SQL Server Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 58 30
Rank change year-on-year +17 -28 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,707 3,177 5,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.27% 5.18% 7.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.11% 26.85% 34.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,354 2,495 4,052
10th Percentile £32,150 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% +2.15%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,313 11,831 16,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.49% 19.29% 22.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,187 6,933 10,431
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
North of England +39 967 £50,000 - 191
South East +11 862 £55,000 - 151
Midlands +32 731 £50,000 - 178
North West +34 550 £50,000 - 103
West Midlands +25 462 £52,500 +5.00% 106
South West +3 422 £52,500 +5.00% 96
East of England +30 413 £47,500 -5.00% 62
Yorkshire +31 302 £51,498 +3.00% 67
East Midlands +37 269 £47,500 +2.70% 71
Scotland -39 206 £52,500 +10.53% 45
North East +41 115 £47,500 +11.76% 22
Wales +17 83 £50,000 +16.28% 17
Northern Ireland -6 30 £50,000 - 13
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 219 (5.91%) SharePoint
2 180 (4.86%) IIS
3 119 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 49 (1.32%) CMS
5 38 (1.03%) Apache
6 35 (0.94%) Umbraco
7 17 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.38%) Confluence
9 13 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 12 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 11 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 8 (0.22%) JBoss
12 8 (0.22%) Kentico
12 8 (0.22%) WordPress
13 7 (0.19%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.16%) NServiceBus
15 5 (0.13%) Drupal
15 5 (0.13%) SAS
15 5 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 149 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.27%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.13%) InDesign
7 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.054%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.054%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.027%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.027%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 60 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 14 (0.38%) Maximo
3 14 (0.38%) NEC Housing
4 13 (0.35%) Epicor Tropos
5 12 (0.32%) Shopify
6 11 (0.30%) PlanetPress Connect
7 10 (0.27%) Sage 200
8 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
11 3 (0.081%) iTrent
11 3 (0.081%) Magento
11 3 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.054%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 2,144 (57.84%) Azure
2 601 (16.21%) Power Platform
3 580 (15.65%) AWS
4 388 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
5 295 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
6 141 (3.80%) SaaS
7 113 (3.05%) GCP
8 94 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 76 (2.05%) PowerApps
9 76 (2.05%) Serverless
10 72 (1.94%) Power Automate
11 70 (1.89%) Entra ID
11 70 (1.89%) PaaS
12 69 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
13 66 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 63 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
15 59 (1.59%) GitHub
15 59 (1.59%) Snowflake
16 47 (1.27%) IaaS
17 46 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 200 (5.40%) Firewall
2 140 (3.78%) DNS
3 129 (3.48%) WAN
4 124 (3.35%) Internet
5 99 (2.67%) SAN
6 81 (2.19%) Broadband
7 76 (2.05%) DHCP
8 72 (1.94%) VPN
9 70 (1.89%) LAN
10 69 (1.86%) TCP/IP
11 39 (1.05%) SSL
11 39 (1.05%) VoIP
12 33 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (0.84%) HTTP
14 25 (0.67%) NAS
14 25 (0.67%) Wireless
15 17 (0.46%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
16 16 (0.43%) Network Security
16 16 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 547 (14.76%) Power BI
2 362 (9.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 339 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
4 319 (8.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 282 (7.61%) Relational Database
6 265 (7.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 259 (6.99%) MongoDB
8 251 (6.77%) Elasticsearch
9 242 (6.53%) MySQL
10 166 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
11 135 (3.64%) NoSQL
12 120 (3.24%) Data Lake
13 107 (2.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 85 (2.29%) Oracle Database
15 55 (1.48%) MS Access
16 49 (1.32%) Tableau
17 44 (1.19%) DB2
18 42 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
18 42 (1.13%) RDBMS
19 36 (0.97%) GIS
Development Applications
1 324 (8.74%) Git
2 185 (4.99%) Visual Studio
3 141 (3.80%) JIRA
4 55 (1.48%) Jasmine
5 54 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 53 (1.43%) NUnit
7 51 (1.38%) GitLab
7 51 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 43 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
9 34 (0.92%) Jenkins
10 33 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
11 31 (0.84%) Moq
12 28 (0.76%) Selenium
13 27 (0.73%) Postman
14 22 (0.59%) TeamCity
15 21 (0.57%) MSTest
15 21 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
16 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
17 12 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
17 12 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 912 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 534 (14.41%) Finance
3 267 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
4 243 (6.56%) Retail
5 154 (4.15%) Public Sector
6 140 (3.78%) Manufacturing
7 139 (3.75%) Law
8 90 (2.43%) Marketing
9 85 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 84 (2.27%) Legal
11 77 (2.08%) Games
12 75 (2.02%) Advertising
12 75 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 59 (1.59%) Banking
14 46 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
15 39 (1.05%) Back Office
16 36 (0.97%) Local Government
16 36 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
17 29 (0.78%) Music Industry
17 29 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,898 (51.20%) Developer
2 973 (26.25%) .NET Developer
3 492 (13.27%) C# Developer
4 390 (10.52%) Senior
5 344 (9.28%) C# .NET Developer
5 344 (9.28%) Software Developer
6 232 (6.26%) DBA
7 224 (6.04%) Lead
8 220 (5.93%) Analyst
9 205 (5.53%) Senior Developer
10 192 (5.18%) Data Engineer
11 187 (5.04%) Support Engineer
12 159 (4.29%) Software Engineer
13 156 (4.21%) Consultant
13 156 (4.21%) SQL DBA
14 142 (3.83%) Administrator
15 120 (3.24%) IT Engineer
16 115 (3.10%) IT Support
17 109 (2.94%) Full Stack Developer
18 108 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,885 (50.85%) .NET
2 1,182 (31.89%) ASP.NET
3 956 (25.79%) .NET Core
4 897 (24.20%) AngularJS
5 829 (22.36%) HTML
6 794 (21.42%) ASP.NET MVC
7 708 (19.10%) .NET Framework
8 704 (18.99%) Entity Framework
9 699 (18.86%) ASP.NET Web API
10 627 (16.91%) CSS
11 586 (15.81%) React
12 424 (11.44%) Vue
13 408 (11.01%) HTML5
14 292 (7.88%) Node.js
15 282 (7.61%) RESTful
16 225 (6.07%) REST
17 218 (5.88%) jQuery
17 218 (5.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 215 (5.80%) Blazor
19 205 (5.53%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 157 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
2 151 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
3 130 (3.51%) Public Cloud
4 110 (2.97%) Mobile App
5 109 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 109 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 107 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 95 (2.56%) Replication
8 84 (2.27%) Clustering
9 67 (1.81%) Cloud Native
10 49 (1.32%) Driving Licence
11 46 (1.24%) Algorithms
12 45 (1.21%) Product Ownership
13 42 (1.13%) NHS
14 40 (1.08%) Reinsurance
15 38 (1.03%) iPhone
16 36 (0.97%) Data Centre
16 36 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
16 36 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (0.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 563 (15.19%) Windows
2 283 (7.63%) Windows Server
3 251 (6.77%) Linux
4 102 (2.75%) VMS
5 58 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 56 (1.51%) Android
7 55 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 52 (1.40%) Windows 10
9 45 (1.21%) Unix
10 44 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 25 (0.67%) AIX
12 19 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
13 16 (0.43%) Windows 7
14 15 (0.40%) CentOS
15 14 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 13 (0.35%) Debian
17 9 (0.24%) Ubuntu
18 7 (0.19%) Apple iOS
18 7 (0.19%) SUSE
19 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,352 (36.47%) Agile
2 1,033 (27.87%) MVC
3 932 (25.14%) Full Stack Development
4 673 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
5 665 (17.94%) Microservices
6 624 (16.83%) DevOps
7 581 (15.67%) Business Intelligence
8 447 (12.06%) TDD
9 405 (10.93%) Scrum
10 381 (10.28%) ETL
11 340 (9.17%) BDD
12 274 (7.39%) CI/CD
13 263 (7.09%) Mentoring
14 260 (7.01%) OO
15 257 (6.93%) Software Engineering
16 256 (6.91%) Computer Science
17 249 (6.72%) Artificial Intelligence
18 234 (6.31%) Roadmaps
19 229 (6.18%) Migration
20 217 (5.85%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,923 (51.87%) C#
2 1,903 (51.34%) SQL
3 1,305 (35.20%) JavaScript
4 527 (14.22%) T-SQL
5 485 (13.08%) TypeScript
6 272 (7.34%) Python
7 208 (5.61%) PowerShell
8 200 (5.40%) Java
9 154 (4.15%) VB.NET
10 127 (3.43%) VB
11 84 (2.27%) PHP
12 63 (1.70%) C++
13 48 (1.29%) C
14 32 (0.86%) XAML
15 31 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 30 (0.81%) Bash
16 30 (0.81%) R
17 29 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (0.78%) VB6
18 26 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 537 (14.49%) Degree
2 190 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 190 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 167 (4.50%) Security Cleared
4 88 (2.37%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.19%) Azure Certification
6 38 (1.03%) DBS Check
7 32 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 29 (0.78%) CCNA
8 29 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (0.59%) DV Cleared
9 22 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
10 18 (0.49%) MCSE
11 15 (0.40%) HND
12 13 (0.35%) MCP
13 12 (0.32%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.32%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
13 12 (0.32%) OCP
13 12 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.34%) QA
2 132 (3.56%) Data Quality
3 48 (1.29%) GDPR
4 46 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 34 (0.92%) SLA
6 21 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.40%) WAI
8 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.11%) COBIT
10 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.11%) WCAG
11 3 (0.081%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.081%) PMO
12 2 (0.054%) HL7
12 2 (0.054%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 269 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 198 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 167 (4.50%) Docker
4 114 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
5 104 (2.81%) Hyper-V
6 51 (1.38%) VMware NSX
7 40 (1.08%) vSphere
8 30 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.40%) XenApp
10 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.054%) Firmware
13 2 (0.054%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 142 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 90 (2.43%) Terraform
3 39 (1.05%) Ansible
4 36 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (0.73%) SCCM
6 16 (0.43%) Nagios
7 13 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 13 (0.35%) vCenter Server
8 12 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
9 10 (0.27%) MIIS
10 9 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.24%) WSUS
11 8 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
11 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.19%) Prometheus
13 6 (0.16%) Grafana
13 6 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.13%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.11%) Backup Exec
15 4 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,043 (55.11%) Microsoft
2 335 (9.04%) Oracle
3 304 (8.20%) VMware
4 143 (3.86%) Google
5 88 (2.37%) Veeam
6 81 (2.19%) Citrix
6 81 (2.19%) Facebook
7 80 (2.16%) Databricks
8 61 (1.65%) Apple
8 61 (1.65%) Cisco
9 56 (1.51%) IBM
10 43 (1.16%) Informatica
11 41 (1.11%) SAP
12 30 (0.81%) Sony
12 30 (0.81%) Yahoo!
13 26 (0.70%) Adobe
13 26 (0.70%) Salesforce
13 26 (0.70%) Xamarin
14 24 (0.65%) Red Hat
15 22 (0.59%) NetApp