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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 45 78
Rank change year-on-year -32 +33 -52
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 10 20 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.63% 3.75% 1.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.11% 18.35% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 13
10th Percentile £57,000 £42,500 £48,738
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £53,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,840 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +15.44% -0.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £66,250
90th Percentile £73,500 - £81,500
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% -

All Database & 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 90 109 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 5.69% 20.41% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 45 57 64
10th Percentile £39,650 £44,000 £40,379
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,840 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +11.74% -10.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £62,500 £67,604 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.55% +0.15% -

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 13 September 2026.

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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Data Migration Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Blazor
3 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (30.00%) ETL
4 3 (30.00%) ETL Development
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 1 (10.00%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (10.00%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (10.00%) UX Design
6 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Salesforce