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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 52 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5 24 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.75% 3.52% 4.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.33% 16.78% 27.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 46
10th Percentile £45,875 £48,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,125 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -5.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £64,688 £65,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,875 £72,700 £84,375
Berkshire median annual salary £46,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.36% -12.00% +4.17%

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 60 143 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 9.02% 20.97% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 23 60 107
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,375 £38,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £84,375 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £88,000 £112,500 £86,750
Berkshire median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +4.00%

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 8 February 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Humanities
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS3
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) R
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Informatica