SQL Server Jobs in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 42 67
Rank change year-on-year -18 +25 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 921 1,563 4,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.44% 5.76% 5.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.64% 24.82% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 679 1,348 2,567
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £96,250 £104,250
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 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 4,689 6,297 23,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.61% 23.22% 31.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,358 4,910 9,226
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £142,500 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -2 224 £68,000 -2.86% 43
West London -42 22 £50,000 - 9
South London -38 13 £55,000 - 5
East London +12 5 £57,500 +4.55% 4
North London +2 1 - - 3
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 67 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (5.54%) SharePoint
3 50 (5.43%) CMS
4 45 (4.89%) IIS
5 11 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.98%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.98%) WordPress
7 8 (0.87%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.76%) JBoss
8 7 (0.76%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.76%) WebLogic
8 7 (0.76%) WildFly
9 6 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.65%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.54%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.43%) Apache
11 4 (0.43%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.33%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.33%) SAS
13 2 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 62 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.85%) Photoshop
4 9 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (3.58%) SDL Web 8
2 27 (2.93%) Endur
3 21 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (1.52%) NEC Housing
5 11 (1.19%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.87%) Elite 3E
7 7 (0.76%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
8 6 (0.65%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.65%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.22%) Farmplan
10 2 (0.22%) KEYPrime
10 2 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
10 2 (0.22%) SAP Business ByDesign
11 1 (0.11%) Misys Opics
11 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
11 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 463 (50.27%) Azure
2 165 (17.92%) Power Platform
3 142 (15.42%) AWS
4 139 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (5.43%) SaaS
7 44 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (3.47%) PaaS
9 31 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 30 (3.26%) GCP
10 30 (3.26%) Snowflake
11 29 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
11 29 (3.15%) IaaS
11 29 (3.15%) PowerApps
12 28 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (3.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 25 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
14 22 (2.39%) Entra ID
14 22 (2.39%) Serverless
15 21 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.78%) Firewall
2 37 (4.02%) DNS
3 22 (2.39%) Internet
3 22 (2.39%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.85%) DHCP
5 12 (1.30%) SAN
6 10 (1.09%) FIX Connectivity
6 10 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.98%) VPN
8 8 (0.87%) Network Security
8 8 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
8 8 (0.87%) WAN
9 7 (0.76%) LAN
9 7 (0.76%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.65%) FTP
11 5 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (0.54%) HTTP
12 4 (0.43%) Broadband
12 4 (0.43%) Mobile Broadband
12 4 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (16.94%) Power BI
2 132 (14.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 102 (11.07%) Relational Database
4 97 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 77 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
6 68 (7.38%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (6.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 54 (5.86%) RDBMS
9 50 (5.43%) MongoDB
10 48 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (3.91%) MySQL
12 33 (3.58%) DB2
13 30 (3.26%) Tableau
14 29 (3.15%) Oracle Database
15 28 (3.04%) Data Lake
16 18 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (1.95%) NoSQL
17 14 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 13 (1.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 133 (14.44%) Git
2 76 (8.25%) JIRA
3 70 (7.60%) Visual Studio
4 42 (4.56%) Moq
5 40 (4.34%) TeamCity
6 37 (4.02%) NUnit
7 29 (3.15%) GitLab
8 25 (2.71%) Jenkins
9 23 (2.50%) SpecFlow
9 23 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 20 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
11 17 (1.85%) git-flow
11 17 (1.85%) Sourcetree
12 14 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (1.19%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.98%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.87%) MSTest
15 8 (0.87%) SoapUI
16 6 (0.65%) Selenium
17 5 (0.54%) Mercurial
General
1 282 (30.62%) Finance
2 244 (26.49%) Social Skills
3 100 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.55%) Marketing
5 58 (6.30%) Banking
6 40 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (3.58%) Games
7 33 (3.58%) Local Government
8 31 (3.37%) Law
8 31 (3.37%) Legal
8 31 (3.37%) Public Sector
9 30 (3.26%) Back Office
10 25 (2.71%) Retail
11 22 (2.39%) Front Office
12 21 (2.28%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.09%) Advertising
14 9 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 394 (42.78%) Developer
2 230 (24.97%) Senior
3 131 (14.22%) C# Developer
4 130 (14.12%) .NET Developer
5 118 (12.81%) Senior Developer
6 100 (10.86%) Full Stack Developer
7 99 (10.75%) Analyst
8 86 (9.34%) Lead
9 67 (7.27%) C# .NET Developer
10 58 (6.30%) Data Engineer
11 55 (5.97%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 50 (5.43%) Senior C# Developer
13 48 (5.21%) DBA
14 42 (4.56%) Architect
15 41 (4.45%) SQL Developer
16 39 (4.23%) Software Developer
17 37 (4.02%) Full Stack .NET Developer
18 35 (3.80%) Consultant
18 35 (3.80%) Senior Full Stack Developer
19 33 (3.58%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (41.04%) .NET
2 193 (20.96%) HTML
3 173 (18.78%) CSS
4 162 (17.59%) ASP.NET
5 138 (14.98%) .NET Framework
6 137 (14.88%) AngularJS
7 106 (11.51%) Web Services
8 103 (11.18%) Entity Framework
9 102 (11.07%) React
9 102 (11.07%) RESTful
10 101 (10.97%) .NET Core
11 88 (9.55%) jQuery
12 83 (9.01%) ASP.NET MVC
13 72 (7.82%) REST
14 67 (7.27%) XML
15 63 (6.84%) HTML5
16 60 (6.51%) SOAP
17 55 (5.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 47 (5.10%) ASP.NET Web API
19 40 (4.34%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
1 40 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
2 33 (3.58%) Legacy Code
3 27 (2.93%) Hedge funds
4 26 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 25 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.61%) Swaptions
7 22 (2.39%) Cloud Native
8 20 (2.17%) Replication
9 19 (2.06%) Life Science
10 17 (1.85%) Data Fabric
10 17 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.74%) Cyberattack
12 14 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.30%) Clustering
14 12 (1.30%) Housing Association
15 11 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 195 (21.17%) Windows
2 106 (11.51%) Linux
3 66 (7.17%) Windows Server
4 45 (4.89%) Unix
5 29 (3.15%) Windows 10
6 24 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (2.50%) Ubuntu
8 22 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (2.17%) zOS
10 19 (2.06%) CentOS
10 19 (2.06%) Solaris
11 11 (1.19%) Android
12 10 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
13 9 (0.98%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
16 5 (0.54%) VMS
17 4 (0.43%) Rocky
18 3 (0.33%) AIX
19 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (29.97%) Agile
2 249 (27.04%) DevOps
3 175 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
4 161 (17.48%) Full Stack Development
5 152 (16.50%) Computer Science
6 147 (15.96%) Business Intelligence
7 123 (13.36%) Scrum
8 121 (13.14%) TDD
9 116 (12.60%) ETL
10 112 (12.16%) Analytics
11 109 (11.83%) Mentoring
12 100 (10.86%) MVC
13 98 (10.64%) Data Modelling
14 94 (10.21%) CI/CD
15 86 (9.34%) Microservices
16 78 (8.47%) Software Engineering
17 74 (8.03%) ITIL
17 74 (8.03%) Performance Tuning
18 71 (7.71%) Unit Testing
19 64 (6.95%) OO
Programming Languages
1 519 (56.35%) SQL
2 360 (39.09%) C#
3 245 (26.60%) JavaScript
4 193 (20.96%) T-SQL
5 153 (16.61%) Python
6 109 (11.83%) PowerShell
7 82 (8.90%) Java
8 59 (6.41%) TypeScript
9 32 (3.47%) Bash
10 26 (2.82%) Bicep
10 26 (2.82%) VB
10 26 (2.82%) XPath
11 23 (2.50%) VBA
12 21 (2.28%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.52%) R
13 14 (1.52%) Ruby
14 13 (1.41%) VB.NET
15 12 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (1.30%) Perl
16 8 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 229 (24.86%) Degree
2 60 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 22 (2.39%) SC Cleared
5 17 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (0.87%) MCSA
10 7 (0.76%) MCSE
11 5 (0.54%) CISSP
11 5 (0.54%) MCP
12 4 (0.43%) CISM
13 3 (0.33%) Dell Certification
13 3 (0.33%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.22%) ACCA
14 2 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.56%) QA
2 29 (3.15%) SLA
3 27 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.74%) GDPR
6 11 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.19%) MiFID
7 9 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.65%) NIST
8 6 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.22%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) PMO
11 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (9.45%) Active Directory
2 46 (4.99%) Docker
3 30 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.87%) vSphere
7 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.22%) Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) NFS
8 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) vCloud
9 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 57 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 39 (4.23%) Terraform
3 24 (2.61%) Ansible
3 24 (2.61%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.09%) Puppet
5 10 (1.09%) SCCM
6 9 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.87%) Grafana
7 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.76%) Istio
8 7 (0.76%) Nagios
8 7 (0.76%) PaperCut
8 7 (0.76%) WSUS
9 6 (0.65%) Foglight
10 5 (0.54%) Nessus
10 5 (0.54%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.33%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 356 (38.65%) Microsoft
2 171 (18.57%) Oracle
3 40 (4.34%) Sybase
4 39 (4.23%) Databricks
4 39 (4.23%) VMware
5 31 (3.37%) Cisco
5 31 (3.37%) Red Hat
6 27 (2.93%) OpenLink
7 24 (2.61%) TIBCO
8 23 (2.50%) Adobe
9 21 (2.28%) HP
10 20 (2.17%) Bloomberg
10 20 (2.17%) IBM
11 19 (2.06%) Citrix
11 19 (2.06%) F5
11 19 (2.06%) ServiceNow
11 19 (2.06%) Veeam
12 18 (1.95%) SAP
13 17 (1.85%) Cognizant
13 17 (1.85%) Dell