SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Jobs

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 661 815 783
Rank change year-on-year +154 -32 +304
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 60 92 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.085% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.03% 0.98% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49 70 125
10th Percentile £41,200 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £64,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +17.65%

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 5,822 9,403 12,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.96% 8.71% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,337 6,386 7,965
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

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

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Top 13 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 2 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 +119 48 £45,000 - 84
UK excluding London +179 43 £45,000 +5.88% 68
Work from Home +118 32 £57,500 - 15
Midlands +83 24 £45,000 -1.64% 11
West Midlands +81 24 £45,000 +15.38% 6
London +73 10 £85,000 +41.67% 27
East of England +31 7 £42,000 -4.55% 6
North of England +42 5 £49,000 +23.27% 12
Wales +46 4 £57,500 +35.29% 5
North West +19 3 £35,000 -4.76% 8
South West +110 2 £77,500 +72.22% 4
Yorkshire +53 2 £49,000 +1.02% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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 17 (28.33%) SharePoint
2 10 (16.67%) IIS
3 4 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (3.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (58.33%) Azure
2 32 (53.33%) Power Platform
3 12 (20.00%) AWS
4 11 (18.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (18.33%) PowerApps
5 10 (16.67%) IaaS
5 10 (16.67%) PaaS
5 10 (16.67%) Power Automate
6 8 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (8.33%) GitHub
9 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.33%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) FTP
2 3 (5.00%) DHCP
2 3 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 33 (55.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 25 (41.67%) Power BI
3 25 (41.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 23 (38.33%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (16.67%) Star Schema
6 9 (15.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 5 (8.33%) Tableau
8 4 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.33%) Git
4 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
General
1 19 (31.67%) Finance
2 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Local Government
4 6 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Spanish Language
6 4 (6.67%) Banking
6 4 (6.67%) Front Office
7 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 19 (31.67%) Analyst
2 16 (26.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 16 (26.67%) Developer
3 13 (21.67%) Business Developer
4 12 (20.00%) Applications Support
5 11 (18.33%) Power BI Developer
6 10 (16.67%) ETL Developer
6 10 (16.67%) Senior
6 10 (16.67%) SQL Analyst
6 10 (16.67%) SQL BI Developer
6 10 (16.67%) SQL Developer
7 7 (11.67%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (11.67%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (11.67%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 7 (11.67%) Senior Applications Support
7 7 (11.67%) Senior Support Engineer
7 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
8 6 (10.00%) SSIS Developer
8 6 (10.00%) Support Analyst
9 5 (8.33%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) Web Services
2 4 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (3.33%) XML
4 1 (1.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 7 (11.67%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.00%) Windows
2 7 (11.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (8.33%) Mac OS
4 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (61.67%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (35.00%) Analytics
3 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (28.33%) ETL
5 16 (26.67%) CRM
6 15 (25.00%) Customer Service
6 15 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 11 (18.33%) Data Mapping
7 11 (18.33%) Service Delivery
8 10 (16.67%) Case Management
8 10 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
8 10 (16.67%) DevOps
8 10 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
9 8 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (11.67%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (11.67%) High Availability
10 7 (11.67%) ITIL
10 7 (11.67%) Visualisation
11 6 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
11 6 (10.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 49 (81.67%) SQL
2 16 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 9 (15.00%) T-SQL
4 8 (13.33%) C#
4 8 (13.33%) Python
5 6 (10.00%) C
5 6 (10.00%) X++
6 4 (6.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (31.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.67%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.00%) QA
3 2 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) Terraform
3 3 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 35 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) N-able
3 4 (6.67%) Oracle
3 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.67%) Trayport
4 3 (5.00%) Guidewire
4 3 (5.00%) Pega
4 3 (5.00%) SAP
4 3 (5.00%) VMware
5 2 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) Cognos
6 1 (1.67%) Databricks
6 1 (1.67%) PeopleSoft