SQL Server Jobs

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 48 52
Rank change year-on-year -40 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,810 4,862 4,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.12% 4.51% 5.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.12% 26.89% 25.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 4,140 3,926
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £44,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £89,926
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +8.42%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,828 18,084 19,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.48% 16.76% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,875 12,346 12,579
10th Percentile £35,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -8.73% +5.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in the UK

SQL Server
Top 18 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 1 July 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
England -46 1,616 £57,250 +4.09% 3,037
UK excluding London -36 1,320 £50,000 - 1,931
Work from Home -40 903 £57,500 +4.55% 1,510
North of England -45 426 £50,890 +1.78% 506
London -56 397 £72,500 +7.41% 1,312
South East -56 284 £52,500 -4.55% 574
Midlands -26 283 £50,000 - 275
North West -56 265 £50,445 -1.09% 344
West Midlands -27 153 £57,500 +12.75% 170
East Midlands -21 129 £48,500 +2.11% 104
East of England -48 124 £44,000 -7.37% 160
Yorkshire -31 118 £54,250 +14.21% 126
Scotland +31 95 £50,500 -3.81% 152
South West -41 93 £50,000 -4.76% 191
North East +1 44 £45,000 -7.69% 36
Northern Ireland +25 8 £57,500 +15.00% 41
Wales -24 8 £57,500 +15.00% 48
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 -

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
1 203 (11.22%) Confluence
2 126 (6.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 106 (5.86%) IIS
4 89 (4.92%) SharePoint
5 24 (1.33%) CMS
6 20 (1.10%) Umbraco
7 16 (0.88%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.77%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.66%) Apache
10 9 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
10 9 (0.50%) Moodle
11 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
12 5 (0.28%) SAS
13 4 (0.22%) NServiceBus
13 4 (0.22%) Skype for Business
14 3 (0.17%) nginx
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
15 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 60 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.50%) Trello
4 5 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.17%) EPLAN
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) Revit
7 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.055%) Moqups
8 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 62 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.61%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.33%) Infor CloudSuite
4 6 (0.33%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 5 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.28%) Endur
5 5 (0.28%) Exchequer
5 5 (0.28%) Infor M3
5 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.28%) SAP Business One
5 5 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.22%) Sage 1000
7 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.17%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.11%) Eikon
8 2 (0.11%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,065 (58.84%) Azure
2 474 (26.19%) AWS
3 343 (18.95%) Power Platform
4 196 (10.83%) GCP
5 189 (10.44%) Microsoft 365
6 154 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 113 (6.24%) SaaS
8 93 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (4.53%) GitHub
10 76 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 74 (4.09%) Power Automate
11 74 (4.09%) PowerApps
12 70 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
13 57 (3.15%) Entra ID
14 54 (2.98%) Serverless
15 34 (1.88%) IaaS
16 33 (1.82%) Azure Functions
17 26 (1.44%) Snowflake
18 24 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
18 24 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 115 (6.35%) Firewall
2 78 (4.31%) DNS
3 60 (3.31%) DHCP
4 57 (3.15%) SAN
5 55 (3.04%) WAN
6 52 (2.87%) LAN
7 39 (2.15%) VPN
8 35 (1.93%) TCP/IP
9 34 (1.88%) VoIP
10 31 (1.71%) Network Security
11 21 (1.16%) FTP
12 19 (1.05%) HTTP
12 19 (1.05%) NAS
13 15 (0.83%) VLAN
13 15 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
15 13 (0.72%) Intranet
15 13 (0.72%) SSL
16 11 (0.61%) iSCSI
16 11 (0.61%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (15.08%) Power BI
2 175 (9.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 156 (8.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 144 (7.96%) MySQL
5 127 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
6 122 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
7 104 (5.75%) Relational Database
8 82 (4.53%) MongoDB
9 76 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 72 (3.98%) NoSQL
11 52 (2.87%) Data Lake
12 47 (2.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 34 (1.88%) Tableau
14 31 (1.71%) Data Hub
15 28 (1.55%) DB2
15 28 (1.55%) RDBMS
16 27 (1.49%) Metadata
17 26 (1.44%) SQL CLR
18 25 (1.38%) Big Data
19 23 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 341 (18.84%) JIRA
2 260 (14.36%) GitLab
3 258 (14.25%) Bitbucket
4 257 (14.20%) Selenium
5 255 (14.09%) SonarQube
6 252 (13.92%) Maven
7 250 (13.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 248 (13.70%) Cucumber
9 169 (9.34%) Git
10 84 (4.64%) Visual Studio
11 44 (2.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 34 (1.88%) TeamCity
13 32 (1.77%) Jenkins
14 30 (1.66%) NUnit
15 25 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
16 14 (0.77%) MagicDraw
16 14 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
17 11 (0.61%) Jasmine
17 11 (0.61%) Postman
17 11 (0.61%) PowerBuilder
General
1 615 (33.98%) Finance
2 519 (28.67%) Social Skills
3 309 (17.07%) Banking
4 303 (16.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 202 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
6 172 (9.50%) Retail
7 106 (5.86%) Investment Banking
8 90 (4.97%) Corporate Banking
9 73 (4.03%) Manufacturing
10 71 (3.92%) Law
11 46 (2.54%) Back Office
11 46 (2.54%) Public Sector
12 43 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (2.15%) Front Office
14 32 (1.77%) Legal
15 31 (1.71%) Advertising
16 26 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
16 26 (1.44%) Marketing
17 21 (1.16%) Games
18 20 (1.10%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 647 (35.75%) Developer
2 298 (16.46%) Software Engineer
3 257 (14.20%) Senior
4 194 (10.72%) Analyst
5 148 (8.18%) Senior Developer
6 136 (7.51%) .NET Developer
7 126 (6.96%) C# Developer
7 126 (6.96%) SQL Developer
8 125 (6.91%) Lead
9 111 (6.13%) Support Analyst
10 100 (5.52%) IT Support
11 94 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
12 88 (4.86%) Applications Support
13 77 (4.25%) Software Developer
14 66 (3.65%) Data Engineer
15 64 (3.54%) Support Engineer
16 63 (3.48%) Architect
17 62 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 61 (3.37%) IT Engineer
19 56 (3.09%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 589 (32.54%) .NET
2 443 (24.48%) CSS
3 426 (23.54%) HTML
4 413 (22.82%) React
5 307 (16.96%) Kafka
6 272 (15.03%) Spring Boot
7 267 (14.75%) Spring
8 251 (13.87%) Redux
9 249 (13.76%) JPA
10 224 (12.38%) ASP.NET
11 199 (10.99%) REST
12 182 (10.06%) RESTful
13 178 (9.83%) .NET Framework
14 171 (9.45%) .NET Core
15 165 (9.12%) Hibernate
16 151 (8.34%) HTML5
17 120 (6.63%) AngularJS
17 120 (6.63%) CSS3
18 112 (6.19%) Jest
19 103 (5.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 296 (16.35%) Product Ownership
2 283 (15.64%) Enterprise Software
3 73 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
4 57 (3.15%) Mobile App
5 55 (3.04%) Management Information System
6 47 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 40 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.99%) Driving Licence
10 32 (1.77%) Clustering
11 31 (1.71%) Private Cloud
12 30 (1.66%) Client/Server
13 29 (1.60%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.44%) Replication
15 25 (1.38%) NHS
16 24 (1.33%) Data Centre
17 19 (1.05%) Hedge funds
18 18 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
18 18 (0.99%) Virtual Team
19 17 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 321 (17.73%) Windows
2 169 (9.34%) Windows Server
3 147 (8.12%) Linux
4 47 (2.60%) Unix
5 30 (1.66%) Android
5 30 (1.66%) Windows 10
6 28 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (0.72%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.39%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.33%) CentOS
13 5 (0.28%) Rocky
13 5 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.22%) Solaris
15 2 (0.11%) AIX
15 2 (0.11%) Debian
15 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (37.51%) Agile
2 568 (31.38%) DevOps
3 467 (25.80%) CI/CD
4 453 (25.03%) Problem-Solving
5 395 (21.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 387 (21.38%) Software Engineering
7 372 (20.55%) Microservices
8 337 (18.62%) SDLC
9 317 (17.51%) Containerisation
9 317 (17.51%) Test Automation
10 307 (16.96%) Performance Optimisation
11 301 (16.63%) Business Intelligence
12 291 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 272 (15.03%) Front End Development
14 264 (14.59%) Migration
15 256 (14.14%) Mentoring
16 253 (13.98%) Clean Code
17 212 (11.71%) TDD
18 187 (10.33%) Computer Science
19 168 (9.28%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,148 (63.43%) SQL
2 585 (32.32%) C#
3 524 (28.95%) JavaScript
4 386 (21.33%) Java
5 215 (11.88%) T-SQL
6 190 (10.50%) TypeScript
7 170 (9.39%) Python
8 161 (8.90%) PowerShell
9 69 (3.81%) PHP
10 63 (3.48%) C++
11 46 (2.54%) VB.NET
12 43 (2.38%) PL/SQL
13 35 (1.93%) Bash
14 21 (1.16%) VBA
15 17 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.77%) Bicep
16 14 (0.77%) VB
17 13 (0.72%) R
18 9 (0.50%) C
19 8 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 311 (17.18%) Degree
2 116 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 63 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 60 (3.31%) DBS Check
5 59 (3.26%) Security Cleared
6 49 (2.71%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (1.66%) SC Cleared
8 14 (0.77%) DV Cleared
9 13 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (0.61%) MCSA
11 10 (0.55%) MCSE
11 10 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.50%) MCP
13 8 (0.44%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.39%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
15 6 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 5 (0.28%) CCNA
16 5 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (16.35%) QA
2 125 (6.91%) Accessibility
3 57 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.82%) GDPR
5 31 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.94%) ISO 9001
7 15 (0.83%) WCAG
8 9 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.50%) SLA
9 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.28%) GxP
10 5 (0.28%) NCSC
11 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.17%) NIST
12 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.11%) GAAP
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.055%) MiFID
System Software
1 352 (19.45%) Docker
2 154 (8.51%) Active Directory
3 123 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (3.54%) Hyper-V
5 26 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.27%) vSphere
7 17 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 6 (0.33%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.22%) zsh
12 3 (0.17%) Apache Flume
12 3 (0.17%) HDFS
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) SRDF
13 2 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.11%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 360 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 86 (4.75%) Terraform
3 59 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (2.27%) Ansible
5 34 (1.88%) SCCM
6 22 (1.22%) Grafana
7 21 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
8 17 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.50%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.50%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.50%) WSUS
11 8 (0.44%) WMI
12 7 (0.39%) SCOM
13 6 (0.33%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.22%) Kibana
15 4 (0.22%) logstash
15 4 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 802 (44.31%) Microsoft
2 247 (13.65%) Solace
3 166 (9.17%) Oracle
4 152 (8.40%) VMware
5 71 (3.92%) Databricks
6 51 (2.82%) Cisco
7 29 (1.60%) Dell
7 29 (1.60%) HP
7 29 (1.60%) Veeam
8 28 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.44%) SAP
10 25 (1.38%) Google
11 22 (1.22%) IBM
12 21 (1.16%) Splunk
13 20 (1.10%) Citrix
13 20 (1.10%) Zoho
14 19 (1.05%) Bloomberg
14 19 (1.05%) Informatica
14 19 (1.05%) NetApp
15 17 (0.94%) Red Hat