SQL Server Developer
UK

The median SQL Server Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 874 904 1043
Rank change year-on-year +30 +139 -242
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 24 76 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.075% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.082% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 22 73 135
10th Percentile £42,625 - £40,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% +7.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,647 £62,833
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £76,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SQL Server Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Developer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +50 24 £60,000 +14.29% 7
UK excluding London -29 16 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Work from Home +9 15 £60,000 +12.15% 1
North of England +36 11 £50,000 - 1
North West -13 6 £47,500 -5.00% 1
London +84 5 £65,000 -10.34% 5
Yorkshire - 5 £65,000 -
South East +11 2 £60,000 +50.00% 1
East of England - 2 £70,000 -
South West - 1 £50,000 -

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, SQL Server Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 22 (91.67%) SQL
3 9 (37.50%) T-SQL
3 9 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (37.50%) Law
4 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (25.00%) C#
4 6 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
5 5 (20.83%) Chatbot
5 5 (20.83%) Conversational UI
5 5 (20.83%) Azure
5 5 (20.83%) Node.js
5 5 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (20.83%) .NET
5 5 (20.83%) ETL
5 5 (20.83%) OLTP
6 4 (16.67%) AWS
6 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 4 (16.67%) Power BI
6 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
7 3 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (12.50%) Data Extraction
7 3 (12.50%) Data Analytics
7 3 (12.50%) Analytics

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.33%) dbt
3 2 (8.33%) Fivetran
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) OLTP
3 4 (16.67%) Power BI
4 3 (12.50%) OLAP
4 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.33%) Tableau
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (37.50%) Law
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (8.33%) Electronics
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) .NET
1 5 (20.83%) Node.js
2 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (25.00%) Agile
2 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (20.83%) Conversational UI
3 5 (20.83%) ETL
3 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (12.50%) Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) Data Extraction
5 3 (12.50%) Data Security
5 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (8.33%) PRINCE
6 2 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (8.33%) Scrum
6 2 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) T-SQL
3 6 (25.00%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.17%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.33%) SAP