SQL Server Jobs in Central London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 32 34
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 113 245 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 4.88% 6.56% 7.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.42% 25.90% 32.50%
Number of salaries quoted 86 189 323
10th Percentile £59,000 £42,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £63,250 £51,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £107,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £67,750
% change year-on-year +7.41% -0.37% +4.23%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 504 946 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 21.75% 25.32% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 362 666 948
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Central London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London -22 101 £72,500 +11.54% 150
Camden -7 8 - -
City of Westminster +6 6 £82,128 +72.90% 7
Kensington and Chelsea -1 1 £92,500 +5.71% 2
SQL Server
London

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 21 (18.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.73%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.31%) IIS
4 5 (4.42%) Moodle
5 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.77%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.88%) Apache
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.88%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (8.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.54%) Endur
3 3 (2.65%) Fidessa
4 2 (1.77%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.88%) Eikon
5 1 (0.88%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 65 (57.52%) Azure
2 35 (30.97%) Power Platform
3 21 (18.58%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (12.39%) GitHub
4 14 (12.39%) SaaS
5 11 (9.73%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (9.73%) PowerApps
6 10 (8.85%) Power Automate
7 9 (7.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.31%) Azure Functions
9 6 (5.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (5.31%) Entra ID
9 6 (5.31%) Serverless
10 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.54%) AWS
11 4 (3.54%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (3.54%) ShareGate
12 3 (2.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.85%) Firewall
2 3 (2.65%) NetScaler
2 3 (2.65%) Network Security
2 3 (2.65%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) DHCP
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.32%) Power BI
2 20 (17.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 16 (14.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (9.73%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (8.85%) Data Hub
5 10 (8.85%) SQL CLR
6 9 (7.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (7.96%) Metadata
7 8 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (7.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (6.19%) Tableau
9 6 (5.31%) DB2
9 6 (5.31%) MongoDB
9 6 (5.31%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.42%) NoSQL
11 4 (3.54%) Data Lake
11 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.77%) Big Data
12 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.77%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Git
2 3 (2.65%) JIRA
2 3 (2.65%) MSTest
2 3 (2.65%) NUnit
3 2 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.88%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (0.88%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.88%) Selenium
4 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (46.90%) Social Skills
2 45 (39.82%) Finance
3 15 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.85%) Back Office
6 8 (7.08%) Banking
6 8 (7.08%) Law
7 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.42%) Front Office
9 4 (3.54%) Legal
10 2 (1.77%) Advertising
10 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.77%) Marketing
11 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (32.74%) Senior
2 32 (28.32%) Developer
3 21 (18.58%) Analyst
4 20 (17.70%) Senior Developer
5 16 (14.16%) Applications Support
5 16 (14.16%) Applications Support Analyst
5 16 (14.16%) Lead
5 16 (14.16%) Support Analyst
6 12 (10.62%) Data Engineer
7 11 (9.73%) Architect
8 10 (8.85%) Senior SQL Developer
8 10 (8.85%) SQL Developer
9 9 (7.96%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (7.08%) .NET Developer
11 7 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (5.31%) Digital Transformation
12 6 (5.31%) SaaS Developer
12 6 (5.31%) Senior Applications Support
12 6 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (5.31%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (44.25%) .NET
2 17 (15.04%) HTML
3 16 (14.16%) CSS
4 14 (12.39%) .NET Framework
5 13 (11.50%) AngularJS
6 12 (10.62%) React
7 11 (9.73%) .NET Core
8 8 (7.08%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (7.08%) RESTful
8 8 (7.08%) XML
9 7 (6.19%) HTML5
9 7 (6.19%) JSON
9 7 (6.19%) Kafka
10 6 (5.31%) Entity Framework
11 5 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (4.42%) WPF
12 4 (3.54%) Dapper ORM
12 4 (3.54%) WCF
13 3 (2.65%) PySpark
13 3 (2.65%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Private Cloud
2 9 (7.96%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.31%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (4.42%) Learning Management System
5 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.54%) Swaptions
5 4 (3.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.65%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.77%) Derivative
7 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.88%) PropTech
8 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (27.43%) Windows
2 10 (8.85%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.19%) Linux
4 4 (3.54%) Unix
4 4 (3.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (25.66%) Agile
1 29 (25.66%) Migration
2 28 (24.78%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (21.24%) DevOps
4 21 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (16.81%) Data Modelling
6 17 (15.04%) ETL
6 17 (15.04%) Mentoring
7 16 (14.16%) Fintech
7 16 (14.16%) Workflow
8 15 (13.27%) CRM
8 15 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (12.39%) CI/CD
9 14 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (11.50%) Data Integration
10 13 (11.50%) Decision-Making
10 13 (11.50%) Wealth Management
11 12 (10.62%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (10.62%) High Availability
11 12 (10.62%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 70 (61.95%) SQL
2 43 (38.05%) C#
3 26 (23.01%) JavaScript
4 21 (18.58%) T-SQL
5 18 (15.93%) Python
6 17 (15.04%) Java
7 14 (12.39%) TypeScript
8 10 (8.85%) PowerShell
9 7 (6.19%) PL/SQL
10 6 (5.31%) VB.NET
11 5 (4.42%) VB
12 1 (0.88%) Bash
12 1 (0.88%) C
12 1 (0.88%) PHP
12 1 (0.88%) Ruby
12 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (9.73%) Degree
2 5 (4.42%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.65%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) GDPR
1 5 (4.42%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 15 (13.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.54%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.77%) Docker
5 2 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (8.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.31%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.42%) SCCM
3 5 (4.42%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.65%) Ansible
4 3 (2.65%) Terraform
4 3 (2.65%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.77%) SCOM
6 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 65 (57.52%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.04%) Oracle
3 15 (13.27%) VMware
4 12 (10.62%) Databricks
5 6 (5.31%) Guidewire
6 5 (4.42%) Cisco
7 4 (3.54%) Bloomberg
7 4 (3.54%) iManage
7 4 (3.54%) Okta
7 4 (3.54%) OpenLink
7 4 (3.54%) Sybase
7 4 (3.54%) TIBCO
7 4 (3.54%) Zscaler
8 3 (2.65%) FactSet
8 3 (2.65%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.65%) Informatica
8 3 (2.65%) Mitel
8 3 (2.65%) NetApp
8 3 (2.65%) Refinitiv
8 3 (2.65%) Veeam