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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 47 37
Rank change year-on-year -51 -10 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 87 197 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.50% 4.57% 6.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.76% 28.63% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 83 134 156
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £38,625 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £64,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 552 688 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.87% 15.96% 23.05%
Number of salaries quoted 252 361 497
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £43,911 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +8.99% -8.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend 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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +2 42 £47,500 -7.77% 37
Berkshire -42 27 £55,000 -6.98% 105
Oxfordshire -2 18 £52,500 +40.00% 13
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (17.24%) IIS
1 15 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.68%) Azure
2 23 (26.44%) AWS
3 19 (21.84%) Power Platform
4 12 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (10.34%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (9.20%) GCP
7 7 (8.05%) Cloudflare
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.45%) SaaS
10 2 (2.30%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.30%) dbt
10 2 (2.30%) Fivetran
10 2 (2.30%) GitHub
10 2 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.30%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.24%) Firewall
2 13 (14.94%) DNS
3 9 (10.34%) DHCP
3 9 (10.34%) iSCSI
3 9 (10.34%) Remote Desktop
3 9 (10.34%) SAN
4 4 (4.60%) SMTP
4 4 (4.60%) VPN
5 3 (3.45%) VLAN
6 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.59%) MySQL
2 19 (21.84%) Power BI
3 14 (16.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (11.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.30%) Looker
10 2 (2.30%) Metadata
10 2 (2.30%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.30%) Tableau
11 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (17.24%) Git
2 7 (8.05%) NUnit
2 7 (8.05%) TeamCity
3 6 (6.90%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.30%) JIRA
4 2 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.15%) Maven
5 1 (1.15%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Finance
3 14 (16.09%) Games
4 9 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Retail
6 3 (3.45%) Humanities
7 2 (2.30%) Law
7 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.30%) Marketing
8 1 (1.15%) Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (32.18%) Developer
2 23 (26.44%) Senior
3 11 (12.64%) Analyst
3 11 (12.64%) Lead
4 10 (11.49%) IT Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) .NET Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Linux Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Data Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) DBA
6 8 (9.20%) Integration Developer
6 8 (9.20%) Support Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 7 (8.05%) IT Support
7 7 (8.05%) IT Support Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Senior .NET Developer
8 6 (6.90%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (35.63%) .NET
2 17 (19.54%) ASP.NET
3 13 (14.94%) React
4 10 (11.49%) AngularJS
4 10 (11.49%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (10.34%) .NET Framework
5 9 (10.34%) Vue
6 8 (9.20%) CSS
6 8 (9.20%) REST
7 7 (8.05%) CSS3
7 7 (8.05%) HTML
7 7 (8.05%) HTML5
8 6 (6.90%) Entity Framework
8 6 (6.90%) Jest
8 6 (6.90%) RESTful
9 5 (5.75%) WinForms
10 4 (4.60%) .NET Core
10 4 (4.60%) JSON
10 4 (4.60%) Middleware
10 4 (4.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.05%) Clustering
4 6 (6.90%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (5.75%) Online Games
6 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.45%) Replication
8 2 (2.30%) N-Tier
8 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.15%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.15%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (26.44%) Windows
2 12 (13.79%) Linux
3 11 (12.64%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (11.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (10.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.99%) DevOps
2 19 (21.84%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (21.84%) Data Management
3 18 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (19.54%) Agile
5 15 (17.24%) CI/CD
6 13 (14.94%) Data Security
6 13 (14.94%) ETL
6 13 (14.94%) MVC
7 12 (13.79%) CRM
8 11 (12.64%) Data Governance
8 11 (12.64%) Data Privacy
8 11 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (11.49%) ITIL
9 10 (11.49%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.34%) Data Validation
10 9 (10.34%) High Availability
10 9 (10.34%) Scrum
10 9 (10.34%) Time Management
10 9 (10.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.23%) SQL
2 31 (35.63%) C#
3 19 (21.84%) T-SQL
4 14 (16.09%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.49%) Bash
5 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
5 10 (11.49%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.34%) Korn
7 6 (6.90%) Python
8 3 (3.45%) VB.NET
9 2 (2.30%) C
9 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.15%) C++
10 1 (1.15%) Java
10 1 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.15%) PHP
10 1 (1.15%) X++
Qualifications
1 29 (33.33%) Degree
2 9 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.45%) MCSE
5 2 (2.30%) CISSP
5 2 (2.30%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.30%) MCP
5 2 (2.30%) MCSA
5 2 (2.30%) OCP
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.15%) RHCE
6 1 (1.15%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.45%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (3.45%) SLA
4 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (25.29%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.94%) Docker
3 9 (10.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 9 (10.34%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.20%) Terraform
3 5 (5.75%) WSUS
4 2 (2.30%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.15%) Ansible
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (60.92%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.49%) Red Hat
3 9 (10.34%) Dell
3 9 (10.34%) Rollbar
3 9 (10.34%) Splunk
4 7 (8.05%) Google
4 7 (8.05%) VMware
4 7 (8.05%) Zoho
5 5 (5.75%) Citrix
5 5 (5.75%) Sage
5 5 (5.75%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.75%) Xamarin
6 4 (4.60%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.45%) Oracle
8 2 (2.30%) Alteryx
8 2 (2.30%) Cisco
8 2 (2.30%) HubSpot
8 2 (2.30%) Talend
8 2 (2.30%) Telerik
9 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow