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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 84 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 -23 -31
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 113 111 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.69% 3.07% 3.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.20% 17.93% 24.56%
Number of salaries quoted 91 94 152
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £41,563 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,840 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% 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 467 619 737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.99% 17.11% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 336 294 478
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,625 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -13.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +0.92% -5.22%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +16 72 £52,000 -0.95% 10
Berkshire 0 22 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Oxfordshire -32 19 £45,000 -14.29% 14
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 9 (7.96%) IIS
1 9 (7.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (55.75%) Azure
2 18 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (12.39%) AWS
3 14 (12.39%) SaaS
4 12 (10.62%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (8.85%) PaaS
6 7 (6.19%) GitHub
7 4 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.65%) GCP
9 2 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.77%) Serverless
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.73%) Firewall
2 9 (7.96%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (7.08%) iSCSI
3 8 (7.08%) SAN
4 6 (5.31%) VPN
5 2 (1.77%) DHCP
5 2 (1.77%) DNS
5 2 (1.77%) Network Security
5 2 (1.77%) PBX
5 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.77%) WAN
6 1 (0.88%) LAN
6 1 (0.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.93%) MySQL
2 14 (12.39%) Relational Database
3 13 (11.50%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.77%) Metadata
7 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.77%) Power BI
7 2 (1.77%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.88%) GIS
8 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.88%) Redis
8 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (8.85%) JIRA
2 9 (7.96%) Git
3 7 (6.19%) Claude Code
3 7 (6.19%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (6.19%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.65%) Postman
5 2 (1.77%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.88%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (0.88%) GitLab
6 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (12.39%) Finance
4 8 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (7.08%) Retail
5 4 (3.54%) Games
5 4 (3.54%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.77%) Electronics
7 1 (0.88%) Aviation
7 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 25 (22.12%) Senior
2 23 (20.35%) Developer
2 23 (20.35%) Software Engineer
3 19 (16.81%) Data Engineer
4 13 (11.50%) Support Engineer
5 12 (10.62%) .NET Developer
6 11 (9.73%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) Software Support Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Applications Support
8 8 (7.08%) C# Software Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Lead
9 7 (6.19%) VB.NET Developer
10 6 (5.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (50.44%) .NET
2 21 (18.58%) ASP.NET
3 10 (8.85%) .NET Framework
4 9 (7.96%) ASP.NET Web API
5 8 (7.08%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 8 (7.08%) CSS
5 8 (7.08%) HTML
6 7 (6.19%) Entity Framework
6 7 (6.19%) jQuery
6 7 (6.19%) LESS
7 6 (5.31%) .NET Core
7 6 (5.31%) Blazor
7 6 (5.31%) Vue
8 5 (4.42%) WinForms
9 4 (3.54%) REST
10 3 (2.65%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (2.65%) React
11 2 (1.77%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.77%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (1.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.50%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (8.85%) Management Information System
4 9 (7.96%) Onboarding
5 7 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (5.31%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.77%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.77%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.88%) Clustering
9 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.88%) Life Science
9 1 (0.88%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.62%) Linux
2 11 (9.73%) Windows
3 8 (7.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (7.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.77%) Android
4 2 (1.77%) CentOS
4 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.09%) Software Engineering
2 26 (23.01%) Agile
3 25 (22.12%) DevOps
4 20 (17.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (16.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 18 (15.93%) ITIL
7 16 (14.16%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (13.27%) CI/CD
8 15 (13.27%) Decision-Making
9 13 (11.50%) High Availability
10 12 (10.62%) Analytics
10 12 (10.62%) MVC
10 12 (10.62%) User Experience
11 11 (9.73%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (9.73%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (8.85%) AI
12 10 (8.85%) Clean Code
12 10 (8.85%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 38 (33.63%) C#
2 35 (30.97%) SQL
3 13 (11.50%) T-SQL
4 12 (10.62%) PowerShell
4 12 (10.62%) TypeScript
4 12 (10.62%) VB.NET
5 10 (8.85%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.08%) Bash
7 7 (6.19%) Korn
7 7 (6.19%) Python
8 2 (1.77%) C
9 1 (0.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.88%) Java
9 1 (0.88%) R
9 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) Degree
2 10 (8.85%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.77%) MCSE
6 2 (1.77%) RHCE
6 2 (1.77%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.88%) CCNA
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.88%) MCSA
7 1 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.73%) SLA
2 8 (7.08%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.42%) GDPR
4 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 15 (13.27%) Docker
2 14 (12.39%) Active Directory
3 8 (7.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (2.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.77%) Samba
6 1 (0.88%) Firmware
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (10.62%) Terraform
2 9 (7.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 68 (60.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) Oracle
3 9 (7.96%) Dell
4 8 (7.08%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco
6 3 (2.65%) Google
6 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.77%) Databricks
7 2 (1.77%) D-Link
7 2 (1.77%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.77%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.88%) Apple
8 1 (0.88%) Citrix
8 1 (0.88%) Draytek
8 1 (0.88%) Informatica
8 1 (0.88%) Juniper
8 1 (0.88%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.88%) Veeam
8 1 (0.88%) WatchGuard