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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 63 30
Rank change year-on-year +22 -33 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 3,683 3,077 5,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.19% 5.13% 7.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 29.94% 26.63% 34.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,341 2,421 3,988
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £30,925
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% +4.40%
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 12,300 11,555 16,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.33% 19.28% 22.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8,166 6,762 10,259
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £39,645
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 £81,250 £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 10 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 10 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 +40 968 £50,000 - 183
South East +13 857 £55,000 - 147
Midlands +25 722 £50,000 - 170
North West +33 552 £50,000 - 102
West Midlands +26 465 £52,500 +5.00% 105
South West +6 416 £52,500 +5.00% 95
East of England +31 410 £47,500 -12.04% 61
Yorkshire +33 301 £51,498 +3.00% 59
East Midlands +32 257 £47,500 - 65
Scotland -35 203 £52,500 +10.53% 42
North East +42 115 £47,500 +11.76% 23
Wales +12 81 £50,000 +16.28% 14
Northern Ireland -12 31 £50,000 - 9
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
1 215 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 176 (4.78%) IIS
3 116 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 50 (1.36%) 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
1 145 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.054%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.054%) InDesign
9 2 (0.054%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.027%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.027%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 58 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 16 (0.43%) NEC Housing
3 14 (0.38%) Maximo
4 13 (0.35%) Epicor Tropos
5 11 (0.30%) Shopify
6 10 (0.27%) PlanetPress Connect
6 10 (0.27%) Sage 200
7 7 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
8 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
10 3 (0.081%) iTrent
10 3 (0.081%) Magento
10 3 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.054%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 2,148 (58.32%) Azure
2 593 (16.10%) Power Platform
3 585 (15.88%) AWS
4 386 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
5 293 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
6 137 (3.72%) SaaS
7 107 (2.91%) GCP
8 97 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 75 (2.04%) PowerApps
10 74 (2.01%) Serverless
11 72 (1.95%) Power Automate
12 70 (1.90%) PaaS
13 67 (1.82%) Entra ID
14 66 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 65 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
16 62 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
17 61 (1.66%) GitHub
18 60 (1.63%) Snowflake
19 48 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 47 (1.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 196 (5.32%) Firewall
2 136 (3.69%) DNS
3 124 (3.37%) Internet
4 115 (3.12%) WAN
5 97 (2.63%) SAN
6 82 (2.23%) Broadband
7 74 (2.01%) DHCP
8 71 (1.93%) VPN
9 67 (1.82%) TCP/IP
10 57 (1.55%) LAN
11 37 (1.00%) SSL
12 36 (0.98%) VoIP
13 33 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
14 30 (0.81%) HTTP
15 24 (0.65%) Wireless
16 23 (0.62%) NAS
17 17 (0.46%) SD-WAN
18 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
18 16 (0.43%) VLAN
19 14 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 541 (14.69%) Power BI
2 354 (9.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 341 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
4 319 (8.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 282 (7.66%) Relational Database
6 263 (7.14%) MongoDB
7 257 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
7 257 (6.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 236 (6.41%) MySQL
9 165 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
10 133 (3.61%) NoSQL
11 120 (3.26%) Data Lake
12 109 (2.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 85 (2.31%) Oracle Database
14 55 (1.49%) MS Access
15 49 (1.33%) Tableau
16 43 (1.17%) DB2
17 42 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
17 42 (1.14%) RDBMS
18 37 (1.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 323 (8.77%) Git
2 184 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 136 (3.69%) JIRA
4 55 (1.49%) Jasmine
5 52 (1.41%) NUnit
5 52 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 51 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 50 (1.36%) GitLab
8 43 (1.17%) Karma Test Runner
9 33 (0.90%) Jenkins
9 33 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
10 31 (0.84%) Moq
11 27 (0.73%) Selenium
12 25 (0.68%) Postman
13 22 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
13 22 (0.60%) TeamCity
14 21 (0.57%) MSTest
15 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
16 12 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
16 12 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 907 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 526 (14.28%) Finance
3 270 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
4 239 (6.49%) Retail
5 153 (4.15%) Public Sector
6 144 (3.91%) Manufacturing
7 138 (3.75%) Law
8 85 (2.31%) Marketing
8 85 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
9 81 (2.20%) Legal
10 78 (2.12%) Games
11 75 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 74 (2.01%) Advertising
13 57 (1.55%) Banking
14 44 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
15 41 (1.11%) Back Office
16 38 (1.03%) Local Government
17 34 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
18 31 (0.84%) Music Industry
18 31 (0.84%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,887 (51.24%) Developer
2 984 (26.72%) .NET Developer
3 491 (13.33%) C# Developer
4 385 (10.45%) Senior
5 348 (9.45%) C# .NET Developer
6 328 (8.91%) Software Developer
7 234 (6.35%) DBA
8 219 (5.95%) Lead
9 216 (5.86%) Analyst
10 204 (5.54%) Senior Developer
11 193 (5.24%) Data Engineer
12 187 (5.08%) Support Engineer
13 161 (4.37%) Software Engineer
14 156 (4.24%) SQL DBA
15 155 (4.21%) Consultant
16 143 (3.88%) Administrator
17 118 (3.20%) IT Engineer
18 114 (3.10%) IT Support
19 107 (2.91%) Full Stack Developer
20 106 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,889 (51.29%) .NET
2 1,188 (32.26%) ASP.NET
3 962 (26.12%) .NET Core
4 895 (24.30%) AngularJS
5 820 (22.26%) HTML
6 802 (21.78%) ASP.NET MVC
7 715 (19.41%) Entity Framework
8 713 (19.36%) .NET Framework
9 709 (19.25%) ASP.NET Web API
10 620 (16.83%) CSS
11 580 (15.75%) React
12 430 (11.68%) Vue
13 403 (10.94%) HTML5
14 285 (7.74%) RESTful
15 284 (7.71%) Node.js
16 219 (5.95%) REST
16 219 (5.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 217 (5.89%) Blazor
17 217 (5.89%) jQuery
18 208 (5.65%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 160 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
2 152 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
3 128 (3.48%) Public Cloud
4 110 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 108 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 105 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
7 104 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 96 (2.61%) Replication
9 83 (2.25%) Clustering
10 67 (1.82%) Cloud Native
11 51 (1.38%) Driving Licence
12 47 (1.28%) Algorithms
12 47 (1.28%) Product Ownership
13 43 (1.17%) NHS
14 39 (1.06%) Reinsurance
15 38 (1.03%) iPhone
16 36 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
17 35 (0.95%) Data Centre
18 34 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
19 33 (0.90%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 557 (15.12%) Windows
2 279 (7.58%) Windows Server
3 248 (6.73%) Linux
4 102 (2.77%) VMS
5 57 (1.55%) Android
6 56 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 55 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 52 (1.41%) Windows 10
9 45 (1.22%) Unix
10 42 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 25 (0.68%) AIX
12 19 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
13 16 (0.43%) Windows 7
14 15 (0.41%) CentOS
15 14 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 13 (0.35%) Debian
17 9 (0.24%) Ubuntu
18 7 (0.19%) SUSE
19 6 (0.16%) Apple iOS
19 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,354 (36.76%) Agile
2 1,040 (28.24%) MVC
3 934 (25.36%) Full Stack Development
4 674 (18.30%) Microservices
5 667 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
6 620 (16.83%) DevOps
7 580 (15.75%) Business Intelligence
8 458 (12.44%) TDD
9 409 (11.11%) Scrum
10 379 (10.29%) ETL
11 350 (9.50%) BDD
12 276 (7.49%) CI/CD
13 262 (7.11%) OO
14 261 (7.09%) Mentoring
15 258 (7.01%) Software Engineering
16 253 (6.87%) Computer Science
17 249 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence
18 233 (6.33%) Roadmaps
19 227 (6.16%) Migration
20 222 (6.03%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,929 (52.38%) C#
2 1,877 (50.96%) SQL
3 1,303 (35.38%) JavaScript
4 523 (14.20%) T-SQL
5 492 (13.36%) TypeScript
6 263 (7.14%) Python
7 204 (5.54%) PowerShell
8 200 (5.43%) Java
9 153 (4.15%) VB.NET
10 116 (3.15%) VB
11 70 (1.90%) PHP
12 64 (1.74%) 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 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 523 (14.20%) Degree
2 188 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 187 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 167 (4.53%) 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 17 (0.46%) 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
1 197 (5.35%) QA
2 137 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 49 (1.33%) GDPR
4 48 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 32 (0.87%) 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
1 262 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 192 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 167 (4.53%) Docker
4 114 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
5 103 (2.80%) Hyper-V
6 50 (1.36%) VMware NSX
7 40 (1.09%) 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
1 144 (3.91%) 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
9 10 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
10 9 (0.24%) WSUS
11 8 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
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%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 4 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,041 (55.42%) Microsoft
2 340 (9.23%) Oracle
3 298 (8.09%) VMware
4 145 (3.94%) Google
5 89 (2.42%) Veeam
6 81 (2.20%) Facebook
7 79 (2.14%) Citrix
7 79 (2.14%) Databricks
8 62 (1.68%) Cisco
9 61 (1.66%) Apple
10 56 (1.52%) IBM
11 45 (1.22%) Informatica
12 41 (1.11%) SAP
13 30 (0.81%) Sony
13 30 (0.81%) Yahoo!
14 26 (0.71%) Xamarin
15 25 (0.68%) Salesforce
16 24 (0.65%) Red Hat
17 23 (0.62%) Adobe
18 22 (0.60%) NetApp