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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 115 59
Rank change year-on-year +14 -56 -28
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 111 96 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.51% 2.50% 3.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.28% 15.84% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 95 81 132
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.86% -15.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,840 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £77,500 £73,625
South East median annual salary £51,750 £55,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% +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 439 606 692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.98% 15.80% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 325 248 378
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,625
% change year-on-year - +0.69% -5.00%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +13 51 £52,500 - 17
Oxfordshire -15 36 £52,000 -9.57% 23
Berkshire +13 24 £80,000 +39.13% 27
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 12 (10.81%) IIS
2 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Finacle
1 1 (0.90%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.90%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 59 (53.15%) Azure
2 29 (26.13%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (10.81%) SaaS
4 11 (9.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (9.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 10 (9.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (9.01%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.11%) PaaS
7 8 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (5.41%) AWS
9 5 (4.50%) GitHub
10 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.90%) IaaS
11 1 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.31%) Firewall
2 5 (4.50%) iSCSI
2 5 (4.50%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (4.50%) SAN
3 3 (2.70%) VPN
4 2 (1.80%) WAN
5 1 (0.90%) DHCP
5 1 (0.90%) DNS
5 1 (0.90%) LAN
5 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.90%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) MySQL
2 17 (15.32%) Relational Database
3 16 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (12.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (9.01%) NoSQL
6 10 (9.01%) Power BI
6 10 (9.01%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (8.11%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (8.11%) DynamoDB
7 9 (8.11%) Metadata
7 9 (8.11%) MongoDB
7 9 (8.11%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.90%) Db2
9 1 (0.90%) GIS
9 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (15.32%) Git
2 11 (9.91%) Claude Code
2 11 (9.91%) Oracle Forms
2 11 (9.91%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (4.50%) JIRA
4 1 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.90%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.90%) Eclipse RCP
4 1 (0.90%) GitLab
4 1 (0.90%) Postman
4 1 (0.90%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.01%) Finance
4 7 (6.31%) Retail
5 5 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.80%) Electronics
8 1 (0.90%) Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 31 (27.93%) Developer
1 31 (27.93%) Senior
2 23 (20.72%) .NET Developer
3 19 (17.12%) Software Engineer
4 15 (13.51%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (11.71%) Data Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) C# .NET Developer
6 11 (9.91%) C# Developer
6 11 (9.91%) Support Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Software Support Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) VB.NET Developer
8 8 (7.21%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) ASP.NET Developer
9 7 (6.31%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 7 (6.31%) C# Software Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (58.56%) .NET
2 25 (22.52%) ASP.NET
3 18 (16.22%) CSS
3 18 (16.22%) HTML
3 18 (16.22%) jQuery
4 12 (10.81%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 11 (9.91%) ASP.NET Web API
5 11 (9.91%) LESS
6 10 (9.01%) .NET Framework
6 10 (9.01%) REST
7 9 (8.11%) Entity Framework
7 9 (8.11%) React
8 8 (7.21%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (5.41%) Terraform
10 5 (4.50%) WinForms
11 4 (3.60%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (2.70%) .NET Core
12 3 (2.70%) Blazor
12 3 (2.70%) Vue
13 2 (1.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.02%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (9.91%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (9.01%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.11%) Cloud Native
4 9 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (6.31%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.41%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.60%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.70%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.80%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.90%) Life Science
10 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.51%) Windows
2 6 (5.41%) Linux
3 5 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.90%) Android
6 1 (0.90%) Unix
6 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.73%) DevOps
2 31 (27.93%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (26.13%) Software Engineering
4 27 (24.32%) Agile
5 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (17.12%) CI/CD
7 17 (15.32%) Clean Code
8 16 (14.41%) Project Management
8 16 (14.41%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (13.51%) Analytics
9 15 (13.51%) Data Modelling
9 15 (13.51%) ETL
9 15 (13.51%) MVC
10 14 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (11.71%) Data Management
11 13 (11.71%) Scrum
11 13 (11.71%) User Experience
12 12 (10.81%) AI
12 12 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 53 (47.75%) C#
2 37 (33.33%) SQL
3 20 (18.02%) JavaScript
4 16 (14.41%) TypeScript
4 16 (14.41%) VB.NET
5 12 (10.81%) Python
5 12 (10.81%) T-SQL
6 8 (7.21%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.50%) Bash
7 5 (4.50%) Korn
8 1 (0.90%) Bicep
8 1 (0.90%) COBOL
8 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.90%) Java
8 1 (0.90%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (18.92%) Degree
2 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.80%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.90%) MCSE
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (0.90%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.91%) GDPR
3 9 (8.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.60%) SLA
5 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.31%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.41%) Docker
3 5 (4.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (0.90%) Firmware
4 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (51.35%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.41%) Oracle
3 9 (8.11%) Informatica
3 9 (8.11%) Talend
4 5 (4.50%) Dell
4 5 (4.50%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.90%) Apple
5 1 (0.90%) Cisco
5 1 (0.90%) Databricks
5 1 (0.90%) FIS
5 1 (0.90%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.90%) Meraki
5 1 (0.90%) Micro Focus
5 1 (0.90%) Temenos
5 1 (0.90%) Xamarin