SQL Server Jobs in South Yorkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 23 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 +55 -32
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 38 95 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 9.64% 6.91% 4.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 47.50% 39.92% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 32 86 30
10th Percentile - £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +15.38% +1.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £51,498 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.95% +3.00% +11.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 80 238 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.30% 17.32% 22.53%
Number of salaries quoted 68 201 134
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,150
25th Percentile £35,188 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,765 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +10.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in South Yorkshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in South Yorkshire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in South Yorkshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Sheffield +7 29 £37,000 -29.52% 10
Doncaster +5 8 £60,000 - 1
Rotherham - 1 £45,000 - 2
SQL Server
Yorkshire

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (7.89%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.26%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.63%) IIS
3 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (57.89%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) SaaS
4 3 (7.89%) GitHub
5 2 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) Multicast
2 7 (18.42%) SAN
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (5.26%) FCoE
3 2 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (5.26%) Firewall
3 2 (5.26%) iSCSI
3 2 (5.26%) LAN
3 2 (5.26%) NAS
3 2 (5.26%) VPN
3 2 (5.26%) WAN
4 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) DB2
2 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.63%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.63%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.63%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.63%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.63%) Cantonese Language
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Developer
2 13 (34.21%) SQL Developer
3 10 (26.32%) Support Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Database Developer
4 7 (18.42%) SQL Database Developer
5 6 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Architect
7 4 (10.53%) IT Engineer
7 4 (10.53%) IT Support
7 4 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (10.53%) Software Support Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Analyst
8 3 (7.89%) Applications Support
8 3 (7.89%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (7.89%) Support Analyst
9 2 (5.26%) .NET Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.26%) Software Architect
9 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) .NET
2 4 (10.53%) CSS
2 4 (10.53%) HTML
3 3 (7.89%) .NET Core
3 3 (7.89%) CSS3
3 3 (7.89%) HTML5
3 3 (7.89%) React
3 3 (7.89%) RESTful
4 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.26%) LDAP
4 2 (5.26%) Middleware
5 1 (2.63%) Ajax
5 1 (2.63%) Bootstrap
5 1 (2.63%) jQuery
5 1 (2.63%) LINQ
5 1 (2.63%) Node.js
5 1 (2.63%) SOAP
5 1 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Replication
2 5 (13.16%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (10.53%) Mobile App
4 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.26%) Clustering
5 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Windows
2 6 (15.79%) Windows 10
2 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (10.53%) Android
4 2 (5.26%) Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Solaris
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (21.05%) DevOps
2 8 (21.05%) Product Management
3 7 (18.42%) CRM
4 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
5 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
5 5 (13.16%) Customer Service
6 4 (10.53%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (10.53%) Data Privacy
6 4 (10.53%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (10.53%) Mathematics
6 4 (10.53%) Migration
6 4 (10.53%) Software Testing
7 3 (7.89%) CI/CD
7 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.89%) Project Planning
7 3 (7.89%) Software Engineering
8 2 (5.26%) Roadmaps
8 2 (5.26%) Technical Debt
8 2 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (68.42%) SQL
2 14 (36.84%) T-SQL
3 5 (13.16%) C#
4 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.89%) Java
6 1 (2.63%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.63%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.63%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) DBS Check
2 6 (15.79%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) KVM
2 2 (5.26%) NFS
2 2 (5.26%) SRDF
2 2 (5.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (68.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) Cisco
2 7 (18.42%) IBM
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Zoho
4 2 (5.26%) EMC
4 2 (5.26%) F5
4 2 (5.26%) Google
4 2 (5.26%) NetApp
4 2 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.63%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.63%) Splunk