SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Job Trends in London

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 398 451
Rank change year-on-year +4 +53 +107
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 13 8 54
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.064% 0.063% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.91% 0.57% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 48
10th Percentile - £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £26,200 £59,063 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +23.97% +9.61%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,125 £63,750
90th Percentile - £90,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £46,042 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.32% -14.29% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
London

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,427 1,405 2,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.00% 11.10% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 880 977 1,860
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) job vacancy trend in London

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in London

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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 Management Studio (SSMS) within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2026. 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
West London - 6 £85,000 -
South London +20 2 - -
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
England

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (15.38%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Power Platform
2 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) SaaS
3 6 (46.15%) Azure Functions
3 6 (46.15%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (46.15%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (46.15%) Azure Storage
3 6 (46.15%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) SQL Server
2 9 (69.23%) Power BI
3 3 (23.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Site Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Reliability Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SaaS Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Reliability Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
2 6 (46.15%) .NET Core
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) VMS
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (61.54%) Analytics
2 8 (61.54%) Deployment Automation
3 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (46.15%) Budget Management
4 6 (46.15%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (46.15%) Cloud Operations
4 6 (46.15%) Log Analytics
4 6 (46.15%) MVC
4 6 (46.15%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (46.15%) Service-Level Objective
4 6 (46.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Tech Ops
5 3 (23.08%) Time Management
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
3 6 (46.15%) C#
3 6 (46.15%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (23.08%) T-SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) QA
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Pega
2 2 (15.38%) VMware