SQL Server Jobs in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 37 38
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 191 259 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.03% 6.68% 6.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.49% 28.87% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 131 190 292
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £64,563 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £97,750 £72,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 721 897 1,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.23% 23.15% 21.06%
Number of salaries quoted 360 565 824
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,600 £39,087
25th Percentile £41,816 £46,787 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £54,500 £55,050 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.00% +0.09% +8.91%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

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 2024.

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 2024. 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
Berkshire -21 85 £63,750 +6.25% 14
Oxfordshire -17 58 £42,000 -23.64% 11
Buckinghamshire -17 48 £51,500 -6.36% 9
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 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.09%) CMS
4 2 (1.05%) IIS
4 2 (1.05%) nginx
4 2 (1.05%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.52%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) SPSS
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.62%) Sage X3
2 3 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.05%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (1.05%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 87 (45.55%) Azure
2 27 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (11.52%) AWS
4 21 (10.99%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (5.76%) SaaS
7 8 (4.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (4.19%) GitHub
7 8 (4.19%) Serverless
8 7 (3.66%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.62%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.09%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.09%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.57%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.05%) GCP
13 2 (1.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.14%) Firewall
2 3 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.05%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.05%) LAN
3 2 (1.05%) VPN
3 2 (1.05%) WAN
3 2 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 39 (20.42%) NoSQL
3 24 (12.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 19 (9.95%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (9.42%) Power BI
6 16 (8.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (7.33%) MySQL
7 14 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (6.81%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.66%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.66%) Oracle Database
10 6 (3.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (2.62%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (2.09%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.09%) GIS
13 3 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.57%) Tableau
14 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
14 2 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (24.61%) Git
2 21 (10.99%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.71%) JIRA
4 8 (4.19%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (3.14%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.09%) NUnit
8 3 (1.57%) Bugzilla
8 3 (1.57%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.52%) Ant
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Ivy
9 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.52%) JUnit
9 1 (0.52%) Maven
9 1 (0.52%) Mockito
9 1 (0.52%) Moq
9 1 (0.52%) MSTest
9 1 (0.52%) Selenium
9 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 45 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.42%) Finance
4 17 (8.90%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.62%) Billing
5 5 (2.62%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (2.62%) Retail
6 4 (2.09%) Back Office
6 4 (2.09%) Digital Health
6 4 (2.09%) Law
7 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.57%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.52%) Games
8 1 (0.52%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (68.06%) Developer
2 34 (17.80%) Senior
3 31 (16.23%) Software Developer
4 29 (15.18%) Senior Developer
5 27 (14.14%) .NET Developer
6 21 (10.99%) C# Developer
7 20 (10.47%) SQL Developer
8 17 (8.90%) C# .NET Developer
9 16 (8.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (8.38%) Portal Developer
10 12 (6.28%) Analyst
11 10 (5.24%) DBA
12 9 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 9 (4.71%) Power BI Developer
13 8 (4.19%) Database Developer
13 8 (4.19%) IT Support
13 8 (4.19%) Lead
13 8 (4.19%) Senior .NET Developer
13 8 (4.19%) Senior Software Developer
13 8 (4.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (62.83%) .NET
2 66 (34.55%) React
3 48 (25.13%) .NET Core
4 47 (24.61%) HTML
5 46 (24.08%) CSS
6 32 (16.75%) .NET Framework
7 30 (15.71%) ASP.NET
8 24 (12.57%) AngularJS
9 23 (12.04%) HTML5
10 17 (8.90%) XML
11 16 (8.38%) ASP.NET Web API
11 16 (8.38%) CSS3
11 16 (8.38%) JSON
11 16 (8.38%) RESTful
12 12 (6.28%) Sass
13 11 (5.76%) Entity Framework
14 10 (5.24%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (4.71%) ASP.NET MVC
15 9 (4.71%) Web Services
16 7 (3.66%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.90%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.14%) Clustering
5 5 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.09%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.05%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.05%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.52%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.52%) Replication
8 1 (0.52%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.90%) Windows
2 10 (5.24%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.14%) Linux
4 5 (2.62%) Unix
4 5 (2.62%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.05%) CentOS
5 2 (1.05%) Rocky
6 1 (0.52%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (44.50%) Agile
2 48 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (22.51%) Computer Science
4 35 (18.32%) DevOps
5 31 (16.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (14.14%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (13.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 25 (13.09%) Project Management
9 22 (11.52%) Propensity Modelling
9 22 (11.52%) SDLC
10 21 (10.99%) Microservices
10 21 (10.99%) MVC
11 20 (10.47%) Customer-Centricity
12 19 (9.95%) CI/CD
12 19 (9.95%) Performance Tuning
13 17 (8.90%) Web Development
14 16 (8.38%) Business Development
14 16 (8.38%) Workflow
15 15 (7.85%) Mentoring
15 15 (7.85%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 110 (57.59%) SQL
2 103 (53.93%) C#
3 96 (50.26%) JavaScript
4 37 (19.37%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.99%) PowerShell
6 17 (8.90%) T-SQL
7 15 (7.85%) Java
8 10 (5.24%) C
9 9 (4.71%) Python
10 8 (4.19%) Bicep
11 6 (3.14%) C++
11 6 (3.14%) PHP
12 5 (2.62%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.09%) Kotlin
13 4 (2.09%) Objective-C
13 4 (2.09%) VB.NET
13 4 (2.09%) VBScript
14 3 (1.57%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 2 (1.05%) Go
Qualifications
1 45 (23.56%) Degree
2 23 (12.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.81%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.57%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) HNC
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.71%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.62%) QA
3 4 (2.09%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (15.18%) Docker
2 15 (7.85%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.14%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (15.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (1.05%) Grafana
2 2 (1.05%) Nagios
2 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.05%) SCCM
2 2 (1.05%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 78 (40.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.90%) Oracle
3 7 (3.66%) Databricks
3 7 (3.66%) Sage
4 6 (3.14%) Veeam
4 6 (3.14%) VMware
4 6 (3.14%) Xamarin
5 4 (2.09%) Citrix
6 3 (1.57%) Cisco
6 3 (1.57%) Meraki
6 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.05%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.05%) Aruba
7 2 (1.05%) EMC
7 2 (1.05%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.52%) Apple
8 1 (0.52%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.52%) Sitecore