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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 53 42
Rank change year-on-year +21 -11 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,684 5,242 9,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.53% 5.58% 7.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.03% 25.58% 25.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,136 4,093 6,474
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,750
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 £84,674 £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 15,095 20,496 35,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.81% 21.81% 27.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,458 12,760 19,262
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 £96,250 £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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +4 1,245 £65,000 -5.55% 396
North of England +36 973 £50,000 - 191
South East +10 865 £55,000 - 168
Midlands +37 734 £50,000 - 164
North West +44 553 £50,000 - 101
West Midlands +26 452 £52,500 +5.00% 97
South West +4 420 £52,500 +5.00% 81
East of England +35 412 £47,500 -10.80% 71
Yorkshire +27 306 £52,500 +5.00% 65
East Midlands +34 282 £47,500 +5.56% 67
North East +44 114 £47,500 +11.76% 26
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
1 308 (6.58%) SharePoint
2 234 (5.00%) IIS
3 219 (4.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 106 (2.26%) CMS
5 51 (1.09%) Umbraco
6 48 (1.02%) Apache
7 30 (0.64%) Apache Spark
8 24 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 24 (0.51%) WordPress
9 21 (0.45%) Confluence
10 17 (0.36%) 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
1 184 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 23 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) InDesign
8 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.085%) SPSS
11 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.043%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.021%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.021%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 126 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (1.00%) Endur
3 27 (0.58%) SDL Web 8
4 24 (0.51%) NEC Housing
5 21 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
6 18 (0.38%) Elite 3E
7 16 (0.34%) Fidessa
8 15 (0.32%) Maximo
9 13 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
10 12 (0.26%) PlanetPress Connect
10 12 (0.26%) Shopify
11 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
11 11 (0.23%) SAP Business One
12 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
12 10 (0.21%) Sage 200
13 9 (0.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
13 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
14 8 (0.17%) Teamcenter
15 7 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
16 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,607 (55.66%) Azure
2 763 (16.29%) Power Platform
3 718 (15.33%) AWS
4 539 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
5 397 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
6 207 (4.42%) SaaS
7 157 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 134 (2.86%) GCP
9 111 (2.37%) Serverless
10 110 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 106 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
12 104 (2.22%) PaaS
12 104 (2.22%) PowerApps
13 99 (2.11%) GitHub
14 92 (1.96%) Snowflake
15 88 (1.88%) Power Automate
16 81 (1.73%) Entra ID
17 75 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 69 (1.47%) IaaS
19 65 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 250 (5.34%) Firewall
2 208 (4.44%) DNS
3 157 (3.35%) Internet
4 126 (2.69%) SAN
5 124 (2.65%) WAN
6 103 (2.20%) DHCP
7 95 (2.03%) LAN
8 93 (1.99%) TCP/IP
9 86 (1.84%) VPN
10 76 (1.62%) Broadband
11 48 (1.02%) VoIP
12 45 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
13 42 (0.90%) HTTP
14 41 (0.88%) SSL
15 35 (0.75%) NAS
16 34 (0.73%) Wireless
17 28 (0.60%) Network Security
18 27 (0.58%) VLAN
19 17 (0.36%) iSCSI
20 16 (0.34%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 685 (14.62%) Power BI
2 532 (11.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 428 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
4 401 (8.56%) Relational Database
5 376 (8.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 360 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 310 (6.62%) MongoDB
8 281 (6.00%) MySQL
9 268 (5.72%) Elasticsearch
10 223 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
11 163 (3.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 162 (3.46%) Data Lake
13 144 (3.07%) NoSQL
14 93 (1.99%) RDBMS
15 86 (1.84%) Tableau
16 83 (1.77%) Oracle Database
17 72 (1.54%) DB2
18 67 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
19 57 (1.22%) MS Access
20 46 (0.98%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 412 (8.80%) Git
2 258 (5.51%) Visual Studio
3 220 (4.70%) JIRA
4 92 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 77 (1.64%) NUnit
6 66 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 64 (1.37%) GitLab
8 58 (1.24%) TeamCity
9 53 (1.13%) Jenkins
10 51 (1.09%) Moq
11 38 (0.81%) Jasmine
12 33 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
13 32 (0.68%) Postman
14 31 (0.66%) Selenium
15 27 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
16 26 (0.56%) SpecFlow
17 24 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
18 23 (0.49%) Bitbucket
18 23 (0.49%) MSTest
19 22 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,145 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 787 (16.80%) Finance
3 394 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (5.70%) Retail
5 185 (3.95%) Marketing
6 168 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 167 (3.57%) Law
8 144 (3.07%) Legal
9 142 (3.03%) Games
10 141 (3.01%) Manufacturing
11 117 (2.50%) Banking
12 86 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 82 (1.75%) Advertising
14 76 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 69 (1.47%) Back Office
16 52 (1.11%) Local Government
17 51 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
18 49 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
19 38 (0.81%) Financial Institution
20 34 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,283 (48.74%) Developer
2 1,136 (24.25%) .NET Developer
3 642 (13.71%) Senior
4 613 (13.09%) C# Developer
5 398 (8.50%) C# .NET Developer
6 366 (7.81%) Software Developer
7 354 (7.56%) Analyst
8 346 (7.39%) Lead
9 306 (6.53%) Senior Developer
10 243 (5.19%) Data Engineer
11 233 (4.97%) DBA
12 211 (4.50%) Consultant
13 209 (4.46%) Support Engineer
14 186 (3.97%) Full Stack Developer
15 180 (3.84%) Software Engineer
16 157 (3.35%) SQL DBA
17 146 (3.12%) Administrator
18 139 (2.97%) Support Analyst
19 136 (2.90%) Architect
20 133 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,270 (48.46%) .NET
2 1,338 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 1,067 (22.78%) .NET Core
4 1,018 (21.73%) AngularJS
5 1,001 (21.37%) HTML
6 881 (18.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 821 (17.53%) .NET Framework
8 764 (16.31%) Entity Framework
9 755 (16.12%) ASP.NET Web API
10 747 (15.95%) CSS
11 670 (14.30%) React
12 494 (10.55%) HTML5
13 447 (9.54%) Vue
14 368 (7.86%) RESTful
15 335 (7.15%) Node.js
16 324 (6.92%) Web Services
17 321 (6.85%) REST
18 276 (5.89%) XML
19 261 (5.57%) jQuery
20 248 (5.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 211 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
2 192 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
3 169 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 131 (2.80%) Public Cloud
5 122 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 115 (2.46%) Data Structures
6 115 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 111 (2.37%) Replication
8 87 (1.86%) Clustering
9 73 (1.56%) Cloud Native
10 70 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 66 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 57 (1.22%) Reinsurance
13 49 (1.05%) NHS
14 46 (0.98%) Swaptions
15 45 (0.96%) Data Centre
16 44 (0.94%) Algorithms
17 42 (0.90%) Onboarding
18 41 (0.88%) Driving Licence
18 41 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 797 (17.02%) Windows
2 349 (7.45%) Linux
3 340 (7.26%) Windows Server
4 97 (2.07%) VMS
5 84 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 79 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 78 (1.67%) Unix
8 75 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 66 (1.41%) Android
10 55 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 41 (0.88%) CentOS
12 39 (0.83%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.58%) Solaris
14 24 (0.51%) zOS
15 23 (0.49%) AIX
16 20 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 19 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.34%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.34%) Windows 7
19 15 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,677 (35.80%) Agile
2 1,155 (24.66%) MVC
3 1,090 (23.27%) Full Stack Development
4 862 (18.40%) DevOps
5 830 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
6 796 (16.99%) Microservices
7 752 (16.05%) Business Intelligence
8 574 (12.25%) ETL
9 559 (11.93%) TDD
10 554 (11.83%) Scrum
11 396 (8.45%) Computer Science
12 392 (8.37%) BDD
13 360 (7.69%) CI/CD
14 357 (7.62%) Software Engineering
15 344 (7.34%) Data Modelling
16 318 (6.79%) Roadmaps
17 317 (6.77%) OO
18 316 (6.75%) Analytics
19 302 (6.45%) Mentoring
20 288 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,417 (51.60%) SQL
2 2,278 (48.63%) C#
3 1,573 (33.58%) JavaScript
4 733 (15.65%) T-SQL
5 535 (11.42%) TypeScript
6 475 (10.14%) Python
7 317 (6.77%) PowerShell
8 269 (5.74%) Java
9 177 (3.78%) VB
10 159 (3.39%) VB.NET
11 97 (2.07%) PHP
12 77 (1.64%) PL/SQL
13 69 (1.47%) Bash
14 61 (1.30%) C++
15 52 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 50 (1.07%) R
17 41 (0.88%) XPath
18 40 (0.85%) Bicep
19 39 (0.83%) C
19 39 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 778 (16.61%) Degree
2 246 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 195 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 161 (3.44%) Security Cleared
5 106 (2.26%) SC Cleared
6 70 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 36 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 25 (0.53%) MCSE
10 20 (0.43%) DV Cleared
11 19 (0.41%) MCP
12 18 (0.38%) CCNA
12 18 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (0.36%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
15 13 (0.28%) HND
16 12 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
16 12 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 11 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (4.70%) QA
2 176 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 71 (1.52%) SLA
4 59 (1.26%) GDPR
5 37 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (0.64%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.26%) 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 (0.085%) COBIT
12 4 (0.085%) ISO 9000
12 4 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.085%) NCSC
12 4 (0.085%) PMO
12 4 (0.085%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.064%) MiFID
System Software
1 384 (8.20%) Active Directory
2 208 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 197 (4.21%) Docker
4 110 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
5 98 (2.09%) Hyper-V
6 57 (1.22%) vSphere
7 32 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.36%) XenApp
10 11 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.085%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.085%) VMware Server
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%) IAG
15 1 (0.021%) RACF
Systems Management
1 210 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 125 (2.67%) Terraform
3 50 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 50 (1.07%) SCCM
4 37 (0.79%) Ansible
5 24 (0.51%) Nagios
6 21 (0.45%) Grafana
7 20 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
9 18 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.34%) WSUS
11 13 (0.28%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.23%) MIIS
14 9 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (0.19%) Foglight
15 8 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
15 8 (0.17%) Puppet
16 7 (0.15%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2,472 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 509 (10.87%) Oracle
3 324 (6.92%) VMware
4 152 (3.25%) Databricks
5 151 (3.22%) Google
6 106 (2.26%) Veeam
7 103 (2.20%) Citrix
8 78 (1.67%) Facebook
9 77 (1.64%) IBM
10 71 (1.52%) Sybase
11 66 (1.41%) Cisco
12 63 (1.35%) SAP
13 61 (1.30%) Apple
14 60 (1.28%) Informatica
15 53 (1.13%) TIBCO
16 51 (1.09%) Red Hat
17 48 (1.02%) Adobe
18 46 (0.98%) OpenLink
19 44 (0.94%) HP
20 41 (0.88%) F5