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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 57 33
Rank change year-on-year +15 -24 +12
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 12 31 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 2.24% 3.03% 6.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.91% 18.90% 32.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 39
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £29,735
25th Percentile £48,125 £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 - £64,781 £59,375
90th Percentile - £74,750 £67,750
Berkshire median annual salary £53,750 £59,125 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.62% -16.00%

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 67 164 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 12.52% 16.02% 20.45%
Number of salaries quoted 32 77 101
10th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £67,500 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +22.62% -15.31%
75th Percentile £69,840 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,875 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £63,000 £70,000 £55,050
% change year-on-year -10.00% +27.16% -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 2 December 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 (25.00%) CMS
2 2 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) dbt
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Power BI
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Looker
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Games
3 3 (25.00%) Humanities
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Integration Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Management
2 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (58.33%) Data Security
3 6 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 6 (50.00%) Data Governance Strategy
3 6 (50.00%) Data Lineage
3 6 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 6 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 6 (50.00%) Validation
4 3 (25.00%) CRM
4 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) User Experience
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
6 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
1 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Informatica