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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,052 5,431 10,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.10% 5.37% 6.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.81% 25.12% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,437 4,278 7,171
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 £53,350
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +4.97% +6.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% +3.26%

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 18,163 21,622 44,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.34% 21.36% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,524 13,516 21,153
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%

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 13 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 13 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 +21 4,615 £55,000 -4.30% 1,109
UK excluding London +22 3,662 £52,500 +1.94% 778
Work from Home +20 2,668 £55,000 -2.65% 804
London 0 1,225 £65,000 -5.55% 377
North of England +41 966 £50,000 - 204
South East +15 855 £55,000 - 161
Midlands +29 715 £50,000 - 187
North West +34 551 £50,000 - 111
West Midlands +26 460 £52,500 +5.00% 112
South West +4 413 £52,500 +5.00% 98
East of England +31 407 £47,500 -12.04% 64
Yorkshire +31 302 £51,498 +3.00% 67
East Midlands +37 255 £47,500 +2.70% 75
Scotland -35 199 £52,500 +10.53% 47
North East +44 113 £47,500 +11.76% 27
Wales +17 81 £50,000 +16.28% 17
Northern Ireland -7 31 £50,000 - 12

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
1 291 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 252 (4.99%) IIS
3 219 (4.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 110 (2.18%) CMS
5 61 (1.21%) Apache
6 51 (1.01%) Umbraco
7 40 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.44%) WordPress
9 21 (0.42%) Confluence
10 20 (0.40%) WebSphere
11 19 (0.38%) Tomcat
12 17 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
13 16 (0.32%) EPiServer
14 15 (0.30%) JBoss
14 15 (0.30%) Kentico
15 14 (0.28%) Apache Solr
15 14 (0.28%) ArcGIS
16 13 (0.26%) SAS
17 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
18 10 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 203 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.40%) Photoshop
5 17 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.059%) SPSS
10 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.040%) InDesign
10 2 (0.040%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.020%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.020%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 132 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (0.85%) Endur
3 40 (0.79%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.53%) SDL Web 8
5 20 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.40%) PlanetPress Connect
6 16 (0.32%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.32%) Fidessa
7 14 (0.28%) Maximo
8 13 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
9 11 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
9 11 (0.22%) SAP Business One
9 11 (0.22%) Shopify
10 10 (0.20%) Sage 200
11 8 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
12 7 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
13 6 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,854 (56.49%) Azure
2 822 (16.27%) Power Platform
3 819 (16.21%) AWS
4 584 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
5 404 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 213 (4.22%) SaaS
7 167 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 151 (2.99%) GCP
9 118 (2.34%) PaaS
10 113 (2.24%) Serverless
11 112 (2.22%) PowerApps
12 109 (2.16%) GitHub
13 108 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 104 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
15 97 (1.92%) Power Automate
16 96 (1.90%) Entra ID
17 93 (1.84%) Snowflake
18 91 (1.80%) IaaS
19 90 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 79 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 263 (5.21%) Firewall
2 210 (4.16%) DNS
3 165 (3.27%) Internet
4 119 (2.36%) WAN
5 118 (2.34%) SAN
6 105 (2.08%) DHCP
7 97 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 93 (1.84%) VPN
9 88 (1.74%) Broadband
10 66 (1.31%) LAN
11 46 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (0.87%) VoIP
13 40 (0.79%) HTTP
14 39 (0.77%) SSL
15 32 (0.63%) Wireless
16 29 (0.57%) NAS
16 29 (0.57%) Network Security
17 26 (0.51%) VLAN
18 21 (0.42%) SD-WAN
19 16 (0.32%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 746 (14.77%) Power BI
2 568 (11.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 482 (9.54%) Data Warehouse
4 428 (8.47%) Relational Database
5 411 (8.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 395 (7.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 340 (6.73%) MongoDB
8 303 (6.00%) MySQL
9 298 (5.90%) Elasticsearch
10 264 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
11 187 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 174 (3.44%) Data Lake
13 158 (3.13%) NoSQL
14 116 (2.30%) Oracle Database
15 113 (2.24%) RDBMS
16 89 (1.76%) Tableau
17 78 (1.54%) DB2
18 71 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
19 59 (1.17%) MS Access
20 55 (1.09%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 459 (9.09%) Git
2 281 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 226 (4.47%) JIRA
4 110 (2.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 80 (1.58%) NUnit
6 67 (1.33%) GitLab
7 64 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 62 (1.23%) Moq
9 61 (1.21%) Jenkins
10 59 (1.17%) TeamCity
11 55 (1.09%) Jasmine
12 43 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
13 37 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 34 (0.67%) Selenium
15 32 (0.63%) Postman
16 31 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
17 28 (0.55%) MSTest
17 28 (0.55%) SpecFlow
18 26 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
19 24 (0.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,261 (24.96%) Social Skills
2 890 (17.62%) Finance
3 443 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (5.46%) Retail
5 196 (3.88%) Public Sector
6 190 (3.76%) Marketing
7 184 (3.64%) Law
8 151 (2.99%) Manufacturing
9 145 (2.87%) Games
10 143 (2.83%) Banking
11 141 (2.79%) Legal
12 126 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 98 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
14 89 (1.76%) Back Office
15 82 (1.62%) Local Government
16 81 (1.60%) Advertising
17 51 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
18 47 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
19 44 (0.87%) Police
19 44 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,416 (47.82%) Developer
2 1,186 (23.48%) .NET Developer
3 695 (13.76%) Senior
4 642 (12.71%) C# Developer
5 421 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
6 391 (7.74%) Analyst
7 379 (7.50%) Software Developer
8 378 (7.48%) Lead
9 332 (6.57%) Senior Developer
10 299 (5.92%) DBA
11 267 (5.29%) Data Engineer
12 223 (4.41%) Consultant
13 217 (4.30%) Support Engineer
14 201 (3.98%) Software Engineer
15 191 (3.78%) Full Stack Developer
16 183 (3.62%) SQL DBA
17 180 (3.56%) Administrator
18 156 (3.09%) Support Analyst
19 139 (2.75%) Applications Support
20 133 (2.63%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,429 (48.08%) .NET
2 1,443 (28.56%) ASP.NET
3 1,132 (22.41%) .NET Core
4 1,091 (21.60%) AngularJS
5 1,054 (20.86%) HTML
6 948 (18.76%) ASP.NET MVC
7 898 (17.78%) .NET Framework
8 853 (16.88%) Entity Framework
9 823 (16.29%) ASP.NET Web API
10 803 (15.89%) CSS
11 703 (13.92%) React
12 502 (9.94%) HTML5
13 482 (9.54%) Vue
14 389 (7.70%) RESTful
15 344 (6.81%) Web Services
16 332 (6.57%) Node.js
17 325 (6.43%) REST
18 293 (5.80%) jQuery
19 280 (5.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 258 (5.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 232 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
2 230 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 171 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 158 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 139 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 135 (2.67%) Replication
7 126 (2.49%) Data Structures
8 116 (2.30%) Mobile App
9 108 (2.14%) Clustering
10 92 (1.82%) Cloud Native
11 82 (1.62%) Product Ownership
12 63 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 61 (1.21%) Driving Licence
14 55 (1.09%) Data Centre
15 53 (1.05%) NHS
15 53 (1.05%) Reinsurance
16 51 (1.01%) Algorithms
17 43 (0.85%) Social Media
18 42 (0.83%) Swaptions
19 38 (0.75%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 849 (16.81%) Windows
2 396 (7.84%) Linux
3 377 (7.46%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.16%) VMS
5 103 (2.04%) Unix
6 85 (1.68%) Windows 10
7 79 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 79 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 70 (1.39%) Android
9 52 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
10 45 (0.89%) CentOS
11 40 (0.79%) Ubuntu
12 27 (0.53%) AIX
12 27 (0.53%) Solaris
13 24 (0.48%) zOS
14 21 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 20 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
16 17 (0.34%) Apple iOS
17 16 (0.32%) Windows 7
18 13 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,778 (35.19%) Agile
2 1,237 (24.49%) MVC
3 1,134 (22.45%) Full Stack Development
4 936 (18.53%) DevOps
5 906 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
6 839 (16.61%) Microservices
7 818 (16.19%) Business Intelligence
8 620 (12.27%) ETL
9 602 (11.92%) TDD
10 591 (11.70%) Scrum
11 440 (8.71%) Computer Science
12 414 (8.19%) BDD
13 403 (7.98%) CI/CD
14 395 (7.82%) Software Engineering
15 370 (7.32%) Mentoring
16 361 (7.15%) Data Modelling
17 347 (6.87%) OO
18 338 (6.69%) Analytics
19 328 (6.49%) Roadmaps
20 313 (6.20%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,601 (51.48%) SQL
2 2,457 (48.63%) C#
3 1,656 (32.78%) JavaScript
4 812 (16.07%) T-SQL
5 577 (11.42%) TypeScript
6 465 (9.20%) Python
7 348 (6.89%) PowerShell
8 311 (6.16%) Java
9 166 (3.29%) VB.NET
10 165 (3.27%) VB
11 84 (1.66%) PL/SQL
12 77 (1.52%) C++
12 77 (1.52%) PHP
13 75 (1.48%) Bash
14 55 (1.09%) R
15 54 (1.07%) C
16 52 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 43 (0.85%) VBA
18 42 (0.83%) Bicep
19 40 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 852 (16.86%) Degree
2 267 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 218 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 204 (4.04%) Security Cleared
5 114 (2.26%) SC Cleared
6 71 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 43 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 32 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
10 31 (0.61%) CCNA
10 31 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (0.49%) DV Cleared
11 25 (0.49%) MCSE
12 19 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.38%) MCP
13 15 (0.30%) HND
14 14 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
15 13 (0.26%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.26%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.24%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (4.93%) QA
2 197 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 72 (1.43%) SLA
4 69 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 65 (1.29%) GDPR
6 35 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.30%) WAI
8 13 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.16%) WCAG
12 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.12%) GMP
12 6 (0.12%) NIST
13 5 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.079%) COBIT
14 4 (0.079%) MiFID
14 4 (0.079%) NCSC
14 4 (0.079%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.059%) JSP 440
System Software
1 394 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 228 (4.51%) Docker
3 219 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 126 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
5 105 (2.08%) Hyper-V
6 58 (1.15%) vSphere
7 45 (0.89%) VMware NSX
8 37 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.34%) XenApp
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.099%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.079%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.059%) Firmware
14 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.040%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.020%) NFS
16 1 (0.020%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 223 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 152 (3.01%) Terraform
3 60 (1.19%) Ansible
4 56 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (0.97%) SCCM
6 30 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.51%) Grafana
8 24 (0.48%) Nagios
9 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
10 17 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.32%) WSUS
12 15 (0.30%) vCenter Server
13 14 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
16 11 (0.22%) MIIS
17 10 (0.20%) Puppet
18 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
18 9 (0.18%) Foglight
19 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,644 (52.34%) Microsoft
2 568 (11.24%) Oracle
3 346 (6.85%) VMware
4 166 (3.29%) Google
5 157 (3.11%) Databricks
6 113 (2.24%) Veeam
7 101 (2.00%) Citrix
8 86 (1.70%) Cisco
9 84 (1.66%) Facebook
10 79 (1.56%) IBM
11 72 (1.43%) Sybase
12 67 (1.33%) Apple
13 65 (1.29%) SAP
14 60 (1.19%) Informatica
15 58 (1.15%) Red Hat
16 46 (0.91%) TIBCO
17 45 (0.89%) NEC
18 44 (0.87%) HP
19 42 (0.83%) Adobe
19 42 (0.83%) OpenLink