SQL Server Jobs in the South West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 47 51 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 -23 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 420 404 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.59% 5.74% 9.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.04% 29.45% 34.02%
Number of salaries quoted 379 309 496
10th Percentile £33,250 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,487 £73,750 £63,750
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 West

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 West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,353 1,372 2,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.79% 19.50% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 974 877 1,464
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,700 £82,125
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +10 135 £60,000 +33.33% 26
Wiltshire +25 90 £50,000 - 10
Devon +25 67 £46,250 +2.78% 14
Gloucestershire -51 41 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Dorset -36 38 £57,500 +9.52% 9
Somerset +10 36 £50,000 - 8
Cornwall -8 3 £42,500 -14.14% 1
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 28 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.67%) IIS
5 6 (1.43%) CMS
5 6 (1.43%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.43%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.19%) Apache
6 5 (1.19%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.71%) Confluence
8 3 (0.71%) GlassFish
8 3 (0.71%) JBoss
8 3 (0.71%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.71%) SharePoint 2013
8 3 (0.71%) WildFly
9 2 (0.48%) nginx
9 2 (0.48%) SAS
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.48%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.86%) Maximo
2 6 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.95%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.95%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.48%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 252 (60.00%) Azure
2 82 (19.52%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (18.57%) Power Platform
4 68 (16.19%) AWS
5 41 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (5.71%) GCP
7 8 (1.90%) Amazon EMR
7 8 (1.90%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.67%) GitHub
8 7 (1.67%) SaaS
9 6 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.43%) Google Play
9 6 (1.43%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.43%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.19%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.19%) Azure Storage
10 5 (1.19%) Nutanix
11 4 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.52%) SAN
2 18 (4.29%) LAN
3 16 (3.81%) WAN
4 11 (2.62%) Broadband
5 7 (1.67%) Internet
6 6 (1.43%) Firewall
7 5 (1.19%) DNS
7 5 (1.19%) HTTP
7 5 (1.19%) Network Security
7 5 (1.19%) VoIP
7 5 (1.19%) Wireless
7 5 (1.19%) WLAN
8 4 (0.95%) SSL
8 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.95%) VPN
9 3 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.24%) Intranet
10 1 (0.24%) NAS
10 1 (0.24%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (16.43%) Power BI
2 58 (13.81%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (11.67%) Relational Database
4 39 (9.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 34 (8.10%) MySQL
6 32 (7.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 26 (6.19%) MongoDB
8 25 (5.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 23 (5.48%) NoSQL
10 16 (3.81%) Big Data
11 12 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (2.86%) GIS
12 10 (2.38%) Data Lake
12 10 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (2.14%) Hadoop
13 9 (2.14%) Oracle Database
13 9 (2.14%) Tableau
14 8 (1.90%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.90%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 61 (14.52%) Git
2 22 (5.24%) Visual Studio
3 18 (4.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 12 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
5 10 (2.38%) Selenium
6 9 (2.14%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.67%) Postman
7 7 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 7 (1.67%) Subversion
8 6 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.19%) JIRA
10 4 (0.95%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.95%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.95%) Mocha
10 4 (0.95%) Toad
11 3 (0.71%) Maven
11 3 (0.71%) Moq
11 3 (0.71%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.71%) xUnit.net
12 1 (0.24%) RSpec
General
1 135 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 71 (16.90%) Finance
3 44 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.71%) Retail
5 14 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.14%) Banking
8 8 (1.90%) Legal
8 8 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.67%) Local Government
10 6 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.19%) Automotive
12 4 (0.95%) Games
12 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Marketing
12 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.71%) Advertising
13 3 (0.71%) German Language
14 2 (0.48%) Law
14 2 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 212 (50.48%) Developer
2 115 (27.38%) .NET Developer
3 69 (16.43%) Senior
4 68 (16.19%) C# Developer
5 55 (13.10%) C# .NET Developer
6 52 (12.38%) Software Developer
7 49 (11.67%) Senior Developer
8 41 (9.76%) Software Engineer
9 34 (8.10%) DBA
10 27 (6.43%) Administrator
11 26 (6.19%) Analyst
11 26 (6.19%) Senior .NET Developer
12 24 (5.71%) Lead
12 24 (5.71%) SQL DBA
13 22 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (5.24%) Senior C# Developer
14 21 (5.00%) Consultant
15 16 (3.81%) C# Software Developer
15 16 (3.81%) Data Engineer
16 15 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (54.05%) .NET
2 140 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 109 (25.95%) CSS
4 107 (25.48%) AngularJS
4 107 (25.48%) HTML
5 105 (25.00%) .NET Core
6 94 (22.38%) .NET Framework
7 88 (20.95%) Entity Framework
8 73 (17.38%) ASP.NET MVC
8 73 (17.38%) React
9 61 (14.52%) Vue
10 56 (13.33%) ASP.NET Web API
11 32 (7.62%) jQuery
12 31 (7.38%) REST
13 30 (7.14%) HTML5
14 28 (6.67%) LESS
15 26 (6.19%) Blazor
15 26 (6.19%) CSS3
16 22 (5.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 16 (3.81%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.29%) Onboarding
2 16 (3.81%) Mobile App
2 16 (3.81%) Virtual Team
3 14 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.62%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.62%) Replication
4 11 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.90%) AS400
6 7 (1.67%) CCTV
6 7 (1.67%) Digital TV
6 7 (1.67%) Learning Management System
6 7 (1.67%) Social Network
6 7 (1.67%) VAX
7 6 (1.43%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.43%) iPhone
8 5 (1.19%) EMC VNX
8 5 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.95%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.10%) Windows
2 35 (8.33%) Linux
3 26 (6.19%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.86%) Android
6 11 (2.62%) VMS
7 9 (2.14%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.67%) Windows 7
8 7 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (1.43%) AIX
9 6 (1.43%) Unix
9 6 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.19%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.71%) Solaris
12 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (35.00%) Agile
2 120 (28.57%) MVC
3 112 (26.67%) DevOps
4 91 (21.67%) Full Stack Development
5 86 (20.48%) Business Intelligence
6 70 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (15.24%) Software Engineering
8 63 (15.00%) CI/CD
9 60 (14.29%) Microservices
10 51 (12.14%) Scrum
11 44 (10.48%) Design Patterns
12 42 (10.00%) TDD
13 40 (9.52%) Mentoring
14 39 (9.29%) ETL
15 38 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (8.57%) Clean Code
17 32 (7.62%) Machine Learning
18 30 (7.14%) Migration
19 29 (6.90%) Analytics
19 29 (6.90%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 215 (51.19%) C#
2 189 (45.00%) SQL
3 168 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 61 (14.52%) TypeScript
5 48 (11.43%) T-SQL
6 32 (7.62%) Python
7 28 (6.67%) Java
8 18 (4.29%) VB.NET
9 17 (4.05%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.14%) Scala
11 7 (1.67%) Go
11 7 (1.67%) PHP
11 7 (1.67%) VB
12 6 (1.43%) Bicep
12 6 (1.43%) C++
13 5 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.95%) Bash
15 3 (0.71%) C
15 3 (0.71%) XAML
16 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (11.90%) Degree
2 34 (8.10%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.71%) MCPD
9 2 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.24%) MCSA
10 1 (0.24%) MCSD
10 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.90%) QA
2 9 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (7.86%) Docker
2 31 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (6.90%) Active Directory
4 22 (5.24%) Hyper-V
5 12 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (2.62%) XenApp
7 5 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.95%) vSphere
9 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.86%) Nagios
3 10 (2.38%) Terraform
4 9 (2.14%) SCCM
5 7 (1.67%) EMC VPLEX
6 5 (1.19%) Ansible
6 5 (1.19%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (1.19%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle Statspack
7 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 223 (53.10%) Microsoft
2 57 (13.57%) Oracle
3 36 (8.57%) VMware
4 18 (4.29%) Google
5 16 (3.81%) Citrix
6 15 (3.57%) Veeam
7 14 (3.33%) IBM
7 14 (3.33%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.86%) EMC
8 12 (2.86%) SolarWinds
9 10 (2.38%) Sybase
9 10 (2.38%) Xamarin
10 8 (1.90%) SAP
10 8 (1.90%) Teradata
11 7 (1.67%) Centreon
11 7 (1.67%) Twitter
12 5 (1.19%) Apple
12 5 (1.19%) Aruba
12 5 (1.19%) Meraki
13 4 (0.95%) HP