SQL Server Job Trends in Berkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 52 48
Rank change year-on-year -59 -4 -11
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 18 84 109
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.90% 5.05% 5.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.57% 20.49% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 15 57 85
10th Percentile £36,450 £45,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,125 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -1.46% +2.56%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,936 - £82,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.80%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 274 410 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.76% 24.62% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 95 213 257
10th Percentile £41,000 £47,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £98,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £58,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.29% +5.91% -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Berkshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Reading +13 11 £63,670 +7.69% 5
Windsor - 2 £45,500 -
Maidenhead - 1 £80,000 -
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) IIS
2 3 (16.67%) CMS
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DHCP
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
1 4 (22.22%) VPN
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) VLAN
2 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Power BI
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.11%) Metadata
4 2 (11.11%) MySQL
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.56%) Looker
5 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Games
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Lead
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Integration Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) IT Support
4 2 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior IT Support
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Support Assistant
4 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Support
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) CSS3
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) HTML5
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Management
2 7 (38.89%) Data Security
3 6 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 6 (33.33%) Data Privacy
4 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) Data Governance Strategy
5 4 (22.22%) Data Lineage
5 4 (22.22%) Data Validation
5 4 (22.22%) Validation
6 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 3 (16.67%) CRM
6 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (16.67%) ETL
6 3 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) VB.NET
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) R
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CISSP
3 2 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 2 (11.11%) MCP
3 2 (11.11%) MCSA
3 2 (11.11%) MCSE
3 2 (11.11%) OCP
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 3 (16.67%) SLA
4 2 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Informatica