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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 112 63
Rank change year-on-year +25 -49 -32
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 119 100 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.69% 2.56% 3.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.04% 15.41% 23.80%
Number of salaries quoted 102 83 132
10th Percentile £35,125 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,840 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £73,625
South East median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +3.96% -8.18%

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 457 649 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.49% 16.61% 14.24%
Number of salaries quoted 339 261 411
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £63,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +15.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,565 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.02% +1.03% -4.35%

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 7 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 7 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 +9 59 £52,500 - 10
Oxfordshire -19 37 £52,000 -0.95% 15
Berkshire +8 23 £70,000 +33.33% 21
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 13 (10.92%) IIS
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Finacle
1 1 (0.84%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.84%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 63 (52.94%) Azure
2 27 (22.69%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (10.92%) SaaS
4 10 (8.40%) PaaS
5 9 (7.56%) AWS
5 9 (7.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.72%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (5.88%) GitHub
8 2 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.68%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.68%) Serverless
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.84%) GCP
9 1 (0.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.72%) Firewall
2 6 (5.04%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (4.20%) iSCSI
3 5 (4.20%) SAN
4 4 (3.36%) VPN
5 2 (1.68%) DHCP
5 2 (1.68%) DNS
5 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.68%) WAN
6 1 (0.84%) LAN
6 1 (0.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.29%) MySQL
1 17 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 14 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (8.40%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.72%) Power BI
5 8 (6.72%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
6 7 (5.88%) DynamoDB
6 7 (5.88%) Metadata
6 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.88%) Star Schema
7 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.84%) Db2
8 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.84%) GIS
8 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (15.13%) Git
2 11 (9.24%) Claude Code
2 11 (9.24%) Oracle Forms
2 11 (9.24%) Team Foundation Server
3 8 (6.72%) JIRA
4 2 (1.68%) Postman
5 1 (0.84%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.84%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.84%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (0.84%) GitLab
5 1 (0.84%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.84%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.08%) Finance
4 8 (6.72%) Retail
5 5 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.36%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.68%) Electronics
7 2 (1.68%) Games
8 1 (0.84%) Aviation
8 1 (0.84%) Banking
8 1 (0.84%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 33 (27.73%) Developer
2 30 (25.21%) Senior
3 23 (19.33%) .NET Developer
4 20 (16.81%) Software Engineer
5 16 (13.45%) Data Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Support Engineer
8 11 (9.24%) C# .NET Developer
8 11 (9.24%) C# Developer
9 9 (7.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (7.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 9 (7.56%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.56%) Senior Developer
9 9 (7.56%) Software Support Engineer
9 9 (7.56%) VB.NET Developer
10 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.88%) ASP.NET Developer
11 7 (5.88%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 7 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
12 6 (5.04%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (56.30%) .NET
2 28 (23.53%) ASP.NET
3 18 (15.13%) CSS
3 18 (15.13%) HTML
3 18 (15.13%) jQuery
4 14 (11.76%) .NET Framework
5 12 (10.08%) ASP.NET Web API
5 12 (10.08%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 12 (10.08%) Entity Framework
6 11 (9.24%) LESS
7 10 (8.40%) REST
7 10 (8.40%) Terraform
8 9 (7.56%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (5.88%) React
10 5 (4.20%) WinForms
11 4 (3.36%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.36%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (3.36%) Blazor
11 4 (3.36%) Vue
12 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (9.24%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (8.40%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.72%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.36%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.36%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (2.52%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.68%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.84%) Clustering
9 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.84%) Life Science
9 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.61%) Windows
2 8 (6.72%) Linux
3 6 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.68%) Android
5 2 (1.68%) Unix
5 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.89%) Agile
2 31 (26.05%) DevOps
3 30 (25.21%) Full-Stack Development
3 30 (25.21%) Software Engineering
4 23 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (16.81%) CI/CD
6 18 (15.13%) Root Cause Analysis
7 16 (13.45%) Clean Code
7 16 (13.45%) Project Management
8 15 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (12.61%) MVC
8 15 (12.61%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (11.76%) Analytics
9 14 (11.76%) User Experience
10 13 (10.92%) Data Modelling
10 13 (10.92%) Decision-Making
11 12 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (10.08%) Data Architecture
11 12 (10.08%) ETL
11 12 (10.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (44.54%) C#
2 38 (31.93%) SQL
3 20 (16.81%) JavaScript
4 16 (13.45%) TypeScript
4 16 (13.45%) VB.NET
5 13 (10.92%) T-SQL
6 10 (8.40%) Python
7 9 (7.56%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.04%) Korn
9 5 (4.20%) Bash
10 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.84%) Bicep
11 1 (0.84%) COBOL
11 1 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.84%) Java
11 1 (0.84%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 22 (18.49%) Degree
2 6 (5.04%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.68%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.68%) MCSE
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.84%) CCNA
5 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.84%) MCSA
5 1 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.84%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.92%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.56%) GDPR
3 7 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 7 (5.88%) SLA
4 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 9 (7.56%) Active Directory
1 9 (7.56%) Docker
2 5 (4.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (2.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.84%) Firmware
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 63 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.13%) Oracle
3 7 (5.88%) Informatica
3 7 (5.88%) Talend
4 6 (5.04%) Dell
5 5 (4.20%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.52%) Cisco
7 2 (1.68%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.68%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.84%) Databricks
8 1 (0.84%) Draytek
8 1 (0.84%) FIS
8 1 (0.84%) Google
8 1 (0.84%) Meraki
8 1 (0.84%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.84%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.84%) Veeam
8 1 (0.84%) WatchGuard