SQL Server Jobs in the South West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 47 49
Rank change year-on-year -53 +2 -20
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 83 422 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.38% 4.58% 5.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.04% 31.14% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 68 380 301
10th Percentile £38,000 £33,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £42,500 £39,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,813 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,916 £72,433 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.82%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 487 1,355 1,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.97% 14.69% 19.41%
Number of salaries quoted 341 974 863
10th Percentile £32,544 £32,500 £33,150
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,713
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.18% -11.54% +8.33%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Wiltshire 0 26 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Bristol -24 26 £60,000 - 30
Dorset +26 20 £50,000 -13.04% 8
Gloucestershire +34 7 £52,500 - 27
Devon -36 3 £55,000 +18.92% 11
Somerset -23 1 £50,000 - 9
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 5 (6.02%) NetWeaver
1 5 (6.02%) SharePoint
1 5 (6.02%) Tomcat
2 4 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.61%) IIS
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.41%) Apache
4 2 (2.41%) Confluence
4 2 (2.41%) NServiceBus
5 1 (1.20%) CMS
5 1 (1.20%) Luigi
5 1 (1.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 42 (50.60%) Azure
2 16 (19.28%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (15.66%) Power Platform
4 12 (14.46%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (10.84%) AWS
6 8 (9.64%) IaaS
7 5 (6.02%) PaaS
8 4 (4.82%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.82%) SaaS
9 3 (3.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.41%) Fivetran
10 2 (2.41%) GCP
11 1 (1.20%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (1.20%) GitHub
11 1 (1.20%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.28%) LAN
1 16 (19.28%) WAN
2 14 (16.87%) Firewall
3 13 (15.66%) VPN
4 5 (6.02%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (4.82%) VLAN
6 3 (3.61%) MPLS
6 3 (3.61%) SAN
6 3 (3.61%) SD-WAN
6 3 (3.61%) Unified Communications
7 2 (2.41%) Internet
7 2 (2.41%) IP Telephony
7 2 (2.41%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (2.41%) Wireless
8 1 (1.20%) DNS
8 1 (1.20%) FTP
8 1 (1.20%) HTTP
8 1 (1.20%) SMTP
8 1 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) Power BI
2 11 (13.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (9.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (8.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (6.02%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.02%) SAP BW
5 5 (6.02%) SAP Data Services
5 5 (6.02%) SAP HANA
6 4 (4.82%) FileMaker
7 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.41%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.41%) MySQL
8 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.41%) Tableau
8 2 (2.41%) ThoughtSpot
9 1 (1.20%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 17 (20.48%) Git
2 6 (7.23%) GitLab
3 5 (6.02%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.82%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.61%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.41%) Fiddler
6 2 (2.41%) JIRA
6 2 (2.41%) Postman
6 2 (2.41%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.20%) Log4Net
7 1 (1.20%) PROIV
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.20%) Subversion
7 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (44.58%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.25%) Finance
4 8 (9.64%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Banking
5 5 (6.02%) General Ledger
6 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.61%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.61%) Automotive
8 2 (2.41%) Aviation
8 2 (2.41%) Games
8 2 (2.41%) Military
8 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Retail
9 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (39.76%) Developer
2 13 (15.66%) .NET Developer
3 9 (10.84%) Analyst
4 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Network Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Senior
5 7 (8.43%) Lead
6 6 (7.23%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.02%) IT Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) IT Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.02%) SQL Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Unix Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) DBA
8 4 (4.82%) IT Support
8 4 (4.82%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (4.82%) SQL DBA
8 4 (4.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (40.96%) .NET
2 19 (22.89%) .NET Framework
3 17 (20.48%) ASP.NET
4 16 (19.28%) HTML
5 15 (18.07%) CSS
6 12 (14.46%) .NET Core
7 11 (13.25%) Entity Framework
8 9 (10.84%) LESS
9 8 (9.64%) REST
9 8 (9.64%) Web Services
10 5 (6.02%) AngularJS
10 5 (6.02%) HTML5
10 5 (6.02%) React
10 5 (6.02%) RESTful
11 3 (3.61%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (3.61%) ASP.NET Web API
11 3 (3.61%) JSON
12 2 (2.41%) ADO.NET
12 2 (2.41%) jQuery
12 2 (2.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Virtual Team
2 4 (4.82%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.61%) Robotics
4 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.41%) CCTV
4 2 (2.41%) IoT
4 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.20%) Clustering
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.10%) Linux
2 16 (19.28%) Windows Server
3 14 (16.87%) Windows
4 7 (8.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (6.02%) AIX
5 5 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.02%) Unix
6 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.61%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.94%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (30.12%) DevOps
3 20 (24.10%) Agile
4 16 (19.28%) CI/CD
5 14 (16.87%) MVC
6 13 (15.66%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (15.66%) Migration
7 11 (13.25%) ITIL
7 11 (13.25%) Microservices
8 10 (12.05%) Mentoring
8 10 (12.05%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.84%) API Integration
9 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (9.64%) Clean Code
10 8 (9.64%) Computer Science
11 7 (8.43%) Decision-Making
11 7 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.17%) SQL
2 30 (36.14%) C#
3 19 (22.89%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.84%) PowerShell
5 8 (9.64%) VB.NET
6 7 (8.43%) T-SQL
7 6 (7.23%) Python
8 5 (6.02%) C
8 5 (6.02%) Java
8 5 (6.02%) TypeScript
8 5 (6.02%) VB
9 3 (3.61%) PHP
10 2 (2.41%) VB6
10 2 (2.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.66%) Degree
3 8 (9.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.41%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.20%) CCNA
6 1 (1.20%) CCNP
6 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.20%) CISSP
6 1 (1.20%) MCSA
6 1 (1.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.20%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.61%) Docker
3 3 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Terraform
2 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.02%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (3.61%) Ansible
4 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (42.17%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.48%) VMware
3 10 (12.05%) Cisco
3 10 (12.05%) Veeam
4 9 (10.84%) Oracle
5 5 (6.02%) IBM
5 5 (6.02%) SAP
6 3 (3.61%) CheckPoint
6 3 (3.61%) Databricks
6 3 (3.61%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (3.61%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.61%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.41%) Citrix
7 2 (2.41%) NetApp
7 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.41%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.20%) HP
8 1 (1.20%) PayPal