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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 46 73
Rank change year-on-year -15 +27 -28
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 8 19 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.85% 3.83% 2.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.81% 16.38% 20.39%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 36
10th Percentile £60,625 £48,125 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £82,500 £90,000
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% -

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 74 116 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 7.86% 23.39% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 27 63 114
10th Percentile £38,500 £50,170 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +18.11% -2.31%
75th Percentile £79,375 £86,875 £79,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £89,250
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +3.85%

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 9 April 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Looker
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Retail
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (62.50%) Vue
3 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (50.00%) Blazor
3 4 (50.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
3 4 (50.00%) User Experience
3 4 (50.00%) UX Design
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica