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

6 months to
24 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 1,245 2,181 3,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.29% 6.03% 6.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.80% 24.03% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 1,743 2,594
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,150
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £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 £54,100
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.28% +8.20%

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 5,021 9,075 20,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.34% 25.09% 31.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,796 6,218 9,138
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 24 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 24 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 -8 223 £65,000 -7.14% 60
West London -38 30 £53,750 +7.50% 12
South London -23 24 £60,000 - 6
East London +9 18 £57,500 +4.55% 14
North London -1 8 £55,000 -26.67% 1
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
1 109 (8.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 79 (6.35%) SharePoint
3 72 (5.78%) IIS
4 54 (4.34%) CMS
5 20 (1.61%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.45%) Apache
7 16 (1.29%) WordPress
8 15 (1.20%) EPiServer
9 13 (1.04%) Tomcat
10 11 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
10 11 (0.88%) Umbraco
11 7 (0.56%) Confluence
11 7 (0.56%) JBoss
11 7 (0.56%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.56%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.56%) WildFly
12 6 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.48%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.48%) SAS
13 5 (0.40%) Kentico
Applications
1 46 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 46 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.04%) Photoshop
3 10 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.24%) SPSS
6 1 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (6.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (3.78%) Endur
3 23 (1.85%) SDL Web 8
4 20 (1.61%) NEC Housing
5 16 (1.29%) Fidessa
6 14 (1.12%) Elite 3E
7 12 (0.96%) PlanetPress Connect
8 9 (0.72%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 9 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.72%) Sage X3
8 9 (0.72%) SAP Business One
9 7 (0.56%) BusinessWorks
9 7 (0.56%) Teamcenter
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
11 3 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 630 (50.60%) Azure
2 198 (15.90%) AWS
2 198 (15.90%) Power Platform
3 168 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
4 107 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (5.62%) SaaS
6 62 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 47 (3.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 46 (3.69%) PaaS
9 42 (3.37%) GitHub
10 39 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
11 38 (3.05%) Serverless
12 37 (2.97%) GCP
13 34 (2.73%) IaaS
13 34 (2.73%) Snowflake
14 33 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
15 32 (2.57%) Azure Service Bus
15 32 (2.57%) PowerApps
16 28 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
17 26 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.70%) Firewall
2 69 (5.54%) DNS
3 43 (3.45%) Internet
4 34 (2.73%) DHCP
5 30 (2.41%) SAN
6 29 (2.33%) VPN
7 27 (2.17%) TCP/IP
8 16 (1.29%) FIX Connectivity
9 14 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (1.04%) Wireless
11 12 (0.96%) iSCSI
12 11 (0.88%) VLAN
13 10 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
13 10 (0.80%) HTTP
13 10 (0.80%) Network Security
13 10 (0.80%) WAN
14 9 (0.72%) LAN
15 8 (0.64%) NAS
15 8 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (0.48%) Mobile Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (15.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 176 (14.14%) Power BI
3 140 (11.24%) Relational Database
4 129 (10.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 126 (10.12%) Data Warehouse
6 81 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (5.94%) MongoDB
8 72 (5.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 69 (5.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 69 (5.54%) RDBMS
10 65 (5.22%) MySQL
11 41 (3.29%) Data Lake
12 40 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
13 38 (3.05%) Tableau
14 32 (2.57%) DB2
15 29 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
16 24 (1.93%) NoSQL
17 20 (1.61%) Delta Lake
18 18 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
19 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 125 (10.04%) Git
2 86 (6.91%) JIRA
2 86 (6.91%) Visual Studio
3 53 (4.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 35 (2.81%) TeamCity
5 26 (2.09%) Moq
5 26 (2.09%) NUnit
6 23 (1.85%) Jenkins
7 21 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
8 18 (1.45%) SpecFlow
9 15 (1.20%) GitLab
10 13 (1.04%) git-flow
10 13 (1.04%) Sourcetree
11 11 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 11 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (0.80%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.64%) Mercurial
14 6 (0.48%) Selenium
14 6 (0.48%) Subversion
15 5 (0.40%) FitNesse
General
1 324 (26.02%) Finance
2 297 (23.86%) Social Skills
3 143 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (7.39%) Marketing
5 83 (6.67%) Banking
6 71 (5.70%) Games
7 61 (4.90%) Legal
8 46 (3.69%) Law
9 42 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (3.13%) Back Office
11 37 (2.97%) Local Government
12 32 (2.57%) Retail
13 26 (2.09%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.93%) Public Sector
15 23 (1.85%) Front Office
16 18 (1.45%) Investment Banking
17 15 (1.20%) Billing
18 12 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
19 8 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
20 7 (0.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 490 (39.36%) Developer
2 286 (22.97%) Senior
3 207 (16.63%) .NET Developer
4 163 (13.09%) Analyst
5 144 (11.57%) C# Developer
6 122 (9.80%) Lead
7 115 (9.24%) Senior Developer
8 81 (6.51%) Applications Support
9 78 (6.27%) C# .NET Developer
10 75 (6.02%) Architect
10 75 (6.02%) Full Stack Developer
11 73 (5.86%) Support Analyst
12 66 (5.30%) Data Engineer
13 63 (5.06%) Consultant
14 52 (4.18%) Software Developer
15 47 (3.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 47 (3.78%) DBA
16 46 (3.69%) Applications Support Analyst
17 45 (3.61%) Senior C# Developer
18 37 (2.97%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (38.55%) .NET
2 240 (19.28%) ASP.NET
3 223 (17.91%) HTML
4 184 (14.78%) AngularJS
5 173 (13.90%) .NET Framework
6 171 (13.73%) CSS
7 166 (13.33%) .NET Core
8 144 (11.57%) ASP.NET MVC
9 132 (10.60%) Web Services
10 122 (9.80%) Entity Framework
11 110 (8.84%) ASP.NET Web API
12 109 (8.76%) RESTful
13 103 (8.27%) REST
14 102 (8.19%) React
15 101 (8.11%) XML
16 97 (7.79%) HTML5
17 77 (6.18%) SOAP
18 72 (5.78%) jQuery
19 67 (5.38%) JSON
20 54 (4.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 69 (5.54%) Greenfield Project
2 56 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
3 55 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 46 (3.69%) Swaptions
5 32 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (2.49%) Public Cloud
6 31 (2.49%) Replication
7 28 (2.25%) Hedge funds
8 27 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 26 (2.09%) Clustering
9 26 (2.09%) Product Ownership
10 24 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.85%) Life Science
12 22 (1.77%) Data Centre
12 22 (1.77%) Legacy Code
13 20 (1.61%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.53%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.53%) Housing Association
15 18 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (1.29%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 269 (21.61%) Windows
2 124 (9.96%) Linux
3 96 (7.71%) Windows Server
4 44 (3.53%) Unix
5 31 (2.49%) Windows 10
6 28 (2.25%) Ubuntu
7 26 (2.09%) CentOS
8 24 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (1.61%) Solaris
9 20 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (1.61%) zOS
10 10 (0.80%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.64%) VMS
13 7 (0.56%) Android
14 6 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.40%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (31.73%) Agile
2 282 (22.65%) DevOps
3 220 (17.67%) ETL
4 207 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
5 201 (16.14%) Business Intelligence
6 194 (15.58%) MVC
7 185 (14.86%) Full Stack Development
8 167 (13.41%) Scrum
9 163 (13.09%) Microservices
10 158 (12.69%) Computer Science
11 146 (11.73%) TDD
12 143 (11.49%) Data Modelling
13 135 (10.84%) Analytics
14 127 (10.20%) ITIL
15 120 (9.64%) Software Engineering
16 110 (8.84%) CI/CD
17 97 (7.79%) Mentoring
18 95 (7.63%) CRM
19 88 (7.07%) Roadmaps
20 85 (6.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 642 (51.57%) SQL
2 471 (37.83%) C#
3 342 (27.47%) JavaScript
4 268 (21.53%) T-SQL
5 196 (15.74%) Python
6 119 (9.56%) PowerShell
7 115 (9.24%) Java
8 77 (6.18%) TypeScript
9 51 (4.10%) Bash
9 51 (4.10%) PL/SQL
10 48 (3.86%) VB
11 38 (3.05%) XPath
12 31 (2.49%) Perl
13 25 (2.01%) R
14 23 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (1.77%) Bicep
16 21 (1.69%) Ruby
17 14 (1.12%) Scala
18 9 (0.72%) VB.NET
18 9 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 281 (22.57%) Degree
2 71 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (2.41%) Security Cleared
4 25 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 22 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.53%) SC Cleared
8 11 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
9 7 (0.56%) MCSE
10 6 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (0.48%) MCP
11 4 (0.32%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.32%) CISM
11 4 (0.32%) CISSP
11 4 (0.32%) MCSA
12 3 (0.24%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.16%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.16%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.02%) Data Quality
2 38 (3.05%) QA
3 37 (2.97%) SLA
4 16 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.96%) GDPR
6 11 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.40%) NIST
10 4 (0.32%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.32%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.24%) MiFID
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.080%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.080%) WCAG
System Software
1 124 (9.96%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.05%) Docker
3 35 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.45%) vSphere
5 14 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.56%) 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 (0.080%) ACF2
10 1 (0.080%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.080%) IAG
10 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.080%) RACF
10 1 (0.080%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 70 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 63 (5.06%) Terraform
3 27 (2.17%) SCCM
4 22 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.61%) Ansible
5 20 (1.61%) Grafana
6 18 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (0.72%) Foglight
9 8 (0.64%) Nagios
9 8 (0.64%) Puppet
10 7 (0.56%) Control-M
10 7 (0.56%) WSUS
11 6 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.40%) Istio
13 4 (0.32%) Nessus
13 4 (0.32%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 560 (44.98%) Microsoft
2 207 (16.63%) Oracle
3 70 (5.62%) Databricks
4 64 (5.14%) VMware
5 61 (4.90%) Sybase
6 53 (4.26%) TIBCO
7 46 (3.69%) OpenLink
8 31 (2.49%) Red Hat
8 31 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 29 (2.33%) HP
10 26 (2.09%) Citrix
11 23 (1.85%) Bloomberg
12 22 (1.77%) SAP
13 21 (1.69%) Dynatrace
13 21 (1.69%) Veeam
14 20 (1.61%) NEC
14 20 (1.61%) Reuters
15 19 (1.53%) Adobe
16 18 (1.45%) Cisco
16 18 (1.45%) Google