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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 40 45
Rank change year-on-year -61 +5 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 278 885 749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.87% 4.72% 5.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.84% 31.85% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 221 798 603
10th Percentile £25,750 £36,000 £36,125
25th Percentile £37,250 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £55,460
% change year-on-year +2.73% -0.83% +0.84%

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 1,217 2,779 2,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.58% 14.82% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 690 2,056 1,614
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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 24 June 2025.

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 24 June 2025. 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 -31 117 £52,500 - 237
Hampshire -6 56 £53,750 -6.52% 92
Buckinghamshire +8 42 £52,500 - 60
Surrey -23 39 £57,500 +4.55% 49
Oxfordshire +1 38 £37,500 -21.05% 40
Berkshire -30 37 £55,000 -12.00% 137
East Sussex +5 28 £27,000 -41.62% 47
Middlesex -12 11 - - 2
Kent -43 10 £62,500 +4.17% 28
West Sussex -9 9 £67,500 +22.73% 38
Sussex +17 6 £42,500 -19.81% 12
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 32 (11.51%) SharePoint
2 20 (7.19%) IIS
2 20 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (6.47%) Confluence
4 6 (2.16%) Apache
5 4 (1.44%) CMS
6 3 (1.08%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.72%) nginx
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.36%) Sitefinity
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Trello
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.72%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.80%) SAP Business One
3 4 (1.44%) Sage 1000
4 2 (0.72%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 100 (35.97%) Azure
2 56 (20.14%) Power Platform
3 55 (19.78%) AWS
4 39 (14.03%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (12.23%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.40%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (4.68%) Cloudflare
8 12 (4.32%) Power Automate
9 11 (3.96%) PowerApps
10 10 (3.60%) GCP
11 9 (3.24%) SaaS
12 7 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.16%) GitHub
14 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (1.80%) Serverless
15 4 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (1.44%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.63%) Network Security
2 21 (7.55%) VoIP
3 19 (6.83%) DNS
4 18 (6.47%) LAN
4 18 (6.47%) WAN
5 15 (5.40%) Firewall
6 12 (4.32%) SAN
7 9 (3.24%) DHCP
8 6 (2.16%) NAS
8 6 (2.16%) SMTP
8 6 (2.16%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.80%) IP Telephony
9 5 (1.80%) iSCSI
9 5 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (1.80%) SNMP
10 3 (1.08%) VLAN
10 3 (1.08%) VPN
11 2 (0.72%) Broadband
11 2 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.75%) Power BI
2 30 (10.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 28 (10.07%) MySQL
4 20 (7.19%) Relational Database
4 20 (7.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (5.40%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.96%) MongoDB
9 10 (3.60%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.80%) QlikView
12 4 (1.44%) Couchbase
13 3 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.72%) Redis
14 2 (0.72%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.72%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 41 (14.75%) Git
2 32 (11.51%) JIRA
3 23 (8.27%) Visual Studio
4 14 (5.04%) MagicDraw
5 13 (4.68%) TeamCity
6 11 (3.96%) NUnit
7 10 (3.60%) Jasmine
8 9 (3.24%) Maven
9 8 (2.88%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.88%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.88%) GitLab
9 8 (2.88%) Jenkins
9 8 (2.88%) Selenium
9 8 (2.88%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.16%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (1.44%) MSI
12 2 (0.72%) git-flow
12 2 (0.72%) Spock
13 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 95 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.83%) Finance
3 33 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.99%) Retail
5 14 (5.04%) Games
6 13 (4.68%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.24%) Banking
9 8 (2.88%) Front Office
10 7 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.80%) Back Office
11 5 (1.80%) Local Government
11 5 (1.80%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.44%) Law
12 4 (1.44%) Social Housing
12 4 (1.44%) Swedish Language
12 4 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.08%) Legal
13 3 (1.08%) Marketing
14 2 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 115 (41.37%) Developer
2 60 (21.58%) Senior
3 44 (15.83%) Senior Developer
4 38 (13.67%) IT Support
5 34 (12.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (11.15%) Analyst
7 24 (8.63%) Software Engineer
8 23 (8.27%) .NET Developer
9 22 (7.91%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (7.55%) C# Developer
10 21 (7.55%) Software Developer
11 16 (5.76%) Senior Software Developer
11 16 (5.76%) Support Analyst
12 15 (5.40%) IT Engineer
13 14 (5.04%) Portal Developer
14 13 (4.68%) Lead
15 12 (4.32%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 11 (3.96%) DBA
17 10 (3.60%) Architect
17 10 (3.60%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (42.09%) .NET
2 68 (24.46%) ASP.NET
3 65 (23.38%) React
4 40 (14.39%) AngularJS
5 37 (13.31%) .NET Core
6 36 (12.95%) CSS
7 34 (12.23%) HTML
8 33 (11.87%) XML
9 27 (9.71%) .NET Framework
10 24 (8.63%) RESTful
11 20 (7.19%) Vue
12 18 (6.47%) JSON
12 18 (6.47%) Node.js
13 15 (5.40%) Kafka
14 12 (4.32%) ASP.NET Core
14 12 (4.32%) ASP.NET MVC
14 12 (4.32%) CSS3
14 12 (4.32%) HTML5
15 11 (3.96%) Jest
15 11 (3.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.35%) Client/Server
2 21 (7.55%) Driving Licence
3 20 (7.19%) Mobile App
3 20 (7.19%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.76%) Management Information System
5 15 (5.40%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.32%) Data Centre
6 12 (4.32%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.32%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.96%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.52%) Clustering
8 7 (2.52%) Life Science
8 7 (2.52%) Online Games
8 7 (2.52%) SCADA
9 6 (2.16%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.16%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.80%) Blackberry
10 5 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.55%) Windows
2 21 (7.55%) Windows Server
3 20 (7.19%) Linux
4 7 (2.52%) Unix
5 5 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.08%) Android
7 3 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (30.94%) Agile
2 73 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (24.10%) DevOps
4 53 (19.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 43 (15.47%) Computer Science
6 42 (15.11%) CI/CD
7 40 (14.39%) MVC
8 38 (13.67%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (11.51%) Software Engineering
10 31 (11.15%) Mentoring
10 31 (11.15%) Project Management
11 29 (10.43%) Test Automation
12 27 (9.71%) E-Commerce
13 26 (9.35%) ITIL
14 23 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (7.91%) Data Modelling
15 22 (7.91%) Microservices
16 21 (7.55%) SDLC
16 21 (7.55%) Web Development
17 19 (6.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 166 (59.71%) SQL
2 113 (40.65%) C#
3 62 (22.30%) JavaScript
4 30 (10.79%) Python
5 25 (8.99%) PowerShell
6 23 (8.27%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.47%) Java
8 17 (6.12%) T-SQL
9 11 (3.96%) C++
9 11 (3.96%) PHP
10 8 (2.88%) Bash
11 6 (2.16%) R
12 5 (1.80%) Korn
12 5 (1.80%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.44%) Uniface
13 4 (1.44%) VBA
14 3 (1.08%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.72%) Bicep
15 2 (0.72%) Groovy
15 2 (0.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 65 (23.38%) Degree
2 20 (7.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.40%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.88%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.52%) MCSA
8 6 (2.16%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.80%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.80%) HND
10 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.44%) MCSE
11 3 (1.08%) MCP
12 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.32%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.24%) QA
3 7 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.44%) GDPR
5 3 (1.08%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (11.87%) Docker
2 28 (10.07%) Active Directory
3 17 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.60%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 29 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.40%) Terraform
3 6 (2.16%) WSUS
4 5 (1.80%) Ansible
4 5 (1.80%) ZABBIX
5 4 (1.44%) Grafana
5 4 (1.44%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.44%) WMI
6 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 149 (53.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.27%) VMware
3 22 (7.91%) Oracle
4 13 (4.68%) Rollbar
5 8 (2.88%) Databricks
5 8 (2.88%) Solace
6 7 (2.52%) Citrix
6 7 (2.52%) Rockwell
6 7 (2.52%) Siemens
7 6 (2.16%) Sage
7 6 (2.16%) SAP
8 5 (1.80%) Dell
8 5 (1.80%) IBM
8 5 (1.80%) McAfee
8 5 (1.80%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.80%) Splunk
8 5 (1.80%) Veeam
9 4 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.08%) Apple
10 3 (1.08%) SonicWALL