SQL Server Jobs in the South East

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 595 706 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.94% 6.09% 7.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.48% 32.24% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 519 568 1,081
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,247 2,190 5,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.89% 18.90% 22.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,577 1,555 2,864
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,600 £32,825
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +8.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -19 211 £52,500 -12.50% 24
Hampshire 0 126 £57,500 +7.48% 24
Berkshire -41 84 £62,500 -10.71% 12
Kent +30 83 £65,000 +28.71% 16
Oxfordshire -8 79 £44,000 -12.00% 7
Surrey -29 77 £50,000 -11.11% 16
East Sussex -10 53 £40,000 -27.27% 14
Buckinghamshire +9 48 £46,500 -15.45% 5
West Sussex -11 24 £55,000 -6.38% 8
Middlesex -12 6 £44,658 -38.40% 2
Sussex - 6 £65,000 - 2
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 63 (10.59%) SharePoint
2 33 (5.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.19%) IIS
4 14 (2.35%) CMS
5 6 (1.01%) Apache
5 6 (1.01%) JBoss
6 5 (0.84%) ColdFusion
6 5 (0.84%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.67%) nginx
7 4 (0.67%) TWiki
7 4 (0.67%) WordPress
8 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.50%) Confluence
8 3 (0.50%) Kentico
9 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.34%) SAS
9 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.34%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 25 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.34%) SPSS
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.67%) SDL Web 8
4 2 (0.34%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.34%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.17%) Magento
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) nopCommerce
5 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 315 (52.94%) Azure
2 86 (14.45%) AWS
3 84 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (10.92%) Power Platform
5 51 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (4.87%) SaaS
7 26 (4.37%) Entra ID
8 24 (4.03%) OneDrive
9 23 (3.87%) PaaS
10 18 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (3.03%) IaaS
10 18 (3.03%) PowerApps
10 18 (3.03%) Serverless
11 14 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (2.35%) Power Automate
12 13 (2.18%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.18%) GitHub
13 12 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.02%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 71 (11.93%) Firewall
2 21 (3.53%) VoIP
3 18 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 18 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (2.69%) Internet
4 16 (2.69%) SAN
5 15 (2.52%) WAN
6 14 (2.35%) DNS
6 14 (2.35%) LAN
7 9 (1.51%) NAS
7 9 (1.51%) Network Security
8 8 (1.34%) iSCSI
9 7 (1.18%) Broadband
9 7 (1.18%) HTTP
9 7 (1.18%) VPN
10 6 (1.01%) Wireless
11 5 (0.84%) SNMP
11 5 (0.84%) SSL
12 4 (0.67%) RIP
12 4 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (8.74%) Power BI
2 45 (7.56%) NoSQL
3 39 (6.55%) MySQL
4 35 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (5.55%) Relational Database
7 31 (5.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (5.04%) MongoDB
8 30 (5.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 25 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.03%) Oracle Database
11 14 (2.35%) Data Lake
12 13 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (2.02%) Crystal Reports
14 8 (1.34%) DynamoDB
14 8 (1.34%) Power Query
15 7 (1.18%) Tableau
16 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (1.01%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 80 (13.45%) Git
2 37 (6.22%) Visual Studio
3 17 (2.86%) JIRA
4 15 (2.52%) NUnit
5 13 (2.18%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.02%) Selenium
7 10 (1.68%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (1.51%) eggPlant
9 8 (1.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 8 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (1.18%) Jasmine
10 7 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.84%) Moq
12 4 (0.67%) GitLab
13 3 (0.50%) MSTest
14 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.34%) SonarQube
15 1 (0.17%) Apache Ivy
15 1 (0.17%) Gradle
General
1 133 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 64 (10.76%) Finance
3 43 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
5 22 (3.70%) Law
5 22 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 18 (3.03%) Marketing
6 18 (3.03%) Retail
7 15 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.02%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.68%) Back Office
10 9 (1.51%) Games
10 9 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.84%) Billing
12 5 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.67%) Advertising
13 4 (0.67%) Banking
14 3 (0.50%) Legal
15 2 (0.34%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 343 (57.65%) Developer
2 158 (26.55%) .NET Developer
3 83 (13.95%) C# Developer
4 82 (13.78%) Software Developer
5 74 (12.44%) Senior
6 69 (11.60%) Support Engineer
7 64 (10.76%) C# .NET Developer
8 54 (9.08%) Senior Developer
9 42 (7.06%) Lead
10 41 (6.89%) Full Stack Developer
11 38 (6.39%) IT Engineer
12 37 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (5.88%) Azure Developer
13 35 (5.88%) IT Support
14 33 (5.55%) IT Support Engineer
15 30 (5.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 30 (5.04%) 3rd Line Support
15 30 (5.04%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 28 (4.71%) Senior .NET Developer
17 27 (4.54%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (57.31%) .NET
2 164 (27.56%) ASP.NET
3 142 (23.87%) .NET Core
4 138 (23.19%) AngularJS
5 125 (21.01%) HTML
6 124 (20.84%) React
7 114 (19.16%) CSS
8 111 (18.66%) .NET Framework
9 107 (17.98%) ASP.NET Web API
10 101 (16.97%) Entity Framework
11 93 (15.63%) ASP.NET MVC
12 80 (13.45%) Vue
13 54 (9.08%) RESTful
14 49 (8.24%) HTML5
15 38 (6.39%) Web Services
16 36 (6.05%) Node.js
17 27 (4.54%) jQuery
18 23 (3.87%) CSS3
18 23 (3.87%) LINQ
19 21 (3.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 23 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (3.53%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (3.03%) Replication
5 15 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 11 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.18%) Clustering
10 7 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.01%) N-Tier
12 5 (0.84%) Blackberry
12 5 (0.84%) EPoS
13 4 (0.67%) Chip and PIN
13 4 (0.67%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.67%) EMC VNX
13 4 (0.67%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 117 (19.66%) Windows
2 66 (11.09%) Windows Server
3 35 (5.88%) Linux
4 20 (3.36%) VMS
5 11 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (1.34%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.18%) Unix
9 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.67%) AIX
11 4 (0.67%) Android
11 4 (0.67%) CentOS
11 4 (0.67%) Debian
11 4 (0.67%) Rocky
11 4 (0.67%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (39.33%) Agile
2 148 (24.87%) Full Stack Development
3 121 (20.34%) MVC
4 112 (18.82%) Microservices
5 110 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (16.97%) Computer Science
7 90 (15.13%) DevOps
8 72 (12.10%) TDD
9 57 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
10 53 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence
10 53 (8.91%) Scrum
11 49 (8.24%) CI/CD
12 46 (7.73%) BDD
13 45 (7.56%) Web Development
14 43 (7.23%) Mentoring
14 43 (7.23%) Test Automation
15 38 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 38 (6.39%) Unit Testing
16 34 (5.71%) Customer Service
16 34 (5.71%) OO
Programming Languages
1 319 (53.61%) C#
2 247 (41.51%) SQL
3 211 (35.46%) JavaScript
4 98 (16.47%) TypeScript
5 43 (7.23%) T-SQL
6 34 (5.71%) Java
7 32 (5.38%) PowerShell
8 31 (5.21%) Python
9 27 (4.54%) PHP
10 17 (2.86%) Bicep
11 12 (2.02%) C++
12 6 (1.01%) C
12 6 (1.01%) R
12 6 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.84%) VB
14 3 (0.50%) XAML
15 2 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 145 (24.37%) Degree
2 56 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 21 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.18%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.68%) HND
8 9 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.84%) HNC
11 3 (0.50%) CCNA
11 3 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.50%) PhD
12 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.17%) MCSE
13 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.88%) QA
2 16 (2.69%) GDPR
3 11 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.68%) HIPAA
5 9 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.34%) SLA
7 2 (0.34%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (11.60%) Active Directory
2 58 (9.75%) Docker
3 56 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (3.36%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.85%) vSphere
6 6 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.67%) Firmware
7 4 (0.67%) NFS
7 4 (0.67%) pfSense
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 61 (10.25%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.86%) Terraform
3 12 (2.02%) SCCM
4 9 (1.51%) MIIS
5 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (0.84%) Nagios
8 4 (0.67%) Grafana
8 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.50%) Ansible
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.17%) Kibana
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 247 (41.51%) Microsoft
2 74 (12.44%) VMware
3 48 (8.07%) Oracle
3 48 (8.07%) Veeam
4 38 (6.39%) Citrix
5 22 (3.70%) Google
6 11 (1.85%) Aruba
7 9 (1.51%) Cisco
8 8 (1.34%) EMC
8 8 (1.34%) Synology
9 7 (1.18%) Databricks
9 7 (1.18%) RedGate
10 6 (1.01%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.01%) Zerto
11 5 (0.84%) McAfee
11 5 (0.84%) Meraki
11 5 (0.84%) NetApp
12 4 (0.67%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.67%) ProCurve
12 4 (0.67%) QNAP