SQL Server Jobs in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 45 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 -22
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,234 2,031 4,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.22% 5.91% 6.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.93% 23.84% 18.80%
Number of salaries quoted 979 1,649 2,560
10th Percentile £43,600 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,599 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,823 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +5.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,156 8,519 21,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.79% 24.78% 31.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,830 5,925 8,991
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,536 £116,250 £107,500
England 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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +1 229 £67,500 -3.57% 60
West London -30 31 £52,501 +5.00% 11
South London -29 20 £56,250 -6.25% 8
East London +8 16 £57,500 +4.55% 13
North London -2 8 £55,000 -24.14%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 104 (8.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (5.83%) SharePoint
3 68 (5.51%) IIS
4 52 (4.21%) CMS
5 21 (1.70%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.54%) Apache
7 15 (1.22%) EPiServer
8 14 (1.13%) WordPress
9 11 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
9 11 (0.89%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.81%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.65%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.57%) Confluence
12 7 (0.57%) JBoss
12 7 (0.57%) WebLogic
12 7 (0.57%) WildFly
13 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.41%) Immediacy CMS
14 5 (0.41%) Kentico
Applications
1 55 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.05%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.24%) SPSS
7 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (5.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (3.57%) Endur
3 23 (1.86%) NEC Housing
3 23 (1.86%) SDL Web 8
4 16 (1.30%) Fidessa
5 12 (0.97%) Elite 3E
6 10 (0.81%) PlanetPress Connect
7 9 (0.73%) Sage X3
7 9 (0.73%) SAP Business One
8 7 (0.57%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 7 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.32%) BusinessWorks
9 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 2 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 633 (51.30%) Azure
2 206 (16.69%) AWS
3 203 (16.45%) Power Platform
4 167 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
5 101 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 61 (4.94%) SaaS
7 40 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 39 (3.16%) GitHub
8 39 (3.16%) PaaS
9 38 (3.08%) GCP
10 36 (2.92%) Serverless
11 34 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (2.67%) Snowflake
13 32 (2.59%) PowerApps
14 31 (2.51%) IaaS
15 30 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 29 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
17 27 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.27%) DNS
2 64 (5.19%) Firewall
3 43 (3.48%) Internet
4 31 (2.51%) DHCP
5 30 (2.43%) TCP/IP
6 21 (1.70%) SAN
7 18 (1.46%) VPN
8 16 (1.30%) FIX Connectivity
9 13 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.81%) HTTP
10 10 (0.81%) iSCSI
10 10 (0.81%) WAN
11 9 (0.73%) LAN
11 9 (0.73%) Network Security
12 8 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
12 8 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
12 8 (0.65%) VoIP
12 8 (0.65%) Wireless
13 6 (0.49%) Mobile Broadband
13 6 (0.49%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (16.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 180 (14.59%) Power BI
3 142 (11.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 139 (11.26%) Relational Database
5 125 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
6 88 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
7 78 (6.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 77 (6.24%) MongoDB
9 70 (5.67%) RDBMS
10 67 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 64 (5.19%) MySQL
12 41 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
13 40 (3.24%) Data Lake
14 38 (3.08%) Tableau
15 35 (2.84%) DB2
16 29 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
17 23 (1.86%) NoSQL
17 23 (1.86%) Oracle Database
18 20 (1.62%) Delta Lake
19 16 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 131 (10.62%) Git
2 86 (6.97%) JIRA
3 85 (6.89%) Visual Studio
4 49 (3.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 35 (2.84%) TeamCity
6 29 (2.35%) Moq
7 26 (2.11%) Jenkins
7 26 (2.11%) NUnit
8 19 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
9 18 (1.46%) SpecFlow
10 17 (1.38%) GitLab
11 13 (1.05%) git-flow
11 13 (1.05%) Sourcetree
12 11 (0.89%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (0.73%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.65%) Mercurial
15 6 (0.49%) Subversion
16 5 (0.41%) MSTest
17 4 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 331 (26.82%) Finance
2 308 (24.96%) Social Skills
3 145 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (7.54%) Marketing
5 77 (6.24%) Banking
6 68 (5.51%) Games
7 57 (4.62%) Legal
8 45 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (3.48%) Back Office
9 43 (3.48%) Law
9 43 (3.48%) Local Government
10 34 (2.76%) Public Sector
11 31 (2.51%) Retail
12 23 (1.86%) Front Office
13 22 (1.78%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.38%) Investment Banking
15 13 (1.05%) Billing
16 12 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 481 (38.98%) Developer
2 283 (22.93%) Senior
3 201 (16.29%) .NET Developer
4 160 (12.97%) Analyst
5 150 (12.16%) C# Developer
6 131 (10.62%) Lead
7 115 (9.32%) Senior Developer
8 78 (6.32%) C# .NET Developer
9 77 (6.24%) Full Stack Developer
10 73 (5.92%) Applications Support
11 71 (5.75%) Data Engineer
12 70 (5.67%) Support Analyst
13 69 (5.59%) Architect
14 62 (5.02%) Consultant
15 53 (4.29%) Software Developer
16 52 (4.21%) DBA
17 50 (4.05%) Senior C# Developer
18 44 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 43 (3.48%) Applications Support Analyst
20 38 (3.08%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (38.90%) .NET
2 242 (19.61%) ASP.NET
3 226 (18.31%) HTML
4 188 (15.24%) AngularJS
5 179 (14.51%) CSS
6 175 (14.18%) .NET Framework
7 163 (13.21%) .NET Core
8 142 (11.51%) ASP.NET MVC
9 132 (10.70%) Web Services
10 124 (10.05%) Entity Framework
11 111 (9.00%) ASP.NET Web API
12 105 (8.51%) RESTful
13 104 (8.43%) React
14 99 (8.02%) HTML5
15 98 (7.94%) REST
16 96 (7.78%) XML
17 77 (6.24%) jQuery
18 71 (5.75%) SOAP
19 67 (5.43%) JSON
20 60 (4.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.35%) Greenfield Project
2 61 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
3 49 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 43 (3.48%) Swaptions
5 31 (2.51%) Public Cloud
6 29 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.35%) Replication
7 28 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.19%) Hedge funds
9 26 (2.11%) Clustering
10 25 (2.03%) Cloud Native
11 24 (1.94%) Life Science
12 22 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.78%) Legacy Code
13 19 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.54%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (1.54%) Housing Association
14 16 (1.30%) Data Fabric
14 16 (1.30%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 262 (21.23%) Windows
2 125 (10.13%) Linux
3 89 (7.21%) Windows Server
4 53 (4.29%) Unix
5 31 (2.51%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.19%) Ubuntu
7 26 (2.11%) CentOS
8 24 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (1.62%) Solaris
9 20 (1.62%) zOS
10 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.65%) Android
12 7 (0.57%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.57%) VMS
13 6 (0.49%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.16%) AIX
14 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (31.60%) Agile
2 281 (22.77%) DevOps
3 216 (17.50%) ETL
4 207 (16.77%) Business Intelligence
5 194 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (15.56%) MVC
7 189 (15.32%) Full Stack Development
8 173 (14.02%) Scrum
9 164 (13.29%) Microservices
10 159 (12.88%) Computer Science
11 145 (11.75%) Data Modelling
12 143 (11.59%) TDD
13 131 (10.62%) Analytics
14 128 (10.37%) ITIL
15 118 (9.56%) Software Engineering
16 112 (9.08%) CI/CD
17 101 (8.18%) Mentoring
18 87 (7.05%) Roadmaps
19 86 (6.97%) CRM
20 84 (6.81%) OO
Programming Languages
1 643 (52.11%) SQL
2 470 (38.09%) C#
3 335 (27.15%) JavaScript
4 262 (21.23%) T-SQL
5 196 (15.88%) Python
6 116 (9.40%) PowerShell
7 111 (9.00%) Java
8 80 (6.48%) TypeScript
9 46 (3.73%) VB
10 45 (3.65%) Bash
11 43 (3.48%) PL/SQL
12 38 (3.08%) XPath
13 29 (2.35%) Perl
14 24 (1.94%) R
15 23 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 22 (1.78%) Bicep
16 22 (1.78%) Ruby
17 13 (1.05%) Scala
18 12 (0.97%) VBA
19 9 (0.73%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 273 (22.12%) Degree
2 68 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (2.92%) Security Cleared
4 24 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (1.70%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 19 (1.54%) SC Cleared
7 8 (0.65%) MCSE
7 8 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 7 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
8 7 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (0.49%) MCP
10 5 (0.41%) MCSA
11 4 (0.32%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.32%) CISM
11 4 (0.32%) CISSP
11 4 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.24%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.16%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 41 (3.32%) QA
3 37 (3.00%) SLA
4 17 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.13%) GDPR
7 8 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.49%) NIST
8 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.32%) MiFID
10 4 (0.32%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.081%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.081%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.081%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.081%) WCAG
System Software
1 115 (9.32%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.32%) Docker
3 29 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.46%) vSphere
5 12 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.16%) XenApp
9 1 (0.081%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.081%) Firmware
9 1 (0.081%) NFS
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.081%) vCloud
9 1 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 61 (4.94%) Terraform
3 23 (1.86%) Prometheus
4 22 (1.78%) SCCM
5 21 (1.70%) Ansible
6 20 (1.62%) Grafana
6 20 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (1.05%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (0.73%) Foglight
8 9 (0.73%) Puppet
9 8 (0.65%) Nagios
9 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.57%) WSUS
11 5 (0.41%) Control-M
11 5 (0.41%) Istio
12 4 (0.32%) Nessus
12 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
12 4 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 548 (44.41%) Microsoft
2 218 (17.67%) Oracle
3 72 (5.83%) Databricks
4 59 (4.78%) Sybase
5 54 (4.38%) VMware
6 47 (3.81%) TIBCO
7 43 (3.48%) OpenLink
8 34 (2.76%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.27%) ServiceNow
10 25 (2.03%) HP
11 24 (1.94%) Bloomberg
11 24 (1.94%) Veeam
12 23 (1.86%) NEC
13 22 (1.78%) Citrix
13 22 (1.78%) SAP
14 21 (1.70%) Reuters
15 20 (1.62%) Cisco
16 19 (1.54%) Adobe
16 19 (1.54%) IBM
17 18 (1.46%) F5