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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 52 42
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 4,683 5,186 9,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.51% 5.56% 7.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.97% 25.51% 25.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,124 4,054 6,469
10th Percentile £34,934 £36,250 £33,500
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 £84,278 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +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 15,123 20,332 35,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.80% 21.78% 27.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,441 12,687 19,237
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £96,250 £105,000 £95,000
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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +4 1,240 £65,000 -5.55% 365
North of England +37 976 £50,000 - 186
South East +12 864 £55,000 - 158
Midlands +32 735 £50,000 - 157
North West +43 557 £50,000 - 101
West Midlands +26 451 £52,500 +5.00% 97
South West +1 421 £52,500 +5.00% 84
East of England +33 412 £47,500 -9.52% 69
Yorkshire +32 305 £52,500 +5.00% 63
East Midlands +38 284 £47,500 +5.56% 60
North East +42 114 £47,500 +8.57% 23
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
1 302 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 232 (4.95%) IIS
3 218 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 105 (2.24%) CMS
5 50 (1.07%) Umbraco
6 48 (1.02%) Apache
7 30 (0.64%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 23 (0.49%) WordPress
9 20 (0.43%) Confluence
10 17 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
11 16 (0.34%) EPiServer
11 16 (0.34%) WebSphere
12 15 (0.32%) JBoss
13 14 (0.30%) ArcGIS
13 14 (0.30%) Kentico
14 13 (0.28%) Apache Solr
15 12 (0.26%) SAS
16 10 (0.21%) WildFly
17 8 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 186 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.53%) Photoshop
4 23 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.15%) InDesign
7 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.085%) SPSS
10 2 (0.043%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.043%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.021%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.021%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.021%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.021%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 125 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (1.00%) Endur
3 33 (0.70%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.58%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
6 18 (0.38%) Elite 3E
7 16 (0.34%) Fidessa
8 14 (0.30%) Maximo
9 13 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
10 12 (0.26%) PlanetPress Connect
10 12 (0.26%) Shopify
11 11 (0.23%) Sage X3
11 11 (0.23%) SAP Business One
12 10 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
12 10 (0.21%) Sage 200
13 9 (0.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
13 9 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
14 8 (0.17%) Teamcenter
15 6 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
15 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,604 (55.61%) Azure
2 766 (16.36%) Power Platform
3 722 (15.42%) AWS
4 537 (11.47%) Azure DevOps
5 396 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
6 204 (4.36%) SaaS
7 158 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 134 (2.86%) GCP
9 111 (2.37%) Serverless
10 108 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 106 (2.26%) PowerApps
12 104 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
13 100 (2.14%) GitHub
14 97 (2.07%) PaaS
15 92 (1.96%) Snowflake
16 90 (1.92%) Power Automate
17 81 (1.73%) Entra ID
18 76 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 66 (1.41%) IaaS
20 63 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 249 (5.32%) Firewall
2 206 (4.40%) DNS
3 157 (3.35%) Internet
4 126 (2.69%) SAN
5 122 (2.61%) WAN
6 102 (2.18%) DHCP
7 94 (2.01%) LAN
8 93 (1.99%) TCP/IP
9 83 (1.77%) VPN
10 76 (1.62%) Broadband
11 48 (1.02%) VoIP
12 45 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
13 42 (0.90%) HTTP
14 41 (0.88%) SSL
15 34 (0.73%) NAS
16 33 (0.70%) Wireless
17 27 (0.58%) Network Security
18 26 (0.56%) VLAN
19 16 (0.34%) FIX Connectivity
19 16 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 689 (14.71%) Power BI
2 533 (11.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 428 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
4 397 (8.48%) Relational Database
5 378 (8.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 353 (7.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 310 (6.62%) MongoDB
8 280 (5.98%) MySQL
9 270 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
10 236 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
11 164 (3.50%) Data Lake
11 164 (3.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 143 (3.05%) NoSQL
13 91 (1.94%) RDBMS
14 90 (1.92%) Oracle Database
15 86 (1.84%) Tableau
16 74 (1.58%) DB2
17 68 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
18 57 (1.22%) MS Access
19 46 (0.98%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 411 (8.78%) Git
2 258 (5.51%) Visual Studio
3 219 (4.68%) JIRA
4 91 (1.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 77 (1.64%) NUnit
6 66 (1.41%) GitLab
7 65 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 58 (1.24%) TeamCity
9 55 (1.17%) Jenkins
10 51 (1.09%) Moq
11 38 (0.81%) Jasmine
12 33 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
13 32 (0.68%) Postman
14 31 (0.66%) Selenium
15 27 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
16 26 (0.56%) SpecFlow
17 24 (0.51%) Bitbucket
17 24 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
18 23 (0.49%) MSTest
19 22 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,151 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 794 (16.95%) Finance
3 403 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (5.70%) Retail
5 183 (3.91%) Marketing
6 177 (3.78%) Public Sector
7 165 (3.52%) Law
8 142 (3.03%) Games
8 142 (3.03%) Legal
9 141 (3.01%) Manufacturing
10 115 (2.46%) Banking
11 86 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
12 82 (1.75%) Advertising
13 78 (1.67%) Back Office
14 76 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 61 (1.30%) Local Government
16 51 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
17 49 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
18 37 (0.79%) Financial Institution
19 35 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,277 (48.62%) Developer
2 1,133 (24.19%) .NET Developer
3 640 (13.67%) Senior
4 611 (13.05%) C# Developer
5 396 (8.46%) C# .NET Developer
6 367 (7.84%) Software Developer
7 355 (7.58%) Analyst
8 346 (7.39%) Lead
9 305 (6.51%) Senior Developer
10 244 (5.21%) Data Engineer
11 239 (5.10%) DBA
12 213 (4.55%) Consultant
13 210 (4.48%) Support Engineer
14 184 (3.93%) Full Stack Developer
15 179 (3.82%) Software Engineer
16 156 (3.33%) SQL DBA
17 151 (3.22%) Administrator
18 139 (2.97%) Support Analyst
19 133 (2.84%) Architect
20 130 (2.78%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,261 (48.28%) .NET
2 1,335 (28.51%) ASP.NET
3 1,063 (22.70%) .NET Core
4 1,017 (21.72%) AngularJS
5 998 (21.31%) HTML
6 877 (18.73%) ASP.NET MVC
7 817 (17.45%) .NET Framework
8 762 (16.27%) Entity Framework
9 756 (16.14%) ASP.NET Web API
10 744 (15.89%) CSS
11 668 (14.26%) React
12 493 (10.53%) HTML5
13 449 (9.59%) Vue
14 363 (7.75%) RESTful
15 331 (7.07%) Node.js
16 322 (6.88%) Web Services
17 315 (6.73%) REST
18 276 (5.89%) XML
19 260 (5.55%) jQuery
20 248 (5.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 210 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
2 201 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
3 167 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 133 (2.84%) Public Cloud
5 121 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 116 (2.48%) Mobile App
7 115 (2.46%) Data Structures
8 109 (2.33%) Replication
9 84 (1.79%) Clustering
10 72 (1.54%) Cloud Native
11 69 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 66 (1.41%) Product Ownership
13 57 (1.22%) Reinsurance
14 50 (1.07%) Driving Licence
15 49 (1.05%) NHS
16 46 (0.98%) Swaptions
17 44 (0.94%) Data Centre
18 43 (0.92%) Algorithms
19 41 (0.88%) Onboarding
19 41 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 797 (17.02%) Windows
2 352 (7.52%) Linux
3 340 (7.26%) Windows Server
4 96 (2.05%) VMS
5 88 (1.88%) Unix
6 84 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 78 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 75 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 66 (1.41%) Android
10 55 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 41 (0.88%) CentOS
12 38 (0.81%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.58%) Solaris
14 24 (0.51%) zOS
15 23 (0.49%) AIX
16 20 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 19 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.34%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.34%) Windows 7
19 15 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,676 (35.79%) Agile
2 1,151 (24.58%) MVC
3 1,088 (23.23%) Full Stack Development
4 859 (18.34%) DevOps
5 821 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
6 794 (16.95%) Microservices
7 753 (16.08%) Business Intelligence
8 574 (12.26%) ETL
9 557 (11.89%) TDD
10 556 (11.87%) Scrum
11 396 (8.46%) Computer Science
12 391 (8.35%) BDD
13 360 (7.69%) CI/CD
14 350 (7.47%) Software Engineering
15 346 (7.39%) Data Modelling
16 317 (6.77%) Roadmaps
17 316 (6.75%) Analytics
17 316 (6.75%) OO
18 304 (6.49%) Mentoring
19 290 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,414 (51.55%) SQL
2 2,272 (48.52%) C#
3 1,565 (33.42%) JavaScript
4 731 (15.61%) T-SQL
5 536 (11.45%) TypeScript
6 476 (10.16%) Python
7 311 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 270 (5.77%) Java
9 178 (3.80%) VB
10 160 (3.42%) VB.NET
11 97 (2.07%) PHP
12 75 (1.60%) PL/SQL
13 67 (1.43%) Bash
14 62 (1.32%) C++
15 52 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 51 (1.09%) R
17 41 (0.88%) Bicep
17 41 (0.88%) XPath
18 39 (0.83%) C
18 39 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 777 (16.59%) Degree
2 246 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 195 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 168 (3.59%) Security Cleared
5 105 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 69 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 36 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 25 (0.53%) MCSE
10 19 (0.41%) DV Cleared
10 19 (0.41%) MCP
11 18 (0.38%) CCNA
11 18 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
12 17 (0.36%) AWS Certification
13 14 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
14 13 (0.28%) HND
15 12 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 12 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (4.70%) QA
2 177 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 70 (1.49%) SLA
4 59 (1.26%) GDPR
5 40 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 36 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.21%) 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 (0.085%) COBIT
12 4 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.085%) NCSC
12 4 (0.085%) PMO
12 4 (0.085%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.064%) ISO 9000
13 3 (0.064%) MiFID
System Software
1 382 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 207 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 199 (4.25%) Docker
4 108 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 98 (2.09%) Hyper-V
6 56 (1.20%) vSphere
7 32 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.36%) XenApp
10 11 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.11%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.085%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.043%) Firmware
15 2 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.043%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.021%) IAG
16 1 (0.021%) RACF
Systems Management
1 210 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 127 (2.71%) Terraform
3 49 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 48 (1.02%) SCCM
5 38 (0.81%) Ansible
6 24 (0.51%) Nagios
7 21 (0.45%) Grafana
8 20 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
10 18 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.34%) WSUS
12 13 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.28%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (0.23%) 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%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2,461 (52.55%) Microsoft
2 519 (11.08%) Oracle
3 321 (6.85%) VMware
4 153 (3.27%) Databricks
5 150 (3.20%) Google
6 106 (2.26%) Veeam
7 103 (2.20%) Citrix
8 78 (1.67%) Facebook
9 77 (1.64%) IBM
10 72 (1.54%) Sybase
11 67 (1.43%) Cisco
12 64 (1.37%) SAP
13 61 (1.30%) Apple
14 60 (1.28%) Informatica
15 52 (1.11%) Red Hat
15 52 (1.11%) TIBCO
16 47 (1.00%) Adobe
17 46 (0.98%) OpenLink
18 44 (0.94%) HP
19 40 (0.85%) F5