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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 60 30
Rank change year-on-year +19 -30 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,720 3,228 5,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.31% 5.22% 7.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.23% 26.66% 34.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,356 2,512 4,042
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +7.37% -
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 12,306 12,107 16,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.57% 19.59% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,186 7,019 10,427
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,052 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +40 975 £50,000 - 191
South East +11 860 £55,000 - 159
Midlands +33 736 £50,000 - 163
North West +42 556 £50,000 - 103
West Midlands +25 452 £52,500 +5.00% 98
South West +2 420 £52,500 +5.00% 89
East of England +32 411 £47,500 -7.32% 78
Yorkshire +29 305 £52,500 +5.00% 63
East Midlands +32 284 £47,500 +5.56% 65
Scotland -39 206 £52,500 +10.53% 50
North East +39 114 £47,500 +8.57% 26
Wales +13 89 £50,000 +16.28% 14
Northern Ireland 0 30 £50,000 - 13
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
1 219 (5.89%) SharePoint
2 183 (4.92%) IIS
3 118 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 50 (1.34%) CMS
5 38 (1.02%) Umbraco
6 37 (0.99%) Apache
7 16 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 15 (0.40%) Confluence
9 13 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 13 (0.35%) Tomcat
10 12 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 8 (0.22%) JBoss
11 8 (0.22%) Kentico
11 8 (0.22%) WordPress
12 7 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.16%) NServiceBus
14 5 (0.13%) Drupal
14 5 (0.13%) SAS
14 5 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 152 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.19%) InDesign
8 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
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
11 1 (0.027%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 61 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 15 (0.40%) Maximo
4 13 (0.35%) Epicor Tropos
5 12 (0.32%) NEC Housing
5 12 (0.32%) PlanetPress Connect
5 12 (0.32%) Shopify
6 10 (0.27%) Sage 200
7 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
8 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,146 (57.69%) Azure
2 602 (16.18%) Power Platform
3 577 (15.51%) AWS
4 389 (10.46%) Azure DevOps
5 296 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
6 143 (3.84%) SaaS
7 113 (3.04%) GCP
8 95 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 79 (2.12%) Serverless
10 72 (1.94%) PaaS
11 71 (1.91%) PowerApps
12 69 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
13 67 (1.80%) Entra ID
13 67 (1.80%) Power Automate
14 66 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 63 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
16 59 (1.59%) Snowflake
17 58 (1.56%) GitHub
18 47 (1.26%) IaaS
19 45 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 202 (5.43%) Firewall
2 145 (3.90%) WAN
3 138 (3.71%) DNS
4 123 (3.31%) Internet
5 98 (2.63%) SAN
6 84 (2.26%) LAN
7 81 (2.18%) Broadband
8 72 (1.94%) DHCP
8 72 (1.94%) VPN
9 68 (1.83%) TCP/IP
10 41 (1.10%) SSL
11 40 (1.08%) VoIP
12 33 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (0.83%) HTTP
14 27 (0.73%) NAS
15 25 (0.67%) Wireless
16 17 (0.46%) Network Security
16 17 (0.46%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
17 16 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 546 (14.68%) Power BI
2 364 (9.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 342 (9.19%) Data Warehouse
4 319 (8.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 280 (7.53%) Relational Database
6 266 (7.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 258 (6.94%) MongoDB
8 251 (6.75%) Elasticsearch
9 245 (6.59%) MySQL
10 162 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
11 134 (3.60%) NoSQL
12 117 (3.15%) Data Lake
13 107 (2.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 85 (2.28%) Oracle Database
15 55 (1.48%) MS Access
16 49 (1.32%) Tableau
17 43 (1.16%) DB2
18 41 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
19 40 (1.08%) RDBMS
20 37 (0.99%) GIS
Development Applications
1 320 (8.60%) Git
2 181 (4.87%) Visual Studio
3 146 (3.92%) JIRA
4 55 (1.48%) Jasmine
4 55 (1.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 54 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 53 (1.42%) NUnit
7 51 (1.37%) GitLab
8 43 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
9 35 (0.94%) Jenkins
10 33 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
11 31 (0.83%) Moq
12 28 (0.75%) Selenium
13 27 (0.73%) Postman
14 23 (0.62%) TeamCity
15 21 (0.56%) MSTest
15 21 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
16 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
17 12 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
17 12 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 914 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 538 (14.46%) Finance
3 269 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (6.51%) Retail
5 150 (4.03%) Public Sector
6 143 (3.84%) Manufacturing
7 139 (3.74%) Law
8 92 (2.47%) Marketing
9 86 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 82 (2.20%) Legal
11 78 (2.10%) Advertising
12 77 (2.07%) Games
13 73 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 60 (1.61%) Banking
15 46 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
16 37 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (0.97%) Back Office
18 34 (0.91%) Local Government
19 29 (0.78%) Music Industry
19 29 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,899 (51.05%) Developer
2 971 (26.10%) .NET Developer
3 493 (13.25%) C# Developer
4 389 (10.46%) Senior
5 355 (9.54%) Software Developer
6 342 (9.19%) C# .NET Developer
7 232 (6.24%) DBA
8 224 (6.02%) Lead
9 220 (5.91%) Analyst
10 202 (5.43%) Senior Developer
11 191 (5.13%) Data Engineer
12 187 (5.03%) Support Engineer
13 162 (4.35%) Software Engineer
14 157 (4.22%) Consultant
14 157 (4.22%) SQL DBA
15 141 (3.79%) Administrator
16 120 (3.23%) IT Engineer
17 113 (3.04%) IT Support
18 110 (2.96%) Full Stack Developer
19 107 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,888 (50.75%) .NET
2 1,181 (31.75%) ASP.NET
3 956 (25.70%) .NET Core
4 906 (24.35%) AngularJS
5 838 (22.53%) HTML
6 795 (21.37%) ASP.NET MVC
7 700 (18.82%) .NET Framework
8 698 (18.76%) ASP.NET Web API
9 694 (18.66%) Entity Framework
10 635 (17.07%) CSS
11 595 (15.99%) React
12 422 (11.34%) Vue
13 420 (11.29%) HTML5
14 305 (8.20%) Node.js
15 283 (7.61%) RESTful
16 229 (6.16%) REST
17 221 (5.94%) jQuery
18 217 (5.83%) Blazor
18 217 (5.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 206 (5.54%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 158 (4.25%) Greenfield Project
2 149 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
3 133 (3.58%) Public Cloud
4 110 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 109 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 108 (2.90%) Data Structures
7 106 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
8 94 (2.53%) Replication
9 85 (2.28%) Clustering
10 68 (1.83%) Cloud Native
11 47 (1.26%) Driving Licence
12 45 (1.21%) Algorithms
13 44 (1.18%) Product Ownership
14 41 (1.10%) NHS
14 41 (1.10%) Reinsurance
15 37 (0.99%) Data Centre
15 37 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
15 37 (0.99%) iPhone
15 37 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
16 34 (0.91%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 562 (15.11%) Windows
2 280 (7.53%) Windows Server
3 252 (6.77%) Linux
4 102 (2.74%) VMS
5 59 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 55 (1.48%) Android
6 55 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 51 (1.37%) Windows 10
8 46 (1.24%) Unix
8 46 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 25 (0.67%) AIX
10 19 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
11 16 (0.43%) Windows 7
12 15 (0.40%) CentOS
13 14 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 13 (0.35%) Debian
15 9 (0.24%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.19%) Apple iOS
16 7 (0.19%) SUSE
17 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,352 (36.34%) Agile
2 1,035 (27.82%) MVC
3 942 (25.32%) Full Stack Development
4 680 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
5 663 (17.82%) Microservices
6 627 (16.85%) DevOps
7 579 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
8 447 (12.02%) TDD
9 405 (10.89%) Scrum
10 381 (10.24%) ETL
11 341 (9.17%) BDD
12 272 (7.31%) CI/CD
13 263 (7.07%) Mentoring
14 262 (7.04%) OO
15 261 (7.02%) Software Engineering
16 259 (6.96%) Computer Science
17 243 (6.53%) Artificial Intelligence
18 236 (6.34%) Roadmaps
19 228 (6.13%) Migration
20 217 (5.83%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,923 (51.69%) C#
2 1,917 (51.53%) SQL
3 1,318 (35.43%) JavaScript
4 524 (14.09%) T-SQL
5 483 (12.98%) TypeScript
6 286 (7.69%) Python
7 208 (5.59%) PowerShell
8 196 (5.27%) Java
9 152 (4.09%) VB.NET
10 135 (3.63%) VB
11 96 (2.58%) PHP
12 61 (1.64%) C++
13 49 (1.32%) C
14 32 (0.86%) XAML
15 31 (0.83%) PL/SQL
16 30 (0.81%) Bash
17 29 (0.78%) VB6
18 28 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 28 (0.75%) R
19 27 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 549 (14.76%) Degree
2 194 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 191 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 164 (4.41%) Security Cleared
5 90 (2.42%) SC Cleared
6 45 (1.21%) Azure Certification
7 38 (1.02%) DBS Check
8 33 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 29 (0.78%) CCNA
9 29 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
11 19 (0.51%) MCSE
12 18 (0.48%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.40%) HND
14 13 (0.35%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.35%) MCP
15 12 (0.32%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (0.32%) OCP
15 12 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (5.38%) QA
2 130 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 47 (1.26%) GDPR
4 44 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 34 (0.91%) SLA
6 21 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.40%) WAI
8 10 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.16%) GMP
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.11%) COBIT
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.11%) PMO
11 4 (0.11%) WCAG
12 2 (0.054%) HL7
12 2 (0.054%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 1 (0.027%) JSP 440
System Software
1 266 (7.15%) Active Directory
2 200 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 166 (4.46%) Docker
4 114 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 100 (2.69%) Hyper-V
6 52 (1.40%) VMware NSX
7 41 (1.10%) vSphere
8 30 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.40%) XenApp
10 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.054%) Firmware
14 2 (0.054%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 139 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 88 (2.37%) Terraform
3 40 (1.08%) Ansible
4 36 (0.97%) 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 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
9 11 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.27%) MIIS
11 9 (0.24%) WSUS
12 8 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
13 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (0.16%) Grafana
14 6 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.16%) Prometheus
15 5 (0.13%) Data Guard
16 4 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 4 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,054 (55.22%) Microsoft
2 328 (8.82%) Oracle
3 306 (8.23%) VMware
4 140 (3.76%) Google
5 87 (2.34%) Veeam
6 81 (2.18%) Facebook
7 79 (2.12%) Citrix
7 79 (2.12%) Databricks
8 61 (1.64%) Apple
8 61 (1.64%) Cisco
9 56 (1.51%) IBM
10 43 (1.16%) Informatica
11 40 (1.08%) SAP
12 30 (0.81%) Sony
12 30 (0.81%) Yahoo!
13 28 (0.75%) Adobe
14 26 (0.70%) Salesforce
14 26 (0.70%) Xamarin
15 23 (0.62%) F5
16 22 (0.59%) NetApp