SQL Server Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 49 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -25 +22
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 37 60 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 2.96% 4.12% 6.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.37% 23.72% 39.67%
Number of salaries quoted 35 24 30
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,750 £33,425
25th Percentile £42,780 £40,000 £39,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £95,000 £66,250
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £48,200
% change year-on-year - +3.73% -12.36%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 99 253 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.91% 17.38% 17.39%
Number of salaries quoted 85 133 93
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £36,700
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £60,000 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £85,750 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £53,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -10.38% -4.50% +0.91%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Hertfordshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Stevenage +4 15 £51,500 -6.36% 5
Hemel Hempstead +14 10 £46,250 -
Bishop's Stortford 0 4 £55,000 +46.67%
Watford -6 2 £61,250 +32.43%
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (18.92%) Skype for Business
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) NEC Housing
2 1 (2.70%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (8.11%) Cohesity
3 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) Boomi
4 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.70%) Matillion
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) Skype
2 3 (8.11%) VSAN
3 2 (5.41%) FTP
3 2 (5.41%) SSL
4 1 (2.70%) Firewall
4 1 (2.70%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.70%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.70%) SAN
4 1 (2.70%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (16.22%) MySQL
3 4 (10.81%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (10.81%) MS Access
3 4 (10.81%) Redis
3 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.81%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.41%) Big Data
5 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.41%) Neo4j
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.70%) Cognos Connection
6 1 (2.70%) Cognos Event Studio
6 1 (2.70%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Pentaho
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Toad
2 3 (8.11%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Postman
3 1 (2.70%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Aerospace
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Health Technology
2 4 (10.81%) Local Government
2 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Law
4 2 (5.41%) Retail
5 1 (2.70%) Advertising
5 1 (2.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Developer
2 6 (16.22%) Applications Support
2 6 (16.22%) Senior
3 5 (13.51%) Senior Applications Support
3 5 (13.51%) Wintel Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Junior
4 4 (10.81%) Junior Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Business Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) .NET
2 6 (16.22%) React
3 4 (10.81%) CSS
3 4 (10.81%) jQuery
3 4 (10.81%) SignalR
3 4 (10.81%) Vue
4 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.41%) EDI
5 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
5 2 (5.41%) HTML
5 2 (5.41%) Node.js
5 2 (5.41%) REST
5 2 (5.41%) SOAP
6 1 (2.70%) MDX
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Blackberry
1 3 (8.11%) PKI
1 3 (8.11%) RSA SecurID
2 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (37.84%) Windows
1 14 (37.84%) Windows Server
2 4 (10.81%) Unix
3 3 (8.11%) Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Agile
2 9 (24.32%) Migration
3 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
4 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
5 5 (13.51%) DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (13.51%) ETL
5 5 (13.51%) GAP Analysis
5 5 (13.51%) ITIL
5 5 (13.51%) SDLC
6 4 (10.81%) Business Strategy
6 4 (10.81%) Customer Experience
6 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (10.81%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (10.81%) Process Improvement
6 4 (10.81%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
2 11 (29.73%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
4 4 (10.81%) VB
5 3 (8.11%) Python
6 2 (5.41%) C++
6 2 (5.41%) Java
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Degree
2 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) vSphere
3 2 (5.41%) Docker
4 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) SCOM
1 7 (18.92%) WSUS
2 3 (8.11%) Ansible
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) Oracle
3 5 (13.51%) Salesforce
4 4 (10.81%) NEC
4 4 (10.81%) SAP
4 4 (10.81%) VMware
5 3 (8.11%) HP
5 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.70%) Cognos
6 1 (2.70%) IBM
6 1 (2.70%) Informatica
6 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.70%) OpenText
6 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.70%) Talend