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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 46 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,227 2,097 4,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.19% 5.94% 6.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.22% 24.00% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 982 1,677 2,597
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,300
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +6.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,750
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 5,066 8,737 21,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.44% 24.75% 31.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,803 6,036 9,132
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 £96,250 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £116,250 £107,500
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 3 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 3 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 -3 226 £65,000 -7.14% 64
West London -35 30 £53,750 +7.50% 15
South London -29 21 £57,500 -4.17% 8
East London +6 17 £57,500 +4.55% 19
North London +2 8 £55,000 -26.67%
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
1 101 (8.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 74 (6.03%) SharePoint
3 68 (5.54%) IIS
4 53 (4.32%) CMS
5 21 (1.71%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.47%) Apache
7 15 (1.22%) EPiServer
7 15 (1.22%) WordPress
8 11 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
8 11 (0.90%) Tomcat
8 11 (0.90%) Umbraco
9 7 (0.57%) Confluence
9 7 (0.57%) JBoss
9 7 (0.57%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.57%) WildFly
10 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.49%) SAS
11 5 (0.41%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 51 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.06%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.24%) SPSS
7 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 71 (5.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (3.50%) Endur
3 23 (1.87%) NEC Housing
3 23 (1.87%) SDL Web 8
4 15 (1.22%) Fidessa
5 13 (1.06%) Elite 3E
6 11 (0.90%) PlanetPress Connect
7 9 (0.73%) Sage X3
7 9 (0.73%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.65%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 8 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.41%) BusinessWorks
11 4 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
11 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
12 3 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
12 3 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
12 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
13 2 (0.16%) KEYPrime
Cloud Services
1 621 (50.61%) Azure
2 202 (16.46%) Power Platform
3 199 (16.22%) AWS
4 164 (13.37%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
6 64 (5.22%) SaaS
7 61 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 44 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 40 (3.26%) GitHub
10 37 (3.02%) PaaS
10 37 (3.02%) Serverless
11 36 (2.93%) GCP
12 34 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
13 33 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
13 33 (2.69%) PowerApps
13 33 (2.69%) Snowflake
14 29 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
15 28 (2.28%) IaaS
16 27 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.22%) DNS
2 63 (5.13%) Firewall
3 44 (3.59%) Internet
4 29 (2.36%) DHCP
5 28 (2.28%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.96%) SAN
7 22 (1.79%) VPN
8 15 (1.22%) FIX Connectivity
9 11 (0.90%) iSCSI
9 11 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.81%) HTTP
10 10 (0.81%) Network Security
10 10 (0.81%) WAN
11 9 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
11 9 (0.73%) LAN
11 9 (0.73%) Wireless
12 8 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (0.57%) NAS
13 7 (0.57%) VLAN
14 6 (0.49%) Mobile Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (16.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 179 (14.59%) Power BI
3 136 (11.08%) Relational Database
4 135 (11.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 125 (10.19%) Data Warehouse
6 87 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (6.03%) MongoDB
7 74 (6.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 68 (5.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 66 (5.38%) RDBMS
10 64 (5.22%) MySQL
11 40 (3.26%) Data Lake
11 40 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
12 39 (3.18%) Tableau
13 34 (2.77%) DB2
14 29 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
15 23 (1.87%) NoSQL
16 20 (1.63%) Delta Lake
17 17 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (1.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 125 (10.19%) Git
2 87 (7.09%) JIRA
3 84 (6.85%) Visual Studio
4 50 (4.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 36 (2.93%) TeamCity
6 27 (2.20%) Moq
7 26 (2.12%) NUnit
8 25 (2.04%) Jenkins
9 21 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
10 18 (1.47%) SpecFlow
11 17 (1.39%) GitLab
12 13 (1.06%) git-flow
12 13 (1.06%) Sourcetree
13 11 (0.90%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.81%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.65%) Mercurial
16 6 (0.49%) Selenium
16 6 (0.49%) Subversion
17 5 (0.41%) FitNesse
General
1 318 (25.92%) Finance
2 301 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 141 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (7.33%) Marketing
5 78 (6.36%) Banking
6 67 (5.46%) Games
7 60 (4.89%) Legal
8 43 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (3.50%) Law
9 41 (3.34%) Back Office
9 41 (3.34%) Local Government
10 32 (2.61%) Retail
11 30 (2.44%) Public Sector
12 23 (1.87%) Front Office
13 22 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.47%) Investment Banking
15 14 (1.14%) Billing
16 12 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 482 (39.28%) Developer
2 279 (22.74%) Senior
3 204 (16.63%) .NET Developer
4 160 (13.04%) Analyst
5 146 (11.90%) C# Developer
6 126 (10.27%) Lead
7 114 (9.29%) Senior Developer
8 78 (6.36%) C# .NET Developer
9 76 (6.19%) Applications Support
9 76 (6.19%) Full Stack Developer
10 71 (5.79%) Data Engineer
11 70 (5.70%) Support Analyst
12 69 (5.62%) Architect
13 62 (5.05%) Consultant
14 52 (4.24%) Software Developer
15 47 (3.83%) DBA
15 47 (3.83%) Senior C# Developer
16 45 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 44 (3.59%) Applications Support Analyst
18 37 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (38.63%) .NET
2 239 (19.48%) ASP.NET
3 223 (18.17%) HTML
4 183 (14.91%) AngularJS
5 174 (14.18%) CSS
6 173 (14.10%) .NET Framework
7 163 (13.28%) .NET Core
8 142 (11.57%) ASP.NET MVC
9 131 (10.68%) Web Services
10 123 (10.02%) Entity Framework
11 111 (9.05%) ASP.NET Web API
12 104 (8.48%) RESTful
13 101 (8.23%) React
14 98 (7.99%) HTML5
14 98 (7.99%) XML
15 96 (7.82%) REST
16 74 (6.03%) jQuery
17 72 (5.87%) SOAP
18 65 (5.30%) JSON
19 56 (4.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 67 (5.46%) Greenfield Project
2 60 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
3 53 (4.32%) Management Information System
4 42 (3.42%) Swaptions
5 31 (2.53%) Public Cloud
6 30 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.36%) Replication
8 27 (2.20%) Hedge funds
8 27 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 26 (2.12%) Cloud Native
10 25 (2.04%) Clustering
11 24 (1.96%) Life Science
12 22 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.79%) Legacy Code
13 19 (1.55%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (1.55%) Housing Association
14 18 (1.47%) Data Centre
14 18 (1.47%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.30%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 262 (21.35%) Windows
2 123 (10.02%) Linux
3 93 (7.58%) Windows Server
4 47 (3.83%) Unix
5 29 (2.36%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.12%) Ubuntu
7 25 (2.04%) CentOS
8 23 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (1.63%) zOS
11 19 (1.55%) Solaris
12 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.57%) Android
13 7 (0.57%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.57%) VMS
14 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.41%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (31.78%) Agile
2 278 (22.66%) DevOps
3 218 (17.77%) ETL
4 205 (16.71%) Business Intelligence
5 196 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (15.65%) MVC
7 185 (15.08%) Full Stack Development
8 169 (13.77%) Scrum
9 162 (13.20%) Microservices
10 157 (12.80%) Computer Science
11 144 (11.74%) TDD
12 141 (11.49%) Data Modelling
13 133 (10.84%) Analytics
14 121 (9.86%) ITIL
15 119 (9.70%) Software Engineering
16 108 (8.80%) CI/CD
17 98 (7.99%) Mentoring
18 90 (7.33%) CRM
19 84 (6.85%) Roadmaps
20 82 (6.68%) OO
Programming Languages
1 634 (51.67%) SQL
2 465 (37.90%) C#
3 333 (27.14%) JavaScript
4 264 (21.52%) T-SQL
5 197 (16.06%) Python
6 114 (9.29%) PowerShell
7 107 (8.72%) Java
8 78 (6.36%) TypeScript
9 46 (3.75%) Bash
9 46 (3.75%) PL/SQL
10 44 (3.59%) VB
11 38 (3.10%) XPath
12 29 (2.36%) Perl
13 24 (1.96%) R
14 23 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (1.71%) Bicep
16 20 (1.63%) Ruby
17 11 (0.90%) Scala
17 11 (0.90%) VBA
18 9 (0.73%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 271 (22.09%) Degree
2 68 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (2.85%) Security Cleared
4 23 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (1.63%) Azure Certification
5 20 (1.63%) Master's Degree
5 20 (1.63%) SC Cleared
6 10 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 7 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
7 7 (0.57%) MCSE
8 6 (0.49%) MCP
9 5 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.33%) CISM
10 4 (0.33%) CISSP
10 4 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.33%) MCSA
11 3 (0.24%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.16%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (3.99%) Data Quality
2 39 (3.18%) QA
3 36 (2.93%) SLA
4 15 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.98%) GDPR
6 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.41%) NIST
9 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.24%) ISO 9000
10 3 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.081%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.081%) WCAG
System Software
1 116 (9.45%) Active Directory
2 40 (3.26%) Docker
3 29 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.47%) vSphere
5 12 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.57%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.16%) XenApp
9 1 (0.081%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.081%) NFS
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.081%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 69 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 62 (5.05%) Terraform
3 23 (1.87%) SCCM
4 21 (1.71%) Ansible
4 21 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.63%) Grafana
6 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Clustering
7 9 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (0.73%) Foglight
7 9 (0.73%) Puppet
8 8 (0.65%) Nagios
9 7 (0.57%) Control-M
9 7 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.57%) WSUS
10 4 (0.33%) Istio
10 4 (0.33%) Nessus
10 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 541 (44.09%) Microsoft
2 209 (17.03%) Oracle
3 72 (5.87%) Databricks
4 57 (4.65%) Sybase
5 54 (4.40%) VMware
6 47 (3.83%) TIBCO
7 42 (3.42%) OpenLink
8 32 (2.61%) Red Hat
9 27 (2.20%) HP
9 27 (2.20%) ServiceNow
10 23 (1.87%) Citrix
10 23 (1.87%) NEC
11 22 (1.79%) Bloomberg
11 22 (1.79%) SAP
12 19 (1.55%) Adobe
12 19 (1.55%) Cisco
12 19 (1.55%) Reuters
12 19 (1.55%) Veeam
13 18 (1.47%) F5
13 18 (1.47%) IBM