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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 42 58
Rank change year-on-year -44 +16 -27
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,263 3,672 3,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.25% 4.99% 5.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.78% 29.76% 26.36%
Number of salaries quoted 870 3,329 2,357
10th Percentile £29,175 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,785 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,498 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% 0.00% +8.42%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,198
% change year-on-year - -0.36% +0.36%

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 4,389 12,338 11,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.29% 16.75% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,729 8,108 6,647
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £34,150
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,833 £41,250
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 £83,738 £78,750 £81,250
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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -52 437 £50,000 - 865
North West -66 277 £50,000 - 445
Midlands -40 267 £50,000 - 729
South East -72 258 £50,500 -8.18% 1,076
West Midlands -45 143 £57,500 +9.52% 401
Yorkshire -21 127 £52,500 +5.00% 312
East Midlands -25 123 £49,000 +3.16% 282
East of England -57 118 £44,000 -7.37% 550
Scotland +44 100 £48,500 -7.62% 193
South West -53 72 £50,800 -3.24% 423
North East -7 37 £51,875 +9.21% 112
Northern Ireland +20 6 £53,750 +7.50% 46
Wales -20 6 £55,000 +12.82% 92
Isle of Man - 1 £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 (14.25%) Confluence
2 83 (6.57%) IIS
3 62 (4.91%) SharePoint
4 56 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.98%) CMS
6 24 (1.90%) Umbraco
7 15 (1.19%) Tomcat
8 13 (1.03%) Apache
9 8 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.63%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.079%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.079%) Luigi
12 1 (0.079%) Sitefinity
12 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.48%) Trello
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.079%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.079%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.079%) Moqups
6 1 (0.079%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.079%) Sketch
6 1 (0.079%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.48%) Infor M3
3 5 (0.40%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite
4 4 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.24%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.16%) Odoo
6 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.16%) Sage 1000
7 1 (0.079%) iTrent
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.079%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 739 (58.51%) Azure
2 401 (31.75%) AWS
3 196 (15.52%) Power Platform
4 180 (14.25%) GCP
5 110 (8.71%) Microsoft 365
6 85 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (6.49%) SaaS
8 47 (3.72%) GitHub
9 37 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (2.85%) Power Automate
11 32 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (2.53%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.30%) Entra ID
13 26 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
14 25 (1.98%) IaaS
15 17 (1.35%) Snowflake
16 14 (1.11%) PaaS
16 14 (1.11%) Serverless
17 13 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (1.03%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.54%) Firewall
2 51 (4.04%) DNS
3 42 (3.33%) SAN
4 40 (3.17%) LAN
4 40 (3.17%) WAN
5 38 (3.01%) DHCP
6 32 (2.53%) VPN
7 22 (1.74%) Network Security
7 22 (1.74%) VoIP
8 19 (1.50%) TCP/IP
9 18 (1.43%) FTP
9 18 (1.43%) Intranet
10 15 (1.19%) NAS
11 10 (0.79%) SSL
12 9 (0.71%) DMARC
12 9 (0.71%) VLAN
12 9 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.63%) Multicast
13 8 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (0.55%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (11.80%) Power BI
2 110 (8.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 97 (7.68%) MySQL
4 87 (6.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 79 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 78 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (4.43%) MongoDB
8 54 (4.28%) Relational Database
9 48 (3.80%) NoSQL
10 41 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (2.38%) Data Lake
11 30 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 17 (1.35%) Big Data
12 17 (1.35%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.19%) Metadata
14 14 (1.11%) Data Hub
15 13 (1.03%) Tableau
16 12 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 11 (0.87%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 291 (23.04%) JIRA
2 257 (20.35%) GitLab
3 251 (19.87%) Bitbucket
3 251 (19.87%) Selenium
4 250 (19.79%) SonarQube
5 248 (19.64%) Maven
5 248 (19.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 246 (19.48%) Cucumber
7 104 (8.23%) Git
8 65 (5.15%) Visual Studio
9 32 (2.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 25 (1.98%) Jenkins
10 25 (1.98%) TeamCity
11 15 (1.19%) NUnit
12 14 (1.11%) MagicDraw
13 13 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (0.55%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.55%) Jasmine
15 7 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 426 (33.73%) Finance
2 322 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 271 (21.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 260 (20.59%) Banking
5 151 (11.96%) Retail
6 121 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (7.21%) Investment Banking
8 90 (7.13%) Corporate Banking
9 53 (4.20%) Manufacturing
10 40 (3.17%) Law
11 35 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (1.82%) Advertising
12 23 (1.82%) Back Office
13 21 (1.66%) Public Sector
14 17 (1.35%) Local Government
14 17 (1.35%) Marketing
15 15 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.95%) Games
17 10 (0.79%) Legal
17 10 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 475 (37.61%) Developer
2 291 (23.04%) Software Engineer
3 135 (10.69%) Senior
4 107 (8.47%) Software Developer
5 96 (7.60%) .NET Developer
6 91 (7.21%) SQL Developer
7 86 (6.81%) Analyst
8 79 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 78 (6.18%) C# Developer
10 74 (5.86%) IT Support
11 67 (5.30%) Full-Stack Developer
12 56 (4.43%) Lead
13 53 (4.20%) Support Engineer
14 47 (3.72%) IT Engineer
15 39 (3.09%) Applications Support
15 39 (3.09%) DBA
16 37 (2.93%) Database Developer
16 37 (2.93%) Support Analyst
17 34 (2.69%) C# .NET Developer
17 34 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (30.48%) CSS
2 375 (29.69%) HTML
3 370 (29.30%) .NET
4 363 (28.74%) React
5 279 (22.09%) Kafka
6 257 (20.35%) Spring Boot
7 253 (20.03%) Spring
8 249 (19.71%) Redux
9 246 (19.48%) JPA
10 174 (13.78%) ASP.NET
11 161 (12.75%) Hibernate
12 147 (11.64%) REST
13 141 (11.16%) HTML5
14 138 (10.93%) RESTful
15 131 (10.37%) .NET Core
16 110 (8.71%) CSS3
17 106 (8.39%) .NET Framework
18 104 (8.23%) Jest
19 95 (7.52%) Sass
20 81 (6.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 263 (20.82%) Enterprise Software
2 262 (20.74%) Product Ownership
3 58 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 54 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
5 53 (4.20%) Mobile App
6 34 (2.69%) Client/Server
7 31 (2.45%) Driving Licence
8 29 (2.30%) Data Centre
9 25 (1.98%) Onboarding
10 24 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.66%) NHS
11 21 (1.66%) Private Cloud
12 19 (1.50%) Clustering
12 19 (1.50%) Replication
13 13 (1.03%) Cloud Native
13 13 (1.03%) Robotics
14 12 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.87%) Operational Technology
16 10 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 187 (14.81%) Windows
2 100 (7.92%) Windows Server
3 85 (6.73%) Linux
4 23 (1.82%) Android
4 23 (1.82%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.66%) Unix
6 17 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.24%) Solaris
9 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.16%) Debian
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.079%) AIX
11 1 (0.079%) CentOS
11 1 (0.079%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (42.99%) Agile
2 421 (33.33%) DevOps
3 365 (28.90%) Software Engineering
4 361 (28.58%) CI/CD
5 343 (27.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 336 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
7 312 (24.70%) Microservices
8 294 (23.28%) SDLC
9 291 (23.04%) Test Automation
10 286 (22.64%) Containerisation
11 285 (22.57%) Performance Optimisation
12 258 (20.43%) Front End Development
13 236 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 215 (17.02%) Clean Code
15 186 (14.73%) TDD
16 182 (14.41%) Migration
17 178 (14.09%) Business Intelligence
18 174 (13.78%) Mentoring
19 138 (10.93%) User Experience
20 134 (10.61%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 810 (64.13%) SQL
2 416 (32.94%) JavaScript
3 383 (30.32%) C#
4 358 (28.35%) Java
5 151 (11.96%) TypeScript
6 138 (10.93%) T-SQL
7 93 (7.36%) PowerShell
8 88 (6.97%) Python
9 53 (4.20%) PHP
10 41 (3.25%) C++
11 25 (1.98%) VB.NET
12 15 (1.19%) VBA
13 12 (0.95%) Bash
14 11 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.79%) R
16 8 (0.63%) VB
17 7 (0.55%) Bicep
17 7 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.55%) Delphi
18 6 (0.48%) X++
Qualifications
1 218 (17.26%) Degree
2 70 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (4.20%) DBS Check
4 39 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 37 (2.93%) Security Cleared
6 23 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.66%) SC Cleared
8 20 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
9 19 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.79%) MCSA
11 8 (0.63%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.63%) MCSE
12 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.40%) MCP
15 4 (0.32%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.32%) CCNA
15 4 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.32%) CISSP
15 4 (0.32%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (20.90%) QA
2 122 (9.66%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 26 (2.06%) GDPR
5 19 (1.50%) WCAG
6 17 (1.35%) SLA
7 13 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.71%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.48%) GxP
10 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.24%) NCSC
11 3 (0.24%) NIST
11 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.079%) PMO
System Software
1 310 (24.54%) Docker
2 93 (7.36%) Active Directory
3 74 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (3.09%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.35%) vSphere
6 13 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.48%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.40%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.16%) KVM
12 2 (0.16%) NFS
12 2 (0.16%) SRDF
12 2 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.16%) Xen
12 2 (0.16%) XenApp
13 1 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.079%) Firmware
13 1 (0.079%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 299 (23.67%) Kubernetes
2 51 (4.04%) Terraform
3 28 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.82%) Ansible
5 12 (0.95%) SCCM
6 10 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.55%) Grafana
9 6 (0.48%) SCOM
10 5 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.40%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.40%) WSUS
10 5 (0.40%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.24%) Puppet
12 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.16%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.16%) SCSM
12 2 (0.16%) WMI
Vendors
1 515 (40.78%) Microsoft
2 246 (19.48%) Solace
3 125 (9.90%) Oracle
4 97 (7.68%) VMware
5 34 (2.69%) Databricks
6 30 (2.38%) Cisco
7 28 (2.22%) HP
8 23 (1.82%) SAP
9 20 (1.58%) IBM
9 20 (1.58%) Zoho
10 19 (1.50%) Veeam
11 13 (1.03%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.95%) Google
13 10 (0.79%) Infor
13 10 (0.79%) Informatica
13 10 (0.79%) NetApp
14 9 (0.71%) Citrix
14 9 (0.71%) Dell
15 8 (0.63%) Rollbar
15 8 (0.63%) Sage