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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 56 39 30
Rank change year-on-year -17 -9 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 242 579 602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.14% 7.21% 8.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.16% 33.10% 31.01%
Number of salaries quoted 217 449 482
10th Percentile £32,650 £33,435 £32,525
25th Percentile £43,750 £35,483 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +11.65% +3.00%

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 925 1,749 1,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.63% 21.78% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 668 1,146 1,341
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £71,388 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £84,056 £78,669 £72,500
England median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.17% +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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 -1 105 £59,556 +21.54% 41
Wiltshire +13 55 £47,500 -5.00% 8
Dorset -9 29 £57,500 - 7
Gloucestershire -26 29 £55,000 +5.77% 10
Somerset +13 17 £41,745 -16.51% 11
Devon -21 3 £50,000 +16.28% 17
Cornwall +1 2 £35,000 -6.67% 2
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 22 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.72%) IIS
3 7 (2.89%) Umbraco
4 6 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.48%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (2.48%) SharePoint 2013
5 4 (1.65%) MS Exchange
5 4 (1.65%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.83%) WordPress
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 32 (13.22%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (7.02%) Maximo
2 6 (2.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.83%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 95 (39.26%) Azure
2 49 (20.25%) Power Platform
3 36 (14.88%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (12.81%) AWS
5 23 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.37%) GitHub
6 13 (5.37%) Power Automate
7 11 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.55%) GCP
7 11 (4.55%) SaaS
8 8 (3.31%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.31%) Serverless
8 8 (3.31%) WhatsApp
9 6 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (2.48%) NuGet
10 5 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 4 (1.65%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 4 (1.65%) Route 53
11 4 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.26%) Firewall
2 19 (7.85%) SAN
3 16 (6.61%) LAN
4 11 (4.55%) WAN
5 10 (4.13%) Network Security
6 8 (3.31%) Wireless
7 7 (2.89%) VPN
8 3 (1.24%) SSL
8 3 (1.24%) VLAN
9 2 (0.83%) DHCP
9 2 (0.83%) DNS
9 2 (0.83%) Intranet
9 2 (0.83%) VoIP
10 1 (0.41%) HTTP
10 1 (0.41%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.41%) Skype
10 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (19.42%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (15.70%) Power BI
3 36 (14.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 36 (14.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 26 (10.74%) MySQL
5 23 (9.50%) Relational Database
6 20 (8.26%) NoSQL
7 13 (5.37%) Big Data
7 13 (5.37%) GIS
8 12 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (4.55%) SQLite
10 9 (3.72%) MongoDB
11 8 (3.31%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (3.31%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (2.89%) Hadoop
12 7 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.89%) Tableau
13 5 (2.07%) Oracle Database
13 5 (2.07%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (11.16%) Team Foundation Server
2 23 (9.50%) Git
3 16 (6.61%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.96%) Subversion
5 9 (3.72%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (3.31%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.07%) Selenium
8 4 (1.65%) IBM UrbanCode
8 4 (1.65%) Mercurial
8 4 (1.65%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.83%) JIRA
9 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Team System
10 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 65 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.66%) Finance
3 34 (14.05%) Banking
4 21 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.26%) Retail
6 13 (5.37%) Marketing
7 11 (4.55%) Legal
8 9 (3.72%) Military
9 7 (2.89%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.07%) Automotive
11 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.65%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.83%) Advertising
13 2 (0.83%) Electronics
13 2 (0.83%) Games
13 2 (0.83%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.83%) Law
13 2 (0.83%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (34.71%) Developer
2 45 (18.60%) Senior
3 30 (12.40%) .NET Developer
4 27 (11.16%) Software Engineer
5 26 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (10.33%) Lead
6 25 (10.33%) Senior Developer
7 16 (6.61%) C# Developer
8 15 (6.20%) DBA
8 15 (6.20%) SQL Developer
9 14 (5.79%) Software Developer
10 13 (5.37%) Administrator
10 13 (5.37%) Analyst
10 13 (5.37%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (4.55%) Applications Developer
11 11 (4.55%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.72%) .NET Software Engineer
12 9 (3.72%) Azure Developer
12 9 (3.72%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.31%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (45.45%) .NET
2 58 (23.97%) ASP.NET
3 46 (19.01%) HTML
4 44 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
5 38 (15.70%) CSS
6 35 (14.46%) .NET Framework
7 32 (13.22%) AngularJS
8 30 (12.40%) REST
9 29 (11.98%) .NET Core
10 26 (10.74%) Entity Framework
11 25 (10.33%) JSON
12 24 (9.92%) React
13 23 (9.50%) Web Services
14 13 (5.37%) HTML5
14 13 (5.37%) Vue
14 13 (5.37%) XML
15 12 (4.96%) KnockoutJS
15 12 (4.96%) RESTful
16 11 (4.55%) NHibernate
16 11 (4.55%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.33%) Data Structures
2 10 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (3.72%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.31%) Replication
5 7 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.48%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.65%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.65%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.24%) CCTV
10 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.41%) EMC VNX
11 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.41%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.83%) Windows
2 28 (11.57%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.61%) Linux
4 9 (3.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.48%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.65%) Unix
7 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.83%) Android
8 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.83%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.41%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (37.60%) Agile
2 67 (27.69%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (25.21%) DevOps
4 53 (21.90%) Software Engineering
5 48 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (19.42%) MVC
7 41 (16.94%) Project Management
8 35 (14.46%) CI/CD
9 32 (13.22%) Scrum
10 28 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (11.57%) Mentoring
11 27 (11.16%) TDD
12 26 (10.74%) SDLC
13 25 (10.33%) Analytics
14 23 (9.50%) Data Security
15 22 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
16 21 (8.68%) Design Patterns
17 20 (8.26%) ITIL
18 18 (7.44%) Cybersecurity
19 17 (7.02%) 3D Rendering
Programming Languages
1 106 (43.80%) SQL
2 98 (40.50%) C#
3 72 (29.75%) JavaScript
4 30 (12.40%) T-SQL
5 18 (7.44%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.02%) Python
7 14 (5.79%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.55%) Java
9 8 (3.31%) PHP
10 6 (2.48%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.48%) Scala
11 5 (2.07%) C
11 5 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (2.07%) Go
11 5 (2.07%) VB
12 4 (1.65%) XMLA
13 3 (1.24%) Embedded C
13 3 (1.24%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.83%) Bicep
14 2 (0.83%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 59 (24.38%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (7.02%) Degree
5 11 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (4.13%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.48%) MCPD
8 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.24%) MCSA
9 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.83%) HP APS
9 2 (0.83%) MCSD
10 1 (0.41%) CCNA
10 1 (0.41%) CCNP
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.20%) QA
2 12 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.83%) PMO
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (12.81%) Active Directory
2 25 (10.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.26%) Docker
4 10 (4.13%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.65%) vSphere
7 3 (1.24%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.89%) Terraform
3 6 (2.48%) Ansible
4 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.24%) SCCM
5 2 (0.83%) Nagios
6 1 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.41%) SCOM
6 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 102 (42.15%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.29%) VMware
3 24 (9.92%) Oracle
4 17 (7.02%) Teradata
5 15 (6.20%) Xamarin
6 11 (4.55%) IBM
7 8 (3.31%) HP
8 7 (2.89%) Cisco
8 7 (2.89%) Citrix
9 6 (2.48%) Sparx
10 5 (2.07%) SAP
10 5 (2.07%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.65%) Google
12 3 (1.24%) Apple
12 3 (1.24%) Dell
12 3 (1.24%) Meraki
12 3 (1.24%) NetApp
12 3 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.24%) Veeam
13 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto