SQL Server Job Trends in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 90 60
Rank change year-on-year -31 -30 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 450 438 860
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.88% 3.61% 4.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.18% 16.26% 19.03%
Number of salaries quoted 345 308 618
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £96,250 £91,250 £91,805
90th Percentile £118,750 £111,125 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,781 2,694 4,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.64% 22.19% 23.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,773 1,726 3,210
10th Percentile £46,526 £47,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -7.88% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £106,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.60% -3.85%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

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 15 August 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
Central London -4 87 £70,000 -3.45% 41
South London +24 26 £112,500 +95.65% 5
West London -19 20 £45,000 -4.26% 3
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
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 38 (8.44%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.33%) Confluence
4 11 (2.44%) IIS
5 5 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.44%) Apache
7 2 (0.44%) CMS
7 2 (0.44%) Luigi
7 2 (0.44%) SAS
7 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.44%) Tornado
7 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 30 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.44%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 18 (4.00%) Fidessa
2 7 (1.56%) Elite 3E
3 5 (1.11%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.89%) Temenos T24
5 3 (0.67%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.67%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.22%) Eikon
7 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.22%) RMDS
7 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 283 (62.89%) Azure
2 82 (18.22%) Power Platform
3 72 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (14.44%) AWS
5 50 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (9.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (8.44%) Azure AI
7 38 (8.44%) Snowflake
8 35 (7.78%) Azure Machine Learning
8 35 (7.78%) SaaS
9 29 (6.44%) Power Automate
10 27 (6.00%) Entra ID
11 26 (5.78%) PaaS
12 22 (4.89%) IaaS
12 22 (4.89%) PowerApps
13 21 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (4.67%) Serverless
14 20 (4.44%) Datadog
15 19 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 60 (13.33%) Firewall
2 58 (12.89%) DNS
3 56 (12.44%) DHCP
4 46 (10.22%) Wi-Fi
5 44 (9.78%) VPN
6 43 (9.56%) SAN
7 42 (9.33%) VLAN
8 17 (3.78%) TCP/IP
9 11 (2.44%) FIX Connectivity
10 9 (2.00%) LAN
10 9 (2.00%) WAN
11 8 (1.78%) Multicast
12 6 (1.33%) Kerberos
13 5 (1.11%) Network Security
14 2 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
14 2 (0.44%) Intranet
14 2 (0.44%) NetScaler
14 2 (0.44%) WinSCP
15 1 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
15 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.67%) Power BI
2 54 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 43 (9.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (9.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 39 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (8.44%) Relational Database
7 30 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (4.89%) MongoDB
9 20 (4.44%) MySQL
10 17 (3.78%) Data Lake
11 14 (3.11%) Db2
12 13 (2.89%) Big Data
12 13 (2.89%) Oracle Database
13 11 (2.44%) DynamoDB
13 11 (2.44%) NoSQL
14 10 (2.22%) Tableau
15 9 (2.00%) Metadata
16 7 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 7 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (5.11%) JIRA
2 21 (4.67%) Git
3 16 (3.56%) Chocolatey
4 10 (2.22%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.11%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.44%) NUnit
6 2 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.44%) Selenium
7 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.22%) JMeter
7 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.22%) LSMW
7 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.22%) webpack
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 177 (39.33%) Finance
2 104 (23.11%) Social Skills
3 92 (20.44%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (12.67%) Banking
5 55 (12.22%) Law
6 38 (8.44%) Legal
7 20 (4.44%) Front Office
8 13 (2.89%) Retail
9 12 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.78%) Spanish Language
10 8 (1.78%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.33%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.11%) Legal Technology
12 5 (1.11%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.89%) Advertising
13 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 126 (28.00%) Developer
2 110 (24.44%) Senior
3 50 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 42 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
5 34 (7.56%) Analyst
6 31 (6.89%) Architect
7 28 (6.22%) Applications Support
7 28 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (6.00%) Senior Developer
9 24 (5.33%) Lead
10 23 (5.11%) Applications Developer
10 23 (5.11%) IT Engineer
11 21 (4.67%) Software Developer
12 20 (4.44%) Support Analyst
13 19 (4.22%) .NET Developer
14 18 (4.00%) Data Manager
14 18 (4.00%) Senior IT Engineer
15 17 (3.78%) Data Architect
15 17 (3.78%) IT Support
15 17 (3.78%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (25.78%) .NET
2 37 (8.22%) REST
3 36 (8.00%) .NET Core
4 32 (7.11%) React
5 28 (6.22%) ASP.NET
6 23 (5.11%) CSS
6 23 (5.11%) HTML
7 22 (4.89%) .NET Framework
7 22 (4.89%) FIX Protocol
8 17 (3.78%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.11%) Entity Framework
10 12 (2.67%) Kafka
11 10 (2.22%) RESTful
12 9 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (1.78%) Middleware
13 8 (1.78%) Next.js
13 8 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.56%) Bootstrap
14 7 (1.56%) Web Services
15 6 (1.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.22%) Onboarding
2 28 (6.22%) Management Information System
3 26 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 17 (3.78%) Replication
6 16 (3.56%) Cyber Threat
6 16 (3.56%) Distributed Computing
7 15 (3.33%) Cloud Native
8 14 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (3.11%) Equities
9 13 (2.89%) Eurex
10 11 (2.44%) Virtual Team
11 10 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (2.22%) Product Ownership
12 9 (2.00%) Fixed Income
13 8 (1.78%) Clustering
13 8 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.56%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 123 (27.33%) Windows
2 53 (11.78%) Windows Server
3 47 (10.44%) Linux
4 9 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.00%) Unix
5 7 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.11%) CentOS
6 5 (1.11%) Rocky
6 5 (1.11%) VMS
7 4 (0.89%) Android
8 3 (0.67%) Solaris
8 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.67%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (26.00%) Migration
2 113 (25.11%) Agile
3 102 (22.67%) DevOps
4 100 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (18.22%) CI/CD
6 75 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 71 (15.78%) AI
8 69 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
9 64 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (13.78%) Data Engineering
11 60 (13.33%) Data Architecture
12 58 (12.89%) Analytics
13 51 (11.33%) Change Management
13 51 (11.33%) Disaster Recovery
14 50 (11.11%) ITIL
14 50 (11.11%) ITSM
14 50 (11.11%) Software Engineering
15 49 (10.89%) ETL
15 49 (10.89%) Mentoring
16 46 (10.22%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 223 (49.56%) SQL
2 117 (26.00%) C#
3 65 (14.44%) PowerShell
3 65 (14.44%) Python
4 36 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 32 (7.11%) Java
6 31 (6.89%) T-SQL
7 16 (3.56%) VBA
8 12 (2.67%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.67%) VB.NET
9 9 (2.00%) Bash
9 9 (2.00%) VBScript
10 8 (1.78%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.78%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.11%) Bicep
11 5 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.11%) Perl
11 5 (1.11%) Ruby
11 5 (1.11%) Tcl
11 5 (1.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (11.56%) Degree
2 24 (5.33%) Azure Certification
3 20 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (2.89%) CCNP
5 13 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.22%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.78%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.11%) CCNA
8 5 (1.11%) CCSP
8 5 (1.11%) CISM
8 5 (1.11%) CISSP
8 5 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.67%) Dell Certification
9 3 (0.67%) MCSA
9 3 (0.67%) MCSE
9 3 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.44%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.33%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.11%) GDPR
3 31 (6.89%) SLA
4 21 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (3.11%) QA
6 8 (1.78%) NIST
7 7 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.67%) COBIT
10 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.22%) DICOM
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) ITGC
10 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (18.22%) Active Directory
2 39 (8.67%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (5.78%) Docker
4 24 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.56%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.67%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (5.78%) Terraform
3 20 (4.44%) Kubernetes
4 17 (3.78%) SCCM
5 7 (1.56%) Ansible
6 5 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (1.11%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.67%) WSUS
9 2 (0.44%) Argo
9 2 (0.44%) Control-M
9 2 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.44%) Puppet
9 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.22%) Nagios
10 1 (0.22%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 263 (58.44%) Microsoft
2 74 (16.44%) Oracle
3 58 (12.89%) Databricks
3 58 (12.89%) VMware
4 33 (7.33%) iManage
5 21 (4.67%) Tenable
6 17 (3.78%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.56%) AppDynamics
7 16 (3.56%) Bloomberg
7 16 (3.56%) Dynatrace
8 15 (3.33%) Reuters
9 14 (3.11%) Intapp
10 13 (2.89%) CQG
10 13 (2.89%) ION Trading
10 13 (2.89%) Patsystems
10 13 (2.89%) Red Hat
10 13 (2.89%) Trayport
11 12 (2.67%) Cisco
12 10 (2.22%) HP
13 8 (1.78%) Sybase