SQL Server Jobs in Sheffield

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 28 57
Rank change year-on-year +8 +29 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 29 66 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 7.44% 5.64% 3.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 52.73% 36.87% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25 58 16
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £35,313 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £51,498 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.89% +8.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £53,125
90th Percentile £67,000 £67,875 £60,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% +8.24%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 55 179 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 14.10% 15.29% 24.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46 138 113
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £27,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,313 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% -3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,625 £70,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £48,750 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.98% -3.16% +11.73%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Sheffield

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Sheffield.

Salary trend for SQL Server in Sheffield

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Sheffield over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Sheffield

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Multicast
2 6 (20.69%) SAN
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.45%) FCoE
3 1 (3.45%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
3 1 (3.45%) LAN
3 1 (3.45%) NAS
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) DB2
2 2 (6.90%) MySQL
2 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.45%) Couchbase
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
1 2 (6.90%) Selenium
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) Liquibase
2 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Law
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Support Engineer
2 11 (37.93%) Developer
3 7 (24.14%) SQL Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) IT Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) IT Support
4 6 (20.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Software Support Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Applications Support
6 3 (10.34%) Database Developer
6 3 (10.34%) SQL Database Developer
7 2 (6.90%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Applications Support Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Desktop Support
7 2 (6.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Graduate Developer
7 2 (6.90%) IT Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) CSS
2 4 (13.79%) .NET
3 3 (10.34%) HTML
4 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.90%) CSS3
4 2 (6.90%) HTML5
4 2 (6.90%) jQuery
4 2 (6.90%) Node.js
4 2 (6.90%) React
4 2 (6.90%) RESTful
5 1 (3.45%) LDAP
5 1 (3.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Replication
1 7 (24.14%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (20.69%) Mobile App
3 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (6.90%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.45%) Clustering
5 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Windows
2 6 (20.69%) Android
2 6 (20.69%) Windows 10
2 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (27.59%) Product Management
3 7 (24.14%) CRM
3 7 (24.14%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
4 6 (20.69%) Analytical Thinking
4 6 (20.69%) Customer Service
4 6 (20.69%) Data Privacy
4 6 (20.69%) Exploratory Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Mathematics
4 6 (20.69%) Migration
4 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
5 5 (17.24%) Agile
5 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
6 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.34%) OO
7 3 (10.34%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
8 2 (6.90%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) T-SQL
3 5 (17.24%) C#
4 3 (10.34%) Java
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) C++
5 2 (6.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) KVM
2 1 (3.45%) NFS
2 1 (3.45%) SRDF
2 1 (3.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Puppet
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (68.97%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Cisco
2 6 (20.69%) IBM
2 6 (20.69%) Zoho
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.45%) EMC
4 1 (3.45%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) NetApp
4 1 (3.45%) VMware