SQL Server Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 62 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 43 60 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 3.82% 3.08% 4.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.19% 19.23% 30.27%
Number of salaries quoted 35 50 44
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +5.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £75,500 £60,375 £75,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 107 312 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.49% 16.00% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 71 244 146
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £64,951 £58,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £71,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% +4.55%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Buckinghamshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Buckinghamshire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Buckinghamshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 5 July 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +12 17 £52,000 -0.95% 28
High Wycombe - 7 £70,000 - 7
Marlow - 4 £50,000 -
Bletchley - 3 £38,750 - 3
Aylesbury +12 2 £60,000 +9.09%
Newport Pagnell 0 1 - -
Amersham -5 1 £47,500 +35.71% 1
Buckingham - 1 - -
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.30%) Confluence
3 2 (4.65%) IIS
4 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) SAP Business One
2 1 (2.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) AWS
1 17 (39.53%) Azure
2 12 (27.91%) Power Platform
3 11 (25.58%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.30%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.33%) IaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) Firewall
2 7 (16.28%) iSCSI
2 7 (16.28%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (16.28%) SAN
3 5 (11.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) MySQL
1 10 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (23.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 10 (23.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 9 (20.93%) Power BI
3 7 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JIRA
2 6 (13.95%) Visual Studio
3 5 (11.63%) Maven
4 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
4 4 (9.30%) Cucumber
4 4 (9.30%) GitLab
4 4 (9.30%) Selenium
4 4 (9.30%) SonarQube
4 4 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.98%) Git
5 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.65%) Jasmine
6 2 (4.65%) NUnit
6 2 (4.65%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.33%) MSBuild
General
1 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (13.95%) Retail
4 4 (9.30%) Banking
4 4 (9.30%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Senior
2 11 (25.58%) Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) C# Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) .NET Developer
5 5 (11.63%) DBA
5 5 (11.63%) SQL DBA
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (6.98%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Report Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.98%) SQL Server DBA
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) .NET
2 11 (25.58%) ASP.NET
3 10 (23.26%) React
4 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
5 6 (13.95%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (13.95%) CSS
5 6 (13.95%) HTML
5 6 (13.95%) Kafka
5 6 (13.95%) Spring Boot
6 4 (9.30%) Hibernate
6 4 (9.30%) JPA
6 4 (9.30%) Redux
6 4 (9.30%) Spring
7 2 (4.65%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (4.65%) Jest
7 2 (4.65%) REST
7 2 (4.65%) RESTful
7 2 (4.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
1 11 (25.58%) Management Information System
2 7 (16.28%) Data Structures
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (11.63%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (9.30%) Algorithms
4 4 (9.30%) Operational Technology
4 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.98%) Clustering
6 2 (4.65%) Online Games
7 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.33%) FMCG
7 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.33%) N-Tier
7 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.58%) Windows
2 7 (16.28%) Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (9.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Agile
1 11 (25.58%) DevOps
1 11 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (23.26%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (20.93%) MVC
3 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
4 8 (18.60%) Computer Science
5 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
5 7 (16.28%) ITIL
5 7 (16.28%) Process Improvement
5 7 (16.28%) SDLC
5 7 (16.28%) Time Management
6 6 (13.95%) ETL
7 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (11.63%) Decision-Making
7 5 (11.63%) Microservices
8 4 (9.30%) Budgeting
8 4 (9.30%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) SQL
2 18 (41.86%) JavaScript
3 14 (32.56%) C#
4 8 (18.60%) Bash
5 7 (16.28%) Korn
5 7 (16.28%) T-SQL
6 6 (13.95%) Java
7 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (41.86%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.30%) MCSA
2 4 (9.30%) MCSE
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.30%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 15 (34.88%) Docker
2 11 (25.58%) Active Directory
3 7 (16.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Ansible
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (58.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.28%) Dell
2 7 (16.28%) Red Hat
2 7 (16.28%) Splunk
3 4 (9.30%) SAP
3 4 (9.30%) Solace
4 2 (4.65%) Rollbar
4 2 (4.65%) WSO2