Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 53 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,137 5,741 10,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.23% 5.46% 6.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.35% 25.18% 24.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,510 4,465 7,251
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,996
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +7.37% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,123 22,799 42,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.46% 21.68% 27.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,600 14,080 21,369
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +19 4,682 £55,000 -4.35% 1,032
UK excluding London +20 3,725 £52,500 +2.94% 725
Work from Home +18 2,702 £55,000 -3.51% 760
London +4 1,244 £65,000 -5.55% 367
North of England +37 974 £50,000 - 186
South East +9 862 £55,000 - 158
Midlands +35 736 £50,000 - 162
North West +42 555 £50,000 - 100
West Midlands +26 453 £52,500 +5.00% 96
South West +4 420 £52,500 +5.00% 86
East of England +32 412 £47,500 -9.52% 71
Yorkshire +28 305 £52,500 +5.00% 63
East Midlands +37 283 £47,500 +5.56% 66
Scotland -31 208 £52,500 +10.53% 49
North East +42 114 £47,500 +11.76% 24
Wales +13 90 £50,000 +16.28% 13
Northern Ireland -5 30 £50,000 - 14

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 312 (6.07%) SharePoint
2 270 (5.26%) IIS
3 232 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 112 (2.18%) CMS
5 59 (1.15%) Apache
6 55 (1.07%) Umbraco
7 38 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 25 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 24 (0.47%) WordPress
10 23 (0.45%) Confluence
11 19 (0.37%) WebSphere
12 17 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 16 (0.31%) EPiServer
14 15 (0.29%) JBoss
14 15 (0.29%) Kentico
15 14 (0.27%) ArcGIS
15 14 (0.27%) SAS
16 13 (0.25%) Apache Solr
17 11 (0.21%) WebLogic
18 10 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 204 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.49%) Photoshop
4 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.14%) InDesign
8 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.078%) SPSS
11 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.039%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.019%) PTC Creo
12 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.019%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 142 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.95%) Endur
3 31 (0.60%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.53%) SDL Web 8
5 24 (0.47%) PlanetPress Connect
6 21 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
7 18 (0.35%) Elite 3E
8 16 (0.31%) Fidessa
8 16 (0.31%) Maximo
9 13 (0.25%) Epicor Tropos
10 12 (0.23%) Shopify
11 11 (0.21%) Sage X3
11 11 (0.21%) SAP Business One
12 10 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
12 10 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.19%) Sage 200
13 9 (0.18%) OpenLink RightAngle
14 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
15 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
15 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,869 (55.85%) Azure
2 835 (16.25%) Power Platform
3 809 (15.75%) AWS
4 592 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
5 421 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
6 232 (4.52%) SaaS
7 166 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 156 (3.04%) GCP
9 127 (2.47%) PaaS
10 121 (2.36%) Serverless
11 114 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 111 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
12 111 (2.16%) PowerApps
13 107 (2.08%) GitHub
14 101 (1.97%) Entra ID
15 93 (1.81%) Power Automate
15 93 (1.81%) Snowflake
16 92 (1.79%) IaaS
17 84 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
18 81 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 278 (5.41%) Firewall
2 215 (4.19%) DNS
3 168 (3.27%) Internet
4 156 (3.04%) WAN
5 127 (2.47%) SAN
6 106 (2.06%) DHCP
7 104 (2.02%) VPN
8 95 (1.85%) TCP/IP
9 94 (1.83%) LAN
10 87 (1.69%) Broadband
11 48 (0.93%) VoIP
12 47 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
13 43 (0.84%) SSL
14 42 (0.82%) HTTP
15 39 (0.76%) Wireless
16 35 (0.68%) NAS
17 33 (0.64%) Network Security
18 31 (0.60%) VLAN
19 20 (0.39%) SD-WAN
20 18 (0.35%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 755 (14.70%) Power BI
2 582 (11.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 487 (9.48%) Data Warehouse
4 434 (8.45%) Relational Database
5 414 (8.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 402 (7.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 331 (6.44%) MongoDB
8 313 (6.09%) MySQL
9 290 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
10 252 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
11 183 (3.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 174 (3.39%) Data Lake
13 164 (3.19%) NoSQL
14 112 (2.18%) RDBMS
15 101 (1.97%) Oracle Database
16 90 (1.75%) Tableau
17 75 (1.46%) DB2
18 71 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
19 59 (1.15%) MS Access
20 53 (1.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 453 (8.82%) Git
2 278 (5.41%) Visual Studio
3 240 (4.67%) JIRA
4 115 (2.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 81 (1.58%) NUnit
6 68 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
7 66 (1.28%) GitLab
8 60 (1.17%) Jenkins
8 60 (1.17%) Moq
8 60 (1.17%) TeamCity
9 55 (1.07%) Jasmine
10 43 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
11 37 (0.72%) Selenium
11 37 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
12 34 (0.66%) Postman
13 33 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
14 28 (0.55%) SpecFlow
15 25 (0.49%) MSTest
16 24 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
17 23 (0.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,265 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 908 (17.68%) Finance
3 434 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (5.47%) Retail
5 200 (3.89%) Marketing
6 193 (3.76%) Law
7 184 (3.58%) Public Sector
8 152 (2.96%) Games
9 151 (2.94%) Banking
9 151 (2.94%) Manufacturing
10 147 (2.86%) Legal
11 123 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 100 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
13 85 (1.65%) Advertising
14 79 (1.54%) Back Office
15 70 (1.36%) Local Government
16 54 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
17 52 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
18 45 (0.88%) Telecoms
19 39 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,450 (47.69%) Developer
2 1,183 (23.03%) .NET Developer
3 704 (13.70%) Senior
4 645 (12.56%) C# Developer
5 417 (8.12%) C# .NET Developer
6 407 (7.92%) Software Developer
7 406 (7.90%) Analyst
8 381 (7.42%) Lead
9 329 (6.40%) Senior Developer
10 292 (5.68%) DBA
11 262 (5.10%) Data Engineer
12 226 (4.40%) Consultant
13 219 (4.26%) Support Engineer
14 205 (3.99%) Software Engineer
15 195 (3.80%) Full Stack Developer
16 189 (3.68%) SQL DBA
17 171 (3.33%) Administrator
18 163 (3.17%) Support Analyst
19 146 (2.84%) Applications Support
20 144 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,436 (47.42%) .NET
2 1,440 (28.03%) ASP.NET
3 1,133 (22.06%) .NET Core
4 1,101 (21.43%) AngularJS
5 1,075 (20.93%) HTML
6 948 (18.45%) ASP.NET MVC
7 890 (17.33%) .NET Framework
8 831 (16.18%) Entity Framework
9 817 (15.90%) CSS
10 811 (15.79%) ASP.NET Web API
11 716 (13.94%) React
12 518 (10.08%) HTML5
13 472 (9.19%) Vue
14 393 (7.65%) RESTful
15 352 (6.85%) Node.js
16 344 (6.70%) REST
17 341 (6.64%) Web Services
18 292 (5.68%) jQuery
19 280 (5.45%) XML
20 271 (5.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 234 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
2 220 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
3 187 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 168 (3.27%) Public Cloud
5 143 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 137 (2.67%) Replication
7 127 (2.47%) Data Structures
8 118 (2.30%) Clustering
9 116 (2.26%) Mobile App
10 95 (1.85%) Cloud Native
11 76 (1.48%) Product Ownership
12 71 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 60 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 57 (1.11%) Reinsurance
15 51 (0.99%) Algorithms
16 50 (0.97%) NHS
17 48 (0.93%) Driving Licence
17 48 (0.93%) Swaptions
18 44 (0.86%) Social Media
19 42 (0.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 863 (16.80%) Windows
2 396 (7.71%) Linux
3 386 (7.51%) Windows Server
4 110 (2.14%) VMS
5 93 (1.81%) Unix
6 85 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 84 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 76 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 67 (1.30%) Android
10 57 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 46 (0.90%) CentOS
12 41 (0.80%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.53%) AIX
13 27 (0.53%) Solaris
14 24 (0.47%) zOS
15 20 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 19 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.31%) Windows 7
19 15 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,789 (34.83%) Agile
2 1,238 (24.10%) MVC
3 1,142 (22.23%) Full Stack Development
4 952 (18.53%) DevOps
5 937 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
6 830 (16.16%) Microservices
7 819 (15.94%) Business Intelligence
8 631 (12.28%) ETL
9 599 (11.66%) TDD
10 583 (11.35%) Scrum
11 442 (8.60%) Computer Science
12 407 (7.92%) BDD
13 403 (7.85%) CI/CD
13 403 (7.85%) Software Engineering
14 371 (7.22%) Mentoring
15 359 (6.99%) Data Modelling
16 346 (6.74%) OO
17 339 (6.60%) Analytics
18 334 (6.50%) Roadmaps
19 311 (6.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,665 (51.88%) SQL
2 2,458 (47.85%) C#
3 1,684 (32.78%) JavaScript
4 827 (16.10%) T-SQL
5 569 (11.08%) TypeScript
6 489 (9.52%) Python
7 355 (6.91%) PowerShell
8 317 (6.17%) Java
9 188 (3.66%) VB
10 164 (3.19%) VB.NET
11 103 (2.01%) PHP
12 91 (1.77%) PL/SQL
13 81 (1.58%) Bash
14 73 (1.42%) C++
15 55 (1.07%) C
16 54 (1.05%) R
17 53 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 42 (0.82%) VBA
19 41 (0.80%) XPath
20 40 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 885 (17.23%) Degree
2 277 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 221 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 199 (3.87%) Security Cleared
5 119 (2.32%) SC Cleared
6 77 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 43 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 31 (0.60%) CCNA
9 31 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.51%) MCSE
11 21 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 20 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
13 19 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.37%) MCP
14 16 (0.31%) HND
15 14 (0.27%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (4.85%) QA
2 192 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 75 (1.46%) SLA
4 61 (1.19%) GDPR
5 58 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 37 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.29%) WAI
9 12 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.16%) WCAG
12 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.12%) GMP
13 5 (0.097%) NIST
14 4 (0.078%) COBIT
14 4 (0.078%) ISO 9000
14 4 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.078%) NCSC
14 4 (0.078%) PMO
14 4 (0.078%) Solvency II
System Software
1 412 (8.02%) Active Directory
2 237 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 223 (4.34%) Docker
4 128 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
5 103 (2.01%) Hyper-V
6 60 (1.17%) vSphere
7 52 (1.01%) VMware NSX
8 33 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.33%) XenApp
10 12 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.097%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.078%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.039%) Firmware
15 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.019%) IAG
16 1 (0.019%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 219 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 150 (2.92%) Terraform
3 61 (1.19%) Ansible
4 58 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 54 (1.05%) SCCM
6 26 (0.51%) Grafana
7 24 (0.47%) Nagios
7 24 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
8 20 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.31%) WSUS
10 13 (0.25%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.25%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
11 12 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.21%) MIIS
13 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
13 9 (0.18%) Foglight
13 9 (0.18%) Puppet
14 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,683 (52.23%) Microsoft
2 548 (10.67%) Oracle
3 372 (7.24%) VMware
4 161 (3.13%) Google
5 158 (3.08%) Databricks
6 109 (2.12%) Veeam
7 105 (2.04%) Citrix
8 84 (1.64%) Facebook
9 83 (1.62%) Cisco
10 78 (1.52%) IBM
11 76 (1.48%) Sybase
12 67 (1.30%) Apple
13 66 (1.28%) SAP
14 60 (1.17%) Informatica
15 54 (1.05%) TIBCO
16 52 (1.01%) Red Hat
17 49 (0.95%) HP
18 48 (0.93%) OpenLink
19 47 (0.91%) Adobe
20 41 (0.80%) F5