SQL Server Jobs in England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 55 43
Rank change year-on-year +21 -12 -15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,644 4,918 9,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.40% 5.45% 7.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.51% 25.44% 25.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,095 3,891 6,348
10th Percentile £34,905 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,759 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £53,177
% change year-on-year -1.79% +5.31% +6.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,223 19,335 36,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.72% 21.44% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,441 12,204 18,896
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £77,500 £84,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London 0 1,234 £65,000 -5.55% 357
North of England +41 969 £50,000 - 196
South East +14 858 £55,000 - 146
Midlands +32 723 £50,000 - 176
North West +34 552 £50,000 - 107
West Midlands +28 465 £52,500 +5.00% 108
South West +2 416 £52,500 +5.00% 96
East of England +30 410 £47,500 -12.04% 59
Yorkshire +29 302 £51,498 +3.00% 63
East Midlands +35 258 £47,500 +2.70% 68
North East +43 115 £47,500 +11.76% 27
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 290 (6.24%) SharePoint
2 224 (4.82%) IIS
3 209 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 103 (2.22%) CMS
5 49 (1.06%) Apache
6 48 (1.03%) Umbraco
7 31 (0.67%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.47%) WordPress
9 21 (0.45%) Confluence
10 19 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 17 (0.37%) WebSphere
12 16 (0.34%) EPiServer
13 15 (0.32%) JBoss
14 14 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 14 (0.30%) ArcGIS
14 14 (0.30%) Kentico
15 10 (0.22%) SAS
15 10 (0.22%) WildFly
16 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 184 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.43%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.065%) SPSS
10 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.043%) InDesign
10 2 (0.043%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.022%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.022%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.022%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 117 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (0.95%) Endur
3 39 (0.84%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.58%) SDL Web 8
5 19 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.34%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.34%) Fidessa
7 13 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
7 13 (0.28%) Maximo
8 11 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 11 (0.24%) Sage X3
8 11 (0.24%) SAP Business One
8 11 (0.24%) Shopify
9 10 (0.22%) PlanetPress Connect
9 10 (0.22%) Sage 200
10 8 (0.17%) Teamcenter
11 7 (0.15%) OpenLink RightAngle
11 7 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
12 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,615 (56.31%) Azure
2 760 (16.37%) Power Platform
3 732 (15.76%) AWS
4 537 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
5 382 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
6 193 (4.16%) SaaS
7 160 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 129 (2.78%) GCP
9 108 (2.33%) PowerApps
10 104 (2.24%) Serverless
11 103 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 101 (2.17%) GitHub
13 99 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
14 95 (2.05%) Power Automate
15 93 (2.00%) PaaS
16 92 (1.98%) Snowflake
17 84 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 77 (1.66%) Entra ID
19 66 (1.42%) IaaS
20 61 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 235 (5.06%) Firewall
2 205 (4.41%) DNS
3 156 (3.36%) Internet
4 118 (2.54%) SAN
5 102 (2.20%) DHCP
6 97 (2.09%) TCP/IP
7 93 (2.00%) WAN
8 77 (1.66%) Broadband
9 74 (1.59%) VPN
10 66 (1.42%) LAN
11 44 (0.95%) VoIP
11 44 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
12 41 (0.88%) HTTP
13 39 (0.84%) SSL
14 29 (0.62%) NAS
15 28 (0.60%) Wireless
16 23 (0.50%) Network Security
17 22 (0.47%) VLAN
18 16 (0.34%) FIX Connectivity
18 16 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 686 (14.77%) Power BI
2 525 (11.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 432 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 398 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 377 (8.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 353 (7.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 319 (6.87%) MongoDB
8 277 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
8 277 (5.96%) MySQL
9 245 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
10 170 (3.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 164 (3.53%) Data Lake
12 142 (3.06%) NoSQL
13 103 (2.22%) Oracle Database
14 96 (2.07%) RDBMS
15 86 (1.85%) Tableau
16 78 (1.68%) DB2
17 68 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
18 57 (1.23%) MS Access
19 46 (0.99%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 419 (9.02%) Git
2 260 (5.60%) Visual Studio
3 212 (4.57%) JIRA
4 89 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 76 (1.64%) NUnit
6 66 (1.42%) GitLab
7 62 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 57 (1.23%) Jenkins
8 57 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 54 (1.16%) Moq
10 38 (0.82%) Jasmine
11 31 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
12 30 (0.65%) Postman
12 30 (0.65%) Selenium
13 27 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
14 26 (0.56%) MSTest
14 26 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
14 26 (0.56%) SpecFlow
15 24 (0.52%) Bitbucket
16 22 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,152 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 790 (17.01%) Finance
3 410 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (5.68%) Retail
5 188 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 175 (3.77%) Marketing
7 159 (3.42%) Law
8 141 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 138 (2.97%) Games
10 137 (2.95%) Legal
11 110 (2.37%) Banking
12 86 (1.85%) Back Office
13 85 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 79 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 78 (1.68%) Advertising
16 70 (1.51%) Local Government
17 49 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
18 46 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
19 35 (0.75%) Telecoms
20 33 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,258 (48.62%) Developer
2 1,140 (24.55%) .NET Developer
3 635 (13.67%) Senior
4 615 (13.24%) C# Developer
5 402 (8.66%) C# .NET Developer
6 348 (7.49%) Analyst
7 347 (7.47%) Lead
8 340 (7.32%) Software Developer
9 307 (6.61%) Senior Developer
10 250 (5.38%) Data Engineer
11 247 (5.32%) DBA
12 209 (4.50%) Support Engineer
13 208 (4.48%) Consultant
14 185 (3.98%) Full Stack Developer
15 177 (3.81%) Software Engineer
16 160 (3.45%) Administrator
17 152 (3.27%) SQL DBA
18 134 (2.89%) Support Analyst
19 128 (2.76%) Architect
20 124 (2.67%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,269 (48.86%) .NET
2 1,345 (28.96%) ASP.NET
3 1,067 (22.98%) .NET Core
4 1,010 (21.75%) AngularJS
5 986 (21.23%) HTML
6 883 (19.01%) ASP.NET MVC
7 833 (17.94%) .NET Framework
8 784 (16.88%) Entity Framework
9 767 (16.52%) ASP.NET Web API
10 739 (15.91%) CSS
11 657 (14.15%) React
12 478 (10.29%) HTML5
13 459 (9.88%) Vue
14 366 (7.88%) RESTful
15 324 (6.98%) Web Services
16 312 (6.72%) Node.js
17 306 (6.59%) REST
18 261 (5.62%) jQuery
19 255 (5.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 254 (5.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 209 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
2 208 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
3 154 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 129 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 119 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 117 (2.52%) Data Structures
7 115 (2.48%) Mobile App
8 110 (2.37%) Replication
9 85 (1.83%) Clustering
10 73 (1.57%) Product Ownership
11 70 (1.51%) Cloud Native
12 62 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
13 60 (1.29%) Driving Licence
14 54 (1.16%) Reinsurance
15 52 (1.12%) NHS
16 43 (0.93%) Algorithms
16 43 (0.93%) Swaptions
17 39 (0.84%) Data Centre
18 38 (0.82%) iPhone
19 37 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 785 (16.90%) Windows
2 353 (7.60%) Linux
3 332 (7.15%) Windows Server
4 97 (2.09%) Unix
5 96 (2.07%) VMS
6 84 (1.81%) Windows 10
7 78 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 75 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 69 (1.49%) Android
10 50 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 41 (0.88%) CentOS
12 38 (0.82%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.58%) Solaris
14 24 (0.52%) zOS
15 23 (0.50%) AIX
16 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 20 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.34%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.34%) Windows 7
19 13 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,679 (36.15%) Agile
2 1,155 (24.87%) MVC
3 1,084 (23.34%) Full Stack Development
4 859 (18.50%) DevOps
5 807 (17.38%) Microservices
5 807 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
6 760 (16.37%) Business Intelligence
7 570 (12.27%) ETL
8 568 (12.23%) Scrum
8 568 (12.23%) TDD
9 399 (8.59%) BDD
10 395 (8.51%) Computer Science
11 370 (7.97%) CI/CD
12 352 (7.58%) Data Modelling
13 350 (7.54%) Software Engineering
14 317 (6.83%) OO
15 316 (6.80%) Analytics
16 313 (6.74%) Roadmaps
17 307 (6.61%) Mentoring
18 297 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,378 (51.21%) SQL
2 2,284 (49.18%) C#
3 1,547 (33.31%) JavaScript
4 724 (15.59%) T-SQL
5 546 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 452 (9.73%) Python
7 309 (6.65%) PowerShell
8 274 (5.90%) Java
9 161 (3.47%) VB.NET
10 157 (3.38%) VB
11 71 (1.53%) PHP
12 70 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 67 (1.44%) C++
14 63 (1.36%) Bash
15 52 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 52 (1.12%) R
16 42 (0.90%) Bicep
17 40 (0.86%) XPath
18 39 (0.84%) C
19 38 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 749 (16.13%) Degree
2 239 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 195 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 178 (3.83%) Security Cleared
5 104 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 64 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 36 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 27 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
10 25 (0.54%) MCSE
11 23 (0.50%) DV Cleared
12 19 (0.41%) MCP
13 18 (0.39%) CCNA
13 18 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.37%) AWS Certification
15 14 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.28%) HND
16 13 (0.28%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.28%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.26%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (4.78%) QA
2 182 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 68 (1.46%) SLA
4 63 (1.36%) GDPR
5 49 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 35 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.13%) GMP
9 6 (0.13%) NIST
10 5 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.11%) WCAG
11 4 (0.086%) COBIT
11 4 (0.086%) MiFID
11 4 (0.086%) NCSC
11 4 (0.086%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.065%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.065%) PMO
System Software
1 369 (7.95%) Active Directory
2 202 (4.35%) Docker
3 193 (4.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 108 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 100 (2.15%) Hyper-V
6 55 (1.18%) vSphere
7 36 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.37%) XenApp
10 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.11%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.086%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.065%) Firmware
14 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.022%) NFS
16 1 (0.022%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 214 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 128 (2.76%) Terraform
3 48 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 45 (0.97%) SCCM
5 37 (0.80%) Ansible
6 25 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.52%) Nagios
8 21 (0.45%) Grafana
8 21 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
9 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.34%) WSUS
11 15 (0.32%) vCenter Server
12 14 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (0.24%) MIIS
15 9 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (0.19%) Foglight
15 9 (0.19%) Puppet
16 8 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
17 7 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,445 (52.65%) Microsoft
2 542 (11.67%) Oracle
3 305 (6.57%) VMware
4 154 (3.32%) Databricks
4 154 (3.32%) Google
5 110 (2.37%) Veeam
6 99 (2.13%) Citrix
7 79 (1.70%) IBM
8 78 (1.68%) Facebook
9 71 (1.53%) Sybase
10 69 (1.49%) Cisco
11 63 (1.36%) SAP
12 61 (1.31%) Apple
12 61 (1.31%) Informatica
13 58 (1.25%) Red Hat
14 47 (1.01%) TIBCO
15 43 (0.93%) OpenLink
16 42 (0.90%) Adobe
16 42 (0.90%) NEC
17 39 (0.84%) HP