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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 54 42
Rank change year-on-year +20 -12 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,624 4,935 9,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.39% 5.47% 7.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.45% 25.53% 25.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,085 3,888 6,349
10th Percentile £34,662 £36,250 £32,996
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.28% +8.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,759 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%

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 15,184 19,328 36,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 21.41% 27.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,430 12,188 18,923
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 £85,000 £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 9 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 9 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 -2 1,219 £65,000 -6.40% 332
North of England +38 969 £50,000 - 186
South East +8 857 £55,000 - 141
Midlands +29 718 £50,000 - 169
North West +33 552 £50,000 - 101
West Midlands +26 462 £52,500 +5.00% 100
South West +3 416 £52,500 +5.00% 91
East of England +32 410 £47,500 -7.32% 60
Yorkshire +29 301 £51,498 +3.00% 65
East Midlands +35 256 £47,500 - 69
North East +40 116 £47,500 +11.76% 21
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
1 291 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 224 (4.84%) IIS
3 204 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 104 (2.25%) CMS
5 49 (1.06%) Apache
6 48 (1.04%) Umbraco
7 31 (0.67%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.48%) WordPress
9 20 (0.43%) Confluence
10 19 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 17 (0.37%) WebSphere
12 16 (0.35%) 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
1 182 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.43%) Photoshop
5 16 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.065%) SPSS
9 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.043%) InDesign
9 2 (0.043%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.022%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.022%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.022%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 118 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.87%) NEC Housing
3 39 (0.84%) Endur
4 27 (0.58%) SDL Web 8
5 19 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.35%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.35%) 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 2,602 (56.27%) Azure
2 761 (16.46%) Power Platform
3 730 (15.79%) AWS
4 534 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
5 382 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
6 195 (4.22%) SaaS
7 158 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 130 (2.81%) GCP
9 109 (2.36%) PowerApps
10 105 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 104 (2.25%) Serverless
12 100 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
13 99 (2.14%) GitHub
14 95 (2.05%) Power Automate
15 92 (1.99%) PaaS
15 92 (1.99%) Snowflake
16 82 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 76 (1.64%) Entra ID
18 65 (1.41%) IaaS
19 62 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 235 (5.08%) Firewall
2 205 (4.43%) DNS
3 156 (3.37%) Internet
4 120 (2.60%) SAN
5 102 (2.21%) DHCP
6 97 (2.10%) TCP/IP
7 93 (2.01%) WAN
8 77 (1.67%) Broadband
9 74 (1.60%) VPN
10 66 (1.43%) LAN
11 45 (0.97%) VoIP
12 42 (0.91%) HTTP
12 42 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
13 39 (0.84%) SSL
14 31 (0.67%) NAS
15 28 (0.61%) Wireless
16 23 (0.50%) Network Security
17 22 (0.48%) VLAN
18 16 (0.35%) FIX Connectivity
18 16 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 686 (14.84%) Power BI
2 520 (11.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 427 (9.23%) Data Warehouse
4 391 (8.46%) Relational Database
5 372 (8.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 354 (7.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 318 (6.88%) MongoDB
8 278 (6.01%) MySQL
9 276 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
10 244 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
11 168 (3.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 165 (3.57%) Data Lake
13 142 (3.07%) NoSQL
14 99 (2.14%) Oracle Database
15 90 (1.95%) RDBMS
16 86 (1.86%) Tableau
17 78 (1.69%) DB2
18 68 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
19 57 (1.23%) MS Access
20 46 (0.99%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 418 (9.04%) Git
2 259 (5.60%) Visual Studio
3 211 (4.56%) JIRA
4 88 (1.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 76 (1.64%) NUnit
6 66 (1.43%) GitLab
7 61 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 58 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 55 (1.19%) Jenkins
10 53 (1.15%) Moq
11 38 (0.82%) Jasmine
12 32 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
13 31 (0.67%) Selenium
14 30 (0.65%) Postman
15 27 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
16 26 (0.56%) SpecFlow
17 25 (0.54%) MSTest
17 25 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
18 24 (0.52%) Bitbucket
19 22 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,145 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 784 (16.96%) Finance
3 406 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (5.71%) Retail
5 188 (4.07%) Public Sector
6 171 (3.70%) Marketing
7 157 (3.40%) Law
8 139 (3.01%) Manufacturing
9 137 (2.96%) Legal
10 133 (2.88%) Games
11 109 (2.36%) Banking
12 85 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 84 (1.82%) Back Office
14 78 (1.69%) Advertising
14 78 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 70 (1.51%) Local Government
16 49 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
17 46 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
18 36 (0.78%) Telecoms
19 33 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,258 (48.83%) Developer
2 1,141 (24.68%) .NET Developer
3 627 (13.56%) Senior
4 612 (13.24%) C# Developer
5 401 (8.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 346 (7.48%) Analyst
6 346 (7.48%) Lead
7 340 (7.35%) Software Developer
8 307 (6.64%) Senior Developer
9 250 (5.41%) Data Engineer
10 245 (5.30%) DBA
11 208 (4.50%) Consultant
11 208 (4.50%) Support Engineer
12 185 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
13 175 (3.78%) Software Engineer
14 159 (3.44%) Administrator
15 152 (3.29%) SQL DBA
16 133 (2.88%) Support Analyst
17 125 (2.70%) Architect
18 123 (2.66%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,265 (48.98%) .NET
2 1,344 (29.07%) ASP.NET
3 1,065 (23.03%) .NET Core
4 1,009 (21.82%) AngularJS
5 982 (21.24%) HTML
6 882 (19.07%) ASP.NET MVC
7 832 (17.99%) .NET Framework
8 782 (16.91%) Entity Framework
9 766 (16.57%) ASP.NET Web API
10 735 (15.90%) CSS
11 656 (14.19%) React
12 477 (10.32%) HTML5
13 458 (9.90%) Vue
14 366 (7.92%) RESTful
15 323 (6.99%) Web Services
16 311 (6.73%) Node.js
17 307 (6.64%) REST
18 259 (5.60%) jQuery
19 254 (5.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 254 (5.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 209 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
2 208 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
3 157 (3.40%) Management Information System
4 129 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 119 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
6 117 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 115 (2.49%) Mobile App
8 108 (2.34%) Replication
9 83 (1.79%) Clustering
10 72 (1.56%) Cloud Native
11 70 (1.51%) Product Ownership
12 63 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
13 60 (1.30%) Driving Licence
14 54 (1.17%) Reinsurance
15 52 (1.12%) NHS
16 43 (0.93%) Algorithms
17 39 (0.84%) Data Centre
17 39 (0.84%) Onboarding
18 38 (0.82%) iPhone
18 38 (0.82%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 784 (16.96%) Windows
2 353 (7.63%) Linux
3 332 (7.18%) Windows Server
4 96 (2.08%) VMS
5 95 (2.05%) Unix
6 82 (1.77%) Windows 10
7 76 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 75 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 68 (1.47%) Android
10 52 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 41 (0.89%) 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 19 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.35%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.35%) Windows 7
19 13 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,674 (36.20%) Agile
2 1,152 (24.91%) MVC
3 1,082 (23.40%) Full Stack Development
4 854 (18.47%) DevOps
5 806 (17.43%) Microservices
6 802 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
7 756 (16.35%) Business Intelligence
8 569 (12.31%) TDD
9 568 (12.28%) ETL
10 566 (12.24%) Scrum
11 399 (8.63%) BDD
12 395 (8.54%) Computer Science
13 365 (7.89%) CI/CD
14 349 (7.55%) Software Engineering
15 343 (7.42%) Data Modelling
16 318 (6.88%) Analytics
17 315 (6.81%) OO
18 308 (6.66%) Roadmaps
19 305 (6.60%) Mentoring
20 297 (6.42%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,367 (51.19%) SQL
2 2,282 (49.35%) C#
3 1,544 (33.39%) JavaScript
4 721 (15.59%) T-SQL
5 545 (11.79%) TypeScript
6 451 (9.75%) Python
7 308 (6.66%) PowerShell
8 268 (5.80%) Java
9 161 (3.48%) VB.NET
10 151 (3.27%) VB
11 72 (1.56%) PHP
12 70 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 67 (1.45%) C++
14 64 (1.38%) Bash
15 52 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 51 (1.10%) R
17 42 (0.91%) Bicep
18 40 (0.87%) XPath
19 39 (0.84%) C
20 38 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 745 (16.11%) Degree
2 240 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 195 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 177 (3.83%) Security Cleared
5 103 (2.23%) SC Cleared
6 63 (1.36%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 36 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 27 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
10 25 (0.54%) MCSE
11 22 (0.48%) 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%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (4.76%) QA
2 179 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 70 (1.51%) SLA
4 63 (1.36%) GDPR
5 49 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 35 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.13%) GMP
11 5 (0.11%) NIST
11 5 (0.11%) WCAG
12 4 (0.087%) COBIT
12 4 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.087%) MiFID
12 4 (0.087%) NCSC
12 4 (0.087%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.065%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.065%) PMO
System Software
1 370 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 202 (4.37%) Docker
3 195 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 108 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 100 (2.16%) Hyper-V
6 54 (1.17%) vSphere
7 34 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.37%) XenApp
10 8 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.11%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.087%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.043%) Firmware
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 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 128 (2.77%) Terraform
3 48 (1.04%) 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
9 20 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
10 16 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.35%) WSUS
11 14 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.30%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
13 11 (0.24%) MIIS
14 9 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
14 9 (0.19%) Foglight
14 9 (0.19%) Puppet
15 8 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
16 7 (0.15%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2,431 (52.57%) Microsoft
2 528 (11.42%) Oracle
3 306 (6.62%) VMware
4 155 (3.35%) Databricks
5 153 (3.31%) Google
6 106 (2.29%) Veeam
7 99 (2.14%) Citrix
8 79 (1.71%) IBM
9 78 (1.69%) Facebook
10 69 (1.49%) Cisco
11 66 (1.43%) Sybase
12 64 (1.38%) SAP
13 61 (1.32%) Apple
14 58 (1.25%) Informatica
14 58 (1.25%) Red Hat
15 42 (0.91%) Adobe
15 42 (0.91%) NEC
15 42 (0.91%) TIBCO
16 39 (0.84%) F5
16 39 (0.84%) HP