SQL Server Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 53 52 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 -22 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 297 322 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.42% 5.25% 7.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.24% 28.96% 32.66%
Number of salaries quoted 265 229 344
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,350 £33,575
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,925
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.63% +7.85%
75th Percentile £68,750 £95,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £112,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,132 1,112 1,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.86% 18.13% 24.17%
Number of salaries quoted 801 674 1,031
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,525 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,963 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +4.76%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -13 132 £62,500 -3.85% 24
Oxfordshire +46 96 £47,500 +5.56% 19
Buckinghamshire -3 69 £52,500 - 13
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 32 (10.77%) SharePoint
2 25 (8.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.38%) IIS
4 5 (1.68%) CMS
4 5 (1.68%) Headless CMS
4 5 (1.68%) JBoss
4 5 (1.68%) Kentico
4 5 (1.68%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.35%) WordPress
6 2 (0.67%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 24 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (7.07%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.67%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.34%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 118 (39.73%) Azure
2 55 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (16.84%) Power Platform
4 23 (7.74%) AWS
4 23 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (7.41%) OneDrive
6 13 (4.38%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.70%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.02%) SaaS
10 5 (1.68%) PaaS
11 4 (1.35%) TestFlight
12 3 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.67%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.67%) Intacct
13 2 (0.67%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.67%) Serverless
14 1 (0.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (14.81%) Firewall
2 20 (6.73%) DNS
3 18 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (3.70%) DHCP
5 6 (2.02%) SAN
5 6 (2.02%) Wireless
6 5 (1.68%) Internet
6 5 (1.68%) iSCSI
6 5 (1.68%) VoIP
6 5 (1.68%) VPN
7 4 (1.35%) Broadband
7 4 (1.35%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (1.35%) NAS
8 3 (1.01%) SSL
8 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.01%) WAN
9 2 (0.67%) WLAN
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.34%) FTP
10 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.48%) Power BI
2 33 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.74%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (7.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (5.72%) MongoDB
6 16 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (5.05%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.70%) Oracle Database
9 10 (3.37%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.02%) MySQL
12 5 (1.68%) Power Query
13 4 (1.35%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 2 (0.67%) Oracle BI EE
15 2 (0.67%) Redis
15 2 (0.67%) SSDT
15 2 (0.67%) Star Schema
16 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (14.81%) Git
2 29 (9.76%) Visual Studio
3 17 (5.72%) NUnit
4 9 (3.03%) JIRA
5 5 (1.68%) MSTest
6 4 (1.35%) Subversion
7 2 (0.67%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.67%) Selenium
7 2 (0.67%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.67%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.34%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 65 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.10%) Finance
3 29 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (7.07%) Law
5 19 (6.40%) Manufacturing
6 14 (4.71%) Retail
7 11 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.37%) Marketing
8 10 (3.37%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.03%) Back Office
10 8 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.69%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.68%) Billing
12 4 (1.35%) Banking
12 4 (1.35%) Legal
13 3 (1.01%) Automotive
13 3 (1.01%) Games
14 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.34%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (53.54%) Developer
2 81 (27.27%) .NET Developer
3 53 (17.85%) C# Developer
4 46 (15.49%) C# .NET Developer
5 43 (14.48%) Support Engineer
6 37 (12.46%) Senior
7 35 (11.78%) IT Support
8 34 (11.45%) IT Engineer
9 33 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 33 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
9 33 (11.11%) Senior Developer
10 32 (10.77%) Software Developer
11 31 (10.44%) 3rd Line Support
11 31 (10.44%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 19 (6.40%) Applications Developer
13 17 (5.72%) .NET Applications Developer
13 17 (5.72%) C# Application Developer
14 16 (5.39%) Lead
14 16 (5.39%) Senior .NET Developer
15 15 (5.05%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (54.55%) .NET
2 75 (25.25%) ASP.NET
3 72 (24.24%) React
4 62 (20.88%) .NET Framework
5 56 (18.86%) .NET Core
6 47 (15.82%) AngularJS
6 47 (15.82%) ASP.NET MVC
7 40 (13.47%) Entity Framework
8 34 (11.45%) ASP.NET Web API
9 31 (10.44%) CSS
10 30 (10.10%) HTML
11 26 (8.75%) Vue
12 21 (7.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 19 (6.40%) Node.js
14 16 (5.39%) WPF
15 15 (5.05%) WinForms
16 13 (4.38%) WCF
17 12 (4.04%) LINQ
18 10 (3.37%) HTML5
18 10 (3.37%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.43%) Replication
2 15 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.37%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.02%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.02%) Social Network
5 5 (1.68%) BBC
5 5 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.68%) Social Media
6 4 (1.35%) Chip and PIN
6 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.35%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (1.35%) Mobile Payment
6 4 (1.35%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.01%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (1.01%) Clustering
7 3 (1.01%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 64 (21.55%) Windows
2 26 (8.75%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.72%) VMS
4 15 (5.05%) Linux
5 9 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.68%) Android
7 5 (1.68%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.35%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.01%) CentOS
9 3 (1.01%) Rocky
9 3 (1.01%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.34%) Unix
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (33.67%) Agile
2 65 (21.89%) MVC
3 55 (18.52%) Full Stack Development
4 44 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
5 41 (13.80%) Business Intelligence
5 41 (13.80%) Computer Science
6 38 (12.79%) DevOps
7 35 (11.78%) TDD
8 34 (11.45%) Microservices
9 33 (11.11%) Propensity Modelling
10 29 (9.76%) ETL
11 28 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (9.09%) OO
13 23 (7.74%) BDD
13 23 (7.74%) Scrum
14 20 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (6.73%) Machine Learning
15 19 (6.40%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 19 (6.40%) Web Development
16 18 (6.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 168 (56.57%) C#
2 139 (46.80%) SQL
3 100 (33.67%) JavaScript
4 58 (19.53%) TypeScript
5 45 (15.15%) T-SQL
6 19 (6.40%) Java
7 17 (5.72%) Python
8 13 (4.38%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.37%) R
10 9 (3.03%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.68%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.35%) C++
12 4 (1.35%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.35%) Swift
12 4 (1.35%) VBScript
13 3 (1.01%) C
13 3 (1.01%) PHP
13 3 (1.01%) XAML
14 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 78 (26.26%) Degree
2 36 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.71%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.37%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.37%) PhD
6 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.36%) CTC Cleared
8 6 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.68%) HNC
9 5 (1.68%) HND
10 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.67%) MCITP
11 1 (0.34%) CCNA
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.34%) MCSA
11 1 (0.34%) MCSE
11 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.01%) QA
3 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 41 (13.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (12.79%) Docker
4 9 (3.03%) vSphere
5 8 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.36%) SCCM
3 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (1.01%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.67%) Nagios
6 1 (0.34%) Ansible
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.34%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 185 (62.29%) Microsoft
2 53 (17.85%) VMware
3 44 (14.81%) Veeam
4 38 (12.79%) Citrix
5 19 (6.40%) Oracle
6 9 (3.03%) Apple
7 7 (2.36%) Aruba
7 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.68%) Adaptive Insights
8 5 (1.68%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.68%) Facebook
8 5 (1.68%) Google
8 5 (1.68%) Jedox
8 5 (1.68%) Sony
8 5 (1.68%) Tagetik
8 5 (1.68%) Yahoo!
9 4 (1.35%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.35%) ProCurve
9 4 (1.35%) Synology
9 4 (1.35%) Zerto