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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 49 61
Rank change year-on-year -65 +12 -29
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 69 412 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.98% 4.38% 5.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.20% 30.21% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 57 372 257
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £64,250 £71,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,001
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%

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 454 1,364 1,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.04% 14.50% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 292 971 815
10th Percentile £32,544 £32,500 £34,100
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,239
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 £71,210
90th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £86,400
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 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 23 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 23 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
Dorset +26 21 £50,000 -13.04% 41
Bristol -31 18 £52,500 -8.70% 64
Wiltshire -11 17 £55,000 +7.84% 47
Gloucestershire +31 6 £52,500 +2.44% 87
Devon -36 4 £55,000 +15.79% 80
Somerset -23 3 £70,000 +40.00% 52
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 4 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.35%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) IIS
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.90%) NServiceBus
4 1 (1.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.45%) CMS
4 1 (1.45%) Luigi
4 1 (1.45%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.45%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 34 (49.28%) Azure
2 14 (20.29%) Power Platform
3 12 (17.39%) AWS
3 12 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.80%) IaaS
5 4 (5.80%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.80%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.35%) SaaS
7 2 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.90%) GitHub
7 2 (2.90%) Matillion
8 1 (1.45%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.45%) GCP
8 1 (1.45%) PaaS
8 1 (1.45%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.29%) Firewall
1 14 (20.29%) LAN
1 14 (20.29%) WAN
2 12 (17.39%) VPN
3 5 (7.25%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.35%) Internet
4 3 (4.35%) MPLS
4 3 (4.35%) SD-WAN
4 3 (4.35%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.90%) SAN
6 1 (1.45%) DNS
6 1 (1.45%) FTP
6 1 (1.45%) HTTP
6 1 (1.45%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.45%) SMTP
6 1 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.45%) SSL
6 1 (1.45%) VLAN
6 1 (1.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Power BI
1 13 (18.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 8 (11.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (10.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (5.80%) Data Mining
5 4 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.80%) FileMaker
6 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.90%) MySQL
7 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.90%) Tableau
7 2 (2.90%) ThoughtSpot
8 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.45%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.45%) OLAP
8 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.45%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Git
2 6 (8.70%) GitLab
3 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.80%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.35%) JIRA
4 3 (4.35%) Postman
4 3 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.90%) Fiddler
5 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.45%) Log4Net
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.45%) Subversion
6 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (40.58%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Finance
3 8 (11.59%) Manufacturing
4 7 (10.14%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.35%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.90%) Aviation
7 2 (2.90%) Games
7 2 (2.90%) Legal
7 2 (2.90%) Military
7 2 (2.90%) Retail
8 1 (1.45%) Advertising
8 1 (1.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Electronics
8 1 (1.45%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.45%) Law
8 1 (1.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (40.58%) Developer
2 9 (13.04%) .NET Developer
2 9 (13.04%) Analyst
2 9 (13.04%) Lead
3 8 (11.59%) Network Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) IT Support
4 6 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.25%) IT Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) IT Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) SQL Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Support Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Analyst Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) DBA
6 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Lead Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Senior
6 4 (5.80%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (39.13%) .NET
2 14 (20.29%) .NET Core
3 12 (17.39%) .NET Framework
4 11 (15.94%) ASP.NET
4 11 (15.94%) HTML
5 10 (14.49%) CSS
6 8 (11.59%) REST
7 6 (8.70%) HTML5
7 6 (8.70%) React
8 5 (7.25%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.25%) Entity Framework
8 5 (7.25%) RESTful
8 5 (7.25%) Web Services
9 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (4.35%) jQuery
9 3 (4.35%) JSON
9 3 (4.35%) LESS
9 3 (4.35%) Swagger
9 3 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.35%) IoT
1 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
1 3 (4.35%) Robotics
1 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
2 2 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.45%) CCTV
3 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.45%) Clustering
3 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.19%) Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Windows
3 10 (14.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (5.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.45%) AIX
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.45%) Unix
6 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (27.54%) DevOps
3 18 (26.09%) Agile
4 15 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (18.84%) Migration
6 11 (15.94%) CI/CD
6 11 (15.94%) Microservices
7 9 (13.04%) Computer Science
7 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
7 9 (13.04%) MVC
8 7 (10.14%) API Integration
8 7 (10.14%) Decision-Making
8 7 (10.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (10.14%) ITIL
8 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering
9 6 (8.70%) Database Security
9 6 (8.70%) ERP
9 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (49.28%) SQL
2 23 (33.33%) C#
3 14 (20.29%) JavaScript
4 10 (14.49%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.59%) T-SQL
6 6 (8.70%) Python
7 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.25%) VB
7 5 (7.25%) VB.NET
8 3 (4.35%) PHP
9 2 (2.90%) VB6
9 2 (2.90%) VBA
10 1 (1.45%) C
10 1 (1.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Degree
2 13 (18.84%) Security Cleared
3 9 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) CCNA
5 2 (2.90%) CCNP
5 2 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.90%) CISSP
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.90%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.45%) MCSA
6 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.80%) vSphere
3 3 (4.35%) Docker
3 3 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (10.14%) Terraform
2 4 (5.80%) Ansible
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 32 (46.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (26.09%) VMware
3 11 (15.94%) Cisco
4 9 (13.04%) Veeam
5 3 (4.35%) CheckPoint
5 3 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (4.35%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.35%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.90%) Citrix
6 2 (2.90%) Databricks
6 2 (2.90%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.90%) HP
6 2 (2.90%) IFS
6 2 (2.90%) NetApp
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle
6 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.90%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) Apple
7 1 (1.45%) IBM
7 1 (1.45%) LexisNexis