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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 56 38
Rank change year-on-year -36 -18 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 119 260 324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.27% 3.86% 6.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.07% 25.54% 31.55%
Number of salaries quoted 101 226 221
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,840 £64,891 £95,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,125 £115,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

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 624 1,018 1,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.13% 15.10% 20.24%
Number of salaries quoted 302 673 665
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,713
25th Percentile £42,525 £41,250 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £74,688 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £97,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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 +11 43 £52,500 +10.53% 22
Berkshire -28 40 £55,000 -12.00% 42
Oxfordshire +1 36 £37,500 -16.67% 32
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 17 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (13.45%) IIS
3 6 (5.04%) Apache
3 6 (5.04%) Confluence
4 5 (4.20%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.84%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.84%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.84%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.84%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.36%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.68%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.84%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 41 (34.45%) Azure
2 34 (28.57%) AWS
3 25 (21.01%) Power Platform
4 17 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (9.24%) Cloudflare
6 8 (6.72%) GCP
7 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.68%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 2 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.68%) IaaS
10 2 (1.68%) SaaS
11 1 (0.84%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.84%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.84%) GitHub
11 1 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.97%) DNS
2 18 (15.13%) Firewall
3 10 (8.40%) DHCP
4 9 (7.56%) SAN
5 8 (6.72%) iSCSI
5 8 (6.72%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (5.04%) SMTP
7 5 (4.20%) Network Security
7 5 (4.20%) TCP/IP
8 4 (3.36%) VLAN
9 3 (2.52%) VoIP
9 3 (2.52%) VPN
10 1 (0.84%) HTTP
10 1 (0.84%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.01%) MySQL
2 22 (18.49%) Power BI
3 21 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (12.61%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (9.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.20%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.84%) DB2
11 1 (0.84%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (16.81%) Git
1 20 (16.81%) Visual Studio
2 14 (11.76%) JIRA
3 11 (9.24%) NUnit
3 11 (9.24%) TeamCity
4 10 (8.40%) Jasmine
5 7 (5.88%) Maven
6 6 (5.04%) Bitbucket
6 6 (5.04%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.04%) GitLab
6 6 (5.04%) Selenium
6 6 (5.04%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.84%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.45%) Finance
3 15 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.76%) Games
5 10 (8.40%) Retail
6 9 (7.56%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.88%) Banking
9 5 (4.20%) Back Office
9 5 (4.20%) Local Government
9 5 (4.20%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.36%) Law
11 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Humanities
11 1 (0.84%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (40.34%) Developer
2 32 (26.89%) Senior
3 17 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 12 (10.08%) Analyst
4 12 (10.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (10.08%) Software Engineer
5 11 (9.24%) .NET Developer
5 11 (9.24%) C# Developer
5 11 (9.24%) Lead
5 11 (9.24%) Portal Developer
6 10 (8.40%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.56%) DBA
8 8 (6.72%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 6 (5.04%) IT Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (5.04%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) SQL DBA
11 4 (3.36%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (41.18%) .NET
2 40 (33.61%) React
3 31 (26.05%) ASP.NET
4 19 (15.97%) AngularJS
5 18 (15.13%) CSS
5 18 (15.13%) HTML
6 17 (14.29%) .NET Core
7 13 (10.92%) .NET Framework
8 12 (10.08%) CSS3
8 12 (10.08%) HTML5
8 12 (10.08%) Vue
9 11 (9.24%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (9.24%) JSON
9 11 (9.24%) RESTful
9 11 (9.24%) XML
10 10 (8.40%) Jest
11 9 (7.56%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (6.72%) Kafka
12 8 (6.72%) Spring Boot
13 6 (5.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 17 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 16 (13.45%) Mobile App
3 11 (9.24%) Data Centre
4 9 (7.56%) Data Structures
4 9 (7.56%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (7.56%) Product Ownership
5 8 (6.72%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.88%) Clustering
6 7 (5.88%) Online Games
7 6 (5.04%) Algorithms
7 6 (5.04%) Client/Server
7 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
8 5 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (3.36%) Operational Technology
9 4 (3.36%) Replication
10 3 (2.52%) Driving Licence
11 2 (1.68%) 3D Graphics
11 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.84%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.85%) Windows
2 17 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 12 (10.08%) Linux
4 9 (7.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (6.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.52%) Android
6 3 (2.52%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.52%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.93%) Agile
2 32 (26.89%) DevOps
3 26 (21.85%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (21.01%) CI/CD
5 23 (19.33%) MVC
6 22 (18.49%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (16.81%) Project Management
8 18 (15.13%) Software Engineering
9 14 (11.76%) Computer Science
9 14 (11.76%) ITIL
9 14 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (9.24%) Business Development
10 11 (9.24%) Customer-Centricity
10 11 (9.24%) Mobile First
10 11 (9.24%) Workflow
11 10 (8.40%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (8.40%) High Availability
11 10 (8.40%) Microservices
12 9 (7.56%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 54 (45.38%) SQL
2 40 (33.61%) C#
3 35 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 17 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 12 (10.08%) PowerShell
6 11 (9.24%) Bash
7 9 (7.56%) Java
7 9 (7.56%) Python
8 8 (6.72%) Korn
8 8 (6.72%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.68%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.68%) X++
10 1 (0.84%) C++
10 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.84%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 36 (30.25%) Degree
2 13 (10.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.88%) MCSA
4 6 (5.04%) Numerate Degree
5 5 (4.20%) MCSE
6 3 (2.52%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.52%) MCP
6 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.52%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.84%) RHCE
7 1 (0.84%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) QA
2 6 (5.04%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.84%) GDPR
3 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (21.85%) Active Directory
2 23 (19.33%) Docker
3 10 (8.40%) Hyper-V
3 10 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 19 (15.97%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.08%) Terraform
3 7 (5.88%) WSUS
4 5 (4.20%) ZABBIX
5 3 (2.52%) Ansible
6 1 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (63.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.45%) VMware
3 13 (10.92%) Rollbar
4 9 (7.56%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.72%) Dell
5 8 (6.72%) Oracle
5 8 (6.72%) Splunk
6 7 (5.88%) Citrix
7 6 (5.04%) Solace
8 5 (4.20%) SAP
9 3 (2.52%) Apple
9 3 (2.52%) SonicWALL
10 2 (1.68%) Sage
10 2 (1.68%) WSO2
11 1 (0.84%) Adobe
11 1 (0.84%) IBM
11 1 (0.84%) SolarWinds