SQL Server Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 54 51
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 -16
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,360 3,117 2,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.16% 4.14% 5.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.04% 27.51% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 954 2,712 2,243
10th Percentile £26,325 £31,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,688 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,966 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% +1.82%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,684 11,329 9,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.88% 15.05% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,906 7,272 6,479
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
North of England -44 431 £50,445 +0.89% 220
Midlands -17 293 £50,000 - 119
South East -60 287 £52,500 -4.55% 255
North West -47 270 £50,000 -2.91% 135
West Midlands -23 161 £57,500 +15.00% 71
East Midlands -8 131 £48,500 +2.11% 48
East of England -52 128 £44,000 -7.37% 72
Yorkshire -36 113 £54,250 +14.21% 69
South West -28 102 £50,000 -9.09% 73
Scotland +49 101 £48,422 -6.88% 43
North East +9 48 £43,500 -13.00% 18
Wales -28 11 £57,500 +22.21% 18
Northern Ireland +23 8 £57,500 +15.00% 13
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 - 1
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 180 (13.24%) Confluence
2 91 (6.69%) IIS
3 76 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 56 (4.12%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.62%) CMS
6 18 (1.32%) Umbraco
7 14 (1.03%) Tomcat
8 11 (0.81%) Apache
8 11 (0.81%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.37%) SAS
11 4 (0.29%) nginx
12 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.074%) Luigi
13 1 (0.074%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.074%) Sitefinity
13 1 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.44%) Trello
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.15%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.074%) Moqups
6 1 (0.074%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.074%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 29 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
2 11 (0.81%) Unit4 Business World
3 8 (0.59%) Infor CloudSuite
3 8 (0.59%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 5 (0.37%) Exchequer
4 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.37%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.29%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.29%) Sage 1000
6 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.15%) Odoo
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.074%) Magento
8 1 (0.074%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 800 (58.82%) Azure
2 429 (31.54%) AWS
3 212 (15.59%) Power Platform
4 187 (13.75%) GCP
5 123 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
6 100 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (5.81%) SaaS
8 49 (3.60%) GitHub
9 43 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (2.79%) Power Automate
11 33 (2.43%) IaaS
12 32 (2.35%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 31 (2.28%) Entra ID
14 30 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 25 (1.84%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (1.40%) PaaS
17 18 (1.32%) Serverless
18 17 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 79 (5.81%) Firewall
2 59 (4.34%) DNS
3 54 (3.97%) SAN
4 51 (3.75%) WAN
5 49 (3.60%) LAN
6 45 (3.31%) DHCP
7 35 (2.57%) VoIP
8 28 (2.06%) VPN
9 26 (1.91%) Network Security
10 21 (1.54%) TCP/IP
11 20 (1.47%) FTP
12 18 (1.32%) VLAN
13 17 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (1.10%) NAS
15 14 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
16 13 (0.96%) SSL
17 11 (0.81%) Intranet
18 10 (0.74%) iSCSI
18 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
19 9 (0.66%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (12.87%) Power BI
2 127 (9.34%) MySQL
3 122 (8.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 109 (8.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 88 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
7 74 (5.44%) Relational Database
8 64 (4.71%) MongoDB
9 55 (4.04%) NoSQL
10 47 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 34 (2.50%) Data Lake
11 34 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 24 (1.76%) RDBMS
13 20 (1.47%) Big Data
14 19 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (1.25%) Tableau
16 16 (1.18%) Data Hub
16 16 (1.18%) Metadata
17 15 (1.10%) GIS
18 14 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 292 (21.47%) JIRA
2 258 (18.97%) GitLab
3 255 (18.75%) Bitbucket
4 254 (18.68%) Selenium
5 252 (18.53%) SonarQube
6 251 (18.46%) Maven
7 248 (18.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 247 (18.16%) Cucumber
9 118 (8.68%) Git
10 51 (3.75%) Visual Studio
11 32 (2.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 30 (2.21%) TeamCity
13 21 (1.54%) NUnit
14 20 (1.47%) Jenkins
15 19 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
16 14 (1.03%) MagicDraw
17 11 (0.81%) Jasmine
18 8 (0.59%) Cypress.io
19 7 (0.51%) Postman
20 6 (0.44%) MSI
General
1 455 (33.46%) Finance
2 351 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 275 (20.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 263 (19.34%) Banking
5 155 (11.40%) Retail
6 125 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
7 95 (6.99%) Investment Banking
8 90 (6.62%) Corporate Banking
9 57 (4.19%) Manufacturing
10 51 (3.75%) Law
11 41 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.50%) Public Sector
13 30 (2.21%) Back Office
14 26 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.69%) Advertising
16 20 (1.47%) Games
17 18 (1.32%) Legal
17 18 (1.32%) Marketing
18 16 (1.18%) Local Government
19 9 (0.66%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 488 (35.88%) Developer
2 288 (21.18%) Software Engineer
3 174 (12.79%) Senior
4 120 (8.82%) Analyst
5 102 (7.50%) Senior Developer
5 102 (7.50%) SQL Developer
6 101 (7.43%) IT Support
7 98 (7.21%) .NET Developer
8 76 (5.59%) C# Developer
8 76 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 68 (5.00%) Lead
10 66 (4.85%) Software Developer
11 61 (4.49%) Support Analyst
12 59 (4.34%) Support Engineer
13 58 (4.26%) IT Engineer
14 52 (3.82%) Graduate
15 48 (3.53%) IT Graduate
16 47 (3.46%) DBA
17 46 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 44 (3.24%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (30.22%) .NET
2 390 (28.68%) CSS
3 374 (27.50%) HTML
4 359 (26.40%) React
5 287 (21.10%) Kafka
6 259 (19.04%) Spring Boot
7 254 (18.68%) Spring
8 249 (18.31%) Redux
9 247 (18.16%) JPA
10 187 (13.75%) ASP.NET
11 161 (11.84%) Hibernate
12 157 (11.54%) RESTful
13 152 (11.18%) REST
14 136 (10.00%) HTML5
15 127 (9.34%) .NET Core
16 116 (8.53%) CSS3
17 109 (8.01%) Jest
18 99 (7.28%) .NET Framework
19 97 (7.13%) Sass
20 83 (6.10%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 271 (19.93%) Enterprise Software
2 262 (19.26%) Product Ownership
3 57 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (3.68%) Mobile App
5 36 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.28%) Clustering
7 31 (2.28%) Driving Licence
8 29 (2.13%) Client/Server
8 29 (2.13%) Cloud Native
9 26 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 23 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.40%) NHS
12 18 (1.32%) Replication
13 16 (1.18%) Operational Technology
14 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
15 13 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.96%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 222 (16.32%) Windows
2 127 (9.34%) Windows Server
3 91 (6.69%) Linux
4 26 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (1.69%) Android
5 23 (1.69%) Unix
6 20 (1.47%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.22%) Debian
10 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.074%) CentOS
12 1 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (39.63%) Agile
2 458 (33.68%) DevOps
3 382 (28.09%) CI/CD
4 360 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
5 354 (26.03%) Software Engineering
6 335 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
7 326 (23.97%) Microservices
8 302 (22.21%) Test Automation
9 294 (21.62%) SDLC
10 290 (21.32%) Performance Optimisation
11 286 (21.03%) Containerisation
12 268 (19.71%) Front End Development
13 264 (19.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 232 (17.06%) Clean Code
15 213 (15.66%) Business Intelligence
16 206 (15.15%) Mentoring
17 190 (13.97%) Migration
18 186 (13.68%) TDD
19 147 (10.81%) MVC
20 140 (10.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 878 (64.56%) SQL
2 441 (32.43%) JavaScript
3 404 (29.71%) C#
4 348 (25.59%) Java
5 154 (11.32%) T-SQL
5 154 (11.32%) TypeScript
6 103 (7.57%) PowerShell
7 95 (6.99%) Python
8 61 (4.49%) PHP
9 54 (3.97%) C++
10 33 (2.43%) VB.NET
11 20 (1.47%) PL/SQL
11 20 (1.47%) VBA
12 19 (1.40%) Bash
13 13 (0.96%) Bicep
14 10 (0.74%) C
14 10 (0.74%) R
14 10 (0.74%) VB
15 9 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.59%) Korn
Qualifications
1 223 (16.40%) Degree
2 89 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (4.12%) DBS Check
4 44 (3.24%) Security Cleared
5 39 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (1.69%) SC Cleared
8 14 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 10 (0.74%) MCSA
10 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.59%) MCSE
12 7 (0.51%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.37%) CCNA
14 5 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.37%) HND
14 5 (0.37%) MCP
15 4 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (19.85%) QA
2 117 (8.60%) Accessibility
3 40 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 27 (1.99%) GDPR
4 27 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.18%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.88%) WCAG
8 5 (0.37%) SLA
9 4 (0.29%) GxP
10 3 (0.22%) NCSC
10 3 (0.22%) NIST
10 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.074%) COBIT
11 1 (0.074%) DICOM
11 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.074%) HL7
11 1 (0.074%) PMO
System Software
1 322 (23.68%) Docker
2 121 (8.90%) Active Directory
3 89 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (3.75%) Hyper-V
5 21 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (1.32%) vSphere
7 9 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 8 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.44%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.22%) Apache Flume
11 3 (0.22%) HDFS
11 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.22%) XenApp
12 1 (0.074%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.074%) KVM
12 1 (0.074%) pfSense
12 1 (0.074%) SRDF
12 1 (0.074%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 309 (22.72%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.63%) Terraform
3 35 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (1.84%) Ansible
5 12 (0.88%) Grafana
6 10 (0.74%) SCCM
7 9 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.59%) WSUS
9 7 (0.51%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.51%) WMI
10 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.37%) SCOM
11 5 (0.37%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.22%) Autotask
13 3 (0.22%) Kibana
13 3 (0.22%) logstash
13 3 (0.22%) Oozie
Vendors
1 577 (42.43%) Microsoft
2 246 (18.09%) Solace
3 114 (8.38%) VMware
4 98 (7.21%) Oracle
5 41 (3.01%) Databricks
6 29 (2.13%) Cisco
7 28 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.91%) Veeam
9 24 (1.76%) HP
10 22 (1.62%) Dell
10 22 (1.62%) SAP
11 20 (1.47%) Zoho
12 18 (1.32%) Splunk
13 16 (1.18%) Google
14 15 (1.10%) IBM
15 14 (1.03%) Informatica
15 14 (1.03%) Rollbar
16 12 (0.88%) Citrix
16 12 (0.88%) Infor
17 11 (0.81%) Apple