SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Job Trends

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 639 715
Rank change year-on-year -8 +76 +173
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 48 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.10% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.55% 0.95% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16 32 98
10th Percentile - £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,563 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72,188 £71,563 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -28.00% +31.58%

All Development Application Skills
UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,971 5,076 7,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.70% 10.66% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,561 3,032 6,344
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +3.75% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,375 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,443 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.96% +4.44% -1.79%

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) job vacancy trend in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) within the UK over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. 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 -8 21 £57,500 -4.17% 7
Work from Home +38 12 £45,000 -28.00% 4
London +22 12 £73,750 +13.46%
UK excluding London -8 9 £45,000 - 9
North of England -16 8 £45,000 +12.50% 4
North East - 5 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands +18 2 £47,085 -14.39%
Midlands +8 2 £47,085 -14.39% 1
Yorkshire -43 2 £47,085 +59.61% 1
North West -10 1 - - 2
South East -14 1 - - 2

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) IIS
2 2 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Power Platform
3 8 (36.36%) SaaS
4 7 (31.82%) IaaS
5 6 (27.27%) Azure Functions
5 6 (27.27%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (27.27%) Azure Storage
5 6 (27.27%) Serverless
6 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
8 2 (9.09%) AWS
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (9.09%) GitHub
8 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (9.09%) PaaS
8 2 (9.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) DMZ
1 5 (22.73%) Firewall
1 5 (22.73%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (22.73%) STUN
1 5 (22.73%) VLAN
1 5 (22.73%) VoIP
1 5 (22.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (77.27%) SQL Server
2 9 (40.91%) Power BI
3 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.09%) Star Schema
6 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) VoIP Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) VoIP Support Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Site Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Business Developer
6 2 (9.09%) SaaS Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) SQL Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) .NET
2 6 (27.27%) .NET Core
3 5 (22.73%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
1 9 (40.91%) Windows Server
2 6 (27.27%) VMS
3 5 (22.73%) Debian
3 5 (22.73%) Linux
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (40.91%) Analytics
3 8 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (27.27%) Budget Management
4 6 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (27.27%) Cloud Operations
4 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Log Analytics
4 6 (27.27%) MVC
4 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (27.27%) Service-Level Objective
4 6 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) High Availability
6 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 4 (18.18%) CRM
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) ETL
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) SQL
2 15 (68.18%) PowerShell
3 7 (31.82%) Python
4 6 (27.27%) C#
4 6 (27.27%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (22.73%) Bash
6 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Azure Certification
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) SLA
3 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco
3 2 (9.09%) Alteryx
3 2 (9.09%) Pega
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Talend