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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 52 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 -25 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 291 307 573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.35% 5.18% 8.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.55% 28.56% 33.71%
Number of salaries quoted 259 222 340
10th Percentile £40,300 £37,575 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.09% +9.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £95,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £115,000 £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 1,096 1,075 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.38% 18.16% 24.25%
Number of salaries quoted 771 656 1,025
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £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 £75,000 £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 15 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 15 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 -11 131 £62,500 -3.85% 21
Oxfordshire +42 97 £47,500 +5.56% 15
Buckinghamshire -13 63 £52,500 - 11
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 (11.00%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.47%) IIS
4 5 (1.72%) CMS
4 5 (1.72%) Headless CMS
4 5 (1.72%) JBoss
4 5 (1.72%) Kentico
4 5 (1.72%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.37%) WordPress
6 2 (0.69%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 21 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.69%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 119 (40.89%) Azure
2 54 (18.56%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (16.15%) Power Platform
4 23 (7.90%) AWS
4 23 (7.90%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (7.56%) OneDrive
6 12 (4.12%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.78%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.06%) SaaS
10 5 (1.72%) PaaS
11 4 (1.37%) TestFlight
12 3 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.69%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.69%) Intacct
13 2 (0.69%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.69%) Serverless
14 1 (0.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.78%) Firewall
2 19 (6.53%) DNS
3 18 (6.19%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (3.44%) DHCP
5 5 (1.72%) Internet
5 5 (1.72%) iSCSI
5 5 (1.72%) SAN
5 5 (1.72%) VoIP
5 5 (1.72%) VPN
5 5 (1.72%) Wireless
6 4 (1.37%) Broadband
6 4 (1.37%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.37%) NAS
7 3 (1.03%) SSL
7 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.69%) WAN
8 2 (0.69%) WLAN
9 1 (0.34%) FTP
9 1 (0.34%) Network Security
9 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.75%) Power BI
2 33 (11.34%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.90%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (6.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (5.84%) MongoDB
6 16 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.78%) Oracle Database
7 11 (3.78%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.44%) Data Lake
8 10 (3.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.72%) MySQL
10 5 (1.72%) Power Query
11 4 (1.37%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.69%) Oracle BI EE
13 2 (0.69%) Redis
13 2 (0.69%) SSDT
13 2 (0.69%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (14.78%) Git
2 28 (9.62%) Visual Studio
3 16 (5.50%) NUnit
4 9 (3.09%) JIRA
5 5 (1.72%) MSTest
6 4 (1.37%) Subversion
7 2 (0.69%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.69%) Selenium
7 2 (0.69%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.69%) 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 60 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 29 (9.97%) Finance
3 25 (8.59%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (6.87%) Law
5 19 (6.53%) Manufacturing
6 14 (4.81%) Retail
7 11 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.78%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.44%) Back Office
9 7 (2.41%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.06%) Billing
10 6 (2.06%) Marketing
11 4 (1.37%) Banking
12 3 (1.03%) Automotive
12 3 (1.03%) Games
12 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Legal
13 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (54.64%) Developer
2 80 (27.49%) .NET Developer
3 51 (17.53%) C# Developer
4 44 (15.12%) C# .NET Developer
5 43 (14.78%) Support Engineer
6 37 (12.71%) Senior
7 35 (12.03%) IT Support
8 34 (11.68%) IT Engineer
9 33 (11.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 33 (11.34%) IT Support Engineer
9 33 (11.34%) Senior Developer
10 31 (10.65%) 3rd Line Support
10 31 (10.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 31 (10.65%) Software Developer
11 18 (6.19%) Applications Developer
12 16 (5.50%) .NET Applications Developer
12 16 (5.50%) C# Application Developer
12 16 (5.50%) Senior .NET Developer
13 15 (5.15%) Lead
14 14 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (54.98%) .NET
2 74 (25.43%) ASP.NET
3 71 (24.40%) React
4 62 (21.31%) .NET Framework
5 56 (19.24%) .NET Core
6 48 (16.49%) AngularJS
7 47 (16.15%) ASP.NET MVC
8 41 (14.09%) Entity Framework
9 35 (12.03%) ASP.NET Web API
10 31 (10.65%) CSS
11 30 (10.31%) HTML
12 26 (8.93%) Vue
13 22 (7.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 19 (6.53%) Node.js
15 15 (5.15%) WPF
16 13 (4.47%) WinForms
17 12 (4.12%) WCF
18 11 (3.78%) LINQ
19 10 (3.44%) HTML5
19 10 (3.44%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.62%) Replication
2 11 (3.78%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.44%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.41%) Social Network
6 6 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.72%) BBC
7 5 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.72%) Social Media
8 4 (1.37%) Chip and PIN
8 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.37%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (1.37%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.03%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.03%) Clustering
9 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.31%) Windows
2 26 (8.93%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.84%) VMS
4 14 (4.81%) Linux
5 8 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.37%) Android
6 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.03%) CentOS
7 3 (1.03%) Rocky
7 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (32.65%) Agile
2 65 (22.34%) MVC
3 56 (19.24%) Full Stack Development
4 43 (14.78%) Artificial Intelligence
5 40 (13.75%) Computer Science
6 39 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (12.71%) DevOps
8 35 (12.03%) Microservices
9 34 (11.68%) TDD
10 32 (11.00%) Propensity Modelling
11 28 (9.62%) OO
11 28 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (8.93%) ETL
13 23 (7.90%) BDD
13 23 (7.90%) Scrum
14 20 (6.87%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (6.87%) Machine Learning
15 19 (6.53%) Web Development
16 18 (6.19%) Change Control
16 18 (6.19%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 166 (57.04%) C#
2 134 (46.05%) SQL
3 100 (34.36%) JavaScript
4 57 (19.59%) TypeScript
5 46 (15.81%) T-SQL
6 20 (6.87%) Java
7 17 (5.84%) Python
8 13 (4.47%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.44%) R
10 9 (3.09%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.06%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.72%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.72%) VBScript
13 4 (1.37%) C++
13 4 (1.37%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.37%) Swift
14 3 (1.03%) C
14 3 (1.03%) PHP
14 3 (1.03%) XAML
15 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 77 (26.46%) Degree
2 35 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (8.93%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.81%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.44%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.44%) PhD
6 9 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.41%) CTC Cleared
8 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.72%) HNC
8 5 (1.72%) HND
9 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.69%) MCITP
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) MCSA
10 1 (0.34%) MCSE
10 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.03%) QA
3 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (14.78%) Active Directory
2 41 (14.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (12.71%) Docker
4 9 (3.09%) vSphere
5 8 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (13.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.06%) SCCM
3 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.03%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (1.03%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.69%) Nagios
6 1 (0.34%) Ansible
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 185 (63.57%) Microsoft
2 52 (17.87%) VMware
3 43 (14.78%) Veeam
4 37 (12.71%) Citrix
5 19 (6.53%) Oracle
6 9 (3.09%) Apple
7 6 (2.06%) Aruba
8 5 (1.72%) Adaptive Insights
8 5 (1.72%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.72%) Facebook
8 5 (1.72%) Google
8 5 (1.72%) Jedox
8 5 (1.72%) Sony
8 5 (1.72%) Tagetik
8 5 (1.72%) Yahoo!
9 4 (1.37%) Adobe
9 4 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.37%) ProCurve
9 4 (1.37%) Synology
9 4 (1.37%) Zerto