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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 42 50
Rank change year-on-year -46 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,616 4,469 4,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.18% 4.75% 5.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.97% 28.92% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,180 3,797 3,555
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,900 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £71,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,759 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 7,035 15,453 16,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.85% 16.42% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,493 11,256 11,344
10th Percentile £35,050 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +7.83% -8.73% +5.00%

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 1 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 1 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 -45 426 £50,890 +1.78% 590
London -56 397 £72,500 +7.41% 1,407
South East -56 284 £52,500 -4.55% 688
Midlands -26 283 £50,000 - 325
North West -56 265 £50,445 -1.09% 384
West Midlands -27 153 £57,500 +12.75% 192
East Midlands -21 129 £48,500 +2.11% 126
East of England -48 124 £44,000 -7.37% 219
Yorkshire -31 118 £54,250 +14.21% 165
South West -41 93 £50,000 -4.76% 238
North East +1 44 £45,000 -7.69% 43
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
1 152 (9.41%) Confluence
2 120 (7.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 101 (6.25%) IIS
4 84 (5.20%) SharePoint
5 23 (1.42%) CMS
6 19 (1.18%) Umbraco
7 12 (0.74%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.56%) Moodle
9 8 (0.50%) Apache
9 8 (0.50%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.31%) SAS
11 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.25%) Skype for Business
12 3 (0.19%) nginx
12 3 (0.19%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.56%) Trello
4 5 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Revit
7 2 (0.12%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.062%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.062%) Moqups
8 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 48 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.56%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.31%) Endur
4 5 (0.31%) Exchequer
4 5 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite
4 5 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 5 (0.31%) Infor M3
4 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.31%) SAP Business One
4 5 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.25%) Sage 1000
6 3 (0.19%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.12%) Eikon
7 2 (0.12%) Odoo
7 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.12%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 942 (58.29%) Azure
2 399 (24.69%) AWS
3 309 (19.12%) Power Platform
4 168 (10.40%) Microsoft 365
5 144 (8.91%) GCP
6 133 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (5.88%) SaaS
8 80 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (4.46%) GitHub
10 68 (4.21%) Power Automate
11 67 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
12 65 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 65 (4.02%) PowerApps
13 51 (3.16%) Serverless
14 49 (3.03%) Entra ID
15 34 (2.10%) IaaS
16 33 (2.04%) Azure Functions
17 24 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
18 22 (1.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.81%) Firewall
2 75 (4.64%) DNS
3 57 (3.53%) DHCP
4 56 (3.47%) SAN
5 53 (3.28%) WAN
6 51 (3.16%) LAN
7 34 (2.10%) VoIP
8 33 (2.04%) VPN
9 30 (1.86%) Network Security
10 29 (1.79%) TCP/IP
11 20 (1.24%) FTP
12 18 (1.11%) HTTP
12 18 (1.11%) NAS
13 15 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
14 14 (0.87%) VLAN
15 13 (0.80%) Intranet
16 11 (0.68%) iSCSI
16 11 (0.68%) SSL
17 10 (0.62%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (15.35%) Power BI
2 161 (9.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 149 (9.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 122 (7.55%) MySQL
5 110 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
6 106 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
7 91 (5.63%) Relational Database
8 76 (4.70%) MongoDB
9 75 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 63 (3.90%) NoSQL
11 52 (3.22%) Data Lake
12 47 (2.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 31 (1.92%) Data Hub
14 28 (1.73%) Tableau
15 27 (1.67%) RDBMS
16 26 (1.61%) Metadata
16 26 (1.61%) SQL CLR
17 25 (1.55%) DB2
18 22 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
19 21 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 289 (17.88%) JIRA
2 209 (12.93%) Bitbucket
2 209 (12.93%) GitLab
3 208 (12.87%) Selenium
4 204 (12.62%) SonarQube
5 202 (12.50%) Maven
6 201 (12.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 199 (12.31%) Cucumber
8 159 (9.84%) Git
9 75 (4.64%) Visual Studio
10 34 (2.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 29 (1.79%) NUnit
12 28 (1.73%) TeamCity
13 26 (1.61%) Jenkins
14 21 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
15 14 (0.87%) MagicDraw
16 13 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
17 11 (0.68%) Jasmine
17 11 (0.68%) PowerBuilder
18 9 (0.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 524 (32.43%) Finance
2 478 (29.58%) Social Skills
3 253 (15.66%) Banking
4 245 (15.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 185 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
6 167 (10.33%) Retail
7 101 (6.25%) Investment Banking
8 90 (5.57%) Corporate Banking
9 61 (3.77%) Manufacturing
10 60 (3.71%) Law
11 45 (2.78%) Back Office
12 43 (2.66%) Public Sector
13 42 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (2.17%) Front Office
15 31 (1.92%) Legal
16 30 (1.86%) Advertising
17 26 (1.61%) Marketing
18 25 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (1.11%) Games
19 18 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 588 (36.39%) Developer
2 244 (15.10%) Software Engineer
3 238 (14.73%) Senior
4 169 (10.46%) Analyst
5 137 (8.48%) Senior Developer
6 129 (7.98%) .NET Developer
7 120 (7.43%) SQL Developer
8 113 (6.99%) C# Developer
9 112 (6.93%) Lead
10 98 (6.06%) IT Support
11 97 (6.00%) Support Analyst
12 92 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
13 75 (4.64%) Applications Support
14 74 (4.58%) Software Developer
15 64 (3.96%) Data Engineer
16 62 (3.84%) Support Engineer
17 60 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 60 (3.71%) IT Engineer
18 58 (3.59%) Architect
19 50 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 537 (33.23%) .NET
2 376 (23.27%) CSS
3 366 (22.65%) HTML
4 352 (21.78%) React
5 243 (15.04%) Kafka
6 214 (13.24%) Spring Boot
7 210 (13.00%) Spring
8 208 (12.87%) ASP.NET
9 201 (12.44%) Redux
10 200 (12.38%) JPA
11 187 (11.57%) REST
12 173 (10.71%) RESTful
13 163 (10.09%) .NET Core
14 156 (9.65%) .NET Framework
15 147 (9.10%) HTML5
16 117 (7.24%) AngularJS
16 117 (7.24%) CSS3
17 112 (6.93%) Jest
18 111 (6.87%) Hibernate
19 101 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 239 (14.79%) Product Ownership
2 221 (13.68%) Enterprise Software
3 66 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 57 (3.53%) Mobile App
5 53 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 46 (2.85%) Cloud Native
7 33 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.98%) Driving Licence
9 31 (1.92%) Clustering
9 31 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.86%) Client/Server
10 30 (1.86%) Private Cloud
11 29 (1.79%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.49%) Replication
13 20 (1.24%) NHS
14 17 (1.05%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 16 (0.99%) Public Cloud
16 15 (0.93%) Hedge funds
16 15 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 300 (18.56%) Windows
2 165 (10.21%) Windows Server
3 129 (7.98%) Linux
4 46 (2.85%) Unix
5 29 (1.79%) Android
6 28 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (1.61%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.37%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.31%) CentOS
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.25%) Rocky
13 4 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) Debian
14 2 (0.12%) Solaris
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.062%) VMS
15 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (35.58%) Agile
2 486 (30.07%) DevOps
3 399 (24.69%) CI/CD
4 397 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
5 342 (21.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 323 (19.99%) Software Engineering
7 309 (19.12%) Microservices
8 276 (17.08%) SDLC
9 268 (16.58%) Business Intelligence
10 262 (16.21%) Containerisation
11 259 (16.03%) Test Automation
12 257 (15.90%) Performance Optimisation
13 243 (15.04%) Migration
14 227 (14.05%) Mentoring
15 222 (13.74%) Front End Development
16 220 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 196 (12.13%) Clean Code
18 173 (10.71%) Computer Science
19 156 (9.65%) TDD
20 151 (9.34%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,026 (63.49%) SQL
2 544 (33.66%) C#
3 460 (28.47%) JavaScript
4 314 (19.43%) Java
5 205 (12.69%) T-SQL
6 179 (11.08%) TypeScript
7 158 (9.78%) Python
8 144 (8.91%) PowerShell
9 61 (3.77%) PHP
10 51 (3.16%) C++
11 45 (2.78%) VB.NET
12 43 (2.66%) PL/SQL
13 29 (1.79%) Bash
14 20 (1.24%) VBA
15 16 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.87%) Bicep
16 14 (0.87%) VB
17 13 (0.80%) R
18 8 (0.50%) C
18 8 (0.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 276 (17.08%) Degree
2 104 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (3.47%) DBS Check
4 55 (3.40%) Security Cleared
5 51 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.79%) SC Cleared
9 14 (0.87%) DV Cleared
10 13 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (0.68%) MCSA
12 10 (0.62%) MCSE
13 9 (0.56%) MCP
14 8 (0.50%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.43%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
16 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.31%) HND
17 5 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 4 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (14.60%) QA
2 123 (7.61%) Accessibility
3 46 (2.85%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.78%) GDPR
5 30 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.93%) WCAG
7 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.56%) SLA
8 5 (0.31%) GxP
8 5 (0.31%) NCSC
8 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.19%) NIST
10 3 (0.19%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.12%) GAAP
11 2 (0.12%) IFRS
11 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.062%) MiFID
System Software
1 290 (17.95%) Docker
2 142 (8.79%) Active Directory
3 115 (7.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (3.71%) Hyper-V
5 25 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.42%) vSphere
7 17 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 6 (0.37%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.31%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.25%) zsh
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Flume
12 3 (0.19%) HDFS
12 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.12%) KVM
13 2 (0.12%) SRDF
13 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.12%) Xen
13 2 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 298 (18.44%) Kubernetes
2 75 (4.64%) Terraform
3 53 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (2.29%) Ansible
5 29 (1.79%) SCCM
6 20 (1.24%) Failover Clustering
6 20 (1.24%) Grafana
7 17 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.56%) vCenter Server
9 9 (0.56%) WSUS
10 8 (0.50%) WMI
11 7 (0.43%) SCOM
12 6 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.31%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.25%) Kibana
14 4 (0.25%) logstash
15 3 (0.19%) Oozie
Vendors
1 746 (46.16%) Microsoft
2 198 (12.25%) Solace
3 149 (9.22%) Oracle
4 144 (8.91%) VMware
5 66 (4.08%) Databricks
6 46 (2.85%) Cisco
7 29 (1.79%) Dell
7 29 (1.79%) HP
7 29 (1.79%) Veeam
8 26 (1.61%) SAP
9 25 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.42%) Google
11 20 (1.24%) Citrix
11 20 (1.24%) IBM
11 20 (1.24%) Splunk
11 20 (1.24%) Zoho
12 19 (1.18%) Informatica
12 19 (1.18%) NetApp
13 16 (0.99%) Red Hat
14 15 (0.93%) ServiceNow