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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,080 5,425 10,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.12% 5.37% 6.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.94% 25.20% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,467 4,267 7,137
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
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 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% +4.40%

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 18,181 21,530 43,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.31% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 13,451 21,070
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 £79,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 10 May 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 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 +21 4,638 £55,000 -4.35% 1,030
UK excluding London +22 3,683 £52,500 +1.94% 713
Work from Home +19 2,676 £55,000 -3.51% 772
London 0 1,231 £65,000 -6.40% 353
North of England +40 968 £50,000 - 186
South East +13 857 £55,000 - 147
Midlands +25 722 £50,000 - 170
North West +33 552 £50,000 - 104
West Midlands +26 465 £52,500 +5.00% 105
South West +6 416 £52,500 +5.00% 94
East of England +31 410 £47,500 -12.04% 61
Yorkshire +33 301 £51,498 +3.00% 60
East Midlands +32 257 £47,500 - 65
Scotland -35 203 £52,500 +10.53% 42
North East +42 115 £47,500 +11.76% 23
Wales +12 81 £50,000 +16.28% 14
Northern Ireland -12 31 £50,000 - 9

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
1 295 (5.81%) SharePoint
2 259 (5.10%) IIS
3 219 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 110 (2.17%) CMS
5 61 (1.20%) Apache
6 51 (1.00%) Umbraco
7 40 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.43%) WordPress
9 20 (0.39%) Confluence
9 20 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 19 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
12 16 (0.31%) EPiServer
13 15 (0.30%) JBoss
13 15 (0.30%) Kentico
14 14 (0.28%) Apache Solr
14 14 (0.28%) ArcGIS
15 13 (0.26%) SAS
16 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
17 10 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 204 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.39%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.059%) SPSS
10 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.039%) InDesign
10 2 (0.039%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.020%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 132 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (0.85%) Endur
3 40 (0.79%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.53%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.39%) PlanetPress Connect
6 16 (0.31%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.31%) Fidessa
7 14 (0.28%) Maximo
8 13 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
9 11 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
9 11 (0.22%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.22%) Shopify
10 10 (0.20%) Sage 200
11 8 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
12 7 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,871 (56.52%) Azure
2 829 (16.32%) Power Platform
3 823 (16.20%) AWS
4 588 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
5 407 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
6 215 (4.23%) SaaS
7 169 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 151 (2.97%) GCP
9 120 (2.36%) PaaS
10 114 (2.24%) PowerApps
10 114 (2.24%) Serverless
11 108 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 108 (2.13%) GitHub
12 105 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
13 99 (1.95%) Power Automate
14 97 (1.91%) Entra ID
15 93 (1.83%) Snowflake
16 92 (1.81%) IaaS
17 91 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 83 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 265 (5.22%) Firewall
2 210 (4.13%) DNS
3 167 (3.29%) Internet
4 125 (2.46%) WAN
5 119 (2.34%) SAN
6 105 (2.07%) DHCP
7 97 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 94 (1.85%) VPN
9 88 (1.73%) Broadband
10 66 (1.30%) LAN
11 46 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (0.87%) VoIP
13 41 (0.81%) HTTP
14 39 (0.77%) SSL
15 32 (0.63%) Wireless
16 29 (0.57%) NAS
16 29 (0.57%) Network Security
17 26 (0.51%) VLAN
18 21 (0.41%) SD-WAN
19 16 (0.31%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 753 (14.82%) Power BI
2 571 (11.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 485 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
4 432 (8.50%) Relational Database
5 414 (8.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 398 (7.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 340 (6.69%) MongoDB
8 303 (5.96%) MySQL
9 298 (5.87%) Elasticsearch
10 265 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
11 188 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 176 (3.46%) Data Lake
13 162 (3.19%) NoSQL
14 116 (2.28%) Oracle Database
15 114 (2.24%) RDBMS
16 89 (1.75%) Tableau
17 78 (1.54%) DB2
18 71 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
19 59 (1.16%) MS Access
20 55 (1.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 460 (9.06%) Git
2 281 (5.53%) Visual Studio
3 227 (4.47%) JIRA
4 109 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 80 (1.57%) NUnit
6 67 (1.32%) GitLab
7 64 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 63 (1.24%) Moq
9 61 (1.20%) Jenkins
10 59 (1.16%) TeamCity
11 55 (1.08%) Jasmine
12 43 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
13 37 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 34 (0.67%) Selenium
15 32 (0.63%) Postman
16 31 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
17 28 (0.55%) MSTest
17 28 (0.55%) SpecFlow
18 25 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
19 24 (0.47%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,268 (24.96%) Social Skills
2 894 (17.60%) Finance
3 442 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (5.45%) Retail
5 196 (3.86%) Public Sector
6 189 (3.72%) Marketing
7 185 (3.64%) Law
8 151 (2.97%) Manufacturing
9 146 (2.87%) Games
10 142 (2.80%) Banking
11 141 (2.78%) Legal
12 126 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 99 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 90 (1.77%) Back Office
15 82 (1.61%) Local Government
16 81 (1.59%) Advertising
17 52 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
18 49 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
19 44 (0.87%) Police
19 44 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,429 (47.81%) Developer
2 1,188 (23.39%) .NET Developer
3 701 (13.80%) Senior
4 647 (12.74%) C# Developer
5 421 (8.29%) C# .NET Developer
6 396 (7.80%) Analyst
7 382 (7.52%) Software Developer
8 381 (7.50%) Lead
9 334 (6.57%) Senior Developer
10 301 (5.93%) DBA
11 269 (5.30%) Data Engineer
12 224 (4.41%) Consultant
13 216 (4.25%) Support Engineer
14 200 (3.94%) Software Engineer
15 194 (3.82%) Full Stack Developer
16 184 (3.62%) SQL DBA
17 181 (3.56%) Administrator
18 156 (3.07%) Support Analyst
19 139 (2.74%) Applications Support
20 134 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,437 (47.97%) .NET
2 1,450 (28.54%) ASP.NET
3 1,137 (22.38%) .NET Core
4 1,094 (21.54%) AngularJS
5 1,060 (20.87%) HTML
6 953 (18.76%) ASP.NET MVC
7 904 (17.80%) .NET Framework
8 854 (16.81%) Entity Framework
9 823 (16.20%) ASP.NET Web API
10 809 (15.93%) CSS
11 703 (13.84%) React
12 503 (9.90%) HTML5
13 482 (9.49%) Vue
14 391 (7.70%) RESTful
15 343 (6.75%) Web Services
16 332 (6.54%) Node.js
17 330 (6.50%) REST
18 294 (5.79%) jQuery
19 280 (5.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 259 (5.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 232 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
2 230 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 163 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 140 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 136 (2.68%) Replication
7 129 (2.54%) Data Structures
8 116 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 114 (2.24%) Clustering
10 92 (1.81%) Cloud Native
11 81 (1.59%) Product Ownership
12 63 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 61 (1.20%) Driving Licence
14 55 (1.08%) Data Centre
15 54 (1.06%) Reinsurance
16 53 (1.04%) NHS
17 51 (1.00%) Algorithms
18 43 (0.85%) Social Media
19 42 (0.83%) Swaptions
20 38 (0.75%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 850 (16.73%) Windows
2 396 (7.80%) Linux
3 378 (7.44%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.15%) VMS
5 103 (2.03%) Unix
6 85 (1.67%) Windows 10
7 81 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 79 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 70 (1.38%) Android
10 52 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
11 45 (0.89%) CentOS
12 40 (0.79%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.53%) AIX
13 27 (0.53%) Solaris
14 24 (0.47%) zOS
15 21 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 19 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.31%) Windows 7
19 13 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,785 (35.14%) Agile
2 1,241 (24.43%) MVC
3 1,137 (22.38%) Full Stack Development
4 943 (18.56%) DevOps
5 912 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 842 (16.57%) Microservices
7 826 (16.26%) Business Intelligence
8 626 (12.32%) ETL
9 609 (11.99%) TDD
10 593 (11.67%) Scrum
11 440 (8.66%) Computer Science
12 414 (8.15%) BDD
13 410 (8.07%) CI/CD
14 396 (7.80%) Software Engineering
15 372 (7.32%) Mentoring
16 363 (7.15%) Data Modelling
17 347 (6.83%) OO
18 340 (6.69%) Analytics
19 325 (6.40%) Roadmaps
20 313 (6.16%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,624 (51.65%) SQL
2 2,466 (48.54%) C#
3 1,662 (32.72%) JavaScript
4 820 (16.14%) T-SQL
5 580 (11.42%) TypeScript
6 466 (9.17%) Python
7 351 (6.91%) PowerShell
8 316 (6.22%) Java
9 166 (3.27%) VB.NET
10 165 (3.25%) VB
11 84 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 77 (1.52%) C++
12 77 (1.52%) PHP
13 75 (1.48%) Bash
14 55 (1.08%) R
15 54 (1.06%) C
16 52 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 43 (0.85%) VBA
18 42 (0.83%) Bicep
19 40 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 854 (16.81%) Degree
2 267 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 220 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 209 (4.11%) Security Cleared
5 115 (2.26%) SC Cleared
6 71 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 43 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 32 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
10 31 (0.61%) CCNA
10 31 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (0.49%) MCSE
12 24 (0.47%) DV Cleared
13 19 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.37%) MCP
14 16 (0.31%) HND
15 14 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.26%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.24%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (4.86%) QA
2 199 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 72 (1.42%) SLA
4 70 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 65 (1.28%) GDPR
6 35 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.30%) WAI
8 13 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.16%) WCAG
12 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.12%) GMP
12 6 (0.12%) NIST
13 5 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.079%) COBIT
14 4 (0.079%) MiFID
14 4 (0.079%) NCSC
14 4 (0.079%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.059%) JSP 440
System Software
1 397 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 228 (4.49%) Docker
3 222 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 126 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 105 (2.07%) Hyper-V
6 58 (1.14%) vSphere
7 50 (0.98%) VMware NSX
8 37 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.33%) XenApp
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.098%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.079%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.059%) Firmware
13 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.020%) NFS
15 1 (0.020%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 224 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 152 (2.99%) Terraform
3 60 (1.18%) Ansible
4 56 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (0.96%) SCCM
6 30 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.51%) Grafana
8 24 (0.47%) Nagios
9 22 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
10 18 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.31%) WSUS
12 15 (0.30%) vCenter Server
13 14 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
16 11 (0.22%) MIIS
17 10 (0.20%) Puppet
18 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
18 9 (0.18%) Foglight
19 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,657 (52.30%) Microsoft
2 570 (11.22%) Oracle
3 353 (6.95%) VMware
4 166 (3.27%) Google
5 159 (3.13%) Databricks
6 113 (2.22%) Veeam
7 102 (2.01%) Citrix
8 87 (1.71%) Cisco
9 84 (1.65%) Facebook
10 79 (1.56%) IBM
11 72 (1.42%) Sybase
12 67 (1.32%) Apple
13 65 (1.28%) SAP
14 61 (1.20%) Informatica
15 58 (1.14%) Red Hat
16 46 (0.91%) TIBCO
17 45 (0.89%) NEC
18 44 (0.87%) HP
19 42 (0.83%) Adobe
19 42 (0.83%) OpenLink