SQL Server Jobs in the South West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 48 51 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 -22 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 423 386 716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.59% 5.58% 8.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.13% 29.02% 33.69%
Number of salaries quoted 380 298 493
10th Percentile £33,175 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,213 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £64,063 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,433 £73,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.28% +8.20%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,359 1,330 2,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.73% 19.23% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 974 851 1,487
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,713 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £81,750
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 the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the South West.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the South West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Bristol +14 134 £60,000 +33.33% 33
Wiltshire +28 91 £50,000 -3.85% 11
Devon +25 67 £46,250 +2.78% 21
Gloucestershire -40 45 £52,500 -4.55% 11
Dorset -40 37 £57,500 +9.52% 13
Somerset +21 36 £50,000 - 9
Cornwall -16 3 £42,500 -14.14% 2
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 27 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.65%) IIS
5 6 (1.42%) CMS
5 6 (1.42%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.18%) Apache
6 5 (1.18%) NServiceBus
6 5 (1.18%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.71%) Confluence
8 3 (0.71%) GlassFish
8 3 (0.71%) JBoss
8 3 (0.71%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.71%) SharePoint 2013
8 3 (0.71%) WildFly
9 2 (0.47%) nginx
9 2 (0.47%) SAS
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 20 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.47%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.60%) Maximo
2 6 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.95%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.95%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.47%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 255 (60.28%) Azure
2 83 (19.62%) Azure DevOps
3 77 (18.20%) Power Platform
4 68 (16.08%) AWS
5 40 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (5.67%) GCP
7 8 (1.89%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (1.65%) GitHub
8 7 (1.65%) OpenShift
8 7 (1.65%) SaaS
9 6 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.42%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.42%) Google Play
9 6 (1.42%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.18%) Azure Storage
10 5 (1.18%) Nutanix
11 4 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.49%) SAN
2 17 (4.02%) LAN
3 15 (3.55%) WAN
4 11 (2.60%) Broadband
5 7 (1.65%) Internet
6 6 (1.42%) Firewall
7 5 (1.18%) DNS
7 5 (1.18%) HTTP
7 5 (1.18%) VoIP
7 5 (1.18%) Wireless
7 5 (1.18%) WLAN
8 4 (0.95%) Network Security
8 4 (0.95%) SSL
8 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.95%) VPN
9 3 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.24%) Intranet
10 1 (0.24%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (16.31%) Power BI
2 56 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (11.82%) Relational Database
4 38 (8.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 35 (8.27%) MySQL
6 32 (7.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 27 (6.38%) MongoDB
8 25 (5.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 22 (5.20%) NoSQL
10 15 (3.55%) Big Data
11 13 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (2.60%) GIS
14 10 (2.36%) Data Lake
14 10 (2.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (2.13%) Hadoop
15 9 (2.13%) Oracle Database
15 9 (2.13%) Tableau
16 8 (1.89%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.89%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 64 (15.13%) Git
2 22 (5.20%) Visual Studio
3 17 (4.02%) Team Foundation Server
4 12 (2.84%) Oracle Forms
5 10 (2.36%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.36%) Selenium
6 7 (1.65%) Postman
6 7 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (1.65%) Subversion
7 6 (1.42%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.18%) JIRA
9 4 (0.95%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.95%) Jasmine
9 4 (0.95%) Mocha
9 4 (0.95%) Toad
10 3 (0.71%) Maven
10 3 (0.71%) Moq
10 3 (0.71%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.71%) xUnit.net
11 1 (0.24%) RSpec
General
1 136 (32.15%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.02%) Finance
3 45 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.67%) Retail
5 15 (3.55%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.13%) Banking
8 8 (1.89%) Legal
8 8 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.65%) Local Government
10 6 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.18%) Automotive
11 5 (1.18%) Games
12 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Marketing
12 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.71%) Advertising
13 3 (0.71%) German Language
14 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 216 (51.06%) Developer
2 118 (27.90%) .NET Developer
3 72 (17.02%) Senior
4 69 (16.31%) C# Developer
5 56 (13.24%) C# .NET Developer
6 53 (12.53%) Software Developer
7 51 (12.06%) Senior Developer
8 40 (9.46%) Software Engineer
9 34 (8.04%) DBA
10 28 (6.62%) Senior .NET Developer
11 27 (6.38%) Administrator
12 26 (6.15%) Analyst
13 24 (5.67%) SQL DBA
14 23 (5.44%) Lead
14 23 (5.44%) Senior C# Developer
15 22 (5.20%) Consultant
16 21 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 17 (4.02%) C# Software Developer
18 15 (3.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 15 (3.55%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (54.37%) .NET
2 142 (33.57%) ASP.NET
3 114 (26.95%) CSS
4 112 (26.48%) HTML
5 108 (25.53%) AngularJS
6 106 (25.06%) .NET Core
7 97 (22.93%) .NET Framework
8 91 (21.51%) Entity Framework
9 76 (17.97%) React
10 70 (16.55%) ASP.NET MVC
11 63 (14.89%) Vue
12 57 (13.48%) ASP.NET Web API
13 33 (7.80%) jQuery
14 30 (7.09%) HTML5
14 30 (7.09%) LESS
14 30 (7.09%) REST
15 27 (6.38%) Blazor
16 26 (6.15%) CSS3
17 23 (5.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 16 (3.78%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.49%) Onboarding
2 17 (4.02%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.78%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.31%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.60%) Replication
7 8 (1.89%) AS400
8 7 (1.65%) CCTV
8 7 (1.65%) Digital TV
8 7 (1.65%) Learning Management System
8 7 (1.65%) Social Network
8 7 (1.65%) VAX
9 6 (1.42%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.42%) iPhone
10 5 (1.18%) EMC VNX
10 5 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.18%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.00%) Windows
2 36 (8.51%) Linux
3 26 (6.15%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.84%) Android
6 11 (2.60%) VMS
7 9 (2.13%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.65%) Windows 7
8 7 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.42%) AIX
9 6 (1.42%) Unix
9 6 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.18%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.71%) Solaris
12 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (34.99%) Agile
2 120 (28.37%) MVC
3 114 (26.95%) DevOps
4 94 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
5 84 (19.86%) Business Intelligence
6 71 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (15.60%) CI/CD
8 63 (14.89%) Software Engineering
9 61 (14.42%) Microservices
10 52 (12.29%) Scrum
11 44 (10.40%) Design Patterns
12 42 (9.93%) TDD
13 41 (9.69%) Mentoring
14 38 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (8.98%) ETL
15 36 (8.51%) Clean Code
16 32 (7.57%) Migration
17 31 (7.33%) Machine Learning
18 30 (7.09%) SDLC
19 29 (6.86%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 218 (51.54%) C#
2 191 (45.15%) SQL
3 172 (40.66%) JavaScript
4 61 (14.42%) TypeScript
5 49 (11.58%) T-SQL
6 32 (7.57%) Python
7 30 (7.09%) Java
8 20 (4.73%) VB.NET
9 16 (3.78%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.13%) Scala
10 9 (2.13%) VB
11 8 (1.89%) PHP
12 7 (1.65%) Go
13 6 (1.42%) Bicep
13 6 (1.42%) C++
14 5 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.95%) Bash
16 3 (0.71%) C
16 3 (0.71%) XAML
17 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (12.06%) Degree
2 33 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.71%) MCPD
9 2 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.24%) MCSA
10 1 (0.24%) MCSD
10 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.86%) QA
2 9 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (8.04%) Docker
2 30 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (6.86%) Active Directory
4 22 (5.20%) Hyper-V
5 12 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (2.60%) XenApp
7 5 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.95%) vSphere
9 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.84%) Nagios
3 11 (2.60%) Terraform
4 9 (2.13%) SCCM
5 7 (1.65%) EMC VPLEX
6 5 (1.18%) Ansible
6 5 (1.18%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (1.18%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle Statspack
7 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 220 (52.01%) Microsoft
2 58 (13.71%) Oracle
3 35 (8.27%) VMware
4 18 (4.26%) Google
5 16 (3.78%) Citrix
6 15 (3.55%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.55%) Veeam
7 14 (3.31%) IBM
8 12 (2.84%) EMC
8 12 (2.84%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.60%) Sybase
10 10 (2.36%) Xamarin
11 8 (1.89%) SAP
11 8 (1.89%) Teradata
12 7 (1.65%) Centreon
12 7 (1.65%) Twitter
13 5 (1.18%) Apple
13 5 (1.18%) Aruba
13 5 (1.18%) Meraki
14 4 (0.95%) HP