SQL Server Jobs in England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 46 47
Rank change year-on-year -41 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,671 3,999 4,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.18% 4.44% 5.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.23% 27.26% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 3,354 3,559
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £57,443
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.25% +4.44%
75th Percentile £71,500 £67,968 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £56,750 £55,000 £55,198
% change year-on-year +3.18% -0.36% +0.36%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,193 14,668 16,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.71% 16.29% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,586 10,537 11,308
10th Percentile £35,125 £35,529 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

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 July 2025.

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 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
North of England -46 434 £50,000 - 205
London -54 414 £72,500 +6.62% 304
Midlands -13 295 £50,000 - 105
South East -53 289 £52,500 -4.55% 260
North West -45 271 £50,000 -2.91% 132
West Midlands -20 162 £57,500 +15.00% 63
East Midlands -8 132 £48,500 +2.11% 42
East of England -49 129 £44,500 -6.32% 57
Yorkshire -42 116 £53,500 +12.63% 57
South West -28 102 £50,000 -9.09% 69
North East +7 47 £44,250 -11.50% 17
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
1 150 (8.98%) Confluence
2 123 (7.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 106 (6.34%) IIS
4 82 (4.91%) SharePoint
5 25 (1.50%) CMS
6 17 (1.02%) Umbraco
7 12 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.60%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.54%) Moodle
10 8 (0.48%) Apache
11 5 (0.30%) SAS
12 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.24%) nginx
12 4 (0.24%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.18%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
14 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 48 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.54%) Trello
4 5 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Revit
7 2 (0.12%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.060%) Moqups
8 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.060%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 48 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (0.66%) Unit4 Business World
4 10 (0.60%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
5 7 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 5 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.30%) Endur
6 5 (0.30%) Exchequer
6 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.30%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.24%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.24%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.24%) Sage 1000
8 3 (0.18%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.12%) Eikon
9 2 (0.12%) Odoo
9 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.12%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 973 (58.23%) Azure
2 414 (24.78%) AWS
3 317 (18.97%) Power Platform
4 178 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
5 146 (8.74%) GCP
6 140 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (5.86%) SaaS
8 86 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
9 79 (4.73%) GitHub
10 70 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 69 (4.13%) Power Automate
12 68 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
13 66 (3.95%) PowerApps
14 54 (3.23%) Entra ID
14 54 (3.23%) Serverless
15 36 (2.15%) IaaS
16 34 (2.03%) Azure Functions
17 29 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
18 27 (1.62%) Snowflake
19 24 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 116 (6.94%) Firewall
2 81 (4.85%) DNS
3 63 (3.77%) DHCP
4 59 (3.53%) SAN
5 54 (3.23%) WAN
6 53 (3.17%) LAN
7 37 (2.21%) VoIP
8 35 (2.09%) VPN
9 33 (1.97%) TCP/IP
10 30 (1.80%) Network Security
11 22 (1.32%) FTP
12 19 (1.14%) HTTP
12 19 (1.14%) VLAN
13 18 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
14 17 (1.02%) NAS
14 17 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.78%) iSCSI
16 12 (0.72%) SSL
17 11 (0.66%) Intranet
18 10 (0.60%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (15.38%) Power BI
2 164 (9.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 155 (9.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 133 (7.96%) MySQL
5 111 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
5 111 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
6 94 (5.63%) Relational Database
7 78 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 77 (4.61%) MongoDB
9 66 (3.95%) NoSQL
10 52 (3.11%) Data Lake
11 47 (2.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 31 (1.86%) Data Hub
13 30 (1.80%) Tableau
14 29 (1.74%) RDBMS
15 26 (1.56%) Metadata
15 26 (1.56%) SQL CLR
16 25 (1.50%) DB2
17 22 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 287 (17.18%) JIRA
2 210 (12.57%) Bitbucket
3 209 (12.51%) GitLab
4 208 (12.45%) Selenium
5 206 (12.33%) SonarQube
6 202 (12.09%) Maven
7 201 (12.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 199 (11.91%) Cucumber
9 166 (9.93%) Git
10 74 (4.43%) Visual Studio
11 34 (2.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 31 (1.86%) NUnit
13 26 (1.56%) Jenkins
13 26 (1.56%) TeamCity
14 20 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
15 15 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
16 14 (0.84%) MagicDraw
17 11 (0.66%) Jasmine
17 11 (0.66%) PowerBuilder
18 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
General
1 533 (31.90%) Finance
2 490 (29.32%) Social Skills
3 252 (15.08%) Banking
4 245 (14.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 187 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
6 167 (9.99%) Retail
7 100 (5.98%) Investment Banking
8 90 (5.39%) Corporate Banking
9 65 (3.89%) Law
10 60 (3.59%) Manufacturing
11 51 (3.05%) Back Office
12 45 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (2.69%) Public Sector
13 36 (2.15%) Front Office
14 33 (1.97%) Advertising
14 33 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (1.80%) Legal
16 27 (1.62%) Marketing
17 19 (1.14%) Games
18 18 (1.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 610 (36.51%) Developer
2 254 (15.20%) Senior
3 243 (14.54%) Software Engineer
4 175 (10.47%) Analyst
5 143 (8.56%) Senior Developer
6 133 (7.96%) .NET Developer
7 122 (7.30%) SQL Developer
8 115 (6.88%) Lead
9 113 (6.76%) C# Developer
10 103 (6.16%) IT Support
11 100 (5.98%) Support Analyst
12 96 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
13 79 (4.73%) Applications Support
14 72 (4.31%) Software Developer
15 68 (4.07%) Support Engineer
16 66 (3.95%) Data Engineer
17 63 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 63 (3.77%) IT Engineer
18 59 (3.53%) Architect
19 50 (2.99%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 551 (32.97%) .NET
2 377 (22.56%) CSS
3 368 (22.02%) HTML
4 352 (21.07%) React
5 244 (14.60%) Kafka
6 214 (12.81%) Spring Boot
7 209 (12.51%) Spring
8 208 (12.45%) ASP.NET
9 201 (12.03%) Redux
10 200 (11.97%) JPA
11 194 (11.61%) REST
12 178 (10.65%) RESTful
13 167 (9.99%) .NET Core
14 157 (9.40%) .NET Framework
15 144 (8.62%) HTML5
16 122 (7.30%) AngularJS
17 117 (7.00%) CSS3
18 112 (6.70%) Jest
19 111 (6.64%) Hibernate
20 109 (6.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 240 (14.36%) Product Ownership
2 223 (13.35%) Enterprise Software
3 70 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
4 56 (3.35%) Mobile App
5 52 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 50 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 38 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.15%) Clustering
9 34 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 33 (1.97%) Driving Licence
11 29 (1.74%) Client/Server
11 29 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.74%) Private Cloud
12 24 (1.44%) NHS
12 24 (1.44%) Replication
13 18 (1.08%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.02%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 16 (0.96%) Operational Technology
16 14 (0.84%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 308 (18.43%) Windows
2 173 (10.35%) Windows Server
3 133 (7.96%) Linux
4 44 (2.63%) Unix
5 31 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (1.74%) Android
7 26 (1.56%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.30%) CentOS
11 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.24%) Rocky
13 3 (0.18%) Debian
13 3 (0.18%) Solaris
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.060%) VMS
15 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (34.95%) Agile
2 506 (30.28%) DevOps
3 408 (24.42%) CI/CD
4 406 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
5 348 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 327 (19.57%) Software Engineering
7 316 (18.91%) Microservices
8 285 (17.06%) Business Intelligence
9 277 (16.58%) SDLC
10 267 (15.98%) Containerisation
11 266 (15.92%) Test Automation
12 256 (15.32%) Performance Optimisation
13 250 (14.96%) Migration
14 237 (14.18%) Mentoring
15 231 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 225 (13.46%) Front End Development
17 209 (12.51%) Clean Code
18 175 (10.47%) Computer Science
19 156 (9.34%) TDD
20 155 (9.28%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,046 (62.60%) SQL
2 561 (33.57%) C#
3 470 (28.13%) JavaScript
4 324 (19.39%) Java
5 206 (12.33%) T-SQL
6 178 (10.65%) TypeScript
7 167 (9.99%) Python
8 146 (8.74%) PowerShell
9 64 (3.83%) PHP
10 54 (3.23%) C++
11 49 (2.93%) VB.NET
12 45 (2.69%) PL/SQL
13 32 (1.92%) Bash
14 22 (1.32%) VBA
15 16 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.90%) Bicep
16 15 (0.90%) VB
17 14 (0.84%) C
18 12 (0.72%) R
19 8 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 289 (17.30%) Degree
2 111 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (3.41%) DBS Check
4 55 (3.29%) Security Cleared
5 53 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 31 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.74%) SC Cleared
9 14 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 13 (0.78%) MCSA
11 11 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (0.66%) MCSE
12 10 (0.60%) MCP
13 7 (0.42%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.42%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (0.30%) HND
16 4 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (14.42%) QA
2 123 (7.36%) Accessibility
3 50 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.63%) GDPR
5 38 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.96%) ISO 9001
7 14 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.78%) WCAG
9 11 (0.66%) SLA
10 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.24%) GxP
11 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) NIST
12 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.12%) GAAP
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.060%) COBIT
System Software
1 297 (17.77%) Docker
2 155 (9.28%) Active Directory
3 121 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (4.07%) Hyper-V
5 26 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.38%) vSphere
7 19 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 6 (0.36%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.30%) zsh
12 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.18%) Apache Flume
13 3 (0.18%) HDFS
13 3 (0.18%) XenApp
14 2 (0.12%) KVM
14 2 (0.12%) NFS
14 2 (0.12%) SRDF
14 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 302 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 74 (4.43%) Terraform
3 58 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (2.21%) Ansible
5 30 (1.80%) SCCM
6 21 (1.26%) Grafana
7 20 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
8 17 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (0.66%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.60%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.60%) WSUS
11 8 (0.48%) WMI
12 7 (0.42%) SCOM
13 5 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.30%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.24%) Kibana
14 4 (0.24%) logstash
15 3 (0.18%) Autotask
Vendors
1 781 (46.74%) Microsoft
2 198 (11.85%) Solace
3 149 (8.92%) Oracle
4 148 (8.86%) VMware
5 69 (4.13%) Databricks
6 50 (2.99%) Cisco
7 34 (2.03%) Dell
8 32 (1.92%) HP
8 32 (1.92%) Veeam
9 29 (1.74%) Salesforce
10 25 (1.50%) SAP
11 23 (1.38%) Google
12 22 (1.32%) Citrix
12 22 (1.32%) Splunk
13 21 (1.26%) Informatica
14 20 (1.20%) Red Hat
14 20 (1.20%) Zoho
15 19 (1.14%) IBM
15 19 (1.14%) NetApp
16 16 (0.96%) Trayport