SQL Server Jobs in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 46 62
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,215 2,040 4,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.18% 5.92% 6.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.02% 23.92% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 969 1,640 2,568
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £41,925
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,224 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.28% +8.20%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,059 8,528 21,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.56% 24.74% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,798 5,915 9,036
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,861 £116,250 £108,750
England 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 London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in London.

Salary trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London +1 223 £65,000 -7.14% 68
West London -32 31 £52,501 +5.00% 13
South London -29 21 £57,500 -4.17% 7
East London +6 16 £57,500 +4.55% 14
North London -2 8 £55,000 -24.14%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 100 (8.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (5.84%) SharePoint
3 68 (5.60%) IIS
4 53 (4.36%) CMS
5 21 (1.73%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.56%) Apache
7 15 (1.23%) EPiServer
7 15 (1.23%) WordPress
8 11 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
8 11 (0.91%) Umbraco
9 10 (0.82%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.66%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.58%) Confluence
11 7 (0.58%) JBoss
11 7 (0.58%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.58%) WildFly
12 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.41%) Kentico
13 5 (0.41%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 51 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.07%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.25%) SPSS
7 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (5.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (3.54%) Endur
3 23 (1.89%) NEC Housing
3 23 (1.89%) SDL Web 8
4 15 (1.23%) Fidessa
5 13 (1.07%) Elite 3E
6 10 (0.82%) PlanetPress Connect
7 9 (0.74%) Sage X3
7 9 (0.74%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.66%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 8 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.58%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.33%) BusinessWorks
10 4 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
10 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
12 2 (0.16%) KEYPrime
Cloud Services
1 618 (50.86%) Azure
2 201 (16.54%) AWS
3 199 (16.38%) Power Platform
4 167 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (5.10%) SaaS
7 60 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 41 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 39 (3.21%) GitHub
10 38 (3.13%) GCP
10 38 (3.13%) PaaS
11 36 (2.96%) Serverless
12 33 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (2.72%) Snowflake
13 32 (2.63%) PowerApps
14 30 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
14 30 (2.47%) IaaS
15 29 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
16 28 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.19%) DNS
2 62 (5.10%) Firewall
3 43 (3.54%) Internet
4 28 (2.30%) DHCP
4 28 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.89%) SAN
6 20 (1.65%) VPN
7 15 (1.23%) FIX Connectivity
8 11 (0.91%) iSCSI
9 10 (0.82%) HTTP
9 10 (0.82%) WAN
9 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
10 9 (0.74%) LAN
10 9 (0.74%) Network Security
10 9 (0.74%) Wireless
11 8 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (0.58%) NAS
13 6 (0.49%) Broadband
13 6 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (16.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 176 (14.49%) Power BI
3 136 (11.19%) Relational Database
4 133 (10.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 123 (10.12%) Data Warehouse
6 86 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
7 75 (6.17%) MongoDB
7 75 (6.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 68 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 67 (5.51%) RDBMS
10 65 (5.35%) MySQL
11 40 (3.29%) Data Lake
11 40 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
12 38 (3.13%) Tableau
13 35 (2.88%) DB2
14 29 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
15 23 (1.89%) NoSQL
16 20 (1.65%) Delta Lake
17 18 (1.48%) Oracle Database
18 16 (1.32%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 129 (10.62%) Git
2 86 (7.08%) JIRA
3 84 (6.91%) Visual Studio
4 49 (4.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 36 (2.96%) TeamCity
6 28 (2.30%) Moq
7 26 (2.14%) Jenkins
7 26 (2.14%) NUnit
8 20 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
9 18 (1.48%) SpecFlow
10 17 (1.40%) GitLab
11 13 (1.07%) git-flow
11 13 (1.07%) Sourcetree
12 11 (0.91%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.82%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.66%) Mercurial
15 6 (0.49%) Subversion
16 5 (0.41%) Selenium
17 4 (0.33%) FitNesse
General
1 319 (26.26%) Finance
2 301 (24.77%) Social Skills
3 140 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (7.41%) Marketing
5 77 (6.34%) Banking
6 67 (5.51%) Games
7 58 (4.77%) Legal
8 44 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (3.46%) Law
9 42 (3.46%) Local Government
10 41 (3.37%) Back Office
11 32 (2.63%) Public Sector
11 32 (2.63%) Retail
12 22 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.81%) Front Office
13 17 (1.40%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.07%) Billing
15 12 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 478 (39.34%) Developer
2 276 (22.72%) Senior
3 202 (16.63%) .NET Developer
4 155 (12.76%) Analyst
5 146 (12.02%) C# Developer
6 129 (10.62%) Lead
7 114 (9.38%) Senior Developer
8 77 (6.34%) C# .NET Developer
9 76 (6.26%) Full Stack Developer
10 71 (5.84%) Applications Support
10 71 (5.84%) Data Engineer
11 69 (5.68%) Architect
12 67 (5.51%) Support Analyst
13 62 (5.10%) Consultant
14 53 (4.36%) Software Developer
15 49 (4.03%) DBA
16 47 (3.87%) Senior C# Developer
17 43 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 42 (3.46%) Applications Support Analyst
19 37 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (39.09%) .NET
2 241 (19.84%) ASP.NET
3 224 (18.44%) HTML
4 186 (15.31%) AngularJS
5 175 (14.40%) CSS
6 174 (14.32%) .NET Framework
7 162 (13.33%) .NET Core
8 142 (11.69%) ASP.NET MVC
9 133 (10.95%) Web Services
10 123 (10.12%) Entity Framework
11 110 (9.05%) ASP.NET Web API
12 105 (8.64%) RESTful
13 103 (8.48%) React
14 98 (8.07%) HTML5
14 98 (8.07%) REST
15 97 (7.98%) XML
16 76 (6.26%) jQuery
17 72 (5.93%) SOAP
18 66 (5.43%) JSON
19 59 (4.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 67 (5.51%) Greenfield Project
2 60 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
3 51 (4.20%) Management Information System
4 42 (3.46%) Swaptions
5 31 (2.55%) Public Cloud
6 30 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.39%) Replication
8 28 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 26 (2.14%) Cloud Native
9 26 (2.14%) Hedge funds
10 25 (2.06%) Clustering
11 24 (1.98%) Life Science
12 22 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.81%) Legacy Code
13 19 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (1.56%) Housing Association
14 18 (1.48%) Data Centre
14 18 (1.48%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.32%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 258 (21.23%) Windows
2 122 (10.04%) Linux
3 89 (7.33%) Windows Server
4 48 (3.95%) Unix
5 29 (2.39%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 25 (2.06%) CentOS
8 23 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (1.65%) zOS
11 19 (1.56%) Solaris
12 10 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.66%) Android
13 8 (0.66%) VMS
14 7 (0.58%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.49%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.16%) AIX
16 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (31.85%) Agile
2 279 (22.96%) DevOps
3 215 (17.70%) ETL
4 202 (16.63%) Business Intelligence
5 193 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (15.72%) MVC
7 186 (15.31%) Full Stack Development
8 171 (14.07%) Scrum
9 163 (13.42%) Microservices
10 157 (12.92%) Computer Science
11 144 (11.85%) TDD
12 140 (11.52%) Data Modelling
13 130 (10.70%) Analytics
14 121 (9.96%) ITIL
15 119 (9.79%) Software Engineering
16 109 (8.97%) CI/CD
17 100 (8.23%) Mentoring
18 86 (7.08%) CRM
19 84 (6.91%) Roadmaps
20 83 (6.83%) OO
Programming Languages
1 632 (52.02%) SQL
2 467 (38.44%) C#
3 334 (27.49%) JavaScript
4 259 (21.32%) T-SQL
5 193 (15.88%) Python
6 111 (9.14%) PowerShell
7 109 (8.97%) Java
8 78 (6.42%) TypeScript
9 44 (3.62%) Bash
9 44 (3.62%) PL/SQL
9 44 (3.62%) VB
10 38 (3.13%) XPath
11 29 (2.39%) Perl
12 23 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 23 (1.89%) R
13 22 (1.81%) Bicep
14 21 (1.73%) Ruby
15 11 (0.91%) Scala
15 11 (0.91%) VBA
16 9 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 268 (22.06%) Degree
2 68 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (2.96%) Security Cleared
4 23 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (1.65%) Master's Degree
5 20 (1.65%) SC Cleared
6 18 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 7 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
8 7 (0.58%) MCSE
9 6 (0.49%) MCP
9 6 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.33%) CISM
10 4 (0.33%) CISSP
10 4 (0.33%) MCSA
11 3 (0.25%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.16%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 40 (3.29%) QA
3 37 (3.05%) SLA
4 16 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.99%) GDPR
7 7 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.41%) NIST
10 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.25%) ISO 9000
11 3 (0.25%) MiFID
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.082%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.082%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.37%) Docker
3 28 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.48%) vSphere
5 12 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.16%) XenApp
9 1 (0.082%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.082%) NFS
9 1 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.082%) vCloud
9 1 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 61 (5.02%) Terraform
3 23 (1.89%) SCCM
4 22 (1.81%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.73%) Ansible
5 21 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (1.56%) Grafana
7 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (0.74%) Foglight
8 9 (0.74%) Puppet
9 8 (0.66%) Nagios
9 8 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.58%) WSUS
11 6 (0.49%) Control-M
12 5 (0.41%) Istio
13 4 (0.33%) Nessus
13 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 533 (43.87%) Microsoft
2 210 (17.28%) Oracle
3 71 (5.84%) Databricks
4 58 (4.77%) Sybase
5 52 (4.28%) VMware
6 46 (3.79%) TIBCO
7 42 (3.46%) OpenLink
8 33 (2.72%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 26 (2.14%) HP
11 23 (1.89%) NEC
12 22 (1.81%) Bloomberg
12 22 (1.81%) SAP
13 21 (1.73%) Citrix
14 20 (1.65%) Veeam
15 19 (1.56%) Adobe
15 19 (1.56%) Cisco
15 19 (1.56%) IBM
15 19 (1.56%) Reuters
16 18 (1.48%) F5