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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 205 351 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 6.13% 7.58% 7.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.06% 32.05% 29.77%
Number of salaries quoted 159 324 481
10th Percentile £42,250 £48,225 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £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% - +7.69%

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 818 1,095 1,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 24.48% 23.66% 26.13%
Number of salaries quoted 616 967 1,620
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 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,500 £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 7 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 17 (8.29%) CMS
2 16 (7.80%) SharePoint
3 15 (7.32%) IIS
4 9 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.44%) EPiServer
6 3 (1.46%) Apache
7 2 (0.98%) WordPress
8 1 (0.49%) JBoss
8 1 (0.49%) SAS
8 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.49%) Tornado
8 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.49%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.90%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.85%) SDL Web 8
2 9 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.98%) Farmplan
3 2 (0.98%) KEYPrime
3 2 (0.98%) MIS ActiveH
3 2 (0.98%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.49%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.49%) Endur
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 123 (60.00%) Azure
2 35 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (16.10%) Power Platform
4 22 (10.73%) AWS
5 19 (9.27%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (7.80%) SaaS
7 14 (6.83%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (6.34%) Snowflake
9 12 (5.85%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 8 (3.90%) NuGet
11 7 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.44%) PaaS
12 5 (2.44%) Power Automate
12 5 (2.44%) Serverless
13 4 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.95%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.95%) Rubrik
13 4 (1.95%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.37%) Internet
2 7 (3.41%) DNS
3 4 (1.95%) DHCP
3 4 (1.95%) WAN
4 3 (1.46%) Firewall
4 3 (1.46%) LAN
4 3 (1.46%) SAN
4 3 (1.46%) VPN
5 2 (0.98%) Network Security
5 2 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.98%) SSL
5 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.98%) Wireless
6 1 (0.49%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.49%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.49%) NAS
6 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 27 (13.17%) Power BI
3 24 (11.71%) Relational Database
4 22 (10.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 11 (5.37%) MySQL
7 10 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (3.90%) RDBMS
8 8 (3.90%) Tableau
9 7 (3.41%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.93%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.93%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (1.46%) DB2
12 3 (1.46%) Metadata
12 3 (1.46%) SQLite
13 2 (0.98%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.98%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 33 (16.10%) Git
2 24 (11.71%) JIRA
2 24 (11.71%) Visual Studio
3 15 (7.32%) Moq
3 15 (7.32%) TeamCity
4 13 (6.34%) NUnit
5 10 (4.88%) SpecFlow
6 8 (3.90%) git-flow
6 8 (3.90%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (3.90%) Sourcetree
7 4 (1.95%) GitLab
7 4 (1.95%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.46%) MSTest
8 3 (1.46%) Protractor
8 3 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.98%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 67 (32.68%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.56%) Finance
3 27 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.24%) Marketing
5 16 (7.80%) Law
6 13 (6.34%) Legal
7 5 (2.44%) Retail
8 4 (1.95%) Advertising
8 4 (1.95%) Banking
9 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Games
9 3 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Back Office
11 1 (0.49%) Billing
11 1 (0.49%) Front Office
11 1 (0.49%) iGaming
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (45.85%) Developer
2 72 (35.12%) Senior
3 34 (16.59%) C# Developer
3 34 (16.59%) Senior Developer
4 30 (14.63%) .NET Developer
5 29 (14.15%) Software Developer
6 26 (12.68%) Analyst
7 24 (11.71%) Full Stack Developer
8 20 (9.76%) Senior Software Developer
9 19 (9.27%) C# .NET Developer
9 19 (9.27%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 18 (8.78%) Consultant
11 17 (8.29%) Lead
12 14 (6.83%) Applications Support
13 12 (5.85%) Support Consultant
14 11 (5.37%) Full Stack .NET Developer
14 11 (5.37%) Senior C# Developer
15 10 (4.88%) Architect
15 10 (4.88%) Support Analyst
16 9 (4.39%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (48.78%) .NET
2 70 (34.15%) HTML
3 67 (32.68%) CSS
4 53 (25.85%) ASP.NET
5 44 (21.46%) .NET Framework
6 34 (16.59%) Web Services
7 33 (16.10%) jQuery
7 33 (16.10%) RESTful
8 28 (13.66%) XML
9 25 (12.20%) Entity Framework
10 23 (11.22%) ASP.NET MVC
10 23 (11.22%) HTML5
10 23 (11.22%) React
11 21 (10.24%) AngularJS
11 21 (10.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 21 (10.24%) WPF
12 18 (8.78%) SOAP
13 16 (7.80%) .NET Core
13 16 (7.80%) JSON
14 15 (7.32%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.22%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (5.85%) Legacy Code
2 12 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.37%) Life Science
4 7 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.93%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.44%) Reinsurance
6 5 (2.44%) Replication
7 4 (1.95%) Clustering
7 4 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.46%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (1.46%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.46%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.46%) LIMS
9 2 (0.98%) NHS
9 2 (0.98%) PKI
9 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (30.24%) Windows
2 32 (15.61%) Windows Server
3 11 (5.37%) Linux
4 8 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (2.93%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.46%) Unix
9 1 (0.49%) CentOS
9 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.49%) VMS
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (28.29%) Computer Science
1 58 (28.29%) DevOps
2 47 (22.93%) Agile
3 45 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (15.61%) MVC
5 31 (15.12%) Business Intelligence
6 29 (14.15%) Collaborative Working
6 29 (14.15%) Full Stack Development
7 25 (12.20%) Data Modelling
8 24 (11.71%) ETL
9 23 (11.22%) Multithreaded Programming
9 23 (11.22%) Multithreading
10 21 (10.24%) Scrum
11 19 (9.27%) Analytics
11 19 (9.27%) Mentoring
11 19 (9.27%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (9.27%) Unit Testing
12 15 (7.32%) ITIL
12 15 (7.32%) Migration
13 14 (6.83%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 151 (73.66%) SQL
2 95 (46.34%) C#
3 78 (38.05%) JavaScript
4 59 (28.78%) T-SQL
5 21 (10.24%) Python
6 19 (9.27%) PowerShell
7 15 (7.32%) XPath
8 9 (4.39%) Java
9 7 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (2.93%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.44%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.95%) C++
13 3 (1.46%) Erlang
14 2 (0.98%) Bash
14 2 (0.98%) VBA
15 1 (0.49%) PHP
15 1 (0.49%) R
15 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (37.07%) Degree
2 17 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.95%) AWS Certification
3 4 (1.95%) Azure Certification
3 4 (1.95%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.98%) A+ Certification
5 2 (0.98%) CCNA
5 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (0.98%) MCP
5 2 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.24%) QA
2 9 (4.39%) SLA
3 7 (3.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.49%) NIST
5 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (10.24%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.95%) vSphere
4 3 (1.46%) Docker
5 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.49%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (2.93%) SCCM
2 4 (1.95%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.98%) Ansible
4 2 (0.98%) Foglight
4 2 (0.98%) SCOM
4 2 (0.98%) Terraform
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.49%) cPanel
5 1 (0.49%) Packer
5 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (39.51%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.15%) Oracle
3 15 (7.32%) VMware
4 9 (4.39%) Aderant
4 9 (4.39%) Databricks
5 8 (3.90%) Adobe
5 8 (3.90%) Cognizant
6 7 (3.41%) HP
7 6 (2.93%) Cisco
7 6 (2.93%) Citrix
8 5 (2.44%) Informatica
8 5 (2.44%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.95%) Canon
10 3 (1.46%) SAP
10 3 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.46%) Veeam
11 2 (0.98%) Commvault
11 2 (0.98%) Dell
11 2 (0.98%) NetApp
11 2 (0.98%) Sun