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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 38 48
Rank change year-on-year -72 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 258 867 793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.73% 5.00% 5.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.16% 32.21% 31.48%
Number of salaries quoted 198 799 650
10th Percentile £27,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,250 £43,750 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year - -3.08% +3.18%

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 1,164 2,692 2,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.30% 15.54% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 655 2,008 1,677
10th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £87,500
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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -27 114 £52,500 - 398
Hampshire -19 48 £50,000 -13.04% 159
Berkshire -26 44 £55,000 -12.00% 230
Surrey -20 40 £57,500 +4.55% 88
Buckinghamshire +7 37 £60,000 +14.29% 108
Oxfordshire -4 33 £37,500 -21.05% 67
East Sussex -4 25 £27,000 -43.16% 52
Middlesex -6 14 - - 2
West Sussex -7 6 £70,000 +27.27% 44
Kent -45 6 £61,250 +2.08% 90
Sussex +14 4 £42,500 -29.17% 9
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 33 (12.79%) SharePoint
2 25 (9.69%) IIS
3 18 (6.98%) Confluence
4 13 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.71%) Apache
6 4 (1.55%) CMS
7 3 (1.16%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.39%) Sitefinity
8 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.94%) Trello
3 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.94%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.78%) Sage 1000
3 2 (0.78%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (40.31%) Azure
2 53 (20.54%) AWS
2 53 (20.54%) Power Platform
3 38 (14.73%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (7.75%) SaaS
6 14 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (4.65%) Power Automate
8 11 (4.26%) PowerApps
9 10 (3.88%) GCP
9 10 (3.88%) GitHub
10 7 (2.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.71%) IBM Watson
10 7 (2.71%) Serverless
11 6 (2.33%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.33%) Cloudflare
12 4 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.14%) Network Security
2 18 (6.98%) VoIP
3 17 (6.59%) DNS
4 15 (5.81%) LAN
4 15 (5.81%) WAN
5 12 (4.65%) Firewall
6 9 (3.49%) DHCP
7 8 (3.10%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.71%) SAN
9 5 (1.94%) NAS
9 5 (1.94%) VPN
10 4 (1.55%) IP Telephony
10 4 (1.55%) SMTP
10 4 (1.55%) SNMP
11 3 (1.16%) VLAN
12 2 (0.78%) Broadband
13 1 (0.39%) HTTP
13 1 (0.39%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.02%) Power BI
2 30 (11.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 20 (7.75%) MySQL
4 17 (6.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (6.20%) NoSQL
5 16 (6.20%) Relational Database
6 13 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.26%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.10%) QlikView
10 6 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.33%) SQLite
11 4 (1.55%) Couchbase
12 3 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
14 1 (0.39%) Airbyte
14 1 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (13.18%) Git
2 31 (12.02%) JIRA
3 28 (10.85%) Visual Studio
4 14 (5.43%) MagicDraw
5 11 (4.26%) Jenkins
6 8 (3.10%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.10%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.10%) GitLab
6 8 (3.10%) Maven
6 8 (3.10%) Selenium
6 8 (3.10%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (3.10%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.33%) Jasmine
7 6 (2.33%) NUnit
8 2 (0.78%) git-flow
8 2 (0.78%) MSI
8 2 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.78%) Spock
8 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 84 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.50%) Finance
3 26 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (10.08%) Retail
4 10 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.10%) Banking
5 8 (3.10%) Games
5 8 (3.10%) Manufacturing
5 8 (3.10%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.33%) Back Office
6 6 (2.33%) Front Office
6 6 (2.33%) Local Government
6 6 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.16%) Law
9 2 (0.78%) Advertising
9 2 (0.78%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Social Housing
9 2 (0.78%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 119 (46.12%) Developer
2 46 (17.83%) Senior
3 36 (13.95%) Senior Developer
4 34 (13.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 32 (12.40%) IT Support
6 28 (10.85%) Software Developer
7 25 (9.69%) C# Developer
8 22 (8.53%) .NET Developer
9 20 (7.75%) Software Engineer
10 18 (6.98%) Portal Developer
10 18 (6.98%) Senior Software Developer
11 16 (6.20%) Analyst
12 14 (5.43%) C# .NET Developer
12 14 (5.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (5.04%) Lead
14 12 (4.65%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 12 (4.65%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 10 (3.88%) Data Manager
16 9 (3.49%) Support Analyst
16 9 (3.49%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (46.90%) .NET
2 68 (26.36%) React
3 58 (22.48%) ASP.NET
4 41 (15.89%) XML
5 40 (15.50%) .NET Core
6 34 (13.18%) AngularJS
7 33 (12.79%) CSS
8 31 (12.02%) HTML
9 29 (11.24%) .NET Framework
10 22 (8.53%) JSON
11 17 (6.59%) Vue
12 16 (6.20%) RESTful
13 15 (5.81%) Kafka
14 13 (5.04%) Node.js
15 12 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (4.26%) HTML5
16 11 (4.26%) Spring Boot
17 10 (3.88%) Redux
18 9 (3.49%) jQuery
18 9 (3.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.02%) Client/Server
2 23 (8.91%) Management Information System
2 23 (8.91%) Mobile App
3 18 (6.98%) Driving Licence
4 17 (6.59%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.04%) Data Centre
5 13 (5.04%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 11 (4.26%) Private Cloud
7 10 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.49%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.10%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.71%) Blockchain
10 7 (2.71%) Robotics
11 6 (2.33%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.33%) Clustering
11 6 (2.33%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.94%) Replication
13 4 (1.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.50%) Windows
2 22 (8.53%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.81%) Linux
4 5 (1.94%) Unix
5 4 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.16%) Android
6 3 (1.16%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.16%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (34.11%) Agile
2 69 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (25.19%) DevOps
4 51 (19.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (15.50%) Project Management
6 37 (14.34%) CI/CD
6 37 (14.34%) Computer Science
7 31 (12.02%) MVC
8 30 (11.63%) Customer-Centricity
9 29 (11.24%) ITIL
9 29 (11.24%) Test Automation
10 28 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
11 27 (10.47%) Mentoring
12 26 (10.08%) Project Delivery
12 26 (10.08%) SDLC
12 26 (10.08%) Software Engineering
13 23 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (8.53%) Data Modelling
14 22 (8.53%) E-Commerce
14 22 (8.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 152 (58.91%) SQL
2 98 (37.98%) C#
3 60 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 30 (11.63%) Python
5 27 (10.47%) PowerShell
6 23 (8.91%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.20%) Java
8 14 (5.43%) PHP
9 10 (3.88%) C++
9 10 (3.88%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.71%) R
11 3 (1.16%) Bash
11 3 (1.16%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.16%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.78%) Groovy
12 2 (0.78%) VBA
12 2 (0.78%) X++
13 1 (0.39%) Korn
13 1 (0.39%) Scala
13 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (18.99%) Degree
2 18 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (4.26%) Security Cleared
6 10 (3.88%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.71%) MCSA
7 7 (2.71%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.55%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.55%) HND
9 4 (1.55%) MCSE
10 3 (1.16%) MCP
11 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.65%) SLA
2 10 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.10%) QA
4 4 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (11.63%) Docker
2 23 (8.91%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.88%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.26%) Terraform
3 5 (1.94%) Ansible
3 5 (1.94%) ZABBIX
4 4 (1.55%) WSUS
5 3 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.78%) Grafana
6 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.78%) WMI
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 142 (55.04%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.85%) Oracle
3 20 (7.75%) VMware
4 9 (3.49%) Databricks
5 8 (3.10%) IBM
5 8 (3.10%) Solace
6 7 (2.71%) Rollbar
7 6 (2.33%) SAP
8 5 (1.94%) Citrix
9 4 (1.55%) McAfee
9 4 (1.55%) Rockwell
9 4 (1.55%) Sage
9 4 (1.55%) Siemens
9 4 (1.55%) Veeam
10 3 (1.16%) Apple
10 3 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.16%) SonicWALL
11 2 (0.78%) Cisco
11 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.78%) Salesforce