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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 5,137 5,719 10,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.23% 5.46% 6.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.36% 25.19% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,508 4,455 7,272
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +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% -

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 18,115 22,699 42,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.45% 21.66% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,588 14,042 21,422
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 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,106
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.56% +6.88%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +20 4,683 £55,000 -4.35% 1,037
UK excluding London +18 3,729 £52,500 +2.94% 745
Work from Home +18 2,700 £55,000 -3.51% 764
London +4 1,240 £65,000 -5.55% 351
North of England +37 976 £50,000 - 195
South East +12 864 £55,000 - 162
Midlands +32 735 £50,000 - 166
North West +43 557 £50,000 - 106
West Midlands +26 451 £52,500 +5.00% 100
South West +1 421 £52,500 +5.00% 89
East of England +33 412 £47,500 -9.52% 76
Yorkshire +32 305 £52,500 +5.00% 64
East Midlands +38 284 £47,500 +5.56% 66
Scotland -34 208 £52,500 +10.53% 49
North East +42 114 £47,500 +8.57% 26
Wales +12 90 £50,000 +16.28% 14
Northern Ireland -1 30 £50,000 +2.56% 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
1 307 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 269 (5.24%) IIS
3 231 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 111 (2.16%) CMS
5 59 (1.15%) Apache
6 55 (1.07%) Umbraco
7 38 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 25 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 23 (0.45%) WordPress
10 22 (0.43%) 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
15 14 (0.27%) ArcGIS
15 14 (0.27%) SAS
16 13 (0.25%) Apache Solr
17 11 (0.21%) WebLogic
18 10 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 206 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 156 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.49%) Photoshop
4 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.14%) InDesign
7 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.078%) SPSS
10 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.039%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.019%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.019%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 142 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.95%) Endur
3 34 (0.66%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.53%) SDL Web 8
5 24 (0.47%) PlanetPress Connect
6 21 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
7 18 (0.35%) Elite 3E
8 16 (0.31%) Fidessa
9 15 (0.29%) Maximo
10 13 (0.25%) Epicor Tropos
11 12 (0.23%) Shopify
12 11 (0.21%) Sage X3
12 11 (0.21%) SAP Business One
13 10 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
13 10 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
13 10 (0.19%) Sage 200
14 9 (0.18%) OpenLink RightAngle
15 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
16 6 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
16 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,867 (55.81%) Azure
2 836 (16.27%) Power Platform
3 810 (15.77%) AWS
4 592 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
5 419 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
6 231 (4.50%) SaaS
7 167 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 156 (3.04%) GCP
9 124 (2.41%) PaaS
10 121 (2.36%) Serverless
11 113 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 112 (2.18%) PowerApps
13 110 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
14 108 (2.10%) GitHub
15 101 (1.97%) Entra ID
16 94 (1.83%) Power Automate
17 93 (1.81%) Snowflake
18 92 (1.79%) IaaS
19 84 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
20 82 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 279 (5.43%) Firewall
2 213 (4.15%) DNS
3 168 (3.27%) Internet
4 156 (3.04%) WAN
5 126 (2.45%) SAN
6 105 (2.04%) DHCP
7 102 (1.99%) VPN
8 95 (1.85%) TCP/IP
9 94 (1.83%) LAN
10 87 (1.69%) Broadband
11 48 (0.93%) VoIP
12 47 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
13 43 (0.84%) SSL
14 42 (0.82%) HTTP
15 38 (0.74%) Wireless
16 34 (0.66%) NAS
17 33 (0.64%) Network Security
18 30 (0.58%) VLAN
19 20 (0.39%) SD-WAN
20 16 (0.31%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 757 (14.74%) Power BI
2 581 (11.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 485 (9.44%) Data Warehouse
4 434 (8.45%) Relational Database
5 416 (8.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 398 (7.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 331 (6.44%) MongoDB
8 312 (6.07%) MySQL
9 291 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
10 257 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
11 183 (3.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 175 (3.41%) Data Lake
13 164 (3.19%) NoSQL
14 112 (2.18%) RDBMS
15 103 (2.01%) Oracle Database
16 90 (1.75%) Tableau
17 75 (1.46%) DB2
18 71 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
19 59 (1.15%) MS Access
20 53 (1.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 454 (8.84%) Git
2 279 (5.43%) Visual Studio
3 239 (4.65%) JIRA
4 114 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 81 (1.58%) NUnit
6 68 (1.32%) GitLab
7 67 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 61 (1.19%) Jenkins
9 60 (1.17%) Moq
9 60 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 55 (1.07%) Jasmine
11 43 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
12 37 (0.72%) Selenium
12 37 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
13 34 (0.66%) Postman
14 33 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
15 28 (0.55%) SpecFlow
16 25 (0.49%) MSTest
17 24 (0.47%) Bitbucket
17 24 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,268 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 906 (17.64%) Finance
3 438 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (5.47%) Retail
5 200 (3.89%) Marketing
6 191 (3.72%) Law
7 186 (3.62%) Public Sector
8 153 (2.98%) Games
9 151 (2.94%) Manufacturing
10 150 (2.92%) Banking
11 146 (2.84%) Legal
12 122 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 100 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 85 (1.65%) Advertising
15 82 (1.60%) Back Office
16 73 (1.42%) Local Government
17 54 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
18 52 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
19 46 (0.90%) Telecoms
20 38 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,448 (47.65%) Developer
2 1,180 (22.97%) .NET Developer
3 707 (13.76%) Senior
4 643 (12.52%) C# Developer
5 415 (8.08%) C# .NET Developer
6 408 (7.94%) Software Developer
7 407 (7.92%) Analyst
8 381 (7.42%) Lead
9 331 (6.44%) Senior Developer
10 293 (5.70%) DBA
11 262 (5.10%) Data Engineer
12 227 (4.42%) Consultant
13 220 (4.28%) Support Engineer
14 205 (3.99%) Software Engineer
15 194 (3.78%) Full Stack Developer
16 188 (3.66%) SQL DBA
17 172 (3.35%) Administrator
18 163 (3.17%) Support Analyst
19 147 (2.86%) Applications Support
20 139 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,432 (47.34%) .NET
2 1,440 (28.03%) ASP.NET
3 1,132 (22.04%) .NET Core
4 1,101 (21.43%) AngularJS
5 1,075 (20.93%) HTML
6 948 (18.45%) ASP.NET MVC
7 887 (17.27%) .NET Framework
8 830 (16.16%) Entity Framework
9 817 (15.90%) CSS
10 811 (15.79%) ASP.NET Web API
11 716 (13.94%) React
12 518 (10.08%) HTML5
13 472 (9.19%) Vue
14 390 (7.59%) RESTful
15 351 (6.83%) Node.js
16 341 (6.64%) REST
16 341 (6.64%) Web Services
17 293 (5.70%) jQuery
18 280 (5.45%) XML
19 272 (5.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 232 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
2 225 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
3 185 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 169 (3.29%) Public Cloud
5 142 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 135 (2.63%) Replication
7 127 (2.47%) Data Structures
8 117 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 115 (2.24%) Clustering
10 94 (1.83%) Cloud Native
11 76 (1.48%) Product Ownership
12 70 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
13 60 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 57 (1.11%) Reinsurance
15 51 (0.99%) Algorithms
15 51 (0.99%) Driving Licence
16 50 (0.97%) NHS
17 48 (0.93%) Swaptions
18 44 (0.86%) Social Media
19 42 (0.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 862 (16.78%) Windows
2 397 (7.73%) Linux
3 386 (7.51%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.12%) VMS
5 96 (1.87%) Unix
6 85 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 83 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 76 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 67 (1.30%) Android
10 57 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 46 (0.90%) CentOS
12 40 (0.78%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.53%) AIX
13 27 (0.53%) Solaris
14 24 (0.47%) zOS
15 20 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 19 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
18 16 (0.31%) Windows 7
19 15 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,790 (34.85%) Agile
2 1,238 (24.10%) MVC
3 1,141 (22.21%) Full Stack Development
4 950 (18.49%) DevOps
5 935 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
6 828 (16.12%) Microservices
7 819 (15.94%) Business Intelligence
8 631 (12.28%) ETL
9 598 (11.64%) TDD
10 585 (11.39%) Scrum
11 442 (8.60%) Computer Science
12 406 (7.90%) BDD
13 403 (7.85%) CI/CD
14 400 (7.79%) Software Engineering
15 372 (7.24%) Mentoring
16 360 (7.01%) Data Modelling
17 346 (6.74%) OO
18 337 (6.56%) Analytics
19 333 (6.48%) Roadmaps
20 310 (6.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,663 (51.84%) SQL
2 2,457 (47.83%) C#
3 1,682 (32.74%) JavaScript
4 827 (16.10%) T-SQL
5 569 (11.08%) TypeScript
6 490 (9.54%) Python
7 351 (6.83%) PowerShell
8 317 (6.17%) Java
9 189 (3.68%) VB
10 165 (3.21%) VB.NET
11 103 (2.01%) PHP
12 90 (1.75%) PL/SQL
13 80 (1.56%) Bash
14 73 (1.42%) C++
15 55 (1.07%) C
16 54 (1.05%) R
17 52 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 42 (0.82%) VBA
19 41 (0.80%) Bicep
19 41 (0.80%) XPath
Qualifications
1 885 (17.23%) Degree
2 277 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 221 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 202 (3.93%) Security Cleared
5 119 (2.32%) SC Cleared
6 76 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 43 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 31 (0.60%) CCNA
9 31 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.51%) MCSE
11 23 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
12 21 (0.41%) DV Cleared
13 19 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.37%) MCP
14 16 (0.31%) HND
15 14 (0.27%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (0.23%) MCSA
16 12 (0.23%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (4.85%) QA
2 193 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 74 (1.44%) SLA
4 61 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 61 (1.19%) GDPR
5 36 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 15 (0.29%) WAI
8 13 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.16%) WCAG
11 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.12%) GMP
12 5 (0.097%) NIST
13 4 (0.078%) COBIT
13 4 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.078%) NCSC
13 4 (0.078%) PMO
13 4 (0.078%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.058%) MiFID
System Software
1 410 (7.98%) Active Directory
2 237 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 225 (4.38%) Docker
4 127 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 103 (2.01%) Hyper-V
6 59 (1.15%) vSphere
7 52 (1.01%) VMware NSX
8 33 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.33%) XenApp
10 12 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.097%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.078%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.039%) Firmware
15 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.019%) IAG
16 1 (0.019%) RACF
Systems Management
1 219 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 152 (2.96%) Terraform
3 62 (1.21%) Ansible
4 57 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 52 (1.01%) SCCM
6 26 (0.51%) Grafana
7 25 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.47%) Nagios
9 20 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
10 18 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.31%) WSUS
12 13 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.25%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.25%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (0.21%) MIIS
15 10 (0.19%) Puppet
16 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.18%) Foglight
17 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,677 (52.11%) Microsoft
2 551 (10.73%) Oracle
3 370 (7.20%) VMware
4 161 (3.13%) Google
5 158 (3.08%) Databricks
6 109 (2.12%) Veeam
7 105 (2.04%) Citrix
8 84 (1.64%) Cisco
8 84 (1.64%) Facebook
9 77 (1.50%) IBM
10 76 (1.48%) Sybase
11 67 (1.30%) Apple
12 66 (1.28%) SAP
13 60 (1.17%) Informatica
14 54 (1.05%) TIBCO
15 52 (1.01%) Red Hat
16 49 (0.95%) HP
17 48 (0.93%) OpenLink
18 47 (0.91%) Adobe
19 40 (0.78%) F5