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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 46 65
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -21
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,221 2,010 4,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.18% 5.91% 5.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.68% 23.78% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 966 1,633 2,582
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £41,300
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,599 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,823 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +5.88% +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 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 5,157 8,454 22,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.86% 24.86% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,826 5,870 9,054
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 £126,875 £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 14 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 14 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 -1 229 £67,500 -3.57% 55
West London -35 31 £52,501 +5.00% 10
South London -24 20 £56,250 -6.25% 7
East London +9 15 £57,500 +4.55% 16
North London -1 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
1 104 (8.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (5.81%) SharePoint
3 68 (5.57%) IIS
4 52 (4.26%) CMS
5 21 (1.72%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.56%) Apache
7 15 (1.23%) EPiServer
8 14 (1.15%) WordPress
9 11 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
9 11 (0.90%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.82%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.66%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.57%) Confluence
12 7 (0.57%) JBoss
12 7 (0.57%) WebLogic
12 7 (0.57%) WildFly
13 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.41%) Kentico
14 5 (0.41%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 55 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.06%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.25%) SPSS
7 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 65 (5.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (3.60%) Endur
3 23 (1.88%) NEC Housing
3 23 (1.88%) SDL Web 8
4 16 (1.31%) Fidessa
5 12 (0.98%) Elite 3E
6 9 (0.74%) PlanetPress Connect
6 9 (0.74%) Sage X3
6 9 (0.74%) SAP Business One
7 7 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.49%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 4 (0.33%) BusinessWorks
9 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 2 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 625 (51.19%) Azure
2 204 (16.71%) AWS
3 200 (16.38%) Power Platform
4 165 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (4.91%) SaaS
7 57 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 38 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 38 (3.11%) GCP
8 38 (3.11%) GitHub
9 37 (3.03%) PaaS
10 34 (2.78%) Serverless
11 32 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
11 32 (2.62%) PowerApps
11 32 (2.62%) Snowflake
12 30 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (2.38%) IaaS
14 27 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.32%) DNS
1 65 (5.32%) Firewall
2 43 (3.52%) Internet
3 31 (2.54%) DHCP
4 30 (2.46%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.72%) SAN
6 18 (1.47%) VPN
7 16 (1.31%) FIX Connectivity
8 13 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.90%) HTTP
10 10 (0.82%) iSCSI
10 10 (0.82%) WAN
11 9 (0.74%) LAN
11 9 (0.74%) Network Security
12 8 (0.66%) Fibre Channel
12 8 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
12 8 (0.66%) VoIP
12 8 (0.66%) Wireless
13 6 (0.49%) NAS
13 6 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (16.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 177 (14.50%) Power BI
3 142 (11.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 136 (11.14%) Relational Database
5 124 (10.16%) Data Warehouse
6 86 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
7 78 (6.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 77 (6.31%) MongoDB
9 67 (5.49%) RDBMS
10 64 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 64 (5.24%) MySQL
11 41 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
12 39 (3.19%) Data Lake
13 38 (3.11%) Tableau
14 35 (2.87%) DB2
15 28 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
16 24 (1.97%) Oracle Database
17 23 (1.88%) NoSQL
18 19 (1.56%) Delta Lake
19 16 (1.31%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 131 (10.73%) Git
2 86 (7.04%) Visual Studio
3 83 (6.80%) JIRA
4 46 (3.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 34 (2.78%) TeamCity
6 28 (2.29%) Moq
7 27 (2.21%) Jenkins
8 26 (2.13%) NUnit
9 19 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 18 (1.47%) GitLab
10 18 (1.47%) SpecFlow
11 13 (1.06%) git-flow
11 13 (1.06%) Sourcetree
12 12 (0.98%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (0.74%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.66%) Mercurial
16 6 (0.49%) Subversion
17 5 (0.41%) MSTest
18 4 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 330 (27.03%) Finance
2 305 (24.98%) Social Skills
3 145 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (7.78%) Marketing
5 76 (6.22%) Banking
6 68 (5.57%) Games
7 56 (4.59%) Legal
8 45 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (3.52%) Local Government
10 42 (3.44%) Back Office
10 42 (3.44%) Law
11 34 (2.78%) Public Sector
12 31 (2.54%) Retail
13 22 (1.80%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.80%) Front Office
14 17 (1.39%) Investment Banking
15 13 (1.06%) Billing
16 12 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 478 (39.15%) Developer
2 278 (22.77%) Senior
3 202 (16.54%) .NET Developer
4 156 (12.78%) Analyst
5 148 (12.12%) C# Developer
6 128 (10.48%) Lead
7 113 (9.25%) Senior Developer
8 79 (6.47%) C# .NET Developer
9 75 (6.14%) Full Stack Developer
10 71 (5.81%) Applications Support
11 70 (5.73%) Architect
12 69 (5.65%) Data Engineer
12 69 (5.65%) Support Analyst
13 59 (4.83%) Consultant
14 52 (4.26%) DBA
14 52 (4.26%) Software Developer
15 49 (4.01%) Senior C# Developer
16 44 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 42 (3.44%) Applications Support Analyst
18 37 (3.03%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 477 (39.07%) .NET
2 241 (19.74%) ASP.NET
3 225 (18.43%) HTML
4 188 (15.40%) AngularJS
5 177 (14.50%) CSS
6 173 (14.17%) .NET Framework
7 160 (13.10%) .NET Core
8 140 (11.47%) ASP.NET MVC
9 133 (10.89%) Web Services
10 124 (10.16%) Entity Framework
11 111 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
12 105 (8.60%) RESTful
13 103 (8.44%) React
14 100 (8.19%) REST
15 99 (8.11%) HTML5
16 95 (7.78%) XML
17 76 (6.22%) jQuery
18 72 (5.90%) SOAP
19 66 (5.41%) JSON
20 60 (4.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 65 (5.32%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
3 49 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 43 (3.52%) Swaptions
5 31 (2.54%) Public Cloud
6 29 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.38%) Replication
7 27 (2.21%) Hedge funds
7 27 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.13%) Clustering
9 25 (2.05%) Cloud Native
10 24 (1.97%) Life Science
11 22 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.80%) Legacy Code
12 19 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 19 (1.56%) Housing Association
13 18 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.31%) Cyberattack
14 16 (1.31%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 259 (21.21%) Windows
2 124 (10.16%) Linux
3 85 (6.96%) Windows Server
4 53 (4.34%) Unix
5 31 (2.54%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 26 (2.13%) CentOS
8 24 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (1.64%) Solaris
9 20 (1.64%) zOS
10 10 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.74%) Android
12 7 (0.57%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.57%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.57%) VMS
13 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.16%) AIX
14 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (31.70%) Agile
2 276 (22.60%) DevOps
3 215 (17.61%) ETL
4 204 (16.71%) Business Intelligence
5 193 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (15.56%) MVC
7 186 (15.23%) Full Stack Development
8 174 (14.25%) Scrum
9 160 (13.10%) Microservices
10 159 (13.02%) Computer Science
11 145 (11.88%) Data Modelling
12 143 (11.71%) TDD
13 129 (10.57%) Analytics
14 125 (10.24%) ITIL
15 116 (9.50%) Software Engineering
16 108 (8.85%) CI/CD
17 100 (8.19%) Mentoring
18 89 (7.29%) Roadmaps
19 83 (6.80%) CRM
19 83 (6.80%) OO
Programming Languages
1 639 (52.33%) SQL
2 466 (38.17%) C#
3 332 (27.19%) JavaScript
4 263 (21.54%) T-SQL
5 193 (15.81%) Python
6 117 (9.58%) PowerShell
7 110 (9.01%) Java
8 79 (6.47%) TypeScript
9 46 (3.77%) VB
10 44 (3.60%) Bash
11 43 (3.52%) PL/SQL
12 38 (3.11%) XPath
13 29 (2.38%) Perl
14 24 (1.97%) R
15 23 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 22 (1.80%) Bicep
16 22 (1.80%) Ruby
17 13 (1.06%) Scala
17 13 (1.06%) VBA
18 9 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 271 (22.19%) Degree
2 68 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 23 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 20 (1.64%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.66%) MCSE
8 8 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
9 7 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.49%) MCP
11 5 (0.41%) MCSA
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.33%) CISM
12 4 (0.33%) CISSP
12 4 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.25%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.16%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 40 (3.28%) QA
3 37 (3.03%) SLA
4 17 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.15%) GDPR
7 8 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.49%) NIST
9 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.33%) MiFID
10 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.082%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (9.25%) Active Directory
2 42 (3.44%) Docker
3 29 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.47%) vSphere
5 10 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
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%) Firmware
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 69 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 60 (4.91%) Terraform
3 24 (1.97%) Prometheus
4 23 (1.88%) Ansible
5 21 (1.72%) SCCM
6 19 (1.56%) Grafana
6 19 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (0.82%) Puppet
9 9 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (0.74%) Foglight
9 9 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.66%) Nagios
11 7 (0.57%) WSUS
12 5 (0.41%) Control-M
12 5 (0.41%) Istio
13 4 (0.33%) Nessus
13 4 (0.33%) PaperCut
13 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 541 (44.31%) Microsoft
2 218 (17.85%) Oracle
3 70 (5.73%) Databricks
4 59 (4.83%) Sybase
5 53 (4.34%) VMware
6 47 (3.85%) TIBCO
7 43 (3.52%) OpenLink
8 34 (2.78%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.29%) ServiceNow
10 25 (2.05%) HP
10 25 (2.05%) Veeam
11 24 (1.97%) Bloomberg
12 23 (1.88%) NEC
13 22 (1.80%) Citrix
13 22 (1.80%) SAP
14 21 (1.72%) Reuters
15 20 (1.64%) Cisco
16 19 (1.56%) Adobe
16 19 (1.56%) IBM
17 18 (1.47%) F5