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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 648 660
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +186
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 14 60 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.37% 1.10% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9 40 102
10th Percentile £46,500 £42,500 £42,525
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,688 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,000 £82,500 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% -26.40% +38.89%

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 3,749 5,434 7,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.98% 10.29% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,401 3,082 6,051
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,507 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,232 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -3.63% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £56,763
% change year-on-year -7.27% -3.11% +3.20%

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 25 January 2026.

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

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Top 10 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 25 January 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 +15 13 £63,750 -1.92% 5
London +16 9 £66,250 -1.85% 1
Work from Home +50 6 £50,000 -33.33% 7
UK excluding London +21 4 £47,500 +3.26% 8
North of England +3 2 £45,000 +12.50% 2
South East +19 1 - - 1
Midlands +12 1 £50,000 -9.09%
North West +12 1 - -
North East - 1 £45,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £50,000 -

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 (21.43%) IIS
2 2 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
2 5 (35.71%) SaaS
3 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Functions
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Storage
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) IaaS
6 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DMZ
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (7.14%) STUN
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
1 1 (7.14%) VoIP
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (21.43%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (7.14%) Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) VoIP Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) Laravel
3 1 (7.14%) Symfony
3 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
1 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
2 3 (21.43%) VMS
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (7.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Analytics
2 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (35.71%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Budget Management
4 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Log Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) MVC
4 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Service-Level Objective
4 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Data Validation
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 3 (21.43%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Alteryx
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) Pega
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Talend