SQL Server Job Trends in Southampton

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 60 19
Rank change year-on-year +19 -41 +20
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 8 5 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 1.48% 0.92% 10.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.33% 5.95% 62.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 48
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,700 £28,700
25th Percentile £50,938 £43,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £57,250 -
Hampshire median annual salary £55,650 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.30% -4.76% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 24 84 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 4.43% 15.38% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 18 57 72
10th Percentile £29,750 £21,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,938 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +21.05% -1.04%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £100,000 -
Hampshire median annual salary £58,000 £52,039 £53,250
% change year-on-year +11.46% -2.27% -3.18%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Southampton

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Southampton over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Southampton

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Ranorex
1 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Software Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Software Implementation Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) XML
1 2 (25.00%) XSL
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Database Mirroring
1 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Document Management
2 2 (25.00%) OCR
2 2 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) OOP
2 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) B2C
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (50.00%) C#
3 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Okta