Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SSDT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SSDT over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 882 964 1183
Rank change year-on-year +82 +219 -286
Permanent jobs citing SSDT 3 22 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.021% 0.025%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.017% 0.098% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 2 20 12
10th Percentile - £35,750 £38,700
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £40,538
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -34.64% +53.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £79,750
90th Percentile - £58,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +14.94% +8.75%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SSDT 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 18,136 22,401 43,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 21.54% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12,594 13,904 21,435
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 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%

SSDT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SSDT in the UK

SSDT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSDT.

Salary trend for SSDT in the UK

SSDT
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSDT within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +93 3 £47,500 -5.00% 2
South East +8 2 £47,500 +30.14%
UK excluding London -14 2 £47,500 -5.00% 1
London - 1 - - 1

SSDT
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 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (66.67%) Star Schema
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (33.33%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (33.33%) QlikView
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Database Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Document Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Business Development
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks