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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 110 53
Rank change year-on-year +6 -57 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 110 93 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.47% 2.42% 4.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.76% 16.03% 27.86%
Number of salaries quoted 91 78 135
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,025 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,125 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,840 £64,781
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,250 £74,500
South East median annual salary £51,500 £55,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.62% +11.50% -9.09%

All Database & 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 427 580 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.69% 15.10% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 322 241 367
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £41,250 £41,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,875 £82,500 £91,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +0.92% -1.09%

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 5 October 2026.

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 5 October 2026. 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 +3 46 £52,500 +2.44% 24
Oxfordshire -15 39 £48,500 -15.65% 15
Berkshire +7 25 £85,000 +47.83% 29
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 14 (12.73%) IIS
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.91%) Confluence
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Finacle
1 1 (0.91%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.91%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 55 (50.00%) Azure
2 29 (26.36%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (10.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 12 (10.91%) SaaS
4 11 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 10 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (7.27%) PaaS
8 7 (6.36%) AWS
9 3 (2.73%) GitHub
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.82%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.91%) Azure Databricks
11 1 (0.91%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.91%) GCP
11 1 (0.91%) IaaS
11 1 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.36%) Firewall
2 5 (4.55%) iSCSI
2 5 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (4.55%) SAN
3 3 (2.73%) VPN
4 2 (1.82%) WAN
5 1 (0.91%) DHCP
5 1 (0.91%) DNS
5 1 (0.91%) LAN
5 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.91%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.09%) MySQL
2 18 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (15.45%) Relational Database
4 13 (11.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 10 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (9.09%) Power BI
6 10 (9.09%) Star Schema
7 9 (8.18%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (8.18%) DynamoDB
7 9 (8.18%) Metadata
7 9 (8.18%) MongoDB
7 9 (8.18%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.91%) Db2
9 1 (0.91%) GIS
9 1 (0.91%) Power Query
9 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (15.45%) Git
2 13 (11.82%) Claude Code
2 13 (11.82%) Oracle Forms
2 13 (11.82%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (2.73%) JIRA
4 1 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.91%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.91%) Eclipse RCP
4 1 (0.91%) GitLab
4 1 (0.91%) Postman
4 1 (0.91%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.27%) Finance
4 6 (5.45%) Retail
5 5 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Electronics
7 1 (0.91%) Banking
7 1 (0.91%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 34 (30.91%) Developer
2 33 (30.00%) Senior
3 26 (23.64%) .NET Developer
4 19 (17.27%) Software Engineer
5 15 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (11.82%) C# .NET Developer
6 13 (11.82%) C# Developer
7 11 (10.00%) Support Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) Data Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) Senior Developer
9 9 (8.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (8.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 9 (8.18%) Software Support Engineer
9 9 (8.18%) VB.NET Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (6.36%) ASP.NET Developer
11 7 (6.36%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 7 (6.36%) C# Software Engineer
12 6 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support
12 6 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (61.82%) .NET
2 27 (24.55%) ASP.NET
3 21 (19.09%) CSS
3 21 (19.09%) HTML
3 21 (19.09%) jQuery
4 14 (12.73%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 13 (11.82%) ASP.NET Web API
5 13 (11.82%) LESS
6 12 (10.91%) REST
7 10 (9.09%) .NET Framework
7 10 (9.09%) React
8 9 (8.18%) ASP.NET Core
8 9 (8.18%) Entity Framework
9 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (4.55%) WinForms
11 3 (2.73%) SOAP
11 3 (2.73%) Terraform
12 2 (1.82%) .NET Core
12 2 (1.82%) Blazor
12 2 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (11.82%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 10 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.18%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (6.36%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.45%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.73%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.82%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.91%) Life Science
10 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.64%) Windows
2 6 (5.45%) Linux
3 5 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.91%) Android
6 1 (0.91%) Unix
6 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.00%) DevOps
2 32 (29.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (26.36%) Software Engineering
4 25 (22.73%) Agile
5 22 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (19.09%) CI/CD
7 17 (15.45%) Clean Code
7 17 (15.45%) MVC
7 17 (15.45%) Project Management
8 16 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (13.64%) Analytics
9 15 (13.64%) ETL
10 14 (12.73%) Data Modelling
10 14 (12.73%) User Experience
11 13 (11.82%) AI
11 13 (11.82%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 13 (11.82%) Data Management
11 13 (11.82%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (11.82%) Unit Testing
12 12 (10.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (50.91%) C#
2 39 (35.45%) SQL
3 23 (20.91%) JavaScript
4 18 (16.36%) TypeScript
4 18 (16.36%) VB.NET
5 13 (11.82%) Python
6 11 (10.00%) T-SQL
7 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.55%) Bash
8 5 (4.55%) Korn
9 1 (0.91%) Bicep
9 1 (0.91%) COBOL
9 1 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.91%) Java
9 1 (0.91%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.91%) CREST Certified
4 1 (0.91%) MCSE
4 1 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (0.91%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.82%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.09%) GDPR
3 9 (8.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.91%) IASME
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.91%) QA
5 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.45%) Docker
3 5 (4.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (0.91%) Firmware
4 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (46.36%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.45%) Oracle
3 9 (8.18%) Informatica
3 9 (8.18%) Talend
4 5 (4.55%) Dell
4 5 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.91%) Apple
5 1 (0.91%) Cisco
5 1 (0.91%) Databricks
5 1 (0.91%) FIS
5 1 (0.91%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.91%) Meraki
5 1 (0.91%) Micro Focus
5 1 (0.91%) Temenos
5 1 (0.91%) Xamarin