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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 83 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 -32 -16
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 105 117 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.71% 3.23% 3.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.93% 18.99% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 81 99 226
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,920 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £74,375
South East median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

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 458 616 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.45% 17.00% 14.43%
Number of salaries quoted 326 301 676
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -13.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 13 July 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 13 July 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 74 £51,500 -1.90% 6
Berkshire +2 19 £67,500 +22.73% 11
Oxfordshire -27 12 £62,500 +25.00% 6
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 10 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.76%) Confluence
3 3 (2.86%) IIS
4 2 (1.90%) Apache
5 1 (0.95%) SAS
5 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (59.05%) Azure
2 17 (16.19%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (15.24%) AWS
4 12 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (11.43%) SaaS
5 10 (9.52%) PaaS
6 7 (6.67%) GitHub
7 5 (4.76%) GCP
8 4 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.90%) Serverless
10 1 (0.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.95%) IaaS
10 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.52%) Firewall
1 10 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (7.62%) iSCSI
2 8 (7.62%) SAN
3 5 (4.76%) VPN
4 2 (1.90%) DHCP
4 2 (1.90%) DNS
4 2 (1.90%) Network Security
4 2 (1.90%) PBX
5 1 (0.95%) LAN
5 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.95%) VLAN
5 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (11.43%) MySQL
3 10 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.90%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.95%) Base SAS
7 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.95%) GIS
7 1 (0.95%) Metadata
7 1 (0.95%) Power BI
7 1 (0.95%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) JIRA
2 8 (7.62%) Git
3 3 (2.86%) GitLab
3 3 (2.86%) Postman
4 2 (1.90%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.95%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.95%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.95%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.95%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.33%) Finance
4 8 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.71%) Retail
6 4 (3.81%) Games
7 2 (1.90%) Electronics
8 1 (0.95%) Aviation
8 1 (0.95%) Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 26 (24.76%) Senior
2 23 (21.90%) Software Engineer
3 17 (16.19%) Data Engineer
3 17 (16.19%) Developer
4 12 (11.43%) Support Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Lead
6 9 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Software Support Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) C# Software Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Applications Support
8 7 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (5.71%) Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (49.52%) .NET
2 15 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 10 (9.52%) .NET Framework
4 7 (6.67%) Entity Framework
5 6 (5.71%) .NET Core
5 6 (5.71%) Blazor
6 5 (4.76%) Vue
6 5 (4.76%) WinForms
7 4 (3.81%) REST
8 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (2.86%) React
9 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 2 (1.90%) CSS
9 2 (1.90%) HTML
9 2 (1.90%) RESTful
10 1 (0.95%) JWT
10 1 (0.95%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.71%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.86%) Life Science
5 3 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.90%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.95%) Clustering
7 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.95%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Replication
7 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.43%) Linux
2 10 (9.52%) Windows
3 8 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.90%) Android
5 2 (1.90%) CentOS
6 1 (0.95%) Unix
6 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 28 (26.67%) Agile
3 24 (22.86%) DevOps
4 19 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (18.10%) ITIL
5 18 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis
6 17 (16.19%) Performance Tuning
7 15 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 14 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.38%) AI
10 12 (11.43%) Analytics
10 12 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (11.43%) High Availability
11 11 (10.48%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (9.52%) Decision-Making
12 10 (9.52%) Problem Management
13 9 (8.57%) Clean Code
13 9 (8.57%) Data Architecture
14 8 (7.62%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.19%) C#
2 36 (34.29%) SQL
3 13 (12.38%) T-SQL
4 12 (11.43%) PowerShell
5 9 (8.57%) Python
6 8 (7.62%) Bash
7 7 (6.67%) Korn
8 6 (5.71%) VB.NET
9 5 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.86%) Java
10 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.90%) C
11 2 (1.90%) R
12 1 (0.95%) Bicep
12 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.95%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.95%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (19.05%) Degree
2 10 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (2.86%) MCSE
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.90%) CCNA
6 2 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.90%) MCSA
6 2 (1.90%) RHCE
6 2 (1.90%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) SLA
2 6 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.81%) GDPR
4 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.90%) QA
5 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 15 (14.29%) Docker
2 13 (12.38%) Active Directory
3 8 (7.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.90%) Samba
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) Terraform
2 9 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 60 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.38%) Oracle
3 10 (9.52%) Dell
4 8 (7.62%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.76%) Google
5 5 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.86%) Cisco
6 3 (2.86%) Databricks
6 3 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.90%) Adobe
7 2 (1.90%) Citrix
7 2 (1.90%) D-Link
7 2 (1.90%) Draytek
7 2 (1.90%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.90%) Juniper
7 2 (1.90%) SonicWALL
7 2 (1.90%) Veeam
7 2 (1.90%) VMware
7 2 (1.90%) WatchGuard
7 2 (1.90%) Xamarin