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

6 months to
8 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 5,078 5,475 10,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.12% 5.39% 6.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.91% 25.27% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,467 4,291 7,160
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
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 £51,500 £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 18,197 21,669 43,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.35% 21.34% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,547 13,515 21,192
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 £79,000
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% +8.25%

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 8 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 8 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 +20 4,634 £55,000 -4.35% 1,061
UK excluding London +18 3,691 £52,500 +1.94% 729
Work from Home +16 2,676 £55,000 -3.51% 782
London 0 1,220 £65,000 -6.10% 374
North of England +39 968 £50,000 - 185
South East +11 857 £55,000 - 151
Midlands +32 724 £50,000 - 177
North West +37 551 £50,000 - 99
West Midlands +28 464 £52,500 +5.00% 106
South West +2 417 £52,500 +5.00% 92
East of England +32 413 £47,500 -7.32% 62
Yorkshire +32 301 £51,498 +3.00% 67
East Midlands +36 260 £47,500 +5.56% 71
Scotland -37 204 £52,500 +10.53% 43
North East +44 116 £47,500 +11.76% 20
Wales +16 82 £50,000 +16.28% 15
Northern Ireland -4 31 £50,000 - 13

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
1 297 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 261 (5.14%) IIS
3 220 (4.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 111 (2.19%) CMS
5 61 (1.20%) Apache
6 51 (1.00%) Umbraco
7 40 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.45%) WordPress
9 20 (0.39%) Confluence
9 20 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 19 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
12 16 (0.32%) EPiServer
13 15 (0.30%) JBoss
13 15 (0.30%) Kentico
14 14 (0.28%) Apache Solr
14 14 (0.28%) ArcGIS
15 13 (0.26%) SAS
16 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
17 10 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 203 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.43%) Photoshop
5 16 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.079%) InDesign
9 3 (0.059%) SPSS
10 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.039%) 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 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (0.89%) Endur
3 41 (0.81%) NEC Housing
4 27 (0.53%) SDL Web 8
5 21 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
6 20 (0.39%) PlanetPress Connect
7 17 (0.33%) Elite 3E
8 15 (0.30%) Fidessa
9 14 (0.28%) Maximo
10 13 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
11 12 (0.24%) Shopify
12 11 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
12 11 (0.22%) Sage X3
12 11 (0.22%) SAP Business One
13 10 (0.20%) Sage 200
14 9 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
15 8 (0.16%) OpenLink RightAngle
15 8 (0.16%) Teamcenter
16 7 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
17 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,863 (56.38%) Azure
2 830 (16.35%) Power Platform
3 819 (16.13%) AWS
4 590 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
5 405 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
6 219 (4.31%) SaaS
7 165 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 153 (3.01%) GCP
9 119 (2.34%) PaaS
10 115 (2.26%) PowerApps
10 115 (2.26%) Serverless
11 110 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 107 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
12 107 (2.11%) GitHub
13 99 (1.95%) Power Automate
14 95 (1.87%) Entra ID
15 92 (1.81%) Snowflake
16 91 (1.79%) IaaS
17 89 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 83 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 263 (5.18%) Firewall
2 210 (4.14%) DNS
3 167 (3.29%) Internet
4 125 (2.46%) WAN
5 121 (2.38%) SAN
6 104 (2.05%) DHCP
7 96 (1.89%) TCP/IP
8 94 (1.85%) VPN
9 88 (1.73%) Broadband
10 66 (1.30%) LAN
11 44 (0.87%) VoIP
12 43 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
13 42 (0.83%) HTTP
14 39 (0.77%) SSL
15 33 (0.65%) Wireless
16 32 (0.63%) NAS
17 29 (0.57%) Network Security
18 26 (0.51%) VLAN
19 21 (0.41%) SD-WAN
20 17 (0.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 752 (14.81%) Power BI
2 568 (11.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 479 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
4 433 (8.53%) Relational Database
5 409 (8.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 403 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 338 (6.66%) MongoDB
8 309 (6.09%) MySQL
9 297 (5.85%) Elasticsearch
10 265 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
11 186 (3.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 177 (3.49%) Data Lake
13 164 (3.23%) NoSQL
14 114 (2.24%) RDBMS
15 113 (2.23%) Oracle Database
16 89 (1.75%) Tableau
17 79 (1.56%) DB2
18 71 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
19 59 (1.16%) MS Access
20 55 (1.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 459 (9.04%) Git
2 282 (5.55%) Visual Studio
3 227 (4.47%) JIRA
4 109 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 80 (1.58%) NUnit
6 68 (1.34%) GitLab
7 64 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 62 (1.22%) Moq
9 61 (1.20%) Jenkins
10 60 (1.18%) TeamCity
11 55 (1.08%) Jasmine
12 43 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
13 37 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 36 (0.71%) Selenium
15 32 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
15 32 (0.63%) Postman
16 28 (0.55%) SpecFlow
17 27 (0.53%) MSTest
18 25 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
19 24 (0.47%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,267 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 886 (17.45%) Finance
3 438 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (5.53%) Retail
5 197 (3.88%) Public Sector
6 193 (3.80%) Marketing
7 184 (3.62%) Law
8 149 (2.93%) Manufacturing
9 148 (2.91%) Games
10 144 (2.84%) Legal
11 142 (2.80%) Banking
12 125 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 100 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
14 89 (1.75%) Back Office
15 83 (1.63%) Advertising
16 82 (1.61%) Local Government
17 53 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
18 50 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
19 46 (0.91%) Telecoms
20 44 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 2,436 (47.97%) Developer
2 1,195 (23.53%) .NET Developer
3 696 (13.71%) Senior
4 646 (12.72%) C# Developer
5 421 (8.29%) C# .NET Developer
6 391 (7.70%) Analyst
7 384 (7.56%) Software Developer
8 383 (7.54%) Lead
9 335 (6.60%) Senior Developer
10 299 (5.89%) DBA
11 268 (5.28%) Data Engineer
12 224 (4.41%) Consultant
13 216 (4.25%) Support Engineer
14 200 (3.94%) Software Engineer
15 195 (3.84%) Full Stack Developer
16 184 (3.62%) SQL DBA
17 181 (3.56%) Administrator
18 153 (3.01%) Support Analyst
19 136 (2.68%) Applications Support
20 132 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,444 (48.13%) .NET
2 1,453 (28.61%) ASP.NET
3 1,138 (22.41%) .NET Core
4 1,093 (21.52%) AngularJS
5 1,058 (20.83%) HTML
6 955 (18.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 906 (17.84%) .NET Framework
8 854 (16.82%) Entity Framework
9 823 (16.21%) ASP.NET Web API
10 804 (15.83%) CSS
11 704 (13.86%) React
12 503 (9.91%) HTML5
13 481 (9.47%) Vue
14 391 (7.70%) RESTful
15 346 (6.81%) Web Services
16 333 (6.56%) REST
17 332 (6.54%) Node.js
18 294 (5.79%) jQuery
19 280 (5.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 260 (5.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 233 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
2 231 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 177 (3.49%) Management Information System
4 163 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 140 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 135 (2.66%) Replication
7 129 (2.54%) Data Structures
8 116 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 112 (2.21%) Clustering
10 93 (1.83%) Cloud Native
11 82 (1.61%) Product Ownership
12 66 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 61 (1.20%) Driving Licence
14 55 (1.08%) Data Centre
15 54 (1.06%) Reinsurance
16 53 (1.04%) NHS
17 51 (1.00%) Algorithms
18 44 (0.87%) Swaptions
19 43 (0.85%) Social Media
20 40 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 849 (16.72%) Windows
2 394 (7.76%) Linux
3 380 (7.48%) Windows Server
4 110 (2.17%) VMS
5 99 (1.95%) Unix
6 83 (1.63%) Windows 10
7 80 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 77 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 69 (1.36%) Android
10 54 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 44 (0.87%) CentOS
12 40 (0.79%) 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 (0.32%) Windows 7
20 13 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,791 (35.27%) Agile
2 1,243 (24.48%) MVC
3 1,135 (22.35%) Full Stack Development
4 943 (18.57%) DevOps
5 917 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
6 842 (16.58%) Microservices
7 821 (16.17%) Business Intelligence
8 624 (12.29%) ETL
9 610 (12.01%) TDD
10 594 (11.70%) Scrum
11 440 (8.66%) Computer Science
12 414 (8.15%) BDD
13 407 (8.01%) CI/CD
14 398 (7.84%) Software Engineering
15 371 (7.31%) Mentoring
16 358 (7.05%) Data Modelling
17 347 (6.83%) OO
18 340 (6.70%) Analytics
19 327 (6.44%) Roadmaps
20 312 (6.14%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,620 (51.60%) SQL
2 2,471 (48.66%) C#
3 1,662 (32.73%) JavaScript
4 818 (16.11%) T-SQL
5 579 (11.40%) TypeScript
6 461 (9.08%) Python
7 346 (6.81%) PowerShell
8 317 (6.24%) Java
9 166 (3.27%) VB
9 166 (3.27%) VB.NET
10 85 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 78 (1.54%) PHP
12 76 (1.50%) C++
13 74 (1.46%) Bash
14 54 (1.06%) C
14 54 (1.06%) R
15 52 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 42 (0.83%) Bicep
16 42 (0.83%) VBA
17 40 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 850 (16.74%) Degree
2 270 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 220 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 210 (4.14%) Security Cleared
5 116 (2.28%) SC Cleared
6 70 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 63 (1.24%) 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%) MCSE
12 24 (0.47%) DV Cleared
13 19 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.37%) MCP
14 16 (0.32%) HND
15 14 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.26%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.26%) PMI Certification
17 12 (0.24%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (4.88%) QA
2 196 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 74 (1.46%) SLA
4 70 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 64 (1.26%) GDPR
6 35 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.30%) WAI
8 14 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.22%) 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 (0.079%) COBIT
14 4 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.079%) NCSC
14 4 (0.079%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.059%) ISO 9000
15 3 (0.059%) MiFID
System Software
1 397 (7.82%) Active Directory
2 228 (4.49%) Docker
3 223 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 126 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 105 (2.07%) Hyper-V
6 58 (1.14%) vSphere
7 50 (0.98%) VMware NSX
8 34 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.33%) XenApp
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.098%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.079%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.039%) Firmware
14 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.039%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.020%) NFS
15 1 (0.020%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 224 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 152 (2.99%) Terraform
3 60 (1.18%) Ansible
4 57 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (0.98%) SCCM
6 30 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.51%) Grafana
8 24 (0.47%) Nagios
9 21 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
10 16 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.32%) WSUS
11 14 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.28%) vCenter Server
12 13 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (0.22%) MIIS
15 10 (0.20%) Puppet
16 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.18%) Foglight
17 8 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2,643 (52.05%) Microsoft
2 564 (11.11%) Oracle
3 353 (6.95%) VMware
4 164 (3.23%) Google
5 159 (3.13%) Databricks
6 109 (2.15%) Veeam
7 100 (1.97%) Citrix
8 86 (1.69%) Cisco
9 84 (1.65%) Facebook
10 79 (1.56%) IBM
11 74 (1.46%) Sybase
12 67 (1.32%) Apple
13 66 (1.30%) SAP
14 58 (1.14%) Informatica
15 57 (1.12%) Red Hat
16 48 (0.95%) TIBCO
17 45 (0.89%) HP
17 45 (0.89%) NEC
18 44 (0.87%) Adobe
18 44 (0.87%) OpenLink