SQL Server Jobs in the South East

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 46 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 -13
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 862 880 1,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.18% 5.81% 8.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.47% 32.75% 33.50%
Number of salaries quoted 802 715 1,210
10th Percentile £36,000 £34,834 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,456 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +8.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,655 2,687 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.96% 17.75% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,985 1,802 3,094
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the South East.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
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 SQL Server within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +1 297 £55,000 -4.35% 51
Hampshire +2 157 £57,500 +9.52% 29
Kent +51 131 £60,000 +20.00% 20
Berkshire -14 130 £62,500 -3.85% 21
Surrey +6 123 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Oxfordshire +47 98 £48,750 +8.33% 14
East Sussex -13 71 £47,500 -13.64% 14
Buckinghamshire -4 69 £52,500 - 16
West Sussex +10 54 £55,000 -8.33% 13
Sussex - 11 £60,000 -
Middlesex -13 6 £44,658 -42.38%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 64 (7.42%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (3.83%) IIS
4 11 (1.28%) Apache
5 10 (1.16%) CMS
6 6 (0.70%) Kentico
6 6 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.70%) WordPress
7 5 (0.58%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.58%) JBoss
8 4 (0.46%) ColdFusion
8 4 (0.46%) TWiki
9 3 (0.35%) Confluence
9 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.12%) DNN
11 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
11 1 (0.12%) Sitefinity
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.58%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.46%) SDL Web 8
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.23%) Magento
5 2 (0.23%) nopCommerce
5 2 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.23%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.12%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 473 (54.87%) Azure
2 153 (17.75%) AWS
3 103 (11.95%) Power Platform
4 87 (10.09%) Microsoft 365
5 60 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (5.45%) SaaS
7 27 (3.13%) PaaS
8 26 (3.02%) OneDrive
9 21 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 21 (2.44%) IaaS
10 17 (1.97%) PowerApps
11 15 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (1.74%) Power Automate
12 14 (1.62%) Serverless
13 12 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (1.28%) Google Play
15 10 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.16%) GCP
15 10 (1.16%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 69 (8.00%) Firewall
2 45 (5.22%) Internet
3 26 (3.02%) DNS
4 24 (2.78%) VoIP
5 18 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.86%) Broadband
7 14 (1.62%) VPN
8 13 (1.51%) SAN
9 12 (1.39%) TCP/IP
10 11 (1.28%) DHCP
11 10 (1.16%) HTTP
12 9 (1.04%) WAN
13 8 (0.93%) Network Security
13 8 (0.93%) SSL
14 6 (0.70%) iSCSI
14 6 (0.70%) LAN
14 6 (0.70%) Wireless
15 5 (0.58%) Hyperconnected
16 4 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
16 4 (0.46%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (10.79%) Power BI
2 83 (9.63%) Elasticsearch
3 78 (9.05%) MongoDB
4 73 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 70 (8.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 51 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (5.34%) Relational Database
8 43 (4.99%) NoSQL
9 40 (4.64%) MySQL
10 36 (4.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (2.32%) Data Lake
12 18 (2.09%) Oracle Database
13 16 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (1.28%) MariaDB
15 8 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.93%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (0.93%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.81%) Redis
16 7 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 5 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 80 (9.28%) Git
2 48 (5.57%) Visual Studio
3 38 (4.41%) JIRA
4 28 (3.25%) NUnit
5 13 (1.51%) TeamCity
6 12 (1.39%) Selenium
6 12 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
7 11 (1.28%) Postman
8 8 (0.93%) Jenkins
8 8 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.81%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.58%) MSTest
10 5 (0.58%) Subversion
11 4 (0.46%) eggPlant
11 4 (0.46%) GitLab
11 4 (0.46%) Moq
12 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 186 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 132 (15.31%) Finance
3 54 (6.26%) Retail
4 43 (4.99%) Documentation Skills
5 40 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.25%) Marketing
8 27 (3.13%) Games
9 23 (2.67%) Law
9 23 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 14 (1.62%) Advertising
11 11 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.16%) Back Office
12 10 (1.16%) Banking
13 9 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.81%) Legal
16 6 (0.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 542 (62.88%) Developer
2 317 (36.77%) .NET Developer
3 153 (17.75%) C# Developer
4 119 (13.81%) C# .NET Developer
5 94 (10.90%) Senior
6 88 (10.21%) Software Developer
7 72 (8.35%) Senior Developer
8 65 (7.54%) Support Engineer
9 51 (5.92%) Lead
10 47 (5.45%) Full Stack Developer
11 43 (4.99%) IT Support
12 39 (4.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 39 (4.52%) IT Engineer
13 36 (4.18%) DBA
13 36 (4.18%) IT Support Engineer
14 35 (4.06%) 3rd Line Support
14 35 (4.06%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 35 (4.06%) Consultant
15 31 (3.60%) Azure Developer
15 31 (3.60%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 544 (63.11%) .NET
2 336 (38.98%) ASP.NET
3 281 (32.60%) .NET Core
4 263 (30.51%) AngularJS
5 238 (27.61%) ASP.NET MVC
6 220 (25.52%) Entity Framework
7 211 (24.48%) React
8 209 (24.25%) ASP.NET Web API
9 208 (24.13%) .NET Framework
10 184 (21.35%) HTML
11 149 (17.29%) CSS
11 149 (17.29%) Vue
12 119 (13.81%) HTML5
13 86 (9.98%) Node.js
14 79 (9.16%) RESTful
15 63 (7.31%) LINQ
16 61 (7.08%) CSS3
16 61 (7.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 60 (6.96%) jQuery
18 58 (6.73%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (3.71%) Management Information System
3 31 (3.60%) Replication
4 23 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.55%) Mobile App
6 21 (2.44%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.39%) N-Tier
7 12 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.28%) iPhone
8 11 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (1.16%) BBC
9 10 (1.16%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.16%) Social Media
10 9 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.93%) Digital TV
12 6 (0.70%) Clustering
12 6 (0.70%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.70%) Driving Licence
12 6 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.70%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 127 (14.73%) Windows
2 60 (6.96%) Windows Server
3 33 (3.83%) Linux
4 29 (3.36%) VMS
5 17 (1.97%) Android
6 16 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.70%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.58%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.46%) AIX
11 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.46%) CentOS
12 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.35%) Rocky
13 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.12%) Unix
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (44.32%) Agile
2 298 (34.57%) Full Stack Development
3 293 (33.99%) MVC
4 217 (25.17%) Microservices
5 153 (17.75%) TDD
6 124 (14.39%) BDD
7 109 (12.65%) Computer Science
7 109 (12.65%) Scrum
8 108 (12.53%) DevOps
9 107 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
11 81 (9.40%) Artificial Intelligence
12 78 (9.05%) Kanban
13 71 (8.24%) OO
14 65 (7.54%) ETL
15 63 (7.31%) CI/CD
16 54 (6.26%) Unit Testing
17 50 (5.80%) Migration
17 50 (5.80%) Web Development
18 49 (5.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 560 (64.97%) C#
2 383 (44.43%) JavaScript
3 351 (40.72%) SQL
4 171 (19.84%) TypeScript
5 89 (10.32%) T-SQL
6 63 (7.31%) Java
7 34 (3.94%) Python
8 33 (3.83%) PHP
9 25 (2.90%) C++
10 24 (2.78%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.44%) VB.NET
12 11 (1.28%) Bicep
12 11 (1.28%) R
13 10 (1.16%) C
14 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.81%) Objective-C
16 6 (0.70%) VB
17 4 (0.46%) CFML
17 4 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 160 (18.56%) Degree
2 76 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (4.87%) Security Cleared
4 33 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (2.78%) SC Cleared
6 20 (2.32%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.16%) PhD
8 9 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
9 7 (0.81%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.58%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.58%) HNC
10 5 (0.58%) HND
11 4 (0.46%) CCNA
11 4 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.23%) MCITP
12 2 (0.23%) MCSA
12 2 (0.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.34%) QA
2 15 (1.74%) GDPR
3 10 (1.16%) HIPAA
4 7 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.58%) SLA
6 4 (0.46%) COBIT
7 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (9.05%) Active Directory
2 63 (7.31%) Docker
3 59 (6.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.86%) Hyper-V
6 13 (1.51%) vSphere
7 5 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 58 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.67%) Terraform
3 8 (0.93%) MIIS
3 8 (0.93%) SCCM
4 7 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.46%) Nagios
6 4 (0.46%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.35%) Ansible
7 3 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.12%) Kibana
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.12%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.12%) SCOM
9 1 (0.12%) vRealize
9 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 470 (54.52%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.16%) VMware
3 53 (6.15%) Veeam
4 48 (5.57%) Oracle
5 42 (4.87%) Citrix
6 36 (4.18%) Google
7 17 (1.97%) Facebook
8 14 (1.62%) Apple
9 10 (1.16%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.16%) Sony
9 10 (1.16%) Yahoo!
10 9 (1.04%) Adobe
10 9 (1.04%) Cisco
11 8 (0.93%) EMC
11 8 (0.93%) Palo Alto
11 8 (0.93%) Zerto
12 7 (0.81%) Aruba
13 5 (0.58%) Adaptive Insights
13 5 (0.58%) Nimble Storage
13 5 (0.58%) Tagetik