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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 63 38
Rank change year-on-year -12 -25 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 273 290 699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.10% 4.66% 7.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.49% 24.41% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 216 233 478
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £35,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,250 £72,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 1,071 1,188 2,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.18% 19.09% 24.35%
Number of salaries quoted 680 830 1,459
10th Percentile £35,353 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,500 £71,250 £65,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +5 94 £51,000 +2.00% 12
Wiltshire +5 54 £65,000 +23.81% 13
Devon +32 50 £55,000 +22.22% 5
Gloucestershire -16 27 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Dorset -45 25 £53,750 +1.90% 6
Somerset -10 16 £36,150 -22.74% 4
Cornwall -13 3 £42,500 +6.92% 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 20 (7.33%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.83%) Apache
3 5 (1.83%) IIS
4 4 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.10%) GlassFish
5 3 (1.10%) JBoss
5 3 (1.10%) NServiceBus
5 3 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Elite 3E
1 4 (1.47%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.73%) Maximo
4 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 151 (55.31%) Azure
2 57 (20.88%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (14.29%) AWS
4 34 (12.45%) Power Platform
5 18 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (6.59%) SaaS
6 7 (2.56%) GCP
6 7 (2.56%) GitHub
7 6 (2.20%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.83%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.47%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.47%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.10%) Google Play
10 3 (1.10%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.73%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.73%) Cohesity
11 2 (0.73%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.30%) LAN
2 8 (2.93%) SAN
3 7 (2.56%) Broadband
3 7 (2.56%) DNS
4 6 (2.20%) WAN
5 4 (1.47%) Firewall
5 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.47%) Wireless
6 3 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.10%) SSL
7 2 (0.73%) DHCP
7 2 (0.73%) FTP
7 2 (0.73%) HTTP
7 2 (0.73%) Network Security
7 2 (0.73%) VPN
7 2 (0.73%) WLAN
8 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.37%) VoIP
8 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.09%) Power BI
2 25 (9.16%) MySQL
2 25 (9.16%) Relational Database
3 19 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.59%) Oracle Database
4 18 (6.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (5.49%) MongoDB
6 14 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (2.56%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.20%) Tableau
11 5 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.47%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.47%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.47%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (1.10%) Oracle Database 12c
13 3 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 49 (17.95%) Git
2 16 (5.86%) Oracle Forms
3 10 (3.66%) Visual Studio
4 7 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.83%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.47%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.47%) Mocha
6 4 (1.47%) Selenium
6 4 (1.47%) Toad
7 3 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.10%) JIRA
7 3 (1.10%) Moq
7 3 (1.10%) Postman
7 3 (1.10%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.10%) Subversion
7 3 (1.10%) xUnit.net
8 2 (0.73%) Maven
9 1 (0.37%) RSpec
9 1 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 87 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.02%) Finance
3 28 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.76%) Banking
5 11 (4.03%) Manufacturing
5 11 (4.03%) Retail
6 10 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.93%) Legal
8 7 (2.56%) Local Government
8 7 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.83%) Games
9 5 (1.83%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.47%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.10%) German Language
12 2 (0.73%) Advertising
12 2 (0.73%) Automotive
12 2 (0.73%) Back Office
12 2 (0.73%) Law
12 2 (0.73%) Military
13 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 151 (55.31%) Developer
2 76 (27.84%) .NET Developer
3 49 (17.95%) Senior
4 45 (16.48%) C# Developer
5 38 (13.92%) C# .NET Developer
6 36 (13.19%) Senior Developer
7 33 (12.09%) Software Developer
8 26 (9.52%) Senior .NET Developer
9 25 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (8.06%) Software Engineer
11 18 (6.59%) Analyst
12 15 (5.49%) DBA
12 15 (5.49%) Senior C# Developer
13 14 (5.13%) .NET Software Developer
13 14 (5.13%) Lead
14 13 (4.76%) Senior C# .NET Developer
15 12 (4.40%) SQL DBA
16 11 (4.03%) Administrator
16 11 (4.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 11 (4.03%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (53.85%) .NET
2 91 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 72 (26.37%) CSS
3 72 (26.37%) HTML
4 66 (24.18%) AngularJS
5 62 (22.71%) React
6 57 (20.88%) .NET Framework
7 56 (20.51%) .NET Core
8 47 (17.22%) Entity Framework
9 44 (16.12%) Vue
10 40 (14.65%) ASP.NET Web API
11 26 (9.52%) LESS
12 23 (8.42%) jQuery
13 22 (8.06%) ASP.NET MVC
14 17 (6.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 13 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web Forms
15 13 (4.76%) REST
16 9 (3.30%) Web Services
17 8 (2.93%) Blazor
18 7 (2.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.59%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.23%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 13 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.56%) Replication
5 6 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.83%) Hedge funds
6 5 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.47%) AS400
8 3 (1.10%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.10%) iPhone
8 3 (1.10%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.10%) VAX
9 2 (0.73%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 50 (18.32%) Windows
2 40 (14.65%) Linux
3 33 (12.09%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (2.56%) VMS
6 6 (2.20%) AIX
6 6 (2.20%) Android
6 6 (2.20%) Unix
7 5 (1.83%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.10%) Solaris
8 3 (1.10%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.73%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.77%) Agile
2 77 (28.21%) DevOps
3 68 (24.91%) Full Stack Development
4 66 (24.18%) MVC
5 46 (16.85%) CI/CD
6 40 (14.65%) Microservices
6 40 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (12.45%) Software Engineering
8 33 (12.09%) Scrum
9 32 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 22 (8.06%) Collaborative Working
11 22 (8.06%) Mentoring
12 19 (6.96%) Design Patterns
12 19 (6.96%) Information Security
13 18 (6.59%) Service Delivery
14 17 (6.23%) Analytics
14 17 (6.23%) Computer Science
14 17 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (5.86%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 141 (51.65%) C#
2 126 (46.15%) SQL
3 101 (37.00%) JavaScript
4 42 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 33 (12.09%) T-SQL
6 24 (8.79%) VB.NET
7 18 (6.59%) Java
7 18 (6.59%) PHP
8 15 (5.49%) Python
9 12 (4.40%) PowerShell
10 11 (4.03%) VB
11 7 (2.56%) Bicep
12 6 (2.20%) Bash
13 4 (1.47%) C++
13 4 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.10%) XAML
15 2 (0.73%) C
15 2 (0.73%) Go
15 2 (0.73%) Scala
16 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (16.48%) Degree
2 17 (6.23%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.03%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.10%) MCSA
6 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) MCSD
7 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.76%) SLA
3 12 (4.40%) QA
4 9 (3.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 28 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (6.96%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.86%) Docker
4 11 (4.03%) Hyper-V
5 10 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.56%) XenApp
7 4 (1.47%) vSphere
8 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.37%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 12 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.66%) Terraform
3 9 (3.30%) SCCM
4 5 (1.83%) Nagios
5 3 (1.10%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (1.10%) Oracle Statspack
5 3 (1.10%) SCOM
5 3 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.73%) Ansible
6 2 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.73%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.37%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 128 (46.89%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.75%) Oracle
3 29 (10.62%) VMware
4 21 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 16 (5.86%) Cisco
5 16 (5.86%) HP
6 11 (4.03%) Citrix
7 9 (3.30%) Veeam
8 7 (2.56%) SolarWinds
8 7 (2.56%) Sybase
8 7 (2.56%) Twitter
8 7 (2.56%) Xamarin
9 6 (2.20%) IBM
10 5 (1.83%) EMC
10 5 (1.83%) Google
11 4 (1.47%) Civica
11 4 (1.47%) NEC
12 3 (1.10%) Centreon
12 3 (1.10%) New Relic
12 3 (1.10%) Northgate