Senior SQL Server Developer Job Trends in the South East

Senior SQL Server Developer
England > South East

The median Senior SQL Server Developer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 - 358
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL Server Developer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.008% - 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% - 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £60,000
75th Percentile £75,000 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% -2.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 11,486 6,227 13,425
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 86.41% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 7,627 3,677 10,202
10th Percentile £28,900 £30,778 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

Senior SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior SQL Server Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Senior SQL Server Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior SQL Server Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Senior SQL Server Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Senior SQL Server Developer job vacancies in the South East

Senior SQL Server Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior SQL Server Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire - 1 £70,000 -
Thames Valley - 1 £70,000 -
Senior SQL Server Developer
England

Senior SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 15 March 2026, Senior SQL Server Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Senior SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Rollbar
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing

Senior SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Rollbar