SQL Server Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SQL Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 61 29
Rank change year-on-year -53 -32 +8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 96 181 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.49% 3.72% 7.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.61% 26.08% 32.52%
Number of salaries quoted 79 132 201
10th Percentile £35,550 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -15.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £73,625 £112,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 615 694 824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.93% 14.27% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 250 384 581
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,813 £41,816 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% +4.55%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Buckinghamshire -15 39 £56,250 +9.22% 15
Berkshire -36 33 £56,250 -13.46% 26
Oxfordshire -8 24 £57,500 +35.29% 5
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 18 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (12.50%) IIS
3 6 (6.25%) Confluence
4 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
5 3 (3.13%) CMS
6 1 (1.04%) Apache
6 1 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (40.63%) Azure
2 35 (36.46%) AWS
3 26 (27.08%) Power Platform
4 13 (13.54%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (11.46%) Cloudflare
6 10 (10.42%) GCP
7 9 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (5.21%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.17%) SaaS
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.13%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.08%) dbt
11 2 (2.08%) Fivetran
11 2 (2.08%) GitHub
11 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.08%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.67%) DNS
1 16 (16.67%) Firewall
2 11 (11.46%) DHCP
3 10 (10.42%) SAN
4 9 (9.38%) iSCSI
4 9 (9.38%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (6.25%) SMTP
6 4 (4.17%) VLAN
6 4 (4.17%) VPN
7 3 (3.13%) VoIP
8 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.04%) NAS
9 1 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.25%) MySQL
2 24 (25.00%) Power BI
3 15 (15.63%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (14.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (14.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (11.46%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.08%) Looker
8 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.08%) Tableau
9 1 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.04%) Metadata
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (19.79%) Git
2 11 (11.46%) NUnit
2 11 (11.46%) TeamCity
3 10 (10.42%) Jasmine
4 8 (8.33%) JIRA
5 7 (7.29%) Maven
6 6 (6.25%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.25%) GitLab
6 6 (6.25%) Selenium
6 6 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 6 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
8 2 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.04%) MSBuild
General
1 29 (30.21%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.96%) Finance
3 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.63%) Games
4 9 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (7.29%) Banking
6 6 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.17%) Retail
8 3 (3.13%) Humanities
8 3 (3.13%) Law
9 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.08%) Marketing
10 1 (1.04%) Back Office
10 1 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (32.29%) Developer
2 27 (28.13%) Senior
3 14 (14.58%) Senior Developer
4 12 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) DBA
5 10 (10.42%) Lead
5 10 (10.42%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 7 (7.29%) C# Developer
9 6 (6.25%) IT Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) SQL DBA
9 6 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (30.21%) .NET
2 26 (27.08%) React
3 18 (18.75%) ASP.NET
3 18 (18.75%) CSS
4 17 (17.71%) HTML
5 15 (15.63%) AngularJS
6 14 (14.58%) Vue
7 12 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
8 11 (11.46%) CSS3
8 11 (11.46%) HTML5
9 10 (10.42%) Jest
9 10 (10.42%) RESTful
10 8 (8.33%) Kafka
10 8 (8.33%) Spring Boot
11 6 (6.25%) Hibernate
11 6 (6.25%) JPA
11 6 (6.25%) Redux
11 6 (6.25%) Spring
12 5 (5.21%) .NET Core
13 4 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.42%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.29%) Clustering
5 5 (5.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (5.21%) Mobile App
5 5 (5.21%) Online Games
6 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.13%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.13%) Replication
8 2 (2.08%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (2.08%) Client/Server
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.83%) Windows
2 12 (12.50%) Linux
3 10 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (10.42%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.13%) Android
5 3 (3.13%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.04%) CI/CD
2 24 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (21.88%) DevOps
4 20 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (18.75%) Agile
7 14 (14.58%) ETL
8 13 (13.54%) Data Management
8 13 (13.54%) MVC
9 12 (12.50%) Data Privacy
9 12 (12.50%) Data Security
10 11 (11.46%) CRM
10 11 (11.46%) ITIL
10 11 (11.46%) Mobile First
11 10 (10.42%) Data Governance
12 9 (9.38%) Data Lineage
12 9 (9.38%) Data Validation
12 9 (9.38%) High Availability
12 9 (9.38%) Microservices
12 9 (9.38%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (40.63%) SQL
2 28 (29.17%) C#
3 26 (27.08%) JavaScript
4 14 (14.58%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.46%) PowerShell
5 11 (11.46%) T-SQL
6 10 (10.42%) Bash
7 9 (9.38%) Java
7 9 (9.38%) Korn
8 6 (6.25%) Python
9 3 (3.13%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.08%) X++
11 1 (1.04%) C++
11 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (27.08%) Degree
2 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 3 (3.13%) MCP
3 3 (3.13%) MCSA
3 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.08%) MCSE
5 1 (1.04%) CISSP
5 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) OCP
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.04%) RHCE
5 1 (1.04%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) Accessibility
1 9 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.29%) QA
3 3 (3.13%) SLA
4 2 (2.08%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (21.88%) Docker
3 11 (11.46%) Hyper-V
4 9 (9.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.50%) Terraform
3 7 (7.29%) WSUS
4 3 (3.13%) Ansible
5 2 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.04%) SCCM
6 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (55.21%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.54%) Rollbar
3 12 (12.50%) VMware
4 10 (10.42%) Red Hat
5 9 (9.38%) Dell
5 9 (9.38%) Splunk
6 7 (7.29%) Citrix
7 6 (6.25%) Solace
8 4 (4.17%) OpenAI
8 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
9 3 (3.13%) Apple
9 3 (3.13%) SonicWALL
10 2 (2.08%) Alteryx
10 2 (2.08%) Google
10 2 (2.08%) HubSpot
10 2 (2.08%) Oracle
10 2 (2.08%) Talend
10 2 (2.08%) WSO2
10 2 (2.08%) Zoho
11 1 (1.04%) SAP