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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 49 67
Rank change year-on-year -14 +18 -26
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 10 20 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.86% 4.06% 2.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.76% 19.05% 21.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8 16 34
10th Percentile £57,125 £49,375 £52,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,840 £70,000
90th Percentile - £82,500 £79,250
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% -9.91%

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 85 105 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 7.32% 21.30% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 31 49 109
10th Percentile £36,250 £50,678 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £105,250 £87,000
Berkshire median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -4.31%

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 23 May 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 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Retail
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (40.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) ASP.NET
3 5 (50.00%) Vue
4 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (40.00%) Blazor
4 4 (40.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (10.00%) CSS
5 1 (10.00%) CSS3
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) HTML5
5 1 (10.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (40.00%) Extreme Programming
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) User Experience
4 4 (40.00%) UX Design
5 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (10.00%) AI
6 1 (10.00%) Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
6 1 (10.00%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce