Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -20
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,113 5,609 10,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.18% 5.40% 6.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.16% 25.33% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,485 4,386 7,266
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +7.37% +1.06%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,159 22,148 43,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.41% 21.34% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,577 13,812 21,421
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.78%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server.

Salary trend for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England +19 4,667 £55,000 -4.35% 1,075
UK excluding London +18 3,722 £52,500 +2.94% 771
Work from Home +16 2,686 £55,000 -3.51% 775
London +1 1,227 £65,000 -5.80% 359
North of England +38 969 £50,000 - 185
South East +12 862 £55,000 - 157
Midlands +32 743 £50,000 - 188
North West +33 551 £50,000 - 101
West Midlands +26 462 £52,500 +5.00% 114
South West +3 423 £52,500 +5.00% 102
East of England +33 412 £47,500 -5.00% 68
Yorkshire +29 303 £51,999 +4.00% 63
East Midlands +37 281 £47,500 +5.56% 73
Scotland -42 206 £52,500 +10.53% 48
North East +42 115 £47,500 +11.76% 22
Wales +13 84 £50,000 +16.28% 17
Northern Ireland -3 30 £50,000 - 14

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 303 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 264 (5.16%) IIS
3 223 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 110 (2.15%) CMS
5 60 (1.17%) Apache
6 51 (1.00%) Umbraco
7 40 (0.78%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.45%) WordPress
9 22 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 21 (0.41%) Confluence
11 19 (0.37%) WebSphere
12 17 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
13 16 (0.31%) EPiServer
14 15 (0.29%) JBoss
14 15 (0.29%) Kentico
14 15 (0.29%) SAS
15 14 (0.27%) ArcGIS
16 13 (0.25%) Apache Solr
17 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
18 10 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 206 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (0.45%) Photoshop
4 16 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.098%) InDesign
6 5 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.059%) SPSS
8 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.039%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.020%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 138 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (0.88%) Endur
3 36 (0.70%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.53%) SDL Web 8
5 22 (0.43%) PlanetPress Connect
6 21 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
7 17 (0.33%) Elite 3E
8 15 (0.29%) Fidessa
8 15 (0.29%) Maximo
9 13 (0.25%) Epicor Tropos
10 12 (0.23%) Shopify
11 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
11 11 (0.22%) SAP Business One
12 10 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
12 10 (0.20%) Sage 200
13 9 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
14 8 (0.16%) OpenLink RightAngle
14 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
15 7 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
16 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,857 (55.88%) Azure
2 837 (16.37%) Power Platform
3 812 (15.88%) AWS
4 589 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
5 409 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 223 (4.36%) SaaS
7 165 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 155 (3.03%) GCP
9 119 (2.33%) PaaS
10 117 (2.29%) Serverless
11 116 (2.27%) PowerApps
12 112 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 109 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
14 107 (2.09%) GitHub
15 100 (1.96%) Power Automate
16 99 (1.94%) Entra ID
17 92 (1.80%) Snowflake
18 89 (1.74%) IaaS
19 85 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 84 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 267 (5.22%) Firewall
2 213 (4.17%) DNS
3 168 (3.29%) Internet
4 152 (2.97%) WAN
5 123 (2.41%) SAN
6 105 (2.05%) DHCP
7 98 (1.92%) VPN
8 97 (1.90%) TCP/IP
9 92 (1.80%) LAN
10 87 (1.70%) Broadband
11 45 (0.88%) VoIP
12 44 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
13 42 (0.82%) HTTP
14 41 (0.80%) SSL
15 34 (0.66%) Wireless
16 32 (0.63%) NAS
16 32 (0.63%) Network Security
17 27 (0.53%) VLAN
18 20 (0.39%) SD-WAN
19 17 (0.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 758 (14.82%) Power BI
2 576 (11.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 483 (9.45%) Data Warehouse
4 432 (8.45%) Relational Database
5 417 (8.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 400 (7.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 333 (6.51%) MongoDB
8 310 (6.06%) MySQL
9 291 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
10 261 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
11 184 (3.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 175 (3.42%) Data Lake
13 165 (3.23%) NoSQL
14 113 (2.21%) RDBMS
15 107 (2.09%) Oracle Database
16 91 (1.78%) Tableau
17 78 (1.53%) DB2
18 71 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
19 59 (1.15%) MS Access
20 54 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 455 (8.90%) Git
2 281 (5.50%) Visual Studio
3 233 (4.56%) JIRA
4 112 (2.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 81 (1.58%) NUnit
6 68 (1.33%) GitLab
7 65 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 62 (1.21%) Jenkins
9 61 (1.19%) Moq
10 60 (1.17%) TeamCity
11 55 (1.08%) Jasmine
12 43 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
13 38 (0.74%) Selenium
14 37 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
15 34 (0.66%) Postman
16 33 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
17 28 (0.55%) SpecFlow
18 26 (0.51%) MSTest
19 24 (0.47%) Bitbucket
19 24 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,265 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 890 (17.41%) Finance
3 433 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (5.52%) Retail
5 196 (3.83%) Marketing
6 193 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 187 (3.66%) Law
8 148 (2.89%) Manufacturing
9 147 (2.88%) Games
9 147 (2.88%) Legal
10 145 (2.84%) Banking
11 124 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 99 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
13 84 (1.64%) Back Office
14 82 (1.60%) Advertising
15 76 (1.49%) Local Government
16 54 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
17 51 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
18 47 (0.92%) Telecoms
19 38 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 2,452 (47.96%) Developer
2 1,180 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 703 (13.75%) Senior
4 644 (12.60%) C# Developer
5 417 (8.16%) C# .NET Developer
6 408 (7.98%) Software Developer
7 400 (7.82%) Analyst
8 382 (7.47%) Lead
9 334 (6.53%) Senior Developer
10 292 (5.71%) DBA
11 267 (5.22%) Data Engineer
12 224 (4.38%) Consultant
13 220 (4.30%) Support Engineer
14 201 (3.93%) Software Engineer
15 194 (3.79%) Full Stack Developer
16 184 (3.60%) SQL DBA
17 174 (3.40%) Administrator
18 158 (3.09%) Support Analyst
19 142 (2.78%) Applications Support
20 138 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,428 (47.49%) .NET
2 1,441 (28.18%) ASP.NET
3 1,131 (22.12%) .NET Core
4 1,104 (21.59%) AngularJS
5 1,077 (21.06%) HTML
6 945 (18.48%) ASP.NET MVC
7 897 (17.54%) .NET Framework
8 842 (16.47%) Entity Framework
9 823 (16.10%) CSS
10 813 (15.90%) ASP.NET Web API
11 719 (14.06%) React
12 519 (10.15%) HTML5
13 474 (9.27%) Vue
14 387 (7.57%) RESTful
15 351 (6.86%) Node.js
16 340 (6.65%) Web Services
17 334 (6.53%) REST
18 292 (5.71%) jQuery
19 282 (5.52%) XML
20 275 (5.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 230 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
2 227 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 181 (3.54%) Management Information System
4 165 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 142 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 135 (2.64%) Replication
7 128 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 118 (2.31%) Mobile App
9 114 (2.23%) Clustering
10 93 (1.82%) Cloud Native
11 78 (1.53%) Product Ownership
12 67 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
13 55 (1.08%) Data Centre
13 55 (1.08%) Driving Licence
13 55 (1.08%) Reinsurance
14 51 (1.00%) Algorithms
14 51 (1.00%) NHS
15 44 (0.86%) Swaptions
16 43 (0.84%) Social Media
17 40 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 856 (16.74%) Windows
2 395 (7.73%) Linux
3 386 (7.55%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.13%) VMS
5 95 (1.86%) Unix
6 84 (1.64%) Windows 10
7 81 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 77 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 68 (1.33%) Android
10 55 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 44 (0.86%) CentOS
12 39 (0.76%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.53%) AIX
14 26 (0.51%) Solaris
15 24 (0.47%) zOS
16 21 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 19 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
18 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
19 16 (0.31%) Windows 7
20 13 (0.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,784 (34.89%) Agile
2 1,235 (24.15%) MVC
3 1,144 (22.37%) Full Stack Development
4 945 (18.48%) DevOps
5 923 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
6 831 (16.25%) Microservices
7 826 (16.15%) Business Intelligence
8 629 (12.30%) ETL
9 599 (11.72%) TDD
10 585 (11.44%) Scrum
11 441 (8.63%) Computer Science
12 404 (7.90%) BDD
12 404 (7.90%) CI/CD
13 397 (7.76%) Software Engineering
14 372 (7.28%) Mentoring
15 359 (7.02%) Data Modelling
16 343 (6.71%) OO
17 340 (6.65%) Analytics
18 327 (6.40%) Roadmaps
19 312 (6.10%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,651 (51.85%) SQL
2 2,455 (48.01%) C#
3 1,676 (32.78%) JavaScript
4 826 (16.15%) T-SQL
5 572 (11.19%) TypeScript
6 488 (9.54%) Python
7 350 (6.85%) PowerShell
8 316 (6.18%) Java
9 189 (3.70%) VB
10 167 (3.27%) VB.NET
11 103 (2.01%) PHP
12 87 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 76 (1.49%) Bash
14 75 (1.47%) C++
15 55 (1.08%) R
16 54 (1.06%) C
17 53 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 42 (0.82%) VBA
19 40 (0.78%) Bicep
19 40 (0.78%) XPath
Qualifications
1 878 (17.17%) Degree
2 272 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 221 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 207 (4.05%) Security Cleared
5 118 (2.31%) SC Cleared
6 71 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 63 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 43 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 31 (0.61%) CCNA
9 31 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
11 25 (0.49%) DV Cleared
11 25 (0.49%) MCSE
12 19 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.37%) MCP
13 16 (0.31%) HND
14 14 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
15 13 (0.25%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
16 12 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (4.83%) QA
2 194 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 73 (1.43%) SLA
4 64 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 62 (1.21%) GDPR
6 36 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.29%) WAI
8 14 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.16%) WCAG
12 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.12%) GMP
13 5 (0.098%) NIST
14 4 (0.078%) COBIT
14 4 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.078%) NCSC
14 4 (0.078%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.059%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.059%) MiFID
System Software
1 404 (7.90%) Active Directory
2 228 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 227 (4.44%) Docker
4 126 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 106 (2.07%) Hyper-V
6 59 (1.15%) vSphere
7 51 (1.00%) VMware NSX
8 34 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.33%) XenApp
10 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.098%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.078%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.039%) Firmware
15 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.020%) NFS
16 1 (0.020%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 221 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 152 (2.97%) Terraform
3 61 (1.19%) Ansible
4 57 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (0.98%) SCCM
6 28 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.51%) Grafana
8 24 (0.47%) Nagios
9 21 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
10 17 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.31%) WSUS
12 14 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 13 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 12 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
15 11 (0.22%) MIIS
16 10 (0.20%) Puppet
17 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
17 9 (0.18%) Foglight
18 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,666 (52.14%) Microsoft
2 557 (10.89%) Oracle
3 359 (7.02%) VMware
4 164 (3.21%) Google
5 160 (3.13%) Databricks
6 107 (2.09%) Veeam
7 104 (2.03%) Citrix
8 84 (1.64%) Cisco
8 84 (1.64%) Facebook
9 79 (1.55%) IBM
10 73 (1.43%) Sybase
11 67 (1.31%) Apple
11 67 (1.31%) SAP
12 59 (1.15%) Informatica
13 56 (1.10%) Red Hat
14 49 (0.96%) TIBCO
15 47 (0.92%) HP
16 45 (0.88%) Adobe
17 44 (0.86%) OpenLink
18 40 (0.78%) NEC