SQL Server Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 62 29
Rank change year-on-year +20 -33 +13
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 14 29 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 2.79% 2.54% 7.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.00% 18.13% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 44
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,500 £31,615
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,840 £59,125 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.12% +31.39% -30.77%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £63,438
90th Percentile - £77,000 £105,750
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.21% +7.50% -12.87%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 70 160 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 13.94% 14.01% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 39 73 106
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.53% -15.31%
75th Percentile £69,840 £81,500 £74,406
90th Percentile £85,000 £110,500 £90,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,050
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.62% -15.31%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Reading

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Reading over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Reading

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (21.43%) CMS
2 2 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Purview
2 8 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 8 (57.14%) Games
3 3 (21.43%) Humanities
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Integration Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Data Management
2 8 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 8 (57.14%) Data Governance Strategy
2 8 (57.14%) Data Lineage
2 8 (57.14%) Data Privacy
2 8 (57.14%) Data Security
2 8 (57.14%) Data Validation
2 8 (57.14%) Validation
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) CRM
4 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
4 3 (21.43%) User Experience
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) VB.NET
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) Accessibility
1 8 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco