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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 49 73
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 -43
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 10 18 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.86% 3.52% 2.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.35% 16.98% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 33
10th Percentile £57,125 £48,750 £48,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,420 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.14% -0.13% -30.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,840 £70,000
90th Percentile - £84,500 £79,500
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% -10.71%

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 81 106 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 6.96% 20.74% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 32 53 105
10th Percentile £36,625 £49,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £48,500
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,500 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -4.01%

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 6 June 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 3 (30.00%) 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%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Retail
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (40.00%) Blazor
3 4 (40.00%) Entity Framework
3 4 (40.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (40.00%) Extreme Programming
4 4 (40.00%) User Experience
4 4 (40.00%) UX Design
5 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) Analytics
7 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
7 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 1 (10.00%) ETL Development
7 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) 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
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Salesforce