SQL Server Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 59 30
Rank change year-on-year +18 -29 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,691 3,114 5,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.20% 5.17% 7.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.93% 26.78% 34.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,348 2,442 3,992
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% +3.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,333 11,626 16,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.38% 19.29% 22.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,167 6,793 10,318
10th Percentile £31,900 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £39,839
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,900 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 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
North of England +39 968 £50,000 - 192
South East +11 857 £55,000 - 152
Midlands +32 724 £50,000 - 183
North West +37 551 £50,000 - 105
West Midlands +28 464 £52,500 +5.00% 111
South West +2 417 £52,500 +5.00% 96
East of England +32 413 £47,500 -7.32% 63
Yorkshire +32 301 £51,498 +3.00% 67
East Midlands +36 260 £47,500 +5.56% 72
Scotland -37 204 £52,500 +10.53% 43
North East +44 116 £47,500 +11.76% 21
Wales +16 82 £50,000 +16.28% 16
Northern Ireland -4 31 £50,000 - 14
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
1 217 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 177 (4.80%) IIS
3 117 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 50 (1.35%) CMS
5 38 (1.03%) Apache
6 35 (0.95%) Umbraco
7 17 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 13 (0.35%) Confluence
9 12 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 9 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.22%) Apache Solr
11 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 8 (0.22%) JBoss
11 8 (0.22%) Kentico
11 8 (0.22%) WordPress
12 6 (0.16%) NServiceBus
13 5 (0.14%) Drupal
13 5 (0.14%) SAS
13 5 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 147 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.11%) InDesign
10 2 (0.054%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.054%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.027%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.027%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 58 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 16 (0.43%) NEC Housing
4 14 (0.38%) Maximo
5 13 (0.35%) Epicor Tropos
6 12 (0.33%) Shopify
7 10 (0.27%) PlanetPress Connect
7 10 (0.27%) Sage 200
8 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
11 3 (0.081%) iTrent
11 3 (0.081%) Magento
11 3 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.054%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 2,150 (58.25%) Azure
2 597 (16.17%) Power Platform
3 584 (15.82%) AWS
4 388 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
5 293 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
6 140 (3.79%) SaaS
7 109 (2.95%) GCP
8 94 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 76 (2.06%) PowerApps
10 75 (2.03%) Serverless
11 72 (1.95%) Power Automate
12 70 (1.90%) PaaS
13 67 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 67 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
13 67 (1.82%) Entra ID
14 62 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
15 60 (1.63%) GitHub
16 59 (1.60%) Snowflake
17 48 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 47 (1.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 197 (5.34%) Firewall
2 137 (3.71%) DNS
3 124 (3.36%) Internet
4 115 (3.12%) WAN
5 98 (2.66%) SAN
6 82 (2.22%) Broadband
7 75 (2.03%) DHCP
8 70 (1.90%) VPN
9 67 (1.82%) TCP/IP
10 57 (1.54%) LAN
11 38 (1.03%) VoIP
12 37 (1.00%) SSL
13 33 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
14 31 (0.84%) HTTP
15 25 (0.68%) NAS
16 24 (0.65%) Wireless
17 17 (0.46%) SD-WAN
18 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
18 16 (0.43%) VLAN
19 14 (0.38%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 543 (14.71%) Power BI
2 357 (9.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 337 (9.13%) Data Warehouse
4 322 (8.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 283 (7.67%) Relational Database
6 262 (7.10%) MongoDB
7 259 (7.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 256 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
9 241 (6.53%) MySQL
10 166 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
11 135 (3.66%) NoSQL
12 121 (3.28%) Data Lake
13 109 (2.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 86 (2.33%) Oracle Database
15 55 (1.49%) MS Access
16 49 (1.33%) Tableau
17 44 (1.19%) DB2
18 42 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
18 42 (1.14%) RDBMS
19 37 (1.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 323 (8.75%) Git
2 186 (5.04%) Visual Studio
3 136 (3.68%) JIRA
4 55 (1.49%) Jasmine
5 52 (1.41%) NUnit
5 52 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 51 (1.38%) GitLab
6 51 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 43 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
8 33 (0.89%) Jenkins
8 33 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
9 31 (0.84%) Moq
10 28 (0.76%) Selenium
11 25 (0.68%) Postman
12 22 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
12 22 (0.60%) TeamCity
13 21 (0.57%) MSTest
14 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
15 12 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 911 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 526 (14.25%) Finance
3 269 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (6.56%) Retail
5 154 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 141 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 138 (3.74%) Law
8 88 (2.38%) Marketing
9 86 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 83 (2.25%) Legal
11 78 (2.11%) Games
12 76 (2.06%) Advertising
13 75 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 56 (1.52%) Banking
15 45 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
16 41 (1.11%) Back Office
17 38 (1.03%) Local Government
18 35 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
19 31 (0.84%) Music Industry
19 31 (0.84%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,894 (51.31%) Developer
2 988 (26.77%) .NET Developer
3 493 (13.36%) C# Developer
4 386 (10.46%) Senior
5 348 (9.43%) C# .NET Developer
6 330 (8.94%) Software Developer
7 234 (6.34%) DBA
8 222 (6.01%) Lead
9 216 (5.85%) Analyst
10 206 (5.58%) Senior Developer
11 192 (5.20%) Data Engineer
12 186 (5.04%) Support Engineer
13 160 (4.33%) Software Engineer
14 156 (4.23%) SQL DBA
15 155 (4.20%) Consultant
16 144 (3.90%) Administrator
17 118 (3.20%) IT Engineer
18 114 (3.09%) IT Support
19 109 (2.95%) Full Stack Developer
20 106 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,897 (51.40%) .NET
2 1,191 (32.27%) ASP.NET
3 963 (26.09%) .NET Core
4 895 (24.25%) AngularJS
5 820 (22.22%) HTML
6 803 (21.76%) ASP.NET MVC
7 715 (19.37%) Entity Framework
8 714 (19.34%) .NET Framework
9 709 (19.21%) ASP.NET Web API
10 619 (16.77%) CSS
11 581 (15.74%) React
12 429 (11.62%) Vue
13 404 (10.95%) HTML5
14 285 (7.72%) RESTful
15 283 (7.67%) Node.js
16 221 (5.99%) REST
17 220 (5.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 218 (5.91%) Blazor
18 218 (5.91%) jQuery
19 208 (5.64%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 160 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
2 153 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
3 128 (3.47%) Public Cloud
4 110 (2.98%) Data Structures
5 108 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 107 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 105 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
8 95 (2.57%) Replication
9 82 (2.22%) Clustering
10 67 (1.82%) Cloud Native
11 51 (1.38%) Driving Licence
12 48 (1.30%) Product Ownership
13 47 (1.27%) Algorithms
14 43 (1.16%) NHS
15 39 (1.06%) Reinsurance
16 38 (1.03%) iPhone
17 36 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
18 35 (0.95%) Data Centre
18 35 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
19 33 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 560 (15.17%) Windows
2 281 (7.61%) Windows Server
3 249 (6.75%) Linux
4 102 (2.76%) VMS
5 57 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 56 (1.52%) Android
6 56 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 52 (1.41%) Windows 10
8 45 (1.22%) Unix
9 44 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 25 (0.68%) AIX
11 19 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (0.43%) Windows 7
13 15 (0.41%) CentOS
14 14 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 13 (0.35%) Debian
16 9 (0.24%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.19%) SUSE
18 6 (0.16%) Apple iOS
18 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,361 (36.87%) Agile
2 1,042 (28.23%) MVC
3 934 (25.30%) Full Stack Development
4 674 (18.26%) Microservices
5 670 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
6 622 (16.85%) DevOps
7 579 (15.69%) Business Intelligence
8 457 (12.38%) TDD
9 411 (11.14%) Scrum
10 378 (10.24%) ETL
11 349 (9.46%) BDD
12 275 (7.45%) CI/CD
13 263 (7.13%) OO
14 261 (7.07%) Mentoring
15 258 (6.99%) Software Engineering
16 255 (6.91%) Computer Science
17 249 (6.75%) Artificial Intelligence
18 234 (6.34%) Roadmaps
19 228 (6.18%) Migration
20 222 (6.01%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,934 (52.40%) C#
2 1,885 (51.07%) SQL
3 1,303 (35.30%) JavaScript
4 524 (14.20%) T-SQL
5 492 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 261 (7.07%) Python
7 205 (5.55%) PowerShell
8 200 (5.42%) Java
9 153 (4.15%) VB.NET
10 116 (3.14%) VB
11 71 (1.92%) PHP
12 63 (1.71%) C++
13 48 (1.30%) C
14 32 (0.87%) XAML
15 31 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 30 (0.81%) Bash
16 30 (0.81%) R
17 29 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (0.79%) VB6
18 26 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 524 (14.20%) Degree
2 190 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 189 (5.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 167 (4.52%) Security Cleared
5 87 (2.36%) SC Cleared
6 45 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 38 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 32 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 29 (0.79%) CCNA
9 29 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
11 21 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 18 (0.49%) MCSE
13 15 (0.41%) HND
14 13 (0.35%) MCP
15 12 (0.33%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (0.33%) OCP
15 12 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.36%) QA
2 134 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 50 (1.35%) GDPR
4 48 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 34 (0.92%) SLA
6 20 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.41%) WAI
8 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.11%) COBIT
10 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.11%) WCAG
11 3 (0.081%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.081%) PMO
12 2 (0.054%) HL7
12 2 (0.054%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 264 (7.15%) Active Directory
2 194 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 167 (4.52%) Docker
4 114 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
5 103 (2.79%) Hyper-V
6 50 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 40 (1.08%) vSphere
8 30 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.41%) XenApp
10 7 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.054%) Firmware
13 2 (0.054%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 143 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 91 (2.47%) Terraform
3 39 (1.06%) Ansible
4 36 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (0.73%) SCCM
6 16 (0.43%) Nagios
7 13 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 13 (0.35%) vCenter Server
8 12 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
9 10 (0.27%) MIIS
10 9 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.24%) WSUS
11 8 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
11 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.19%) Prometheus
13 6 (0.16%) Grafana
13 6 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.14%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.11%) Backup Exec
15 4 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,039 (55.24%) Microsoft
2 338 (9.16%) Oracle
3 300 (8.13%) VMware
4 143 (3.87%) Google
5 89 (2.41%) Veeam
6 81 (2.19%) Facebook
7 80 (2.17%) Databricks
8 79 (2.14%) Citrix
9 62 (1.68%) Cisco
10 61 (1.65%) Apple
11 56 (1.52%) IBM
12 42 (1.14%) Informatica
13 41 (1.11%) SAP
14 30 (0.81%) Sony
14 30 (0.81%) Yahoo!
15 26 (0.70%) Salesforce
15 26 (0.70%) Xamarin
16 25 (0.68%) Adobe
17 24 (0.65%) Red Hat
18 22 (0.60%) NetApp