SQL Server Jobs in England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 53 43
Rank change year-on-year +19 -10 -15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,653 5,063 9,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.46% 5.50% 7.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.76% 25.66% 25.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,102 3,983 6,471
10th Percentile £34,905 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.28% +8.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,759 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,129 19,734 36,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.75% 21.42% 27.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,420 12,436 19,266
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,585 £105,000 £95,000
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 England

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in England.

Salary trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +2 1,227 £65,000 -5.55% 416
North of England +39 967 £50,000 - 194
South East +11 862 £55,000 - 163
Midlands +32 731 £50,000 - 177
North West +34 550 £50,000 - 104
West Midlands +25 462 £52,500 +5.00% 107
South West +3 422 £52,500 +5.00% 98
East of England +30 413 £47,500 -5.00% 63
Yorkshire +31 302 £51,498 +3.00% 68
East Midlands +37 269 £47,500 +2.70% 69
North East +41 115 £47,500 +11.76% 23
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 296 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 227 (4.88%) IIS
3 209 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 104 (2.24%) CMS
5 48 (1.03%) Apache
5 48 (1.03%) Umbraco
6 31 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 23 (0.49%) WordPress
8 21 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 20 (0.43%) Confluence
10 17 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 16 (0.34%) EPiServer
11 16 (0.34%) WebSphere
12 15 (0.32%) JBoss
13 14 (0.30%) ArcGIS
13 14 (0.30%) Kentico
14 13 (0.28%) Apache Solr
15 12 (0.26%) SAS
16 10 (0.21%) WildFly
17 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 186 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.49%) Photoshop
4 16 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.11%) InDesign
6 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.064%) SPSS
8 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.043%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.021%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.021%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 121 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (0.92%) Endur
3 37 (0.80%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.58%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
6 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
7 15 (0.32%) Fidessa
8 13 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
8 13 (0.28%) Maximo
9 12 (0.26%) Shopify
10 11 (0.24%) PlanetPress Connect
10 11 (0.24%) Sage X3
10 11 (0.24%) SAP Business One
11 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
11 10 (0.21%) Sage 200
12 8 (0.17%) OpenLink RightAngle
12 8 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
12 8 (0.17%) Teamcenter
13 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
14 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,594 (55.75%) Azure
2 766 (16.46%) Power Platform
3 721 (15.50%) AWS
4 534 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
5 384 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
6 198 (4.26%) SaaS
7 156 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 132 (2.84%) GCP
9 110 (2.36%) PowerApps
10 107 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 107 (2.30%) Serverless
11 103 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
12 99 (2.13%) GitHub
13 96 (2.06%) Power Automate
14 91 (1.96%) PaaS
14 91 (1.96%) Snowflake
15 80 (1.72%) Entra ID
16 78 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 63 (1.35%) IaaS
18 62 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 238 (5.11%) Firewall
2 207 (4.45%) DNS
3 158 (3.40%) Internet
4 123 (2.64%) SAN
5 106 (2.28%) WAN
6 102 (2.19%) DHCP
7 96 (2.06%) TCP/IP
8 79 (1.70%) LAN
8 79 (1.70%) VPN
9 76 (1.63%) Broadband
10 45 (0.97%) VoIP
11 42 (0.90%) HTTP
11 42 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (0.86%) SSL
13 32 (0.69%) NAS
14 30 (0.64%) Wireless
15 26 (0.56%) Network Security
16 23 (0.49%) VLAN
17 16 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
17 16 (0.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 690 (14.83%) Power BI
2 528 (11.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 427 (9.18%) Data Warehouse
4 396 (8.51%) Relational Database
5 380 (8.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 355 (7.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 313 (6.73%) MongoDB
8 279 (6.00%) MySQL
9 270 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
10 243 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
11 166 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 163 (3.50%) Data Lake
13 143 (3.07%) NoSQL
14 97 (2.08%) Oracle Database
15 93 (2.00%) RDBMS
16 88 (1.89%) Tableau
17 78 (1.68%) DB2
18 69 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
19 57 (1.23%) MS Access
20 46 (0.99%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 413 (8.88%) Git
2 260 (5.59%) Visual Studio
3 215 (4.62%) JIRA
4 90 (1.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 77 (1.65%) NUnit
6 66 (1.42%) GitLab
7 62 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 58 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 56 (1.20%) Jenkins
10 52 (1.12%) Moq
11 38 (0.82%) Jasmine
12 33 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
13 32 (0.69%) Postman
13 32 (0.69%) Selenium
14 27 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
15 26 (0.56%) SpecFlow
16 24 (0.52%) Bitbucket
16 24 (0.52%) MSTest
16 24 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
17 22 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,152 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 784 (16.85%) Finance
3 401 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (5.76%) Retail
5 188 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 179 (3.85%) Marketing
7 160 (3.44%) Law
8 143 (3.07%) Legal
9 138 (2.97%) Manufacturing
10 136 (2.92%) Games
11 111 (2.39%) Banking
12 85 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 83 (1.78%) Back Office
14 79 (1.70%) Advertising
15 78 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 67 (1.44%) Local Government
17 51 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
18 48 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
19 36 (0.77%) Telecoms
20 33 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,269 (48.76%) Developer
2 1,132 (24.33%) .NET Developer
3 635 (13.65%) Senior
4 611 (13.13%) C# Developer
5 397 (8.53%) C# .NET Developer
6 355 (7.63%) Software Developer
7 349 (7.50%) Analyst
8 348 (7.48%) Lead
9 308 (6.62%) Senior Developer
10 248 (5.33%) Data Engineer
11 241 (5.18%) DBA
12 211 (4.53%) Support Engineer
13 209 (4.49%) Consultant
14 186 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
15 176 (3.78%) Software Engineer
16 156 (3.35%) Administrator
17 152 (3.27%) SQL DBA
18 134 (2.88%) Support Analyst
19 128 (2.75%) Architect
20 127 (2.73%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,258 (48.53%) .NET
2 1,337 (28.73%) ASP.NET
3 1,061 (22.80%) .NET Core
4 1,008 (21.66%) AngularJS
5 991 (21.30%) HTML
6 876 (18.83%) ASP.NET MVC
7 826 (17.75%) .NET Framework
8 772 (16.59%) Entity Framework
9 758 (16.29%) ASP.NET Web API
10 741 (15.93%) CSS
11 658 (14.14%) React
12 482 (10.36%) HTML5
13 451 (9.69%) Vue
14 361 (7.76%) RESTful
15 321 (6.90%) Web Services
16 319 (6.86%) Node.js
17 307 (6.60%) REST
18 265 (5.70%) XML
19 259 (5.57%) jQuery
20 251 (5.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 208 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
2 206 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
3 163 (3.50%) Management Information System
4 130 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 121 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 117 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 116 (2.49%) Data Structures
8 109 (2.34%) Replication
9 84 (1.81%) Clustering
10 71 (1.53%) Cloud Native
11 68 (1.46%) Product Ownership
12 66 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
13 57 (1.23%) Driving Licence
14 55 (1.18%) Reinsurance
15 50 (1.07%) NHS
16 43 (0.92%) Algorithms
17 42 (0.90%) Swaptions
18 39 (0.84%) Data Centre
18 39 (0.84%) Onboarding
18 39 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 789 (16.96%) Windows
2 351 (7.54%) Linux
3 339 (7.29%) Windows Server
4 96 (2.06%) VMS
5 91 (1.96%) Unix
6 82 (1.76%) Windows 10
7 76 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 75 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 67 (1.44%) Android
10 52 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 40 (0.86%) CentOS
12 37 (0.80%) Ubuntu
13 26 (0.56%) Solaris
14 24 (0.52%) zOS
15 23 (0.49%) AIX
16 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 19 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.34%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.34%) Windows 7
19 13 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,672 (35.93%) Agile
2 1,149 (24.69%) MVC
3 1,079 (23.19%) Full Stack Development
4 857 (18.42%) DevOps
5 810 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
6 796 (17.11%) Microservices
7 759 (16.31%) Business Intelligence
8 571 (12.27%) ETL
9 558 (11.99%) Scrum
10 557 (11.97%) TDD
11 395 (8.49%) Computer Science
12 389 (8.36%) BDD
13 363 (7.80%) CI/CD
14 349 (7.50%) Software Engineering
15 345 (7.41%) Data Modelling
16 318 (6.83%) Analytics
17 313 (6.73%) OO
18 311 (6.68%) Roadmaps
19 306 (6.58%) Mentoring
20 297 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,388 (51.32%) SQL
2 2,271 (48.81%) C#
3 1,548 (33.27%) JavaScript
4 728 (15.65%) T-SQL
5 537 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 462 (9.93%) Python
7 309 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 270 (5.80%) Java
9 166 (3.57%) VB
10 162 (3.48%) VB.NET
11 85 (1.83%) PHP
12 71 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 65 (1.40%) C++
14 64 (1.38%) Bash
15 53 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 52 (1.12%) R
17 40 (0.86%) Bicep
17 40 (0.86%) XPath
18 39 (0.84%) C
19 37 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 757 (16.27%) Degree
2 242 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 196 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 176 (3.78%) Security Cleared
5 104 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 64 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 36 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 25 (0.54%) MCSE
10 24 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
11 23 (0.49%) DV Cleared
12 19 (0.41%) MCP
13 18 (0.39%) CCNA
13 18 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.37%) AWS Certification
15 14 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.28%) HND
16 13 (0.28%) ISTQB
17 12 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
17 12 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (4.69%) QA
2 177 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 69 (1.48%) SLA
4 60 (1.29%) GDPR
5 46 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 36 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.21%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.13%) GMP
11 5 (0.11%) NIST
11 5 (0.11%) WCAG
12 4 (0.086%) COBIT
12 4 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.086%) NCSC
12 4 (0.086%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.064%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.064%) MiFID
13 3 (0.064%) PMO
System Software
1 375 (8.06%) Active Directory
2 202 (4.34%) Docker
3 198 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 108 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
5 101 (2.17%) Hyper-V
6 55 (1.18%) vSphere
7 33 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.37%) XenApp
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.11%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.086%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.043%) Firmware
14 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.021%) NFS
15 1 (0.021%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 212 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 129 (2.77%) Terraform
3 49 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 46 (0.99%) SCCM
5 37 (0.80%) Ansible
6 24 (0.52%) Nagios
6 24 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.45%) Grafana
8 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
9 16 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.34%) WSUS
10 14 (0.30%) vCenter Server
11 13 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
13 11 (0.24%) MIIS
14 9 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (0.19%) Foglight
14 9 (0.19%) Puppet
15 8 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
16 7 (0.15%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2,438 (52.40%) Microsoft
2 529 (11.37%) Oracle
3 310 (6.66%) VMware
4 155 (3.33%) Databricks
5 152 (3.27%) Google
6 104 (2.24%) Veeam
7 102 (2.19%) Citrix
8 79 (1.70%) IBM
9 78 (1.68%) Facebook
10 70 (1.50%) Sybase
11 67 (1.44%) Cisco
12 65 (1.40%) SAP
13 61 (1.31%) Apple
14 59 (1.27%) Informatica
15 57 (1.23%) Red Hat
16 47 (1.01%) TIBCO
17 45 (0.97%) Adobe
18 42 (0.90%) HP
18 42 (0.90%) OpenLink
19 40 (0.86%) F5