWS Certification
14 18 (0.36%) MCP
15 15 (0.30%) HND
16 13 (0.26%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.24%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (4.96%) QA
2 198 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 74 (1.46%) SLA
4 73 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 65 (1.28%) GDPR
6 35 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.30%) WAI
8 14 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.16%) WCAG
12 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.12%) GMP
12 6 (0.12%) NIST
13 5 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.079%) COBIT
14 4 (0.079%) MiFID
14 4 (0.079%) NCSC
14 4 (0.079%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.059%) JSP 440
System Software
1 389 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 230 (4.54%) Docker
3 218 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 124 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
5 105 (2.07%) Hyper-V
6 58 (1.15%) vSphere
7 45 (0.89%) VMware NSX
8 37 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.34%) XenApp
10 9 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.099%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.079%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.059%) Firmware
14 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.020%) NFS
16 1 (0.020%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 224 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 151 (2.98%) Terraform
3 62 (1.23%) Ansible
4 53 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 46 (0.91%) SCCM
6 31 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.49%) Grafana
8 24 (0.47%) Nagios
9 23 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
10 18 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.32%) WSUS
12 15 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.30%) vCenter Server
13 13 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
15 11 (0.22%) MIIS
15 11 (0.22%) Puppet
16 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.18%) Foglight
17 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,642 (52.20%) Microsoft
2 579 (11.44%) Oracle
3 344 (6.80%) VMware
4 170 (3.36%) Google
5 153 (3.02%) Databricks
6 113 (2.23%) Veeam
7 100 (1.98%) Citrix
8 85 (1.68%) Cisco
9 84 (1.66%) Facebook
10 78 (1.54%) IBM
11 76 (1.50%) Sybase
12 67 (1.32%) Apple
13 65 (1.28%) SAP
14 60 (1.19%) Informatica
15 57 (1.13%) Red Hat
16 50 (0.99%) TIBCO
17 47 (0.93%) NEC
18 46 (0.91%) OpenLink
19 42 (0.83%) Adobe
19 42 (0.83%) HP