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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 41 61
Rank change year-on-year -42 +20 -32
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,131 3,725 3,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.12% 5.32% 5.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.76% 30.17% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 974 3,365 2,520
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,813 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +6.67%

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 4,391 12,346 12,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.10% 17.62% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,061 8,228 7,032
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -55 358 £50,000 - 254
South East -49 254 £50,000 -9.09% 206
Midlands -48 231 £50,000 - 150
North West -80 186 £50,000 - 123
Yorkshire -8 145 £52,500 - 115
West Midlands -55 128 £55,000 +4.76% 87
East of England -31 119 £47,500 - 58
East Midlands -20 102 £50,000 +5.26% 62
South West -47 83 £53,750 +2.38% 78
Scotland +28 68 £50,000 -4.76% 59
North East -6 31 £55,000 +15.79% 16
Wales -29 10 £42,500 -15.00% 5
Northern Ireland +14 6 £53,750 +7.50% 19
Isle of Man - 3 £38,000 -
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 79 (6.98%) IIS
2 68 (6.01%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (2.56%) CMS
5 28 (2.48%) Umbraco
6 26 (2.30%) Confluence
7 18 (1.59%) Apache
8 16 (1.41%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.62%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.44%) NetWeaver
12 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.18%) SAS
13 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
14 1 (0.088%) OpenEdge
14 1 (0.088%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 1 (0.088%) WebLogic
Applications
1 50 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.53%) Trello
5 4 (0.35%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.18%) Moqups
6 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.18%) Sketch
7 1 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.088%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.088%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.53%) Infor M3
3 5 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.44%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.35%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 2 (0.18%) Odoo
6 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.088%) iTrent
7 1 (0.088%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.088%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.088%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 562 (49.69%) Azure
2 206 (18.21%) Power Platform
3 166 (14.68%) AWS
4 114 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
5 109 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
6 100 (8.84%) SaaS
7 62 (5.48%) GitHub
8 45 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
9 37 (3.27%) PowerApps
10 32 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (2.83%) Power Automate
11 30 (2.65%) IaaS
12 27 (2.39%) GCP
13 21 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
13 21 (1.86%) Entra ID
14 20 (1.77%) PaaS
15 18 (1.59%) Serverless
16 15 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 15 (1.33%) Azure Functions
17 13 (1.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.10%) Firewall
2 55 (4.86%) DNS
3 40 (3.54%) VPN
4 38 (3.36%) DHCP
4 38 (3.36%) SAN
5 35 (3.09%) WAN
6 34 (3.01%) LAN
7 25 (2.21%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.95%) Intranet
9 20 (1.77%) FTP
10 19 (1.68%) Network Security
11 16 (1.41%) VoIP
12 14 (1.24%) VLAN
13 9 (0.80%) HTTP
14 8 (0.71%) Multicast
14 8 (0.71%) NAS
14 8 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.71%) Wireless
15 7 (0.62%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (12.91%) Power BI
2 123 (10.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 119 (10.52%) MySQL
4 94 (8.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 81 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (4.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (4.77%) NoSQL
9 49 (4.33%) MongoDB
10 46 (4.07%) Relational Database
11 32 (2.83%) Data Lake
12 31 (2.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 16 (1.41%) Metadata
14 15 (1.33%) Big Data
14 15 (1.33%) Tableau
15 13 (1.15%) QlikView
15 13 (1.15%) SQLite
16 12 (1.06%) Data Hub
16 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 12 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 120 (10.61%) Git
2 79 (6.98%) Visual Studio
3 55 (4.86%) JIRA
4 30 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 19 (1.68%) TeamCity
6 14 (1.24%) MagicDraw
6 14 (1.24%) Oracle Forms
7 13 (1.15%) NUnit
8 12 (1.06%) GitLab
9 11 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
10 10 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.71%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.53%) Postman
13 6 (0.53%) Selenium
13 6 (0.53%) Subversion
14 5 (0.44%) Fiddler
14 5 (0.44%) Maven
15 4 (0.35%) JMeter
General
1 331 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 175 (15.47%) Finance
3 125 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (6.01%) Retail
5 52 (4.60%) Manufacturing
6 46 (4.07%) Law
7 26 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (2.03%) Public Sector
9 21 (1.86%) Back Office
9 21 (1.86%) Banking
10 20 (1.77%) Advertising
11 19 (1.68%) Local Government
12 17 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.06%) Marketing
13 12 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 10 (0.88%) Legal
14 10 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.80%) Automotive
16 8 (0.71%) Games
Job Titles
1 567 (50.13%) Developer
2 170 (15.03%) Senior
3 128 (11.32%) Software Developer
4 122 (10.79%) .NET Developer
5 105 (9.28%) Senior Developer
6 95 (8.40%) C# Developer
7 92 (8.13%) SQL Developer
8 80 (7.07%) Analyst
9 69 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 65 (5.75%) Software Engineer
11 62 (5.48%) Lead
12 51 (4.51%) Support Engineer
13 48 (4.24%) IT Support
14 46 (4.07%) C# .NET Developer
15 42 (3.71%) IT Engineer
16 41 (3.63%) Applications Support
17 39 (3.45%) Data Engineer
17 39 (3.45%) DBA
18 37 (3.27%) Database Developer
19 32 (2.83%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (41.03%) .NET
2 203 (17.95%) ASP.NET
3 179 (15.83%) CSS
4 171 (15.12%) HTML
5 156 (13.79%) React
6 153 (13.53%) .NET Core
7 150 (13.26%) .NET Framework
8 101 (8.93%) AngularJS
9 89 (7.87%) XML
10 80 (7.07%) jQuery
11 71 (6.28%) JSON
12 64 (5.66%) ASP.NET MVC
13 63 (5.57%) Entity Framework
13 63 (5.57%) Web Services
14 62 (5.48%) HTML5
15 61 (5.39%) REST
16 52 (4.60%) RESTful
17 44 (3.89%) Blazor
18 43 (3.80%) Vue
19 40 (3.54%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.84%) Management Information System
2 58 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 42 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (2.65%) Client/Server
4 30 (2.65%) NHS
5 28 (2.48%) Data Structures
6 27 (2.39%) Data Centre
6 27 (2.39%) Driving Licence
7 23 (2.03%) Private Cloud
8 22 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.68%) Robotics
10 18 (1.59%) Clustering
10 18 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.59%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.59%) Replication
11 17 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.33%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.15%) Cloud Native
14 12 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 190 (16.80%) Windows
2 110 (9.73%) Windows Server
3 95 (8.40%) Linux
4 29 (2.56%) Android
5 27 (2.39%) Windows 10
6 23 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (0.97%) Unix
10 8 (0.71%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.62%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.53%) AIX
13 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.35%) Solaris
13 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.27%) Debian
15 2 (0.18%) SUSE
15 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.088%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (31.83%) Problem-Solving
2 350 (30.95%) Agile
3 220 (19.45%) DevOps
4 170 (15.03%) Business Intelligence
5 158 (13.97%) MVC
6 145 (12.82%) Software Engineering
7 134 (11.85%) CI/CD
8 121 (10.70%) Computer Science
9 117 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
10 101 (8.93%) ITIL
11 99 (8.75%) OOP
12 94 (8.31%) Migration
13 93 (8.22%) Analytics
13 93 (8.22%) OO
14 91 (8.05%) Project Management
15 90 (7.96%) Mentoring
16 79 (6.98%) Microservices
17 75 (6.63%) CRM
17 75 (6.63%) ETL
18 73 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 599 (52.96%) SQL
2 466 (41.20%) C#
3 216 (19.10%) JavaScript
4 149 (13.17%) T-SQL
5 120 (10.61%) Java
6 96 (8.49%) Python
7 91 (8.05%) PowerShell
8 75 (6.63%) TypeScript
9 74 (6.54%) PHP
10 47 (4.16%) C++
11 20 (1.77%) VB.NET
12 18 (1.59%) C
13 13 (1.15%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.15%) R
13 13 (1.15%) VB
14 9 (0.80%) Bash
15 8 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.62%) Delphi
16 7 (0.62%) Scala
16 7 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 245 (21.66%) Degree
2 79 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (4.51%) DBS Check
4 38 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (2.83%) Security Cleared
6 25 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
7 21 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.50%) SC Cleared
9 15 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.80%) MCSA
11 8 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (0.62%) MCSE
13 6 (0.53%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.35%) MCP
14 4 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.27%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.27%) HND
16 2 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.01%) Accessibility
2 32 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 29 (2.56%) GDPR
4 28 (2.48%) QA
4 28 (2.48%) SLA
5 23 (2.03%) WCAG
6 11 (0.97%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.53%) GxP
7 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.27%) NCSC
9 3 (0.27%) NIST
9 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.18%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.088%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 80 (7.07%) Docker
2 75 (6.63%) Active Directory
3 59 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (3.18%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.50%) vSphere
6 10 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.53%) Terminal Services
8 6 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.18%) Firmware
10 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 2 (0.18%) NFS
10 2 (0.18%) SRDF
10 2 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.18%) Xen
11 1 (0.088%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 79 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 44 (3.89%) Terraform
3 19 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (1.50%) Ansible
5 14 (1.24%) SCCM
6 11 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (0.80%) SCOM
8 7 (0.62%) Grafana
8 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.44%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.27%) Autotask
10 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.27%) Puppet
10 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.27%) WMI
10 3 (0.27%) WSUS
11 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 539 (47.66%) Microsoft
2 138 (12.20%) Oracle
3 77 (6.81%) VMware
4 33 (2.92%) Databricks
5 30 (2.65%) HP
6 28 (2.48%) Cisco
7 26 (2.30%) IBM
8 25 (2.21%) SAP
9 17 (1.50%) Zoho
10 15 (1.33%) Veeam
11 11 (0.97%) Google
12 10 (0.88%) NetApp
12 10 (0.88%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.80%) Dell
14 8 (0.71%) Infor
15 7 (0.62%) Sage
15 7 (0.62%) SonicWALL
16 6 (0.53%) EMC
16 6 (0.53%) Red Hat
16 6 (0.53%) Salesforce