SQL Server Jobs in the City of London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 34 31
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 208 361 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 6.16% 7.65% 7.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.21% 31.86% 29.80%
Number of salaries quoted 162 334 488
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,225 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £55,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% - -
75th Percentile £88,438 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +5.66%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 City of London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 825 1,133 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 24.44% 24.00% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 624 1,003 1,636
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.63% -2.07%
75th Percentile £92,813 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £109,250 £112,500 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 18 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 17 (8.17%) CMS
3 16 (7.69%) IIS
4 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.40%) EPiServer
6 3 (1.44%) Apache
7 2 (0.96%) WordPress
8 1 (0.48%) JBoss
8 1 (0.48%) SAS
8 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.48%) Tornado
8 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.48%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.85%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.77%) SDL Web 8
2 10 (4.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.96%) Farmplan
3 2 (0.96%) KEYPrime
3 2 (0.96%) MIS ActiveH
3 2 (0.96%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.48%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.48%) Endur
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 126 (60.58%) Azure
2 35 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (16.35%) Power Platform
4 22 (10.58%) AWS
5 21 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (8.17%) SaaS
7 15 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (6.25%) PowerApps
8 13 (6.25%) Snowflake
9 8 (3.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 8 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (3.85%) NuGet
10 6 (2.88%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.40%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.40%) PaaS
11 5 (2.40%) Serverless
11 5 (2.40%) WhatsApp
12 4 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.92%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.29%) Internet
2 7 (3.37%) DNS
3 4 (1.92%) DHCP
3 4 (1.92%) VPN
3 4 (1.92%) WAN
4 3 (1.44%) Firewall
4 3 (1.44%) LAN
4 3 (1.44%) SAN
5 2 (0.96%) Network Security
5 2 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.96%) SSL
5 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.96%) Wireless
6 1 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.48%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.48%) NAS
6 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.46%) Power BI
2 27 (12.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 26 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 21 (10.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.29%) MySQL
6 11 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (5.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (3.85%) RDBMS
8 8 (3.85%) Tableau
9 7 (3.37%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.88%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.40%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (1.44%) DB2
12 3 (1.44%) Metadata
12 3 (1.44%) SQLite
13 2 (0.96%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.96%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 32 (15.38%) Git
2 26 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 23 (11.06%) JIRA
4 15 (7.21%) TeamCity
5 14 (6.73%) Moq
6 13 (6.25%) NUnit
7 10 (4.81%) SpecFlow
8 8 (3.85%) git-flow
8 8 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (3.85%) Sourcetree
9 4 (1.92%) GitLab
9 4 (1.92%) Jenkins
10 3 (1.44%) Protractor
10 3 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.96%) MSTest
11 2 (0.96%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
12 1 (0.48%) Postman
12 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 68 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.83%) Finance
3 27 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.10%) Marketing
5 17 (8.17%) Law
6 14 (6.73%) Legal
7 5 (2.40%) Retail
8 4 (1.92%) Advertising
8 4 (1.92%) Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Games
9 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.96%) Front Office
10 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
11 1 (0.48%) iGaming
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (46.15%) Developer
2 73 (35.10%) Senior
3 35 (16.83%) C# Developer
4 34 (16.35%) Senior Developer
5 32 (15.38%) .NET Developer
6 29 (13.94%) Software Developer
7 26 (12.50%) Analyst
8 23 (11.06%) Full Stack Developer
9 21 (10.10%) C# .NET Developer
10 20 (9.62%) Senior Software Developer
11 18 (8.65%) Consultant
11 18 (8.65%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 16 (7.69%) Lead
13 14 (6.73%) Applications Support
14 12 (5.77%) Support Consultant
15 11 (5.29%) Senior C# Developer
16 10 (4.81%) Architect
16 10 (4.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 10 (4.81%) Full Stack .NET Developer
16 10 (4.81%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (48.56%) .NET
2 69 (33.17%) HTML
3 65 (31.25%) CSS
4 52 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 43 (20.67%) .NET Framework
6 33 (15.87%) Web Services
7 32 (15.38%) RESTful
8 31 (14.90%) jQuery
9 29 (13.94%) XML
10 24 (11.54%) Entity Framework
11 23 (11.06%) HTML5
12 22 (10.58%) ASP.NET MVC
12 22 (10.58%) React
13 21 (10.10%) WPF
14 20 (9.62%) AngularJS
15 19 (9.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 18 (8.65%) SOAP
17 17 (8.17%) .NET Core
17 17 (8.17%) JSON
18 13 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.06%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (5.77%) Legacy Code
2 12 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.29%) Life Science
4 7 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.40%) Reinsurance
6 5 (2.40%) Replication
7 4 (1.92%) Clustering
7 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.44%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.44%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.44%) LIMS
9 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.96%) PKI
9 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (30.77%) Windows
2 34 (16.35%) Windows Server
3 12 (5.77%) Linux
4 8 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (2.88%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.40%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.44%) Unix
9 1 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.48%) VMS
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (28.37%) DevOps
2 57 (27.40%) Computer Science
3 49 (23.56%) Agile
4 46 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (15.38%) MVC
6 28 (13.46%) Collaborative Working
6 28 (13.46%) Full Stack Development
7 25 (12.02%) Data Modelling
7 25 (12.02%) ETL
8 23 (11.06%) Multithreaded Programming
8 23 (11.06%) Multithreading
9 21 (10.10%) Scrum
10 19 (9.13%) Analytics
10 19 (9.13%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (8.65%) Mentoring
11 18 (8.65%) Unit Testing
12 15 (7.21%) Migration
13 14 (6.73%) ITIL
13 14 (6.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 152 (73.08%) SQL
2 96 (46.15%) C#
3 76 (36.54%) JavaScript
4 60 (28.85%) T-SQL
5 23 (11.06%) Python
6 20 (9.62%) PowerShell
7 15 (7.21%) XPath
8 9 (4.33%) Java
9 7 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (2.88%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.40%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.92%) C++
13 3 (1.44%) Bash
13 3 (1.44%) Erlang
14 2 (0.96%) VBA
15 1 (0.48%) PHP
15 1 (0.48%) R
15 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (36.54%) Degree
2 16 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.96%) A+ Certification
5 2 (0.96%) CCNA
5 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (0.96%) MCP
5 2 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.62%) QA
2 9 (4.33%) SLA
3 7 (3.37%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (10.58%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.92%) vSphere
4 3 (1.44%) Docker
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (2.88%) SCCM
2 4 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.96%) Ansible
4 2 (0.96%) Foglight
4 2 (0.96%) SCOM
4 2 (0.96%) Terraform
5 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.48%) cPanel
5 1 (0.48%) Packer
5 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (38.94%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.46%) Oracle
3 16 (7.69%) VMware
4 9 (4.33%) Aderant
4 9 (4.33%) Databricks
5 8 (3.85%) Adobe
5 8 (3.85%) Cognizant
5 8 (3.85%) HP
6 7 (3.37%) Citrix
7 6 (2.88%) Cisco
7 6 (2.88%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.40%) Informatica
9 4 (1.92%) Canon
10 3 (1.44%) SAP
10 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.96%) Commvault
11 2 (0.96%) NetApp
11 2 (0.96%) Sage
11 2 (0.96%) Sun