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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 46 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,237 2,136 3,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.27% 5.96% 6.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.60% 23.93% 19.41%
Number of salaries quoted 988 1,703 2,602
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,250 £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 £101,250
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 5,029 8,927 20,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.42% 24.92% 31.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,786 6,125 9,136
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 £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,236 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -5 220 £65,000 -7.14% 63
West London -30 30 £53,750 +7.50% 12
South London -26 23 £60,000 - 6
East London +13 18 £57,500 +4.55% 20
North London 0 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
1 108 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (6.14%) SharePoint
3 70 (5.66%) IIS
4 53 (4.28%) CMS
5 20 (1.62%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.46%) Apache
7 15 (1.21%) EPiServer
7 15 (1.21%) WordPress
8 12 (0.97%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
9 11 (0.89%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.57%) Confluence
10 7 (0.57%) JBoss
10 7 (0.57%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.57%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.57%) WildFly
11 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.49%) SAS
12 5 (0.40%) Kentico
Applications
1 48 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.05%) 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 73 (5.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (3.80%) Endur
3 23 (1.86%) NEC Housing
3 23 (1.86%) SDL Web 8
4 16 (1.29%) Fidessa
5 14 (1.13%) Elite 3E
6 12 (0.97%) PlanetPress Connect
7 9 (0.73%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 9 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.73%) Sage X3
7 9 (0.73%) SAP Business One
8 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
9 6 (0.49%) BusinessWorks
10 4 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
10 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
11 3 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
11 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.16%) KEYPrime
Cloud Services
1 622 (50.28%) Azure
2 201 (16.25%) AWS
3 198 (16.01%) Power Platform
4 166 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
5 106 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (5.42%) SaaS
7 61 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 43 (3.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 42 (3.40%) GitHub
10 41 (3.31%) PaaS
11 38 (3.07%) Serverless
12 37 (2.99%) GCP
13 34 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
13 34 (2.75%) Snowflake
14 33 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
15 32 (2.59%) PowerApps
16 31 (2.51%) IaaS
17 30 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
18 26 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.66%) Firewall
2 66 (5.34%) DNS
3 44 (3.56%) Internet
4 33 (2.67%) DHCP
5 28 (2.26%) SAN
6 27 (2.18%) TCP/IP
7 26 (2.10%) VPN
8 16 (1.29%) FIX Connectivity
9 14 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.97%) Wireless
11 10 (0.81%) HTTP
11 10 (0.81%) iSCSI
11 10 (0.81%) Network Security
11 10 (0.81%) VLAN
11 10 (0.81%) WAN
12 9 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
12 9 (0.73%) LAN
13 8 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (0.57%) NAS
15 6 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (16.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 176 (14.23%) Power BI
3 140 (11.32%) Relational Database
4 131 (10.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 124 (10.02%) Data Warehouse
6 86 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (5.98%) MongoDB
8 73 (5.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 68 (5.50%) RDBMS
10 64 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 64 (5.17%) MySQL
11 41 (3.31%) Data Lake
12 40 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
13 38 (3.07%) Tableau
14 33 (2.67%) DB2
15 30 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
16 23 (1.86%) NoSQL
17 20 (1.62%) Delta Lake
18 18 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
19 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 124 (10.02%) Git
2 86 (6.95%) JIRA
2 86 (6.95%) Visual Studio
3 51 (4.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 35 (2.83%) TeamCity
5 26 (2.10%) Moq
5 26 (2.10%) NUnit
6 25 (2.02%) Jenkins
7 21 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
8 18 (1.46%) SpecFlow
9 17 (1.37%) GitLab
10 13 (1.05%) git-flow
10 13 (1.05%) Sourcetree
11 11 (0.89%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.89%) SonarQube
11 11 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.65%) Mercurial
13 6 (0.49%) Selenium
13 6 (0.49%) Subversion
14 5 (0.40%) FitNesse
General
1 326 (26.35%) Finance
2 298 (24.09%) Social Skills
3 145 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (7.36%) Marketing
5 81 (6.55%) Banking
6 71 (5.74%) Games
7 60 (4.85%) Legal
8 46 (3.72%) Law
9 43 (3.48%) Back Office
9 43 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (3.31%) Local Government
11 32 (2.59%) Retail
12 29 (2.34%) Public Sector
13 25 (2.02%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.86%) Front Office
15 18 (1.46%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.21%) Billing
17 12 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (0.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 483 (39.05%) Developer
2 283 (22.88%) Senior
3 205 (16.57%) .NET Developer
4 162 (13.10%) Analyst
5 143 (11.56%) C# Developer
6 124 (10.02%) Lead
7 114 (9.22%) Senior Developer
8 79 (6.39%) Applications Support
9 77 (6.22%) C# .NET Developer
10 74 (5.98%) Full Stack Developer
11 73 (5.90%) Support Analyst
12 72 (5.82%) Architect
13 67 (5.42%) Data Engineer
14 63 (5.09%) Consultant
15 52 (4.20%) Software Developer
16 49 (3.96%) DBA
17 46 (3.72%) Applications Support Analyst
18 45 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 45 (3.64%) Senior C# Developer
19 37 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (38.24%) .NET
2 237 (19.16%) ASP.NET
3 222 (17.95%) HTML
4 183 (14.79%) AngularJS
5 171 (13.82%) .NET Framework
6 170 (13.74%) CSS
7 164 (13.26%) .NET Core
8 142 (11.48%) ASP.NET MVC
9 131 (10.59%) Web Services
10 121 (9.78%) Entity Framework
11 110 (8.89%) ASP.NET Web API
12 105 (8.49%) RESTful
13 100 (8.08%) React
13 100 (8.08%) REST
13 100 (8.08%) XML
14 97 (7.84%) HTML5
15 76 (6.14%) SOAP
16 72 (5.82%) jQuery
17 67 (5.42%) JSON
18 54 (4.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 67 (5.42%) Greenfield Project
2 61 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
3 55 (4.45%) Management Information System
4 46 (3.72%) Swaptions
5 32 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 31 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.43%) Replication
8 28 (2.26%) Hedge funds
9 26 (2.10%) Cloud Native
9 26 (2.10%) Product Ownership
10 25 (2.02%) Clustering
11 23 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.86%) Life Science
12 22 (1.78%) Data Centre
12 22 (1.78%) Legacy Code
13 20 (1.62%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.54%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.54%) Housing Association
15 18 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (1.29%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 265 (21.42%) Windows
2 124 (10.02%) Linux
3 93 (7.52%) Windows Server
4 48 (3.88%) Unix
5 31 (2.51%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.18%) Ubuntu
7 26 (2.10%) CentOS
8 23 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (1.62%) Solaris
9 20 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (1.62%) zOS
10 10 (0.81%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.57%) Android
12 7 (0.57%) VMS
13 6 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.40%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.16%) AIX
15 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (31.77%) Agile
2 280 (22.64%) DevOps
3 218 (17.62%) ETL
4 200 (16.17%) Business Intelligence
5 199 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (15.52%) MVC
7 184 (14.87%) Full Stack Development
8 168 (13.58%) Scrum
9 161 (13.02%) Microservices
10 156 (12.61%) Computer Science
11 143 (11.56%) Data Modelling
11 143 (11.56%) TDD
12 132 (10.67%) Analytics
13 127 (10.27%) ITIL
14 116 (9.38%) Software Engineering
15 110 (8.89%) CI/CD
16 98 (7.92%) Mentoring
17 92 (7.44%) CRM
18 87 (7.03%) Roadmaps
19 85 (6.87%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 635 (51.33%) SQL
2 464 (37.51%) C#
3 336 (27.16%) JavaScript
4 264 (21.34%) T-SQL
5 196 (15.84%) Python
6 116 (9.38%) PowerShell
7 114 (9.22%) Java
8 77 (6.22%) TypeScript
9 49 (3.96%) Bash
10 48 (3.88%) PL/SQL
10 48 (3.88%) VB
11 38 (3.07%) XPath
12 31 (2.51%) Perl
13 25 (2.02%) R
14 22 (1.78%) Bicep
14 22 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (1.70%) Ruby
16 13 (1.05%) Scala
17 10 (0.81%) VBA
18 9 (0.73%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 274 (22.15%) Degree
2 69 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (2.83%) Security Cleared
4 22 (1.78%) Azure Certification
4 22 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (1.62%) Master's Degree
5 20 (1.62%) 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 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.32%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.32%) CISM
10 4 (0.32%) CISSP
10 4 (0.32%) MCSA
11 3 (0.24%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.16%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 38 (3.07%) QA
3 37 (2.99%) SLA
4 15 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.97%) GDPR
6 8 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.40%) NIST
9 4 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.32%) 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
1 121 (9.78%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.15%) Docker
3 35 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.37%) vSphere
5 12 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.16%) XenApp
10 1 (0.081%) ACF2
10 1 (0.081%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.081%) IAG
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.081%) RACF
10 1 (0.081%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 70 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 63 (5.09%) Terraform
3 25 (2.02%) SCCM
4 21 (1.70%) Ansible
4 21 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.62%) Grafana
5 20 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.05%) 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 5 (0.40%) Istio
11 4 (0.32%) Nessus
11 4 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 549 (44.38%) Microsoft
2 212 (17.14%) Oracle
3 71 (5.74%) Databricks
4 62 (5.01%) Sybase
4 62 (5.01%) VMware
5 52 (4.20%) TIBCO
6 46 (3.72%) OpenLink
7 32 (2.59%) Red Hat
8 31 (2.51%) ServiceNow
9 29 (2.34%) HP
10 26 (2.10%) Citrix
11 23 (1.86%) Bloomberg
11 23 (1.86%) NEC
12 22 (1.78%) SAP
13 21 (1.70%) Veeam
14 20 (1.62%) Dynatrace
14 20 (1.62%) Reuters
15 19 (1.54%) Adobe
15 19 (1.54%) Cisco
16 18 (1.46%) IBM